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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-29, Page 3nary Had a Plot of Laud. (Peons the Brighton, Single Tax Review.) Mary had it little /and, The soiS was very poor; Ent still she kept lb on her hand, And eteeggled to get inore. She held her land until the day Tie people settled down ; Till where a WildOrlIOSS had been Grew up a thriving town. Then Mary reeted out her plot tSho would, 4iot; sell, you know), But waite(l patiently about Illor 'niece still to grow, They grew as population came, AuU lefary raised the rout ; With common food and raiment now She would not be content. She built herself a mansion fine, _ Had luxuries galore e But every- time that prices rose, She raised the rent SOIlle more. What makes the land keep Mary so?" The common people cry; "Why, Mary owns the land, you know," The knowing ones reply. And so each one ot you might be -- Wealthy, refined and smo— lt you had only owned some land, And " waited. for the rise." emmiametannannmumme !Russian Persecution. On frozen steppes she falls and creeps, Hard -driven by the Cosseck hounds All desolate she wails and weeps, Nor yet escapes tife tyrant's bounds. And this is Hae.e.ar's sad, farovvell, And this the doom. of Israel! 0 Jewess, under Russian ban, Sad daughter 01 a fated race, Dear mother or the Son of Man With Russia's heel upon thy face ! o dark-evee Jewess, weak, oppressed, 13e patient, and thou'lt yet be blest —The Sumpatkizer. MANUAL TRAINiNO IN Fugue SUMO/A. The Chietigo Herald congratulates the School Board of that city upon the intro- duction of Manual training into some of the schools and regrets that the experiment is not to be tried at once in all the schools, because "if training of eye and hand be worth anything in one school it is worth as much in every school - if it be beneficial for truants it is beneficial for children who are not truants." Though the people of the United States are foremost in inventive, con- structive and mechanical industries, in the finer departments of design and decoration they are, accordingto the Herald, far ni behind the nations in Europe that have manual combined with literary instruction in their popular schools ; and in the higher grades of all the industries demanding trained hands and knowledge of design they were in the beginning, and to a considerable degree still are, dependent on European races for thinkers aud executants. Had manual training been a regular part of the common school nistritction of the country the last fifty years the position of American arts and crafts would be far more advanced and native designers and skilled artisans would have taken and handed down to their children the high ancl piofitable places so long held by foreigners. In a number of the cities of the United :States manual training has lieen successfully • in operation for several s ears. From no school that is so fortunate as to possess it is • it ever dropped. Nochild that takes it up willingly lays it down. The practicability of carrying it on with the usual literary instruction is no longer a question in any city in which the experiment has ken tried. Certain results are uniformly noted in these schools. It is found that the discipline of a school in which manual training is pro- moted becomes so natural and happy that all need of artificial restraint passes gradu- ally. away. M is observed that the children, refreshed by the variety of their work and invigorated by the change from abstract to concrete, are quieter and more studious • aver their books than in schools where they have only abstract studies to pursue. It is demonstrated that children who pursue manual studies stand. bettor in literary ones ' than the children who follow literary studies alone. The per cent. of attendance on enrolment is higher in schools where manual training is a regular part of the school work. Health, of course, is better. From whatever side the question is ap- proached the facts and statistics, the moral as well as the intellectual and physical data, are all in favor of the combination. Parents who are unfamiliar with manual training ask if its object is to make carpenters and masons, shoemakers and laborers of their children. They might better ask if to teach a boy grammar is to condemn him to be a poet ; to teach a girl singing is to prescribe that she shall make a precarious living by that ; if teaching geography to a *class is to mean that all are to be explorers or sailors or deck hands. Why do chil- dren* learn the many operations in so called " practical arithmetic ? Why, for instance, do they spend hours in computing compound interest? In performing sums " in tare and tret ? In