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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-12-13, Page 7'a.Y OUR OTTAWA LETTER THE COMING CONTESTS IN ON- TARIO ANP QUEBEC. Political Confidence Hien---A Short Session is Trospeet--Jacques Cartier and Mon treat Centre ---The Petrone' in North On Serie---E.1'. Clarke on MoG111ivray---The Sage of Bothwell Speaks --No Help From Winnipeg. The battle rages in North Ontario. To the aid of John A. McGillivray will go several of the foremost Conservative stump -speakers, headed by Clarke Wal Ince. Some of his brethren in the Orange order have commented adversely on the Oontroller' s resolution. Mr. E. F. Clarke, who sat for Toronto in two Ontario Legislative assemblies, has been strong in hie denunciations of the "Grand Sever taiga's" action. Mr. Clarke points out that in aiding McGillivray Wallace is supporting the Government in its deter ruination to introduce a Remedial bill. It Booms that Mr. Clarke is taking too enuoh for granted. McGillivray has asked stud has been accorded a free hand in so far as the Manitoba case goes. At the Oannington Convention the candidate told the assembled Conservatives that ho must have full power to vote as he pleased when the Remedial bill shall dome un. In giving him aid, Clarke Wallace does no more than help the Gov- ernment towards gaining another sup- porter. It is pointed out that the Con- troller deolmed to speak in Haldimand at the time of Dr. Montague's re-elec- tion. There is not a parallel between tbo eases. Last spring it was possible that Mr. Greenway would meet ttie Dominion Government half way. There some to be no possibility of his doing so now. Both Wallace and McGillivray are adberents of the Government on fiscal issues. Why should either place them- selves in antagonism to the Administra- tion on account of something that is soon to bo out of the range of politics? Political Confidence Mena It may be said that there will be arous- ed much feeling on this Manitoba School ease. Such is the hope of demagogues; the fear of patriots. There is little reason to believe that the people of Canada will allow themselves to be deceived by' the political confidence men who are doing their best to perpetuate strife. In Manitoba, where there is strong feeling en the question of the schools, there may be animus against the Government that shall interfere with the Martin Act. But in Eastern Canada, indignation will not he strong. On the question of law the Government's position is strong. Votes at censure because of delay may do the Administration some harm, for there are few members from Ontario who can afford to forget the feelings of their sup- porters. But if a mild remedial meas- ure bo brought in it can do little harm to the Adininistration. Mr. Laurier 'knows this, and, because he is an houest man, doing his best for the country, he has told us that he has no desire to at- tain power on account of the dissatisfao- 'tion aroused in any section of the coun- try because of the School case. A Short Session in Prospect. A. month Froin to -day will see the parliamentarians again at work.. The Government does not anticipate a long session. They have bad many consulta- tions on account of the predicament in -which they have been placed. and they have mapped out tho work with a spar- ing hand. Beyond the discussion of the Remedial bill, that will take up tbree weeks or so, little legislation will be in- troduced. The tireless Tarte has promised to bring up some fresh scandals, but the thief Liberal lieutenant from Quebec has not always carried out his pledges in *this direction. Two years ago, in the dying days of the session, he promised that at the next session he would im- peach several of the judges of the District [Jourts of the province of Quebec, He never did so. And,in the same way, we may "hoar no more of the scandals of which he has been speaking. I talked to a prominent Liberal member the other day, who was sof opinion that the session would not last more than throe months. "Last session was really the election session," said this gentleman. "The members will de- sire to get home in order to make ar- rangements for the campaign. Tbey will have no desire to loaf about Ottawa 'when there can be good work done in the 'way of canvassing. I think the first of March should see the closing up of the Seventh Parliament of Canada." Jacques Cartier and Montreal Centre. As you were told last week, there is a row in the Conservative camp in Jacques Cartier. Young Girouard, a son of the lato member, has declined to run, and the eainisterialists are sadly put to