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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-6-25, Page 3D. ae ae ie. 0. kite or at he ed a. mg 00 tee ea WOK. AND 'MS WORSE. 'WOUlall and the Spread of the Tera - perfume Gospel. DT PRANCES E, WILLARD. Weeeen ere becoming the true 008. enopolitanis ; and, best of all, not commerce and selashnese, bat Chriatianity end golf renunciation have set the key to their tune. fell psalm ot life in the more modern °home. The Foreign Illiesion Society leas domesticated their thOUghte at the ends of the earth. Meilagasien and Bombay are .e preeent to their eninde as England arta America. Whitemabbonere, following in this petit, leave the wide world as their heritage, and the genet petition, with its universal proteet againat legalizing the sale of alcoholics end of optum, give e the most traotioel direction poseibte to the new world -sense that thrills the heart of woman. In reflex influence what an illimitable power this new senile is to be in moulding the natures of their ohildren to the ideal a universal brotherhood ! Thirty.four eourdriee Whoa transteted OUT Teette, " For God and Home arid Native Land." It was aeon in Chinese, Japanese, Siameee, Norwegian, Dutoh, French NMI Maori at the Weddle Expul- sion in Paris. Seven eurifioing yeers have strewn the earth with local union, blooming like beds of fragaant flowere. Thirty-four different nations are now federated against opium, alcohol and tobacco. Nearly all the work hies been wrought within five years. Mrs. Mary (element Leavitt will non complete her reconnoiseseace by goieg to South 'e America, and we expect her preeence et *the next Nation Convention ; Milo that .of the new luminsry in our beautiful tem- perance Wilma, Lady Henry Somerset, of Eastnor Castle, Eneland, who, I am told, adds to youth, beauty, culture, fortune and grant historic name, the higher gifts of re- markable native talent and devoted Chris - elan zeal. Mise Jessie Ackerman, a California, -has wrought vellantly for our cause in japen, China and India, and would have •penetrated to Siberia but for the relentlesa lever that threatened to end her work and life. She then fell beck upon Australia he iher'skirmish line, and is seduloaely at work developing the white.ribbon methods among those earnest women at the anti. podee. Dr. Kate Bushnell and Mrs. Elizabeth Wheeler Andrew aro now in England, and we have never had better 'reports than come to us of them; they stint for India in a few menthe. We also expect, ere long, to sand our prison evangelist, Mrs. J. K Barney, from the -San Franoisoo side of thie liontedike little planet, for which the dual word, earth, is 0, name by no means g,00c1 enough. When it shall be won to world-wide prohibition, ' eleall we not petition the astronomers to change ita name Moat Planet Earth to Planet Concordia? M least we will help to make that nobler name deserved. The tirist•born of the World's W. C. T. U. was she Hawsiien kingdom, with its eigraty thousand people. Mrs. M. R. Whitney tom been President from the beginning, and the sooiety is Mill hard at work. Mimi Charlotte Gray has wisely helped on the general movement by convening an International Temperance Congreee in Chrlatiania, Norway, at which Mrs. Leavitt was a delegate. This was the most notelet° temperance convoution of 1890, and brave voices spoke out for total abstinence and total prohibition. The Dominion W. C. T. U. held its most suc- • cessful convention in Montreal last May, • and meets in St. John, New Brunswick, in June. The British Women's Temperance Association &leo held its best convenhon in May, at which time Lady Henry Somerset 7oame into her kingdom. The Young Women's Chrietian Temperance Union rAr, was decreed, a national prees department ordered, and " the Mee 'het bind " were memorably inoreseed by the pres. enoe and work of Mrs. Barnes and Mies Ames, our Maternal delegates. These •noble women more than fulfilled our high expeotetiona of their embassy. Their visit has strengthened the already etroeg ties Shat bind ne to the whitemibboners of our dear motherland. Nothing could exoeed abe loving kindness manifested tower& •them ; nor is it invidious to name as ohief factors in their happineas our oheriehed Hannah Whitell Smith and family, Lady Helve' Somerset, Wm. T. Stead, greateet ,of editors, and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Raper. The World's W. C. T. U. must hold Sunday services at the World's Columbian • Exposition