double proportion and logarithms? Is it that these operations are to be actually perform.ed by them in life ? Or is it only for the mental gymnastic that they con- tain? The greatest part of all work done in school is only mental gymnastic. Manual training is not the making of carpenters any more than learning interest principles is the making of bankers, or the casting of latitude and longitude the making of captains. Manual training is the de- velopment of the natural powers of observa- tion and the quickening of the sense of form, color and construction. It is the grammar of the arts of design. It has the same relation to all - practical arts that mathematics has to all exact sciences. Row They Began. Calvin S. Brice's first labor was over law books in a country law office in Ohio. Henry Clews' early life was spent as a porter in a woolen house at $3 a week. • General Russell A. Alger earned his first money doing odd jobs for the neighbors. Russell Sage was a clerk. Ile learned frugality in his brother's grocery store at • Troy. • President Harrison found his first dollar in the toe of his stocking on Christmas • morning. Henry Villarcl, who has so many ups and • downs as a railroad man, earned his fleet •money as a reporter. John Archibald, one of the Standard Oil • eCreesuees, was an office boy at Tituseille, Pa., not manyyears ago, and is now re- • potted to be worth fully $15,000,000. 111, li. De Young, the California editor, started bis first newspaper in San Fran- ,ciseo in 1865 on a capital of $20, and that loaned him by a more prosperous acquaint- - ance, Thomas Hardy, the novelist, began his •career as an architect in English Dorches- ter, and his Arse published work was an essay on the 1.1Se of colored brick and terra cotta in dwelling houses. When you ask for Nasal Balm do not permit your dealer to give you some "just as gbod " substitute. It is the only remedy yet discovered that wi1I thoroughly cure ea.tarrh, Sold by ell dealers. The wettest plac in the world i at Chia Ponjee, in ,the Klialekllills of Assam. The a of rain for a sulg month has ranged from 100 to 200 inchea. NELLIE'S EOETUNE Before a LIMO •WY-COVOPed eatEge OHO evening etood a young tnan and a girl of perhaps some eighteeu or nineteen summers. " Nellie," the young man was saying, " you know my furlough is up iX1 a week and it certainly follows that I should de- sire adecided answer from yon by that time.', " But, Captain Warden, you must let me think about it," she said with an arch " Of course, by all means my dear, I will give you until the very lest minute, if necessary; but I shall have a favorable answer ?" " Well, I will think about it," said the girl. Five Minutes later he left and hurried down the road to his home, while the young lady entered tho cottage singing a snatch from a favorite ballad. Nellie Pearsleywas the belle of Wellesley and a. reputed heiress. It was whispered that her uncle, Captain Pearson, had a snug sum in store for his pretty little niece. Her hand was sought by many of the young men of the village, but she only kept them in saspense, keeping each wondering if he were the favored one. The next evening about 8 o'clock the door bell rang mad another one of her many ad- mirers was ushered in. This one was also a soldier and of the same regiment as Captain Warden. .After a half an hour or so lie managed to muster up courage enough to get the fated question out, but Nellie made evasive answers. "1 should have to consult my uncle on this matter, so it may be some time before I can give you my answer," "1 should like to know within a week, for my regiment is off for India then, and it will be some time before I see you again." "I'll be sure to answer you before the week is out," said the young heiress absently. The young man was satisfied and in a few moments took his departure, priding and consoling himself on the reply he ex- pected to receive. "Well," said Nellie to herself when he had gone, "I'm in a fix. Two offers of marriage in as many days and neither party answered. Which shall I take? Why, it is really alarming. I declare, if that is not the door bell, again. This time it was not a soldier, but a young clerk who was ushered in. George Warren had the reputation of being the most bashful youth in the whole of Welisley. "Why, good evening," said. Nellie, ex- tending her hand, which the youth took almost reverently with his. "1 am so pleased to see you." "1 heard you were going away," said Nellie. "Only for a few days on a little business for the store." "But when are you going ?" she con- tinued. "To -night 071 the east -bound train, which will leave in a very short time." • "Oh," pouted the young lady, "it is too bad you have to go so