it to find a candidate. Their friends, the Lib- erals, have nominated Napoleon Char- •bonnneau, a man who is light but popu- lar. They think they have a winner, for, until a few years ago, Jacques Car- tier was a Liberal constituency. It was only Justice Girouard's personal strength that carried it for the Conservatives. In Montreal Centro, Sir William Hingston should give Mr. "Jimmy" McShane a bard fight. The old physician is well toff, and has all of the better element wvith him. McShane is not a nice roan. Re belongs to the school of which Mer• Bier and Pacaud and McGreevy are members, although they allied them - elves variously. With a certain class canna is a little god, but this class is . ot so strong in Montreal as it was once pon a time. 'Tho People's Jimmy," ;as lie is known by his friends, is proper - ad to distribute largess unstintingly. Be has money at his back, but he has few influential friends. If he is elected the Liberals will have gained a support- er. The Parliament ot Canada will not Have acquired a statesman. The Patrons in North Ontario. In their candidate, Mr. Brandon, the ;Patrons of North Ontario assert that they have a strong snan. With D'Alton ;liioCatehy casting ,the weight of his eloquence into tho balance in his favor, • lto agrarian candidate goes into the +donfiiot at a great advantage over the men who carried the third party's stand- .ttrd in Ontario In '04. If the Patron does not wit there will be little hope for: his party mates in next spring's contests. North Ontario is purely agricultural. 'Tho good that the Patrons promise to do Abbe farmers Would bo most welcome in ,Frani: Madill's old riding. There are no hated monopolists to subvert the elec- tors; thorn aro no tallish employers to enema them. Should McGillivray or Gillespie bo elected we shall see that old party ties aro too strong to be snapped even when bright promises of material .advantages are held out. The Patron organizers express no fear. They say Abet they aro satisfied With the .con- dltions of the three -sided battle that is being waged. They have prosecuted a vigorous canvass, idol they say that the lodges will turn out many a voter who will ,nark his ballot for Brandon. Their confidence may be well grounded. If it is not, the impartial observers will de ciderung. that the knell of Patronism inay be E, F. Clarke on MoGlllivray. The opinions of E. F. Clarke concern- ing the candidature of Major McGillivray are worth stating. Mr, MoGilivray is an Orangeman. Ho was a candidate for the. Legislature when W. R. Meredith prose- cuted a vigorous campaign against the extension of the Separate School system in Ontario, At that time Mr. McGilli- vray was not backward in denouncing Papal aggression, The editor of the Orange Sentinel remembers tills,' and be says:— "The course the Government is • com- mitted to is, therefore, plain as the noou-day sun, and not only Mr. McGilli- vray but every outer candidate in the three ridings now open should be made to state clearly and unequivocally whether they are for this polioy or against it, just as the late Mr. Madill was put on record on the same matter. The Conservative candidate in North Ontario is not only a man of marked ability but great local influenoe as well. But this is no reason why he should be allowed to escape giving the pledge his constituents are entitled to expect. It is rather a reason for requiring such pledge, because there is danger that his own strong personality inay obscure the one great issue now before the people, unless his position on that issue is clear- ly stated. The Government is irrevocably committed to the passage of a law re- storing Separate Schools in Manitoba. Every candid ate in the by-elections must be forced to say now whether he is for that policy or against it. It will not do to wait until the measure of coercion has been passed upon in parliament. The mischief will then be done, and no punishment inflicted on the wrong -doers at the general elections to Dome later on can undo that mischief. The electors must see that only such leen are sent to parliament by North Ontario, Cardwell and West Huron as can be depended upon to oppose coercion with all their might." if this is the opinion of Orangemen, what are the brethren to do in the present contest? It is certain that they cannot vote for Dr. Gillespie, the Grit candidate, for no Orangeman would vote against a brother. They cannot vote for Brandon, for the Patron plat- form is not favored by most of the fol- lowers of William the Third. The worst they can do is to remain at home. And, if they decide to do this, there is