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Exeter Advocate, 1899-2-23, Page 3ON BOARD THE TRAIN. Rev, Dr,, Talmage's Words of Cheer to Corn- rnercial Travelers.. Cautions Them to. Start Right on Their Journey --.Condemns Work on the Sabbath --Duty of Employers --Evils of Drink and Gambling,. Washington, Feb. 19. --In this discourse look into that valise. but as I am your Dr, Talmage Civets words of good cheer breaker I will take the liberty. I look to cominerolal travellers and tells of their it,to the 'tense, and 1 congratulate you safeguards and their opportunities; test, on these eoanfortabio articles ot apparel. Nahuan ii, 4, `".'be chariots shall rage in The seasons are so changeable you bave the sleets; they shall justie one against not taken a single precaution too many. another in the broad ways; they shall , Soma night you will gee out in the snow - seem like torches; they shalt run like bank and have to walk three or four the 13gbtnlnbs.„ miles Until you gat to the railroad sta- tion, t -tion and you will want all these m -It has bean fond ont that manyof the forts and convonien'es. But will you ex- erts and dieceveries which we supposed were peculiar to our awn age are merely cure me if I make a suggestion or two the restoration o€' the arts and discov°ries about this v"Certainly; You say,. Certainly; of thousands of years ago. I suppose that as we are having a plain, frank talk I the past eentnrres have forgotten more will not be offended at any honorable than the Present century knows. It some suggestion.” to me that they must have known thous- Pitt in among- your baggage some care - ands of years ago, in the days of Nine- fully selected, wholesome reading. Let it vele, of the uses ot steam and its applica- be in history, or a poem, or a book ot tion to swift travel, In my text, 1 hear pure fiction, or some volume that will the rush oe the rail Grain, the clang of give you information in regard to your the wheels and the jewelling of the car line of ensineeto Then add to that a oouplinge, "The chariots shall rage ill Bible ill round, beautiful type ---small the atreeta; tbey than. jostle one against type is bad for the ,yea anpw,ihere, but another JO the broad ways; they shall peculiarly killing in the jolt of a rail Ream like torches; they shall run like the tl'ein. Fut your railroad guide tied yonr lightnings," Bible side by side ---the one to show you Have sou ever taken sour position In the route through this world and the yards that grew them, lTiloeratand all will acres U... ' a nierGhana, is that OLM.PANY rho eight lar away from a depot along other to show you the scats to the next about the l;t\w4 that control cantnaerolal..alli" &aid Cite lather, "Alai I stn prouder NATIONAL of my bay than 1 ever wast .]chat got FARMERS' brother, why don't you read yourself out? j was not toy choice, I did not wish to go, Give me a young elan of ordinary Intel- I went in your service. Ie was n,+M my lace and good eyesight and let him de- pleasure so to do, but I was the con- i vote to valuable reading the time not duotor and companion of Abe simple actually occupied in commercial errand, and in six years he will be qualllled for any position for which he la ambitions. ones, void alike of ondoretanding and of prinolple, in their eitlful pleasures and deeds of deeper darkness, that I alight item," you say, "'I have we taste for] retain them as your customers, Your in- reading." Now, that is the trouble, but: terest required it, :I have added thousands it is no excite°. Tiero was a time, my of dollars to. the profit's of your trade, brother, when you bad no testator cigars, but aG what expense you, now sae, and I. they made yon very sick, but you pat -i know too well. You have beaowe severed until olgars bave become- to 70111 weattby, but lain poor indeed. And iio+u a luxury. Now. if you eau afford to this cruel dismissal, frosn, your employ is struggle on to get a bad habit, is it not worth while to struggle on to get a good habit like that of reading? I am amazed to find bow many merchants and cam- merelal travellers preserve their ignor ince from year to year, notwithstanding truth about anything you sell. Lying all their opportunities. It 1'"as well muse coinmorcial travellers will precede you. totted by one who bad been largely sue Trying commercial trevellera will conte eessfn[, and who wanted the show of a right after lou it,to the same store. Da