in 1893. Mrs. Nichols knows ' how to set up white -ribbon housekeeping in that tremendous caravansary, and we can preach the gospel as Paul did "in our own hired house" among the Gentiles. It had been objected that the World's Petition would fail of its purpose because the first government to whioh it was pre. sented would claim its custody under par- liamentary usage. But those who say this have not learned the objeot and method of our movement. The great petition agsinet legelizing the sale of alcoholics and of opium is to be presented to some friendly representative of each government, at a popular gathering,and he is to be requested to report it to his government, speak on its behalf, and present a bill embodying its provisions. The commission of ladies having the petition in charge will then con- vey it to another government, and so on, the purpose being to belt the world with the protest of the home against home's ,deadliesiefoes. I should not wonder if a .steamer would be chartered in which to nail to Englind, bunts° of the number of earnest -hearted women who will wish to accompany the petition in ite journey •around the globe. But we have not names enough yet. Beloved state preeldente, will you not atir the local unione of •America this year, to lend a hand; and le•will yon not, nay faithful coadjutors, the .preeidents of all civilized nations, put a shoulder to the wheel more strongly than aver in 1891 ? We shall mill in all copies of the great petielon in 1893, when the Oolumbian Exposition eignslizes a conven- tion of the world's W. C. T. U. Then and there the petition will be exhibited and quiet efforts made to gain a harvest ef new signatures. Lady Henry Somerset is interesting hereelf in her wise, sysiematio way to aware signatures. As she ie to be with us this year, we have called the World's W. 0. T. U. Convention for November 12th, in Boston, and we are rejoicing in the promise of our "Temper. •awe Stanley," Mary Clement Leavitt, to •-return to us for that greatest of all our gatherings. Mies Morgan, of Brecon, Wslee, is imperintendent of petition work, and we shall now no the names rolled up in a fashion worthy of Greet Britain. Whet is everybody's badness is nobody's, and what is somebody's businees is likely to become everybody's. The World's W. C. T. U. has had earnest work done this year both at home and abroad. Mre. Woodbridge, an Ameri- can Sanitary, and Miss Esther Pogh, as Treasurer, have been indefatigable, while Mee Alice Briggs, as Offiee Seoretary, has been faithfulnese personified. Ths Arab Anti•Rara (longue in Kber. team was the most striking temperenote leature in 1890. White Ohristien nations were holding their entimlavery Convene at the capital Of Belgium and reeolving to " eettroh all vessele auspeoted ot having desert on board, confieeating the veesele end returning the slaves, "the Ameba neased the fallowing: Resolved, to surround the entire coast of Africa with a cordon of armed ohipo, to maths Site eVeTy 1aropoan vessel containing liquore and sell the mews into slavery. Would that mane of the Beaten Ship that carry ram might fah into the hands of them eiglateously indignant Are') heathen! Poetic would theo be providen- tial jutice. Let me earnestly plead for the word Christian in *he name a every moiety auxiliary to this largest organize. eion of women that the world has Rem, It is by the grace of Goa that we are what we are. But for Chriet's goepel we ohould to- day be elevem and the CfneetiOD among !mime in rumen and temple would ewe be whether we should be admitted to the high- est eaclesiastioel °poodle and ordained to minister at God's ahem, but whether or not we had any sot& to save or immortal- ity to gain! When all is mid, those who deny Chart must admit, that somehow, only Christian 001Intriee trefti women kindly. Where the eun of righieonenees epreads bis beams there we are warmed into life intelleetuel, mmial and legal; there we become the comp/dons and co- workers of men. In Afrioa, Hy- ing women, laid aide by side upon their facia, became the carpets and conches of luxurious chiefs; in Canton, China, blind women, guided by a beldame° appointed for the purpose, treveree the streets masking Med and lodging, as the offset of namelese degradation; in Egypt I Flaw mothers mending the Kttedive'e royal highway and oowering under the luta of brutal over- seers ; in Italy, yoked with oxen, in Germany, with dogs : among the Indians of the Mauna, carrying their huebande on