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"Y1a indade," said Honore, klullally, I dtd : for my frind Mrs, Down tlade bape of sweet-taters that Sallie, Her sitter, behed lovely and brown, W id—oh raa'am if you could but have seen it 1— The fetter and foinest of bine. Anti they giv' me the gizzard and neck of that him And all of the set eetdater skins," --lierper'a Young People. THE $POT ON 1:1IS NAME. BY REV. EDWARD A, RAND, "Huth—hum—hum 1' It wae the sound of life in the old yellow school-houtie at the Oilmen, a bee -hive lium intensified. Everybody was busy with work and mischief behipd the old erred deeke where three generatious had nestled. " Too much noise 1" snouted the master behind a table on the platform. "Now go on, everybody in the spellingmlass. Tam-tol- o-gy 1" he yelled to e. row of Bohol/re before him. The spelliegmlass opened its mouth as wide as possible, and in ohorut began to shout out the syllables of tautology- " Oh, dear 1" aaid a hoy, Bob Hawkins. •on the back seat, " I can t study I" It was a relief to leek cut of the window OD the greet sea pushing a current of amethyst up the creek near by, coverirg the yellow fl tts, everlaying the strips of black mud along the shores. ".However," he said to him- self energetically, " I will, will study. So here goes 1" As he turned back to his books, an elbow that, ever since he knew anything, had al ways seemed to be in the way, struck a big Pohool atlas. Slam 1 it went upon the floor. "Who's that ?" howled the master. He was a man of fierce energy, and bad o big head of red hair, and when Reeee B tker shook bis mane he was terrible. " Who's that ?" he demanded again. In his domin. ion it was a orinie to drop a book upon the floor. "The sound came from the back seats. That you, Bob ?" The schoolanester was a good shot this tinae. Hob's awkward, borrid elbow had sent the atlas to the floor and he very Well knew it, but When the master aeked that. qaestion, popping at him like a ziflemhot, S. b blushed, etammered and replied, no. sir I" Thescholars in the neighborhood of Bob ihaew who:did it, but when Reette Baker in- sisted upon pressing this question, " Any- body round there know anything about it ? not a tongue moved. A spell of awe hushed the back seats into silence. "Who dropped that book ?" shrieked the master, his face reddening iuto a shade like that of hair. Up sprang a chubby little girl half down the feminine side of the 2012°01 holm. "Me, tir 1" she piped. It was Susie Boardman, the bare foot., blue-oved child of Skipper Sam„ the -fisher- nen. She was a kind of pet for"Boh, living near him and Sheltered by him behind the folds of his big coat on stormy. days. "Me, sir l' she piped again'having seen the book as it fell from Bob's desk and de. termin.ed to shield her favorite. The school began to laugh. " Sit down, e ou little booby 1" commanded the stormy pedagogue. "You are not big cuough to lift a hook that could make such a noise as that. You don't know enough to make a cup of catnip tea." This was a phrase current in the neigh- borhood and the equivalent of great ince- paeity. Susie felt this out of the master's words falling like a whiplash. • She planted her plump, brown hands on thedesk and in disgrace bowed her head upon them. "Who dropped that book, I want to know ?" called out the teacher. " I did, sir This reply was frora thOight quarter. There stood Bob on his feet, his face Grim. soned, but the excitement only lent new beauty to his features. Everybody called Bob Hawkins "a harthome boy." Susie twisted her face round and shyly with her moist blue eyes, like melting impphires, glatwed. at Bob. Stroh a look of trust and admiration It comforted the boy on the back seat. "You 'did it 7 You said you did not do it, How will yon explain that contradiction, sir 7' pompously asked the master. "1 didn't tell the truth, the first time.' " You didn't ! Why didn't yoa 7'' "1 don't know, sir." This was a fact. Bob dM not know wby he lied the first time. He was like some other unfortunates, who lo one moment of timidity are surprised into a fasehood they are thoroughly salaamed of. " 'You may take the book you dropped, go to the wittelow near the road and hold that book up so that all going by may see e au and two it. There is a spot on your asane you eught to get • Looking very foolish, Bob went to tim window, held up his book but held down his bcad. " Now, Susie, you may go to the other window and look out," shouted Reese. Su.ele ahnost eprueo, but of her seat in her tegerness to share