HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-15, Page 3WELL-PAID FORESTERS,
Talk of a &volution i the Independent
Order.
• lariat airier Ranger airoulayatenha teats—
Ina Salary Rushed ap From SaMOO to
$0.000—Botne of the iteembers manic
whoa Are Woo Newry "Joiners" an the
Head or whinge.
• (Toronto News.)
The past decade has witneseed a marvel -
ions growth of friendly insurance societies
in Canada, and more particularly in Ontario
One of the =St SUCCeSSfUl Of these orders
is that known by the name •a Independent
l'oresters, and which hal for its presiding
genius the big chief of the Mohawas with the
imaronouncable patronymic. This Order ire.
gan life at the right time, it offered a plan
of insurance that seemed to meet the popu-
lar demand, and in consequence its member-
ship has grown rapidly until it ROW has on
its roll some 20,000 names and to its credit
a cash surplus counted by the hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Just, however, as it has apparently
xeaehed the pinnacle of prosperity, discord
las begun to appear. One cause of this is
due to what many consider extravagance in
salaries. Two years ago, the salary of
the Supreme Chief Ranger was only $2,000.
Then the remuneration of this office went,
op with a bound to $4,000. A few weeks
o the biennial meeting of the Supreme
Court was held in Detroit and another in-
- crease was made—this time to $6,000, and
there was at the Same UM() a general all-
round advance in other salaries as well,
These increases became still more objec-
tionable by an addition to the assess-
ment on members for sick and funeral
benefits which were made at the same time.
'Further dissatisfaction is caused by the fact
that even this sum of $6,000 a year does
mot represent the whole of Dr. Ormaliya-
tehlons emoluments. He is editor of the
/forester, a little monthly publication, and
dor his onerous labors in editing the finan-
cial statements and official circulars in that
journal he gets some $500 a year. Then his
travelling expenses and fees for the
organization, of new courts, etc.,
amount to a considerable sum.
In fact one prominent naernber places
the doctor's total gettings from the Order
nt not less than $13,000 a year. But even
this does not end it. Pooh Bah 'finds his
counterpart to a certain extent in the
Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent
Yorests. The latter is besides being chief
of tbe Foresters, head old the Independent
Good Templars of the world, and from that
*body he receives, it is said, an honorarium
cof $1,000 a year and raore travelling. ex -
pauses. He is also chief medical examiner
for the Orange Mutual Benefit Society, and
is paid for his services as such. So that
altogether, considering his other sources of
tevenue, some of the Foresters think they
are paying pretty high for a goodelooking
Supreme Chief when they give him $6,000
and. incidentals. Another cause of dis-
satisfaction lies in the belief of some
that there is a littleringin the Order which
manipulates everything for the benefit 9f
the favored few. The doctor himself is
one of the class recently designated as
"joiners." Be belongs to almost every
known and several unknown orders, and it
is said that these orders within the order
work together for his benefit and their own..
To illustrate: There is for each Province or
State where the Independent Foresters
exist a local High Court, and those High
Courts elect delegates who form the Supreme
Court of the Order. At the recent meeting
o ithe High Court for Ontario there were
aess than 200 delegates present, and of
these about 30 were present or past High
Court officers. The allegation is that these
facers, who hang togetheoin the way indi-
cated, practically control the High Court.
One of the most important of the deities of
theHighCourt is, of course, to selec belelegates
to the Supreme Court, where the big salaries
are fixed. And it is here where the advan-
t age to the supreme officers of their sup -
loosed influence over a strong minority in the
Ifigh Court comes in. At the late meeting
of this court in Belleville the ballob papers
for the election of delegates to the supreme
are said to have been marked before being
issued to the faithful, with the instruction
"vote for these." Brit to make assurance
doubly sure the scrutineers who counted the
ballots after the voting were not ordinary
•officers of the High Court, but distinguished
members of the Supreme Court. These
statements are made still more suggestive
by the declaration of one member of the
Supreme Court that" wealways make sure
that the High Courts elect the right inen to
the Supreme Court."
All these things have led to a good deal
of discussion among members of the order,
and one Subordinate Court in Toronto re-
cently had a heated discussion on these
lines. Just what the end will be is not
clear but some members talk of going over
to the Canadiamorder in a body if there is
not an amendment.
Jolty English Clergymen.
