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A Father's Joy.
A. farmer lived in the long ago,
Ican't say just how long;
Be had three eons who were his pride_
'They all wore stout and strong,
lle wished to see their (Maras:ter
Vlre11 formed without a 'lila,
But hie ambition was to make
Each boy an export shot.
Bis barn, just half a mile from home,
Ife visited one day,
And in it saw a staring owl,
Then made quiela haste away)
l'o tell his sons whet he had seen
Oh high up in the shed,
And that, with rifle charged with ball,
The owl they would strike dead.
Obedient to their sire's command,
On to the barn they. went,
And with unerring aun a ball
Into the owl's brein sent
Exultant, with the bird. of night
in hand, to bless their sire;
One looking back in torrer cried,
' The barn is all afire '
Back to the barn the trio ran
Te quench th' incipient flame;
Their efforts wore of no avail,
The barn to ashes came.
Sadly went the boys to tell
The ruin they had. wrought
33Y firing of that little gun
Their father's pride had bought.
The father looked as they drew imara
Upon. Ins brow a scowl;
"liear those boys won't 'mount to much,
For they ain't got the owl.
And ere inquiry he could make,
One boy in anguish dire
Cried out, "Don't whip us, papa, dear,
We sot the barn afire!"
'Phe barn burnt down ? Why bow Yon talk 1'
Well, that is pretty bad;
Bat that you missed the owl to ines
A matter much more sad."
"Nay,father, as the fellow sat
A-winkin' overhead,
I took dead aim and down he came,
Shot through and through the head."
Well done, my boy!" the father crid,
As joy beamed in his eye; .
"The beanie burnt, but that is nought—
" You hit the owl, don't cry."
Autumn Spring Circuits, 1891.
trim emmeene CIRCUIT.
Armour, 0. T.
Barrie—Tuesday, 8th September.
Matnilton—Tuesday, 15th September.
Whitby—Tuesday, 22nd September.
.Belleville—Monday, 28th September.
3Andsay—Monday, 5th October.
Peterboro'—Thursday, 8th October.
Cobourg—Monday, 12th October.
Victon—Tuesday,20th October. •
HOME CIRCUIT.
Rose, J.
Orangeville—Monday, 7th September.
t. Catharines—Monday, 14th September.
Milton—Monday, 21st September.
Brampton—Thursday; 24th September.
Toronto Criminal—lelonday, 28th September.
Toronto Civil—Monday, 5th October.
THE NORTHWNSTERN CIRCUIT.
Falconbridge, J.
Goderich—Monday, 7th September.,
"Woodstock.Monday,14th September.
Owen Sound—Monday, 21st September.
Shielph—Mondays28th'September.
Brantford—Monday, 5th October.
Walkerton—Monday 12th October.
Stratford—Monday, 19th October.
Berlin—Monday, 26th October.
THE EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Street, J.
P.erth—Monday, 7th September.
ItOrignal—Thursday, 10th September.
Ottawa—Monday, 1.4th September.
Pernbrokes-Wecinesday, 23rd September.
.Cornwall—Tuesday, 29t1i September.
Brockvilles-Monday, 5th October.
Xingston—Monday, 12th October.
larapanee—Menday, 191th October.
THE SOUTHWESTERN 0IR01JIT-
2daalabon, J.
Chatham—Monday, 14th September.
Sandwich—Monday, 21st September.
Sarnia—Monday, 28th September.
'London—Monday, 5th October.
St Thomas—Monday,19th.October.
Simcoe—Monday, 26th October..
Cayuga—Monday, 2nd November.
Welland—Thursday, 5th November.
• Chancery Autumn. Circuits. 1891.
Ferguson, J.
Toronto—Wednesday, 21st October.
Boyd, C.
Eingston--Monday,14th September.
Simcoe—Monday, 21st September.
Ottaava—Mondity, 26th October.
Cornwall—Monday, 2nd November.
„Belleville—Thursday, 5t1i November.
Brockville—Thursday,12th November.
Ferguson, 3.
Brantford—Monday, 7th September.
Cobourg—Thursday, 10th Septeniber.
Peterborough—Monday,14th September.
Barrie—Monday. 5th.October.
