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The Exeter Times, 1887-12-15, Page 2HEALTII, VARIETIES. Justizrath Custodis is a veteran lewyer Au Anoieut VegQtEtrian, of Cologne, but his reputation rests largelY Madame Girard, a native end resident of upon the fact that every year since 1837 lie he town of Sant-Juandataaix, Frame, haS -attained the remarkable age of more than one hundred and twenty-six years, and ie probably one of the oldest human beiegs new livipg, heving been bowl in March, 1161. All ecientists agree that man like other ehould live at least Ave times as 1olig as le required to attain adult develop- ment. This would place the natural limit of lib life at Omit oue hundred years. There have been, however, numeroua instances of venous who attained a much greater tip than this, the most remarkable of vshieh io the ease of "O1d Parr," au Engliehrnan who died at the advanced age of over one hun- dred and sixty years, It may be asked, Why do not all human beings attain to this great age ? This is he deed a serious question, in view of the fact that the average length of life in civilized countries is scarcely more than forty years. The only answer is that most human beings die violent deaths. By this we do not mean that they are killed by railroad collisione or other accidents, but that their lives are cut short by other than natural means. indeed, a careful, study of the subject compels the admission that most aeople die as the result of causes within their own control. It is interesting to note in this connection that the habits of all persons who have at- tained to very remarkable ages have been simple and abstemious. The account of Madame Girard states that her diet is quite simple, consisting chiefly of vegetable foods, with little or no meat. Old Parr was equally abstemious. The Emperor William of Prussia, one of the most illustrious of royal pereonages now living, is more vigorous at ninety years than most men at fifty. He eats but once a day, and eschews flesh food, as well as tobacco, in which he sets an example worthy of the imitation of his countrymen. The Cocaine Habit. The alacrity with which every newly.dis. covered lethal drug is seized upon by the ever increasing army of persons, whose over- wrought nerves are clamoring for the nega- tive pleasure of obliviousness to pain, is evi- dence of incalculable and increasing mischief 1pearls, which are sent to China, where they growing out of the high-pressure life of the are pounded and made into powder; and present day. It has been scarcely three this is swallowed by ladies who desire to years since the drug known as cocaine was ; improve their complexion—at least, such is introduced to the medical profession in this the story. country; and yet it has already Genie to be' It appears from the results of tests made numbered among the "vice drugs," and it is at Christian a, Norway, that the De Bange found to be productive of evils even worse elm is likely to prove a powerful rival of than those of any of the narcotic and stimu- I the famous Krupp weapon. The former lent drugs which have been longer known. guns have a calibre of 8. 4 centimeters, and Dr. J. B. Mattison, who has had a very the number of shots fired, amounting to extended experience with this drug, and has 1,000, have not effected the smallest trace made a horough investigation of its effects as ; of extension, the diameter'measured before vbeerved by others, remarks as follows :— I and after the 1,000 shots, agreeing to a "I think cocaine for many, especially for hundreth part of a millimeter. The accuracy the large and increasing number of opium and the range of the firing have also been and alcohol habitues, the most fascinating entirely satisfactory. Some minor draw - and seductive, dangerous and destructive backs in connections with the gun -carriages -drng extant; and, while admitting its great and the regulating screws, both of which value in various disordered conditions, ear- suffered somewhat from the powerful recoil, neatly warn all against its careless giving in have been removed, and those now used have these cases, and especiaalyinsist on the great stood the last 600 rounds without the least danger of selainjecting, a course almost cer- hitch. lain to entail added ill. "To the man who has gone down under .opium,, and who thinks of taking to cocaine In hope of being lifted out Of the mire, I would say Don't,' lest he sink deeper. has ruede the tour of Switzerland. A few weeks ago a dinner was given in his honor in the Hotel Rigibahu, in Vitznau, and the old aentleman—he is 78 years old --told sonte delightful stories of travel in Switzerlend 50 years ago. A London newspeper, epeaking of the breaking up of the Wild Weet show in Lon- don, says that 13u6alo Bill hes gathered in the "duet" beyond the wildest dreams of avarice; that air= the Exhibition of 1851 London has never seen a show that so took it by storm, and that the ahow might have gone on exhibitiug in London for the rest of Mr. Cody's natural life. Pebble speotaelaglasses are made from pure crystal quartz, Fine crystalline quartz is found in every country. It is no bettor than good optical -glass in its optical pro- perties