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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-2-27, Page 7OUR OTTAWA LETTER THE LIBERALS, ASSURED OF VIC- TORY AT .THE NEXT GEN- ERAL ELECTION. Sir Charles' Entry—The Liberals Cheer -- Min Reverie is Disturbed---Mouis Davies' Ire—The Baronet Beplies--A Weak De- fence --At Last the Bill --Twenty o Bolt -- A Character Sketch--A,berdeen in a Quail. dary--ltumored Obstruction. Paeans of joy have gone up from Ottawa and have been echoed by Conservatives Anal Canso to Victoria. Tupper, the Deliverer, has come. No longer does dis- integration threaten the Cabinet ef Can - da. The strong man, the master naiad bas oonae Upon Sir Charles Tupper, the Elder, the Conservative party rests all Irs hopes. An astute politioian, he has the firroness and the diplomac' that Mac. 'kenzie Bowell lacks. From him great things are expected by his followers. The Liberals, truth to toll, seem to be little troubled by the riew Richmond that is in the field. The men of Her Majesty's loyal Opposition have beuonae firmly cenvinced that they will be the victors in the next general election. They have no hesita- Mon in sayilig so to an outsider. They belittle Tuppemand say that this seventy- seven year old man is too decrepit and too nebulous a shaclow of bis former self to snalee a success of the leadership. Tim Opposition will go into the coming fight full of confidence. They will have for antagonists nien who have all the prestige that power gives; men led by the sole survivor of the school led by Macdonald. Sir Charles' Entry. ' Crowded galleries and a crowded House welcomed Sir Charles on Tuesday last. The word had gone forth to the Conserva- tives that the formal introduction was to In made. Every man vvho could get there was in his place. The Liberals, too, had arranged a demonstration, and they, too, were present in force. 'When the Minister of Finance and Hector laciDougall, the latter senior meinber for Cape Breton, walked into the chamber arin-in-arm • with Sir Charles such a cheer went up as bid fair to crack the glass roof that gives light to the legislators. The introductiou, made in formal terms, Provoked more sheering. Then Sir Charles walked straight to the seat of the leader a the House and sat down. Hero was a silent announcement that George Eulas Foster bad given up the chief place in the Com- mons, and that the chief of the Ministers was to be the well-groomed old gentle- man who had just entered the House. The Liberals Cheer. • Seamely had the Conservative cheers died down before a tremendous clamor name fawn the 'desks to the left of the Speaker. The Liberals were cheering like mad. In the tumult that had ended Wilfrid Laurier and Choquette bad en- tered the House, Arm -in -arm with them was Charles Angers, the Liberal who carried Charlevoix two weeks ago. His introduction had been delayed so that tbe Liberals might bave a counter demon - Oration. They were no less vigorous than their political enemies in the enthu- 'einem of their welcome to the new recruit. Sir Charles gazed wonderingly at the desk -pounding then aortae the gangway. Then he turned to, Foster and asked what it meant. That was not the only time that Sir Charlea gazed at the Liberal bombes. His wandering glauce saw Wilfrid Laurier in the place that formerly was Edward Blake's. In the seat that for years was Alexander Mackenzie's, the keen visaged • LOui4 Davies of Prince Edward Island set. Felix Geoffrion, who was a member of Maokenzie's Cabinet, had gone to the far country. And beside Sir Charles were half a dozen men who, when he left this parliament, were no nearer the Treas- ury benches than the back row of Con- servative seats. Bis Keveri is is Disturbed. But the old baronet was not long to in- dulge in meditative reminiscence. For him the Liberals had prepared a recap. tion that was the outcome of their de- - termination to show the newcomer that they were ready to join battle. At Montreal and at the civic reception in Ottawa the Secretary of State had. •said that the Liberals bad spent twenty -ave thousand dollars in Cape Breton. "I was the lion in their path," be had said, "and they were prepared to do anything to steal the seat from under me." Louis Davies' Ire, Louis Davies bad read his statement. He became filled with wrath. Had not the liberal party in Nova Scotia always Maimed to be the representative of all the virtues? It was too much. Mr. Davies arose, and addressed the House. He plane:cid into the middle of his subject. "From personal knowledge," said Mr. Davies, "I give that statement an un- qualified denial, I beg to tell the House that he bus been entirely