the recompense I receive for a character ruined and prospect, blasted In helping to make you a rich man]" Alas for tbe man who gets such a letter as that! Again, I charge you, toll the whole. library at home, and be wrote to a book- not let their unfair coinpeaition tempt mer:ban t in London s:tringz, "frond ma you l roan aha atir?if he ]lite. IC ei an'; RATIONAL RATIONAL sax fust of theology, and about as mu.oh awfu Uargaia that a than makes] ween FARMERS FARMERS metaphysics, and near a yard of civil he sella Ms roods and his soul at the COMPANY nii14.PANY !aw In old folio!" `Ther° is no exense for sametime_ A young man in one of othe NATIEIIAL a man lacking inrormation, it be have storesof New York was salting s mo FAR111ERS the rare opportunities of a cornmerelal. silks. lie was binding them up when bee COhiPAiY KATM .AI. FARM -RS COMPANY HAFIIIIAI :FAA:I:I:SYS Y ISY L NATI EAI: FARMERS COMPANY FARMER. traveller. Improve your mind. Remember said to the lady customer, "It Is my duty the "Learned Bbrs,mith," who, while, to show you that there is a fracture in'. b ilk. brejected time S looked'tand c oke She c e.i at i ed blowing the bellows sot. his book p. h ods. Te ot to Ur m, the bzickwork, and became the gto b bead manh ti m, acquaintea with 50 languages, tfemem- bearing of it, wrote to the father of the ber the scholarly Gifford, who, while an young Wrap in the country, ,saying: apprentice, wrought out the arithmetical "Come and take Tour son away. Be will problem with bis awl on a plane of lea- never snake a m.frcbant," The father tber. Remember Abercrombie, who came in agitation, woudering what his snatched bere and there a fragmentary boy bad been doing, apd the head men five minutes frcn; an exhausting prates, of the firm said: "Why your son stood sloe, and wroto immortal treatises ora here at this counter and pointed out a cities. treetu.ro in the silk, and of cUMP the A Royal. Family, lady wouldn't take it. We aro not re - Be ashamed to sell foreign Melee or spou fl.te for the ignerenco of ousto,uers, fruits unless you know something about Cuetenters must leak nut for themselves, the looms that wove then° or the vino- and we look eut for ourselves. Your son if the track waiting to sea the will train world. "Ob," yon say, "that is superflu- life, about hankinn. abont tariffs, about some a* full eased? At first you heard nus, for now in all the betels, in the par- markets, about navigation, intent foreign ,F your hat and come home." COMPANY In the distance a rumblinglike the cam- los, you will Mid a Bible, and in nearly people --their ch;trazterietics and their But it Is aln^ote night. and you got NATIONAL ail the rooms of the nests back to the ]total. Now conies the niil;bty ? FARMERS Ing of astute; then you saw the ila4h of , g you well anti l:al;tlral row:.ltitiail, as they afloat ours; the beadlig;ht ot the locomotive ata it alta':' But, my brethtar, that is teat ydtir about tea earvewrs of llussia, the viva- tag' fol` she enmmoratal tr:rvell,sr. .tell COMPANY turned the eurvo;than yeti eniv the ]]]tale. You want your own tat, your rade of it.tly, Chu teaiielde of cum, me where he sien'es his evening%, and I NATINAL. y awn coat, your own blanketi our own 'will tall you where he will spend etcrn• FARMERS wilder glary of that fiery oyes °f the train , �, :� y Lat:•trn elicit tbogreet emu-made/centres coJ►trea � Fx.asilla as it eame bunging toward you; thou I3ii,le. 'lint, yon salt, I alit nota of Carthage and Assyria and Phoenlea.: icy, oral I will till you wbat will be itis , (� s;IFMA IY l Christian, and you ought not to expect you. heard the sltr3tk of the whistle that y p Head all about the Mend of Florence, � worldly lro.rGecta. There is anahundanmo, NATIONAL frenzied ;ill the echoes; then ati, saw the me to carry a Ilibis." ,sly b^other, a mighty in tr,atdc. mightier in philautbro- of ehoico. '.lheto is your ronin with the FARMS rricaue '�t' h of °Indere; then you felt greet many people are not Christians pie,. You began; to the royal famtty of books. `.hero are the Young ;lien's Chris- aMPANY' bit t the jar of the passing Earthquake and yon saw the shot thunderbolt of the ex - preset. train. Well, it seems that we can bear the p.assln_ of a midnight oxprass train in my text, "Tbe chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall jostle one. against another in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches; they shall run like the