but is somewhat harder than glass, and when well polished retains its lustre longer than glass. Ordinary spectacle - glasses are made of plate -glass, which is in- ferior to quartz in optical quality, and generally imperfectly polished. In some of the Pacific islands an intoxica- ting beverage is obtained by the natives from the root of Piper methisticum, or ineb- ream, and called " kava." The manufac- ture is not a pleasant one, the dry root being masticated and placed in a large bowl, on which water is poured, and the whole is equeezed and macerated by hand till the juice is expressed, which is handed round to the company. In the Fiji Court of the late Colonial Exhibition an attempt was made to intraduce kava here, but this was a distilled spirit, very different from the native kava. , About the island of Borneo there is a good deal of fishing for pearls, which are found in a thin, flat, pinkish-shelledoyster, known locally as salesiep. This lives only in shal- low brackish water at the mouths of rivers. Several boats rendezvous at the same time and place to frighten the crocodiles and sharks. Twenty or thirty persons will be in the water at once, diving, splashing, laughing, shouting, and bringing up three or four shells at a time; extra yells from all hands salute a rather larger find than usual. Very few of the pearls obtained are of any value individually; they are chiefly seed - Liver -Poisoning. The civilized gormand expresses disgust when he hears about the bird's-nest pud- dings and rat pies of the Chinaman or the redolent knappee of the Burmese; but half an hour later you may see him sitting down to a hotel table, and ordering such offal as calves' brains, sheep's kidney's, beef liver, laig's feet, and other viscera too offensive to IS IT DEATH OR TRANCE A. Young Woman's Funeral Delayed tor a "Week Because of the Uncertainty. A peculiar case of what is supposed to be suspended animation has developed near Mankato, Minn. A week ago, Miss Rosa Pfeister, 17 years old, who has been residing for the past fifteen menthe with a German family two miles north of the city, retired for the night in her usual good health and buoyant apirits. The next morning, not responding to repeated calls, she was found apparently lifeless in her bed. She was mention. still warm, and her face exactly resembled I If we talk to such persons about the im- that ef a sleeping person. The coroner was propriety of consuming as food such disgust- summoned, and after investigating the cir- cumstances of the supposed death, decided lag articles, we are looked upon as squearn- that no official inquiry was necessary. 1sh, hyperwsthetic, moonshiny, etc. It There was no suspicion of foul play, as the does no good to tell a person having a taste family with which the young lady resided is ao perverted, that to eat certain things is highly respected, though Miss Pfeister was nasty. He must know that they are likely to kill him outrigat, or he is not the least an orphan, and had some property coming ;disturbed. Here is it fact for such it one, if to her. I numbered among our readers :— The funeral was to have occurred last "A certain family obtained the liver and Saturday, and every preparation was made other meat from a calf killed that day. The for it When the time came, however, it • ; mains had not begun liver was salted, and put in a cool place was found that the re next day it was cooked, and eaten at the to decompose, though they were kept in a heated room and were not packed in ice. mid-day meal. The nine persons who par - The face had a vvonderfully lifelike appear - took of it were taken ill very soon afterward. The symptoms, in the main, were those of ance also. After observing these and sim- cholera-nostras. There was also with the ilar things it was decided to pospone the funeral until something developed. At pre - profuse diarrhcea a great deal of vertige, in- jeetion of the conjunctiva, and reddening of sent the body lies in an unchanged condition. T the face and neck. Investigation showed The undertaker has made thorough tests, and finds that no decompoeition has taken that their liver was yellower than normal, and injected with bile; microscopic examin_ place either externally or internally, and he pronounces it the strangest case that he has ation revealed evidence of an acute hepatit is, just beginning. Tests made by inocula- ever met with in his long experience in such tion and feeding failed to give any results matters. He thinks that the young lady is upon other animals. There was no evi- I dead, and the health officer concurs in his dence of putridity, and other portions , opinion. On the other hand, decomposition • of ' almost invariably begins within forty-eight the same animal were eaten with impunity," The Danger in Cold Sleeping -Rooms, The idea that cold sleeping -rooms are con- ducive to health is a popular error'which, unfortunately, has been encouraged by some writers who have undertaken to instruct the public in matters pertaining to health. It is indeed true that sleeping -rooms should not be overheated, and that sleeping in , overheated rooms increases the susceptibil- ity to cold ; but this is only one extreme. Sleeping in