misinformed. Tbe statement made by bhp is ludicrous- ly inaccurate and absurd. It is without any foundation whatever. X itm in a posi- tion to know that attempts were made an • the part of those wha believed that it was • in the publio interest to defeat the mem- ber for Cape Breton; attempts were made „to assist Mr. Murray to pay these legiti- mate expenses which everybody expects to have to be made in an election of that kind, I thought myself that the expenses would, range somewhere from $1,000 to $1,500. I snake no scruple in saying, that X attempted myself to assist Mr. Murray In that regard. I tell the honorable gentleman that his statement that $25, 000, or the one-tenth part of it, was sent, is absurd and is untrue; and to my know- , ledge, a suiu ludiercausly insufacient to pay even the traveliag expenses of Mr. Murray and his aSsociates, was sent to Cape Breton." ' The Baronet Replies. And so the fat was in the Bre. Sir Charles satmuaking a hobo now and then, ,•while Davies went on to demand the are • pointment of a committee of invesbiga- don. When the Liberal ' lieutenant had finished, the baronet arose. Again the hurricane • of Conservative cheers burst • forth. Young members of .the House, who never had seen the old man before, • bent forward to hear what this muca • heralded Moses might say. The Speech of Sir Charles was not strong; It was not convincing. True, he bad to defend him- self against charges that were general, and that were naade more with a view to their effect than with the object of prov- ing hisn in the wrong. Mr. Murray, he mid, had stated over his oven 'signature that there was a great emegency. • Also, the Liberal candidate had given vent to the °panels that in .Cape Breton the tnernbers of his party would make the • fight of their lives. "I think that was a tolerably good ground for supposing, that Mr. Murray was eot to be left unaided in fighting this battle," said Sir Charles, Elie other reasons for making the.state- • ment that he had made were that Liberal members of parliament had campaigned In the county; that Hon. a. WLongley, try has to support for hin is lifetle the . Attorney -General of Nova Scotia, had perpetrator of a hideous merder. The Lib - made a interied trip from Cape Breton to erals in the House are determined to Halifax and back; and that half a dozen mak° th° oaSe one of ilnP°atnnee. In young Liberals from Halifax had entered aesponse to a request Morn thew the papers the riding on the Saturday more the in the case have been brought down. election. The inference in the latter Their publication has revealed the state of oount of the charge was that these gentle- things of .which I have spoken. Lord men had brought the money wherewith Aberdeen is in a quandary regarding the to buy the hardy islanders Breton. • of • Cape ease, and has been in constant coin- • inunication with the Imperial authorn ee week Dereeeea • ties. The whole truth of the matter is That this was a strong defence I do not that the Governor-General was not fully assert. The Liberals made xnerry over it. acquainted with the powers and limits - The Conservatives pointed out, anti point- Mons of his office. Had he been familiar ed out very justly, that the whole case with them, he would not have made such resolved Half into a matter of °elision, a lamentable error. , that Sir Charles believed that the indaie9 Rumored Obstruction. . had been sent into the county, while Mr. By virtue. of a clause of the British Davies was as' etrong in his conviction North America Act, this parliament dies tbat in had not been sent. Hector Mo- on the 940 April. The Liberals assert Dolman, who with Sir Charles, represents that this S8SSIOD was called for the pur- the county, went to the aid of his chief. Pose of bringing in a Remedial bill. They He told how he bad heard that anew point out that at the last seesion the sap - Down the Flag joues," as Alexander plies until June 30 of this year were Itiackenzie'e Minister of militia was in voted. The Governnient, *hey say, has later years clubbed by the Conservatives, no right to ask tbe House to vote supplies had told a man that $100,000 would be to Pay the oeliataY's bins 11°111 Denaill.' spent in the election by the Liberals. eem, ion Day, '97. "The Government will be Dougall bad not heard ;Tones say so, but defeated at the next eleetion," say the he had beard so "on the best authority." Liberals, "why should they ask us to do Sir Richard, Who had been lying in wait the work that the new ,Administration for the Secretary of State, averred that should perform? If Deackenzie Bowell Sir Charles had followed the tactics of • thinks ho will be returned to power, wim