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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-7-9, Page 3/0[TR OTTAWA LETTER A POLITICAL FAMILY BUSY PRE- PARING TO QUIT. Room For His Successors --The Result --- Quebec Did It --Row Ministers Take De- feat—How About the Tariff ?--Only Room For Two Parties. Here in Ottawa a man puts his house in order. It is a house that has been oc- cupied by the members of his political family for nearly two decades. So long 1.had been their tenure of it that they had almost come to consider themselves as permanent occupants. Four times had the people of Canada, the owners of this house, told them to continue as its ten- ants. What wonder, then, that there had arisen in their breasts a conviction that for a fifth time they would be told to continue their stewardship? Room for His Successors. I And now the master of the family makes room for his successors. Charles 'Tupper, Baronet of the United King- dom, and Premier of Canada, packs up his personal belongings in the office of the Secretary of State. His aides, the Ministers, do likewise in their several departments. In his country home at Arthabaskaville, Wilfrid Laurier, the new 'householder, awaits the summons that .shall bring him to Ottawa, there to re- ceive from the representative of the Crown the authority to conduct the i:affairs of the country As I write, I am assured by Liberal friends that Mr. Lau- aier's Cabinet has been settled upon. The hew Prime Minister had no easy task !.before him in selecting his colleagues. 'to score men there are whose services to the party when the Liberals were in the cold shades of Opposition gave them .in some sort a right to be remembered with the Ministers of the new Adminis• 'rtration. But there are only sixteen places available, and some must go by the board. Moreover, new allies in the field of Federal politics must not be forgotten. Did not Sir Oliver Mowat; Attorney General Sif ton, of Manitoba; Premier Blair, of New Brunswick; Hon. W. S. Fielding, of Nova Scotia, all give their counsel and aid to the Liberals in the late strife? Assuredly these must not be ;passed over. In Bothwell Hon. David Mills and in Brant William Paterson have fallen by the wayside. For the Sage of Bothwell no place may be made, but Paterson is a certainty in the new Cabi- net. I am told that Mr. Mills has the offer of a senatorship, and that he has declined it. Even so deep a student and so abstracted a polymath as he will not yield his right to recognition when the ,day of triumph shall come. The Result. The election is rio'cv-an old story. All rof us were surprised. We of the news- paper correspondents' corps at Ottawa were as far'astray as anybody else. Lau- rier himself expected, to divide Quebec, `or to secure a small majority in the French province. It was in Ontario that 'the Liberals expected to score and to score heavily. The returns on Tuesday night showed us, to tell the truth, that „neither Sir Charles, nor Mr. Laurier, mor we ourselves knew anything about 'election forecasts, Quebec went over- whelmingly against. the Government; `Ontario was about equally divided in her .allegiance. Now that all is over, one thing is apparent: that the practical pol- itician wins victories, not the figure- head. In Ontario Dr. Montague organ- ized the Conservative forces; in Quebec 'Taillon, Angers and Desjardins, three 'ultramontanes who know little of poli- tics, conducted the campaign. They were woefully worsted. In their own constitu- encies they were defeated. Said Sir Charles, on the day after the battle:— "So far as I am personally concerned, -I gladly accept the verdict of yesterday, which relieves me from the great respon- sibilities devolving upon the leader of a Government. When I came td Canada \last winter I found the Conservative party utterly demoralized, and was re- luctantly compelled to consent to become its leader, as the only hope of avoiding defeat. The fatal mistake had been made ,of refusing to dissolve immediately after the adoption of the Remedial order and 'of calling a session of parliament, whose :life terminated on a specific day, to deal 'with the Remedial bill, thus offering •.the greatest possible inducement to ob- struction. The recess of parliament had been allowed to pass without making any -adequate efforts to instruct the public .mind in relation to the School question, 'by which much of the misrepresentation ..and misapprehension respecting that -measure might have been removed. I do not at all regret having placed my ser- vices at the disposal of the party, as .otherwise I would have been held respon- =sible for its defeat. I have fought• the fight with all the energy and ability I possess, and am able to say that no pub- lic man has ever received more over- -whelming evidence of regard, and I might say affection, of the great Liberal - 'Conservative party than I have during •• the past seven weeks, while speaking and 'traveling incessantly. The fact that On- • tario is all but evenly divided, and that the other provinces, except Quebec, gave ,a majority to the Government, is of great significance. "Down to the last moment I confi- dently relied upon the accuracy of Mr. Angers' opinion that Quebec would give ',the Government a majority of 20. Mr. Laurier, by declaring in 'the House of •Commons and in Ontario that he in- tended to bow to the will of the major- ity in Manitoba, confirmed as it was by +the emphatic declaration of Hon. R. W. Scott, enabled him to secure a ` large amount of support in that province, while on the other hand his declaration •at St. Roche, in the province of Quebec, -that `should the means of conciliation 'fail I shall have recourse to constitu- tional means, and these I will use fully and in their entirety,' together with the monstrpus mis-statement that I had ob- jected to his being premier on the ground of his being a French-Canadian and a •Catholic, has secured, him a large ma- jority, in that province. "'The Conservative party will now do 'its duty as a loyal and constitutional Opposition, and in that position will en- deavor to protect as far as possible the best interests of the country, while main- taining the great principle of equal jus- tice to all, without respect to race or creed, to which it has unhesitatingly committed itself. The same policy that it has maintained as a Government it will continue to maintain while in Op- position. Mr. Laurier can therefore rely. upon a hearty support from me in restos, lug the rights and privileges of the .French Roman Catholic . minority in Manitoba, which rights Mr. Greenway baa recently declared he will never con- <'oedo to Mr. Laurier, and if Mr. Laurier -• will cease coquetting with the National ro roiicy and come, out squarelyin favor of maintaining an efioient protection for the varied industries of Canada, he will not encounter that obstruction from the Liberal -Conservative party which we always met with from opponents of that policy." Quebec Did It.. The old Baronet, it will be seen, has by no means lost confidence in his own star. The Frengh Canadians, he says, have overthrown him, and his own French-Canadian generals have been incapable to carry out their share of the work. With Sir Charles agree many o his English-speaking colleagues. In th course of a private conversation one o them indicated his views to me on Fri -day last, "No matter what you do fo them," said he, "the French-Canadians will turn you down on any pretext. Las session Sir Charles worked as no Cana than Prime Minister ever worked before to give them justice. They thank him by turning on him and by electing a French-Canadian Premier. That is what it all amounts to. The cry in Quebec was: 'Give us one of our own race and of our own religion to lead the Govern- ment.' They have him now. Laurier is in a cleft stick. If he doesn't bring in a Remedial bill the French will desert him. If he does, the English Liberals will have to vote against their leader." How Ministers Take Defeat. "But," I ventured, "has not Laurier assured us that he will so settle the ohool question as to do violence to the eelings of no Canadian?" "He has. That means that he has made a promise that he cannot carry out. The incoming Administration has a nice time before it. I wish them luck." Glancing over the newspapers of the country, I have been struck by the edi- torially expressed belief that the Minis- ters must be going about the streets of Ottawa in sackcloth and ashes; that they must be heaping maledictions upon the heads of the people' of Canada, So far, I have failed to see anything of the kind. Most politicians resemble in some particulars—if the 'comparison be not thought too uncomplimentary—the pro- fessional gambler. When they win they are not elated; when they lose they are not depressed. They are confident that they will have better luck next time. The fact that "next time" may be five years away seems to have no effect. More than that, of the Ministers of the Tupper Gov- ernment, I know of only three who are not either rich or comfortably off. These three, to be sure, are poor men, as poor as you or I ever have been. But, they look upon the defeat with cool fatalism. "We hadn't a cent when we came in," one can imagine them saying, "and we haven't much more when we go out. But we've had 'an enjoyable time of it." And let me be not misunderstood when I say that, no matter whom Mr. Laurier will bring into his Cabinet, there will be some pf his Ministers In the same po- sition whenever he shall go out of power. "Easy come, easy go," you know. But there are Ministers who resign office with fairly well-filled pocketbooks. George E. Foster, for instance, always has been a saving man. The ex -Minister of Finance has not forgotten the days when he was a temperance lecturer at a stipend of ten dollars an evening. For nine years, nearly, he has drawn seven thousand dollars a year. His salary as Minister was six thousand, and the ses- sional indemnity gave another thousand. A man who knows Foster told me once how he saved his money. "Of, course, he is married now," said this gentleman, "but when he was a