a chance that Brandon may slip in. The Sage of Bothwell Speaks. The words that David Mills, the Sage of Bothwell, dictated to an interviewer the other day, are pregnant with patriot- ism. "It is most regrettable," said this ex -Minister of tho Interior, "that the Manitoba School Question should have come to be a political issue. It is a can-. stitutional point. It ,should have been settled judicially." Which is exactly what some of the country's foremost thinkers believe. Some newspapers, whose editors have suddenly become authorities on constitutional law,say that the Ottawa Government should have in- formed the Manitoba minority that their appeal had been received; and should have done nothing else. Surely, these editors would not have the Administra- tion disregard the judgment of the Imperial Privy Council? Neither Grit, nor Tory would go so far. The inde- pendent newspapers that advocate such a course are proving that they admire the lowest forms of political subterfuge. If British connection amounts to any- thing—and we all rejoice that it does—it means that we are bound to respect the decision of the highest court in the Empire. It should not be ours cavalier- ly to dismiss the finding of their Lord- ships on any point of law. No Help From Winnipeg. To inquiring newspaper men, Prime Minister Greenway has renewed his as- surance that his Government has sent to Ottawa no proposals for a settlement of the ever -important question. Ho prefers, though he does not say so in as many words, to allow Mackenzie Bowell to extricate himself from his present pre- dicament. It is clear that the Ottawa Administration may expect no help from Winnipeg. Greenway is inexorable, but Sowell has never anticipated any assist- ance from hien. Tho Manitoba Premier, ever since the trouble began, has not concealed his joy at having his political enemies in an unpleasant situation. Ile made no attempt last June to offer any suggestions to Laurier; still farther was he from advising Bowell. In all this we may see the "hand of Joseph Martin, who has said in public that he considers the workings of the Act unjust, but who in private has never ceased to counsel Green way, to stand to his guns Words that have Lost Caste. Our evil tendency to grumble and complain of our surroundi4igs, and to find fault with our fellow -men, has been instrumental in the degradation .of a number of common expressions. Can it be believed, for instance, that "homely" would ever hale conte to mean ugly among people cultivating a due spirit of contentment with their daily lot? The adjectives "chronic" and "inveterate," and also the nouns" plight" and "predica- ment," ought to be as freely applicable to desirable states and conditions as to the reverse. A "catastrophe," too, is really only the final act of a drama, whether tragic or comic, and has per• haps become so nearly the synonym of "disaster," chiefly because we are so apt to take it for granted in our talk, if not in our real convictions, that things generally turn out badly. The same feeling is shown in our constant restric- tion of the use of the adjective' "ominous", and the verbs to "bode" and to "presage," which words Wo never use except in connection with misfortunes. Etymologically, appearances might be "ominous" of joy, or "presage" great success; we might have "forebodings" of the most roseate hue. Current Litera- ture. A Promising Case. Poker Jack submits a question: "Parson," said Poker Jack, dotting his slouch hat respectfully, ': would yo mind tellin' ine Who it wuz thet wrote 'Let dogs delight to bark and bite?' " ''Cor- tainly sir," replied the now paster of the little church at Rattlesnake Digglns, "T ani delighted to see the people of our q Settlement begin to take an interest in o such things. It was Dr, Watts." "Then I've lost," said Poker Jack, disoouso lately. "I bet the drinks fur tho orowd f it Was Shakespeare. Mornin', parson." a —Chicago Tribune. AEN LITERATURE. FIGURES EXTENSIVELY IN THE WRITINGS OF AUTHORS. Charles Dudley. Warner in His "My Sunt.. mer In a Garden" Speaks in lJneoanpli- meutary Terms of the Female p'owi-,-'y e Different Ways in Which a Man and a Woman Chase a Hen. Benjamin F. Taylor once wrote an in- teresting article on "Hens," from which I quote some points. Ho says: "A hen is. a foolish thing—has not a grain- of sense, for that is a grain not found in gizzards. Her head is too small for any grain of sense to lodge therein. Her eyes must be excellent optical instruments, for though they have only the expres- sion ot a brace of brass buttons at a shil- ling a gross, they can discover a hawk at a