HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1889-2-21, Page 3uousEaoLD-',
Tho GOna Thneti at HOMO.
iOlia the good times at home! how sweet ti
remember,
Timpleitsurea and joys that surrounded
ua there,
rFroneDecember to Jeno, and from June to
iDecomber,
When we were unburdened with sorrow or
;Froth garret to cellar, from cellar te garret.
With happy abendon we frolicited aud
, played,
iinving the epirits of music and laughter,
And nobody frowned et the raeket
made.
011,, the gainea and the gambols out -doors, so
inviting,
With home very handy to run to, in °esti
'Some lawiese merauders, against us unit-
•Shltiffiginees us too dowdy, compelling a
AU through the dear dwelling and every
place pear it,
Soifearlessly, freely, permitted to roam,
Niitat wonder that we should deeide in our
childhood
There was naught to compare with the
• good times at home!
Then the pames in the evening in which we
Would riot •
e telling of stories, adventure,and ell
h lad brightened the day 1 Ad then,
• late, the quiet,
• The insaciiinliikoine hours—how sweet to
• recall
There were books, there were pictures in
,endleasi profusion,
The kick or the studious ones to beguile;
And the dark winter days were made cheer-
ful and pleasant
By the mother's dear prudence, her voice
and her mile.
Oh, blest were the dis of affection that
bound us,
Oh, aoyotisiy sweet were the songs that
we sung,
When merry companions were gathered
around us,
And familiarthe scenes that we frolioked
among!
Though raany a banquet is spread for our
pleasure,
Though oft from the fireside we are
tempted to roam,
the heart will still cherish its fond recollec-
tions,
Of the days that are pest—and the good
tirnes at home I
—New York Ledger.
,Araneing the Children.
Wales and stories (narrated, not read)fur-
nish amusement and pleasure inexhaustible
to children, and give us immense power for
geed. The simpler they are, the better will
they pleaae their everready auditors, who
(tile same child or children) will lis*en to
the same little tale, told in the self -same
words, over and over agab, with undimin-
ished pleasure, and then ask its repetition.
No one, therefore'need be at a loss. If she
be clever at tales she will always find. ready
listeners. Personal experiences, the most
trifling events and details of adventure any
length of time tack, give never -failing plea.
• sure. Whatever the subjeot, it should be
always of kindness, gentleness, and goodness.
[—The Family Doctor.
Setting the lable.
The majority of housewives like to see a
nioely-set table, and, indeed, many who are
not housewives find a well set table an invit-
lug sight. The dishes may be as plain as
they will, yet if ithean, they present an an-
tractiie picture. Many vi omen pay so
little attention to this work that the table is
never ser the same way twice, and, conse-
quently, neer looks as well as though a lit-
tle care were exercised in its arrangement.
It is just as inisy, if not easier, to set a table
Fell as carelessly, for, as the dishes must be
put on,
it is much better to have one certain
way ofarratiging them and that way adhered
to at alatinfes. It is a nice plan to have a
ediver of flannel to place under the tab]e-
oloth, as it gives the cloth a much better ap•
eearance, brzaging out the pattern clearly.
It is beat to have fine table -linen, but as
this cannot always be afforded. a cheaper
/rade will be muoh improved by the use of
:he tisane]. undercloth. It will deo save
wear of the cloth, which is a great deal to
lecommend it. It deadens the sound of
the plate or dish striking the table, which
is so annoying to a nervous person, and,
taking everything into consideration, there
are tew things that give better eatisfaction
to the houselsold. In putting on the table-
cloth be sure that it is even, for there is no-
thing that will give a table such an untidy
appearance as a cloth put on unevenly.