Bob' e diegitace and, gig. gling veent to the window to vetetoh the tied arel the clouds and the dusty roads. Bob did not giggle. He smarted under tl 3 stroke of thea charge of a epot on his name. It the master had dropped vitriol on i3eit's skin the meat could not have been Wor00. An hour htter Bob and Susie were gaing home together. The echoolmester went in the same direction, bet they alloWed Reese Bek as to move oil ahead. ' "Don't you mind what he said," advised Stisto, lookieg up into Bobti face. "Well, I was a fool to say 'no,' and if 1 had thooght I woeldn't have said it, far I debit believe in lying, tio crate at roe CC), like a lion, oinking hie heed, that my sensor left Mo. I don't went hint to think I got a spot on tiny Mime beceame I intended to." don't, Bob," comfortingly saki Sasie, tenting her trusting eyes of blue toward hint, • "1 don's thlak you got a spot." “IIiish 1" he tinewered, They Were near the ()reek, It was not wide but deep eoough at high tidelo cover. up the telleet grenadier. Two beams had. been stretched kora bank to bank and boarde laid cross- wise upon them. It was a rude strueture, without any railing, but could be pafely croesed, provided one did oot go near the k,dge. "Hush 1" said Bob, agein. He hinted end listened auxtously. Susie atopped alto. It mime diatiectly now, a cry, " Help - pp 1" " Somebody is in the great," said Bob, bounding away. Be did pot say it was Reese Baker, but he thought so. And, thews he was in the oreek, the water up to his breast and he was pitifully bawling " Help.p p, Bob I I 'aiii on a rock," be en- citedly screamed. "Tide's coming:en and I can't swim." Bob knew what the eituation was. Reese had fallen into the creek and wits standing on a rock that he bad reached eomehow. Bob had swam in the creek and knew that if Reese ehoulcl step off from that rock in any direction save that down stream, be would go over his head. "Mr, Baker, you do as I say and you will come out all right." "Say, you take that spot off," cried Su. sie to the sohoolmaeter, stamping her foot. "Susie, you keep still," said Bob. " Mr Baker, you put your feot off on the sideot the rook down stream and you will find you can wade there—" "1 have been trying to touch bottom on different aides and I can't." "You try where I tell you." Should the sohoolmaeter try the I: ottern of the creek down stream? lt looked so chilly in that direction. "Tide is coming 1' warned Bob, running to the bank nearest the schoolmaster. Yes; and what if it covered his breast, covered his chin, covered his mouth, covered hioa away up to the crown of his head and be- yood ? "Here, give us your hand," eaid Bob, boldly walking out. The schoolmaster oripped that proffered hand. "Now bear away to your left," directed Bob. "Dont be afraid. That's it. Follow me." Reese Baker was quickly ashore. " Well, I am obliged to you, Bob. I was going over the bridge, foolishly reeding, and before I thought, over I went." That's the way 1 told that lie." "Oh, don't you care for that. You have washedthat spot off. I'll make it all right in the morning, in school." 110CH0 Baker kept his word. But Susie did not feel that her serount with the mat. - ter was balanced. Twenty years passed. Bob Hawkins and his handsome wife were entertaining A guest that complained of amlight indisposi- tion. "Jast try my wife's famous herb tea," re commended Bob. "Oh, gladly, said the guest, and he readily drauk it. "There 1 exclaimed the guest. "Better already.' "Mr. Baker," said Mrs. Bob, " you once told me in sch3131 I could not make catnip tea. What do you think now ?" "Capital 1 I take that all hack.ti, Susie Hawkins milled and thought, "We are even." ....--searrametwaiewmomwe---- Generosity and Thrift, It is very easy to win a reputation f or gen- erosity. You have only to give waiters, railway porters, &Anon, and crossing.sw, eep- erg a shiiline where anybody else would give sixpence; to make a good many presents of trilling value, and chiefly to pereens Zona whom you hope to get something in return; and to take care that the fame of these mag- nanimous actions shall be well bruited abroad—and your character as a generous, wholemouled being is established. • It is very noble to be liberal, int not at other people's expense. The old copy.book maxim is a vtry vowel one: "Be just before yeu are generous," If your liberality hinders you from paying what you owe to your buteher or your tailor, you are not just to him ; nor, it may be added, are you really generous, but only lavish. But avoid meanness and