great distance off. There is not much poetry. about hens, nor much remanoe in handout. Hens are speckled, grizzled and gray; white, copper -colored and blue; there aro the old-fashioned bens and the bantams, the celestial hens, the Shanghais and Cochin Chinas, hens with no tails, short tails, and pretty much all tails; hons'in feathered pante- loons ;,hens in'camwood colored panta- loons; hens with hussar Daps; bens with huge black combs,like our grandfnothers; hens with over delicate side combs, like our sweethearts. Strong minded hens there are who quarrel and crow and ant as near as possible like veritable chanti- clears; and I shouldn't be surprised any day to see a bantam out in bloomers Some of them wear spurs already. Hens are like some folk; fussy little bodies who mind everybody's business but their own. If a favored sister hen leads off a brood of chiukens, the meddling hen spreads her tail feathers, puts on an extra frill and lays claim to half the chickens. The hen is quite a Matte Brun in her way, for she knows all about the geography of cornfields, cherry trees and melon patches." The politeness of Sir Chanticleer to the females of his harem is as marked as though he were the pupil of Lord Ches- terfield. When occasion requires he be- comes their defender, dropping the role of agreeable daifglor. The hen has ever boon noted for her domestic qualities. She is diligent in laying her eggs, pati- ent in hatching them, industrious in fending her chickens, courageous in de- fending them. What various dangers the hen meets and trios to avoid; what perils from clubs and stones; what trouble from hungry hawks; what escapes from fowls and from four -footed beasts like the civet and the fox! What motherliness she displays in brooding her chickens, in leading thein to green pastures, and in inciting these to wallow in the newly upturned soil of the garden 1 Warner, in his. "My Summer in a Garden," does not speak encoura ingly of hens in such an inclosure. He even thinks they are an annoyance, for "i1 they do not scratch up the corn, peck the strawberries, and eat the tomatoes, it is not pleasant to see them straddling about in their ark high-stepping, � y, speculative manner, picking inquisitively here and there. Your neighbor heeds you not if you tell him that his hens eat your tomatoes They are not his toma- toes. The only thiug for you to do is to tell him that his chickens are well - grown and that you like spring chickens broiled. In the tall it is right pleasant, however, to see your neighbor's chiokens roaming over your garden, gossiping in the hot Septeinber sun, picking up any odd trifle that might be left. Hawthorne, in the "House of the Seven Gables," tells of a brood of hens which were an immemorial heir loom in the Pyncheon fainily. He tells of their turning up their heads and shacking their bills in taking a drink of water, with the air of winebibbers round a pro- bationary cask. Thea of their brisk, and constantly diversified talk to one another or of one in soliloquy, as they scratched for worms; this talk, which has such a domestic tone that it was almost a wonder why you "could not establish a regular interchange of ideas about house• hold matters, human and gallinaceous These liens were well woth studying for the piquancy and rich variety of their ancestors through an unbroken succes- sion of eggs. Clifford" had one little chicken, small enough to be still in the egg, but old, withered and wizened. Its mother evidently regarded it (as most mothers do their favorite child) as the one chicken of the world necessary, in fact, .to the world's continuance and to the equilibrium of the present system of affairs, whether in church or state. She watched over its safety, clucking nervously when it was out of sight; croaking with satisfaction when it was under her wing; or litter- ing a note of defiance when she saw a neighbor's cat on the top of a high fence. This wizened chicken was a feathered riddle, a mystery hatched out of an egg. One day the mother hen by her self- important gait,' the sideway turn of her head and the cock of her eye made evi- dent to the world that she carried some- thing about her person the worth of whioh was not to be estimated either in gold or precious stones. Some one has told of the way in which people drive a hen. "A woman when she has a hen to drive into a coop takes hold of her skirts with both hands, shakes them quietly at her and says, "Shoo, there!" Tho hen takes one look at the woman and stalks into the coop. A man does not do it that way. He goes outdoors and says: "It is singular nobody can drive a