lightnities." I halt the train long enough to get on o r dI board, and I go through the Care, an lino three-fourths of the passongors are commercial travollere. They are a folk peculiar to themselves, oasily recognized, at home on all the trains, not startled by the sudden dropping of tho brakes, familiar with all the railroad signals, can tell you what is the next station, how long the train will stop, what place the passengers take luncheon at, can give you information on aitn0se any whiten, ern cosmopolitan, at home everywhere from Halifax to San Francisco, They are on the 8 o•clook morning train, on the noon train, on the lnidulebt train You 'take a berth In a sleeping ear, and either above you or beneath you is one of these gentlemen. There are 100,000 professed cotnnloreial tra\oilers in the United States, vat 5x0,000 would not inolude all those who aro eoinotitnos engaged in this service. They spend millions of dollars every day in the hotels and in the rail trains. They have their official newspaper organ. Thep have their mutual benefit association, about 4,000 names on the rolls, and have already distributed more than $200,000 among the families of d000asod members. They aro ubiquitous, unique and tremendous for good or evil All the tendencies of inorohandise aro to- ward their multiplication. Tho house that stands batik on its dignity and wait; for customers to come inetead of going to cook bargain makers will have more and more unsalable goods on the shelf and will gradually lose its control of the markets, while the great, enterprising and successful houses will have their agents on all the trains, and ""their chariots will rage in the streets, they shall justie one against another in the broad ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." orae of flood Cheer. I think commercial travellers can stand a sermon of warm hearted sympathy. If you have any words of good cheer for them, you have better utter them. If you have any good, bonest prayer in their behalf, they will be greatly obligee to you. I never knew a man yet who did not like to be prayed for. I never knew a man yet that did not like to be helped. It seems to me this sermon is timely. At this season of the year there are tens of thousands of men going out to gather the spring trade.' The months of February and March in all our com- mercial establishments are very busy months. In a few days our national per- plexities will all be settled, and then look out for the brighttist ten years of national proeperity which this country bas ever witnessed. • All our astute com- mercial men feel that we are standing at the opening gate of wonderful prosperity. Let the manufacturers put the bands on their wheels, and the merchants open a new set of account books 1u plaoe of those filled with long columns of bad debt's, Let us start on a new commeroivl campaign. Let us drop the old tune of ""Naomi," and take up "Ariel" or ""An- tioch." Now you, the commercial traveller, have received orders from the head men of the firm that you are to start on a long excursion. You have your patterns all assorted and prepared. You have them put up in bundle or case and marked. You have full i'ietructions as to prices Yon know on what prfoe you are to stand firm, and from what prices you may retreat somewhat. You bays your valise or trunk. or both, packet). If I were a stranger I would have no right to of them do, as most of them do—sit reading the same newspaper over and ever again and all the advertisements through and through, then sit for two or three hours calculating the profits they expeot to make, then spending two or three hours looking listlessly out of the window, then upending three or four hours in the smoking oar, the:nastiest place in Christendom, talking with men 'who do not know as much as you do. Instead of that, pall William Shakespeare, the dramatist, and John Ruskin, the essayist, and Tennyson, the poet, and Bancroft and Macaulay, the historians, and Ezekiel and Paul, the inspired men of God, and ask these to sit with you and talk with yoi 'as they will if you ask them. I beafyou say: "I do wish I cot._d get out of this business of cein- anerolal travelling. 