their backs. Only where the Bible is an every -day home book and the artificiality of a state religion is forbidden, has Christianity shown its full possibiliiies of uplifting the gentler and more spiritual half ot humanity. But everywhere that it has at all touched the earth, with its teach- iugs of peace and good -will, woman has been lifted into better hope. Seldom han Christian woman witneeeed a more memorable °MGM lesson in proof of this, than greeted my epee one bright May day in 1870, when our party of travellers was coming up the Danube. Our steamer had stopped to take coal at the Turkish town of Widdin, and then armee over to Hakim*, a Ohrietian village in Bulgaria. In Widdin we saw the unspeakable Turke in their nondescript costume, undignified attitudes and ungainly motions—a group of men, who, if they named their wives in one's hearing at all would beg pardon for committing such an indelicacy, and at a distance up the bank ware flattering budgets of parti- colored calico with faces and figures invisible, but the eupposition being that these cowering groups were women. We crossed to Milano, and on the pleasant shore, circling hand in hand with songe (in which bass and soprano mingled) around a flower -wreathed May pole, was a grouptef men and women, in European costume, together celebrating some national festival. The differenoe was so great and the dis- t nice so small that I Bought an explanation from one who knew those far.off lands, when behold, he pointed oat two salient objeots in the lendsoapee of those separate shores between whioh rolled the Danube's blue, and them I saw e mosque, a °Much— a minaret, a spire! Even in the degener- ate form in whioh the Greek Churoh dis- penses Christianity, it has *has made women the comrades of men, and made men the brothers of girls. "By this sign conquer," is the motto still 1 Up with Chriet's cross and smite the dragon of woman's degradation down to the slimy pit where it shall ere long be elein. Whoever speaks lightly of Jesus Christ, that radiant figure uniting in itself all that is holiest in both Mania and woman's character, let not a woman's, lips thus aurae themselves in cursing Him whom they should blue, and msy the name of Christian, token of our loyalty and pledge of our allegiance, gleam like a gem in the midst of every name by which whitemibboners are known throughout the world. Rest Cottage, Evaneton, Ill., May 14th 1891. Advice to Amateur Photographers. If you would succeed in your experi- ments, let everything you use be the best of its kind. A poor °amen box and weak lens will not give good results. Have the dark room and everything in it in perfect order. Use great care in every part of the pro- tease. Carelessness never succeeds. Do not be satisfied with any kind of an impression, because some ignorant person told you that you are doing splendidly. If you are anxious to succeed in photo. grephy, learn to develop the negative and to print from it. Do not carry your plates to a professional to aevelope and print them for you. If you do, how much of the picture is of your own production? Anybody can put a plate in a camera and expose it. Do not attempt portraits of friends; they will find fault with them and laugh at you. Your sister will not like his or her expression, and they will say it is your fault. Use your plates to make landscapes or views. Do everything deliberately. Do not neglect to dust the plate before inserting it in the elide, or the picture will be spoiled by duet Mope. Learn to we a reliable glide and do not change. Use one formula for a developer, and keep on doing so until your are master of Master the difficulties, and don't get discouraged. -4. Bogardus, in May Lippin- cott's. Lightning Valculation. Detroit Free Press " I am a little shore and will propound to you a conundrum in mental arithmetic," said a Detroie man to his friend. e "All right; letf,me hear it," answered hia friend. "Well," amid the man that was short, " suppose you had.$10 in your pooled, and I should aak you Mr $5, how much would remain 2" "Ten dollars," was the prompt reply. Versatility of Talent." New York Herald: " MoGuire's father was an Irishman and his mother a Ger- man." "Great heevenei What doee he drink?" "Oh, he's an American—anything." Poor Cherlotta, the widowed ex -Empress of Mexico, has recovered her reason re- cently. Se is only et little more than fifty yeare old and has jut learned of the be- trayal of Maxamilian, whittle °warred a quarter of a oentnry ago. L'nring the past winter General Lopez, who was the cause of the Emporeee undoing, was bitten by a mad dog end may die with MI ihe horrors Of hydrophobia. TEE tom BPAPtiti --0-- And What reople Think They Rave a Right to do with It, Julius Ohembere, edit(); of the New York World, in hie "Arena" Iltrtiel0 on '1 'The Chimairn of the Preest" gaga the chivalry of the public toward the newepaper is Path liar. 