Put on the plates evenly, about an inch from
the edge. Place in the plate the implants
folded plain. Fancy folded napkins are only
fit for restaurants, and should not be used
In the home. Place the knife at the right of
the plate and the fork at the left. If indiv.
idual salts and butters are used, place these
in the space between knife and fork at the
left, Sugaz „ milk, and epoon receiver should
be always together, the sugar and milk side
by side with the receiver in the centre, a
little in advance of both, If there is a cas-
ter it should oompy the centre of the table,
but as this article is not so much used as
formedy, some other article, such as a dbh
d fruit, sauce, aro., should be used. Pepper,
gait, and all seasonings, group together;
broad and butter place side by side. When
serving tea, coffee, &o., always put it at the
righ hand of the person served, and berries,
sauce, &a., at the left. These are only n few
general rule% but 0 carded out,' using a
little thought ae to what dishes go together
and whet separately, and place them,acceord•
ingly, the table so arranged cannot %alp
being attractive,
Liinite of BoononeY.
• The economioal houeekeeper who would
•e• throw out of the list of necettaries all the
in things tickle the peiate, that rouse the
'tense of rnell, that please the eye and stim-
ulate out tired nervee, Pleb because these
tilaioge contain little food, would make a
prave misteke, She may know just what
tette of meat to buy, what, vegetables are
eloati healthful and economical, but 0 she
a pee nng' iinderetand hew t "make the
etouth run weter," her labor is largely lost.
'specially 0 the hat but little Money should
She pay great attention to this ,eubject.
for it la the wily yray to induce tlae body to
take Up plain food with relkih, '
We caunot economize in the emorint of
Our food beyond a certain limit SIM yet re -
Main healthy and strong. The true field of
ilmisehold COM:only has then oertain pre-
soribed limits, its imolai liesXn :—
Its oheep rather the in ite deer forte i for
furniehing cer;tin feed prinelple in
extenple, the pkoteiti ef beef ihateact of 'three
of chicken ; fat of meat ihoteacl of butter.
•Eittving bought bode veleely, in cook-
ing theta in such a Manlier at to bring
ontetheir full nutritive vain° ; for iniitence,
making a roast eekentiniLdenoloug, inatead
of dry and tasteless. "
In learning hew to Use every scrap of food
to advantage, as in soup ortolan: and: 11 we
add to these the art of so flavoring and vary-
ing, ea to make simple materials relish, we
have covered the whole 'field of the house
hold monomial), so far as the food question
is concerned.
A rzetty ,Qrift.
One of the prettied gifts in the line of
satin painting is to be made of dive -eighths
of a yard of ereane-whice satin; divide thia
lengthiwise which will give two strips live-
eightha long by 31even inches wide afford,
bag material enough for two semis, tidies:
or chair sachets, af3 you choose to•oall them.
On one end paint a bran0h 00Ming from the
side alan some of Fidelia Bridge's birda with
an appropriate motto. A charming design
was a mullen etilk ard yellow birds, two in
close companionships, the other dieing off
with the bettering: 'Two is company, three
is none." This scarf was finishe4 at the
painted end with a band of yellow plueh
four inehea wide; on the opposite end the
recipient's monogram was painted and the
edge 6nished with lace just outlined here
and there with yellow silk. The satin, after
painting and having the plueh sewed on,
was neatly lined with a piece of thin silk or
cream alleda of the same size, by stitching
together and carefully turning. Sachet
powder should be winkled in before the
little apace left for turning is fastened; gene.-
er the scarf gracefully a little to the left of
the centre, leaving the end decorated with
the birds the longest, and place a bow and
loops of inch and a half ribbon of the same
color as the plush to oonceal the fastening.
This is a favorite ornament for the corner
of a chair, or the mantel drapery or the up
right piano spread,
hpomminhhh,
• Household Bilfifientklith.
Dark carpets do not need to be swept
oftener than light ones if you give them a
good dusting say twice a week with a flannel
cloth tied around an ordinary broom.
When one has been so unfortunate as to get
machine oil etains on white sewing, saturate
the piece of work in cold water immediately,
soak for two houre, dry in the sun, then snob
in the usual way.
