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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-12-13, Page 6MISCELLANEOUS READING GRAVE AND OTHERWISE.. Reading .For Tho Finally ()irele, Both Interesting and, r b e ToA sorest d P ofl;ta . 4 1Il Not/tees Make Hien. The mother, bearing on her faithful breast Her smiling babe, is deeply, doubly blest, For helpless there, in absolute control, She holds the plastic spirit, and the soul Destined beneath her guicianco and caress A world to curse or benefit and bless. Life of her life, its soul refects her own, Echoes her thought her words, her very tone Seeks in her eyes the heaven•light—clear and true— Which ere'was born it never saw or knew; Finds in her soul the germs which every hour Grow in its own to majesty and power, Or findingin her carelessness their blight Meet their eclipse zu gloom of endless night. True motherhood is God-given, heaven-sent power, Womau's most precious gift, her priceless dower Let jibes and jeers at it be hellward hurled, The mind which molds the infant rules the world. What matters it that many fall below Tho breadtu of power great mother spirits know That folly, fashion, &elfishness and sin Obscure that intuition—born within— Whieh recognizes in each babe a deathless soul, Placed for a season in one heart's control; Born to reaeh heights no prophet may foretell, tinder the careful hand the mal:ie spell Of mother's love, which measures and creates Futures beyond control of adverse fates. Knowing that fromher life great lives may grow. Or dwarfed ones, doomed to everlasting woe. In her deft hands the endless lines eonveige, Wuich lead to joys or ruin's saddest dirge, Whichtouce tuekeys of heavenly hope and joy, Or those which imps in revels dark employ : Her the strong heart and consecrated hands To guide her child to God's glad sunlight lands. Give honor, then, to motherhood, and stand Dumb with respect before these problems grand; Which clothe with power poor mortals such as they To shape for heaven the mite of human clay; Placed on their breasts in frailty for au hour, Mighty in possibilities and power, Pray that these wives of blind, imperfect men May have revealed to their earth -blinded lien The future panorama which enrolls Grid visions of immortal human souls M:dded fer greatness, glory, deathless joy, By loving ways true mother hearts employ. Men tall: of guardian angels, yet are blind To household saints, longs suffering and kind, Whom angels honor and in joy esteem As "neater, nobler, grander than they seem To thankless human beings groping here Below that angel realm where souls see clear Bathed in the glow of love's true atmosphere. Give thanks that God made mothers Dore and blest, To pillo.v souls on a devoted breast; Let jibes and jeers for them be hellward hurled, Tne minds which mold the infants rule the world. Stub Ends of Thought. "What is love ?" is no more unanswer- able than "Why is love." Man is a little lower than the angels, and a good deal more unreliable. Trist a woman with your heart but not with your pocketbook. In France if a wife becomes an actress without her husband's consent, he can secure a divorce from her. A Badly Mixed Up War Policy. "Did you have a pleasant evening?" she said, with just a little tinge of sar- casm in her voice as he appeared in the breakfast room looking weary and un- comfortable. "Fair, fair," he sighed. "But we made one mistake." "Only one !" she exclaimed. "Usu- ally when you go out to renew old asso- ciations with your college friends you made a dozen or more. What did you dot?" .. "Oh, we had alittle champagne spread, early, you know, so that we could go to the theatre, and after the theatre, of course, we were hungry again—" " And thirsty," she suggested. "Of course," he acquiesced, "both hungry and thirsty. Then we hunted up a good restanrant and had a little more champagne and—and—" "Yes. What else ?" "It slips my mind for a minute," he said, wearily. "It was somethingin the nature of a Chinese war policy." "Chinese war policy !" she exclaimed. "Are you crazy ? You're usually foolish enough to eat Welsh rarebit about mid- night and suffer for it all—" "That was it," he interrupted. "That was what we had." But what has that got to do with the Chinese war policy ?" she asked. "It creates internal dissensions and disturbances," he replied softly. Hurrying Him Up. "Jack," said a pretty girl to her brother the other day, "I want you to do something for ma—that's a good fel- low." "Well, what is it?" growled