Namilton—Monday, 12th October.
Whitby—Monday, 19th October.
Robertson, J.
Lindsay—Monday, 7th September.
Stratford—Thursday, 10th September.
St. Catharines—Wednesday, 14th October.
Owen Sound—Monday, 19th October.
Guelph—Thursday, 22nd October.
Woodstock—Monday, 26th October.
Meredith, J.
Walkerton—Monday, 14th September.
St. Thomas—Monday, 21st September.
Goderich—Monday, 5t1i October.
Chatham—Monday, 12th October.
Sandwich—Monday, 19th October.
Sarnia—Monday, 2nd. November.
London—Monday, 9th November.
A Pew Household Deals.
Don't dust your furniture with a feather
duster; it's like cleaning au egg -cup 'by
stirring the egg around. Use a cloth. Hit
is slightly oiled so much the better for the
woodwork. "
Don't put furnishings with big designs in
a small room—it will make the room look
the smaller. Keep in the rule of proper-
ticm. • It's like a little woman with a skinny
face wearing Debt *that' of a hat, which
only accentuates her sharp features the
mere.
• Don't be vague in your furnishings, and
get this and that and the other thing
because each by itself is pretty, but take
the object of a room first into your con-
sideration', and live up to it, then take one
ROLM' as a guide ancl select all others in har-
mony with it.
Don't let testheticisin overwhehn common
sense to that degree that your windows are
so profusely "got up" as to make ventila-
tion or the washing of them a difficult job,
Upholsterer.
Scientific Whipping.
Pall Ideal Gazette: The " anti -baby -
beating "jsociety is, we understand, in favor
rof the uvenile whipping bill, but urgesupon
Parliament (1) that the opportunity of the
bill should be taken to totally, abolish
juvenile imprisonment; and (2) that a
schedule of regulations should be introduced
into the hill, steletly defining (a) the size of
the birch, (11) the place, (e) the reasonable
manner of its application, (d) the number of
the strokes for 7 years old, and for each
:Subsequent additional two years of ,age, end
(e) finally, that the birching ought not to be
inflicted at a prison or police station, but at
the Offender's house.
You won't make any mistake if you drink
plenty of lemonade this season of the year
at all or any hours, but for the preservation
of the teeth, which are not improved by
;acids of any sort, straws shouldbe provided.
their absence use a spoon, sons to swallow
the refreshing liquid withoutletting it toimh
the dentine.
The Queen of Roumania has undertaken
to write on the subject of Bucharest for a
great illustrated work on the capitals of the
world, which is nowbeing prepared in Paris.
Vienna will be treated by Mine. Adam and
Tokio by Judith Gautier.
LAW OF fiGNSTUORE.
A Dames Court flotds That it is a Disease,
Not Actident.
A eunstrolce is not an accident, but a
disease of the brain arising from natural
and known eausee. So, at least, was held
yesterday by the United States Circuit
Court at Kansas City in f3uit on an accident
poliey. The decision may have been
perfectly correct from a legal point of view,
says the New York Sun, but it suggests the
unscientific character of the word " acci-
dent." In its general use the worcl almost
always implies a notion of spontaneous
chance, or at least of the operation of 7301110
unknown cause; but in the world, as we
now know it, of unvarying seqaeuce of cause
and effect, "accident,"in this sense, will
eoon be recognized as synonymous with
" miracle " and with the advance of
lmowledge will disappear.
Them remains, however, the very com-
mon and practical use of the word as desig-
nating any event that happens " without
the design of the agent," to quote the words
of the dictionary. But surely a sunstroke
is an accident according to this definition.
At some seapone in some tropical countries a
sunstroke may follow exposure to the sun as
certainly as a wetting follows exposure to
the rain. Such is hardly the case in any
part of the United States, for here in the
severest summer heat only an infinitesimal
number of people are sunstruck out of
millions equally exposed and equally uncon-
scious of danger. A disease of the brain
may be the immediate cause of death, as is
the rupture of a blood vessel whena man is
killed by a brick from a roof falling on his
head; but in each case the efficient cause
is a peculiar combination of external condi-
tions.
The word "sunstroke " itself shows that
from the practical point of the victim or the
bystanders the man might as well be struck
down by a falling, brick or a thunderbolt.