hen but nue,' and picking up a stick of wood ho hurls It at the biped and says, 'Got in there, you thief.' The hen dashes to the other end of the yard. The man dashes after her. She comes back with her bead down, wings spread, followed by stove wood, tin cans and clinkers, and a very mad man in the rear. Then slue skims under the barn and over a fence or two and around the house, talking as only an ex - 'cited hen can talk as the other hens come out to take a hand in the debate and help dodge the missiles, till at last the man, whose coat is on the sawbunk and his hat on the ground, declares that every hen on the place shall be soid in the morning and goes off down street, leaving his wife to keep up the hon fight. But in two minutes she has, thorn all counted and housed without trouble." Josh Billings thinks' that "hong are a suckcess, Thorn is It grate deal of origin- ality about tho hen. Sum say Knower had hens with him in the ark and sum say not." Billings starts the oft -mooted uostion, which -ryas born first, the hen r the egg, Be thinks a hen is "0 born phool, for she will set just as long on a nest full of stones es she will on a nest" MI of eggs. There' is ono thing about loon that sitoWs wisdomn; She does not cackle much until after she lays an egg. Sonne Yolks, on the contrary, are alveus s -bragging and a-eaekling what they are going tow do beforehand. There are Awe Pilings that surpass cooked hen as an artiklo of diet 11 eaten in the days 01 their Innocence, but after tAoy git old and kross, they kontrakt a habit of eating tuff." The children of hens, oomsnonly called' chickens are often meutloned in litera- ture', Shakespeare sneaks o pretty chickens and their "lam; , Butler tells of people "who swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, and count their chickens ere they're hatched" Cervantes has" the same idda when he says: "Many count their chickens before tluey are hatched, and where they expect bacon meet with broken bones." Swift tells of a,womap "who was nochicken, being on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day." Lady Wortley Montagu wrote: "And we meet with champagne and a chicken at last." Bulwer Lytton quotes from a* Arab proverb: "Curses are like young chickens and still come home to roost." Lowell in the Bigiow Papers speaks of small potatoes and few in' the hill being Fcratched up by the hens: An' you may see the taters grow in one poor feller's patch So small, no self-respectln' hen ,that. valued me would scratch. Hood's "Morning Meditations" speaks of the "early rising hen." Claudius, a German writer, writes o1-$ famous hen wh oh —was never known to tire Of laying eggs, but then she'd scream So loud o'er every egg 't would seem Tho house must be on lire. The turkey reproved her for snaking such a noise about the laying of an egg, but the hen replied that he was an un- educated fowl who knew nothing of Tho noble privilege and praise Of authorship in modern days— I'll toll you why Ido it; First, you perceive, I lay the egg, And then—review it. Every ono remembers the household lyric set to "Auld Lang Syne," and which runs: Somebody killed old Grimes's hen; They'd better let her be, For every day she laid two eggs, And Sundays she laid three. And everybody knows Mother Goose's classic rhymes : One, two, buckle my shoe, and so on down to Nine, ten, a good fat hen, to say nothing of the fable of La Fon- taine in which it is told that a hen Laid golden eggs, each egg a treasure; Its owner—stupidest of men— Was miserly beyond all measure. He thought a mine of wealth to find Within the hen and so he slew it. ' He found a bird of common kind And lost a pretty fortune through it. We often hear people speak of the foolishness of those that kill the hen or goose that laid the golden egg. In weep- ing over Jeruaslem, our Saviour used the beautiful metaphor, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and yewould not." A Greek epigram taken from the Anthologia is said to afford a fine illus- tration of this text. T. Green has given us a translation of this epigram, which reads: Beneath her fostering wing the hen de- fends Her darling offspring, while the snow descends! Throughout the winter's day unmoved defies The chilling fleeces and inclement skies, Till vanquished by the cold and piercing blast. True to her charge, she perishes at last! 0 Fame 1 to hell . this fowl's affection bear; , Tell it to Progne and Medea there. To mothers such as those, the tale un- fold! And lot them blush to hear the story told. Keeping Tab on Drummers. In some houses that send out a great many drummers there aro in usecertain peculiar little maps pasted on the bottoms of cabinet drawers and constantly studied by the proprietor and clerks. Th use maps aro usually of one state at a time, and are dotted with pegs or flags of many colors. The !lags are tiny bits of colored cloth, with pins to serve as staffs. Tno pegs ate in reality tacks, with the heads covered with colored cloth. 