stinginess. Give away as much as you please, the more the better, elways provided that nobody but yourself suffers by your giving, that the person benefited by in is worthy, and that it is done without ostentation. The truly generous man is he who denies hhnself some luxury, or better still, some necessary, in order that he may have where- with to give to those who are in need. The millionaire, with his £40,000. a year, often gets greal praise for his gifts of £1,000, 12,000, £3,000, or even £10,000 ; and when his donations reach a quarter of a million, statues are erected to hia memory, and peens ate sung in his praise. But in all probability the signing of his big check does not entail the sacrifice of the smallest, pleasure or the slightest gratification. Tin. Less be gambles on the turf or the stook ex. change, he cannot spend on himself inore than a certain not very large annual amount; and there is therefore no very marvelous generosity in his handing over the earplur to one in' half a dozen charitable orge.nizas tions. ' Ds. Blonsfield, afterwards Bishop of Lon- don, began life with a determination to give, if possible, one fifth of his annual income in charity. When he ,became rich he gave away one.third of his income for charitable purposes. Durirg his tenure of the fee of London he gave away not much less than £150,000. It is an open secret that Mr. Ruskin has stripped himself of the bulk of his fortune thet he may teach English artieene to love vvhat is beautiful. These are examples of true generosity. There is a Mose relation betveeen gener- osity and thrift. The thrifty man has always a reserve upon which to draw for charitable purposes. In bet ovolonce, as in businesa, A, without being in the least degree stingy. can make tt" shilling go fur- ther than Je s half-crown. Some men have , the knack, by a careful adaptation of means to ends, of vetting or gowning to get a far greater rettim for their money than others. This is a science well worth cultivating, What a pieture of thrift does good old Hugh Latimer give in one of his sermons 1 I "My father," he said, "had no land of his own, but only a farm of three or four pounds a year at the utmost;; and hereon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine, He kept his son tit ached till he went to the university and maintained him there. He married his daughtera with five p unels, or twenty noi Wee, apiece. He kept hospitalitywith his neighbora, and some alum he gave to the poor; and all this he did out of the said ant', CURIOUS SIGHTSiNCOREA , corea bate eine Of the best elimateii in the 'world and its .mineral resources are Blinoet altogether undeveloped. Gold is fotnid' in all 'et tbe eight provinces of Corea', but the mines have so far exited only ill eeveral, The unit of money is the copper or brats Din0 known as the "cash," of which it takes more than 1,31)0 to make it Mexican dollar worth t here 75 ceots. ;It odets. in the , „ , ladieearevery glad to gee fetreign.ladies, but f eW et them aim able to retuto the ealle.: Una of them told an American friend of mine that she found it very bard to leadortch a seclud- ed, life and she lortged tor the (materna of ear 'country All careen ladies smoke. They have their polite watts of bowinto end their code of etiquette, and mote, few of them rule their hualsands. The laws of divorce are almost altogether on the husba.nd's side and widows among the better 01AFIR do not neighborhood of 00,000 caeh, to travel nThrrY D'aR'iDi from the sea coast to the capital and mo oulY women who have the right ' to be seen by men oettede their own families are back, aod it. is the cestom in trayelling in the dancing girls, and these are muoil Moe the interior of Corea to take an extra, peck the Geiebae of Japan. They are called in horse alorg to carry your money. Each ' aein hat a spare hole in it „d the eanneen at feasts and there are many famous clamors who aro employed especially to appear be - way of putting them lip Js in gran& ' of fore the Ring. These girls wear fine dresses huroiretie hung on straw corda of abont the Ten dollars is a c't Bilk and they Whiten *tit' shine with thickness of a clothes line. poWder and paint. They. wing in a eort ole load for a man arid $30 would break down a chant and their dance Is a series of ere- mule if the journeY was long. turing, like that ot the same class of girls Considering the poverty of Corea one might Suppose that the foreigners there bad a hard life. This ia far hien the case. They,have comfortable homes at Seoul, and think provisions, which come in large part from China, ore plenty and good. They have a ploaaant society amongthennielveeo play tennis, have concerts, and '041 far as I can hearare the most free from social bicker., inge and strife of of the foreign ooloriles of the Western Pacific+, Their • lives are reasonably safe, except ini such outbreaks as that of last June, when Some of the aoth foreign fanatics among the natives started the story that the foreign devils were teast- ing on Corean babies. 