Jack, who is the brother of the period. " Why, you know that wig and mus- tache you used in the theatricals ?" "Yes." "Well, won't you just put them on and go to the concert to -night ? Reginald and I will be there, and, Jack, I want you to stare at me the whole evening through your glasses." " What ! You want me to do that !" "Yes, and as we come out you must stand at the door and try to slip me a note. Take care that Reggie sees you, too." "Well, I declare !" "Baeause, you sea, Jack, Reggie likes me, I know, but then he is awfully slow, and he is well off, and lots of other girls are after him, and he's got to be hurried up, as it were." About Annie Laurie. Few are aware that the composer of the air Annie Lauria and of most of the words as they are now sung is still resi- dent in Bonnie Scotland. Yet such is the case, as we learn from a very in- teresting nteresting paper read recently before the Dumfries Antiquarian Society by Sir Emilius Laurie of Maswelton. She is Lady John Scott, an aunt by marriage of the present Duke of Buccleuch, The original song, it is well known, is said to have beep written by Mr. Douglas of li''iugland in praise of Annie Laurie, daughter of the first baronet of Maxwel- ton, About 1834 Lady Sohn Scott, being on a visit to her sister at Marehmont House, came across Allan Cunningham's version of the song and thought that with a lit- tle alteration it might be made to suit a tune she had. made for an old ballad, " I empye Saye." She disliked the words, especially the somewhat coarse verse:—"She's backit like the peacock, She's breastit like the swan," etc„ and aocorcli.ngly deleted that verse, altered the others and added the third verse, perhaps the most melodiously perfect in the simp.e beauty and felicity of its integer, in the whole range of Scottish song-- 'Like dead on the gowan lying, Is the fa' o' her fairy feet," etc. Lady John 1 Scott 85 years ago published the song with some others for the benefit of the widows and chitlien of the soldiers kill- ed ki 1 -ed in the Crimea, file Was Parse -frond. A good story is told by the London World of a purse -proud old nobleman who was traveling through the rural dis- tricts of Sweden. In that country evi- dently the people do not have quite as much respect for the titled aristocracy as in some other loealities on the Continent, One day the nobleman came rolling up to a country tavern, and as he stopped his carriage be called out in an imperi- ous tone: "Horses, landlord—horses at once !" °"I am very much painsd to inform you that you will have to wait over an hour before fresh horses can be brought up," repliedlandlord, the lan lords calmlyy. . " How !" violently exclaimed the nobleman. "This to me ! My man, I demand horses immediately. Then observing the fresh, sleek -looking ones being led up to another carriage, he continued: " For whom are those horses?" "They are ordered for 'this gentle- man," replied the landlord, pointing to a tall, slim individual a few paces dis. taut. "I say, my man," called out the nobleman, "will you let me have those horses if I pay you a liberal bonus ?" "No," answered the slim man; "I in- tend to use them myself." "Perhaps you are not aware who I am," roared the now thoroughly agitated and irate nobleman. " I am, sir, Field - Marshal Baron George Sparren,'tke last and only one of my race," "I am veay glad to hear that," said th slim man, stepping into his carriage. "It would be a terrible thing to think that there might be more of you coming. I am inclined to think that your race will be a foot race." The slim man was the King of Sweden! The Lady Voter. She walked haughtily yet flutteringly into the voting place to cast her first ballot. "I want to vote," she said to one of the judges. "Very well. You will find the tickets right there. How old are you?" "None of your business," she retorted. " I beg your pardon, madam, but it is," "Do you have to know?" "Yes, madam." "Do I have to vote?" "No, madam." "Then good morning," and she flounc- edou , "Gent" is Not Modern Slang. The word "gent" nowadays seems to wear its cocked hat on one side of its head, and to walk with a caddish swag- ger of vulgar self-importance. But I know a worthy old lady in the country who calls her husband the gold gent," using it as a title of respect, and such it was in her childhood and long before. In 1754 the Rev. Samuel Davies, after - was d president of Princeton College, travelling in England, describes the Rev. Dr. Lardner as a "little pert old gent," epithets