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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1884-8-14, Page 3A PLEA: PQM THE $T P.l ;')'Heti... WIT AND MON. A Writer Contends that the Stepmother D a Mnch-Abus.d Character, IJow . many ;books do we 'dill take rep in which the plot turas, on t cruel Ma- chinations of a stepmother. and surely .writers ought to be wiser now. They make the vers name hateful; it seems to: rind' with unkindness and injustice, and far be it from us to say that the proto- type is nowhere to he farted. Cold- heartedness and oppre.s;ton toward the children of one wito has preceded her in heart and home are leo doubt at times to be met with, but cannot many home - holds tell another tale—a tale of love and gentleness, and mutual affection and peace? And cannot, too, somehontes tell a third story, where the sufferer is the one who is looked on as an inter- loper? Are there* not cases where a man whose hearth has been early desolated, and who is left with little ones whom he cannot look after, with a heart still yearning for affection, bring homesolne warm-hearted girl, ready to pour out no stutters measure of love on the mother- h'.; ones; and what du he and she find on settliagdoiyn to theirilailylife? That foolish relatives or ignorant servants have already poisoned, the baby mind against their second mother, and that all ht•r efforts to win their afffection and trust are blighted by the unholy imine ence that has been wielded. And when other little children come, too often, ins stead of being welcomed( with brotherly or sisterly love, they are greeted with feeling; of bitterness and jealousy. *'Tor: is this only so when the children, na- turaily perhaps, have a feeling that they may be deprived by a stranger of part of their birthright Cases there are where hundreds have been added to the income by such marriage—hundreds not even settled on the woman who brought them to a comparatively poor house- hold; and yet she was set aside as a **nobody," treated with cold insult by stepchildren. and undefended by her husbaud. We might tell of iek-beds watched with all a mothers devotion; of dying hours soothed with all antoth: er'e faithful self forgetfulness; of the young spirit ,:inking tD the grave, cling• leg with fond affection to the represent- ative of that real parent whom it was Loon to greet in the spirit land; and we turn with just anger from pictures laid before us as false as tliee are ill-jutfged. Into how many households meat the second mother bo brought. or they could never hold to^.!ther? flow mane fans- ilies most consist of the children of the one father, but of two =there; and is it well that young mind, should be pre- judiet?d against a state of things in so many cruses sa. necessity. But in the nee el orbs; tale a youthful hero or heroine is the more interesting. the more he or she sulli'rs under the domestic roof, and that suQerin"r is supposed to be moat easily wrought by the "stepmother." -- Let us hope that a truer view will be taken of this relatdonship; that the vul- gar feeling with regard to it (a feeling showing itself so plainly in some lot:al: ities that the mune of stepmother is vee to the most painful thing on the finger, sometimes called a hater -nail) may ere long pass away- from amongst us; and that, as at last the long -despised "old maid" is meeting with justice and kindly judgment, the same may be meted with no stinting hand to the often long- suffering ongsuffering and much -slandered "step- mother. Why the Prairies are Trceol..ss. The salvation of the great new prai- rie empire depends in great measure on the feasibility of cultivating forests to serve its farmers as windbreaks. The potency of a grove of leafless trees in shielding one from the winter wind is hardly credible. Its influence on the open prairie reaches !rouses it mile dis- taut. The laws of all the northwest. ern states favor the plstntiter