the first Sir John. "The habit of Sir doesn't he pass his Remedial bill and go John Macdonald," staid Sir Richard, to the counery? If the Administration is "when he had done any particularly supported, it will be easy to call a session naughty thing, was to turn around and before July I and taus the estimates for oharge the Opposition with having done 1896." The rumor goes that the Liberale that thing." Speaking a seoond time, will not allow a single item of the esti- Sir Charles said that he bed made the ,nates to pass. If they make up their statement concerning the • twentyalve minds eo do so, they can easily obstruct thousand dollars in the presence of Mr. the passage of the estimates until, on the Longley. "I made it, not once, but three twenty-fourth day of April, 'the midnight times," said the Secretary of State, "and bell clangs out and the House of Com - he never denied it." And teen the ma. mons of Canada is dissolved by effluxion - oussion ended. The Government refused of time. to appoint a committee of investigation, telling the Liberals, if they desired an ins. QUER BRIDAL CUSTOMS. quiry, to go to the eourts for redrees. Z o Quebec the Bridegroom must Pay . At Last the Dill. ' I Ransom. Sinoe last week the terms of the Be.. . A. singular tnarria,ga custom prevails medial bill bave been published to tha among the French Canadians in Quebec. country. It is a portentous document, Amer the ,morning marriage service in the euabracing no less than one hundred and twelve clauses. On Tuesday last, at the churciethe bridal party, in calache or cab - Conservative ca,uous, the measure was riolet, make a tour of calls upon relatives read to the Ministerialists. Sir Charles and friends during the day, and then re - Tupper, glowing with the warmth of bis turn again to the church for vespers. reception, made a speeob in support of Before the evening dance at the bride's the measure. He told how Sir Willitun new home comes the supper. When the company rise from the ta,ble the bride Dawson, the president of McGill Univer- s* and a Presbyterian of eminence, hate keeps her seat, and some one asks with pronounced in favor of the principle of great dignity: "Why does madame wait? remedial legislation. John Haggart, who Is she so soon in bad grace? once was said to be an insplaeable oppon- She replies: "Some one has stolen my ent of interference with .Manitoba, Dame slipper; I cannot walk." cut as the bill's earnest advootite. Clarke Then they carry her, chair and all, into 'Wallace, now cordiallydetested by his the middle of the room, where a loud former friends, spolie manfully against knocking announces a grotesque ragged the bill. In that room, crowded with vender of boots and shoes of every variety the supporters of the Governmeiat, he and size until at last be ands her missing found but half a soore Who were with shoe - him in his antagonism to what he de. The groom redeems it for a good price, scribed as coercion, Cookburn, Maclean, which is spent in trwttina the compatiy. If Marshall, Sproule and two or three others the groom is not watchful they steal her • opposed the bill. They were emphatic in hat and cloak, which he redeems in the their declarations of loyalty to the Con- same way; and they have been known to servative party, but, they said, local con- steal tbe bride, for which there must be siderations would make it impossible for liberal pay. The church forbids round them to support the measure, Last July dances. The event of the evening is a jig, there were thirty-two Ministervaists who in which the guest volunteers to outdance were determined to oppose remedial legis- the bride. If succesafue, the visitor de- letion. Not two-thirds of that number mantis a prize from the groom.—Chicago Will record their votes against the Gov- Inter -Ocean. ernment on the present bill. — 1 tenterer Lytton not so Slew. Twenty to Bolt. Meanwhile the Liberals lie low. bey The drama ic incident of a sledge sen - hope for a serious split in the Govern- Mincing his own son to death, which, I rum derstand, (secure in Stevenson's :est book, ment's ranks on the Remedial bill, Con- servatives are not backward In hinting "Weir of Rermiseon," is by no means a that the followers of Wilfrid Laurier are new one ini English fiption, says a London having tronble on account of the measure. writer. Readers of Bawer Lytton will It is certain that Beausoliel, Beohard,Mc- recall how, in that romantic tale of high- Isaao and Geoffrion, all of :whom ordiner- way robbery (for the writing of which tbe talented author received much censure), ily vote with the Liberals, will stand up "Paul•Clifford," the ateractive hero is not With