Owing to the fact that so many English
citizens spend the summer on the continent,
the different Church of England societies
detail preachers of that faith to take their
own vacation on the continent, and at all
the resorts the preachers conduct religious
services each Sunday, I have met a number
-of these ministers or rectors, and they seem.
to be a very jovial set of men. In contrast
to our own preacher's in the United States
they not only frequent the gardens and
drinking -places, but they do not hesitate to
ait in the smoking-roones or the hotels and
indulge in "grog "—Scotch whiskey and
water. "Why not?" said one of these
epreachers to me, as he sipped his grog and
,aimoked his pipe, "Wo enjoy the good
things of this world but do not abuse
them." They are evidently the same kind
of persons that Thaokeray so vividly de-
scribes in his novels. I observe when
• landed a card by any of these preacher,
that they invariably, give you their club as
well as private address, and this is par-
ticularly true of London and the outskirts.
• One of these preachers seemed much sur-
phised when told that itwas a rare exceptin
in the United States for a minister of he
gospel to belong to a club.—enicheamid, Vat,
;Dispatch.
Wlinie the grand jury visited Buffalo jail
they found seamed women in a cell who bad
eommitted no crime, who were not weep
charged with committing a crime but were
held prisoners and with all the odium
attached to attual erimbeals, because they
unluckily happened to witness a murder
same weeks ago. In the same jail is a
young man, ta eh from is ;work end con-
demned to the ignominy and hardships of
jail iife simply because he happened to be
parisiog along the street when orie man struck
another a fatal: blow. 'Tait sort of thing is
mot confieed to New York Stet°. , Cana=
dam witnesees sometimes get a taste of the
lame kind of treatmenb. One notable ea- g
oeption was young Pelley, who was kept in
Canada until Bite -Fingal trial, receiving 850
a month from the Ontarib Government,.
The wedding suit of a Wellingther, Kano t
man was stoke the other eight, but torten-
,* tam after he was Married,
lettaieriateleeetirel.
How the Record Rept and the Points of
Observation.
The British Government has a man eta-
tioned at Roche's Point, who is paid to
record in a book the exact time thee
stearnere pass his signal station, both in-
ward aud outward bound. Since the acute
rivalry between the fleet ships of the White
Star and Inman hues has sprung up this
man has been even more than ordinarily
careful in carrying out his instructiona la
passing Roche's Point the vessels go
through a channel hardly three miles wide,
and as a general thing they pass within
an easy mile ot the Government signal
etation.
Since the fast shies began to reckon their
speed so carefully this signal officer hae
timed their, from the moment they yvere
exactly abeam of his station. The out-
ward -bound vessels usually go past him at
full speed. What becomes of them after
that is of no concern to the signal num. He
immediately telegraphs hie record to the
steamship agents in Queenstown, whence it
is forwarded to the main office in Liverpool.
Both the Inman and the White Star lines
have a inan of their own on Roche's Point,
to make observations and figures. Some.
times they differ. But if by any possible
chance the question of a vessel's actual time
came up in a British court of law the Gov-
ernment signal man's figures would stand.
In a shriller way the official time on the
other side is taken the moment the vessel
is abeam of Sandy Ho9k. The line is setby
the compass, and the telescope does the
rest. The moment of crossing is almost as
clearly defined as in the ease of the running
horse OR the track. Passengers of the trans-
atlantic steamer date the time of their pas -
Frage either from Land's End or from the
time the vessel starts until she • comes to
anchor., The 'dean:whip companies do not
take this into accomet at all in eheir official
records. They know the time, of course,
that a vessel leaves Liverpool and of her
arrival at Queenstown. But this is not
considered the record of her passage. The
subsidized mail boats—the White Star and
Cunard—usually anchor at Queenstown a
mile or two further inside Roche's Pc:int
than do the Inman boats and other Atlantic
liners which are not obliged to wait the
arrival of the Irish mails at Queenstown
except for a stray passenger or two. The
mail boats are usually the last to get away
from the harbor.—Piasburg Deepatch.
Notes From Scotland.
A meeting in connection with the proposal
to establish a Scottish orchestra was held in
Glasgow on the 16th inst., when it was
stated that over £20,000 had already been
subscribed.
Principal Cairns bas, on account of the
state of his health, been forbidden by his
medical adviser to resume his professional
duties at the approaching session of the U.
