HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-7-13, Page 7.01VVE V. HOTEL LIFE
'Rev. Dr. Talmage Discourses on a Question
of Domestic Interest.
He Points Out the Disadvantages of a Life Spent in Hotels and
Boarding Houses --The Wholesome Influences
Surrounding the Home.
Washington, July 9.—Home life versus
hotel life is the theme of I/r. "Damage's
sermon for to -day, the disadvantages of
is life spent at more or less temporary
stopping places being sharply contrastea
vith the blessings that are found in the
mil home, however humble. The text is
Luke a, 34, 35: "Ana brought him to an
inn and took care of him. And on the
morrow when be depa.rtea he Moa out
two pence and gave them to the host anti
said unto him. Take are of Itim. and
Whatsoever dem spendeet more when I
come agatu I will repay thee."
This le the good, Samaritan paying, the
_hotel bill of a Mall who bad been robbed,
•dovanil almost killed by bandits. Tile good
Samaritan had found the unfortunate on
a lonely, rooky road, where to this very
clay depredations are sometimes coisemit.
ted upeu travelers, and lied pnt the in-
jured Matt into the saddle, whfle. thia
merciful and well-to.clo man had walked
till they got to the hotel, and the wounds
ed Man Was put to be and cored for
a It roust hove been a very saperior hotel
In its aocommodations, for, though in
the Pountry, the landlord was paid at the
rate a what in our country would be 1S4
or 15 a day, a peony being then a cloy's
wages, end the two pennies paid in this
case about two tlays' wages. aloreever, it
was one ot those kind-beartea landlords
wbo are wrapped up in the happineas of
tbeir guests, beoause the good, Samari-
tan leaves the poor wounded felloto to
tie entire eare, promising that when be
came that way again be would pay all
the bills until the iovalid, got well.
Hotels alai hoarding are necess
and reputations are torn to tatter's, and
evil suspieions are aroused, lend etandals
started, and the parliament of the family
Is blown to atoms by some guy Fawkee
wbo was not caught in time, as 'was bS
Ertglish predecessor of gunpowder repits
ration. The reason is that while in privs
ate homes families have so much to keep
them busy in these promisettotat ated
multitudinous residences there are so
many who have nothing to do. and that
always Inaks mischief They gather in
each other's rooms and. speed, heurs in
consultation about others. If zbey bad to
walk a halt mile before they got to the
Willing ear of eame listener to detraction,
they would be ont of breath beforereach-
Mg there and not feel irt full glow ot ani-
moeiy or elauder. or Might, heMetote of
the @UMW" not go at all. But rooms 20.
20, 23, 24 and 20 are on the tame
eorrither, and when one carrion crow'
goes "Cowl Caw!" all the other crows
bear it and deo/r together over the .same
carcase. "Ole, I have heard Something
richt Sit flown and let me tell yen all
about It. Auti the first guffaw inerehses
the gatberipg, and it has to be told all
over egoistand as- they separate each
carries a eperit from the altar a Gab to
some other eirele until, front the coal
heaver in the cellar to the mold in the top
room of the gamy, all are aware of the
defamation, and that evening all who
leave the house will bear it to other
houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois prairies are lees raging and
swift than that dame of consuming repu
houses
-
tatien biaziug aoross the village or city.
titles. In vary ancient times they were I Greedy of the ZOATCUtniC aW;ge.
unknownbeeauae the world had com-
paratively few inbabitants. and those
were /Mt ritneh,,stiven to travel, and priv-
ate hospitality luet all the wants of so-
iourners. as when Abraham malted out
at Mature to invite the three inen to sit
down to a dinner of veal; as when the
people were positively commanded to be
given to bospitalitr; as in many of the
places in the east these ancieut customs
are practicea to -day. But we have now
hotels presided Orer bY good landlords,
and boarding houses presided over by
excellent hoet or nostess in all neighbor-
hoods, villages and tildes, and it is our
congratulation that those of our land surs
pass all other lands. They rigatly be-
come tbe permanent residence of many
people, such as those w ho are without
families, ouch as timse whose business
keeps them migratory, such ea those who
ought not for -various reasons of health
lir peculiarity of circumstances, to take
upon themselves the cares of housakeep-
*ng.