'I'he public; would appeor to believe thet anythieg it can ooaxt wheedle or ea - tort from the newepaper is fair salvage from the becessavy expenditures of lite. Recently I lietened us amazement to the Rev. Robert Collyer boast at a Cornell University dinner of having beguiled the newepapers of the country. He told how he bed schemed and got money to build a new ohurola after the Chicago fire. He did not make it very clear that the olvilized membeee of his race otamored for the new edifice, but he made painfully apparent his Mese of chivalry to the press. "In thia matter," he began, "1 have alweya been proud of the way in which 'worked the newspapers.' I succeeded in raising the money, becetuee I coaxed the editors into comperating with me. I wrote long puffs bout the congregation and ita pastor, and got them 'printed. Then I hurried round with the eubsoription list and a copy of the paper." Of course this was all said good- naturedly, wa,s meant to be funny, and wee uttered from a public, rostrum with an utter oblivionenees to the mental obliquity that a moment's thought will disclose. It left upon my mind much the alma im- pression as that once made by hearing an apparently respectable xnau beset of having stolen an umbrella out cif a hotel raok. Later in the evening, when the reverend gentleman occupied a seat near mine, I asked, with as much naivete ne I could commend, if he had " worked " the plumbers, the arohiteote, the masons, the carpenters and the bell founders. To each of these queetions he returned a regretful, Despite his apparent innocence regard- ing the purport of my inquiry. I doubt if thie genuleman would heve boogied that he secured his olotlaea for nothing, that he wheedled his ohops from his buttoleer, or coma his groceries from the shopkeeper at the corner of bis street. And yet, he spoke with condescension of the editor and his mune of livelihood! Theoretioally, the editor is the public's mutton. Men who know him boast of their influence with him, and over him. They dintate his pollee+ for him—or say they do, which, of course, is the same thing. Men who never saw him claim to own him. Strarigere, casually introduced, ask him questions about his personal affairs that would be instantly resenited in any other walk of life. An experience of my own will illaserate what I mean. At a country house, near Philadelphia, I waa introduced to e. re- speotable•looking old men. In the period following dinner, as we sat on the porch to enjoy a smoke, this stranger interrogated me in the most offensive way. When he had paused for breath I gave him a dose of his own medicine. WHAT HE ASKED. I hear you are an editor? Do most newspapers pay How much do editors earn? Yon began as s reporter? Does it require any ednoation to be a reporter? Do you write shorthand? Eh? Used to Please write some. Let's see how look's? Curious looking charaoters, aren't they 2 How many columns can you write a day? Do you write by the column 2 What Don't write at all 2 How strange !—and so on. WHAT I ASKED. I am told you are a hatter? Is hat -making profitable? How much does your business net you yearly? Grew up in the trade? You Can "block a hat while I wait"? You can handle a hot goose Could once Pima take this hat eud show me how is put together. Have seen a great many queerly shaped hats in your time, no doubt? How many hats cs,n you make a day? Do you work by the piece? Ah? Don't work any longer? Supposed every hatter made his own hetet—and so on. The editor may be to blame for thin sort of thing; but if so, his good nature is responsible. He endures mare than other men. He is often worried by the trottbles of other people; but he never has been weaned from the milk of humeri kindness. He may be ovemperanaded, he may be de- ceived, and editors have been fooled, like jadgo and jurors, by the perjured affidavit of apparently honorable men—bat he still continues to believe in mankind. The chivalry of the polifician toward the press is comprehended to a nicety by every man who has served as a newspaper cor- respondent at