P. Theological Hall, Edinburgh.
Donald Dinnie is now 54 yearsof age, hav-
ing been born at Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, in
July, 1837. His height is 6 ft. la in., his
chest measurement 42 in., and the calf of
his legmeasures 17a in. His records are:
Throwing the 16 lb. harruner, 132 ft. 8 in. ;
putting the 161b. stone, 44 ft. 6 in. ; put-
ting the 22- lb. stone,. above 3(1 ft. Some of
bis records, however, are not recognized,
because of the informal manner in which
they were made.
The herring season in Scotland has now
closed and compares unfavorably with that
of last year, though a few boats did un-
eommonly well. On the East Coast, to the
12th inst.'633,982 crans were landed, as
against 813,013 crane during the correspond-
ing pertod of 1890.
A Barbarous Custom.
It appears to be a native custom in South-
eastern Alaska to turn out from her home a.
woman who is about to become a mother,
providing for her only a small rough shelter
made of boards, bark, or canvas as a pro-
tection from the weather. Many of the
miseries in this world are doubtless caused
by human beings themselves, and this is a
case in point. In one of these desolate and
cold huts, on dainp ground, the Alaskan
babe is ushered into the world, mother and
child unattended either by skilled nurse or
physician. According to the New York
Medical .Record, an effort has been made
• recently by some of the citizens of Sitka
provide better accommodation for the native
women, and through their exertions a plan
has been matured, and funds have been ob-
tained for the erection of a building in the
nativevillage, to be known as the St. John's
Maternity of Sitka. It is to be hoped that
the hospital will be finished before the
winter is upon these wretched people.---
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Hospital.
Fashionable Cruelty.
In the street car the other day, says a
writer in the New York Press, I heard
Frank Work, who is known as one of the
most ardent lovers of horseflesh in New
York, talking about the ugly and inhumane
fashion of docking horses' tails. He said
that while out driving that day he had seen
as fine a pair of horses as he ever laid eyes
on with docked tails, whose gait and bear-
• ing and carriage were all spoiled, simply
from the fact that they had ho protection
spinet insects. He went on to say: "If
there is anything outrageous that demands
the rigid enforcement of the law against the
habit, it is that of docking horses. It is
often done at the instance of women who
want their driving outfits to be per:fectly
fashionable'hut never stop to think of the
effect upon the horse. It seems almost. im-
possible that the women, who as a rulelaave
gentler hearts than men, can realize what it
is for a horse to be deprived of its natural
defense against flies and insects."
Enough to Make JI1iii Cross.
Spatts (to his grocer)—You seem angry,
Mr. Peck.
Peek --4 am. The impeder of weights
and measures has just been in.
"Ha, hal He caught you giving 15
ounces to the pound, did he?"
"Worse than that. He said I'd been
giving 17."
CaUkle fer Excitement.
New York Herald: He—Did you know
the vestry had engaged the new minister?
She (exeitedly)—To Whom?
The Bishop of Derry, in England is
coining to the United States about the mid-
dle of February th deliver a course of
lectures in New York on the evidences of
Christianity.
Two gum trees which tower over 100 feet
above a little ehurch in Guatemala, are 60
feet in circumfetence, and their strong roots
have petaled the foundations of the church
out of place,
—A Buffalo woman had a dentist arrested
because he hurt- her when he pulled her
teeth.
We don't know what Rev. Mr. Fulton
of St Louis has been doing, but he re-
marks with an evident feeling of relief,
Thatat God there will be no newspapeni
in heaven !"
The king id Ashantee is allowed 3,333
vvives, Mana of them are the daughters of
he chiefs of tributary tribe over which tile
king has jurisdiction, atal to sent to him as
hostages.
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ME !JUICY BIVALVE.
The Auatomy of the Oyster—Not So e
as Ile Seems.
A clam is considered se the emblem ef
etupidity in callousness. But you will
make as great a mistake if you put the
oyster in the same category as when you
class a Cainaman and a gapanese together.
The oyster is so strong of muscle, as we all
know, that no human fingers aro able alone
to open the doors of his domicile if he
chooses to keep them closed;
liver and stomach and digestive
organs he aas, all as sensitive as
ours ; respiratory organs as complicated as
the human lungs ; machinery for obtaining
his water supply and for preventing an
overflow, and wondrously contrived mechan-
ism for the trapping of his food. Finally,
he has a heart whose pulsations may be
seen after his house has been torn from him.
