HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-22, Page 7PRESS AN_I) PUBLIC MEN,
The Honesty of the Latter Certified
by the Former,
DENIALS OF.PRESS•STATEMENTS
'Those Who Complain of Society
Items,
GREAT PIJELIC MEN.
General H. V. Boynton, a Washington
correspondent of many years' experience,
contaibiates an article to the " Century "
in "The Press and Public Men," many of
the statemeats in which are as applicable to
Ottawa as to Washington and to Canada as
to the United States. The following ex-
tracts are made:
"There is a widespread idea among those
in the publie service that cultiva.ting the
press, as they are pleased to term it, is
isomething very far beneath their notice.
On the other hand they seem to thiule it the
epecial business of the press to cultivate
them, and when they find themselves left to
the pale vegetation which belongs to the
shadows into which they withdraw, they
deem themselves ill used, and declare
favoritism to be one of the most glaring
faults of the press. • These gentlemen of
marrow vision never appreciate the fact
that the field of journalistic work is far too
wide to admit of many visits to individuals,
and when the mountain does not come to
them they never avail themselves of the
plainest alternative.
• In going to the mountain lis what has
been referred to as the proper use of the
press. If a man in the public service does
,anything which interests his constituents,
.it is to his advantage and to theirs that they
whould know it. The press stands ready to
make it known, and finds itself repaid in
having the news. If the act performed is of
national interest, the Associated Press will
carry it to every corner of the land. If it is
betel or needs comment, the specials will
use it. If it is partisan, the specials of the
party press will take it. In all this there
is mutual advantage. One side desires the
publication, the other wishes the news.
l'eub if the public prophet, in his suicidal
pride, waits till his news is found by glean-
eala and habitually refuses to go to the
mountain, he becomes the only sufferer,
since the world will manage in soiree way to
Wag on without any information about him,
wad meantime he will remain in compara-
tive obscurity."
ARID PUBLIC MEN CORRUPT ?
"When the party press first began its
exposures of party men the serious blunder
WU very widely committed by the latter of
rallying their forces to every possible effort
in shielding and defending those whom the
public had promptly adjudged guilty, From
this egrang that almost universal, sneering
at the press on the part of public men, and
specially those whose shortcomings formed
the subject of criticism. To sneer at news-
papers as sensational, and at truthful re-
ports as newspaper lies, was the conimon
form of defence for the guilty. From this
in turn arose the idea which became far too
common in the land, that public men, as a,
class, were corrupt. The public 'reached
Vie natural and logical conclusion that,
•eke° themajority of public men saw little
to criticize in these flagrant shortcomings,
,and were even ready to defend them, the
masscould be no better than those
who bad been detected and exposed. But
5or this mistaken policy the country never
-would have been misled as to the general
wholesomeness of public life. Anobservation
in Washington of more than a quarter of a
century warrants the declaration theta very
large majority of public men of all patties,
• and in all branches and grades of the public.:
service, are strictly honest, and that the
publie business in all of its divisions, and
under each party management, has been as
honestly, as promptly, and as efficiently
conducted as the most respectable private
• business in the land. The excuses pleaded
and the defences made for the few excep-
tions to this rule, on the part of political
;associates, have caused the opposite opinion
to prevail. • Public men, therefore, and not
The press, have been meanly and justly re-
sponsible for any erroneous opinions which
'the country may have formed upon the sub -
DENIALS OP NEWSPAPER STATEMENTS.
"It is within the experience of every corre-
epondent that many of the solemn denials
emetic to meet charges which in their essen-
tials were true, and whittle have contributed
largely to the prevailing idea of inaccuracy
an the press, were false denials, verging in
their falsity upon moral perjury. Denials
axe a matter of course. Their truthfulness
in a majority of cases is a matter of doubt.
A large proportion of the denials to which
the public is treated are themselves inac-
• curate, many are mere quibbles, and many
,are false. Witness every one of the Credit
Ylobilier denials. The press makes many
mistakes. The wonder is that in the rush
of its presenting an epitome of the
'world's daily doings it does not make
a thousand errors for one. It makes very
few deliberately. And many of those
tetatements concerning which loud -mouthed
and quibbling denials are often accepted are
tree in their essentials.