Washington. The average congressman thinks it clever to deceive a newspaper editor or mom respondent. He believes they are to be " used," whenever possible, for the congressman's advantage. A cor. respondent is to be tricked or cajoled into praising the statesman, revising the bad English in his speeches, "saving the coun- try and—the appropriations.' AU the charities require and demand his aid, and, I am aehamed to say (knowing as I do what a hollow mockery some of the alleged charities really are), generally get the aseistence they ask. The chivalry of the press toward the mablio is unquestionable. The editor keeps awake nearly all night to serve it, and the fame are not altered because in best &ening the public, he eaves himself. • Journalism, I regret eo say, is often spoken of as a "profession," and while we may swept the plebeian word "journal. isra " as deaoribing a daily labor, I ein. merely desire to enter a protest spinet he designation as a profession. Ii seems entirely proper to me that this word be relegated to the pedagogue, the chiropodist and the barnstorming actor who so boldly assert a right to its nee. The making of the newspaper is a mechanical art. It matters very little how much intelligenee—or genine, if you prefer the word—enters into its production, the intemdepondence of the smutted " intellec- tual " branch of the paper upon its mechanical adjuncts is so great that it ottn. not be maintained that the manufactured article offered to purohasere in the shaper) a 'newspaper is the product of any one lob of brain tiesue. Of what value aro a hun- dred thousand copies of the best newepaper in Cale land, edited, revieed and printed, if its circulation department break down M the critical moment? And what about the newsman? Who shall say that he does not belong to journalism? He's to the setvioe what the Don °masa fie to the Russian baste. He's the Cossack of journalism— our Cossack of the dawn 1 If it waen't for hope the heart would "break," as the old lady Ewa when dm buried her seventh husband. Children am= Enjoy IL ULI of pure Cod Liver 011 with Hype. phosphltes of Lime and Soda Is almost as palatable as milk. A MARVELLOUS FLESH PRODUCER It is Indeed, and the little lads and lassies who take cold easily, may be fortified against a cough that might prove serious, by taking Scott's Emulsion after their meals during the winter eeason. Xetigare of substitutions and Imitation& SCOTT & 130WHE, Belleville. A EIDNETROON ADVENTURE. An Unp1.3asant Incident on the Marriage our of Mr, and atm Patterson. The wedding tour of Mr. and 'Mrs. R. IlloDongell Patterson, their many friends will regret to hear, was auddenly and nether unpleasantly arrested. The young couple met with their tiret adventure early in married life. They were Miming at the hotel at Au Sable °ham, N. Y., one of the most beautital Emote along the west shore of Lake Champlain. Last night the hotel caught fire and burned so rapidly thae the inmates had to make a hurried column Mr. Pettereon was the firet to discover the fire and promptly game the alarm. No lives were Met, but the building was a complete wreck. The guests loot the greener part of their luggage. Mr. and Dare. Patterson re- turned to the city this morning. Their jewelry was lost in the fire ard the greater part of their clothing. They actually had to borrow a number of antic/ea to wear home—Montreal Star. Scotch Masons In America. A daily con*emporary, in an article under the above heading, says there are no better stonemasons in the world than Sootohmen. Many ot them, the writer adds, divide the year between the United States and Scot- land, and while earning the highest current wages at home always exact fall anion rates in this country. They begin to come here as a rule about Mandl, and remain until the cold weather °eta in, when they know that no more work is poseibM until the next year, and consequently hie therneelves off to Eloottand to see what is to be done there. Stone. masons' wages in America are on an average shone double what they are in Scotland. In this city and neighborhood, where amps for this class of labor are higher than elsewhere, masons get $4 for a day of eight hours, and at this rate it isnot diffioult for them in the course of a season to make $650 or 8700. Their board need not come to more than $5 per week, and as the retorn trip from Aberdeen only wets about $50, many of them are able to take some hundreds of dollars home with them at the end of the season. Many