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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-2-7, Page 611118GlilLANEOUS READING. VOB 01,0 AND ,YOUNG.,. Hagazines as well well/ally Papers Con tribute to Hake this Department of Our Paper of General Interest. Books or the GUI Testament, In Genesis and Exodus And also in Leviticus .• God siestas to small matt ; . • In Numbers tie with, Israel meets, In Deutereaomy renege Wni1Muses ohis the pen. Bold Joshua crosses Jordon's wave, Then Judges -rise 'both strong and brave, and. Ruth's sweet graces shine. Samuel. eiret tettEll dies, While Seeend Samuel sees arise P,rst Kings of David's line. In Smola). Eines and also in First Chrunieles through deeds of sin A t a.thering storm is feared. While Stwond Chronicles declares How Israel fell, through heathen snares, TiiiEzra appeared. Then Nehemiah proves most true ; And Esther saves the hated few, Then job majestic speaks. In Psalms riAt melodies abound; In Proverbs priceless gems are found By him wno wisdom seeks. eel' siastes sits in gloom, But Salmon's Song retains its bloom Am' snows e. mystery deep. Isaiah speaks what ne believes, While Jeremiah sadly grieves And Lamentations weep. Ezekiel tells his visions rare; And Daniel talks with, angels fair; Aud Hosea reproves Then Joel speaks the faithful word. For weieti bri.ve Amos leaves his herd ; And Obediah loves. Jonah from God's own presenceflees But 'Me4th his salvation sees ; acid gateau tells His power. 0Id Habakkak in Him confides; and Zephaniah iu Him hides In, sure temptation's hour. Haggai cries: Arise and build, For Crud's good time is now fulfilled, And Zaeharlail sends To Israel's host a message Wain. And thou withALtlaehi's refrain Tne RebrewCanon ends, Goal 1 O1 bin from these figures is easily shown that if the sun'e entire mass consisted o rst quality or coal in a state of combustion and that% could burn until the very last ton were consumed (maintaiaing Until then the rate of heat emission now kept up) the supply could t possibly last over 5,000 years. But it is believed that the suu has been in exist- ence for hundreds of thousands and prob- ably millions of years, and that slime the "ages of man" dawned, the quantity of heat emitted has not perceptibly dimin- filled, This being the case, here is but one conelusion as to how its sappy of heat is kept up, viz.—that it has an out- side store of fuel to draw upon. The late est theory- is that the immense regions of space are occupied by untold myriads of miniature bodies known as meteors, me- teorites and serolites, which aro being constantly drawn to the sun, and that these, constantly plo-wing its atmosphere, ev. lye numerous streams of both heat and light. Compulsory Insomnia, When I was courtie Mary Jane, some twenty years ago, I conhin t aster sleep o' nights a think -in' of her SO; It seemed ez if her purty face was floatinround the bed, An' little midgets in my ears buzzed all the things the sea. I lost a pile re sleep, you bet, till Hymen's knot wuz tied. An' hedua hardly made it up afore the baby cried; While arter that, f'r fifteen year, I couldn't start a dream Thout some kid 'r other'd wake an' kick an' him an' scream. At last I got 'em all growed up. "And now, by gosn," thinks I, "This worn-out frame% get some sleep, 'r know the reason why " I went an' bought a feather bed an" pillers soft ez snow; "Now, Maay Jane," sez I, "hurrah for God's best gift below 1" But deru the everlastin' luck that's plegged ine from a lad, Thet makes my bead weigh forty ton an' a -most drives me mad. Thet wife of mine hes j'ined a club with heaven an' earth to tote, An' lectures me till peep o' day cuz she ain't al- lowed to vote 1 Curing Drunkards. A Keely drunk -cure doctor is quoted as saying: "The public generally would be astonished if they knew the number of people who drink alcohol as a beverage. I am just from Fargo, and find that the Scandinavians are largely given to this pure-aleohol habit. One reason is that drug -store whisky, which is not whisky at all, as a rule, is so vile and injurious that they pref r to get their cheering sen- sations from the straight alcohol, to in- sure some degree of purity in their drink. It is usually dilluted one-half, and in that form, gives about three times the effect of the same amount of whisky. The trouble with the Keeley -cure institutes is their high prices. The charge is $25 a week with four weeks to cure It takes in every case from $130 to $140, which many men, who most need the treatment can't afford. I have had charge of insti- tutes ii Illinois, Missouri and North Da- kota. For eleven months 1 conducted the one at Kirkwood, Mo., and have a num- ber of graduates here in St. Louis. Great progress is being made in the treatment of the drinking and morphine habits. The original Keeley method has evolved into a number of quite distinct lines of treatment, all more or less effective, and all legitimate developments of the old system. In other