'Then for a time it looks rquany an the troops have to be OantAl` from one of our men-of-war which usually lies in the baiter ot Chetnulpo. The foreigner keep indoors, the King sends out a proclamation, the Coreans quiet down anelitis again all quiet on the river which nowsbyso' A WORTHLESS NOBILITY. Corean society is divided into three classes, the Ring, the nobles and the comtnon people. The Latter live in thatched huts and they are the poorest of the poor. The nobles or yang Lan are the curse of the couiitry. They own allthe lands and live by squeezing the -people who till them for them. The better of them dress in gorgeous silks. They never ge, on the street without having a lot of retainers at•out them. what a -wonderful city is Seoul. Its 300,- 000 people are made up of strange characters, and my eyes have been bobbing abort like the rays in a kaleidoscope in my efforts to appreciate it all. Everything is new and every new thing is strange. The big wall which surrounds the city is a wonder, and its three great gates are more wonderful dill. They are clotted every night at sunset with tron.plated woodenWoors, and after this time none outside the city can get in, nor oan any inside the city get out. The city does sleep, too. Its people go to bed with the shadows of the evening, and by the -law the man or boy who is out after dark is bound to be whipped. Women have the right to go about at night, and foreigners are never halted as are the Core- ans. Such lanterns as are ustd are of , the tiniest shape, and they consist of a frame work holding a oandie with a thin gauze cloth thrown over it. - There is a great bell in the centre of Seoul, and this is rung early in the morning for the opening of the gates. This bell is in the middle of the long wide street which divides Seoul in halves, and it forme the beart of the capital. About it aretheincipal shops, and it is the centre oftrade. . , Corean stores are of the size of a large drygoods box. They are arranged around narrow courts with a little platform about two feet wide running around their outside • and forming it sort of shelf two feet high, going entirely around the acorn OA to this shelf or porch each store opens,' and the merchant its onside his etore and not in Iit. He has a curtain in front of his goods and he brings out piece by piece as you ask for it. He keeps his hat on while he trades and smokes during the whole trans - :talon. Sitting on his heels, he does not apparently care whether you buy or not, and lam told tha.t he coneiders that a large order :should bring ft much higher .con3par- ative price than a smaller one. - THE WORSHIP THEIR STOMACHS. None of the shops of Seoul are, however, large, and the trade of: is capitel elf 300,C00 people is made up of what the Yankees would call a whittling business. The loudest.mouthed and most enteryrising per- sons in the whole city seem to be the yen ders of roasted chestnuts. They are little boys with their hair parted in the middle like girls and braided in one tightly .woven cord down the back. Their stock usually consists of abut a quart of chestnuts, and they have a litthi pan of coals over which they roastthein wlaile you wait. Another thriving trade seems to be the cook -shops, whets all sorts of Corean dainties, from raw fish to toasted liver, are served up on little 'round tables afoot high , and 'about fifteen ineliee in diameter. These have four or five little legs, and if you ender a dinner the boy servant of the cook shop will lift up the table centaining the dishes, balance it on his bead and walk off with it with the legs of the table hanging down about his neck. Such dishes as I saw were not at all appe- tizing, end everything was seasoned highly with red peppers. • The roofs of the country huts are now covered with red, peppers, and 1 see them sold by the bushel in the market near the wide street of the bell. The Comma may use them as appetizers. They have, it seems, an ever. preseot craving for food, and tbey make their bellies their goda. To eat, to smoke, to