of forest trees, and the subject einpntv's not a little of the rattling rice+t+t"•:e t•f their numerous orators. The eta dienep of these laws was never questioned until recently. .A. few months since a pro- fessor of Harvard university after ten years of study pronounced` these laws useless and unscientific. The learned professor announced that trees will grow where they ought to grow and willnot grow where they ought not to grow; that the. great inland prairie lacks trees because it bas not a large enough rainfall to support them, and that the laws encouraging arboricul- ture will be futile. In traveling through western Minnesota we explained this theory with nolfttle pride to our fellow- traveler, a teamster. The teamster made no reply. except to quicken the pulse of his pipe. At length, having made.sure that he had smoked it to the bottom of its socket, he drew the pipe from his mouth and pointed its handle toward a clump of native trees that skirted one side of a large mud lake. "Do you notice," he asked, "on which side of the lake those trees stand?": "The southeast?" "Well; that settles it." . There are, as he afterward , ex plained, hundreds of these lakes dot ting the prairie land. of Minnesota. Most of the lakes on their southeastern shores have clusters of forest trees. The reason of this is not far to seek. There are two winds there prevalent the northwestern and southeastern. The southeast wind is the rain -bringer. Tho northwest is cold and dry. The prairie fires are spread by. the north- west, never by the southeast wind. When the prairie fires swept over the prairie they burned the young trees on all sides of the lake except the south - `eastern, which was sheltered by the water, There could be no more con- cursive proof of the .power of the' prairie fires to 'destroy . the growth of forests. even in soil favorable to their produc- tion. , Massachusetts may well be proud of the Wealth and leisure that enables her to secure astute professors to elab- orate theories that a teamster can ex- plode between two miffs of his pipe. Agin Iedta one day an Englishman sat With a smart, native less at the window, "De sort widows been thentselvos? Pray telt me that?" Satdthe pretty, tngciisttive Ifindoo. "Do the burn? That they dor theaentleman C. & S. GIDI.EY3 t radert;akers aiid 1'rIL.trniture. '[rATOULD S-A Y. TO "Withseetw a purchas zee 30 1. so intend A name Mateo easy to smother; the manufacturer . Tho Ourwinow themomentonehusbandisdeed, dealer who buys to soli Immediateipburn—for anthers"' again must uacossarily have a profit; We el:�int The expense of cigars should be put to Qivetiie purchasers airs down as :Imong "losses by fire." f t, which cauuotfail Tho proprietors of tee houses make to meet the ewers ex of t beno p p Graugers. Our, estteuse6he many a cool thousand in the course of a areless than those of silo Sear; mann 1ACtttt a"rf00n,eQnen t weenie eellcheaper. In Siam the people worship 'the ele- phant. In this country they only want to see him. Kate Feld failed because one of her Emblems Man•t;t; ryes;s GTEW o t" call spectalatttentfo to (Mx -undertaking deport ont.whtchis a come reerttaanever• shave wearers 471, esi leder, ?us etlOOt ate The boa comae 4 is caskets shrctretis,a d erery .., of all the Different A MARVELOGS,PORY Ow Itf TWO . FROIMTIE'SOON : ';.• a_ • tkenaie,tert: Aly father reedean at levee. Vt. He ass been a great sufferer front Scrot r ,sola, and,the inclosed letter wilt toll you What al requisite at the a __ ♦ n .a. atpriee$. Qat' lit rr Iearso f# pronouapo}d' y competent judges, l o abs 'cooed to pore tis the Troy - thefts Societies new clerks .one clay forgot to ask one of ‘71011-111\T" 3311Reoll-ArNATIN" Use customers,. "Anything else?" The real glove fight occurs when a woman tries to pat on a No. 6 gloves on IN No.7. hand. A young lady is not like a tree. You eau not estimate her age by counting her rings. UND.RRTARER AND Funerrle