the "yeas," when the sword reading of the Remedial bill is moved. Other Lib-. only sentenced to death by bis own father, era's may go over to the enemy. The judge Brandon but the effect of the tra- party whip is being mamma with aim on gaily is beightened by the faot that the both sides, but, amongst Conservatives judge has only just been informed (While and Liberals persoaal considerations will on the bench) that the prisoner is his long - outweigh party allegiance and part Y axle lost cbild, and that that ohild bas up- gencies. Few inen now believe that the braided him, ignorant of the relatiouship, hill will not pass. George Taylor, the with having been instrumental in launch - chief Conservative whip, bas reported to ing him on his career of crime. It is the his leader that the majority will be at fashion to sneer at Balwer Lytton, but the least twenty. Tbe Conservatives out- simerers might some of them take a lesson number the Liberals by forty-four. So in graphic force from the trial scene in it is evident that Mr. Taylor expects in question. . twenty Government supporters to bolt on this question. Likeness of English and Americans.. A. Character Sketch. As respects cbaracter, the British and The ceremony of introducing the bill American publics are strikingly at one. was not marked by any great excitement. The tone of popular sentiment is much Bad Sir John Thompson been still at the the same. The attitaae toward questions head of the Government, and had it been of general human interest is often identi- his task to explain the measure, he would cal. Political ideals are, at bottom, not so bave made a complete exegesis of the unlike as superficial observers' faucy. measure. Arthur Rupert Dickey, the Party spirit manifests itself in very sirni- new Minister of Juseice, cannot be said lar fashion. Both are sensitive, Though to be a lawyer of eminence. He is a in slightly varying degrees, to the same mild-mannered and coal -headed gentle- appeals. The samenational spirie ape- man. His life's handicap has been a con- mates both, showing itself in pito char- sciousness that his father Is a millionaire. anteristic fashion when the Jealousy of Mr. Dickey has been fortune's favorite all 000 18 aroused. against the other. Indeed, his days. With the twenty -ave thousand it 15 10 their mutual rivalries and jealous - dollars that his father gave hins on his les that their spiritual kinship is often thirtieth birthday be embarked in speou- most manifest. Their diversity is super- lation in Nova Scotia coal mines. He fight' and provincial; them unity funda- made several extraordinarily successful mental and racial. ' The American who deals, and no is worth a quarter of a , can elivest himself of provincialism in million. The worship of the veiled god- Englaud, and the Englishman who can dess never has taken up sesuo,h of his lay aside his insularity in America, each time. When Charles Ribbert Tupper finds himself at home. --("The Palmerston resigned the portfolio of Justice the post Ideal in Diplomacy," by Edward M. Chap - went to Mr. Dickey. His only possible man, in the February Century-. rival was Thomas Mayne Daly, who has the more important portfolio of Minister , For others' Sake. of the Interior. • Daly did not want the Christ came to minister, not to a nein- position and it went to Dickey- When istered le The follower of ChriTt who the bill is wrangled over in the Commons is willing to enjoy b is religion all by bins, Dickey will have a chance of showing self lees failed to catch the signifleance of that he possesses ability. Against him Christ's example. he will have Dalton McCarthy, easily the A Christian mae's plain duty is not so foremost lawyer In the House, With much to answer the question,tiHow cen I MuCarthy vent be joined•David Mills, the get the most out of my religion?" as "How Sage of Bothwell, than WhOM no Cana- can I conduct myself so that others may dian has a more profound knowledge of get the most ont of my religion P' constitutional law. • From thee two men Massy Christians, in, a very aumoatatit we anay expeet the two most important souse,will go to }lemma alone. Others speeches on the questInn• e, will tiere be surrounded by scores whom Aberdeen In a Quanevary. ' • they have pointed: to the Saviour. The Here in Ottawa we hear little and see first class will have been saved, but with - less of Lord Aberdeen. The Governor- out having saved others. The second class General is a nervous and well-meaning will bring sheaves with them. nobleman, whose chief characteristic is a • But Ciirist ministeted daily while upon deep vein of philanthropy. For His Ex, the earth. So may we. The 'comfort's