that would not be flattering to a minister to -day, nor even dignified for a minister to use. "Pert" here had the sense of "lively"—much as a Kentuckian might use "peart," or a New Englander "perk." Indeed, I suspect that Davies gave the word the sound of "peart." That Davies used "gent" as a term of respect is shown by his characterization of another reverend doctor as a "vener- able, humble and affectionate old gent." It will not do, therefore, to account a word recent because of its slanginess. Whenpa smoker professes fondness for the "weed," he does not dream that he is using an epithet applied to tobacco by King James I, in 1620, and that nearly 200 years earlierithan James, in the reign of Edward IV., the hop -plant, just coin- ing into England, was called "the wicked weed." What plant had worn this title of contempt before the hop I do not know. Sells on Sight. Peddler—Have you any daughters, mum? Housekeeper—Sir ! "Plase, mum, I don't ask out of vul- gar curiosity, mum. I'm selling resona- tors." {x4 ._ "What are they?" '+, '1 "You, hang one up in Lie'- hall, mum, i and it so magnifies every sound that a goodnight kiss sounds like a cannon shot." "Give me three." Elephants in the Treak Yards. To any one for whom machinery has a fascination there is nothing stranger than the first glimpse of elephants at work about it. Amidst tee,hissingswish of belting, the buzz of saws, the multi- tudinous separate rattles mingled into a universal roar, and vibrating through a big saw mill, the ponderous figures of these slow.paced helpers present a curl- ous sight. One elephant places the log upon a moveable platform to be squared, while another waits with restless eyes and flapping ears until the saw has done its work, and then, taking a twist in an attached rope, slips the loop of it deftly over a big tusk, and leads the log away. away. Another piles timber, lifting the long piece between tusks and trunk, and Pushing it into place with the later, if the pile is low, or with a broad forehead, if the height demands it. Fetching and carrying, lifting and stacking, pushing and pulling, these docile and patient giants do their work without complaint, week in and week out. Sometimes the mahout (oozee it is in Burmese) walks be- side the beast, sometimes he sits on his big neck or broad back. But his indol- ent figure never seems to be necessary, for one cannot wateh an elephant at work very long without acquiring the convic- tion, however mistaken, that the intel- ligent direction of his labor is all his own. THOSE TUNEFUL FROGS. Love Song of the Speckled Swamp Habitant. The frog is the latest member or the animal kingdom whom Science has put under a microscope and compelled to yield up information for the use and amusement of man. It appears that this gentleman, whose vocal activity is one of the features of suburban life most like. ly to attract attention from city visitors, is equipped with a complieated and ex- traordinary musical apparatus. When the frog wishes to express his joy he burets- forth into song, He lifts up his voice and makes the woodland ring. Only the male frogs ging, The females constitutethe audietlee who sit V; in the front row and enjoy the, music, an.d it is the speckled green frog who is therime soloisb of the pwoods. These operettas only take place at night, and the performance begins about 8.30, after an overture by the katydids and the early mosquitoes. The frog, however, does not come aw o e ut upon the o stage with a roll of music in oe hand and a smug smirk on hie face. Neither does he proceed to scatter sand upon the floor from a cornucopia, and preface the performance with a song and dance after the manner of the vaudeville artists. He jumps right into the middle of his song without even a preliminary bow to the front row in the audience, aLd, after a succession of short, sharp notes, utter- ed in quick succession, he lets it go at that. Then he may receive either an encore or be the objective point of an- tique eggs,or bits of stone from the hands of some of his auditors, in which latter case he makes a rapid dive beneath the waters and is lost to sight. Who has not heard the sweet musical strains of a speckled frog ringing out on the calm evening air, immediately suc- ceeded by a "kerchunk" as he disappears beneath the wave ? That happens when his song fails to meet with approbation. There are always other frogs about when these songs are sung. Most of them are females, otherwise there would be no song, for a male frog