bachelor, George Eulas didn't spend much. His monthly cheque was $666.66. He banked the six hundred, and he saved money on the $66.66." Mr. Foster will never die a poor man. How About the Tariff? f celebrated. Its owner had vanquished Joe Martin by well on to three hundred r and the joy of the Winnipeg Conserve- tives was unbounded. Like Taillon Mr. t i Macdonald, though a Minister of the Crown, is debarred by the result of last Tuesday's vote from addressing the House of Commons from a Minister's seat. `But the son of his father avers that he is in politics to stay and that he will be there when the Opposition begins its work. Taillon, on the other hand, says he is out of politics. And, judging from Mr. Angers' last achievement, he, too, might well stay without the fold. Had the lion -locked Chapleau been in the saddle in Quebec the story would have been different. Angers, vacillating and mediocre, made a flat failure. The Government safely may lay their defeat at his door, poo6:ets of the manufacturers. Of course, this is a dictum Which easily may be dis- puted or upheld according as we are Con- servative or Liberal. The fact. that Sir Richard and his friends are now in; a position to carryout their beliefs in re- spect of the tariff may well fill certain manufacturers with apprehension: Won by More Than a Nose. It is notso long since you heard of the distinguished nose of High John Mac- donald, the victor of Winnipeg. It might he unjust to say that this nasal organ led its owner to victory, but undoubtedly it was there when the triumph was being Now that their day of triumph has come, the Liberals assure us that the present tariff will not be greatly altered. At Montreal the other night Mr. Laurier was especially solicitous to impress this fact upon the great crowd that listened to his post-election speech. "We are not revolutionists," said he. "Our policy is to build up, and not to tear down." Presumably, Mr. Laurier did not refer to the National Policy. Sir Richard Cart- wright spoke on the seine night. With his usual epigrammatic pleasantry he referred to the Conservatives as "a de- feated, disgraced and shattered party." Now, Sir Richard is slated as Minister of Finance in the new Cabinet. With these own ears I have heard bins declare in parliament that Canada—and with Canada, no doubt, Cartwright—would not be satisfied until the National Policy was wiped off the face of the earth. Are the Liberals going to abolish Protection? Personally, I don't think so. What I do think, what I know, in fact, is that they will abolish Cartwright after a session of parliament. Paterson,of Brant,will make a more placable and more efficient Min- ister of Finance. Cartwright will doubt- less be shipped off to England, there to accept the post that he so often has de- nounced, the High Commissionership. Only Room for Two Parties, • It may be remembered that a few weeks ago I made bold to doubt, in this correspondence that the Patrons would be succeesful in more than half a dozen constituencies. They put up twenty-eight candidates; four were elected. I do not mention this fact to exalt myself as a prophet. I do mention it as an evidence that the theory that there is room for only two great parties in this country is a justifiable and a tenable theory. In the United States the Populist craze was ephemeral. The Greenback craze was short-lived. In Canada we shall see the same state of things. Between the Mc- Carthyites, of whom there are but two in the new House, and the Patrons there is a deep line of cleavage. Mr. McCarthy talked to a Toronto newspaperman the other day. The fact that his trusty lieu- tenant, Col. O'Brien, had been defeated by the Conservative McCormick in Mus- koka, seemed to give the member for North Simcoe his sole cause for regret. fie was unreservedly jubilant at the de- feat of the Tupper Administration. "I think we have seen and heard the last of remedial legislation." said he: "Lau- rier dare not bring it in. I do think, though, that we shall see some drastic changes in the tariff. All round, I think it will be lowered at least fifteen per cent." That is Mr. McCarthy's opinion. The Globe, which certainly should speak with some authority upon the question, denies that there will be any great re- duction in 'the average of duties.' That is a significant phrase. What does it mean? It means that the sugar mnanu- facturer and the cotton combine proprie- tors will be in evil case. Long ago Sir Richard Cartwright declared fierce and unrelenting war upon the sugar manu- facturers. The present duty prohibits the importation of the manufactured arti- cle, he asserts, and, because of this pro- hibitory duty, the sum of 'st;g hundred thousand dollars a year goes'"into the AND THEY WERE WEDDED. After Which the Bride Commented on the Lonely Lot of the Judge. "Bring in Nora Reeves and Bill Drake," said Judge Berry of the Second Division of the city court, and a look of solemnity Settled upon the face of the young judicial officer as he prepared to perform his first ceremony. ' "Your Honor," said