With this very limited understanding of the
anatomy of the oyster it is not difficult to
comprehend how cultivation and care
may not only improve its outward
appearance and augment its lines of
beauty, but how they also cause the
quality of its meat to surpass that of the
natural " or uncultivated oyster, as much
as grain -fed poultry surpasses the product
of the barn -yard. When your host places
before you oysters that are plump and
round and thick and deep and light-cdored,
and mantled narrowly by a hinge quite
thick to the very edge, then you may be
sure that they have not only lived with few
disturbances but under a high state of culti-
vation.—Scribner's.
A MATRON TO MAIDENS.
Quiet 'Whispers in Girls' Ears About Love
and Matrimony.
Girls, don't think that every young Man
who calls upon you once or twice is in love
with you.
Don't think because you are prettier than
your neighbor across the way and have
prettier gowns that it is right to try to flirt
from your front stoop with her beau when
he calls upon her.
Don't astonish your friends and acquaint-
ances with magnificent gowns, while your
mother wears cheap bombazine and a cloak
and bonnet that every one can see has done
at least five years'service.
Don't show up lily-white taper fingers if
hers are seamed with work.
Don't be always drumming on the piano
when your visitors call.
Don't expect that a man's intentions are
sincere until he inforrns yon in plain English
that they are.
Don't hint to a man that you like him and
that he is your ideal, and that you wouldn't
mind leaving the state of single -blessedness
if " Barkis is willin'."
Don't make yourself obnoxious by appear-
ing persistently at places you know to be his
usual haunts until the young man has a fear
in turning each street corner he comes to
lest he will meet you.
Don't accept your wedding outfit from the
hands of your lover.—YoungLadies' Bazar.
MUSICAL LIZARDS.
The liVay a Stranger Entertained Some of
Then* in Switzerland.
"When in Switlerland two years ago I
made the acquaintance of SOMe lizards liv-
ing in the crevices of one of the sunny walls
of our garden," says a. writer in the London
Spectator. "As I had somewhere heard
that lizards have a good ear for music, I
resolved to prove thefact ; so one afternoon,
armed with a small music -box, 1 wended
my steps to their tomato -covered home.
'Before I had finished the first tune a
considerable audience had collected—an
audience it was a pleasure to play to,for the
lizards were far more attentive than most
human beings. Out peered head after'
head, a little on one side, in a listening
attitude.
"I gave my little friends a musical enter-
tainment (varied by whistling) nearly every
day, and before longthey got much bolder
and would venture right out of their holes
and lie motionless on the broad ledge of the
wall, their bright black eyeshalf closed as
a rule, but opening. now and then to give
me a lazy wink of enjoyment."
• Figs and Thistles.
Every step toward heaven is a test of
courage and love.
When difficulties are overcoming they be-
come blessings.
False worship will kill the soul as quick
as no worship.
Self-deception is one of the most deadly of
all dangers.
The flax has to Tao broken before its
strength can be known.
If you undertake to drag the cross you
will find it very heaver.—Ram's
Key Rings and Things.
Jeb nail -heads or cabochons are sure of
being in style.
Hats trimmed only with ribbon demand a
generous quantity.
Gold key rings are among the little favors
sent to brides and grooms by poor but ele-
gant friends.
Some new travelling bags are made in
fine Mackintosh cloth, applied to firm but
light -weight leather. Fire gilt and brass
trimmings are used instead of nickel -plate.
Ex -PRESIDENT CLEVELAND may have hi
faults, but he was never given to gush. The
following extract from his remarks to a re-
porter of the Erie, Pa., Herald, in reference
to the late Hon. W. L. Scott, have a pecu-
liar interest to Canadians just at this time.
Of how many of our public men could the
same sentences be spoken with perfect
truth? Mr. Cleveland said:
"But there was another phase of hs charac-
ter which should endear he memory, not only
to his personal friends, but to every true Amen-
' As a public servant he was patriotic, disin-
terested, honest. and sincere. As a inernber of
Congress he spent his efforts and his though t in
advancing thoSe Measures and objects wi Och
Ise deemed for the good of the entire eon
and he never belittled his position nor dimin-
ished his usefulness by seeking to accomplish
legislation which had relation to his own bene-
fit or to interests merely local and circum-
scribed.
"It, was certainly true of him that having
determined that a certain course of eonduetled
to the promotion of the public good, his private
interests and all personal considerations Wore
set aside as he followed in the way of public
duty.