singing to his fel- lows would not be allowed to got further than the first two bars. Stories have been told of a frog in the darkness who, seeing others of his kind whom he took for ladies, burst forth into loud melodious notes of joy and was sud- denly cut shorb in his musical career by a shower of missiles from indignant male frogs whose meditations he had disturb- ed. This only happens to the young bucks of the frog tribe, for the older heads are too shrewd to make fools of themselves when there are any other than female frogs about. One of the extraordinary things about frog music, as discovered by a writer in La Science en Femille, is the fact that the frog keeps his mouth closed when he is singing. It will therefore be seen that it would be useless to tell him to "shut up," Henan sing through his skin. He is provided with a pair of resonant cham- bers like drums and he makes his music by snapping his muscles against these distended membranes. Then he can breathe through his skin and supply all the wind that is necessary without open- ing his mouth. Handel in his "Israel in Egypt" has imitated in a passage of the oratorio the motions and leapings of the frogs. .A. French scientist, after long listen- ing in the woods, has made out and re- duced to writing the song of the frog, or "swamp music," as he calls it, and has discovered that the frog repertoire is varied and extensive. Frogs can carry on conversations at long distances, and can communicate to each other emotions of fear or hunger. Their songs, however, are all love songs, and, as has been said, are only indulged in when there are female frogs about. It is then that the frog distends his drums to their utmost, throwing his head well back and his legs far apart and raising his voice, as it is called. to the very highest pitch of the musical scale. A big, old green frog can thus make himself heard for a distance of more than two miles, and the French savant who has studied the subject says the females are by this performance thrown into ecstasies of delight. The song of the frog has, thus been registered by the French savant, "Brekeke-brekeke. brekete ! Kpate too- oo-oo ! Brekete 1 Brekete ! Brekete, kwarr, brekete too-oo !" This closely resembles the famous . cry of the Yale College stadents, taken from the frog song of the Aristophanes, and which is heard at every football match. It is supposed to express frog joy of the utter- most. LITTLE EVA. The Original of Harriet BeecherStowe's Famous Character. She was born in Lancaseer, Ky., Oc- tober 17, 1811, and'was the daughter of John Banton and Elizabeth Campbell, who were both children of heroes of the War of the Revolution. Her grand- father, Captain Samuel Campbell, was a Scotchman, and lived near Silver Creek, in Madison County, Kentucky, to which place he moved from Virginia. He was a large landholder and a wealthy man for his day, and possessed many slaves, among whom was a handsome quadroon named Letitia. She was one of the most valued slaves Captain Campbell owned, and while she was much liked by all, she was an especial favorite with Mrs. Camp- bell. When the war of 1812 commenced he went to the front and left his wife and children at home with an easier mind, knowing Letitia's faithfulness and capa- bility as a house servant. In those . days it was found most ex- pedient to engage the services of a pro- fessional weauer, who went from place to place in the neighborhood in turn. Whether it was because of the well- known superiority of the Scotch in this, direction, or whether it was because Captain Campbell, being a wealthy man, attracted to himself his humbler country- men, the weaver employed>by this family was a Scotchman named Clark. But I daresay the captain was canny, and em- ployed the man for his skill. When the master went to the war his wife manag- ed these large interests with the assist- ance of Letitia, the trusted house ser- vant, who was, of course, frequently thrown with the weaver. Capt. Campbell in a year discovered that Clark and Letitia loved each other and he ordered Clark off the place, ex- claiming : "Hoot, toot, man ! You're a grand fool, Do you suppose I want a lot of white negro children on my ylace? And don't you know your children will be my slaves—that I will put them in my pocket —that I will sell them?" But nothing ,daunted Clark, and he married Letitia, vowing her master would never sell her children, for he would make them the most humble and valued slaves on theplantation. And it is but truth to say