And yet again, if everything that happens
to a nian without his design is ari accident,
an diseases not inherited nor rashly and
voluntarily risked would be accidents, and
the word would. lose all definite significance.
The meaning of "accident," like the mean-
ings of most English words, varies indefi-
nitely and illogically with the circumstance
of its use, but summer tourists may do well
to remember that in law it does not apply
to a snnstroke.
FREAKS OF FAMOES MEN.
Stories of Cardinal Richelieu, tbe Great
Conde, and PrIIICC Conti.
Cardinal Richelieu, the famous French
statesman, often gave way to irrepressible
proxysms of laughter after returning from
the secret sessions of the council. If he had
qeen especially clever in outwitting an
enemy, he galloped round and round the
billiard table, neighed like a horse, pranced,
and kicked out right and left like a charger
caracoling.
The great Conde, while listening to a
long-winded address of welcome from a vil-
lage magistrate, amazed that worthy official
by taking advantage of a low bow to leap
over him. The magistrate, on recovering
from his surprise, faced round and con-
tinued his speech, taking good care not to
give the famous marshal a chance for a
second spring by making too low a rever-
ence; but his caution was in vain. Conde
grasped him by both shoulders and took
another jump.
Prince Conti had the odd trick of barking
exactly Iike a little yapping lap dog, and
not infrequently barked at a lady instead of
answering her. Once he was seized with a
desire to perform this strange antic while in
the throne -room of Louis XIV., but knowing
how furiously le grand monarquewould have
resented such an infringement Of his royal
dignity, Conti hurried to an onen window
and, leaning out, pressed his handkerchief
over his mouth and barked softly to his
heart's content.
The Spring Bride at the Market.
In a close -fitting tailor-made dress and a
light-colored cape of Persian lamb, she
appeared before the stall keepers at a noted
Harlem market. She carried a Russian
leather note -book with a gold pencil, and
the most artistic little Willowbasket
imaginable.
"Oh, the dear little piggies," she ex-
claimedewalking up to -where a number of
pigs were incarcerated. "How much are
they a pair ?"
"Forty shillings, mum," said the butcherl
"Isn't that pretty dear ?" she asked
timidly. "1 guess ru take sonic oysters,
instead," she said, walking over to where
the men were busy opening the emblems of
silence. "1 want some oysters sent -up,
escalloped oysters," she said, "with plenty
of raisins in them."
" Oh I those lovely pure pumpkins," she
said, walking over to a stand where aot of
Wollongong cheese was displayed. °
" take four of these. I know it's
plebeian, but Reginald does like pumpkin
•
pies.e
"Are all hams yellow like these ?" she
asked, pointing to a counter full.
"No, miss, that's only the cover," said
the man in charge.
"Those lovely pink •onions will just
match my chine.. How do you sell them a
dozen ?"
"Seventeen and six a hundred," said the
huckster.
"Send me up two hundred weight," she
said.
English Mourning.
Here are some of thelatest regulations a
PAnglaise : Mourning for a parent is worn
for twelve months, six months with crape,
six months black without crape, then slight
mourning, such as gray or black and white,
is worn for a few months longer. The same
rules apply to parents' mourning for chil-
dren. 'For quite au infant mourning is not
worn more than three months. For brothers
and sistere mourning is usually worn for the
same period as for a parent, though some
persons consider six •months a sufficient
length of time. In each case the exclusion
from society is for two months, though, of
course on this, as on many other points, one
must be guided by personal inclination and
circumstances. For a grandparent, from
six to nine motiths is the time mourning is
generally worn, half the period with crape,
the latter half without. The time of seclu-
sion from society is from three weelts to a
month. For an uncle aunt or cousin,
nephews and nieces, mourning is worn for
three months, generally without crape, and
few persons go into society for a month.
For more distant relatives mourning is only
worn for a month, and seolusion from society
is not necessary.
That the 'United States is a beer -drinking
nation is evidenced by the fact that for the
year ending .April 30, 1891, they coneumed
30,000000 barrels of the amber fluid.
A Scotch gentleman • of fortune on his
deathbed asked the minister whether, if he
left a large sum to the Kirk, his salvation
would he seeured. The cautious ininister
responded " 1 would not like to be posi-
tive, but it'e wed worth trying."