"Three examples will servo to throw light
en this branch of the subject. Said a man
,)of national fame who had commanded one
of the Union armies, and had been the
a governor of his State, and had served with
distinction in Congress, in furnishing some
sensational but true statements for publica-
tion : "This is exact ; but if you ever give
me as authority I will publicly deny your
eleepatch."
el Said a former dean of the Diplomatic
Corps, in presenting a story of deep M-
anliest : "If you allow this to be traced to
me, I will promptly deny any connection
moth it over my official signature, and leave
;you in the lurch."
4'Said a senator of manyyears'service both
in and out of Congress, after talking at
length for publication : " Yes ; write it
aim and print it. But be careful. If don't
like it. I will deny the whole of it."
4‘ False deitials contribute quite as much to
the impression which many share of the in-
raeortracy of journalistic work as its actual
• Armors. The press is not immaculate, but it
las
as few unworthy men in its prominent
•,positiont as any other profession ot occupa-
tion in the land. The work of no other is
•;to open to publicity. There it; ne veil, as
them ie for all others,under which the press
can hide its shorteornittga. The sunlight
;by day and the search -light by night,
Illemine the paths of all its known work -
TILE MEN WHO DO NOT CARP,.
'The flippancy with Which a large class of
public men dismiss What they cal( the
attacks of the press, ancl the supercilious -
mem with which se natty are accustomed to
samounce in their places, or declare in
their interviews, that it is not their habit 1
to take notice of what the newspapers inpy
say, is bet another term of the onlyMefence
which very many of them are able to make
against just critieiem. There is 'Willing
Dauer in regard to public life M Washlog-
ton, a ie known to all who have facilitiee
for (deftly observing it, than thie, that, xis
a general rule, those who protest to the
public the eftenest and the loudest that they
pay 110 attention to the press are the very
ones who watch its utterances moat elcofely,
nd generally with more nervousnese and
with more cause for apprehension thee ally
ethers. As a general rule, the best men,
the ablest men, and all men of all parties
who ere straightforward in their purposee
and in their lives, who perform their datioe
with due regard to their responeibilitiee and
their oaths of office, are thoeo who trust the
representatives of the press the Most im-
plicitly. These, as a class., never suffer
from the criticisms of the press, and it
would be vevy difficult to point to a single
men among tliern who has ever been per.
sistently and unjustly misrepresented, or to
whoze defence the great majority of -Waeh-
ing,ton writers have not constantly rallied
whenever his public acts have been un-
truthfully assailed. .As a rule, and a ride
with few exceptions, those whose enure()
will not bear the light, and who cannot
stand upon their real records are the sole
ones in public life who either dread the press
or suffer from it.
"In the face of a very wide belief that the
press observes no confidences, and that ib is
necessary to keep everything from its repre-
sentatives with most scrupulous care, lest
the public should become informed in oases
where such information would be most em-
barrassing, it is scarcely too much to say
that the only claSS Of men in Washington
who year after year are trusted implicitly,
and who year after year become acquaentecl
with matters of the greatest moment upon
the tionclition that this knowledge shall only
be used DS a guide and shall not go beyond
them, are the journalists."
SOCIETY runes.
"One ofthe most curious institutions with
which the press has to deal, and with which
it is continually annoyed beyond endurance,
is that nondescript conglomeration in
Washington which calls itself "So-
ciety." This is something entirely
apart, and, generally speaking, far
beneath that large number ofintelli-
gent people of common sense and perma-
nent standing, both within and without offi-
cial circles, with which the capital is more
thaa erdinarily blessed. The small men
and women who attain temporary position
in the various ordera of this kaleidoscopic
conglomeration are perhaps those who are
most deeply sensitive of the shortcomings,
the exaggerations and the inaccuracies of
the press. With these, belaboring the press
ie one of its calisthenics. The whole body
is an auxiliary force for the common defence
against the press by the use of that weapon
heretofore 'referred to ; namely, universal
and persistent sneering. And so Mr. and
Mrs. Fresh, glorifying themselves through-
• out the few months of their public exis-
tence, rapidly marching the white
towards the shadows of that obliv-
ion from which voters unexpectedly
raised them, and into which voters
so speedily replunge the majority of them,
are often heard to remark sneeringly upon
the absence of the representatives of the
press from noted social occasions. The
favorite form of shielding themselves is to
be continually asking, whenever the para-
graphs which they have written iu regard
to their dresses, and eyes, and hair, and
general beauty, appear in the local prints,
why there canuot be some decency on the
part of those who conduct the press, and
why people cannot be let alone, and not be
given this unpleasant notoriety. It will
probably never come to the knowledge of
the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Fresh that the
representatives of the press whose duty it
is to see everything have long since been
through this dismal. round, and long since
abandoned its pathways as the most
senseless use of time to which it can be put
even in the national capital. These worthies
will never believe that the scrap -baskets of
the representatives of the press contain each
m.onth throughout the season more invita-
tions to what is most prominent in desirable
society than those who are loudest in their
sneers at the press see throughout the
entire term of their butterfly existence.