words, the doctors are learning as they go. One of these modi- fied methods will soon be put into effect in Central Illinois. One part of the plan I understand, is to cut down the price of treatment to $60 for a ease, with charge for board and. incidentals that will run up to say $75 actual expenses. I am glad to know this, for I have been a drinking man myself, and a Kentucky one at that. I had eiehteen years of it, but concluded I would have to choose between profes- sional success and whisky, and I said good -by to whisky. I have now left the Keeley service, but wish it success itt its work of saving drunkards in spite of its mercenary methods." APPENDICTIS. Supposed to be the cause of Abont all Cases of Peritonitis. "The prevalence or supposed preval- ence of appendictis," said Dr. Edward J. Howell, of New York, at the Wormly, "is simply due to the fact that the pro- fession has diseovered that this disease is the clause of nearly all the cases of in- flammation of the bowels or peritonitis, as it is called. Practically there is no ease of peritonitis, in the male at least, that is not caused. by inflammation of the appendix. What happens when we have the attacks is that concretion or solid pieces of fotsees gets engaged in the little body that is situated at the junction of the laree and small bowel. This inter- feres with the circulation, the little body swells, ulcerates, and some of the con- tents of the intestinal canal get outside through the ulcerated hole. An abcess commonly results. If this become in- cisted or localized the patient's chances of recovery are good, either by an opera- tion or the abcess making, its way to the surface or toward the interior of the bowel, or he gets well without any opera- tion beyond, perhaps, opening the ab - cess. "Frequently the abeess becomes dif- fuse and breaks into the peritoneal cavity and the patient almost invariably dies. These latter cases can only be saved by an early operation. The point on which the public should be informed is. that the early symptoms, cramps, vomiting, rigity of the abdomen, ete,., should al- ways be regarded seriously. Appendicitis is essentially a surgical disease, amenable to surgical treatment only in grave eases. Every attack leaves the patient subject to another. "The most favorable statistics of the ailment are in cases where the operation is performed between attacks, the mor- tality in those cases being less than two per eent. The mortality in those cases which result in general perionitis is as high as 75 per cent. What is needed is early recognition of the trouble and quick operation before it progresses to the severe type." WOMSN WHO HUN RANCHES, They Seem to Be Very SUOOOSispa in California—a. Man Makes Compari- son* The women who are engaged in ranch- ing in California are said to invariably be suceessful, more so than inen in many instances which is accounted for by the feet that ef a. woman has business ability it, is her sole ambition to develop it to the fullest extent, and she hail no desire to waste her energies in anyother direction. The one idea dominant in her mind and only things which have a direct bearing on her business can claim her attention. A man writing on the subject says that 75 per cent of the men who fail to make a ranch pay in the fruitful State of Cali- fornia, do so for the reason that they find other things more congenial and do not attend to their business. "Men who have no resources within themselves are sure to get dissatisfied with the complete isolation from congenial intercourse and advantages of society, while with women it is different. They seem to be more re- sourceful than men. Their continual en- vironment is' perhaps the beat educator toward contentment, and the continual yielding to public opinion as to what she shall and shall not do is the training which assists a woman in commercial enterprise. She has no desire to enter into other kinds of business, or any dis- position to fritter away her time over the flowing bowl complaining of her ill luck." • Many women claim that household duties are heavy in comparison with out- door manual labor, and that they are stronger and healthier when they work in the open air. Several women in the northern part of the State have been eminently successful with their fruit ranches, and others equally so in the southern part of the state. One very enterprising woman has herself planted several hundred acres to delicious fruits, and gets a good income besides from her wheat and hay fields. She is a young widow, and in addition to her ranch she runs a hotel. She is out early every morning on horseback inspecting the ranches and directing the day's work, which is pretty well accomplished before the men who own the adjoining properties have finished their breakfast. A teacher in one of the Indian schools manages several hundred acres of wheat fields every year, and very successfully, too. And another woman in Los Angeles is known as the best real