this pledge was kept. A son of theirs was the "George Harris" of Uncle Tom's Cabin, as Mary ,Banton was "Little Eva." Physically, she was exactly as Mrs. Stowe describes her, except that her love- ly, rosy complexion was of the healthy, enduring kind that outlived more than three score years and ten. Those who have cherished her as a beautiful ideal will be glad te. know she was always a gracious and handsome woman. She whose personality inspired the character of Little Eva died in Elizabeth- town, .Ity,, August 6, 1588, and lies at rest in Louisville's beautiful Cave Hill, on a gentle slope that catches the first glint of the morning eau before it spies out the lake that flows peacefully below at the foot of the soldiers' graves. The heroine of that book that was more in- strumental than any other thingin bringing about the slave war lies facing the north and the Federal dead. who fell while fighting for the abolition of slav- ery. ery. She sleeps and they sleep, like the issues that were buried with them, and when this story, like good wine, can show a respectable age, their children will seek out her ehildreu, and they will speak together reverently of her. Editorial Philosophy.` The most dangerous hole in a man's pocket is the one at the top. Time is said to be money, aucl yet peo- ple have no scruples at all about taking up your all of time. e, Every time eve pause to grumble at im- pedimentswe delay the progress whioli we should accelerate by leaping over them. In becoming popular with the girls a young man will find a horse and buggy more useful than either good looks or brilliancy. TACITLY UNDERSTOOD. But the Officer Knew How it Came About That HSat Ile There. A policeman sa w a man the other night fussing away at the front door of a house in what seemed to be a suspicious manner, and he felt it his duty to ap- proach and demand: "Say, now, but what are you trying to do there !" The man came down to thesidewalk and took a squint at the officer and re- plied ! "Policeman, eh? Sir, you are doubt- less a husband?" "Yes, sir." "And now and then you leave your fireside and o out to take a walk?" "Exactly." "And the hours pass so swiftly by that before you realize it the bells are tolling the hour of midnight 2" "That's the way of it. I've been caught that way a score of times. It's funny how it comes midnight so soon after 10 o'clock," "Officer," continued the citizen, as he reached out to shake hands, "some wives are kickers." "Alas, yes." "My wife is one. At half -past ten she locked this door and went upstairs, say- ing to herself that I might roost on the steps or go to a hotel." "And that's my wife to a dot," sighed the officer. "1 have been home for half an hour, I have tried all the doors and windows. I have softly called the name of my Maria. I have thrown pebbles at her window." "And you are still on the outside?" "I am, and it may be tacitly under- stood between the two of us thatl'ilhave to remain on the outside until the hired girl gets up in the morning if this but- ton -hook won't work the lock. Officer, good -night." "Good -night, sir." "Tacitly understood, and you needn't worry over burglars and skeleton keys. I may want you in the morning to swear that we stood talking on the corner when the bells struck ten, but until then fare- well." An hour later the officer returned, and through the . frosty curtain veiling the :night he made out a figure humped up against the front door. He made no halt and uttered no word. He tacitly under- stood that the button -hook hadn't work- ed, and the man who took a walk was still on the outside. An Interesting Creature. The slug and its habits and peculiari- ties are well worth a little attention from those who are fond of the unusual and curious thingsof earth. A family, upon moving into a house, remarked that the cellar was lined all over with thin,'shin- ing tracks where some slimy creature had crawled. For a long time the mak- ers of the tracks could not be found, but were at last discovered underneath a box in one corner where the mice had carried some' leaves and pieces of vegetables, They were put into a glass fruit jar and fed with leaves and scraps of vegetables. They seemed to eat but little, but were continually crawling about the jar. At the slightest sound they contracted into a length of not more than two and a half inches, .remaining perfectly quiet for a few minutes, when they cautiously put out their feelers and began to move. The head seemed to go on, and the tail was still