That which gives the most curious aspect
to all these outbrealcs from these lower
orders of society's habitues is the fact
.tliat the ' very large porportion of the
personal notices, of which they are
Sore to complain in public to their
friends with the air of those whose pri-
vacy has been invaded, are prepared in the
handwriting of those to whom they relate.
There is not a newspaper office in Washing-
ton that has nob volutninnus collections of
this sort, wherein the only changes made
before their appearance in print have been
the necessary corrections in orthography
and granunar. There is scarcely ever an
exception tothe statement that the de-
scriptions of prominent social occasions are
prepared in advance down to the minutest
details of dresses, trousseaus, and presents.
These paragraphs thus furnished, are gen-
erally a wondrous alchemy whichtransforms
everything into forms of beauty. Ordinary
costumes become superb, corpse•like com-
plexions take on the auroral glow, non-
classical noses are reduced. to at least be-
witching retrousse forms, and generally to
•Grecian outlines, red hair becomes the
golden auburn of ideal painters, and so down
the list the various commonplace features of
professional society habitues become smooth,
and beautiful, and altogether lovely."
• THE ACCESKELE MEN.
"Speaking generally, the higher the rank
of public men in any field of public duty,
and the abler ethose who hold place in its
various branches, the closer, more cordial,
anct more confidential are their relations
with the public through the representatives
of the press. As a rule, presidents, eabinet
officer, chief clerks, the heads of important
bureaus, and the fifty or sixty men in
Congress who originate and carry forward
the great business of the nation'are men
who at all times are approachable in the
interests of the public, and who communi-
oath, with little or no reserve, all that is
proper for the public to know, and give
most of the rest in confidence to all trusted
representatives of the press for there
personal guidance. Of late years this inti-
macy between those most prominent in pub-
lic life and the representatives of the press
has been steadily strengthening."
Their Respective Values.
Mrs. lefeddergraes-Young Sassafraa has
run off with out daughter, Jerusha.
Isileddergrass-01), he COM have her.
"And he took the sorrel mare."
"What's that? Give me my gun 1 I'll
go after the scoundrel right away 1"
Like the Earth.
New York Herald : Boggs --McKinley
won't get the earth this ; but after the
election he will resemble it.
Foggs-How ?
I3oggs-He will be flattened at the polka
The Vatican cot:daps 308 staircases and
1,000 different 00MS.
George Hohnes, of Cincinnati, is the
owner of a peciihar diamond. In the morn -
ng it is a beautiful sky blue, at noon it is
perfectly white tend at 6 o'clock in the eve,n
ng it begins to turn black, and after sunset,
t is like a piece of coal,
TEA TABLE GOSSIP,
J4)SE1'ti WAS ALL RIGHT.
Lise There 11041 Duca Some Interefeiiiirs
Ob I how I mourn tliti good or tiroes-the daYS News front Whitehall,
that now has fled,
when 1 could get upholstered 'with good,
wlioiesomo Oral aiii bread,
Ale MOM, that wasn't overdone nor Soaked
clean thro' with grease,
An' good, liot gems, that wouldn't weigh a
pound or more apiece.
Alas! 1 oe'er shall see again tholike of HultlY
ltrowa;
1 eues the f.lay 1 ever tried to cut her wages
clown;
Too lo Le 1 came to know :. her wortli--my :race
is nearly run,
Por basswood pies and dumb-bell rolls; their
eeefeet work has dom.);
Next year the daisies o'er my headeivillrgayly
howt an' hub,
Dyspepsy's elaimed Inc for her own senee
Daddy jumped her job.