rooms which have not been warmed at all, is the other extreme. In the winter -time the unheated rooms of it house become like the condensing chamber of a distillery. The warm vapor corning from the kitchen, laundry, water -basin of the furnace, and all sources from which moisture evaporates, Hang with the warm air of the house, is con- deneed upon the walls, furniture, and bedding of cold bedrooms. The 'conse- quence is, that when a person retires to sleep in such a bed, he is compelled to un- dergo an experience very similar to that of a cold wet -sheet pack. The cold, damp sheets and quilts abstract a large amount of heat from the body, and expose the individ- ual to all the evil consequences of sudden chilling, such as internal congestions, colds, pneumonias, pleurisies'etc. Many a fatal illness has been contracted by the exposure incident to sleeping in a gram bed. Every sieving -room should be heated -sufficiently to insure dryness to the bed. clothing, and each a degree of warmth as will not produce severe Having ft Lovely Time. She (witnessing a game of football)— What are they doing now, George? Ife—Theyaa putting Browne one of the half beam, into an ambelartoe. 'Emir of his rib' are broken end hie opine is bent. She (enthesiastically)--Oh, isn't it all so very interesting and exeitieg I hours after death at the utmost, even when the body is kept in a cold room. This body has remained in a heated room for a week, and has not changed in the least during that time. The face resembles that of a sleeping person, and looks perfectly lifelike, exept that it is quite pale. The house where the remains lie is crowded every day by curious epectators. The family of which the yonng lady was a member is agitated by the most painful uncertainty, not knowing whether she is dead or alive. If it should prove to be a case of suspended animation, the young lady would have very narrowly escaped a horrible death either by the knife of the post-mortem examiner or by being buried alive. Vast quantities of more or lees inferior whiskey and ginwashare imported every year into France to be manipulated into so called cognac. "So far as my knowledge of them goes, I esteem the English to be an excessively ignorant people, but one which has so strong it natural bent towards justice, that when they do know the facte,they may be almost certainly trusted to do right. Such is Zebeher Pashe's opinion of us, as expressed to Miss Flora L Shaw, at Gibraltar. The great slave trader, in his conversations with this lady, reproduced in The Coneemporary Peview, declared that Gordoe VMS hood- Winked'by Idris Abtar, it treacherous ser- vant of Zebeher's, and made war against Zebelier's young eon on the White Nile, though the lad and his father, then in Egypt, were perfectly well disposed to. wards him. The lad and twelve of his uncles were killed, but before Gordon went to Khartoum for the last time he met &be - her, when "everything was explaitted be tween us, and all was made clear, Zebeher says he offered five times to go to Khartoum and bring Gordoia safely back, which he could have dorm without bloodshed, but the English, though °option, asked for hima " Were like children ignetent frightened, „. a, a and eeneeteg evil. DIAMOND CUTTING IN 140111)141. The Enormous Amourit Efildl for Dlatimuds by Americana. The publio are probably not aware of the extent to which diamond cutting has been revived in London. Nearly 200 years ago Englishmei . were the finest diamond cutters in the world, the treat) being nearly all carried on in London, and, at the present time old Englistecut diamonds wifl always feteh a very high price, as the elating is still so mnoh prized. Through religious prosecution the outters migrated to Amsterdam, where they heve since remained. At the time wheu the African diamond fields were discovered there was only one diamond cutter in Londop. Dutchmen were accordingly engaged to work in London from Monday morning till Friday sunset, and they were to receive £10 a week each man, They struck aeveral times sucoessfuly for higher wages, but when they demanded -218 per week each man they wore discharged, and English gem cutters were put at the work. At Met the Englishmeu were only able after it deal of trouble to cut it class of dia- mond in one month which they could now cut in about four days. As soon as it was clearly proved chat Engliehmeu had once more gained the art, the Worshipful Coin- pa,ny of Turners decided to give English cutters every encouragement, and have, with the valuable assistance of the Baroness and Mr. Burdett -Coutts, offered money awards in competition against the Dutch for the best -cut diamonds. After several contests the Englishmen gained first piize and most of the othere. Upto the end of 1885 out of four of the principal mines of South Africa—namely, Kimberley, De Beers, Bultfoutein, and Du bit's Pan, no less than 33 million carats of diamonds (or more than six and a half tons' weight) have been extracted, realizing about £40,000,000. The diamonds now discovered ore nearly all found in British possessions— namely, Africa. and 'eclat. Yet the vast majority of the stones are still sent to foreign countries to be cut and polished, which