If you are building put the hooks in
children's bed room closets low enough to be
easily reached by them. It is also a good
idem to haye a closet so arrang9d that sleds,
rooking-horse and all large playthings can
have a pIaoe.
Dust has such a sad way of insinuating
itself wherever there is a place for it to lodge
or work through, that house -keepers are
almost distraoted to find brooms and dusters
thab will fib in every nook and crevice. A
long -handled feather duster, a toy broom, a
whisk broom, a fiet bristle bruah, a paint
brush, and the ordinary cheese doth duster
seem to do all the dusting that is required,
if vigorously wielded.
Choke Recipes.
GIBLET Soup.—An excellent soup can be
made of the giblets—that is, heart liver and
neck --of chicken, which in city markets are
sold separately and very cheap. Boil from
two to four hours as convenient, strain and
season well with onion and herbs.
Fiat thiroWDEE.—Fill a. pudding dish
with the fish out in pieces, seasoning each
layer with salt and pepper and bits of suet
or fat pork; put over it a potato cruet, as
for meat pie or a soda biscuit crust, said
bake. Bread crumbs or sliced potatoes may
be mixed with the fish and more seasoning
used. '
A DoTOEt ATTLE Pro.—Steys, five or six
apples with i• lb. of anger, a few currants
and raisins, a little mixed peel out up, a
few chopped -up almonds, and a pinch of
powdered cinnamon. Make some puffpaste,
line a tele -dish with some of it, put in the
stewed apples (when cold), cover with the
paste, and bake in a very brisk oven.
AratioND CANE.—Beat a quarter of a
pound of butter and half a pound of sifted
sugar to a orearn ; stir in one pouud of flour,
mixing very well. (.)hop six ounces of al-
monds very fine, and add them to the mix-
ture ; th.e almonds must be blanched. Add
one teaspoonful of baking powder, and the
same of almond essence. Beat the whites
of eight eggs to a solid froth, and stir them
in. Pour into a tin lined with buttered
paper, and bake one hour irt a moderate
oven.
STEWED PEAE,S.—Pare eight large pears,
halve them, remove the cores, keying the
stalks on; put them into a lined saucepan,
with five ounces of loaf sugar, six cloves, six
whole allspice, and half a pint of water. A
little port wine makes an improvement, and
a few drops of cochineal add to the beauty
of the colour. Let it simmer for three or
four hours very gently, until the pears are
tender. They should be watched, and, when
done, carefully plaoed on a glass dish without
breaking them. Boil the syrup about three
minutes, allowing it to cool a little before
pouring it on the pears. Let them get quite
cold before serving.
PoTATo Sop.—Six lamp potatoes peeled,
one large onion, one heaping teaspoon salt
and one-quarter teaspoon pepper. For a
richer soup addeone-quarter pound sett pork
out intits (in ttis ease put beleee salt), or
at least one cup of milk or a beaten egg.
Chopped celery leaves give a good flavor.
Boil potatoes, onion and eat in a little water,
and when very soft mash ; then add, a little
at a time and at e to keep smooth, one
quart of hot wate: ed one tablespoon beef
fat in which one taulespoon flour has been
cooked, or use the fat for frying bread dice,
which add at the last minute. Most cooks
fry sliced onion before putting them in the
soup, but the difference in taste is so :align!,
as not to be worth the few minutes extra
if time is an object.
Time to cook, three-quarters of au hour.
ROW Ile A.00ounted for it
",How do you aniount," said a north
oountry 'raidater of the last age (the late
Rev. Mr M'Beatt, of Alyea) to a sagaciozza
old elder of his session, "for the almost to-
tal disappearance of tho ghosta and fairies
that uiled to be common in your young
days?" " Tak' My word for't, minister,"
replied the old man, " a' owing to the
ea; when the tea came in, the ghaiSte an'
fairies gaed out. 'Mel do I inied whari at
a'ook nabourly meetiugs--beidals, christen,
bige, lykrawakee, and the like—we enter.
tained Pone amither wi' rioh nappy ale; an'
when the aorta dewiest o' us uaed to get
NVarra i' the face, an' a little confused in the
head:: an' weel fit to see amidst onything
when on the muir, on your way harm. But
the tea has put out the nappy ; an' I have
remiarked that by losing the riappO we lee
bath giblets and fe.