' Many a man falling sick in one of
these boarding houses or hotels has been
kindly watched anti nursed; and by the
'newer). of her own sufferings and losses
the lady at the head of such a house has
done all that a mother could do for a sick
child, and the slumberless eye of God sees
and appreciates her sacrifices in behalf
of the stranger. Among the most marvel-
ous oases of patience and Christian fidel-
ity are many of those who keep board-
ing houses, enduring without resentment
the unreasonable demands of their guests
for expensive food and attentions for
wkloh they are not willing to pay an
equivalent—a lot of cranky men and
*women who are not worthy to tie the
sboe of their queenly caterer. The out
rageous way in which boarders some-
times act to their landlords and land-
ladies shows that these critical guests
bad bad early rearing and that in the
making up of their natures all that con-
stitutes the gentientan and lady was left
out. Scone of the most princely men and
some of the most elegant women that I
know of to -day keep hotels and boarding
houses.
Looms'. and Unlawful Use of Hotels.
But one of the great evils of this day
Is found in the fact that a large popula-
tion of our towns and cities are giving
up an( have given up their homes -and
taken apartments, that they may have
tnore freedom from domestic duties and
more time for social life and because they
like the whirl of publicity better than
tbe quiet and privacy of a residence they
can call their own. The lawful use of
these hotels and boarding houses is for
raost people while they are in transitu.
but s a terminus they are in many
cases -
)1moralization, utter and complete.
Tha is the point at which families in-
numerable have begun to disintegrate.
There never has been a time when so
amany families, healthy and abundantly
l'Ule to support and direct homes of their
own, have struck tent and taken per-
manent abode in these public establish-
ments. It is an evil wide as Christendom,
and by voice and through the newspaper
press I utter warning and burning pro-
test and ask Almighty God to bless the
word, whether in the hearing or reading.
In these public caravansaries the demon
of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the
boarders run daily the gauntlet of general
inspection—how they look when they
come down in the morning and when
they get in at night, and what they do
for a living, and who they receive as
guests in their rooms, and what they
wear and what they do not wear, and
'how they eat and what they eat, and
how much they eat, and how little they
eat. If a man proposes in such a place
to be isolated and reticent and alone,
they begin to guess about hint: Who is
he? Where did he come from? How long
Those of us Who were brought up in the
country know that the eta -fashioned
hatching of eggs in the bayinow required
four or five weeks of brooding, but there
are new medial of bombing by =whin-
erf, which take less thne and do the
work by wbolesale. So, while the priv-
ate home may brood lute life an melt-
Sienal falsity, and take a long time to do
many of the boarding houses end
family hotels afford a swifter and mare
multitudinous style of moral incubation,
anti, one old gossip will, get off the nest
after one hour's brooding, ducking a
dock of 80 lies after her, each one pick,.
ing up its little W01111 of juicy regale-
ment. It is no advantage to bear too
much about your neighbors, far your
time will be so rauch occupied In taking
care of their faults that you vrill have
no time to Took after your own. And
while you are patina the obickweed out
of their garden, yours will get all over-
grown with horse sorrel and motion -
stalks.
One of the worst damages that come
from the herding of so many people into
boarding houses and family hotels is In-
flicted upon children. It is only another
way of bringing them up on the com-
mons. While you have your own private
house you can, for the most park control
their companionship and their where-
abouts, hut by 12 years of age in these
publio resorts they will have picked up
all the bad things that can be furnished
by the prurient minds or dozens of
people. They will overhear blasphemies
and see quarrels and get precocious in
sin, and what the bartender does not tell
them the porter or hostler or bell boy
Ylili
Besides that, the children will go out
into this world without the restraining,
anchoring, steadying and all controlling,
memory of a home. From that none of
us who bave been blessed of such memory
have escaped. Ib grips a man for 30
years, if he lives so long. It pulls him
back from doors into which he otherwise
would enter. It smites him with contri-
tion in the very midst of his dissipations.