"If his life had only been valuable for the
example he set for the faithful performance of
the trust the people repose in their public ser-
vantS, he should be remembered with gratitude
and affection; and when we recall his other
traits of mind and heart, those who loved him
cannot fail to be comforted by the precious
memories he has loft t6 them."
AaWeetern man says this is a "tough
world," and it is his opinion that very few
who are in it now will ever get out alive,
The tea trade of Japan is constantly in-
creasing, while that of China is diminisling.
The increase is at the rate of more their
3,500,000 petards yearly. Most of the Japan-
eiie tea is con8Unled in the United States and
Canada. ,
The little Xing of Spain does not know
his lettere yet, and all mental education has
been forbidden him. Ire is so fragile and
putty physically that the slighteet exertion
of the mind fatigues
1VOMENIN CONFERENCE,
SO far the Vote is Decidedly In Their
Favor.
The fall conferences of the Methodist
Episcopal Church have been voting on tbe
question of abolishing the restrictive rule
which prevents women from sitting as dele-
gates in the General Conference. The vote
hot week stood 1,363 in favor of changing
the present rule to 1,189 against, rile
Chri4ian, Advocate of tbis week announces
the vote in il more conferences, in 10 of
which the majority is largely in favor oe the
admission of women. The Northwest
German is the only conference of the num-
ber that is opposed to the proposed Orange.
This iii the vote :
Conference. leoa
North phio,.
. , .......... 71,
' Central Ohio
Wisconsin
West Wisconsin ..... ...
Columbia River
Northwest G erman,
Dos Moines
Northwest Iowa
Soutilern Illinois
Minors
Total
Already reported
Against.
64
141 25
111
100
72
32
121
67
29
30
28
12
40
38
40
104 29
131 55
953 105
• • 1,303 7,189
Grand total
2316 7,594
This gives a majority for the women of
722 in the fall conferences already heard
from, says the New York 62471. The spring
conferences which voted this year on the
question did so in uncertainty as to whether
the vote was on the question of eligibility or
on a change of the rule. They will vote
again at their meetings next spring. It is
through the west that the vote in behalf of
the women has been strongest. The last
general conference of the church decided
that the admission of women would be a
constitutional change, and therefore re -
(pikes a three-fourths vote of the ministers
of the conference, The vote on the change
is to be reported to the next general confer-
ence, which meets in Omaha, in May, 1892.
It is net expected by the friends of the new
measure that the required three-fourths
vote will be obtained, but they hope to per-
suade the next general conference that it is
really not a constitutional change, and that
only a majority vote of the conference is
necessary.
A. WILILY SQUABBLE.
A Government inspector Looking After the
Bights ora Hamilton Asylullt Patient.
A Guelph despatch says: Ibbotson vs.
Ibbotson was an action brought by one of
the Inspectors of Prisons and Asylums in
the name of a wife who is now an inmate of
the Hamilton lunatic asylum, against her
husband and son, for the purpose of having
annulled a deed by which she conveyed a
farm in Arthur township to the son and
another deed' by which the son conveyed it
to the husband. On her behalf it was alleged
that at the time of the making of the deeds
the wife was partly out of her mind, and
consequently incapable of knowing what she
was doing, and also that at that time the
property was hers in fee simple. The son
had allowed judgment to go against him by
default, and he was put in the witness box
to assist in establishing the case against his
father, as also was a married daughter of the
plaintiff, residing in Guelph. Both of them
testified to very harsh treatment of their
mother by their father, the son stating that
the father used to get. drunk and beat his
mother. The defendant denied ever having
beaten his wife, and stated that the propo-
sition to convey the deed to him came from
her. The action was dismissed, but without
costs.
A WEENfatiE CHARGE.
Villainous Conduct of a Bruce County
; School Teacher, e
t
A Walkerton despatch says: A teacher
at Johnston's Corners, Brant Township, has
disgraced himself by his very immoral acts.
He had been teaching at the place men-
tioned above, about two miles from Walk-
erton, since August, 1889, but shortly be-
fore the midsummer holidays of the present
year secured a university student to finish
the term. After leaving his school he went
to Toronto, and from thence th Uncle Sam's
domains, where he fancied he was safe. It
seems the depraved aniinal in whom the
brute nature largely predominates was
guilty of seducing several girls. His villain-
ous 'ants were principally in Brant and
Arran Townships, where under promise of
marriage he betrayed the unfortunate girls.