Curio dealer—Here's a skeleton of George
Washington's pet cat, Collector—I don't
want one so large. What's this small one?
Curie dealer—That's a skeleton of the same
cat When it was a kitten.
SWALLOWED A SNAKE.
--
it is In lieniamin Gilbert's Stomach avid
lie Believes it is a Foot tong.
A Garrison, N. Y., deepateh eays : The
ease of Benjamin Gilbert is exciting great
interest at this place. Gilbert is the man
tvlio swallowed a small frog or reptile of.
some sort recently, while drinking watar
from a brook at night. Gilbert is about ;15
years of age. He is a hod carrier and is
employed, on a tieNV 11011SO WAY being erected
in the mountains by Mr. "Wm. Osborn, eon
of the railroad magnate of that nam. I
SAW Gilbert to -night at 1 o'clock at his
home. He boards in a little brown house
three mileeast of this place in the heart of
the mountain e at the home of Mrs. Margaret
Robinson, Gilbert had the adventure re-
ferred to last Monday night, while returning
home from a lark with some convivial fel-
lows. He put his head out of an upper
window to -night after 1 had repeatedly
rapped on the door. He refused to come
down stairs and be interviewed, saying that
he was too ill from the effects of the reptile
he he had swallowed to do so.
Gilbert is naturally a heavily -built man
but during the last few days he said he has
lost a great deal of flesh. He informed me
he was on a mountain road when he had the
unpleasant experience of swallowing what
he thought was a reptile. He added that,
as he took a long draught of water, he felt
something smooth glide down his throat.
He ceased drinking at once, put his fingers
in his throat as far as he could and
attempted to draw the thing back, but
Gilbert says he only caught hold of the tail
of the reptile, or whatever it was, and it
slipped through his fingers. It went on
down his throat and into his stomech. He
claims to have experienced no inconvenience
from it until the next afternoon. • Then he
began to feel a griping sensation at the pit
of his stomach. He placed his hand upon
his stomach and could plainly feel some-
thing wriggling around there.
On the daffollowing, and on Thursday
also, Gilbert says he felt so ill that he could
not work, but still he declined to have a
doctor, hoping to get relief from his trouble
without medical assistance.
On Friday and Saturday he was at work,
however,and on the latter day spoke for,
the firstthne about his trouble. He said
that all to -clay he had been troubled with
nausea and severe headache. He says he
can still feel the reptile in his stomach, and
is now thoroughly alarmed concerning his
condition. He informed me that if he lived
until to -morrow morning he would have a
physician and get what help he could. He
also declared that his recent loss of flesh was
due to the effect of the snake in his stomach.
Gilbert remarked that he was sure he had
swallowed a young black snake, which was
probably about a toot long. He is one of
three ruggedly built brothers, all of whom
live here m the mountains.
Lincoln's Prediction.
Abraham Lincoln was a patriotie seer, and
withal the tortuous turmoil of his public life
discerned coming events which were fore-
shadowed but dimly in his time. Often to
intimate friends he spoke of the unsettling
of values and. the spendthrift use of vast
• suins of money during the war, giving rise
to various wild and unscrupulous forms of
speculation by which money was diverted
from the pockets of the masses to those of
millionaires. Foreseeing the results of this
tendency, he expressed, only a few days
before his death, thefollowing prediction t
I see in the near future a crisis arising
which unnerves me and causes me to tremble
for the safety of my country. As a result
of the war corporations have been enthroned,'
and an area of corruption in high places
will follow, and, the money power ef the
country will endeavor to prolong its reigfi'
by working upon the prejudices of the
people until all the wealth is aggregated in
a few hands and the republic is deStroyed.
I feel at this time more anxiety for the
safety of my country than ever before, even
in the midst of war. pod grant that my
fears are groundless.
In these latter days we have the utter -
once of Jerry Simpson, one of the new "CAI"
departure school of politicians, to the effect
that slavery never rnade a millionaire,
while " the system which grew outof the
war made a thousand millionaires in the
single city of New York.",
Mr. Lincoln was 'a plain hard matter of
fact man. Every plan he formulated prove
-
of greater or less practical intrinsic value.