As the lish already surrounded by the
long wide net swim out to sea, thinking
they can go as far as they please, and
with gay toss of silvery scale they defy
the sportsman on the beach, and, after
awhile the Ashermen begin to draw in
the net hand over hand and hand over
hand, and it is a long while before the
captured fins begin to feel the net, and
then they dart this way and that, hoping
to get out, but find theinselves approach-
ing the shore and are brought up to the
very feet of the captors, so the memory
of an early home sometimes seems to
relax and let men out farther and farther
from God and farther and farther from
shore -6 years, 10 years, 20 years, 30
years—but pome day they find an irre-
sistible mesh drawing them back, and
they are compelled to etreat from their
prodigality and wandering, and, though
they make desperate effort to escape the
impression and try to dive deeper down
in sin, after awhile are brought clear
back and held upon the Rock of Ages.
If it be possible, oh, father and mother l
let your sons and daughters go out into
the world under the seiniomnipotent
memory of a good. pure home. About
your two or three rooms in a boarding
house or a family hotel you can cast no
such glorious sanctity. They will think
of thmte caravansaries as an early stop -
pine placte, malodorous with old victuals,
coffees perpetually steaming and meats in
everlasting stew or broil, the air sur-
charged- with carbonic acid and corridors
along which drunken boarders come
staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning,
rapping at the door till the affrighted
wife lets them in. Do not be guilty of
the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling
suoh a ,place a home.
The Privacy of Elome.
A home is four walls inclosing one
family with identity of interest and a
privacy from outside inspection so com-
plete that it is a world in itself, no one
entering except by permission—bolted
and barred and chained against all out-
side inquisitiveness. The phrase so often,
used in law books. and legal circles is
starkees in which it is necessary, as I
showed you, at the beginning—unlees
this exceptional caae, let neither wife nor
husband consent to such permanent resi-
dence.
The probability is that the wife will
bare to divide her husbandh time with
public smoking or reading room or with
some coquettish, spider in search of un-
wary flies, and if you do not entirely lose
your huebapd it will be use he Is
divinely protected from the disasters that
have whelmed thousands of husbands
with as gooa intentions as yours, Neither
shoula the hoeband without ltoneratiVe
?coign conoent to such a life unless lie is
sure his. wife can evithstaed the tempta-
tion of sooial dlaSinatien which OWeens
across such places with the force a the
Atlantic ocean when driven by a Sep-
teMber equinox. Many wives give up
their bones for these ptiblio residences so
that theY may give their entire time to
operas, theaters, balls, receptiens and
levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl,
like a whiptop spinning round and round
and round Yery prettilla =Mil it loses its
equipoise and shoots off iota a tangent.
But the difference is, in one cage is ie
top and in the other a soul,
Beeides this there is an astaiduotie
accamulatiou of little things around the
prioate home which in the aggregate
realm a great attraction. while the deni-
gen of (moor these publie residences is apt
to say l "What is the use I have no
place to keep them If I should take them."
Mementos, laric-aabrac, curiosities, quaint
clusw or cozy lounge, uplectleteries, plc"
tures and a thousand tbings that accrete
in a home are discarded or neglected be-
cause there le ne homeetead in which to
*mime them, Anti yee they are the case
in which the pearl of domestio hoppluess
Is Sea You Can never becettle as attached
to the appointments ef a boaraing house
or fatally hotel es to those things that
you can call pea' owu and are associated
with the diffei e members Of your house,
he'll or with oes of thrihipg iraport
in your domeeti history. Blessed is that
home in whieh ler a whole lifetime they
have been gathering uutil every figure in
the carpet and every panel of 'the door
and every casement of the window has a
ohirogrophy of its own, speaking out
something about father or mother or SOU
or daughter or friend that was with us
while,
'rho Grace at ilespiteliteh
is be going to stay? Hai he paid his
board? How much does be pay? Perhaps
he has committed some crime and does
not want to be known. There must be
something wrong about him. or he would
speak. The whole house goes into the
detective business. They must find out
about him. They must find out about
him right away. If he leaves his door
unlocked by accident, he will find that
his rooms have been inspected, his trunk
explored, his letters folded differently
from the way they were folded when he
put them away. Who is he? is the ques-
tion asked with intenser interest until
the subject has become a monomania.