deep and to &gnat are, to all outward appearances, the chief employments , of the people, and to be fat in Corea is a sign of wealth. A big stomach is an honor, and the very small children, in the country distriots, in the Summer, who, I blush to say, rarely wear more than a little jecke i coming down two inchee below the itempits are in nine cases out of ten pot-bellied. The skin of their abdomens is stretched like is, drummtead, and is leading authority on Corean life says that mothers, in oraer to increase the size of the stomachs of their children, Eituff them date after day with rice, padding tbem on the stone -eh to press down the Contents and make Wenn for more. ' Corearinedies fume in place in the beck of the house to themselves,. Fashion in drew: does not change with them and their lived are those of almost perfect desolation. Therm you see on the street ate the common women, or servants, , and these have green wowns over their hen& and their dressee, which, I am told, are ant niter the same style as those of the ladies, and consist al is thews skirt with is waistband about a foot wide' whioh (mime tip an c aeps t dr breasts s ueezing them almost like a tomb Over tine conies a short jacket with sleeves whioh when wrinkled plainly Stumm the decollette dividing of yellow akin between belt anti waist. The only jewelry I POO is in the Imirpine, vrhioh are in some meg twelve inches long and art big around as your lit -Ile finger. They ere made �f silver and jade and sometimes have knobs on there as big as the hand et 4 twolcar-eld baby. The sem 1 . vante of the place wear a peak et falee heir ori their heads coiled in thick rolis. 'The °orient ' She Confused Him. Climbhigh (melinirg to eetithnentality)— Oh 1 my dear Mrs, Sil tier, Would it please yoe if I were he abseet myself for an indef. inite period from my native land? Mrs. Sohlen—Fer frem it. She ;laid it in Paoli in arch way that Climohigh turned red and seemed lost ip meditation on the exact mean. hig of her words, ' in Japan. Muly of them become ooncu- blues and concubinage is common in Corea. FRARR G. CaurEiNnrgn, An Intelligent Monkey. The faculty of imitation is often shown in the eimplest actions of mankind. Nearly everybody is prone to imitation in :tome amnia or other, Oar anceators, the apes, perhaps, left us this characteristic tendency. There is no trait BO strong in the make up of the average monkey as the love of imita- tion. A few months ago I remember seeieg an aged and exceesively ugly ape solemnly seated in a cage at the London Zoological gardens reading a torn newspaper sheet. He occupied a corner away feom the noisy crowd of his owneace who swung and fought and soreameid it:Abe centre of the big prison, with the paper on his knees, and his hands clasped around his blue muzzel. He never lifted his eyes from the paper, and the younger monkeys seemed to understand than they must not disturb the student. :1 celled a, keeper's abtention to the epee - tied°, and he said: "The old lnute' has otAy recently taken up the trick. Lately I've been in the habit of reading the morning paper close to his cage in the forenoon when there are not many visitors 'about. That monkey, whom we can Toth, has no doubt watched inc carefully, and when I came near the bars this afternoon he begged piteously fot the paper I held in my hand. I gave hin a, sheet, and he's been reading it ever einoe. " • The Wickedness of Eastaahdon, No one has a better right to epeak with authority on the moral and physical con. ditiori of the lower orders in Imam, than the Bishop of Wakefield, for when he gives - an opinion on that subject he speaks what' he know l and testifies of what' he has "seen. It is well, then, to find that he is anything but a pessimiet on the subject. In the cur- rent Contemporary he strongly condemns the exaggerate a etories which have been told aboutthe supposed wickedness, violence and profanity of East London. He says "Whatever vices and miseries them are, ib is improving, steadily improving, rapidly improving. Of this there is abundant evi- dence. I know The SittEr Cry told us the poor were getting poorer, the wretched more wretched, the wicked more wicked. Nothing oan be more diarnetricallenopposed to feet. Everyavailble test ,contrediets such sense. tional and unfounded assertions. Yet thbegs are bad enough still: There is a stratum of society which is horribly corrupt and in -which low, repulsive vice has ite home. It could not be otherwise where so vast a mass of the least welloff, as well as of the