estate operator in Southern California. She will take hold of a most unattractive piece of property and make money out of it. In San Francisco there are two women who have gained a high reputation among horticulturists and carry on a large, suc- cessful. business Their methods are basiness-like and very satisfactory to their customers, while their intelligent understanding of horticulture in all its branches make them capable of teaching so much to others. They make a spacialy of importing rare plants and bulbs, and introduce them into Russia as well as other countries. Odd Little Items on This, That and the Other. A silver coin is usually in currency for twenty-seven years. A formidable band of real cannibals has been landed at Antwerp, and will be on view at the Exhibition. Persons of either sex can legally marry in. Austria at fourteen years of age. About two-thirds of a pint of air is in- haled and exhaled at each breath or ordi- nary respiration. Persons engaged in tobacco factories frequently suffer from nicotine poisoning. A Wise Goose. In Huddersfield, England, a milkman has a goose which follows him in the daily rounds. The bird will enter his dwellings or stand at the door, as the case may be, faithfully waiting until its master has transacted his business, then "toddle" after him as patiently as any dog. But there is one establishment the goose cannot be induced to enter, and that is a hotel. It appears that some time ago the goose went in with its mas- ter on business, when some person gave the bird some ale. Evidently the goose did not like the effects of having imbibed it, and ever since that time it has Stead- fastly refused to go inside the doors of any public house, but calmly waits out- side until its master returns. How much more sensible is the goose than many men. A Winnipeg lady who lived for some time in Huddersfield, drew a reporter's attention to the above. She said she had. often seen the bird toddling after its master in the streets. As to the temper- anee tastes of the goose she could not speak, but supposed it was natural for all geese to be prejudiced in that direetion, made, as they were, for the water. Where the Sun Gets Its Beat, Why the sun continues to give forth light and, heat in unditaished quantities Unvarying inteneity after having been itt a state of combustion for untold ages has long been apuzzle to the astronomers as Well as to the thoughtful observer in the lower rank of the star -gazers. Those learned in sun lore tell us that for every second. of time the suit eneit.s as =eh heat is ivould result from the instant tombustion of 11,000,000,000,000 tons of The smallest bird in the world is the "fly -eater" of Cuba. It is one-third the size of the humming bird. The wife of a hatter at Carlisle, had four infants at a birth, all girls, three of whom are living. Eleven months ago she had twins, making six children with- in a year. In Austria the green ants make nests by bendine.leaves together and uniting them witha kind of natural glue. The great clock of Rouen, France, has been grinding out time and striking the hours and quarters for over 500 years, running all this time without interrup- tion. A curious feature of Japanese journa- lism is that every important paper is said to have a "prison editor." Japanese journasts are so constantly being fined and sent to prison that the sole occupa- tion of the individual is to go to jail when called upon. A Queen's Prayer, When Queen Victoria *as a girl of but eighteeu years she was told that she was to rite over the mighty kin,gdoin to whose throne she was heir. There are few pe sons, either old or young, who would not at least have felt a momentary elation of pride at such an announce- ment. But there was no expression of exultation in Victoria's face, or words, or heart. Though she had from infancy been des- tined to the honor, to her nature, dis- trustful of itself, the announcement brought a feeling of responsibility that was overpowering, and she sank on her kn es, clasped her hands • and faltered out: "God help me to be good," Her preyer has been heeded. Help has been given her, and to her purity and loyalty have been added glories and hen - ore and power Enough to satisfy the high- est earthly ambition. Later in her reign, when she was asked for an explanation of England's greatness, she sall : "It is the Bible and Christianity." When she began to rule England had a lotter standard of court life than it knows to -day. But the personal influ- ence of its good Queeia has done much t ) give th English court and natiozi the enviable place they hold to -day in Euro- pean civilization. It is worth while to remember the sim- ple, earnest words with which the *sue - h arted monarch of the proudest king- dom in the world assumed her diadem, "God help me to be good." Economy Is the Boot of 'Wealth. "John," said agrocer to his new assist- ant, to seemi ed n the retail grocery line it is necessary to practice a large amount of economy. Wilful waste makes woeful want." '' Yes, sir." "NOW,1 was surprised," the grocer went on, "when you picked the flies ont of the sugar barrel this taorning that you didn't brush the sneer off their legs, Do ' not let fi happen again, John." Drawer—A. sliding box in a table ; usually too full to elide, • • • ••• ••-.