A Wa Of Eaottpe.
llotioat Friericl--,"That gent omen WhO
lodgea at your house deems' to hevery,atteri.
tive to yeti, my dear." Sweet Girl— °Hob
and Ies,I love hint ; butiohl what a risk I am
running 1 WO are engegednl 4' It1alt14 'Yee
itneatly littake my heart when think that
PASSING NC.iTES.
hoed oi beranuing leWegiving women the
alight beeote ii at any Municipal tint:don, or
The nurilber of voters in Montreal at pre
4 'York State ere mad, to Mire but a lariguin,
interest in this measure for their "emend
au potion."
in There has been ratesh talk of the infamiee
alleged to be .20M,n0hly practised in "donee'
at he the Wisconsin woods. Girls ere eaki to
of be retained agaitat their will in these piafese,
maintained for rough and vicious men whose
o employment takes them away froze towns
wet bulb sometimes pinks 40 a below the
„ erg tetlea •for supervisors or excise
onattere. The women theroselvee f1 New
out is 32,907, an increase a 2,352 since In
year.
It ia reported that smallpox has brok
out emoag the Indiana north of Fort Pitt,
Manitoba.
Gas in paying auantities was struck ne
Kingsville, Ont., yesterday at a depth
1,200 feet.
In India when a hob wind is blowing th
tempereture of the air,
The death is announced at Plum Honeys',
Leeds country, ot Richard Holmes, who died
at the age of one hundred and two years.
There are 3,400 convicts in the state pris-
ons of New ork, who have nothing to do,
because of a law paseed forbidding prisoners
to work.
Every man, however humble his analog,
feeble hie powers, exeroises some influence
an those who are about him for good or for
evil.
It has been decided in the London Law
Courts that a person who is photegraphecl
has a copyright in his or her own face or
:figure.
There is said to be a stroog feeling in
some of the gpiseopal churches of the Nita.
gara district against the High Church ten-
dendes of Bishop Hamilton,
Mr. Robert Gibb, R. S. A., has recently
finished a large and important military work
" The Battle of the Alms," which is to be
exhibited at the exhibition of the Royal
Scottish Academy in February next. The
picture took eighteen months to paint.
Sir Frederick Leighton,_nir John Gilberts
Sir James Linton, Mr. R. Bourne Jones.
Mr. Sidney Calvin, and others have founds
a drawing Sodety of Great Britain end Ire
land with the objeot of making drawing a
essentialpart of education in all sohools.
It is said that the LaneingalichiganCommo
Council has adopted a resolution orderin
all theatrical companies visiting the caty t
furnish every city official from Mayor down
with a free pass to their performances.
Mr Alma Tadema is engaged in paintin
a Grecian village festival whir& is called "Aza
Offering to Bacchus." Mr Berne Jones i
engaged on the third of a series of four large
pictures representing the "Briar Rose or
Sleeping Beauty, Legend." aud also on a
ooiossol "Adoration of the Magi," painted
"tempera, which will go to Birnungham.
The statistics of nhe Eoole des Beaux Arts,
Paris, for last year show that no less than
1220 pupils have been under instruction.
Of those it is notabte that 600 have been in
the architectural cleaves, 200 in excess of
the students of painting, The schoTars of
the Royal Aeademy average about 200 and
at the Royal Sect:bah Academy 30.
Experiments have recently been made to
show the effeutof cigarette smoke upon mice.