Tho simple fact is that he is nobody in
particular, but minds his own business.
The best landlords and landladies can-
not sornetimee binder their .places from
beconsing is pandemonium of w.hisperers
Christ the king on board, Make yoor
home so farhettehing in its mfluence that
down to the last moment of your obild-
ren's life you may hold them with a
heavenly charm. At 70 years of age the
Demosthenes of tbe American Senate
lay dying at Washington—I mean Henry
Clsy of Kentucky. His passer sat at his
bedside, and "tile old man eloquent,"
atter a long aud exciting pablic life.
transaelantie and cisatlantic, was back
again in the scenes of his boyhood, and
be kept saylug in his dream over atel
over again, "Ny mother, mother.
mother!" May the parental influence we
exert be rot only peteutial, hut holy,
and so the Lorne an earth he the vesti-
bule ef our borne in heaven. in which
place sney we ail meetaafatber. another,
son. daughter, brother, sister, grand-
father, grandmother and grandchild and I
tbe entire group of precious ones, of "
\Thorn We must say in the words of
transPortig Charles \resley;
One family we dwell in blire
One ,'#urell obese, beneath;
Though now divided by the stream—
The nawretv stream of death;
One army of the living God.
To his command we bowa
Part of the heat have orossed the flood
And aart are clotting now.
The publio residence 01 hotel and
Wording -house abolishes the ginee of
baspitality. Your guest does not want to
come to such a table. No one Wants M
run such a gauntlet of acute and enema..
less hYpercritielsin thiless you have a
home of your on n sou will not be able
to exereise the beat rewarded of v31 the
graces. For exercise of this grace whet
blessing same to the Shunammite in the
restoration of her son to life bemuse she
entertaiatel 1Usba, and to the widow of
of Vetrephath in the perpetual oil well of
the iniraoulous cruse because she fed a
hungry prophet, and to Raluth in the
preservation of her We at the demolition
ot jerielto because she entertained the
spies, and to 'Alien in the formation of
an interesting feetily relation because cd
his entertainmeat of Jamb, and to Lot
In bis rescue from the destroyed city be-
cause of his entertainment of the angels,
and to Mary and Martha and Zama:taus
In, spiritual blessing because they enter-
tained Christ, aud to Publius in the
island of Melita in the healing of his
father because of tbe entertainment of
Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and
of innumerable houses throughout
Christendom upon which have come
blessings from generation to generation
because their floars swung easily open In
the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and
divine grace of bospitality. I do not
know what your experience has been.
but I bare had men and women visiting
at my uouse who loft a benediction on
every room—in the blessing they asked
at the table, in the prayer they offered
at the family altar, in the good advice
they gave the children, in the gospellza-
tion that looked out from every linea-
ment of their maintenances, and their
departure was the sword of bereavement.
The Queen of Norway, Sweden and
Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves,
or lips, eaeh one having on it the name
of the distinguished person who bad
drunk from it. And. that cup Which we
offer to others in Christian bospitality,
though it be of the plainest earthenware,
Is a royal cup,. and God can read on all
sides the names of those who have taken
from it refreshment, but all this is im-
possible unless you have a home of your
own.
Adele. to Young People.
Teia APE OF DEATH.