Clarence IL PearS071.
oN TICR,
She heard his heart boat whore her head
Lay pillowed on his manly breast ;
It setaved to her its throbbing said
Js ,,vorld of things of love's unrest.
Dam. Charles," said she, " your heart beats
toll
01 eotaiLancy that ne'er may vary."
1 -To dared not answer for a spell,
But blessed his short -wind Waterbury!
-This year is 5,652 in the Hebrew faith.
-There twenty-seven royal families
in Europe.
--It cost $250,000 to bury Grand Duchess
Peed of Russia.
-The NiagaraFalls tuenel has now 1,175
feet, of its 3,520 feet excavated.
--The new hat that is coming for the
women is a sort of an Alpine shape.
Johnny, get the gun!
There Wad 0 1110therly-i0Ol4ng Old Idtly
Sitting in the midet of her aundlee pit the
Grand °exam]. depot yesterday, siva M.
Quad, when a man with a grip eat down
beside her and began to read a newspaper.
She eyed. him pretty sharply for a few
minutes ancl then emlideed :
Any great, newin the papers to -day ?"
" Noth tug very extraordinary," he re -
P1 1e4d.
48ee anythieg in there from Whitehall?"
" Not yet."
" from Whitehall, or purty near
there, Bin down here visitin my sister.
Ffaven't bin here but two weeks, but it
seems a hull year. Only got one letter from
,Joseph, and about all he said in that wee
that he took his pen in hand to inform me
that he was well, and hoped these few lines
would find me the same, which they did.
I'm a little woiriecl. Don't find any item
there about 11 house or barn burning up
near Whitehall ?"
" No, ma'am."
Joseph was breaking a colt when I came
away. Don't aee anything about a, farmer
getting" 1118 neck broke or being kicked to
death 1
thing of the sort, ma'am."
"Anything about anyone falling down, a
well or off a haymow ?'
" No, ma'am."
" Joseph is awful reckless, but rnebbe he's
got through all right. Anything about a
mad clog biting anybody, or a gun busting
--Crime is rare among women in Scotian end blowing a man's bead off while he was
North of the Tweed there are only sixty shootieg at a hawk 2"
female eenvicts at the present time. " Nothing whatever. I think you will
-.Mr. Tomato (to M. Potato, as a pretty' get home to find everything all right."
girl goes by) --Can the potato masher? "1 hope so, but two weeks is a long time
Mr. Potato -No, but perhaps the tomato to be away, and I'm naturally given to
worry more or less. I expect the pigs have
citn.
got into the garden two or three times, and
1 s'pose the colts have broken out agin and
Joseph has left tlae cellar door open every
night, but if it's no worse I shall be athank-
ful woman."
" 1:Iore is an item about a farmer runnieg
away with his hired girl while his wife was
absent," said the man, as he turned the
paper.
"Do tell ! • Well, that don't skeer me
any. I didn't leave no hired girl there, and
Joseph is so awful homely that even the
sheep dodge him. • Much obleeged to you.
I expect to find things a little topsy-turvy,
but I guess there ain't no call to worry."
The ease in a Nult,Shonl.
-A woman cannot be altogether unhappy
when the woman she has invited to supper
asks her to write down her recipe for that
cream pie.
-The power plant at the World's Fair
will be 24,000 horse -power, and will require
the services of 250 engineers, firemen and
atten ciente.
Oh, I know all about babies," said
-Harlow to the young mother, who wasafraid
he would let her little one faib ; "1 was on
inyself once."
--You seldom see a ma,n so honest that
he says to his wife: Where did I leave
my hat ?" He usually says: " Where did
you put it ?"
--In the kitchens of the Bon Marche, in
Paris, are kettles that hold 375 quarts and
frying -pans large enough to fry 300 cutlets
at a time on each.
New Torlk's Boy Choirs.