Soctoh, as well se English and Italian, granite cutters also divide the year between Amerioa and Europe. A large number, perhaps a majority, of the brownstone - cutters are likeneise Butch, but as their work can bin carried oo under cover all through the year most of them take up their residence here altogether. secret of the Ploneymoon. If the average men has any cepsoity for wonderment in him during thehoneyrnoon, must he not vend any occasional minute in querying with himself how it comes milieus that, with all his bride's beautiful trousseau, on which so meny exclamation points were lavished by the wedding gnerets and by the newspapers, he finds himself after three weeks' marriage lookieg for e place where he can buy her a pair ot stock- ings while she ones up in bare feet and slippers in a hotel chamber? asks the New York Recorder. It does not, of course,come into the bead of the young wife tbat, if ever she marries a second time, she will provide herself with more substantial apparel, but, neverthelets, the cobweb batistes and sheer linene covered with lace and embroidery with whioh most Melee set out on their wedding journeys are apt to go to destram tion very rapidly in the hands of the usual ws,eherwomen encountered "in strange chime It doesn't conduce to sweetness; of temper or to the enjoyment of travelling to watch the rapid disintegration of costly underclothing, and it might give oue's hus- band a better idea of one's neettnees, if one's things didn't show snob an alarming tendency to drop in pieces; but there is no preeent indication of any movement *0 - ward simpler fashioas in underwear. The ComIng Domestic. The servant of the future will have everything her own way, says the Texas Siftings, unless something is done to check her mad career. In the year A. D. 2,000 the family will probably esteem it a favor if the cook allows them to eat with her. The office hourenetehe cook will be from 8 o'clock in the morning until 2 o'clook in the afternoon, in families where they have dinner at 1 o'olook, and from 11 in the morning until 6 in the &Memnon'in families where the dinner is et 6. The cook will be %Rowed to set the boom for the meals. • No cooking will be done on Sundays, and there will be three Sandays in every week. When the cook leaveit she will be allowed to Write out her own credentista, the employer being only required to sign them. The Summer Girl. It is a mistake to suppose that the summer girls are all out upon one pattern. They are, indeed, of many types, and earth true summer girl has a style, not to sey a "swing," of her own. But no girl can be a true Bummer girl who is not likewise lady- like, That quality in a man's estimate is prerequisite to etlettf3S0 as a summer maiden. The S. G., by the way, ie not womanly a eannerier retort girl. Oh, no 1 she is abroad in the land wherever roue bloom or honeysuckle vines olimb the trellis. Sir William Whitensy, the Newfoundland Premier, whom defiance of British control has made him famous, has long had a reputation for able statesmanship. He is a man of middle lite, Mout end well pre. aerved, with expaneive side-whiekers and a military Monstelehe. The Italian army untsins nearly two million men, or, to give the exact figurate 1,928,972 Among them are 35,000 Alpine soldier, trained and inured to the hard. ships of mountain warfare. 0000.1101 OE CANAPE. 00 Mareit 20th, 1865, Biobard gobden wrote as follews tc: 0010nel Cole "The Most interesting debate of the season hitherto has been on Canadian affairs. Whis is a subject of inereaeinginterset, and the projected confederntion of the 73ritieh North American coloniee Will bring it into great prominence this eciesien- I* seems to be generally riaoepted here am a atheirable change, though I fail to &mover anY imme- diate Interco; which the lentil% patella have in the matter. There is no proposal to relieve us from the expense arid nate Of Pretending to defend those colonies from the United Stetee—a taele wlaioh, by the way, everybody admits to be beyond our power. Then I cannot see what substantial intermit the Britieh people heve in the con- neotion to compensate them for guarantee- ing three or four millione of North Americans living in Canada against another community of Amerieans living in their neighborhood. We are told indeed of the ' loyalty' of the Canadians; but thie is an ironical term to apply to people who neither pay our taxee nor obey our lam, nor hold themselves liable to fight our battlee, who