every Englishman should consider ought not to be. As one of the great- est secrets connected with the trade consists in the one word petience, there is an im- mense field for the employment of women. As a nation, the Americans are the finest judges of diamonds in the world, and it is to London that America goes for her finest - cut diamonds. The last official report pub- lished was that America took about 3,000,- 000 worth of cut diamonds annually from England. Education in Germany. Samuel Smith, an English M. P., has lately been studying education in Germany, and gives some of his impreesione on the whole subject in the following terms "The salient fact which strikes all obser- vers is the universality of good education m Germany. There is no such think as an uneducated class ; there are no such things, speaking broadly, as neglected and un - cared, for children. All classes of the com- munity are better educated than the corres- ponding ones in England; and this applies quite as much to primary as to secondary education. Nothing struck me more than the general intelligence of the humble work- ing classes. Waiters, porters, guides, etc., have a knowledge of history, geography and other subjects far beyond thatpossessed by corresponding classes in England, and the reason is not far to seek. The whole population has long been passed through a thorough and comprehensive system of in- struction, obligatory by law, and far more extended than is given in our elementary schools. I went through several of these schools and observed the method of teach- ing, which was simply admirable. The children are not crammed but are taught to reason from the earliest stages. The first object of the teacher is to make his pupils understand the meaning of everything they learn and to carry them from stage to stage, so as to keep up an eager interest. I saw no signs of weariness or apathy among either teachers or scholars. The teaching was all vive wee the teacher elways stand- ing beside the blackboard and illustrating his subject by object lessons. The instruc- tion was through the eye and the hand as well as the ear, and question and answer succeeded so sharply iis to keep the whole class on the qui vire." Who could but wish that the same thing could be said of our education in Canada, both primary and secondary? Cases there may be and are in which it is found as good as could be desir- ed, but as a rule it is not, and every one who has gone much about our schools knows that it is not. Misfortune. How sad that word sounds. If we did not even know its meaning it would almost make as shudder. When misfortune comes we have only one alternative. It either draws us to a higher plane of thought and nobler strength of character, or it hurls us out into the never forgedulness of despair. The first leads as gently, kindly, on as would the gray haired father lead an erring son after his first transgression. And the same feeling of repentance and gratitude that wells from the heart of that boy, is duplicated by the unfortunate exile whose will bears him on ever in the right even in the face of scorn, or sympathy of the world. To him misfortune is the solution of a problem that nothing else would serve; but for him who sinks beneath the force of circumstances very little can be promised. His eyes are blinded with the stiffing hor- ror of his situation. His condition is truly pitiable all the more because he will never forget its cause. There are some things in life that we cannot forget because we try to, and per. haps, because we should not. A memory of a condition which rendered the organs of mind and soul useless will never be forgotten by any man; or explain. ed, or understood. Mr. J3erry, vtho has been chosen as the auccesser of Mr. Beecher, is comparatively both o. young and an unknown man. He has taken Plymouth Church by storm and has done what many would think an im- possibility. He has been able by the same sermons to feed and please almoet everysort of person, the most strictly orthodox and the most widely "advanced" and heterodox Nothing apparently like it sine° the day of Pentecost, when all of different tongues heard the sermon preached by one man in the different languages with which they were familiar. Mr. Berry must be it, gerihis to please equally the man Who is not sure but Jesus Christ ie a mere man, perhaps the mere development of an idea, and the other man who is convinced that lie is God over all blessed for ever. Ile muot be a greater genius even than Henry 'Wart! hirneelf, and he, it io to be feared, did not well know what he believed and what he aianot. The improved Ora brake now dope a train in four seconds, Wozhen'e Sphere awl Work, A good deal of dispassion is going on in certain circles over woman's sphere and work, and very varied and very different aro the opirtione expressed ad theooaclu. atone reached. Some few foolieh ones may claim thet there is no differenee between, the sexes end tiatt whatever man can do women mey very properly attempt. This is evidently so false and foolish that but few care to adopt it. But very many hold that Panay kinds of work which have been thought to belong exclusively to men oen be done as