1 don't like it," My who carry a Bible Besides that, before nerebantc. )3e worthy of that royal rain- than Assaclatten name, Thera are the Tort get hone you mi ht beeame a Chris• fly, 01), take uty advise anti tern the . weak night cert ees of rho Christian clan. and you would teol awkward with. years of we Ines into years 01 luxury. "0 ai.urches. Thera is the e'antllling saloon. nus a copy. Besides that, you might got wee those hours you epe>ad at the depot There le the theetet. There ie the bonen bad Haws from borne. I, ase you with waiting for she :ledaycd train And ,make taf infamy. Pleat,; of plaice to go to. trembling band opening the tnlegrnlu theta Pisgah lteluhts from which you can But which, 0 Iminartel man, Whish? 0 view the promised laud. When you are welting for the train bour atter hour In the depot, do not spend your time read- ing the sewing machine advertisements and looking pia the tu1)0'tables of routes you will never take. going the twentieth time to the door to see whether the train is coming, bathe -mug the ticket agent and telegraph (rorator with questions 'Which you ask merely because you want mon up tho great oss•aylsts and plail:em-1 saloon," You will llrst go eo look. Then labors and story tellers and thinkers of the ages and bave them entertain you. But you have memo near the end of saying., "George is dying," or "Fsunie is dead; come home!" Oh, as you sit in tho train, stunned with the calamity, go- ing hems, you will have no taste for fine scenery, or for conversation, and T0t you must keep your thoughts employed or you will go stark, mad. Then you will want a Bible, whether you read is or not. It will be a comfort to ]rave it near you --that book full of promises which have comforted other people in like cal• aunty. Whether yea study the promises or not you will want that book near 700. Am 1 not wise when I say pat In tho Bible? .i0 youaro l ready to start. Yon. Now, r al at dy n have your valise !lathe right hated and you have your blanket and shawl strap in the left band. Goodbye! Alay you have a prosperous journey, lane) sales, great percentages. Oli, there is ono thing I for- got to ask you about --what train are you going to take? "Well," you say, "I will take the 5 o'oloak Sunday afternoon tonin." Why? ""Oh," you say, ""I ehiall save a day by that, and on Monday assigned tin apartment, In that uninvlt- morning I will bo in the distant city in hag apartment you stay only long enough to make yourself presentable. You de- scend then into the reading room, and there you find the commercial travelless sltting around a long table with a groat elevation in the center covered with ad- vertfsoments, while there are inkstands sunken in the bed of tbe table, and scat- tered all around rusty steel pons and patches of blotting paper. Of course you will not stay there. You saunter out. among the merchants. You present your letters of introduction and authority. You begin business. Now,let nae say, there are two or three things you ought to remember, First, that all the trade you got by the practice of "treating" will not stick. If yen cannot get custom except by tipping a wine glass with somebody, yon hal better not get bis custom. An old commeroial traveller gives as his experience that trade got by "treating" always damages tho house that get it in one way or the other. Practice Sobriety. Besides that, yon cannot afford to in- jure yourself for the purpose of benefit- ing, your employers. Your common sense tells you tint you cannot get into the babit of taking strong drink to please others without getting that habit fast- ened on you. I do not know whether to tell it or not. I think I will. A close carriage came to the door of my church in Brooklyn one night at the close of a religious service. Some one said, "A gentleman in that carriage wants to see you." I looked into the carriage, and• there sat as fine a salesman and as ale• gent a gentleman as New York over saw, but that night he was intoxicated. He eaid ho wanted to put himself under my care. He said he had lett home, and he never meant to go back again. I got into the carriage with him and rode with bim until after midnight Wyllie to per- suade bite to go home. I have been scores of times to Greenwood, following the dead, but that was the most doleful ride I ever took. After midnight I per- suaded him to go bone. We alighted at his door. We walked through his beauti- ful hall, his wito and daughter standing back affrighted at his appearance. I took him to his room. I undressed him, .1 put him to bed. Where is that home now? All broken up. Where are the wife and the daughter? Gone into the desola- tions of widowhood and