SOOD. • Greor,,,en laughed and blushed again. They conversed for some time longer, when the youth had his courage mustered up, as his two predecessors had, and, after ten min- utes'bard work, succeeded fairly well in popping the question. " Oh, you foolish boy," laughed the young heiress. "Is that all you. were try- ing to ask me for the last quarter of an hour ?" "You haven't answered. me yet," said the young clerk, picking up fresh courage byNellie's pleasantry. "You must wait a few days, George," she said seriously. "1 must consult my uncle on the matter." "1 will wait as long as you want me to, Nellie, but how long will you have to keep me in suspense ?" "I'll let you know by the end of the week at least." Bidding her good-bye he left the house and was soon lost to view in the gloom. "Just think," mused the girl, "of having to face three offers in two nights, Captain Warden and Lientenant Arkwright of Her Majesty's 8th regiment and a clerk in a country store. Well, I know now partly whom I'll accept." The next day Wellsley was awed by hear- ing of the death of Captain Pearson, Nellie's uncle He had succumbed to a disease from which he had long been a sufferer. But when after his funeral, his will was read by which he left to Nellie all his worldly possessions, these were found. to amount to only a few hundred pounds. Was shelhen the much -talked -of Wellesley heiress, for whom many a youth had spent sleepless nights in thinking of her and her little for- tune? The mothers of the eligible young men looked disgusted at what they consid- ered a base deception and wondered to them- selves what the proud Miss Pearson would do now. • A few days after the funeral Nellie was standing in front of her cottage. All at once she heard some one approaching, and looking up saw Captain Warden coming towards her. " I hope, Miss Pearson," he said, coldly, "that you will think lightly of the proposal I made you a week ago. I have been think- ing the matter over and have decided not to marry just yet" "1 ara perfectly satisfied with thearrange- ment, and you may consider yourself free," said Nellie, independently. • The following day she received a letter from Arkwright It ran thus: DEAR 111Iss PEatismv,—Upon thinking over my proposal of marriage to you last week I have decided that I was a little hasty, and trust you -will permit inc to withdraw my offer and that the arrangement will be satisfactory to yon. --Ever your friend, SAMUEL ARRWRIGHT. "Yes," thought Nellie to herself, "1 am perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as he calls it Those two men did not care for me, but they supposed I hada large fortune. Now I wonder if my country clerk will remain faithful ?" She met George several times, but he never mentioned or hinted at the offer he had made her, until a month after her uncle's death. "1 thotight ib would not do to mention it so goon after Captain Pearson's death, but I think 1 can now make bold enough to •seek the answer promised me a month ago." " But my supposed fortune," said Nellie. "Fortune," echoed •George. "Do you really mean to insinuate that I was after your fortune." Nellie mede no reply, but placed her hand in his, and the soft gaze of her bine eyes told him more than words. The people of Wellesley were soon made aware of the fact that Captain Pearson had made all his fortune Over to her six months before he died. This was why it was not mentioned in the hit testament. A year after his death a quiet marriage took place in Wellesley, and it is hardly necessary to say that George Warren was the happy groom and 'Nellie Peersotl the blushing bride. Prinuis —Is the breaeb. irreconcilable Dace the father cast offthe son for niatrying a typewriter? Secundus—Yes ; ib Ives the lather's typewriter, you see. TEA TABLE OOSSIP. TUR 'VOWNSICP PAM. The township fair is rife, And the farmer and lite wife Are there to show the best that they can o; There are cattle sleek and fat, Pigs and peultry, and all that, And of the wangers take a critic's view. There are %teats and, vegetables, Choice preserves witi hoom-mede labels, Bleats and flower, lloral pieces and boitquets ; Pateliwork quilts and band -made laces, Knick-knacks for all ctorts of 151aces, And examples of the latest household craze; Works of art quiet amateurish There are likewise seen to nourish, And ceramics also, just as like as not; But the farmer's ellp Of pleasure Is tilled te fullest ineasure By the genuine agricultural horse trot. —China's Emperor is 20. —Berlin's debt is $56,000,009. —Mrs. Stanley collects parasols. —Jean Ingelow is 63 years of age. —Lunacy is increasing in Scotland. —The woman piano tuner is coming. —.Belgium has a population of 6,030,043. —There are