In 1869 there were but three boy choirs
• in New York -in Trinity Church, Trinity
chapel and St. John's. After four or five
years the next boy choir was organized
through the exertions of Mr. Hatch, the
banker, for Christ church on Fifth avenue
At a class recitation in one of the Public
Schools M Illinois, a few days since'tho fol-
lowing questions were asked by thetea.cher,
and the following answers were given by
one of the pupils -a bright little Yankee o.
some 12 or 14 years:
Teacher -What great country lies north
of the United States?
Pupil -Dominion of Canada.
T. -What is the population of Canada?
P. -About 5,000,000, sir.
T. -What is the principal business of the
which is now demolished. After an inter -
people over there? •
val of seven or ;ea+ e.,--- ie.. ., • sgP.---Raising babies,
T. -Raising babies 1 I don't understand
you !
P. -Yes, sir, raisingbabies for the foreign
market !
T. -Your answer is extraordinary, and I
don't understand it. You will explain your -
elf.
• P. -I mean that the Canadians are raising
abies for Uncle Sam 1
T. --Still I fail to see the point in your
swer !
• P. -Well, sir, the papers say that more
aan a ifiellion 'of Cenaclians have found
drnes in the United States. These were
11 babies once, and were raised by the
• medians ! The way the Tories are running
he Government over there millions niore
•'11 be compelled to finthomes in this
ountry. You now see the point, teacher, I
rust, for I have tried to make it plain to
ou.
The teacher saw the point. That Yankee
oy takes a philosophical view of the
natter and should be presented with a
. hromo for his apt answer.
repreecra-,--- vv eu, goon -
night, Miss A.---, said a young man the
other evening to a Dwightville girl whom
he was visiting. I think it's better for me
to go. I feel certain that if I stay two
minutes longer I shall be indiscreet
enough to kiss you."
" \Vele good night, Mr. F—," replied
the.yotteg girl. Oh, by the way,' she
added, "I want to show you my sachet bag
before you go.It will only take a couple of
•
minutes.'
It is only necessary to state that the
young ina,n in question is possessor of a
bright intellect, and he quickly embraced
the situation, and we can further assort that
the girl was in it.
Not Enough of Sand in Wm.
"Why have you given up your beau?"
" He tried to kis e me at the gate the
other night."
" That's no great crime."
" No, it isn't, but when I resisted he
desisted."
Sunday Reflections.
Many a man in the swim feels like a fish
ut of water.
It's only the self-made man that the child
s father to.
Time is a true physician, for it buries all
ts patients.
Married couples seldom settle before
rounds of complaint come to the surface.
HELPS COLLECTIONS.
Mr. De Piscopal--Doctor, why do you
ontinue to preach about Ananias and
apphira ?
Dr. la eirthly-Oh, it helps out collections
• It's IN HIS PLATFORM.
Jack Waite -I hear that Dr. Fourthly
has begun a campaign against the devil; I
wonder if there are three R's in his plat-
form?
Mrs. De Piscopal-Certainly.
Jack Waite -Indeed! What are they?
Mrs. De Piscopal-Religion, respectabil-
ity and riches.
Pawnee PROM THE FOLD.
"1 don't want to be a good, moral little
boy," said Jimmie, as he rtut his Sunday
School book aside. "This book says ashow
the good little boy grows up and marries
the Sunday School Superintendent's daugh-
ter. I'd hate to get stuck on that nasty,
freckled little tattletale.".
Smacking Ills Chops.
New York Herald: "1 suppose Jimpsom
when he struck the free lunch counter fairly
smacked his chops?"
"No ; the barkeeper came around and
smacked them for him."
The One Ile Wanted.
Ito Was Engaged. Yankee Blade: Young Man -I came to
Giant -I want a job. • ask you for the band of your daughter.
Dime Museum Keeper -Oh, get along 1 Father -Will you have patience, young
I've got all the giants I need. man ?
Giant --That ain't my specialty. I'm the Young Man -No, sir. That ain't the one
talleet dwarf in the world -height, nine feet I want. It's Mabel.
two inches.
A rare reptile, a white rattlesnake, was
exhibited the other day at a fair in Georgia
together with a photograph of its eye, in
which can be distinctly seen, it is said, the
likeness of a farmer who narrowly escaped
death from the reptile.
Belgium has a population of 6,030,043
Kansas has a population of 1,427,096, yet
she is so large that seven eountriee the size
of Belgium could be laid down within her
border, end yet she would have 400,000
square miles of unoccupied territory left.