'These maps show many things to th .se who study them. The different colored markers often repre- sent different drummers, who are then out on the road. As each one writes home where he has been and where he is going next his particular peg is stuck upon the' map at the places he names. The furthest peg always shows where that particular man is et any given time. Or, again, the pegs or flags may show much mare than that. They may show what towns have been canvassed, what ones aro finished, what ones need a second call in the win- ter, and which have not been visited at all. —New York Sun. Flogging Girls. The authorized flogging of little girls, or big girls,is a piece of barbarism which, now that the subject has been definitely tsiaod, will receive, we trust, no counten- ance from the Home Secretary. Mr. Riley says that girls in the elementary schools are paned, a bit of information which we commend to the immediate notice of Sir John Gorst. The public of London has out- grown the days of Mother Brewnrigg,and Mother Brownrigg, as tho Nowgato "Cal- endar" informs us, was not sustained by judge, jury, public opinion or Jaok Ketch in her theories and her practice as to, the castigation of girls. There were philoso- phers; ,to be sure, who approved of the. whipping of girls, Looks did,for one; sari so did Do. Johnson. Locke approved of s mother who Whipped her little daughter nine times in order to compel the child to confess dome error: and Johnson cam - mended a mother who whipped her child . in tho interest of future truthfulness be- cause the girl had said she came in through one door, When in fact slue had come in throtugh another, But those were days when children worn supposed to bo born only that they might be birched as far as possible out of their share of origin- al sin. Women were publicly flogged at the cart's tail in the days of Locke and Johnson—and.of course, in the interest of discipline and order and *orals, We can not, go back to those days,and any serious and public attempt to get back to diem would bo an absurdity as well as an out- rago.-London Daily News, The Useful Poplar. Russian soiontiflo idea have ascertained that out of 507 ,roes struck by lightning iii the forests near Moscow 802 were white poplar. 'Piney advise fanners to plant poplars as natural lightning oondnctorS, What i y,y / . • '�''�\\�k 1 Castor: la Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescription for Infants and Children. It contains neither Opiuin, Morphine nor other Narcotic substanec. It is et harmless substitute for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrups, and Castor 011. It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years' use by Millions of allethers. Castoria destroys Worms and allays feverishness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour Curd, cures Diarrhoea and 'Wind Colic. Castoria relieves teething troubles, cures constipation and flatulency. Castoria .assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Cass toric is the Children's Panacea --the Mother's Friend. Castoria. "Castors. is an excellent medicine for chit. lren. Mothers hale repeatedly told me of its good effect upon their children." Fn. G. C. Oscoon, Lowell, Mass. "Castoria is the best remedy for children of • ;lich I am acquainted. I hope the day is not .ar distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria in- s end of the various (mock nostrvmswhichare destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful •. gents down their throats, thereby sending them to premature graves." Da. J. P.-KrsOBeLOx, Conway, Ar The Centaur C0=22 -fly, Castoria. "Castor!a is Bowel' adopted to children than 1 recommend it easuperior teeny prescription known to me," H. A. Ancona, M. D., 111 Se. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. T, "Our physicians in the children's depart- ment epartment have spoken highly of their csperi ecce in their outside practice with Castoria, and although we only have amoug our medical supplies what is lmown as regular products, yet we are free to confess that the merits of Castoria has won us to look with favor upon it." UNITED HOSPITAL AND DISPEV;t4ItY, Boston, Massa, A;s set C. Serra, i t -es., '7? Murray Street, New York City. ,7.71 `i cauE y o PAPER AND ITS USES. In Japan paper coats, oiled, and thus made waterproof, have been in use for at least ten centuries. The process of beating, cutting and grinding rags into paper pulp occupies from three to four hours. Water pipes made of paper will keep the water from freezing much longer than a metal or earthen pipe. It is stated by some authorities that the wood of the American poplar makes the best variety of wood paper. Over 400 patents have been taken out in England for the manufaoture of paver, and more than 500 in this country, Rolls of paper ,7 feet wide and fourteen miles long have been made, the completed roll weighing over 2,600 pounds. The boilers used in the manufacture of strjw paper will contain from 2,000 to 3,- 00d pounds of straw at a time. Many of the paper -making machines of the present day are over 100 fees long,and require a building to themselves. Blotting paper is wholly unsized, ' the lack of sizing enabling it to take up and retain the ink of the writing on which it is laid. In many parts of China paper shirts are used by the natives. They are said to be much warmer in cold weather than cot- ton. There are said to be in the United States about 1,000 paper mills,having more than 3,000 machines in almost constant opera- tion. The cutters in factories where wood is used for making paper are capable of chopping up for use about forty cords of wood a day, The Chinese rice paper is made from the straw of the rice plant. By using the more delicate parts of the straw a fine fabric has been manufactured. Esparto grass is said to make a better paper than straw. The product is much tougher and capable of bearing a much greater strain without tearing. The first paper made in Western Europe was manufactured in Spain in 711. It is said that the process came from the East, being brought into Spain by the Moors. ITEMS ABOUT COFFEE. Roasted coffee is an excellent disinfect- ant. Coffee is an excellent antidote to opium poison. The coffee plant is, a variety of the cin- chona family. Brazil grows about half the coffee of the world. In 1885 the world's coffee amounted. to 718,000 tons. The coffee plant was taken from Africa to Persia in 875, In 1615 the use of coffee was first men- tioned in Venice. Coffee can be grown successfully in an tropical countries. The name of coffee is derived from the city of 1 affa in Arabia. The coffee plant grows wild in Arabia, Abyssinia and East Africa. In the Amazon Valley two Drops of coffee may be gathered every year. Roasted coffee loses . 20 per cent.. in weight and gains 50 per cone in bulk. The cultivation of coffee was introduced into Java from Arabia in 1680. The coffee bean in its original state, is almost as hard as the stone of a cherry. In most parts of Asia where coffee is used, the "grounds" are drunk with the infusion. 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Try and think as much about ousinesu when out of the store, as you do of your pleasures when in the st"ure. SHOES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. Straw sandals are still in use in Chins and Japan. Egyptian shoos were made of palm and papyrus interlaced. Tho ancient Persians wore close -fitting boots reaching to the knees. The 'brogan' of to -day gets its name from the rawhide 'brog' of the ancient Britons. Egyptian hieroglyphics show the cobbler to have been known in the time of the Ptolemys. Removing the shoes is still a mark of respect in the East, as it has been for thousands of years. The. Roman women wore house slippers with cork soles, and inoreased their height by building up these soles to great thick- nesses. The Greeks of two thousand years ago wore shoes corresponding closely to those of the present. Those of the women were frequently green in color, while the 'dudes' wore white. The turned up toes fashionable in Eng land during the three hundred years of the Plantagenet dynasty were sometimes two feet in length, and were fastened to the knees by gold or silver chains, A. Seemly Decoration. An. English authority on decoration% speaking of a man's library or reading room, says: "Please the eye by hanging on the walls pictures of the chase, of ne- ta'ble .horsos,and of favorite actresses." In- stead of the distinguished actresses, a well framed photograph of the woman who fit- ted up t.le "growlery" for the comfort o1' tho occupant would be the most seemly decoration, if not so pleasing to the 070• When 1/aby was sick, ave gave her Ceetorie. When she Was a Child, she cried ler Coetorsa;; When she became Miss, she clung to Caster! , When she bad Childten, she gave them Cutorin.•