Mr. D. R. Keith, one of the lawyers present, "I think this ' occasion should be made as brilliant as possible, and I hope your Honor will ap- point the attendants." "You are right, Mr. Keith," replied the Judge, "and I think it would be ' nothing but proper tor the sheriff to act as best man, and for the clerk and Mr. Frank Walker to take the place of at- tendants." These preliminary arrangements hav- ing been completed, the door was opened, and Bill Drake, a simple -looking negro, who wore drab -colored pants and a faded jacket of blue much too short for him, came snickering into the room, fol- lowed by Nora Reeves, a great mountain of black flesh that loomed formidably above the little negro in front of her, "Have you ever been married?" asked the Judge, turning to the man. "Yasser, I wuz married one time," replied the negro. "Well, where's your wife?" "She was daid, Jedge, de las' time I heered funs her." "And you haven't heard from her since?" "No,sah; noir word," "Have,you ever been married, Nora?" asked the judge, turning to the woman. She snickered, shook her head, and laughed to herself. "Nora, take the arm of Bill," said the Judge. "Oh, g'way, Jedge, I doan wan'er tek de arm er dat lel ole nigger," said the woman. 'There was much laughter at this throughout the court room, but Judge Perry repeated his command. "Take the arm of Bill." "Have you got a license, Bill?" asked the Judge, and Bill, from the inside pocket of his vest, pulled out a license. "Bill," said Judge Perry, in his most ministerial tone,. "do you recognize the wise dictates of Providence, that it is not good for man to live alone, and also that it is the duty of man to multiply and replenish the earth?" "Yasser, Jedge," said Bill fervently. "Do you,"' continued the Judge, "take this woman to be your lawful wife, to protect and cherish, to care for her in sickness and in health until death you doth part?" "Yasser, Jedge." "Nora," said the Judge, turning to the woman, "do you agree to take this man to be your lawfully wedded hus- band for better or for worse, to care for him in sickness and in health, to love, honor and obey until death you doth part?" The woman nodded her head, but her lips made no sound. "I pronounce you man and wife," said the Judge, and some irreverent bystander said, in a low tone of voice, "And may the Lord have mercy on your souls." The woman puckered up her mouth and poohed, as she went out, and on reaching the door said: "I dunno why in de name er goodness dat Jedge doan' take an' git married hisself, das wat I dunno, an' him a talkin' 'bout de wise dictates er Providence. "—Atlanta Journal. Don't Worry About the Morrow. "Take therefore no thought for the morrow," is one of the passages that Mr. Robert Ingersoll reads and pro- nounces folly. But is it not rather one of the wisest sentences ever uttered? The original means "Take no anxious thought," or in the language of every- day life, "Don't worry." Christ applies it to the future, to food, and drink, and shelter, and raiment. He saw clearly that the anxiety about the evils of to -morrow, that never come upon us. cause a mil- lionfold more 'Suffering and death than the evils that come. 'Ho saw that multi- tudes perish of woricy about the hunger, and thirst, and exposures that never come for every one that actually dies of real hunger, thirst and exposure. Christ showed his infinite wisdom in avoiding the extreme folly of Mr. Ingersoll, and saying, "Don't worry," instead° of say- ing, "Don't perish of hunger, or thirst, or cold, or exposure." He at the same time showed his infinite beneficence in revealing that universal and loving prov- ideuce, in which everyone who will "seek first the kingdom of God" can find sure refuge from the dread and the worry. Is there any lesson that a hurrying worry- ing world so needs to learn as this one of safety and peace from the ,lips of Je- sus? Is not this a great commandment with promise? - Where Gold Goes. A dentist in a good practice uses over $500 worth of gold a year in filling teeth. Some prepare their own gold; others get it from the gold -beaters, but the greater part obtain it from the dental supply firms. This gold is put up in eight -ounce packages, packed in small glass phials, each containing a fraction of an ounce. The cylindrical pieces of gold in it are gold -foil of a very soft and spongy kind. When pressed into a hollow tooth, one of these cylinders will not take up one - twentieth of the space it occupied in the bottle. About $10,000,000 is now con- cealed in the mouths' of people in the world. SIMPLE GYMNASTICS. PHYSICAL EXERCISE ADAPTED TO SEDENTARY MEN. They May Find a Sufficient Gymnasium in the Use of a Caue and the Exercise of a Little WJ11 Power. Tl'ere are a good many men who know they need some physical • exercise daily, but who put off beginning it, froiu year to year, on account of the time they think it would take. away from their business hours. Few men seem to be aware that five minutes spent daily or even three times a week in exercise prop- erly selected for bringing out all the principal