Quer Things About Sloop
Their Explanatleo,
One the most remarkable facts to
be found in the history of sleep consiste
in the utter inability to mist its moo
In ofksvs of extreme fatigue. Severs) re.
mernable instances are given in wbich
pereous have meal:med to walk onward
while sleep has overcome them, ;be an-
tomatic eentsrs of the brain evidently
emetrolling and stimulating the muscles
when conssiousuess itself had been com-
pletely abrogated, it is recorded that at
the battle of the Nile, alindSt the roar of
(sermon and the fall of wreckage, sense
01 the over:Waned. boys serving the gun*
with powder fell nsleep on the deeh.
Dr. Carpenter gives another instance of
allied kind. In the course of the Burmese
wee the captain of a frigate actively en-
gaged in combat fell asleep front sliver
exiteuetion and waept eoundly for two
hours within a yard of one of the biggest
puts, which was activelY worked aurieg
his slumbers. It is a matter et Common
medloal knowledge that extreme exbaus-
tion in face of the severest pain will in-
duce sleep, Here the imperative demand
of the body—a demand implanted, as we
have seen, in the constitution of our
frames—asserts 43 Influence, and ma
TOM, the ordinary conqueror of repose,
hos in its turn to succumb.
One of the most extritordioary cases in
which the overruliug power of sleep was
ever exemplifted was ehat of Damiens,
condemned for treason in Paris in 1757.
He was barbarously tortured, but re-
marked ;bat the deprivation of sleep bad
been the greatest torture of all. It was
reportea that he slept soundly even in
the short intervals which elapsed be-
tween his periods of torture. Among the
Chinese a form of punishment for crimes
consists in keeping the prisoner continu-
ally awake. or in arousing him incessant-
ly after short intervals of repose. After
the eighth day of such sleeplessness one
criminal besought his captore to put him
to death by any means ehey could choose
or hrietutt so great eves his pain and
torment due to the absence of "nature's
soft nurse." Persons engaged in mechan-
ical labor, suoh as attending a machine
in a faotory, have often fallen asleep,
despite the plain reeord of pains and
penalties attending such dereliction of
duty, to say nothing of the sense of per-
sonal danger which was plainly kept be-
fore their eyes.—Dr. Andrew Wilson,
Young married man, as soon as you
can, buy such a place, even if you have
to put on it a mortgage reaching from
base to capstone. The much abused
mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless
man, to one prudent and provident is the
beginning of a competency and a fortune
for the reason he will not be satisfied
until he has paid it off, and all the house-
hold are put CM stringent economies
until then. Deny yourself all superflui-
ties and all luxuries until you can say.
"Everything in this house is mine, thank
God l—every timber, every brick, every
foot of plumbing, every doorsill." Do
not have your children born m a board-
ing house, and do not yourself be buried
from one. Have a place where your
children can shout and sing and romp
without being overhauled for the racket.
Have a kitchen where you can do some-
thing toward the reformation of evil
cookery and the lessening of this nation
of dyspeptics. As Napoleon lost one of
his great battles by an attack of indiges-
tion, so many men !save such a daily
wrestle with the food swallowed that
they have no strength left for the battle
of life; and though your wife may know
how to play on all musical instruments
and rival a prima donna, she is not well
educated unless she can boil an Irish
potato and broil a mutton chop, since the
diet sometimes decides the fate of families
and nations.
Have a sittingroont with at least one
easy chair, even though you have to take
turns at sitting in it. mid books out of
the public library or of your own pur-
chase for the making of your family in-
telligent, and checker boards and guess-
ing matthes, with an ocoasional blind
man's buff—which is of all games my
favorite. Rouse up your home with all
styles of innocent mirth, and gather up
In your ohildren's nature a reservoir of
exuberance that will pour down refresh
mightily suggestive—every mans house -
ing streams When life gets parched, and
d
is his castle. As much so as though it had the ark days come, and the lights go
out, and the laughter is stnothered into a
drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion
sob.
First, last and. all the time bay.
Christ in your home. Julius Caesar
calmed the fears of an affrighted batman
who was rowing him in a stream by say-
ing, "ea lopg as Caesar is wlth you in
the same boat no harm Can happen."