pro- perly and as perfectly by women. This may be and yet there be it certain sphere in which woman is epecially at home and ono for the clutiee of which nature has specially fitted the gentler sex. Man and woman form together one complete whole, and if the proper division were made of their labor the world's work would pro- ceed all the more smoothly and be per- formed all the more efficiently. But then, waat is the proper division 1 Aye, there's the rub, It Is Very evident that woman has to bear children. There is no possible getting over that fact. It is equally evi- dent that nature intended woman to nurse children' aud, as that is to be done in the home, itwould seem to follow thet nature meant woman to be the presiding influence in those regions. It is very evident, also, that woman is, as a rulet aot eo strong AS man, and that her physieel frame can be more ea,sily put out of order, All this would sewn to intimate that the many rough, hard duties very necessary, and very important as they are, naturally, and neces- sarily, fall to be performed by the rougher and etronger member of the firm. Of course, there is a large, debatable ground where it is difficult to say that women may not be properly and usefully employed, but, as it rule, the lighter kinds of toil, from the nature of the case, ought to fall to their share. In these modern days the re- cognized range of woman's work has been greatly enlarged andivery properly. Still, al- together apart from what the Bible teaches, there are some spheres into which she had better not 'intrude. it would net do to have regiments of female soldiers or to have vessels provided with crews made up of women. It woula not be nice to have them for policemen. Perhaps they would not even do for judges, though about this the following from a philanthropic lady worth minima who interests herself in young wo- men,,is as sad as it is true, and though not so applicable to the condition of young wo- men employed in Canada, is so far more than many suspect; "Half the stories these girls tell are of the tests their tiler tcters are put to, and the approaches thie.9. \forever must guard against. One youngenidy I know of secured a place as secretary to a lawyer one day, and the next day he flung his arms around her and kissed her. Another had to carry manuscript to an office every now and then, and one day the white-haired head of the place vowed he loved her. He said he was unhappily married, but he hoped that would provoke her sympathy and not her dislike. An employee of the Customs service, not so far from here as to be out of this State, was aent to search a suspected woman smuggler, and when she undertook her task the smug- gler proved to be a man—a very keen -witted practical humorist. One concern in town, which employs hundreds of girls, put detec- tives on the sidewalk to prevent them from being insulted out of doors by persons wait- ing for them to come out. The detectives would be more 'useful inside the building. But the subject makes me wax warm as I ponder over it, and as the things that I know about woman's work beside man pour in on my intellect like a young Niagara. You would also be indignant could you know the BUM of torture girls put up with to keep floorwalkers and superintendents from false- ly reporting them and getting them dis- charged, the armor they have to wear to keep employers in their places, the things they have to hear and see in silence, know- ing there is no redress but to throw up their livings." Chinese Farmers and China's Progress. There are reasons to believe that the trade of America with China will soon grow to majestic dimensions. Of the seven million five hundred thousand dollars of exports to China in the last fiscal year, nearly five million dollars' worth was of distinctively agricultural products, and of their manufacture. Of the remainder, the largest share was mineral oil. The Chinese Conaraission in the United States this year is charged especially with the promotion of banks, telegraph atml telepaone lines, behind which looms up the extension of canals, the introduction of railroads, of agricultural machinery, and of such of our products as China needs, and she has need of many. Her home products, aside from tea, are wheat, millet, garden vegetables, rice poor apples, peaches, grapes etc. The food of China is mostly vegetables and fish—the extensive sea coast, riversand eanals supplying the latter. Beef is almost unknown, except in the foreign eettlemente, and berries are rare; mutton is plentiful ; pork, poultry and eggs are abundant. Domestic animals, except dogs, are not common. Horses are scarce, mules are numerous cattle in small numbers, but flocks and herds are unknown. The national habit is opposed to change, and so the nation of three hundred million souls goes on in "the good old way." The United States broke the spell of centuries in Japah. It may do the same for China. These go for trade and conquest and colonies, and the Chinese leaders are beginning to understand this, A modernized agriculture' and the general introduction of railroadand wagon service, would rejuvenate the decaying "Flowery Land," which is a bald misnomer for a land destitute