muscles of the body, are suffi- cient to set the blood coursing freely to the extremities, to stimulate the heart, to massage the bowels, to stir up the liver, to strengthen the limbs, to straighten the shoulders and increase the capacity of the lungs. This is a good deal to claim for five minutes' exercise, and seems to suggest the use of elaborate gymnastic apparatus. It is not too much, as has been proved, and all the apparatus required is an ordinary walking -stick. Elaborate systems of exercise look more promising of results at the first glance, but as they consume time, busy men generally drop them after a few trials. Dr. C. P. Linhart, physical instructor of the Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, recommends the following exercises to busy men ou rising in the morning or just before going to bed at night, in or- der that all the organs of the body may perform their natural functions:— For the upper part of the arms: Grasp the cane firmly at both ends with the hands and hold it across the chest, letting the middle of the cane rest on the breast just under the chin. Drop the hands for- ward'and down to the full length of the arms rapidly and .return to position on the chest, accenting the upward move- ments. Continue this for 30 seconds. Holding the cane as before, push the arms straight above the head, full length, taking long, full breaths. Con- tinue this for 30 seconds more. If the arms are poorly developed this may be repeated after the other exercises are completed. When the arm is doubled up so that the fist is near the shoulder FOR SIDE AND (IIEST MUSCLES. the biceps ought to measure about two inches more in circumference than the forearm. For the muscles of the sides: With the arms at full length above the head and the hands grasping the cane as in and of the last exercise, swing from side to side as far as possible as in the picture; time 80 seconds. Here pause and take two long deep breaths of five seconds each. To strengthen the musples of the back and rid the abdominal muscles of fat: Holding the cane as in the last position at arm's length above the head, bend forward and bring the cane as near the floor as possible without bending the knees or elbows; then swing as far back- ward as possible without losing your balance. Do this briskly for 30 seconds, as in the illustration. This will make a large waist smaller if persisted in. It is good for lumbago also, and will help those who bend. over a desk all day. To strengthen the forearm: Grasp the cane' in the middle with one hand and extend it at arm's length, on a level with the shoulder. Then twist the cane back and forth, like the spokes of a wheel, for 20 seconds. Then change hands and repeat for 20 seconds more. This will also strengthen the grip. For the legs, ankles and knees: Grasp the cane again with both hands, as in the first exercise, and with arms fully EASIER THAN IT LOOKS. extended from the shoulders, straight out in front, drop the body to a sitting posi- tion, by bending the knees and ankles. Raise the heels from the floor in going down, and after coming up again to full height on the heels, rise on the tips of the toes. Continue this slowly for 45 seconds. The further you go ciewn the more severe will this exercise be. Don't go down far till you are used to it. It gives the heart a good deal to do and should not be executed too rapidly. Here pause again and take two long deep breaths, five seconds each. For strengthening the neck and straightening stooped shoulders: Drop the cane and clasp both hands back of the top of the head. Let the elbows point straight forward. Drop the head forward and down so that the chin touches the chest. Pull on the arias so as to, put a tension on the neck muscles Band then push the head back of an erect position. Throw the chest forward as the head and shoulders go back. Continue this for 30 seconds. If the head is thrown, back with the chin held down, we can hardly help standing erect. Take two more long breaths, five sec- onds each. For kneading the lower part of the TO REDUCE A CORPULENT ABDOMEN. bowels, stirring np the kidneys and liver and preventing constipation, stand erect and kick at the chest with each knee al- ternately, bringing the knee up as high and as close to the body as possible. Con- tinue this for 26 seconds as in the pic- ture. This gives practically a Swedish massage to the bowels. Pause now and take two long full breaths, five seconds each. This is the least amount of exercise a man should take and it would be none too much for women or old people. For the young and robust these exercises might well be doubled, said Dr. Linhart the other day, and while it is far from being a complete system of muscular development, its brevity recommends it to busy people and it is complete enough to give admirable results, if followed regularly for some length of time. Some may ask "How can I time my- self acurately, while going through these motions?" "By counting," is the answer. Get some one to time you when you first try it, and count each motion as