• 'ea ••...• • • •••• • s;- •-• •-• ea-• ^-"Se ' .S• ' "ellikt's"es's.le! His Dead Child. In five cities of California and three on the Atlantic siaboard homes have been established for abandoned women, where they ae e pro ected until an honost means f earning their livelihood is provided for them, and where every effort is made to bring them back t o a gooi, womanly li'e. Each of these homes is called by tae same name. Ib i; the name of a child who died many years ago. She was the only daughter of a wealthy merchant—a little girl four y. ars old. Her mother was deal. She was the hope and pleasure of the lonely man's life When, one day, after a few hours.' 111- r e s, the physician told hi si that she was dyiag, he was stunned. Itt his agony he faced God—as Job did —asking the reason or justice of this thing. If there w as a merciful Father in h even, why should he take his child from him? She was so good, so loving She could not fail to be a noble ; oman —if she could live—helpful and dear to many a soul. Why 'should she be taken now to be laid away in the grave? Of what use could she be to the world or to God there ? He stood looking down at her, as some of us have looked at our dearest when tuey were approaching death, thinking that the blow was merciless and unjust. The child smiled. 'Sing for me, papa," she said feebly. He took her in his arras, as he had done so many nights, and rooked her, trying to sing an old hymn she loved about a beautiful shore where they should meet by and by. She did nob speak when he stopped. She would never speak to him again un- less he found her on that shore. Was there any such place? He did not know. He went to his work after that, a silent, almost hopeless man, doing what good he could, because, if she had lived, she would have done it, she would have been generous and kind. One night, on the street of a great' city, he met a wretched, drunk n young girl, and always thinking of that other girl, how sincere and pure her life would have been, he stopped to reason with this one, to urge her to reform. She jeered at' him. At last he turned away with the words of Christ, "Go and sin no more "Go !".she cried, with a sudden. cha.nga in, her tone. "Go ? Where can I go?" The words followed him for days. Where could she go? Who would take her in, or have pity on her? There was no refuge or pity for her or her kind in all the homes of that city. He founded a home for these women in that town, then in another, and in an- other, urg d by the tender memories of his little daughter. Thinking that could she know, on that shore of a happier world., what he had done, she would re - joie, In his wi!trk, he called them by her name. "If she had lived," he said, "I should have been so happy in her that I never should have thought of these poor wornen" --the wrecks of society whom no one heeds. In an old graveyard on Cape Cod is a stone with this ineeription "Hera lies Mary H.,who having finished the work that od gave her to do in this world, died,. aged one year." No life in God's just universe is in vain. No sharp thrust of the great sur- geon's knife reaches our hearts that is not meant to bring healing and health, time hail fell be the, depth of three feet, The hailstones, which weighed front one ounce to two and one-half pounds, wore of all kinds of fantastic shapes and were woven around rooks, sticks, earth beetles, frogs, ete. A Guessing Match. "Whfay ! Did you ever see sueh gor- geousness ? Alice has certainly outdone herself this time," soliloquized Jack Ford as he •opened the parcel and carefully drew from its tissue -paper wrappings the elaborately embroidered Christmas gift. "I don't go much on fancy work, but this is 'a hummer' and no mistake," con- tinued. Jack, as he held the silken trifle at arm's length and examined it critically. "Dear little girl ;she made that herself, too; every bit of it. Isn't she a darling! There's more work on that than on one of my balance sheets. It's a beautiful think ; but—" and Jack's jaw dropped three inches. "What the deuce is it, anyway ? ; that won't do. I must find out before I write and thank her for it. It would never do to have her think that I didn't recognize what it was in- tended for at once. Oh, mother! Oh, girls! Come in here a moment; I want to showyou something !" he called loudly. Mrs. Ford was the first to enter the room in response to her son's calhfor as- sistance, but the other members of the family quickly followed her, and formed a group around the table where the present was displayed in all its rainbow splendor. "What do you think of that?" asked Jack, proudly. "It's very pretty. That stuff must have