of cellenoy evil days are in store. It may our religion may he misde the solace of an - be remembred that on his own responsi- other'e sorrow. In many very practical bility and without the advice of his Mine waas others may enjoy the benefits of our isters, Lord Aberdeen pardoned Valentino religion. Thus, whether it i for time or Shortie, the murderer ef •Valleyfield. The eternity, °meet may come to others Cabinet had been unable to come to any through tm, decision in respect of the Short's case. The Governer asketillon.Joseph Chamberlain, I „ The Season's Depression. the Secretary for the Colonies, what he "This weather is very trying for every - should' do, Mr, Chamberlain cabled back boy, seta the phyoeleo. Word that His Excellency must use his "Yee,'" replied. Mr. Meekton. "I don't, • own judgment. Lord Aberdeen took his sco how any 'wifeis going to bear up advice and commutm ed Shortie' sentence aim ie, When the sun doesn't shine It to imprisonment for life. In so doing givos lici*the'blues and when it does she Governor-General was violating his In' sns its fading the caapet.' a—Washington" steuctions from thei Crown Since 1878, the Governor-General has been' bound to take the advice of his Ministers. In this case the Ministers gave DO advice. There- Ivcr.Ything... of use. Sme °rte. to tnat, CrOW quills miaow a person to ao fore the law should have been allowed to nemee take its course. In place af this the min- rasa anu`aa '"‘""h6. LITTLE JESSIE MERCHANT, COLLINGWOOD, ONT, FOR ELEVEN YEA.ES A SUFFERER FROMS NERVOUS SPASMS. A. Desperate Case That Exceeded The Skill • Of The Best Physicians. • No greater trial mimes to parents than the sickness of their children. And when this trouble assumes the' shape of nervousness the hope of the parents re- ceives its severest tese, for so seldom do child= recover from disease of this char- acter. They battle with it, it may be, for many years, but eventually the diseriee conquers, and the child dies. Jessie, th.; little daughter of Mr. H.E. Merchant, of Collingwood, Ont., had given her parents great anxiety, as for eleven years she had been a sufferer fromnervous troubles. These would take the shape of spasms, and become so severe that she would be unahle to control herself. The parents spared no effort to give to their loved one the health that is natural to child life. The father writes: "I doctored with the most skilled phy- sioians in Collingwood, without any re- lief coming to my daughter. I must have spent nearly $50 in this way. It is not to be wondered at that I was hemming thoroughly discouraged, and began to realize that it could only be a short time when our little one would,pass from us. A friend influenced me to try South American Norville, knowing something of the wonderful cures it had effected in the case of children troubled as was ray little Jessie. The medicine wee proourecl and given to the ohild, and she las never been so well and strong as since she cone- menoed to use South American Nervine. When she began its use she was hardly able to move about, but now she can run around as other ohidren. I am still giving her the naedioine, seeing that it is effeot- ing a permanent cure." The secret of Nervine is that it operates directly on the nerve centers located in or near the base of the brain. It is when these are deranged with nervous trouble that nmob, other trouble ensues. At least two thirds a chronic diseases originate in a derangement of the nerve centers. Nervine at onoe builds them up, fills the blood with richness, and so strength - elm the nerve tissues that it is only a lit. tie while when disease drops from its victims as the staokles would drop from the slave whn bad 3:waived his freedom. The cures effected by this medicine, as with the ease before us, are indeed re- markable, but such cures are being effect- ed every day by South American Nervine. Use this remedy for nervous prostra- tion, Mak headache, bot iluthes, sleepless. ness, debilty of the nerves. Busineeselike. Miags—Are your daughters still in the matrimonial market? Biggs—Yes, -twenty per eent. discount to save shipment to Paris for the spring season. A Troubled Mind. Deacon Brown—I think. Smith must have something. on his conscience. Deacon Jones—Why do you think so? Deacon Brow -Yon. never see him asleep in. church. , All That Was Necessary. Clara—My eyes are so bad that I am refraial can't aso to the opera, this year. Maude—Your hearing is still good, len% it ? A Preference. He—I think you have such a pretty name. She—I like yours better. WONDERFUL CURES. SIMPLE AILMENTS, LIKE SMALL FIRES, EASILY STAMPED OUT. • People 'Will Talk ---And We Listen And Learn -- So May Every One Wonders Worked By Dodd's Kidney Pills. "MEN AS LOVERS." lithet Dell Asserts That Girls Care Least for the Material side of Life. "If only men would emelize that, the rrtaterial sicle is what we girls carethe lease fen" writes Miss Lilian Bell in Feb ruazy LadiesHome Journal. "Pray don't thiule, just becatem you haare built us col - canal houses anditave our clothes made for u$, and never allow butchers' bills to annoy us, that you have done your whole duty by us. It never occurs to most of us, who have these dear American rnen for lovers and husbands, ;that we could ever really get cold or hungry. You would have,a tit if you thought Any body belong- ing to you didn't have all the clothes they wanted and the best the market affords. Bet you think it is a huge joke when we say that weare mentally cold, and linnm'Y a good deal of the time and that you are a storehouse with all that we need, right within your hearts and brains only you vvon't give it to use' The greatest cures, we think, are the siroplelones, the (sures of the small begin- nings of disease, where the misery and tbe harm to the constitution is escaped. What a happy fact mire is!. How endlessly people will talk of their caWsellth what evident enjoyment! Some of these grateful patients never come to the city without calling to talk over c Is .mi:neseffected by Dodd's Kidney by the name of Joshua Clark- son, living at 114 Robert street, Totento, mane in the other day. His life had been saved by using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. What was the disease? Diabetes. •'Yes; he had lost thirty-one pounds in weight in five weeks, It took him seven weeks to regain bis health and his avoirdupois. No one could hear him talk and not take courage,' be he ever so sible and ever so hopeless. A full account of this ease has appeared in this paper. 'hen, not long ago, Samuel Murray came in, looking well, too. He it was who was paralyzed Mr a wbole year, given up by ever so Many dootors, and was cured by twelve boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills' Areporter of a city paper saw him. Seemed to think it impossible that a man could recover from such an illness. There was no miracle about it, how- ever. He used Dodd's Kidney Pills. Hundreds of people are talking to each other about cures accomplished by this medicine, and these pills are selling everyvvhere faster than ever before, And they always cure. At Cure ror Insomnia. Tbe latest cure for insomnia is cheap, healthy and efficacion.s. The remedy was suggested by an old doctor to whom a de - pairing young man had gone for advice. "Of course," said the doctor, "I could give you plenty of drugs that would put you to sleep, but in the case of a young man, that is always to be avoided. The reason you canpot sleep is because your nerves are all unstrung. Th et does not necessarily.mean that you mast put your nervous system to sleep by the use of drugs. What you want is a tralcl excite- ment, that will lift your nervous system out of the rut it has fallen into, The best thing in the world to do that is a trolley riche Done t try to settle upon any partic- ular route, just junap op any car that comes along. Don't even ask the conduc- tor where the car is going to, but just go along with the can It will surely come back some time to the point where you took it. If the route is eight or ten miles long so =eh the better. One thing is certain, you will either sleep during the ride or as soon as it is over."—Philadel- phia Record. Is there anything more annoying tha-U having your corn stepped -upon ? Is there anythiami more delightful than getting rid of it? Holloway's Coen Ours will do it. Try it and be convinced. As Usual. "So yOU are going into literature ?" cc-yes:11 " What will be your first maids?" " Advice to authors." Sumer at the Altar. Some funny stories are told about the marriage service. One of them relates how an old man, brought rather unwill- ingly to the altar, could not be induced to repeat the responses. e"afy good man," at length exclaimed the clergyman, "I really cannot marry you unless you do as you are told." Bob the man still remained silent. At this unexpected hitch the bride lost all patience with her future spouse, and burst out with: "Go on, you old toot! Say it after him just the same as if you was meattia' him." 