least eduhated and least refined, are herded to. gether so closely." French Ship Oanal. • Six hundred thousand Frenchmen have in. vested their savings in the canal. NO Gov- ernment could live with their enmity. The loss of life has been something awful, even when it is remembered that to construct the Panama railway it cost one life for entity yard. In one month the Canal Company lost by death sas officers and men. The porn - party has already filled two cemeteries. The number of graves in the last one is 3,889. Yet the greatest number of men employed at one time was 15,000, and the averagenum- her was not more than 7,000. At least $300,- 000,000 have been spenf and there appears to bo no chance of raising another dollar for the completion of the work. Christmas Gifts. BY JoRN IMDIR, TORONTO. Oh 1 happy 6V0 ! that ushers in the day Of all the year the best to young and old I This night our thoughts take wings and soar away To Bethlehem's plains, where shepherds tend their fold. Angelic strains are borne upon the wind Of "peace on earth, good -will to all man. kind ;" See 1 yonder star of promise that doth bring Our eager footsteps to earth's new-born king, There pay we homage to the Holy Child Born in is manger—'mid surroundings wild— :Where 'wise men feom the East" pour at His feet Earth's finest spices rare and sweet Oh 1 let our Christmas offerings ever be A portion of. our best, oh, Lord, to Thee! A Relative by Marriage. A jolly Englishman, now is clergyman in this country, shortly after his marriage to a courttrygirl in old England, WTA walking with her on the streets of Liverpool when suddenly a large donkey etepped up on the pavement in front of them. Mr. B. stopped, threw up his hands, and exclaimed,"My dear, is that any relative of yours ?" yes," she said, with is merry twinkle in her eye, "but only since my marriage:" Subject dropped, A New York season of opere in Germany cost the trifle of $200,000. This mei:ides, $105,000 for artiste' salaries and $40,000 for the magnificent orchestra. 'Thereat le spout OD scenery, costumes, chorus, BlIpEf3 and ballet. Waterloo veterens are still to be found in Prance, butit is doubtful if there are alive at t6 present moment- many old campaign- ers who returned front Meecow under Murat, in the dieestrons retreat of the Grand Army in November, 1812. One if those werriorti, at least, Wives in Betcleaux; and be will be 108 years old on December 4 next—that is to say, on the seventy-sixth anniversary, or thereabouts, of the day when Napoleon issued his famons Twentn. ninth Bulletin at IVIalodoczno and when, leaving the command of the army to the Ring of gaPieflo he set out for Paris. This i veteran, who, s a roligh ortgin—by; name Zaletskiedives at No, 4, Rue ttooq, 13or- deaux, add is hi receipt from the State of is magnificent pension of forty franes month. Did n't Kn Load May do for a: stupid bo , to reeognize‘the want of a tonic a sees his child' languishing daily and , what can be said for the parent blood-puritler ? Formerly, a course bitters, or sulphur and molasses, was the • rule in nreil-regulated. families; but now 141, intelligent ,households keep Ayer's Sarsaparilla, which is at once pleasant ..to the taste, and theenost Searelling and effective blood medicine ever discovered. Nathan S. Cleveland, 27 E. Canton at., Boston, writes "My daughter, now 21 • years old, wits in perfect health, until a year ago when she began to complain of fatigue,headache, debility, dizeithess, , indigestion, and loss of appetite:, con- cluded that all leer complaints originated in impure blood, and induced her to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Tnis medicine soon restored her blood -making organs to healthy action, and in due time retstah- fished her former health. I find Ayer's Sarsaparilla, a most valuable remedy tor . the lassitude and debility incident to • PgCtoismeig 1" jr, BroolclYn PoWer Co., B13r°1.13'ni trNe Y., sans "As a Spring for the old-time compounds in Ayer'sMedicine, I find a splendid substitute , Sarsaparilla, with a few doses of , Ayer's Pills. After their use, I feel fresher and stronger to go through the summer." Ayer's Sarsaparilla, r * PREPARED RE Dr. J: C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price $1; six oodles, $6. Worth $5 a bottle. GI usummasainmemmin Send 10 cents postage and we -will send you , free a royal, valuable - sample boa qf goods ' that win put you in the way of making snore money at once, than anythiur l'iVOITL America. Both sexes of all ages eau live at home and work in spare time, Or all the zime. Capital no trequirud. We will start you. Im.mense pe y sm e f or those who start at once. STING° &00 Portland Maine ARMilM•10.1110..PPYSA.9167JariTP.