about sixty species of shark. —Louis Kossuth has entered his 90th year. --Love is blind, but matrimony is a great oculist. —This is grand weather for clrivingin the country. —The greatest depth of the (mean is 27,930 feet. —The ordmary watch gives 160,144,000 ticks a year. — The weight of evidence is used on the scales of justice. — Tipp u Tib is about to pay a VISO to Queen Victoria. — Men with slovenly weighs are balanced and found wanting. --Electricity is now used for heating flat- irons used by tailors. —The ties that bind a business house to the public—Advertise! —A fool's advice is better than a knave's — The fall style of hat is one that blows • off and runs on the ground. —Most actors like Hamlet, because the ghost walks regularly M it. — Three sons of the great author of "Pickwick" are still living — Men can give excellent advice about what they cannot do themselves. Love won another !" said the man who had just married his second wife. —In addition to other things, charity covers a multitude of bad actors. —In mediteval times middle-aged 'people must have been unusually plentiful. — Julia Ward Howe says that the society of good people is alwaysgood society. —Boston has decreed that wearing a big hat in a theater is a sign of ill breeding. —About 1,000 Battle Creek (Mich.) women voted at the recent school election — The man who lives in the public eye must expect sometimes to be under the lash. —A ring around the moon is a sign of ram, and a ring around the eye is a sign of a blow. —" Oh, for a thousand tongues 1" cried the man who was' having a dispute with a woman. —Count Tolstoi has concluded that all of his works shall henceforth be free to be published or translated. —The Texas Fat Men's Club charges a cent a pound for initiation. ,No man under 250 pounds is accepted. —India now contains 286,000,000 people, a larger number than is to be found in all Europe outside of Russia. —Connecticut last year took out more patents in proportion to population than any other State in the -Union. — John J. Taylor, of Streatoi., M., once wrote 4,100 words on the blank side of a postal card without artificial aid. —The people of the United States drink 70,000,000 gallons of whiskey a year, and. snakes are alarmingly on the increase. —It is pointed out as an interesting fact that people with a tendency to consumption are never bald. On the contrary, they usually possess luxuriant heads of hair. —Deacon (solemnly )—Little boy, do you go fishing on Sunday? Small boy (gleefully) —Oh, yes, sir; isn't it just bully ? Come on and I'll show you a dandy place to get 'elm POINTS FOR A PICTURE. A man, a maid, a brook, a glade, A basket, dishes, napkin neat, A. few red ants, agathering storm, There is your picnic pioture, all complete. — Candidate (to voter)—How do you do, my dear Mr. Hayseed? And how is Mrs. -- Considerate voter—Hi! stop! Don't get in that mud. I'm going to vote for you any- how. —Mrs. Harrison has been chosen an hen: orary member by :the Association of the King's Daughters. • —The British Parliament allows to each of the daughters of the Queen an income of $30,000 a year. The younger sons -of the Queen receive $125,000 each a year. —Energy will do anything that can be done in this world ; and no talents, no cir- cumstances, no opportunities will make a two -legged. animal a man without it.— Goethe. —Parnell, if one may believe the Boston Globe's correspondent, loved and sought in marriage a Providence„ girI twenty years ago, but her stern father, a millionaire by the way, said nay. —Miss Waybaok (first visit to the sea beach)—How awfully direy the ocean water is 1 Bah ! It tastes horrid, tom Mrs. De Style (a.cottager)—Yes, it has always been so. I suppose it's those excursionists. — The Poor Young Man—Mr. Crceaus, I would like to marry your daughter. Old Orcesus—Ah ! you love her, sir? The Poor Young Man—Madly. Old Crcesus—Which one? The Poor Young Man—Oh, either of them. — The Princess of Wales' birthday, Dec. 1st, is to be marked by the presentation at Sandringham of a screen for her Norfolk home, containing photographs of 1,000 nurses in connection with the national pen- sion fand for nurses. —" Can you help me ?" said the tramp, addressing the doctor, who was riding past. " Perhaps I cam," said the doctor, humor- ously, I'm a physician. What's your trouble ?" " I think, sir, I need a little change most." Ile got it. THOSE Ball Wien MSIS Rita farmers, with an eager expoetapion, Are watching the experiments for bringing rain at need. And when on schedule time there comes the wet precipitation Tho savants and the grangers think that here is luck, indeed ; While the chap with 'Makes Umbrellas doesn't sny a word at all, Bet thielse how fast