you make it. Some motions you will per- form once a second; others, once in five seconds. Thus you will see that when you have done the first motion, say 30 counts, it is time to take up the next one, and so on to the end of the series. That is a simple matter, and if you should get through the series in a little less than five minutes, or a little more, that is of no account. ONLY FEMALE MOSQUITOES BITE Twenty -One Species of the Pest in America, and Jersey Claims Four of Them. This 'is the season when the pestiferous mosquito gets in its deadly work. No scientist has ever been able to discover a single virtue in the insect, but we all know its faults. Besides making man- kind miserable during the summer, there is no doubt that mosquitoes carry and propagate diseases.' There is every reason to believe that they spread yellow fever. It has been ob- served that this dreadful fever comes with them and deports when they go. Where they are most plentiful it flour- ishes, but where they are scarce very few cases appear. Malaria is also sup- posed to be propagated by these pests, but this charge has not been proven. There are about one hundred and fifty species of mosquitoes in the world, and at least twenty-one are native to North America. New Jersey alone has four spe- cies, one succeeding another so that it is kept well supplied all summer. The largest varieties occur in the tropics. The female does all the biting. The male never enters the house unless by ac- cident, its only object in life being to perpetuate the species. The natural food of the female are the juices of plants, It is not known why she likes human blood. If she drinks her fill once she never troubles mankind again. Her sting consists of five very sharp needles, two of them being barbed. They unite and form an awl, which, having made the puncture, serves as a tube to suck the blood through. When Mrs. Mosquito is ready to lay her eggs she selects some still water near by. Here she deposits them in a boat - shaped mass on the surface. From these the larvae are hatched. These larvae are called "wrigglers." When the wriggler is ready to emerge into an insect he comes to the surface and sheds his skin, which serves as a raft for him to stand upon. If there is any wind his raft may be upset and he drowned. However, if nothing happens, he stands on it a min- ute or two until his wings arc dry and then flies away to torment unfortunate persons. It takes three or four weeks for the eggs to develop into full-fledged mos- quitoes. In localities where there are swamps or ditches the nuisance may be mitigated by covering the waters with petroleum. A single drop of oil will spread ovet quite a large surface, and the thinnest thin 'is said to be death to the larvae. It is estimated that 500 acres of water sur- face can be covered with crude oil for $3. If such surfaces were covered five times during the summer no mosquitoes could possibly propagate in them. A mosquito will produce hundreds of generations in a single summer. Small, Close -fitting, Quaint Bonnet. Beside the poke which bears the stamp of Parisian approval, there, is a small, close -fitting bonnet, quaint in shade, and made of rather coarse straw, or else of the fancy braids. These bonnets, though not unlike the Dutch' cap in shape, are somewhat larger, and are worn further on the face. The trimming' in some instances takes the form of a wreath and encircles the bonnet. Then the dexterous milliner bends it so that it seems almost oval. Sometimes the chief decoration is at one side and stands up very high; again, the entire front is quite plain, the trimming is at the back, and either flares out in bows at each side, or stands up quite straight just in the center. Rosettes of piece, velvet or gauze ribbon are liked on these bon- nets, and many , good color effects are obtained when a little care is taken, and some thought is given to the contrast between the rosettes and flowers. -Isabel A. Mallon in Ladies' Home Journal. MANICURING AT HOME, One Branch of a Constantly Increasing'" BUM ,ness, Of the greatly increased, and still In. creasing numbers of persons who hales their hands attended by professional 'Manicures, a great number now' have the work done at home, Among the cus- tomers at the large manicuring establish- ments there are almost as many men as women; those whose hands are cared for at home are nearly all women and regu- lar customers. Operators are sent to them at any desired hour from the manicuring establishments, and there are now visit- ing manicures who devote themelves en- tirely to homework. The visiting mani- cure acquires the art in a manicuring establishment. An apt pupil can learn the work in two or three months. She then sets about building up a route of customers. Women usually have their hands cared. for once a, week. They are not likely all to want the work done at the same time, and the visiting manicure endeavors to lay out a route that can be covered with- out loss of time and which will keep her. constantly employed. More parents now have the hands of