He was not given to Vagaries. He fre-
quently, in confidence, expressed to friends,
his omnitions that the enemy of popular
government was the concentration of wealth
in the hands of a few, and the 'substitution
of the influence of the moneyed class for
that of the people's voice at the polls
Does not the present situation more or less
verify Lincoln's prediction and warning. --
Rochester Herald.
Natural Soap.
"In the climates where nature works
hardest, people work least." Such was the
opinion of an old traveller of our iterniaint-
awe.
"You don't know what I mean? Well,
I'll tell you. In tropical countries, where
nature works day and night to produce
everything that man can use in quantities
enough to supply the whole world, the peo-
ple are almost too lazy to eat the fruits she
provides, and are quite too lazy to keep
themselves clean, though they don't even
have to make their own soap.
"Do they import it, you ask ? Oh; no
They have only to put forth a hand and
gather it. In South. America, as well as in
most of the West India Islands, the soap
tree, or " Sapindus saponaria,"bears a fruit,
the pulp of which is an admirable soap,
i?erfectly capable of cleansing sixty times itS
own weight of badly soiled linen. In some
of the Sonth Sea Islands the Same cleansing
property is found in the stem of a vine
called the " Vitis saponaria," which; when
cut in pieces and boiled in water, makes ,a
Inc lather; and in Egypt and Southern
Spain are found roots -with the same pro;
perty. It is only another proof, I think,
that the necessity for labor is a blessing
instead of a, curse; so much farther ad-
vanced in all the arts and comforts 'of civil-
ization are those nations who are compelled
by n vigorous climate to work heal' for
a 'Meg than are those whom prodigal'
Nature loads with her benefits."—Harper's
_Paean
A Deviated Berth -Reek Rentoved.
A newspaper which generally furnishes
authentic and reliable marine news, the
Chicago Times, is responsible for this: It
is stated as an actual fact that the berth
deck of the United States man-of-war
Monongahela has just been reconstructed on
account of the ghost of old Surgeon Keiser.
Whole crews who had been in the ship tes-
tified that "No. 3, port side," was haunted.
Men who slept in that room alone would
wake up and find the cold eorpse of Keiser
in bed with them, his one eye set in a fishy
stare, the red beard matted with seaweed.
Not more than one person ever saw the
ghost at the same time, but the berth was
always found literally Soaked with icy salt
water.
Time Keepers.
Harry (adoringly)—Your sweet little feet
keep such admirable time in the danes
Harriet—Naturally I I wear stockings
with clocks on them.
IIENTS '[0 arollaltiesaa.
Things One Ought to know Before Salibui;
the Ocean Blue.
There are no waiters aboard ship. The
man Who serves you is Ualiod aeteward_
it is wroug to go on the bridge" and a
greater (gime to talk to the men at the
wheel.
Never trust to your feet in moving about
in a -AMR. Always Mailltaill a firm hold
with your hand on the rails of the com-
panion ladder when ascending or descend-
ing, or on the nearest rope when on deck.
. Give the officers and sailors a wide berth
when they are busy about the deck.
Doeuot confine yourself to the saloon or
yene stateroom iu fine weather. Yo a can
getethe fresh air of the deck without extra
eharge and there is less danger of sea sick-
ness.
Never go to the extreme end a the vessel
during a storm. You may find yourself
overboard if you do,
Do not wait until the last moment to en-
gage passage and select stateroom.
Loots and shoes will be cleaned if left
outside the stateroom door.
All valuables should be handed to the
steward for safe keeping.
Cabin berths are not considered engaged
unlesa secured by a payment of 25 .per cent.
for each berth. Full amount must be paid
two weeks before departure.
Servants accompanying .,first-olass passen-
gers pay second cabin fare and secure no-
commoda,tion in a second cabin stateroom ;
nurses and children Ore served separately at
the table. If passengers desire servants to
travel first-class full fare must be paid.
No charge is made for medical attendance
and medicines. You can give the physician
a fee, however, if you wish to.
,Pasaports are at present required by
American travellers visiting' Berlin, Russia,
Turkey, Egypt, Spain or Portugal. A pass -
pert is useful, however, for getting letters
from. ,post-oflices claiming registered 'bag-
gage and.for obtaining admission to certain
museums.