furnished a,.te conducted at the very low est rates• Ilyatock of Unelertekinu ". Coodsis largo, campfete A new story is called I3y Passion dna as a,sorrec2auday Rocked," Some one has been getting pertton:equiringanythin mad and throwing small stones. in this line will and it to theearadvauttageto etre me A new patent�Mg ballet -box has been . a Mai and easntiuu for vented wdieh it ht said "knacks the Ill utselvtrs. stuffing out of the old kind. The newest simile in Texas is "over in Mexico, where the soil is poorer Unman amateur concert," etc. An economical woman after the death of her infant used the remainder of her soothing sirup to poison rats. People say that blaekberriesAre good for rue complexion; but who wants blackberry complexion? It is a great consolation to see a plurnbo compelled to buy something at a retail drug store.—,phitu, Times.. Nany a male brute who snarls and growls antis wife in public, livery lov, lug and tender when no one else its around. He has to be. The operators in mythical whines are always willing to let you in; but there is quite a difference between lettingyou in and lotting you win. "The last link is broken." the fellow said. when he kissed salt girl good -by forayer, at her request, beeanse berppar- i eats wishes rt dig •o1nt ,,n. A fa+ty slays !ttte"r he' rea'e'yed ;t nota- s iyiii.r: "Clear George. tl;Pre are plenty 1n'trt+ links; notu4 held break Caen," Amu= Mewl) la Il ri rt. IrartIi rntttun l• tie! t'utnnton ttl'ar the river banks all along this part of the coast. The most remarkable work of this kind is on the south bank of Spruce Creek—an estuary of the Iialifax. Its base has a diameter of 100 feet. tend it attains a bighi Id fifty felt, with steep sides, except on the east. whish. is in- clined, apparently, for a rnailway. Iss- cavations near by reveal the Sartre+t+ of supply for the material in tate eon:true, tion of this en'nu'i. In these ertil;sial hills have beets found spee+intt'tt: of pwt- tery.stone pipes, mile vessels. for do- ntestie tt.r, eliareoat skeletons and or- naments. The mounds are evidently the work of the same rate of people who constructed the nolit:try fortiti,'atiout, or canal beds. near Lake Ok eeedttibee.-•- There is nothing to indicant the age of the shell mound's or of the earth mounds on Spruce Creek —no timber growths of sufficient size to record the Passage of the centuries. But,on the Lake Flirt works the ease is iflertent. On the erects of these artificial upheavals the live oak is growing in luxuriance. --- While the age of the largest specimens of these trees cannot accurately be de- termined, it is safe to say they are from 700 to 1,000 years old. And they have had germination and continuous life since the earth was • disturbed by the hand of man. America is called the new world, and Florida is the newest part of it, for the polyp has not yet ceased his work of creation here. And yet it is of such great age that many of the important events of the old world.'s history are recent when compared with what we know has happenetlrn the new. —B.D. Jones in. Cincinnati Comntrrciat Gazette. The Eleotrio Woalara of the Age, Hon. S. S. Cox, in the annual address delivered before the Indiana. Asbury University,' at Greencastle, said: "The electric monograph transmits messages in the original handwriting. The hektogtaph multiplies your epis- tles; the telephone enables people to make contracts through an orifice; but as there is no witness, photography comes in and records the shadow of the sound by curves in vowels and conso- nants! "Electricity is an element elusive and subtle, yet it is stored in a box and imprisoned in a metal to be used at pleasure for portraiture, sound, light, or power. I have seen an organ in Berlin played by electricity, but this is simple:when compared with other ex- ,,pdriments. Is it not a marvel .that we ,can telegraph from the moving railroad car, or the speeding steamship P