Moonlight Persiflage in Condon.
Life: "That's a magnificent star, Irving,"
said Mr. Burnand to the eminent actor,
pointing to Jupiter.
" Yes ; but it isn't in it with me," re-
turned Irving. "It can't play Hamlet."
"No. That's whore you're alike," said
Burnand.
As a dancer the Kaiser is not a success.
He is stiff aud unbending as a ramrod. He
whirls with great rapidity, and everybody
on the floor gets out of his way -not so much
-At the Sanford ranche and throughout fi 0111 respect for royalty 05 to prevent broken
the district around Westbourno, Maeitoba, shins and torn costumes. state of the system, you should ccr- a few moments before that official was going
the yield of wheat was an average of nearly Another fine Rembrandt has been pur- tainly take to get the drop on hnn, "will you be
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forty bushels to the acre. . chased for the royal gallery, at the Hague. kind enough to request the choir to sing
It is said. to be a whole day's task for two It is signed, and is dated 1657, and is be- something else?" "What's the matter
mon to fon a mahogany tree. On account lieved to be a portrait of the painter's froi
of the spurs that project from the trunk, a mother, Adriaen Itartnetitzoon.
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scaffold has to be erected and the tree cut George Eliot, FlOrence Nightingale, Mrs. mentioning. " Nothing, possibly, to you,"
off above the spurs, leaving thus a stump of and Miss Fawcett were mentiotied by Sir ' I
the very beet Woo sl from ten to fifteen feet Henry Parkes in moving his female suffrage Sarsa was the reply ; " but really, don't think
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tabouehere, Radical, Editor, 'Portrays His
Royal "ugliness.
Nature has endowed the Prince of Wales
as it did Charles II, with great tact. Like
that monarch, in his relations with the all
sorts and conditions of men and women with
whom he is brought in contact, he always
says the right thing, and says ib in a hearty
and cheery way, as though its utterances
were it pleasure. He presides over charity
dinners lays foundation stones, sits through
scientidc'oratory, opens bazaars, and dances
at balls with unflagging zeal. Ile is eclectic
in ins surroundings. A few years ago he Sick Headache and relieve all the troubles 1n4.
dent to a bilious state of the system, such as
devoted himself greatly to American gerls,as Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness, Distress after
their exotic iudependence and freedom from eating, Pain in the Side, &c. While their nsatit
conventionality pleased him. They have remareable success has been shown in curing
now been put aside, and he has developed a
curious taste for vulgar ansi ostentatious
parvenues of doubtful antecedents and non-
descript nationality. This has caused
heartburnings among those who deem that
they ought by right of birth to be his asso-
ciates; but it is a matter of absolute indif-
ference to others.
A few months ago he figured in a court of
law as a baccarat player where cheating had
been suspected; a.nd when it came out that
he himself had provided the counters with
which the game was played, he was lectured
and prayed for by the " unco guid,"
although I coafess I failed M see the differ-
ence between playing at baccarat and keep-
ing race horses. The general feeling was
that it might be well fer him to arrange his
amusements as to manage to keep out of
the law courts; but his popularity has not
permanently suffered from this episode.-
FOrW72.
Some of Papa's Was Missing. •
" Why, the baby is getting his father's
hair," exclaimed Aunt Sue, enthusiasti-
cally.
"Yes," replied Uncle George, "1 notice
that its papa's bald spot is getting bigger.
Ile Ilatilteen on the Road.
Junius Brutus Irving -How far is Chicago
from New York on the Central?
Cassius Mortimer Dixey -I do not know
in miles, but in railroad ties it is about 17,-
005,673,942.
At a recent CawkerCity,Kan., election;13
more women than men voted.
a
vont
A Weill Known lady Tells
of Creat enefit
Derived From
Hood's Sarsaparilla
For Debility, Neuralgia and
Catarrh
..ToRoNT0,. Dec. 28, /890.
"C. I. Hoo D & Co., Lowell, Mass.