until the body measured six inches, when gradually the entire length moved slowly along. As it crawled up the side of the jar the under side of the body could be clearly seen through the tran- sparent material Its propulsive power seemed to be a sort of endless chain ar- rangement that ran lengthwise from head to tail. This slug is as thick as one's little finger. The longest specimen measured a trifle over six inches in length. Repairing a Damaged Shaft There aro a few points in regard to the Umbria breakdown, from an engineering point of view, which might not appeal to the ordinary observer. Engineer Tom- linson got a great deal of credit for re- pairing the shaft, whereas a considerable part of the credit was due him and his assistants for their cautious watchfulness of all the machinery. Reports show that the shaft was not entirely broken ofi— the fracture was not complete. It had been noticed that it was not working smoothly, and the cap was taken off the thrust bearing and the flaw discovered. The mending consisted of strengthen- ing the parts SO that the fracture could not become any greater amd this was practicable, while if the (break had been complete and the solid part had made one revolution against the broken off end of the other part repairs would have become almost, if not quite, impossible with the facilities on board the ship. Our engin- eer friends who in the future may stand in danger of being called upon to mend a broken shaft may well bear in mind, therefore, that to discover a fracture be- fore the shaft breaks goes a long way to- ward successful repair. The .Actions of Tress. The actions of trees in their manner of taking root in strange soil seems almost like the human family, who are guided in their likes and dislikes by intelli- gence, wisdom and consciousness, which trees and vegetation cannot, possess. Some trees strive to take root in hard, in- hospitable soil among the rocks and re - vines, as if hiding from the winds and frosts of northern climates and reaching forth with more than natural instincts for moisture, solar rays, warmth of sun- shine and rain. It seems like a human cryfor life and vitality. . There are trees seen in New England forests that seem to crowd together for companionship around the inland lakes and rivers. They seem to get thickly together for drinking and climbing amongthe it hills and among the small valleys till their branches interlock in social and harmonious affection, aiding each other to support as best they may their roots from the hunger and thirst pf exhausted soils. SHIPS PASSING AT SEA. How They Talk to Each Other Across the Water.! , Marine signalling is at least twenty- five centurite old. Among the Greeks and Romans the polished surfaces of the shields were used as mirrors to reflect the sunlight from one toireme to another. As they used no firearms there was no smoke to interfere, and the flashes of sun- light could be easily read. In this day it, could not be done, for whole squad- rons of warships aresometimes enveloped in smoke. However, smokeless powder may in a few years so alter conditions as to make some similar system possible in battle. The use of firearms introduced a new mode ofgnat ri 1' s ug only as regards sig- nals of distress, and. as a manner of saluting other nations. In actual battle the cannon are useless as signals, be- cause each faction is firing indiscrimin- ately, and the number of guns to be fired as signals lose their identity. Any for- eigu vessel of war entering a harbor of another couiitry with which it is at peace hoists the flag of that country at the fore track and fires a salute of twenty-one guns, which salute is returned with the same number of guns. A vessel in dis- tres, if in daytime, fires a gun continu- ously until some answer is had from shore or some other vessel, if there is one in hearing distance. The semaphore has been very success- ful for short distances. This is an ob- long ball, about two feet in diameter, which is manipulated on a flagstaff or hoisted by a line. Id is used almost ex- clusively on vessels acting in squadrons. If the flagship washes to pass an order the balls are raised to certain elevations on the staff, which carry certain mean- ings. Suppose the order is "up anchor," hoist one ball at half mast, and let it re- main until all the other vessels answer "all right," or, perhaps, one ball at the masthead and one half-mast might mean "up anchor," and so on three, four or five balls could be manipulated in certain