orphauage. Where is the man himself? Dead by the violence of his own hand, 0 commercial traveller, though your firm may give lou the largest sslary of any man in your fine, though they might give you ten per cent. of all you sell, or 20 per cent., or 50 per ciente or 00 per cent., they 0,10001 pay enough to make it worth your while to ruin your soul, Besides that, a com- mercial house never compensates a man who has been morally ruined in them employ. A young man in Philadelphia was turned out from his employ because of inebriation,, got, in the service of the merchant who employed bini,' and here is the letter be wrote to his employer: "Sir, 1 rains into your service tumor - rapt in principles and In morals, but -the rules of your house required me to spend my evenings at places of publio enter- tainment and arensamont in search of customers: To accomplish my work in your service, I was obliged to drink with them and join' Mein in their pursuits of in the world to study is a, rail train. I pleasure. 15 was, not my choice, but the know it by experience. Do not do as rule of the bongo. I wont with them to eons continental travellers do—as many the theater and the billiard table, but 1t• God, which? "Melt," you say, "I guess 1 will—I guess I will go to the theater." Do you think tba tarrying in that place until 11 o'clock as night will improve your badly health or your ilnaualal pros- pects or your eternal fortune? No man ever found the path to usefulness or boner or bopping -es or colamerolal success or benison throui;b the American theater. "Wo11," you say, "I guess, then, I will to ease away the time 13ut rather aunt - you to --I noes I will go to the gnmbiln, ou w1 igoto Ya inako 100 y l play. u will � , you will make $500, you will make $1,000, you will inek0 i'1,500—then you S youborrow ale your railroad crass]. T can toll by the will lose all, Then will co motion of the car that they aro pulling money an as to start anew. You will the patent brakes down. Tho engineer snake $50, you will make $e00, you will rings the bell at the crossing. The train make $000—then you will lose all, These stops "All out!" cries the conduotor, wretches of the gambling saloon know You dismount from the train. You roach bow to tempt you. But mark this—all the hotel. The landlord is gia,i to see you amblers die poor. They may make for- -very glad! a :Ie stretches out his band tunes—great fortunes—but they lose across the registry hook with all the die- theta. , interestati warlutb of a brattier! You aro no Pure In Tho,tgltt and Action. the commercial establishment by the time the merchant comas down!" My brother, you ate starting wrong. If you clip off something from the Lurd's day, the Lord Will clip off sometaing front your life• time suceeesee. Sabbath breaking pays no better for this world than it pays for the next. There was a latbte establishment in Now York that said to a young man, ""We want you to start to -morrow after- noon—Sunday afternoon—at 5 o'cloc!- for Pittsburg." ""Oh," replied the young man, ""I never travel on Sunday." "Well," said the head roan of the firm, "you must go. Wo have got to make time, and you must go to•molrow after- noon at 5 o'clock." The young man said, "I can't go; it is against my con- science; I can't go." "Well," said the head man of the firm, "then you will have to lose your situation. There are plenty of men who would like to go." The temptation was too great for the young man, and he suooumnod to it. Ile obeyed orders. He left on the 5 o'clock train Sunday afternoon for Pittsburg Do you want the sequel in very short meter? That young man has gone down into a life ot dissipation. What has be- come of the business flrtn? Bankrupt— one of the firm a confirmed gambler. Out of every week get 24 hours for your- self. Your employer, young man, has no right to swindle you out of that rest. The bitter ourse of Almighty God will rest upon that commercial establishment which capitate ite employes to break the ' Sabbath. What right has a Christian tnercbant to sit down in church on the Sabbath when his clerks are travelling. abroad through the land on that day? Get up, professed Christian merchant so acting. You have no business bere. Go out and call that boy back. There was a n,er,,hant in 1837 who wrote: "I sbould Late beet, a dead man had it not been be tee Sabbath. Obliged tt" work from merging until night through the whole week 1 felt on Saturday, especially