" GENTLEMEN : For many years I have
been suffering from catarrh, neuralgia
and general debility. I failed to obtain
any permanent relief from medical ad-
vice, and my friends feared I would
never find anything to cure me. A
short time ago I was induced to try
Hood's Sarsaparilla. At that time I
was linable to walk even a short dis-
tance without feeling a
Death -Like Weakness
overtake me. A.nd I had intense pains
from neuralgia, in my head, back and
limbs, which were very exhausting,
But I am glad to say that soon after I
began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla I saw
that it was doing me good. I have
now taken three bottles and am entirely
Cured of Neuralgia.
I am gaining in strength rapidly, and
can take a two-mile walk without feel-
ing tired. I do not suffer nearly so
much from catarrh, and find that as my
strength increases the catarrh decreases.
I am indeed a changed woman, and
shall always feel grateful to Hood's Sar-
saparilla for what it has done for me.
It Ss My Wish
that this my testimonial shall be pub-
lished in order that others' suffering as I
was may learn how to be benefited.
"Yours ever gratefully,
Mits. AI. MIMIRICK, China silks.
Stamp baskets, silvered or gilded and
"36 Wilton Avenue, trimmed with ribbon.
" Toronto, Canada." I3eadeclsete of girdle and collar ending in
This a `ram” fringe.
to gy One
ushon covers of Canton flannel for
yachts, hammocks, etc.
Of many thousands of people who Many gray suede Oxford ties and silk
gladly testify to the excellence of and steckings to match.
benefit obtained from Hood's Sarsapa- I Satin striped grenadine for inexpensive
if you suffer from any disease or evening dresses,
affection caused by impure blood or low Sheriff," said the man on the acaffold
Headache, yet CARTER'S Dmitri Dyne Pius
• are egnally,valuable in Constipation, curing
and pre',„lig this annoying complaint, while
they also correct al disokders of the stonitieh,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels.
Even if they only cured
Ache they wou d be almost priceless to those
who suffer from this distressing complaint:
but fortunately their goodness does not end
here,and those who once try them will find
these little pills valuable in so many ways that
they will not be willing to do without them.
But after all sick head
is the bane 01 80 many lives that here is where
we make our great boast. Our pills cure it
while others do not.
CAuTurt's LITTTA Livna Pins are very small
and very easy to take. One or two pills make
a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do
not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action
please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents;
five for 51. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail.
• GARTEa MEDICINE CO, New Tort.
hall Ell. Small Dose. Small Hop
A pamphlet of information and ab-
stract of the laws, Showing Row to
Obtain Patents, Caveats. Trade
Marks, Copyrights, sent free.
Address SIMON & CO.
361 Broadway,
New Yorlc.
Don't Stop at the Station Despair.
We meet trust the Conductor, most surely
Why millions oe millions before
Have made this same journey securely
And come to that ultimate shore,
And we, we will reach it in season ;
And ah, what a welcome is there
Reflect then, how out of all reason
To stop at the station Despair.
Ay, midnights and many a potion
Of little black water have we
.As we journey from ocean to ocean -
From sea to ultimate sea -
To that deep sea of seas, and all silence
Of passion, concern and of care -
That vast sea of Eden set Islands,
Don't stop at the station Despair.
Go forward, whatever mayfollow
Go forward, friend led, or alone;
Ah me, to leap off in some hollow
Or fen, in the night and unknown -
Leap (alike a thief; try to hide you
From angels, all waiting you there
Go forward/ whateverbetid.e you.
Don't stop at the station Despair.
--Joaquin Miller.
Where Women Fail.
The women of to -day are really wonderful in-
deed;
' They're deeply versed in politacs, in science and
Theirineoanrvt4orsation indicates the solid hooka
they road;
; In fact, they've learned most everything worth
i learning all by heart.
'1 Nature to them's an open book, and earth and
sea and sky
Have not a secret hidden from their penetrat.
ing eye,
There's not a problem so complex but what ib
, quickly Ends
How easily they can solve it with their vast,
transparent minds.
Bravo! say Nve, find may the sex preos onwar&
still and higher;
May clearer, deeper, grander thoughts their
purposes inspire,
But when these women who so much of knowl-
edge have acquired
Get off a street -ear backward they make us
awful tired.
Por the 'Female Form.
Golden brown mixed cheviot for late
traveling gowns.
Rustic ecru hats trimmed witla cherries
and red ribbon.
Satin ribbons for trimming satin -finished