A. California photographer obtains. six photographs in one leap of a clown • in. six different positions. He catches a horse on the gallop. a rabbit on c run, and a bird on the wing.' By means of a wire a circular saw or a locomotive may be—nay, has been—run miles dis- tant from its source of force:. Electric- ityis born of the sun. It may be .cpn- vested. back, to`ita source, so that ivhen one talks by telephone he may see his distant colioquist. Itis shrewdly be- lieved that nerve power depends' for. increased strength on light. ; It ;.will not be strange it the polyseope .illuini- t mites the animal organism, rendering I. ,the body transparent. The vast' 'cur - 'rent of -liquid force which we call elec. tricity is condensed in boxes like 'des- iccated Meats, or spreads over conti- nents to convey iutellio'enre: ' filen can' never overdraw ,from This vast, hank - of + t ' .44•41141.: ._ dirt Wit!. CABINET -ML aria took just alela ti Ted Rosewood Caskets; alga Vedinu of ovary deserip- tion. A complete stock of Robes and Trimmings slimy on hand. The west styes at Chamber and Parlor Snits All kinds of Fnnliiture at the lowestratas. 711E BEST 'MARS IN lam COf}'A4'.f?Y .Rernenberthe place—Nearly opposite .Esatp'aTobacco Store, Aiain.slroet, Breter. iter Vost Osco WRQ Table. atAlt:!? 1 aaxlSs tam. trkioa,' oodham, Win:belsea and Elimvillo South ,east and wes;,fucludtug Dondott,Iiemilton,Toren ohms, United States, lemaimh and foreign malls ... .. South, eaatand went ... :North and east,inclutting Gederieh, WIughaw, Kincardine bltretone.rerouto, )tontreat,and Festern state... I+orth 1,001 ,., liar• *00 .. 0 4 " e.l � a.xn lsco pzu . to 3tontreal, fdanit•t •.. ... 9a0 a m. Go a, ,.. .. e.15 p.m d'X) p. m Arid allpoint:uortb, .• .., ... .. ., 1C.CCa,ut ,$.40 a. re 5.'41 p.m. 5.00 p. O.S0p.m. G.tUp. ss). MONEY ORDERS firmed foul paid on awl front anyMonect)rdoroeice in theDominlou of 'anale.Gren tUrit: in end trtktud.l$ritisl" lassie.N0Wfouttdiand,crernutuy.Auetrie, Indy, Australie Auld the United States.t POST OFFlltfiE SAVINGSDA NE. Gcuerel's special j ermilnie n eau i epoosit is10000O.} pop 0313300 fiisln i Bahl aaccount r Postmaster a.m.tolp.m. Office loursf.ont'Leo a.m.ta: p. m. Letters intended tor registration toast be postetW' Minutes before the closing of each mail. N la—It le particulate' requested Haat the senders of matter will kiudly add the names 0f tb I Con te theaddtwsocS • • D:JOBNS, Postmaster. ITCfliNG PILES, SYMPTOMti ANDC;I'RB The symptoms are moisture, like perepir- ation. intense halite increasers by scratching; very distressing, particular at night; Rooms as if pin•wuanis were erawlrug is and about the reetnw, the private parts are sometimes ef- fected. If allowed to continue very serious re- sultsmay %stow. " SWAYNE'S OINTMENT" is a pleasant, het e! ear+' Also for Tetter, Ielt, ,talk-tth„wan, ti„il,i Bead, l;rysipelas, Barbera' Belt, 131eeteltes, all senly.critst Skin DilleaseA., Bux, by mail, 5n Cts.; 3 for 51,25. Address, P13. SlVA.i'N1, tt Stir, Phila.. Pa. Sohl sty Ilrueeista. A1)VTCE To \It1TIIERS. Ara you disturbed atnight nue hrolaeu of your i reetbyaslekrlti1•l ,ufferlee and eryiug with 1, pate of mltth►tt teeth? If mo, stent at 01300 and'' get a bottle of 11138 'tVINSGOW'ti SOOTHING I SYRL*P• iteavalt30 is incalculable,. It will re- liove the poor little sneerer immee!aiately. Ile- i pond upon itmothere, thorn is no uaistr.l.e about it, It cures dysentery reel dtturin)ea, regulates 1 the stomach and- be wcle, runes wine colic 1 softensthe 8u1re, reducer: inflammation. and 1 gives tone an 1 energy to the whole system. 11Ins. Wresr,oer'a Soom►rt a; Sore von Cnxnn. + nand Trarritz :o is pleasant to the- t;tstb, and is the prescription of ono of the oldest and best I 'female nurses;taut physicians i11 the United States, and is testate by all druggists through- I out the world. Price 2:, tents a bottle. ARNICA and OIL LINIMENT CURES ALL. Pains and Aches, AND IS THE MOST PERFECT MILT tEAIMIE in the WORLD ! SOLD BY ALL DEALT RS. PRICE, 25 AND 50 CENTS PER BOTTLE. 