would repudiate our right to the sovereignty over an sore of their terri- tory, and who claim the right of imposing their own customs duties, even to the extension of our manufactures. We are two peoples to all intents and purposes, and it is a perilous detention to both parties to attempt to keep up a shetn connection and dependenoe whioh will nap sounder if ill should ever be put to the strain of stern reality. I* le all very well for. our Cockney newspapers to talk of defending Canada at all hazards. It would be just as possible for the United States to Einstein Yorkshire in a war with England, as for us to enable Canada to contend ameinst the United States. It is simply an impossibility. Nor must we forget that the only serioua danger of a quarrel between *hose two neighbors arises from the commotion of Canada with this country. In my opinion it is for the in.. tereat of both that we should as speedily as posaible sever the political thread by which we are as communities conneoted, and leave the individuals on both alders to cultivate the relations of commerce and friendly intercourse as with other nations. I have felt an interest in this confederation soheme, because I thought it was a step in the direction of nn sraioable separation. I am afraid from the last telegrams that there may be some diffioulty, either in your Province or in Lower Canada, in carrying out the project. Whatever may he the wish of the colonies will meet with the conourrenoe of our Government and Parliament. We have recognized their right to control their own fate, even to the point of aseerting their inde- pendence whenever they think fit, and which we know to be only a question of time. All this melees our preeent responsi- ble position towards them truly onemided and ridioulons. There seems to be some- thing like a dend.look in the politiosl machinery of the °sundae, which has driven their steteemen into the measure of confederation. I suspect thin there has been some demoralization and corruption in that quarter, and that it is in part an effort to purify the political system by letting in new blood. There is also, I think, an inherent weakness in the parody of our old English constitution, which is performed on the miniature scenes of the colonial capitals, with their speeobes from the throne, votes of confidence, appeals to the country, changes of Ministry, etc., and all about each trumpery issues that the game at last becomes ridioulous in the eyes of both spectators and actors." Woman's Sweetest Hour. A young girl, attraotive though not pretty, bright and witty, well read and well bred, whom I love dearly, asked me the other day what I thought was women's sweetest hour. I have since then discov- ered her reason for asking the question, says a writer in the New York Herald. She anticipated my answer with the pre- face that elm thought it was when, having brought the man of her choice to the point of proposing, she keeps him welting a few moments or her answer, regarding the unmet of which ehe has given no inkling so strong as to make it certain that it will be " I am also a young girl, three years her senior. I levee not yet experienced that " sweet hour"—not at least, from a wel- come source. Still I can well understand that to see and feel the anxiety of one's lover, and to know that it is all maned by love for you, should constitute unbounded happiness. Yet my friend's idea strikes me as some- what insincere and a trifle cruel. Were I ever called upon to 'mower the most im- portant question of my life, propounded by the men of my hurt, I would find keener joy in unhesitatingly claming " yes " than to feign a doubtfulness I did not feel." A little beating about the bash at the outset is perhaps proper enough, but when you have assured yourself that you are dealing with an honest man that loves you I think that ali parrying and diplomeoy had better be supplanted by frankness and einoerity. I think the honorable wooer entitled to as much information as he has imparted to his sweetheart. The Effect of Culture., Bostonian: Boston girl—Oh, mother, I did something awful at the party to -night. Mother—Why, my dear child, whet was it ? Boston girl—That horrid bouquet Mr. Beacon sent me had aome cinnamon pinks in it. They made me sneeze and—but I can't say it. Mother—Go on 1 Boston girl—My glasses fell off and Mr. Beecon saw my bare face 1 The Dear 01r1s. Truth: Sallie—So Mr. Sineosl told you that he was glad George and I were mar ed, did he