“.14=0 How to Tell Pure Water. Pure water is colorless, orlorlese, tasteless. To ascertain whether it is colorless, fill a large bottle made of colorless glees with water; look through the water at some dark object, if it has any color, it will then be discovered. To ascertain whether the water is odorleee, pour out route of the water and leave the 'bottle half full; cork the bottle and place it for a few hours in a warm place; shake up the water, remove he calk, and ethically smell the air contained in the bottle. If it has any smell, particularly if the odor is reie pulsive, the water should not be useetfik do. mastic purposes. By ,heating tho water an odor is evolved that would not otherwise appear. The water should also be without taste, Water fresh from the well is usually neve- puireecril3le oreanic matter. less, even Hit contains a largAellawmaotueurldfoorf domeatio purposes should be perfectly taste- less and remain BO even after it hag biett warmed, since warming eftete developis taste in water which is absent when cold. wi Great Ocean -Depths. The British surveying hip Egeria, under the command of Captain P. Aldrich, R. N., has reeently made two vtry deep zee sound- ings. Aocording to Nature, these depths were 4,295 fathoms and 4,480 fathoms (egual to five English miles). The latter -was lit latitude 24 deg. 37 min. south, longitude 175 deg. 8 min. west • the former about twelve miles to the southward. The greatest known ocean deptb, 4,655 fathoms, was oft; Mined by the United States steamer. Two carora, off the nortmeasb °taut of Japan. The Challenger expedition found an abyss of 4,475 fathoms south of the Ladrone blends, and the United Sta , es ship Blake discovered one of 4,561 fathoms north of Porto Rico. But the depths sounded by Captain Aldrich exceed by more than a mile any previously found in auy of the Southern oceanti.—[N. Y. Herald. Iicw to Cook a Grouse, ., J. The primitive cookery which attends " Camping out ' is always immensely pope - lar among those who have Iroteken them- selves temporarily eo the woods and fields. Its coeking formulas are not elaborate, and neither are they inwery common circulation, One: hoverer, set down by the author of "A ramble in Britieb Columbia," may be worth copying. We sat round the firm six in number, ADJ3 one began operations by plucking thd grouse and sticking it on a long skewer, which was fixed in the ground so that it leaned is little ever, the fire. Thus it was routed for about half an hour. Then some one woke up and said: "I think I should put A scrap of onion in id" So another took kyr or five onidas, and crammed them'with difficulty, into the in.- terior of the bird. Then the roastbag pro- c,eeded for a space. "1I should turn it, like this," said another, .. by and by, whereupon he tuitsed it upside down, and he onions rolled out upon the grass, and were planed upon the firo, and their perfume was grateful. Then another searcher after truth odd, aoletnnly : " I think it ought to be eplit," and it was split, and again the roasting Wen r on. Finally, an impatient one said: "Let's finish the old thing in the morning 1" and it was placed outside the lodge to cool. While there, a wanderer trod upon it and rolled iti n the and, and in the morning being faozen harder than a rock, it Wah divided with dfffioulty and a headset, and f ed, and with one voice the people cried et " DeeliciouS I" . • , 1, A 'deirnire sombre. dressed juryinan claim- i.u, indancholy voice, exemption from serving ; ated his lordship asked, in kind and Sympathetic:* tones "On what ground ?" "My lord,'" Said Otto appliemit, "I am deep-, ly interested in a funeral that takes place Watley, and am Meet enxious to follow." " dettainly—your plea is a just one." The , rnan departed, and a moment after hie lord- ahip learnt that be was the undertaker. Mite Is rentedy for eramp, iniggested by Dr. R, W. St. Chat, of London :—Let the patient provide himeolf ,with a good street(' oord, and keep it always by hint. A long garter --the yard and a half of good stotit knitting that etipported the hose of tt byttione age—will serve the purpose well enough. When the spastri.comes on, let him wind tide cord round the affected part, take an end in each hand, and give them is geed. Sharp Pull. It il1 hurt a little—itt is wielder; if it does not—bub the cramp will viurbilt t intie.