010 -18-tti =C� HOLERAiNF�ANTIIM D/HRRH(L-.9, AND ALLSIJMMER COMPLAINT` 'SOLp,BY4LL.QEA,LERS. kit! n ”. • • ,'•e 1,., i atMMx.Ra tt 1•t w1 1 a .:1 nt 4t r; **twilit 1, Kt Nuts 1 - a�, i'"a t:• s.taa:. • V. U ,e.., 4. ..+.I • .t- c'tt' Nte t.2aetr'fork: Health & Ha iness for all. WILL CU OR RELIEVE Biliousness, eleadache, Dys- pepsia, indi stion, Dizziness, Jaundice, psy, Flutterin&. of e Heart, And every speci of disease arising from Impar Blood, &c. &c. 48 'RRl, eY SNR Climax C mical Company NTREAL. 'NSALL PORK ACKINGH OUSE leaving commenced busineestortee Fall 4c1 Winter Trade 1' 1"Peareprepirec1topurchaseanyeuantity01 Pork,subjeotto the followingregul!tions We will takeoff two pounds per husicdredif d*,andthreepoundif soft. Shop ldtirtrick sweaty -five ,lints. If any of the 1aeg gats are left in, 25 a nts extra will be deducted. No .pt,K will pe bought at any price it !yarn', We'vantall Bogs (Jutting right trough breast toles I, and flares opened' on to tail & J.PET : Y. has lied In his we, I think kis blood must Imre contained the humor for at: least ten years; bat it did not show, exe pt in the form of ascrfnloae sore on the wrist, until abcart Ave yearn ago, From .a few setts which ap- peared at that time, it gradual ir Weed se cs to cover Itis entire body. I antra you he was terribly agitated. and an objectof pity, when hebegro swing your medicine. Now, there ar. few ma of his age who enjoy le good health as be Ise. I could eaelly nasi efty persons who world. twitify to the facts is his case. gonrstruly, W.M.,PnuLnes r FRO, THE FATHER: serines mad a dutytor arae to state* to yonthe benefit I. bene (*rived from the arced Of Air's Sarsapariaa. Gtr months ago Twits completely: arere d with *terrible humor and a rotnlout sones, The humor Otused an 1acessant ane intolerable( ttahfn;, told the skis cracked ec sat to casae the bleed to flow in many places whenever I moved. Iltysititeriugs were gloat, and ray line ai hpri*q. I oomanenced the use of the Sesserater.Lla fn aprlt last, ani have used it regular* drove that time Ey coraditlon began to lo; r e..+ at once. The rotes hero all heal(1 .:.,t I : wt earfeetyet•>fi iu ereiy -- in " •.o tie .v € to, so y's r t •: t ,,,. ctrye. ,lt t.y? ;alta 3 c in t e. cete•d►axl 7' 1;..•t ,4tttellyou, :e. t. t .er, Vt., Oct. 1.,. . * . flu:AS l:`z:arrrrs:* *Ter>'4 " ^„ • :L# cures Scrotal* and all F ;,^,t Ce:r:ipl tats. elta, h ..^:r, I`.ingwor'm, Illattltes, Soren, Iler::c,',;±ureara, and Eruptions of the isl,la. It cleans the blood of sill impte r*alar, .aids digtetioa, etimulatea alae actianot the beings, and thus restores vitality and streugesons the whole mom. extras= air Dr.J.G.Ayer&Co.) Lawe11,iNf1sft. Oald bIra3l Drncesttr; il, dist bottlta toe. WESLEYAN L,LIES' COLLEGE, TIAA,II,ToN, CANADA. Ttr ('Idret and the largest Tames' College 2n the ltwthn">n. rias over RV crxduatis, Fecal ty .wentlemen and 15 ladies. The building cost le0(0,mutilate. over 1,'10 rooms. legate !old tlini cialties. Willre.open,on Septem- ber t. et,iresa the Principal. A. )Il.: TENS, I), D., LL.D REMNANT, WORif POWDERS. Are pleasant to take. Contain their own Pnrgativo. fes safe, sure, and cffecfaan tMirayerr of tr3n rs in Children orAdultse 10 FARMER GREAT REDUCTION IN PRICES. NOAH FRIED —OF THE-- Dashwood HE Dashwood Flouring Mill Wishes to return thanks to his numerous customers, for the past liberal patronage given him, and since making im- provements, which is a large saving on fuel, will do ---0110PPING- until further notice, ae the following --rates :— OATS, SIX CENTS PER BAG, And for all other grains (Peas excepted), SEVEN CENTS PER B.A.G. TUESDAY, THURSDAY.d SATURDAY, Are my regular grinding days TERMS - Strictly Cash. N..I3,—Flour,& l'eed sold at a close mar- gin...Don't forget ,to give us a 0511 .1VOI T3lrr'RIE Daslt2ycod, Peb'y 7th, 'gel;