of flowers and shrubs, treeless, and with a dull herbage that con- trasts strongly with tne culture that bas made the American continent to "blossom like the rose," and to be rich in various products that its enterprise bears to all parts of the civilised world. A Considerate Grocer. Pretty Servant Girl—You don't give full weight." Grocer (sighing)—I know it, but you alone are to blame for that Servant Girl --How's that ?" Grocer (beaming on her) -1 want to make your burden as light as possible, my dear." Quite in Keeping. "This gold bead necklace I have on," said Miss Passe to young Blueblood one evening, "used to belong to my great-grand- mother. It is more than 125 years old." " MiSS Passe's 'dearest enemy was stand - Mg by. "Is it really ?" said she spitefully. "What a -lovely match!" Let us never forget that every station in life is necessary.; that each deserves our re - rased ; that noe the station itself, but the worthy fulfillment of its duties, dots honor to theatan. ' e BEtENTT rEET DOWN A WELL. Men Ingging'FWO Earl and a aright Ile Wag cite a Child—Too lute to Saye Its Itire. As the infant child of Mr. Hiokmeyer was playing in the yard ef its parents' resi- deuce et Forest Grove, Kan,, the other morningat fell into a well. The well, like many in that country, had been formed of tubing, one foot iu diameter at the top, and at a, depth of eighty feet, where the child lodged, it contracts to eight Maim, When the little one's cries were first heard it was thonght to be only about thirty feet below the surface, end an effort to raise it caused it to elip down another fifty feet. At first it was expeoted that the chid was dead, but listening at the end of the tube its cries could be heard, and in a short time is numb- er of neighbors had collected to assist in rescuing the infant. It was suggested to attach it hook to is rope and let it down, in the hope of its catching upon the child's clothes. The hook was let down and pulled up, but it broeght up only blood and shreds of clothing, Then it was determined to dig up the tubing, and a party of men set to work with a will. Tlae little one's sobs were heard distinctly all of Thureclay, but afterward they grew fainter and fainter. It was evident to many of the rescuers that life was extinct, but they were impelled on in their work by the frantic and ahnost in- sane pleadings of the mother, who had ever since the accident refused rest and nourish- ment. The interest grew widespread, and there were accessions to the rescuing party from all over the country. At 3 P. M. next day, when the party dug down seventy feet, the tubing was broken and the child taken out. The little form was badly lacerated by the hook which had been let down the well in the first attempt at rescue. The mother's grief was heartrending, and the workers, strong men accustomed to the rough ways of life on the frontier, who had labored almost oonstantly at the work of digging the hole beside the tubing, gave way completely. Mourning Customs. It is quite clear that many of the mourn ing customs of most civilized countries need to be greatly reformed. In many cases their best reform would be their abolition. Why should worthy men, and especially worthy women, make guys of themselves by burying themselves in crape and uncom- fortable black clothes ? eller e is no reason in such a proceeding as there is no comfort. Perhaps some little intinao,tions of having suffered bereavement might be allowed upon the clothes just to save unpleasant mistakes and misapprehensions, but what need is there of anything marc? A woman does not mourn with her bonnet, though it is to be feared some, aye, only too many, mourn with nothing else. Christians say that death has been robbed of its terrors and its gloom. If so, why hang one's head like a bulrush? Why, by cam's clothes, enter a solemn protest against the doings of God Almighty? In his last will, Sylvanus Cobb, the novelist, expresses himself in the following fashion : "And I do set it down as my express de- sire that no member of my family or rela- tives or friends shall for me put on at any time any outward badge of mourning. Let no blackness of crape or funeral weeds east its eloom upon my memory. 1 would that my beloved ones should seek the brightness and fragrance of faith and trust in God rather than the gloom which belongs to doubt and unrest. I go to find more light. Add ye not to the aarkness who reroain be- hind. God bless you all." Is this not reasonable and Christian as well? It is clear that a great deal of the funeral and mourning parade going is simply hypo - critic al grimace and ostentatious vanity. If the funeral display was less expensive and the :mourning toggery less flaring and expensive it would be better all round. If our lost friends have gone to heaven, the change is unspeakable gain to them. Why then make all this lugubrious fuss ex- cept on selfish principles? Two Kilda of Education. The American Minister in England, Mr, Phelps, recently made it very nice speech at the jubilee of the Mechanics' Institute at Nottingham. He dwelt upon the fact that there are two kinds of education indispens- ably necessary to make anything like a com- plete man. There is