cost—I--don't----know— how — mueh a yard. It's one of the most exquisite mouchoir-cases I ever saw," said Mrs. Ford admiringly. "A mouchoir case? Isn't it a little too large for that ?" inquired ho, dubiously. "Of course it is. It's to hold your slip- pers," cried Lily, the eldest sister, in a time of entire conviction. Jack frowned. Such a use seemed like a desecration. "No, it isn't. I guess it's to put neck- ties in," hazer led another expert. "Ties; or gloves,,or writing paper. or —or photographs," suggested the Baby, who was always bound to have her say. "Oh, well, but which ?" cries Jack in despair. "Oh, never mind ; it's perfectly sweet, anyway. What difference does it make?" responded the feminine chores. "Bit I want to know what it's for?" "Ask Alice." "I'd like to see myself. Do you mean to say you can't tell me ?" "N -o," admitted the girls. "We have told you what we think it is" "Oh, I could guess myself !" cried Jack scornfully. "Perhaps it's to hold pipes or cigars. Maybe it's a dress shirt shield. How would it do for souvenir spoons or hair brushes? Might be for collars and cuffs, eh? Couldn't use it for a chair cushion or a sofa pillow, could I ? Must be a dictionary cover, or a wall -pocket, don't you think? Sure it isn't a match safe in disguise? Oh, you girls don't seem to have any reasonable idea among you! Never mind ; run along now. Go and talk about who's engaged and who isn't. I'll figure this out myself. Hang it all ! what good are sisters to a fellow anyway !" Remarkable Helistoem, 'The most wonderful hailstorm on re- cord as having occurred within the Unit- ed States was that at Dubuque, Ite.e4une 16, 1882. It began at Z85 p.ra,2 and 'mate ed bat thirteen -alliintes, but within that Poor, But Rich. Once in New England, says a writer in the Outlook, I was driving with an old farmer, and some of the men of the neighborhood came under criticism. Speaking of a prominent man in the vil- lage, I asked: 'He is a man of means ?" "Well, sir," the farmer replied, "he ain't got much money, but he is mighty rich." "He has a great deal of land then ?" asked. "No, sir, he ain't got much land neither, but still he's mighty rich." The old farmer, with a pleased smile, observed my puzzled look for a moment and then said: "You s, :e he ain't got much money, and he ain'tgot much land, but still he is rich because he never went to bed ow- ing any man a cent in all his life. He lives as well as he wants to live, and he pays as he goes; he doesn't owe anything and he ain't afraid of anybody; he tells every man the truth, and does his duty for himself, his family and his neighbors, his word is as good as his bond, and every man woman and child in the town looks up t.; him and respects him. No, sir, he ain't got much money, and he ain't got much land, but slid he is a mighty rich man, because he's got all he needs and all he wants." I assented to the old farmer's deduc- tions, for I thought them entirely correct. When a man has all he needs and all he wants he is certainly rich, and when he lacks these things he is certainly poor. SORRY HE OKI). A Bashful StUdek1try Ileautlftd Girl. and a Shower B th. A funny story of a modest man is told by Aubrey de Vera in. the Oentury Maga- zine. After fifty years' seclusion within the walls of his college a certain venerable fellow of Cambridge University thought it was time for him to see a little of the world, and he accepted an invitation from an early pupil who was entertain- ing a large party in a great country house. At dinner he sat next to the young lady of the house. Their o nversation fell upon baths, and she happened to mention that she teak a shower bwth e ,•ery morn- ing to invigorate her system, adding when he inquired what a shower bath was that it resembled a very small, round room ; that ,he !lather took his or her i stand n the centre of it, and upun pull- ing a string was drew: el by a sudden flood of water from above. Next morning the recluse rose at his usual hour, sox o'clock, a.nd. being of an inquisitivetemper tuought it well to ex- plore c-refully what e had never seen before, a large country I,Use. 0 i palling open a door lie found him- self at the eutran,e of a very small circa - lar apartment. one f these in which housemaids -tore old brushes and house- hold articles past the r ork. ln the center of it sto d a plaster c at of the Venus of Medici. The venerable man recoil d, el sed the door, and walked in .he park till summon- ed by the breakfast bell. tle took his seat, and his host asked whether It would. have tea or coffee. But he had reflected on ha good m,n- ners imperatively required, and his ans wer was: "My lord, I ean neither partake of tea or coffee or any other refection until I havelfirst tendered my humbh;st apologies to the interesting young lady s horn I now see dispensing the chocolate, and 7 n whose sanitary e.blut. us his morning as she stood in her •how r bath I we,. so lie - fortunate as unwitbi gly to int tide." Future School