their children, both boys and girls, cared: for by a mani- cure, beginning when the child is six or seven years old. In the case of children, the work is often done to cure them of the habit of biting the finger nails as much as it is to beautify them. It is sought to in- stil in the child a pride in the appearance of the nails, and thus to prompt it to preserve them in good order. The work thus begun is likely to be continued for purposes of beautifying. The number of people, men and women, who now have. their feet attended to by the chiropodist, as they do their hands by the manicure, ' has also increased greatly. The work on the hands is done to beautify them; upon. the feet, for comfort. It is now required • by the law of June 3, 1895, that chirop- odists shall pass an examination by a board of examiners of the Podia Society, of the State of New York. Some persons have their feet cared for at home, but much the greater number go to a mani- curing establishment in which chiropo- dists also are employed, or to a chiropo- dist's establishment. TOBACCO KILLED HIM. Shocking Death of a Ten -Year Old Boy Who Had Used Tobacco From Infancy-. George Burroughs, ten years old, died a few days ago at his home near the city' limits. It was reported that dropsy was' the cause of his death. He had been treated for that complaint in the City ; Hospital and had only just been taken home when he became worse and died in , a short time. It is now said that he was a victim of nicotine poison. He had early acquired the habit of chewing 'and smoking tobac- co. In fact, he had just about begun wearing knickerbockers when he began to use tobacco, and soon he could chew , or smoke like a man. The Burroughs family lived on the outskirts of the city. The family is quite large, there being five or six boys and an equal number of girls. The father and all the boys use tobacco to excess, having begun when quite young. It has been no uncommon thing to hear the children ask their father for a chew,which was always cheerfully given. George exceeded the others in the use of tobacco, and when be could get it by no other means, he used to go around the streets picking up stumps of cigars and smoking and chewing them. The desire for tobacco remained until the last moment. While he lay on his death -bed he begged for it, and during his entire illness he was not satisfied without it. The undertaker who had charge of the funeral said the body was in a terrible condition. He arrived at the Burroughs home about two hours after the boy died, and said the body was badly swollen and discolored. He tried in every pos- sible way to preserve the body for burial two days later, but on the day of the funeral it could not be looked at by the relatives. —N. Y. Herald. A Toy for Baby. Baby must be amused, and sometimes when you are busy you will be glad to give the little one something with which he can amuse himself for a while. Why not make him a pretty wool ball? The material required to make this ball is three small skeins of Berlin wool of three colors, yellow, green and red, a piece of wadding eight inches square, a handful of hay and a pill box. First row—Yellow wool, chain 5 and unite to form a ring, into this work 15 treble, join and break off. Second row—Join on red wools and work two trebles into each stitch, join and break off. Third row—Join on green wool, 2 tre- bles in the first stitch, 1 in the next, 2 in the next, 1 in the next. and so on to the end of the row. join and break off. Fourth row—Join on yellow wool; work one treble into every stitch to the end of the row, then join and break off. This completes one-half; repeat the stitches for the other half. Now to make up the ball take the two halves, and with needle and wool sew them together half -way round. Now take the pill box and peas to make a rattle, place this in a handful of hay, find firmly press it into a ball the size of an orange. Neatly wrap the wadding around it, gently press it through the opening and complete the sewing. Champion Husband Beater. To Brooklyn belongs the honor of pro-' clueing the champion husband -beater of the east. Her name is Mrs. Amelia Rylin. Mr. Rylin's story is a very sad one. He is a sugar -house worker and ap- parently a strong and robust man, Mrs. Rylin Is a woman of ordinary size, but of extraordinary spirit. These are some of the things Mr. Rylin says she does to him when the domestic machinery does not work smoothly. She sits on the back of his neck and pounds his face against the floor. She jumps up and down on his spine. She "lams" him on the head with a poker. She pours hot water on him. She throws crockery, at him. She attacks him with warm stove lids. She, almost fractures , his skull with coal scuttles, wash boards and frying pans. ' She throws him down stairs. She locks him. in his room and starves, him. Law of Compensation. Miraculous is the law of compensation. Just as soon as man becomes so advanced that life in Brooklyn was more than he could stand a genius invented the trolley, ear and the Brooklynite didn't have ta, live.