the necessity, in the first place, that every one learn to labor skilfully, for the days of unskilled labor are over, and, whether one be called to work in the intellectual or the physical sphere, it is a primary demand of the time that he shall keep pace with its advancing knowledge. This knowledge may be solid to constitute the bones and sinews of a man. After these are fully developed, though not before, it is desirable that another educa- tional process should be begun and a fine polish be added to the strong frame work withie. In other words to the making of the man must go the teaching him th think for himself, which art can only be secured by practice. Never were the temptations against such practice greater than they are to -day. OX36 man is too busy to think a,nd another too azy. Many think that they are thinking simply because they keep themselvesin it bustle reading books, which it is thought " the thing" to read, and the reading of which, combined with the glanc- ing over oi the newspapers and magazines, Elow Lost, How Restored does less, in many cases, than no good. Just published, a new edition of Dr. Culver• Then he delnge of speech -making and lee- Celebrated Essay on the radical cure of turing and sermonizing etc., according to SPgRMATORRUGIA or incapacity induced by exCess or jp. WARR TIMES. Is petalseed every Thursday inoreing,at Ti MES STEAM PRINTING HOUSE gain-street,nearly opposite Fitton's anvvelera Store, 11,3 eter, Ont., by John White Pto- erietors, BATES or ADITERTirsING eirst insertion, per line „ cents. @soh subseque4 tin sertion , per line...-. 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Sendio cents postage and we will send you free a royal, valuable sample box of goods that will put you in the way of making more money at once, than anythinr fklse in Amerioa. Bothsexes of all ages can lire at home and work in spare time, or all the time, Capits.1 notrequirud. We will start you. Immense pay sui e for those who start at once. SauNson Oo .Portland Maine "BELL" ORGANS Unapproached for Tone anclatituality CATALOGUES FREer;- BELL & CO. Guelph Ont. C. 8c S. GIDLEY, UNDERTAKERS! #--AND-,--- , Furniture Manu —A FULL STOCK OF— Furniture, Coffins, Caskets, And everything in the above line, to meet immediate wants. We have one of the very best Hearses in the County, And Funerals furnished and conducted a extremely low prices. EMBLEMS OF ALL THE DIFFERENT SOCIETIES PENNYROYAL WAFERS: Preteription of a physician who has had a life long experience in treating female diseases. Is used. monthly with perfect success by over 10,0iBladies. - Pleasant, safe. effectual. Ladiest ask_your drug- gist for Pennyroyal Wafers and take no substitute,,,or Inclose posts age for sealed particulars. Bold by all druggists, $1 per box. Address THE EUREKA. CHEMICAL CO.. DErnorr, Mica ire Sold in Exeter by J. W. Browning, C. Lutz, and all druggists. Mr. Plheps, all contribute to making anything like thinking, in the true sense of the term, impossible. " Gov- ernment by oratory " or " gabble " early indiscretion. The celebrated author, in this admirable essay, clearly demonstrates from a thirty years' successful practice, that the alarming consequences of self - of mire at once simple, certain and e abuse may be radically cured; pointing' out mode ffejAal, by is peeially hateful to Mr. Phelps' Babel might have been finished if the eveanteidiytinonndmraadyicabeaymay mire 'himself c aply, pri- means of which every sufferer, no matt what his sota, He think that even the Tower of builders could only have been persuaded to hold their tongues. He believes in silence at much as did Carlyle or does Spurgeon. he admonishes "all th be quiet" so as to give themselves a chance of being able to begin to learn to think, and he finished up by saying, " I for one should be glad to see endowed M all institutions of education a professorship of silence." No doubt of it. This generation talks and reads too much, such as it is, but the result is that it thinks too little. Indeed the talking and the de- sultory reading often make enything like thinking quite out of the queation. alias Clara Moore, of Loe Angeles, made $125,000 in real estate and now the yoUng men of that town, like Oliver twist, are crying for Moore. The Great En fish Prescription. A successful Mocliclne used over 30 years in thousands of cases. (lured 8Yermettorrheit, Nervoue Tireetisiteim, brtiseions, .Thipoieney and all diseases caused by abuse, ha aeration{ or over-exertioh. Anna] RRIFTol:1 0 Guaranteed 10 rhi h P. iagg i4;tittis. Prescription, take no substitute. One package+ Si, Six SS, by mail. Write for Pamphlet, Address Bfirelca Chemical Co., Detroit, rot sale b:y j. SV. BreWiiing C. InitZ, 5 anc it it gg 5 s. ter This lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad- dress, post-paid, on receipt of four cents, or two postage stamps. Address THE CULVERWELL MEDICAL CO 41 Ann Street, New York. Post Office Box 450 4586-137 *, ..•14.W.11.1.41h4008 tit0• e ADVERTISER can learn the exact cost of any, proposed line of advertising in American papers by acldressince Geo.P. Roweli'& Co., NeWspaper, Advertising latireeta, ./ Spettee St, Now York. ,Send ItOcttL fox, /00-Poac Fatuthl