Get a cable code from the steamship com-
pany from which you purchase transporta-
tion.
The chief steward or purserhvill assign
yoin-a, seat at the table. Do not worry
about it.
Don't leave .your good breeding on shore.
Frame an antelligent schedule of the
places youintend to visit and the time to
be consumed.
Do not forget your letters of introduction.
Avoid overloa,ding with unnecessary
,packages and baggage.
Don't forget to purchase a shawl strap
and a steamer chair.
Consult your physician before leaving and
'get a preventive of sea -sickness.
Writing paper, envelopes, stamps and
telegraph forms can be had on application
to the saloon steward.
• Make arrangement with your bedrooni
steward about your bath as soon ea possible
after leaving the pier.
• Cablegrams and telegrams should be
handed to the purser an hour before ar-
rival. A bag for letters will be placed in
the saloon.
Tickets are personal and cannot be trans-
ferred. One-half of the amount is re-
funded when a passenger does not leave
on steamer for which he has purchased a
ticket.
Payment of a passage on board after the
departure of a .steamer will be subjected
to a premium of 20 per cent.—Mail anal
Express.
• • A Smart Little Girl.
There is a charming young widow- in
South Minneapolis who retains a 5-year-
ol as the only- pledge of her dear de-,,
parted, 'a thle:I'ribune of that city. The
little one has just begun to learn her alpha-
bet. A gentleman called upon the widow
the other evening. Of course, the fond
mother wanted to show off her child.
Taking up a newspaper and pointing to the
big letters in an advertisement the mother
said:
'hat letter is' that ?"
"A," responded the child.
"What comes after A?"
g` Andwha t comes next ?"
" C," lispedthe little .one.
The inquiry' was pursued still further, but
.
along toward the end of the alphabet the
little girl lost her begiings.and.never an-
Eniered a question.
Finally the gentleman thought he would
put a few questions. He . began with this
one :
" What wines after T ?"
The child looked him straight in the eyes
as she answered:
"A man to see mamma."
The lesson in English literature was not
prolonged:
Early Rising Made Easy.
Visitors to the Leipsic Fair flocked in
crowds to see the so-called magic bed-
stead which was exhibited in a booth on
the Konigsplatz, says the Norddeutsche
Post.
Bymeans of a strong electric current the
occupant of the bed is twice aroused through
the ringing of a bell, .after which •a tablet
with the words " Thne to get up 1" is thrust
before the eyes of the sleeper; then his
nightcap is pulled off his head, and last of
all—if not thoroughly awake by this time—
he is pitched out of bed on the floor.
Meantime the busy electric spark has
lighted the night lamp on the dressing table,
as also'the spirit lamp under the coffee pot
—an admirable arrangement for the dark
winter mornings.
No Bore Weak Bridges.
A French engineer has devised a method
of accurately ineasuring the strains on iron
and steel bridges, using for the purpose two
brackets, which are attached, some distance
apart, to the beam to be tested.
On one bracket is a water chamber,
closed by a flexible , diaphragm, and con-
nected. with an open tube, which serves to
register, by the height of the tube, any
pressure made on this diaphragm. One end
of a pointed rod is connected with this
metal covering to the water chamber, while
the other is suitably joined to the other
bracket.
It is thus seen that any elengation of the
bridge member causes e motion , of the
diaphragm, and a fall of water in the Inc
tribe.
A Night Session,
• A lively tariff debate took place the other
night. A gentleman on his way home was
overtaken bya man who told him it was a
dangerous neighborhood, and that the two,
had better walk together for the sake of
protection. In about two minutes his eom-
panion assaulted him and tried to get away
with his watch and pocket -book. "Von
rob me under'the plea of protection," said
the victim. " Not at all; I believe in at -
teaks for revenlie only," said the fbot-pad.
Really Entliandastie,
"011; Mr. Brown, yoim picture is abaci-
Intely enchanting. Only one Italian' word
ean describe it -:.--and I have forgotten that"
—"evade Blaetter.
Coal in the Province Of Almeria, in Spein,
is so dear that there is great rejoicing over
, the discovery of an inferior quality in a
large vein near Albanehez.