Requirements. According to an exchange, new pupils in the schools of the future will have to submit to this examination: Teaeher—Johnnie, have you a certifi- cate of vaccination for smallpox ? "Yes, sir." "Have you been inocculated for croup ? ' "Yes, sir." "Been treated with diphtheria serum ?" "Yes, sir." "Had your arm scratched with cholera bacilli ?" "Yes, sir." "Have you a written guarantee that you are proof against whooping -cough, measels, mumps, scarlet fever and old age ?" "Yes, "Have you your own private drinking cup ?" "Yes, sir." "Do yoti promise not to exchange sponges with the boy next to you, and never use any but your own pencil ?'' "Yes, sir." "Will you agree to have year books famigated with sulphur, and sprinkle your clothes with chloride of lime once a week ?" "Yes, sir." "Johnnie, you have met the first re- quirements of the modern sanitarians and may now climb over yonder, rail, occupy anisolated aluminum seat and begin making P's and Q's as your first lesson." Shakespeare and the Farmer. Ex -Senator Palmer, of Michigan, tells a good story of an old Michigan farmer to whom he lent a volume of Shakespeare's works; After allowing time for a perusal of thebook the senator asked the man one day what he thought of the book. "Well,": said the Michigander, "there is some mighty good readin' in it, and 1 see the old man has some of my ideas." It is hard for Christ to find•doer big enough to got into a stingy man's heart, CHICAGO'S SE OUT 8Il)E. Sixty Thousand Opl am. Eaters and 40,- 000 H Me IONS Women. From estimates in tho Archives of the Civic Federation a portion of Chicago's population is classified as lollows : Opium eaters 60,000 'Homeless women 40,00 Aldermen 68 Saloon -keepers- 7,000 Police justices 14 Gamblers 10,000 Saloon and den habitues 60,000 Bar assistants 28,000 Professional politicians 88,000 Paupers 1,000 Thieves 10,000 Policemen 8,000 Prisoners.. ..... ..... ......... 2,500 This, combined with the statement of Rev. Dr. Carlos Martyn, that 40,000 Chicagoans make merchandise of them- selves, covertly and publicly, has aroused a wave of indignation against the r form- ers. This computation, compared with the census figures on unmarried women over sixteen years of age, makes every two in seven unchaste. Labor and Marriage. The recent attempt uf some members of the Public School Board in Toronto to discriminate against married women in favor of their unmarried sisters is reca l- ed by an incident in a New Jersey mann- faoturing town where there was a large hat factory. A short time ago the pro- prietors, being obliged to reduce the staff, taking with the opposite sex an opposite course to that of the school trustees, dis- missed nine unmarried men. The unfor- tunate bachelors paraded the streets with banners setting forth their double mis- fortune of being out of work and wifeless. The papers paid considerable attentiott to the matter, and so did the matrimonial bureaus. The result has been that the nine young men have been inundated with letters from women from alover the country offering themselves as wives and helpmeets. It is indicative of the keen desire that some females have for mar riage that they are anxious to marry men in straitened circumstances and out of work. One exchange remarks that it has heard of the expression "as mad as a hatter," but the foolish eagerness of so many women to marry hatless hatters would cause the saying itt this instance to be altered to "As mad as a hatter's bride." In depressed times the marriage ques- tion frequently crops up in connection with the labor problem, as in Pittsburg last winters when the municipal author- ities discriminated against unmarried men in giving employment. Statistics went to show that, as usual, the Irish laborers were well to the fore, for they were all married and had large families, while the Hungarians,Italians and other foreigners with whom Pittsburg is crowd- ed, at once rushed off and got married, and with beaming faces presented them- selves again for work. In all cases the marriage problem is a difficult one to solve, and except where very special air- ournstances intervene, it is better to leave it alone. Those school trustees of Toron- to who attempted to deal with it have probably learnt this lesson. A Man's Leisure. It is in his pleasures that a man really lives. It is from his leisure that he con- st:ucts the true fabric of his being. Per -,haps Charles Lamb's fellow rks thought that because his days were spent at a deek in the East India house his life was spent there too. His life was far remote rrom that routine of labor, built up of golden moments of respite, enri ,hed with joys, vivified by impulses that had no filiation with his daily toil. "For the time that a man may call his own," he writes to Wordsworth, "that is his lite." The Lamb who worked in the India house and whet had "no shill in figures" has passed away andis to -day but a shadow and a name. The Lamb of the essays and let- ters lives for es now and adds each year his geeerous share to the innocent gay by of the world This is the Lamb who said , "Riches are chiefly good because they give us time," and who sighed for a little son that he might christen him Nothing To Do and permit him to do nothing. Fxecilent Rules. The following rules are so excellent that they will bear re -reading at least once a month. They will supply enough lhotleyed sweetness" to make any life pleasant and respected : Be faithful to your seno of right and wrong. Be reserved in dispothst ; you don't know everything, so,do not talk as if you were i nfas lible. ge brave it the battle kr right. 