on Saturday afternoon, that I must have rest. is was like going into a dense fog. Everything looked dark and gloomy, as if notiung could be saved. I dismissed all and kept the Sabbath in the old way. On Monday it was all sunshine, but had it not been for the Sabbath I bave no doubt I should have been in my grave." Now, I say, 1f the Sabbath is good for the employer it is good for the employe. Young man, the dollar that you earn on the Sabbath is a redhot dollar, and if you put it into a bag with 5,000 honest dollars that redhot dollar will burn a bole through the bottom of the bag and let out all the 5,000 honest dollars with it. A Place to Study. But I see you change your mind, and you are going on Monday morning, and I see you take the train—Pennsylvania, or the Baltimore & Ohio, or the Hudson River, or the Erie, or the Harlem, or the New Haven train. For a few weeks now you will pass half of your time in the rail train. How. are you going. to occupy the time? Open the valise and take out a book and begin to rasa. Magnificent opportunities have our commercial :trav- ellers for gaining information above all other clerks or merchants. The best place NATIFIIAL FARMERS.. 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Commercial travellers have sometimes gone in that evil path, Why not you? Halt! There are other gates of ruin through which a man may go and yet come out, but that gate has a spring look which suaps him in forever. He who goes there is damned already. He may seem to bo comparatively free for a little while, but b' is only on the limits, and the satanic police have their eyes upon him to bring him in at any moment. But now the question is still open, Whore will you spend your evening? 01), commercial travellers, how much will you give me to put you on the right track? Without charging you a farthing I will prescribe for you a plan which will save you for this world and the next if you will taste it Go before you leave home to the Young Men's Christian Assocatian of the city where you live. Get from them letters of introduction. Carry them out to the towns and cities where you go. If there be no such association In the mace you visit, then present them at the door of Christian churches and band them over teethe pastors. Bo not slow to arise in the devotional meeting and say: "I am a cornmerclal traveller. I am far away from home, and I come in here to- night to seek Christian society." The best houses and the highest style of amusement will open batore you, and in• stead of your being dependent upon the leprous crew who hang around the hotels, wanting to show you all the slums of the city on the one condition that you will pay their expenses, you will get the bene- diction of God in every town you visit. Remember this, that whatever place you vielt bad influences will seek you out.. Good influences you must seek out, While I stand bere 1 bethink myself of a commercial traveller who was a mem- ber of my church in Philadelphia, He was a splendid young roan, the pride of his widowed mother and of his sisters. It was his joy to support thein, and for that pur- pose be postponed his own marriage day. He thrived in business and atter awhile set up bis own household. Leaving that city for another city, I had no opportun- ity for three or four years of making in- quiry in regard to him. When I made, such inquiry, I was told that be was dead Tee story was, he was largely generous and kind bearted and genial and social, and be got Moto the habit of "treating" customers and of showing thein all the sights of the town, and he began rapidly to go down, and he lost his position in the onureh of which he was a membor, and he lost his position in the commercial bouse of which he was the best agent, and his beautiful young wife. and his siok old mother and his sisters went into destitution, and be, as a result of his dissipation, died in Kirkbride In- sane Asylum. ]Tatler Dubious Collateral "Mamma, can I have Jimmie's pan- cakes?" "What's the matter with Jimmie?" 