his trade will grew whee thee° rains begin to fall. WOMEN Alt_H 'FO Itlf.kfirEe Meeting or the W. C, T. IT. at the Firt1t Con` greinttional Church in Toledo. The staet auditorium of the church, was packed to the doors last evening. Consplen- ous on the platform among the speakers waa Mrs. Josephine R. Nichols, the orator of the That hallesvening Tthe evils of intemperance can be directly treeecl to woman'was the startling announcement 1110(10 in the address of that most graceful and winning orator, Mrs. ,Theephine Nichols, of Indianapolis, As woman is the autocrat of society, so in her is invested the power of lending a restrain- ing influence in the cause of temperance. Social drinking, which is growing more and more customary in all greet cities, she traced to thesociety of to -day when men are enticed by women to become slaves of the wine cup, The respon- sibility which every woman must recognize was pictured in burning words. While the necessity of franchise is apparent, in order to do effeotive temperance work, the speaker urged that women may show their colors by refusing to entertain in their social circles the seller of liquer or he who persistently upholds the liquor traffic. "Women are culpable for allowing social drink to reach its popularity." said Mrs. Nichols. "By so doing they are .giving brblwaasnddwwiet oneotxur ierreeihosrciacu::scdtitu: lellihrActeriirkhnendiesvott nuoiaai nieyb. vi5e:fillesiPnPlgtde- yrifrdehlea. u11°. bsirsoin' nglokpberl 11 dafhlimikeeica. :aa°ToniseersrhtciPx1 Idikri isyl reollaelSoleiel nt ennieltl:1 laffilidtfetennwsdaaagitiraernati BhgYnl. uronbynnyeaelaemsul dnioen: sabeltoltednai °Phi ogouaevenbl td:ltsedattvIrbidisg°ronafeel ifretteorfmlkiplabrhiwil lnafteg 'neoedaogiehinanhifle8eedl ied raidepndwucylv: Irabliesehnt::!°113tnhgoayikhehhueta(heableehttaaliroitellYYnoaeee:::- woman the angels would fold their wings about their faces to shut out so degraded • and pitiful a spectacle." Perhaps no temperance orator who has spoken befere a Toledo audience has ever held the attention of a vast congregation more thoroughly than did this strong, clear voiced woman in her plea for total abstin- ence. JOSEPHINE R. NICHOLS. Mrs. Josephine R. Nichols has been the ptesident of the Indiana W. C. T. U. since 1885, and for many years has held a high place amongplatform speakers. She has a rich, musical voice, fine enunciation, and an easy, natural style of delivery which make her a charming speaker, and her natural graces of person have been com- mented on by both press and public. While Mrs. •Niehols has made many addresses on temperance and other subjects, her chief . claiia to die - tinction lies in her special de- partment of W. C. T. U. work for state and county fairs, of which she has been superintendent since 1883. Wherever elle has worked she has been instrumental in banishing the sale of intoxicants from the grounds. She had charge of the exhibit at the World's Fair in New Orleans, at the Paris exposition, and has been selected for this work at the coming Columbian exposi- tion at Chicago. The distribution of immense quantities of temperance literature is a feature of Mrs. Nichols' "fair ground work, and, she has become famous through • her splendid abilityin carrying out the designs of the department. —Toledo Blade. The Smart Clerk. • Boston Herald: The clerk who knows it all, what yon wish and what you should have, has not yet been set down hard enough. He is still in the van of hs guild. Ile meets you with a smile, and he smiles continuously. Even while telling you that you do not know your own mind he smiles and intimates that if you will accept his judgment all will be well. He is charmingly gracious if you submit to his dictation, but if you become restive and allow him to see that you have a preference for your taste, and prefer to spend your money in your own way, whether for your ultimate good or not, there is apt to be a momentary exhibition of his contempt for you. But he still smiles while he—politely as he fancies—crushes you with impertinence. You retreat deter- mined not only not to submit to this rude- ness again, but not to patronize the shop if you can do as well elsewhere. And who is the loser? • . It Opens the Byes, "My daughter is losingher sight," said an anxious mother, "and.just on the eve of marriage, tool What shall 1. do ?" "Let her get married, by all means," responded the doctor: "marriage is a regular eye- opener." A man's eyes open pretty widely, when he finds his wife's charms disappear- ing. Health is the best friend of beauty, and the innumerable ills to which women are peculiarly subject, its worst enemies. Ex-perienee proves that women who possess the best