1`)1/ efrit "Yr Ols NZek,'S•dkkr---,itetei • .k,41,AP•`• ‘Qltt " Take a hole and put some clou& around it, then fry in lard." This simple recipe has brought thousands to grief, just because of the frying in lard, which as we all know hinders digestion. fu all recipes where you have used lard, try t l'ku the new vegetable shortening and you will be surprised at the d lightfttl and healthful results. 11 is without unpleasant odor, unpleasant flavor or ,...tipleasant rz.ssults. With QOTTOLENE in your itchen, the'Young, the delicate and the dyspeptic can all enjoy the regular fmnily bill of fare. es"'s p Cottolene Is sold In 3 and & palls, by all grocers. Mt Made only by T,erq. K. Fairbank. Company, welling -tan and Ann Stay o ATTREA1... e Be just to yourself and others. Be discreet and. circumspeet in public. Be hea •ty in your recognitions and salutations. Be gentle and affectionate at home. Be willing to listen a 4 well as to talk. Be a teacher of noble truths to your household. Be not a fop nor a tripper. Be a hero of integrity to friends and ser- vants. Be willing to do your share of the work of life. Be willing that others should obtain a share of honors and attentions. Be a wise connselor in your circle. Be broad and tolerant; alt wisdom is not in year brain ; exploded errors have not their dogmatists. Be not qu, ek 10 tako offense; often none is intended; people are not always think- ing of you. Be a follower of the Golden Rule; it is not only the bighest morality, but is a frill ail source of g emine etiquette, and is withal but simple justice; you owe as much to others as they owe o you. SLIPS OF TELE TONGUE. Little Tricks of Speech Performed by • That Unruly Member. To be always able to say the right thing in the right place is, an accomplishment of which few people can boast. The tut - happy youth who, wishing to make a con- versation and interest the young lady to whom he had just been introduced, re- alized. the difficulties attendant upon such an occasion before he had well l* gun. "Who," he asked, levelling his near- sighters at a gentleman of enormous girth, "who is the Falstaff on this °cess- ion ?" "That is papa," said the girl in a hurt tone. "No, no, you mistake; not that one, but the ponder :us individual talking to the fright in red ?" "That is Uncle George, and the fright in red is my sister." "In," murmured the crushed and un- happy youth, who had now completely lost his head, "I might have seen the family resemblance." "If you ever come within a mile of my house stop there," said a hospitable man who was unfortunate in choosing his words. "Come again when you can't stay so ng," remarked an obtuse host to a friend who was lamenting his inability to pay long visits. "Your beautiful clock was received," wrote a bride itt a letter of thanks, "Una is now on the mantelpiece in the drawing - room, where we hope to see you often." The 'Private Post Card. Instructions have been issued by the Postoffiee Department that private cards, prepaid by a. ono cent po4ago stamp af- fixed thereon, may be sent by mail within the Dominion, under the following regu- lations: The cards must be composed of ordinary cardboard, not chi ker than the material used for the official post card, The maximum size, having regard to the variety of form' must correspond as, nearly as possible tothe size of the ordi- nary Canada post card now iu use. The maximum size must not be less than 8 1-4 inches by 21.8 inches. The cards mast not be folded. / On the address side, upon which the postage stamp used in prepayment must be affixed, nothing may be written, print- ed or o herwise impreseed, except the name and address of the person to whom the card is to be delivered, and the name and address of the sender of the cards, and the words • private post card." Nothingmay be written, printed or oth- erwiseimpressed across the postage stamp. On the reverse side of the card, any communication, whether of the nature of a letter or otherwi-e, may be written or printed. Nothing whatever may be at- tached to a private post cord. The in fringernefft of any of the forego- ing rules will render the card liable to letter postage. When Baby wee sick., we garo bar Oastoria. *heath° was a Child, eke cried for Guthrie. When she became kW!, she clung to Onitotia. When she had chadres, she gave theta cisteria.