combinations to mean any general order in the tactics of field maneuvering. For short distances the semaphore is very successful, and is also used among mer- chant vessels, as well as men-of-war. The principal signal for short dis- tances is the "wig -wag," which is used, not for general mancauvor, as the sema- phore, but :for any and all messages that have to be explained in detail. The "wig -wag" is made by a person standing erect with a small flag in each hand, which he waves in certain combination for certain letters. For instance, if both arms were hold erect over the head and brought down in a circular motion to the side, each flag would describe a semi -circle and a letter "o" would be described. Hold the left flag out horizontally from the body and describe a semi -circle with the right flag, then the right flag out and circle with the left, and so on, combining notions until every letter in the alphabet is represented by a moti 1n. In all the navies of the world the small boys taken as apprentices are trained as signal boys, not only for the "wig -wag," but all other modes. The flag system is the most universal and satisfactory of all' codes, both na- tionally and internationally. The differ- ence bet ween the "wig -wag" and the flag system is the "wig -wag" represents the letters themselves, but the large flags represent not only words, but sentences. These are recorded in a book which every vessel has, and by referring to the num- ber in the book that the flags represent, the message is interpreted. When large flags are used they are hoisted to the masthead by an ordinary halyard, to which the flags aro fastened with the units flag of the desired number at the bottom, tens next and so on. Long tri angular shaped flags (penants, properly called), of different colors and combina- tions of colors make the numbers. This is easy, as only nine digits are used (the zero being excluded), and one flag over another can give any number wanted. Each nation has iti own combination of numbers, so that they can signal among themselves, while others can see and not understand. Then there is an international code by which any two nations may communi- cate, inasmuch as figures are the same in all nations, and though they might not understani one word in common, they can interpret the flag numbers. Every vessel that floats, whether mer- chantman or man-of-war, has a number, which is recorded in the international list of vessels, which gives the name of the owner, master, or port or country, to which it belongs. Vessels passing at sea always exchange numbers as a salute, the same as we exchange salutations with persons on the street, whether strangers or friends, The flag of the country from which the vessel hails, is hoisted astern, and if a merchantman meet a man-of- war at sea she dips her country's flag in honor to the other country, which, of course, is answered in a similar manner, and for the merchantman not to dip is an insult. Government vessels are al- ways distinguished from other vessels by the long, narrow pennant flying from the mainmast. There are many flag signals that every- one knows, and they are universal, even among savage tribes, as if these colors were ordained to represent certain things. They are the white flag of peace; the black flag, no mercy; red flag, danger; yellow flag; sickness. I'or a national flag to fly is to mean either a holiday or pub- lic prosperity) andthat same flag at half- mast is to be in mourning; a furled ban- ner trailing is a disgrace. 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TORONTO TYPE FOUNDRY, Toronto and Winnipeg THEATRICAL GOODS. Wigs, Moustaches, Paints, Makeups, Clogs and Song and lance Skoes. Also tights supplied to order. Moustaches on wire frames, 35 cents. Send stamp for price list. Address CHAS, CLARIN, 1 Richmond St, W., Toronto. •/,.,a� TOroU iL PLACE AS a useful, progressive prosperous and successful citizen, by taking thorough Business or Shorthand Courseat TI•IE NORTI•lsR(U fdusiiss ss COLLEGE, OWEN oou,, b, OPtr. Write for Announcement to C. A. F LEWIING, Prin'l. 'LiOOTitto MOTORS from one -hail Bertin Power tip to Eleven i7.ort:;n :Lower, Write, or prices, stating power required, Voltage of eurrent to bo used, and w)cstber impelled h5' suet ear line orntherwIse. :, tO:itOi '..rO T3"I'til FOtfl DIdT, rnrtnitnfind ''*''1nti t sit IOIVIEand Boiler, ti horaePower, upright Second hand ire first -clam rirde'r for pato at,, ) it bargain. TORONTO' TYPE ?Ott lila', To - rondo sad WitTOIs, c',