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Binder Twine is made entirelyof �s1.TI(#:aiAil..l,rl illi r' inure ;Manilla Hemp without adulterant of any land and ss absaiutely the hest aver offered the Canadian farmer. NATIONAL Binder Tw.iu Will e0St you tee more than inferior grades, will give. better satisfaction ile the &eld titan ane von have ever used, and besides you will. receive a valuable premium with each Eioa'rx-r0U$ satm, FOR $11.» Cash. PR>=MiUMS; 80 Batt NATIONAL BINDER TWINE FOR 11. CASH with any one of the following valuable Arid useful premiums 14 -Karat GOLD -F LA,TED WATCH, stem.wi0d- ing and stern -setting, guaranteed reliable t�rk ep- or --lady a or l;entlemaa a is ze—maker' with. eachwatch. SOLID GOLD RING set with genuine Garnet and Opal gems --stamped and warranted—with maker's Trade .Dark and. guarantee. MUSICAL CLOCK, glass sides, in Nickel Silver and Gilt—a handsome ornament and accurate time -piece. A never endingpleasure in the home. $11 Cash, for any one or the above Premiums and SOlb Bale of NATIONAL BINDER TWIN 4.. HOW IT 18 DONE • The at.ttnal Farmcra Co. sells direct to practical bons° tide Es -inners ; employs no middle men or agents, does business only for cash.. makes no losses—every dollar does its full duty. We have a lot of NATIONAL Binder Twine on hand—so much that the bank rate of interest until after harvest. on the money locked up, will amount to Many thousand dollars. We want to save that interest and give it to she farmer in return for cash. That is where the premium comes in. THIS OFFER IS GOOD ONLY UNTIL MARCH I Sth, 1899. Ay -Manilla Hemp—the only article used in NA- TIONAL Binder Twine—fluctuates in value. Indi- cations point to a sharp advance in price. There is war in the Philippines where the Hemp comes from. OR- DER AT ONCE and make certain of your season's supply before Hemp advances. •••o•O•••••• •••• o•• • ....•...••t•♦.... Remit money to ua unly 1,y Postal Note, Post Office Order, Express your post ofRegistered ce adds ssLand also Write railway station to 71 which wo are to ship the Twine, You pay freight on the Twine from TORONTO, we send you the premium prepaid by mail • or Observe above directions carefully no we cannot X make any tnistalce In forwarding your goods. Say whether yon want at Gentleman's ora La y's Watch, � nllns[ent Clonic or a Bing—if the latter, send a piece � tr of string or paper size required, • We want the good will of all Canadian farmers for NATIONAL Binder Twine. Our business will fail if we deceive you—we cannot afford to be dishonest with yon even if we were so inclined. You will be high- ly gratified with the quality of NATIONAL Binder Twine and surprised at the excellence and elegance of the premiums we give. Every promise we make will be performed to the letter. tt Address all letters and make all remittances payable to FARMER COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAI FARMER COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FAR NIERS NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY, NATIONAL TORONTO. ' FARMERS ti rEnqutrers are referred to Bradetreete and B. e COMPANY Dun c Oo's aieroantile Agencies and to the Editor of this NATIONAL paper as to Our responsibility. AMR a ►ECORS NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONAL NATIONALNATIONAL FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY High Lights. Never explain. Any blunder worth the name explains itself. Cheerful looks can't crown a feast un- less the coffee is all right. A painless photographer is more needed than a painless dentist. A flatterer is considered an eaamywhen he gets tired and quits. Nobody has ever discovered what pall- bearers at a funeral think about. To have what we want is riches; to have what other men want is power. Many a sealskin cloak is a sign that the wearer has seen better days. A man never gets so desperate that he doesn't care how cough medicine tastes. The average woman burns coal as if she were in business with the coal dealer. There never was a man in the world as great as a small boy thinks his Uncle Dick la Miller's Worm Powders make the children healthy. Chiueee Idea of Geography. Chinese maps represent the Flowery Kingdom as occupying nine -tenths of the world. A few colored spots of minute proportion denote the existence of Eng- land, France, Russia. America, etc. Health for the children. MiIler"e Form Powders. A writer in The Arena declares that 500,000 men now do the work, with the aid of machinery, which needed 16,000,000 persons to do a few years ago. While Turkey is known to be bankrupt, the sultan is believed to be the richest man in Europe. SOMEHOW AND SOMEWHERE Among the muscles and Joints the pains and aches of HET.Tl\/IAT]C lt/JE creep in. Right on its track St.Jacobs Oil (roeps in. It, ppn - etratesi scareell, drives out. li