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The ChCeli Of a Women Who Poem Was
Declined.
There came to a man who has been a
success in literature which we should envy
did we not all agree that he deserves it,
says Arlo Bates in the Book -Buyer, a lady
who was neither young nor fair, but who
had the assurance of youth in combination
with the obstinacy of advancing years.
"1 have decided," she said to him that
I must earn my livingby writing poems. I
sent a poem. to the Blank Magazine and
they returned it with a printed; slip. Now,
I want you to write to the editor and tell
him that he Made a, mistake."
It naturally seemed to the author that h
had to deal with a humorist or a mad
woman; but the lady was certainty in
earnest and apparently sane. He endeavored
to show her that it was nothisbusiness to in-
terfere with. the decisions of editors of maga-
zines, who might be supposed to know their
own business.
The lady insisted, however, and at the
end he was forced to decline point blank to
do what she asked. Thereupon she turned
upon him, a,nd declared that he was one of
those who endeavored to keep others out in
order that they may have the field to them-
selves and who are mainly jealous
of Other authors who are sure
to eclipse them if they are but heard.
"It is all a ring," she declared with ve-
hemence. "1 havebeen told se before, and
now I am sure of it. I can't make
you do justice to me, but I can show you
Her method of "showing him up" has
been to send letters of bitter invective to
the papers, one of which fell into my hands.
Of course nobody would print them, but
she perseveres, and in addition to this she
sends to the luckless author, whose crime is
that he did not make the editor print the
rhymes Of an unknown woman, a letter once
a week.
Of course he 'burns them unopened, and.
it is not easy to see what satisfaction it can
be to the woman to keep on with this sort
of thing ; but the fact remains that she
does. The story is not of profound import-
ance, but it throws a curious bit of side
light upon the life of the successful author
of to -day.
—Character is to intellect what a locomo-
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I never felt better in my life.- W. V.
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A Society Which Will Not Pail.
Father Darin, a Roman Catholic priest,
of Wisconsin, has established a "Deliver-
ance Society," which, according to the
prospectus, is organized on the mutual
assurance plan, and the object of which is
to save souls. The admission fee is 25
cents and the annual contribution is 10
cents, and there is no reserve fund. All
contrilsations are to be immediately em-
ployed in thecelebration of masses for the
deliverance of the souls of the asaurecl who
are in purgatory. The priest proposes to
establish branches throughout the country.
Pretty Girls of Winnipeg.
During the short, time we Were in Win-
nipeg we were struck with the beauty of the
.Canadian young ladies in this little city of
the prairies; The "Rosalie, the prairie.
flower" of our youth, must surely have come
/I'm somewhere about the Central part of
the Northern American continent. Where,'
as in New York it took us eight dd
ays to fin
five handsome NVOInell, in our four hours at
Winnipeg, we saw many pretty, welt -
dressed, girls, and four perfect beantieS.--
Bletekwood'a Magazine.
The Bieyeie.
The uses of the bicycle are many. It is
a thoronghly practical Machine: and. serves .
many purposes. The doctor uses it in going:
his rounds among his patients ; the collector
Inds it more 'convenient than thestreat
cars ; the delivery boy can take bus paeks
ages aboard, if they be not too large, anal
ca11 visit mistomers 10 remote portions of
the city, in an ineredibly short space of
time ; the man of sedentary pursuits gets
fresh air and wholesome exorcise ozi hia
wheel efter business hours ; and the father
of a, &hilly finds in his bieyele im Meana of
amusing hie little ones.
Pater, ti..011. tile Prince.
Berlin News The Prince Of Wales is
getting it from all direptions. Nearly every
leading paper in the Itanpire is coademiug
his gambling proclivities and the same IS
done by the different church conferencea
who mostly have their annual reeetinga
,about this time. If he .dece not turn over a
new leaf and quit all his foolish .views ' he iS
not likely to be the successor of his royal
Modica,
The smallest screws in thc world are used.
it the manufacture of watehea. The sercw
in the fourth jewel wheel, that looks to the
naked eye like a bit of duet, is so mall that
a ladys thimble would hold 100,000 ci ,
them,