And whatever storm of adversity or be-
re,avement or poverty may strike our
and armed turret. Even the offieer of the
law may not enter to serve a writ except
the door be voluntarily opened unto him.
Burglary or the invasion of it a crime so
offensive that the law clashes its iron
3aWit OD anyone who attempts it Unless
it be necessary to stay for longer or
shorter time in family hotel or boarding
konse—and there are thousands of in- boon au to won as ion as you live
• 5UNIMER,
Wietloincoo.
Somewrere thereb 41) leebefir
ehatteg eV the deep:
Somata...la ttere's a infer ten
Dozing off to ade*pi
SOtaralare awry's 40 Eskitne,
Wit» a tame clowned slack.
And his everyday heath
le a seal
akin
rock,
Somewhere there's a etormelond
Gathering on high;
Setnewhere there's a F.nowaake
Leaping trona the ate.
And are:tar:ere teem are people
Sot a5 taming coal.
W.itrIng ttat I1S trecaltstare
Were ail
nerd:
'
role.
—washington Star.
iftetteetlons of an Qld Maid.
Tbe lovers who enjoy reading the
same becks together will be liappy in
their married him
A lifetime of carefully studied defer-
ence can be killed iu a moment by a
ironic glean) of the eye.
In warm weather the bousewife re-
membere that hope rhtMes with soap
and euds with buds.
The peetne not good enough to leap i
to fame are generally bad enough to leap
into dame.
To be remembered by a wonten it is
ouly necessary to tell ber something pies
about herself that she knows already,
but teneleg thet nobody else has fouttd
out.
What a young Man likes is to look tubo
a pretty face and make remarks that
cause it to part its red lips and show ins
white teeth, What an old roan lihes is
to look WM 11 fkretty face anti make re-
nairks that cause it to part its red iipe
and thew its white teeth,—Detroit Free
Press,
WHEAT EATERS GROWING.
Broad Almost Entirely Supplanted
by white Bread.
In several European countries the
different forms of edible paste known as
macaroni, spaghetti, vermicelli, wallies,
etc., are produced In largo quantities.
From a small and somewhat locta busi-
ness it has become a large, prosperous
and constantly increasing Industry, upon
which millions of people depend for their
food. It is estimated that the French out-
put of these pastes is from 120,000,000 to
170,000,000 pounds per annum, and this
product is unquestionably destined to
increase greatly. To Canadians it may
seem strange that the power to purchase
wheat foods is only now becoming gen-
eral in most of the civilized countries.
Thirty years ago black rye bread was
universally consumed by the working
classses and the peasantry in France.
Bakers say they all sold rye bread up to
about 1870; now it is rarely found in
any bakery, and is eaten only in the
country. The president of the millers'
syndicate of Lyons reports that the
masses of the French people want white
bread, and the best of it
The president of a British economic
association stated last August that the
wbeat eaters of the world were 371,000,-
000 in 1871 and 516,000,000 in 1898, an
increase of 145,000,000. Every great rail-
road opened adds to the number of wheat
eaters.
BLOOD POISONING.
Terrible Suffering of a Primps
Edward County Farmer,
sigamitat Treatment noilofi to Sosoli$
Him and l.ife Was RasPalred er-
Agate. Well and &krone-
71tun the Belleville Sun,
A- reporter of the Sue reSeldr"
3y had an opportunity to investigate a
cure made through the use of Dr. Willa
hams' Pink Pills for Pale People which is
little short of miraculous. The subject at
the cure is Mr. William IL Conklin,
well loctown farmer -who lives in Amelias -
burg townehip, Pripet) Edward county.
When the reporter drove over to see 1dr.