The friends of the deceived women have
engaged a detective to find out his where-
abouts and bring him to justice. The
teacher is well known in East Bruce, having
taught in Brant and Arran for over five
years. arid his disgrace will be felt by the
teaching profession. He attended Walker-
ton High -School in 1885 and Owen Sound
Collegiate in 1889.
1,800 TO AN INCH.
Paper Made of iron Good to 'Write 'Upon.
It will not, perhaps, be remembered that
in the great exhibition of 1851 a. specimen of
iron paper was exhibited. Immediately a
lively competition ensued among iron -
masters as to the thinness to which iron
could be rolled. One ironmaker rolled
sheets the average thickness of which was
the 1-1,800 part of an inch. In other words,
1,800 sheets of this iron, piled one upon the
other, would onlymeasure one inch in thick -
SS.
The wonderful fineness of this work may
be more readily understood whea it is re-
membered that 1,200 sheets of thinnest tis-
sue paper measure a fraction over an inch.
These wonderful iron sheets were perfectly
smooth and easy to write upon, notwith-
'standing the fact thatthey were porous when
held up in a strong light. —London Paper-
Alaker.
Made ilim» Sick.
De Tracker—The killing of that jockey
in yesterday's race was a horrible affair,
wasn't it?
De Better—Iforrible, horrible. Just
made me sick. I had all my money on that
horse.
A new infantry drill book is to be issued
by the British War Office authorities
within the next two or three weeks, and it
is said to contain some striking changes and
innovations in tactics. The marvelous
accuracy of the new weapons has doomed
the close order, or "brick -wail formation,"
and the day of mathematical movements is
over. •
Lady Harris, wife of the Governor of
Bombay, is an excellent cricketer, and was
captain of the winning side in a successful
ericketing match recently held.
—London toek in more than $1,000,000
last year for dog taxes. There is no winking
there at untaxed animals.
—Revenge.—' George—The girl 1 used to
go with will sit behind us at the theatre to-
night. Ethel—Mamma, do you know where
I put my high hat.
The Allan Line steamship Grecian, which
hes juse arrived at London from Montreal,
lost 38 id her cargo of cattle. She experi-
enced very heavy weather.
Kingston is agitating for a public hospi-
tal,
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019IDA AND DOGS.
This Sentettional Writer Has Some Peeittlar
Ideas.
" Dogs and Their Affections" is the title
of the latest screed of this sensational;
abnormal and yet popular writer, who is
known to care a great deal more for the
canine than for the human species. In
answer to the question why all men of
genius or greatness are so fond of dogs, she
declares that the reason is not far to seek,
and goes on in that cynical manner she so
often affect:
"Those who are great or eminent in any
way find the world full of parasites, toadies,
liers, fawners, hypocrites ; the incorrupti-
ble candor, loyalty and honor of the dog
are to Such like water in a barren place to
the thirsty traveller. The sympathy of
your dog is unfailing and unobtrusive. If
you are sad, so is he ; if you are merry no
one is so willing to leap and laugh with you
as he. For your dog you are never poor;
for your dog you are never old; whether
you are in a palace or a cottage he does not
care, and fall you as low as you may, you
are his providence and his idol still. The
attachment of the dog to the man outweighs
and almost obliterates attachment in him to
his own race."
Oujda can no doubt sympathize -with
Lord Byron's feeling when he wrote this
epitaph for his dog: "I never had but one
friend, end here he lies." She would also
find exactly suited to her mood these words
of George Elliot: "The more I know o
people, the greater respect I have for dogs.'
But neither Byron nor George Elliot would
so have sinned against good taste as to ha-ve
written ia this maudlin strain:
"1 have a little Pomeranian who is from
age quite blind and quite deaf. Yet the
great love for me which survives the ex-
tinction of the senses, and, which sheds a
radiance on him through his darkness has
certainly in it all the highest attributes of
spiritual affection. Poor Little doggie,
weighted. with the ills that smote Milton
and Beethoven! These great men could
scarcely have had a greater soul than his !"
--Minneapolis Tribune.
objected to the Adjective.
London Fun: "What's the reason you
didn't speak to Boreharn when he passed
us?" "He insulted me the other day—
called me a freckled idiot." Called you a
freckled idiot—how absurd! Way, you
are not freckled !"
Import lit
Facts
Please Read Them
We respectfully ask your careful
attention to this statement, brief but
important, and which we will divide
• into three parts, viz:
1, THE SITUATION; 2, THE NECES-
• SITY; 3 THE REMEDY.