health, use Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is the only medicine for women, sold by druggists, under a positive guarantee from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. This guarantee has been printed on the bottle -wrapper, and carefally carried out for many years. A ;Useful Accomplishntent. • Good News : Father—Johnny, there's a button off your coat. Go upstairs and sew it on. Little Johnny (in surprise)—Mother will sew it on. Father—I know she will, but I want you to learn to sew on buttons yourself. Johnny (amazed)—Why? Father (solemnly)—Some day, Johnny, when you grow up you won't have any mother—nothing but a wife. An Fatly Bird. Buffalo News First Dude—I'm going to Washington to -morrow. Second Dude—Whet train ere you going to take? First Dude—I am going to take the early train that leaves at 7 o'clock in the morning, doncher know. Second Dude—I'd like to see you off old cbappio, but that's too early. yer know. Alt Sensible people are in bed by 7 in the morn- ing, yer see. Not a Eloroi 11,4attot, New York Herald 'Hicks---Heury, I wish you would caetry -the baby a little while. , Hicke (sleepily)—I engaged in this con - Cern ae equal partner, not as a floor walker. The Height of Bliss. "Now," said the teacher, on the opening day of school," I want yoti to ten me what yon all enjoyed moat during your vacation," "Sleeping late in the meriting," was the e1 iorus. LanlizS who are suffering front euppres- sions, bearing down pains, nervousness, or any form of female wealrntea, will find Dr, Williams' Pink Pilla are Mt infallible cure. Try them. "Have yon seen the marriage notice of Miss Moneta Dimmond to Count Rake - stag?" "No,my dear ; but Moneta showed me the hill f sale—something the minister called a certificate." WAS RUSTIC ON C.FOG11/11.1411r, But Ile lilanageal to App‘eal 10 the Sympa titles of ills Bearers, saw a good-natured and innocent -looking man give one of the City Hall Park loungers a qearter the other day, and after he had. gone away I sat down beside the recipient and asked : "How did yoa appeal to his sympa- thies ?" " Told him I had lost my all." " All but your cheek, of couree. I heard you say something about the Mississippi rive "‘I.' "Yes, I told him that I was going down the Mississippi in a flat boat and that we were carried over Niagara Falls and the whole family drowned but me." " Great Scot, man ! but you don't locate Niagara Falls on the Mississippi ?" " Yes I did. Ain't they there ?" "Why, no ! They are up here, near Buffalo 1" Is that a fact 9 I saw him give a little jump when I put the Falls 'way down there, but I fixed it all right." • "How could you ?" Bu'a,` yLoImIrleomeneteabeitreddownsombeettinwg abouVicks- burg and bit him all right. Do boats go overtheeFrays ?" c,wve "Is that so ? V,Tell, no harm done. I ca,n just as well sink my craft five miles above as to have her go over. The only object is to drown the family and lose my all, you know. Couldn't put 10 cents with this and help me reach mymother's bedside in Paterson before she dies, could you ?"— Chicago Globe, Notes by Miss Willard. MOTTOES. No Compromise with Evil." "No Backward Steps." "The Palin is not Gained without the Dust of Labor." We Wage Oar Peaceful War." These true and beautiful words were spoken by Lady Henry Somerset at a recent parka' meeting in Londois : "1 am re- minded of a conversation which took place between Dr. Parker and Henry Ward Beecher. One was laying before the other some earnest plans, to which was given this reply have your scheme; now where are your fanatics,' showing that -fanatics are necessary to the carrying out of good schemes. We need care very little what names we are called, nor how cruel are the blows leveled at us, how sharp the stones, 50 that our midis achieved All reformers are stoned -until they succeed - We must, be content to sacrifice reputation, so that the wrongs of our social life be re dressed—the evils under which our country droops and langaishes destroyed. * * Those who liberated the slave were called /emetics, were insulted and called names, as people in all ageshavebeen, till after their death may be, the grand re - suit of their endestors won for them their well-earned honor. If we pause on our on- ward way to think what people will say, hesitate lest stones should be hurled, we shall sink beneath the ignoble dread '• we shall die and do no more work, hold out no hand to save or bless. There is a Judge whom alone we must fear whose verdict alone we must esteem. , Earnestly seeking a solution to the enigma of life, the -mystery of wrong -doing, we shall trouble ourselves not at all about such paltry considerations. Olcl ideas must die; new and more powerful motives arise; religion