Conklin he was under the impression,
frQra what he had heard of the case, that
be wo ad find a partial invalid, but told'
surprise found a stalwart. robust meat et
SiX feet. actively engaged rotten -ding logs
from a sleigh. On making known tine
object of hie visit the reporter was invited
into the house and Mx. Conklin gave hie
story as followet
"Yell Caa eee for yourself theat my can-
dition z uow one of good health, and yet
I heve been near death's door. A year
ago last summer I injured my hand. with
the result that OVA pOlSeiling Set in- A
(lector was called ji and the usual treate
meat given, and the hand apparently got
well and I eterted to work. It seen turas
ett. however, that the poison bed nal
Iseeti entirely got rid of aad it email.
through 'iv whole system, The doetee
wee again celled in, but, looking upon ray
case as cricicel. ativieed me to go to Ole
)20Spital at Belleville. Tnis I ciiti and reit
Inelited there throughout the nienth et
Wither, 1397. My onditien was deeper -
ate, an, as Twas not making any progrem
towtted teeovery, I refry freukly toy that
gave my moo up as bopelese. Believing
that I could nor recover, I esked te be
taken kome. I then tried various treat-
ments with no better results. I could nes
walk without help, and I was doubled up
like a jacittkoffe. At this elegy I was ads
Yieed to try Dr, Willienas' Pink Pills, and
mit for bait a dozen Mats. After milts
he first half dozen my Appetite returned,
rel aighe sweem, which had beta bhe
bane of my sleeping hello. deserted. ms.,
Hnowieg that the pill* were helping or.,
I sent far,. further eupplr. limintime a
eveelling taunt in ray itip, which tinally
broke, and from that tot my progress was
more rapid, and, I am again as sound aa
ever, and able to do e day's work with
any one. I can enly add thee Dr. Wil -
beano' Pink Pine brought mo to my pre
sent stave of good health, and solottg as I
live I shall praise the remedy that brought
me back front the verge of the grave."
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going
to the root of the dieease. They renew
and build. up the blood and strengthen the
nerves, thus driving distetee from the sys-
tem. Avoid imitaition:: by insisting that
every box you purcbaee ±S enolosed in a
wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr.
Williams' Pink Pill* for Pale People. If
your dealer does not keep them they will
be sent post paid. at 50 cents a box, or six
boxes for V.50, by addressing the Dr.
Mediciue Co., Brockville, Ont.
A BUSINESS DEAL.
One of a Decidedly Compitcated Nem
titre. •
"Wilat's that? A dime?" said the
Young man in the red hat, who had just
boartle41 the smith bound Weatworth aye -
nue ear at Niadisou street.
answered the passenger with
the newspaper. •
"Well, before you drop it on the floor
again and lose it you'd better give it to
sae. Here's a nielsel for it, and I'll pay
for both of us."
"All right."
He took the 5 cent piece, hauded over
the dime and went on reading.
"Fate:" said the centinetor halt a min-
ute later.
"That man with the red hat pays for
P15."
"I don't see any man with a red bet."
The passenger with the newspaper
looked up.
"Wm:" he Faith "I don't see him
either. Guess he's dropped off. He bas
beat me out of a nickel, anyhow. Or is
it—let me see"—
"rarer
"Oh. yesi"
Hereupon he banded out the coin for
which lie had traded his dime.
"Couuterfeit," said the conductor, r
turning it.
"Blister him! He's 10 eenta Owed et
reel"
And be threw the coin away.
"Tare!"
"Oh, yes! I forgot again. Blanied
it I don't believe"—here he handed
out a quarter and received his change
—"blamed if I don't believe he's 15 cents
ahead—no, that can't be. But I'm out—
let's see—the dime I gave him, the nickel
I've just thrown away—that makes 15—
and the 5 I gave the conductor just now
—no, I would bare had to pay that any-
how—hut somebody's ahead or me 15
cents. If it isu't that thief in the red hat,
who is it? Five cents gone out of this
quarter too! Thnt wouldn't Imre been
broken if I'd kept the dime. Altogether
Pm out" —
But at this point it became too heaey
for him, and he gave it up and buried his
sorrows in his newspaper.—Chicago Trib-
une.
Lord Resebely's Coot.