1st. The Situation
Health depends upon the state of the
blood. The blood conveys every
element which goes to make up all the
organs of the body, and it carries away
all waste or dissolved and useless
material. Every bone, muscle, nerve
and tissue lives upon what the blood
feeds to it. Moreover, every beating of
the heart, every drawing of the breath,
every thought flashing through the
brain, needs a supply of pure blood, to
be done rightly and well.
2d. The Necessity
The human race as a whole is in
great need of a good blood purifier.
There are about emeo disorders incident
to the human frame, the large majority
arising from the impure or poisonoue,
condition of the blood. Very few in-
dividuals enjoy perfect health, and
fewer still have perfectly pure blood.
Scrofula, a disease as old as antiquity,
has been inherited by generation after
generation, and manifests itself today
virulent and virtually unchanged from
its ancient forms. If we are so fortu-
nate as to ea.cape hereditary impurities
in the blood, we may contract disease
from germs in the air we breathe, the
food we eat, or the water we drink.
3d. The Remedy
In Hood's Sarsaparilla is found the
medicine for all blood diseases. Its
remarkable cures are its loudest praise.
No remedy has ever had eo great suc-
cess, no medicine was ever accorded so
great public patronage. Scrofula in its
severest forms has yielded to its potent
powers, blood poisoning and salt rheum
and many other diseases have been
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Headache, yet CARTER'S LITTLE Liven Pitts
are equally valuable in Cot stipation, curing
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they also correct all disorders of the stomach,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels.
Even if they only eured
Ache they MU c be almost priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing comitahlt;
but fortunately their goodness does end
,
here, and those who once try them wi
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they will not be willing to do without them,
But after all sick head
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we make our great boast. Our pills cure it
while others do not.
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and very easy to take. One or two piUs make
a dose. They are strictly vegetable anti do
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A. WISE -BEADED CLOCK.
It Keeps Talb on the Post Office Letter
Carriers.
A novelty in the way of automatic
time.recorders was yesterday placed at
the employees' entrance to the post
office. The machine is a combined clock
and time -register, and records the time at
which every employee enters and leaves the
building. It has the appearance of beingan
ordinary clock, with a rather peculiar -
shaped key -hole in the lower end of the
case. A large board, on which hang aboue
500 keys, adjoins the clock. Each key con-
tains a number corresponding to the number
of each employee.
The system of registering was explained
yesterday by Superintendent Madera. Each
man is given a key upon which is atampecl
his number. As he enters the door he
takes his key from the board, inserts it in
the key -hole and turns it. A bell rings,
and the man's number and time are stampea
upon a roll of tape inside resembling that
used in a telegraph ticker. He then heave
up his key, and the next man goes through
the operation. One hundred and fifty men
can register within a space of five minutes.
—Philadelphia .Record.
Holding Wheat.
Another "hold your wheat" circular he.s
been issued by the alliance. A good many
farmers have already held their wheat
longer than they wished they had. It is a
very good rule to sell, if you want to sell at
all, when you can eet a good price for a
thing. The first circular about holding
wheat was based on the facts that wheat at
the time was low and the demand was to be
large. That demend has not been supplied,
but the first movements in that direction
brought the price of wheat up to fair
valuation. It looks now that while
wheat will continue to go across the
ocean for the next six months that the
amount, exported will depend upon the
price. One man or any combination of men
cannot fix that price. Europe will do with-
out millions of bushels of wheat that she
needs and needs badly if an attempt is
made to put ap exorbitant price upon it.
That has been demonstrated in previous
years, when the foreigh demand ahnost
ceased under fictitious values. It is all
right to hold wheat or anything else for a
fear price, particularly when the prospect
of obtaining a fair price is as promising as
It was in July in regard to wheat, but
beyond thet a holder goes on to the risky
groand of speculation, and is liable ter
suffer.—.Rocaester. Herald.
Very Near It.
NeW York Herald : Wool—[ came near
hiring a girl to -day who could wash, iron,
book, bake, sew, play the piano, writeshoet-
hand, play lawn tennis, strum the mandolin
and speak Volapult.
Van Pelt --.How did you come to mies
her?
Wool—She left on herwodding trip fifteen
minutes before I reached the house,
Not IllintseIG
New York Hera2d : was it
that you came to commit the offence charged
againet yon?
Luthington—Your Honor, I really deal,
knoW. 1 was sober at the time,