'The same difficulty occurred, in another case. The clergyman, after explaining what was necessary and. going over the respon- ses several times without, the sligatest effect, stopped ia dismay, whereupon the bridegroom encouraged him with "Go Ahead, paean, go ahead! thou'et dein' 'bravely." Upon another occasion it was, strangely enough, the woman who could not be preataied npon to speak. When the clergyman remonstrated with her she indignantly replied: "lour father mar- ried ine twice before, and be wasn't axiin me any of them impertinent questions at all." The Body as a Water Engine. In Lotegmau's Magazine for 'December Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson reprints the address which he delivered to the Na- tional Temperance League on the "Physi- cal Foundations of Temperance." The following is his own summary of his paper. I. That the body as an engine of life is a water engine and was never intended to be worked tit the temperature provided for it, by any other fluid than water. 2., That from a purely physical point of view, alcohol is too light a fluid for the purpose. ' 3. That alcohol contains an elemeut—car- bon—which is not wanted for the natural part water vitamin the living creation. 4. That by well diluting alcobol it may, as indeed is too often seen, make se kind of living world, bat that snob a world is one having two lea.Ming false qualities, a shortly -endowed bodily mechanism and an idiot's mind, neither of winch objects is of the selection and manifestation made for us by the giver of life. ON A BICYCLE TOUR. A CLERGYMAN'S EXPERIENCE WITH LONG, HARD AIDING. lie Traveled Fully 3,000 miles On Bib Wheel—Be Manes Some Reflections On the )3enesits of the Sport, and Tells of the Dangers. From tbe Utica, N. Y., Press, The Rev. Wm. la F. Ferguson, Presbye torian minister at Whitesbero, whose pic- ture we give belowewill not be unfamiliar by sight to many readers. Ayoung man, he has still had an extended experience as foreign missionary, teacher, editor, leo. turer and pastor that bas given him a wide acquaintance In many parts of the country. In an interview a few days ago he said; • "In the early summer of 194 I went upon a tour tlarough a part a Ontario on my wheel. My route was from Utica to Cape Vincent, thence by steamer to King- ston, and from there along the north shore of the lake to Toronto and around to Niagara Falls. I arrived at Capo Vincent at 5 o'clock, having ridden against a strong head wind all day. "After a delightful sail through tbe Thousand Islands, I stepped on shore in that quaint old city of Kingston. A shower had fallen and the streste were damp, so that wisdom would have dictat- ; ed that I, leg -weary as I was, should have I kept in doors, but so anxious was I to see the old oity that I spent the whole eve- ning in the streets. "Five o'clock the next na °ruing brought a very unwelcome discovery. I was lame in both ankles and knees. The head wind and the damp streets had proved an un- fortunate combination. I gave, however, little thought bo It, supposing it would wear off in a few hours, and. the first rush of sunlight saw ins speeding out the splendid road that leads toward Napanee. "Night overtook me at a little village near Port Hope, but fonnd me still Janie. I rested the next day, and the next, but it was too late; the inisobief was done. X rode a good many nines during the rest , of the season, but never a day and seldom a mile without pain. "The winter came and I put away my wheel, saying 'now I shall get well,' but , to my disappointment I grew worse. Some days my knees almost forbade walking and my ankles woula not per- mit me to vvear shoes. .At times 'suffer- ed severe pain, so severe as to make study a praetical impossibility, yet it must be understood thee I concealed the condition of affairs as far as possible. . "From being local the trouble began to spread slightly and my anxiety in- creased. I consulted two physicians and • followed their exoellene advice, but with- ' out result. So the winter passed. One day in March I happened to take in my band a newspaper Di whiell a good deal of space was taken by an article in rela- tion to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I (ILI • not at that time know what they were, supposed to cure, I should halm paid no. attention to the article bad I not caught the name of a lady wbom I knew. Read- ing, I found that she had been greatly benefited by the use of Pink Pills, and knowing her as I did I bad no doubt of' • Children. of To -day. Teecher—Ana now, little girls, how Dan you show your gretittide to your parents for giving you a good eau cation ? The Olass (ie thorus)--By marrying rieh. - _ma A nail glanced from e carpenter's ham- mer into the conveyor of EOM material in a jute factory, rubbed against a drum, and produced a spark svhieh set fire to the place.