is not a thing of creeds. It would be well that each should ask with regard to questions ringing, burningin their minds, 'What would. be -God's view in this matter?' Our attitude towards our fellows is not ours to determine. We dare not at will decide 'No' to this or Yes ' to that, As I am so aro ye,' saith the Master. To •each succeeding age God's special message comes, and it comes to souls in attitude to receive it—ready, •with all sails set, to catch the favoring breeze of God's Spirit." • Watermelons In London. Boston Sunday Herald : Londoners have been revelling in.watermelons, a large con- signment of that precious fruit having been received from Cincinnati. It was a bright idea sending over the watermelons, for Cincinnati's wide-awake venture caused almost a revolution among the British gar- deners. As far as can be learned, the noble Briton has taken kindly to the American fruit, and solemnly asks if it will be pos- sible to cultivate it in that foggy and groggy little island. We don't believe it can be done. The watermelon is a mixture of hot sunshine add sugar and water, and that could never be got together in English soil. Several of the London dailies have given long and imposing editorials on the subject, but the true results of the exporta- tion may be hoard from in the Lancet. A Natural Query. Chicago Tribune: Street car conductor— You musn't use the floor of this car as a spittoon, sir. Street car hog (purprised and indignant) —Thunder! What do you want me to use? The roof? Of the entire human race 500,000,000 are well clothed, that is, they wear garments of some kind; 250,000,000 habitually go naked, and 700,000,000 only cover parts of the body; 500,000,000 live in houses, 700,- 000,000 in huts and caves, and. 250,000,000 virtually have no shelter. Mississippi news item : "Rev. A. Cathy, O Methodist minis1or, aged 70 years, living at Burnsville recently eloped with Miss Millie Mader, aged 51 years. The lady's parents objected. 1. RB�.amPuedir.- eine. They are a BLOOD BUILDER, Tomo and Recox- STIMeTOIL, as they supply in a condensed form the substances actually needed to en- rich the Blood, curing all diseases coming from Peon, and WA:r- utty tie= or from VITIATDD HUMORS in the Beoore and else invigorate and Bum; up• the BLOOD and SYSTEM, when broken doWn by overwork, mental worry,disease, to ixocnesss sTahnody nhidaivs ecr iL Stntemo Aerator; on the SEXtrAn Storni/ of both men and Women, restoring LOST Imam anci eorreeting all ntaucturAturatus and SUPPRESSIONS. ERy m IR Who ends hisutontalfao- 11 OM tittles dull Or failing, or hie phySioal powers flagging, should take these They will rostote his lost energies, both phyidoal and mental. EVERYWOMAN should tales them. ' They, cure all sup. proasione and irregularities, which inevitablsr entail sickness whets neglected. lilrtajut9t.111tmPjicI°il these Pr81g1Oyeuro he:a : suite of youthful:ed habits, and strengthen the tysioashould take thein, 4,8 J'aUI These PH,LS will maize there regular, or eats by all druggistssOr 'will be sent upon receipt el peke (sec, per bee), by addressing 1 .D.R. WILLIAMS' IfilVD, CO. Ont., '4,11L 1)., L. 44,91 PROMPTLY CURED Cures Also: Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Sprains, Bruises, Burns, Wounds, Swelling, Soreness„ Frost bites, Stiffness, All Aches. Till ffliai, k. VzolereQ•y Baltimore, Md, Canadian. Depot : woronto, Gat. Olt ISIS se snow islet:. COPP'S WARRIOR HEATER The most beautiful, economical, powerful hot air wood heater ever invented; suitable for dwellings, stores and churches. Sold by leading dealers. Write for descriptive eir cubits to the manufacturers, the COPP BROS., Limited, Hamilton, Ont. Hot Air eating Gurney's : Standard : Furnaces Aro Powerful, Durable, Economical. THOUSANDS IN USE, giving every satisfaa tion. For sale by all the leading dealers. Write for catalogue and full particulars The E. & C. Gurney Co. HAMILTON, ONT. RADAR LA. mon% Presents to the public the result of more than •twenty years' experience as nurso and physician both in France and the United States, in the fo; m and under the name of BABY CORDIAL -.Lee 14 08 FOR CBILDREN TIEETIBEAG Which greatly facilitates the procees of teeth- ing by softening the gums,reducing inflamma- tion and will allay all pain and spasmodic ea - tion, and is sure to regulate the bowels. Bold by all druggists. AGENTS WANTED ON SALARY or commission, to handle theNewPatentChera- ical Ink Erasing Pencil. Agents making $50 per week. Monroe Braser Co., La Crosse, Wis. Box 831. PUSH THE WHEEt IT LIGHTS " RELl- i ABLE" POCKETLAMP and CIGAR LIGHTER. Post paid 60c. -Agents wanted, Dealers supplied. Citeeler for stamp. 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