"The gentleman at the door," always
a figure at the public meeting, was
simply splendid at Lord Ilosebery's Car-
shalton gathering—he fulfilled, in fact,
the part of the Greek chorus. When Lord
Rosebery asked his audience, in a dreamy
dilettante way. What is the real advant-
age of being well off? the gentleman at
the door bawled out, "You know it well,
my lord." After reading Lord Rosebeu's
little homily about the exaggerated ad-
vantages of wealth, we felt inclined to
say, "Let us clear our minds of cant."
It is quite true, as Lord Rosebery said,
that a man can only eat one dinner,
wear one suit of clothes, and ride one
horse—at a time, Lord Rosebery might
have been reminded. Lord Salisbury said
intatb the same sort of thing a short time
ago; and in Lord Salisbury's mouth the
saying had some, though not much,
meaning, for Lord Salisbury is a man
who really does not care what he wears,
eats Or drinks, and who does not know
whether his brougham is drawn by a
pur sang or a mule. But Lord Rosebery
is an epiourean, who lives every day of
his life, and from his lips this kind of
naoraliztng is downright, unadulterated
rant
"Peace" Note Paper.
Tbe note paper provided by the propri-
etor of the hotel in The Hague, where
the peace commistioners are quartered,
Das a design of bayonets, rifles and ce
' n -
non over vvhich the spiaer has woven hie
web. On the mouth of the cannon a clove
piteaandisturkaa awl peacefitl,
Natriens Philosophy.
A man has been sitting on a dry goods
box near this °Mee all day looking for
work.
The only thing a man can find around
a house without assistance is fault.
Every time we meet a schoolteacher
we find that we have always been pro-
nouncing another word incorrectly. '
se. girl was on the streets today wearing
a rainy day costume. She had evidently
decided in private that this is a free
country, but she certainly felt very un-
comfortable in public.
Two Soule With Differing Thonghtii.
There was something in his manner
that led her to think he was about to
propose, so she murmured:
"I think that every woman craves
some strong nature upon which she can
lean in an emergency."
His face became white.
"What is the matter?"
"I thought," be gasped, "that you had
already been taught to ride your bicy-
cle."—Pearson's.
An Awful Warning.
"Wot you doin, Weary?"
"Pastin muckier orful warnin in me
scrapbook."
"Wat's de latest?"
"Young woman dies in New York im-
mejutly after takiu a Rooshun bath."—
Cleveland Leader.
Well, Not Exactly.
Brown—I heard you married a . very
charming young widow since I saw you.
Green—That's what I thought the day
we were married.
Brown—Well, didn't you?
Green—No; she married ine.—Chicago
News.
Remarkable Tatou hoes.
A. new telephone will shortly be placed,
before the public, announces the London
Chronicle. Its distinguishing merit kr
tha. it enables & conversation to be con-
ducted. without the necessity of the listens
er holding the instrument to his ear. A
representative of the Chronicle was pre.
sent when some experiments were made
with one of the instruments, and speech
was clearly heard through various resist.
ances at a distance of 20 feet.
Free and easy expectoration immed-
iately rellevee and frees the throat and
lungs from viscid phlegm, and a medicine.
tbat promotes this Is the best medicine tie •
use for coughs, whit, halammation of the -
lungs and till affections of the throat and
chest. This is precisely what Bickle's.
Anti -Consumptive Syrup is a specific for,
and wherever used it has given unbound-
ed satisfaction. Children like it because,
it is pleasant, adults like it because it re-
lieves and cures the disease.
Naturally In dignant.
"You will never marry," said the for-
tune teller.
"Ifs a mighty lucky thing for you,"
interrupted the girl, "that von collected
your fee in advance."
Everything, Thank 'Yon.
"Say, party," said the tough looking
character as they met on a dark street,
"have ger read dat a man wuz killed ix
Chickagee fer refusin ter treat?"
"Ya-ya-yes," chattered tbe man ap,
proached. "Wa-wa-what'll you have?"
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