—Insurance Journal. Uses for Old corks. Corks are thrown away in great quanti- ties, and very few people think that there is any value attached to that material the truth of the statement that ,she bad. after it has seined its purpoee once as authorized. stopper of a bottle. Neverthelese ie has The first box was not gone before I. become one of the most valuable compon- saw is thalami, and the third had not been, finished before all signs of my rheumatia wits of a city's refuse. Great quantities of used corks are now used again in the troubles were gone to stay, maumfactuae of insulating covers of steam pipes and boilers, of ice boxes and ice houses and other points to be protected from etbe influence of heat.: Powdered cork is very useful for filling in 'horse collars, and the very latest application of this material is the filling in of pneumatic elms withcork shavings. Mats for bath rooms are Made of cork exclusively, and it also goes into the composition of lino- leum. Cheap life preservers are now filled exeludively with bottle stoppers, cut into little pieces.---Scientifie .American. Through All the Ages. Through all the ages men have regarded themselves as being born only that they might die, That has always been the groat inelanoboly plaint of life; Met has been tbe distress whieh has always lain on the soul, even in its moments of hap- piness. This being so, IS there not some- thing great and stirring in the fact that Jesus takes up this word of death and turns it into an assurance of victoryl jostle takes tbe dirge and turns it into a paean; snakes it the very assertion of tbe glory of his existeuce on earth. "I was born," we tem him say, "for O great, a noble and a splendid purpose, that I might through death destroy ban who bath elm power of doath—that is, the- devil." There is something noble in the way in which Gimlet thus takes these words, "We are born to dna" so full of distress and pain on our hip, and turns them into the psalms that ring through the ages and glorify the world; in the way in +Mitch he takes the very tears and lamentetions ma our human life, and shows how at the very heart of them are vactory and joy. —Phillips Brooks. A City ,Built in a Cherry Seed. At the time of the French Crystal Pal- ace Expositeou a Nuremberg toy maker exhibited a, cherry stone within the cavity of which he had built a perfect plan of the city of Sevastopol, streets, railway are preaches, bridges, etc, .4 powerful micros scope was used in exhibiting this won.. derful miniature Meal and it is 'estimated that net less than 500,000 people had a peep at the results of the toy -maker's toil. Each of these 500,000 sightseers deposited a Mane pieee in the hands of the ingen- ious workman, the thatl of the cash thus taken in netting Mtn a snug little fortnue. "I say .gone to stay,' for though there bad been every opportunity for a return of the trouble. I have not felt the fret twinge of it. I lima° wheeled, thousands of miles and never before with so little discomfort. I have had some of the snost severe tests of strength and endurance, and have come througb them without an ache. For example, one afternoon I rode seventy miles, preached that night and niade lifty miles of the hardest kind of road before noon the next day. Another instance was a 'century run,' the last forty miles of which were made in a downpour of rain through mud and Slush. "You should think I would recom- mend them to others? Well, I have, and have had the pleasure of seeing very goole results in a number of instanoes, Yes, I should feel that I eves neglecting a duty - If I failed to suggest Pink Pills to. any - friend whom I knew to be suffering from, rheumatism, "No, that M not the only disease they. ours. 1 personally know of a nurnber of cures from other troubles, but I hems needed them only for that, thougb . it would be but fair to add that my general health has been better this summer than, ever before in my life." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain ail the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered berves, They are sold an boxes (never in loam form, by the dozen or hundred) at 50 cents a box, or Mx boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all drug- gists or directly by mail from Dr. Wills • limns' Medicine Company, Brockvillte Ont. In 1834 the Massachusetts general as - amiably Made bullets a Legal tender by the following enactment:. "It is likewise ordered that musket ballets of a full bore' shall pass carrently for a farthing apiece. Provided that no man be -compel. led to take . above XIiel at a time in them." Not Needed. Lawyer—What's the book you are reads mg? „ Law Staderit—Ob, ib' a a book on com- mon sense. Lawyer—Yes, sir, and reading etch a book as that would ruin your mid for legal work forever.