Mande—Yee. He said he hated both of you, and now he was revenged. • The color adopted by the royal family of England is scarlet. The royal households of Portugal, Pamela, Sweden and Germany are bine. Russia's oolor is dark green and Austria'a black and yellow. sem 8POTH 11.04alt rot tEe Edttioi4tIon of Iltleard Xdhinte Oaa Of the Wei curioue arrangements nentriVed IV this meet Ourielte man for his neraonal amusement and gretilleation Uinta arrangement which Mr. Memo calls his A, cosi:Wool telephone." Edison mem an iron mine et Ogden, New Jereey. Where is a boil of magnetio hole ore about a mile long and 450 feet wide, which he soya rune down into the mile for five or pix He estimates the moment of Mon in the mine at 2,000,000,000 bons. Around Oedele there is an enormous iotensifienteiort of ithe magnetto tomes of the eerth. It ie ph well known fact that the daily variations in these magnetic forces, as hown by the needle, are directly infitioneed by the ilia- turbancee in the eon's ffpets. These varia- tions are regularly recorded every day at Kew, near London. Mr. Edition says that at his iron mine near Ogden he has more than a million times the concentration of magnetic lines that there ie at Kew. To record the daily variationin his own magnetite lines at Ogden, Mr. Edison hate conetrubted his couniteal telephone, says the New York Recorder. "There are the most wonderful things going on in the sun's spots all the time, he says. "Didn't you ever oee them? Why, they are beautiful. The dieturbances are tremendous, Bursts of hydrogen fly out of then upots 600,000 miles long. Awful. thinge happen there. You can see them every day with my telescope." To construct his telephone he has ear - rounded the whole bed of magnetio iron with poles. On these poles he has strung' a cable of 15 copper ires. The ends of this cable run down into a little house, and are connected with the ordinary reoeiver of common Bell telephone. The idea is that the eurronnding of this enormone bed of magnetio iron with the copper wires will operate for the formation ot a gigantio magnet otteh as is used in the receiver of the every day telephone. Through this tremendous receiver Edison says he will be put in direct communication with the sun, only the communication will be one sided. He can bear every- thing that goes on up there, but he can't do any transmitting. He be- lieves that every disturbance in the sun'a spots will man a oorresponding variation of the concentrated magnetic lines at Ogden, end that this variation will be at once detected in some way by the receiver of his comnicea telephone. "Yes, sir," he says, " I mu hear them with this telephone. The next time there is any violent change in the sun's spots which disturb the magnetic lines on earth I shall know it, and if 600,000 miler of hydrogen go chiming away from the EIII2 I shall hear it." The comoioal telephone is not yet com- pleted, as the wire stringing is not finished ; but soientifio people other than Mr. Edison will watch with curious wonder to sea what emcees he will achieve. Reformed Hen, Beware. The following inoident is full of lemons for reformed men. It comes direct front a leader in gospel temperance work: good-hearted man who was under the power of drink, reformed and was stead- fast for nine years, amassing fifty thousand dollars in money, becoming a director an important temperance institution, and being instrumental in saving one hundred. and sixty-three men who had fallen. At the end of nine years he felt altogether safe, became proud of his success, did. not like anyone to know he was a reformed man, and ceased to attend end work in the temperance meetings. A saloon -keeper got hold of him and offered to wager e10 that this reformed man of nine years' standing could not walk around the block with a teaspoonful of whiskey in his mouth. In the weakness of his pride the poor fellow accepted the wager, swallowing the whiskey. His appetite was fiercely aroused, he began to drink, and six years after the diabolical temptation he died a drunkard. "Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall," and let him remember that to work in Christ's name for others is the surest way of being saved himself. Cheap Enough. Brooklyn Eagle: John—Did yort see whet that sign in that hat store reads? Joe—No; what does it say? John—It says "We block your het, while you wait for 25 cents." D. C. re L 26, 91 A ellEAf WEMEDY ' 30401=1. 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