Dr. Dudley, of Vanderbilt University,
cooped up some mice where they were ob-
liged to inhale the smoke of cigarettes. The
first mouse died in 22 minutes, the second
in 25, the third ' when the supply et smoke
was increased, in6 minutes. lb is thus n e.
elusively established that smoking des: -
ettes is a dangerously pernicious practice—
for mice.
The littota gift of the Queen to her people
is received as a most gracious and generous
a.ot. She has bequeathed nearly the whole
of the jubilee gifts received by her last year
to the melon. The collection will continue
to be open to public inspection at Windsor
till at a future time it as transferred to
somepublic institution, probably the South.
Kensington Museum. As a memorial of
the present reign, and as a symbol of the
attachment of the people to their Sove-
reign, the gifts will be juatly treasured by
posteriby.
• IYIrs. Lick Merivaether, president of the
Tennessee W. C. T. 17., in her alUlUal ad-
dress before the State Convention at Knox-
ville, urged the importance of the problem
of working -girls' wages in connection with
the work of salad purity. She tells of a let-
ter written by a young working -girl of Au-
burn, Mass., to her mother, not complaining-
ly, but as a simple matter of fact, saying,
"I am doing stockings and get fourteen
cents a dozen. It takes me two good days
to do one dozen, but I am going to try to do
znore next week." This no exceptional
incident, but one of many.
into the foreet regions of the State. There
have been heartrendiug Stories of helpless
girls trying to effect an eeeape end being
traced by blood honnds end brought back.
Double and reiterations of these atrooitice
have followed quiolt upon eaoh ether during
the Past year, and now the WiscoL
nsia eague
lature has done the beat thing it could have
done in the matter. It has orderod an in-
vestigation which will aettle definitely the
truth or falsity of the charges,
At Paris, arrangements are being made
for at least five different art exhibitions in
addition to the regular Salon of 1889, which
will not be omitted propoeecl. First, there
will be a gallery of 600 paintings and soulf3-
turea restricted to tbe finest Freneh worke
made between 1789 and 1878. Theo there
will be an international ehow, embracing the
beat work of all nations made between 1878
and 1889, the otitic Henri Hevard and M.
Roger Ballu being in charge. Third vrill be
an exhibition of historical monuments at the
Trocadero. Fourth, one of Gobelies tapes.
try, Sevres china, and other French work in
applied arta. Lastly, a show for teachers
and educators.
Baron flinch, of Paris, well known all
over the world for his magnificent charity,
has, it is said, advised the Hebrew race to
d I blend their nationality with other races, so
. that in process of time the jews as a peculiar
o people would become extinct. The proposi-
tion has not been favoarabler received by the
Jews themselves, and seeing that they have
O preserved their prejudice agajnat the Gan-
g tiles for eentunee, it is extremely improbeble
° that they will take any particular pains to
efface themselves by mingling their blood
with that of the Christians. Rabbi Pereira
g Mendes, of New York, in some remarks eon -
corning the absurdity of merging Judah:xi
into Christianity, says :—" it is muela more
likely that the Chriatiane will come nearer
tbe Judaism which was practised, preached,
and taught by Jesus Himself."
Even though they may occasionally
make night dismal with their howlings
around some obnoxious doctor's home,
or march through the streets to the
ancorapamiment of tin trumpets and
vociferous ringing, our Canadian students
are a quiet, sober -sided lot of fellows coin -
pared with their brethren in some of the
great European centres of education. In
Peed; for example, tbe students recently
made violent demonstretions against the
Hungarian Prime Minister, and rhe menage
of the Milibary Bill by die Diet. In Paris
some of the fraternity relieved their patriotic
sensibilities by smashing the windows of
obnoxious Boulangists. Russian students
have a penolnuat for trying emaclusions with
the police, and a good. many of them are now
ruitioating in Siberia as a consequence. To-
ronto Iffe to such fellows would seem stale,
flat and unprofitable to a degree.
Hardly a month has passed for some con-
siderable time lately without the record of
some princely act of lavish generositi for
the cause of education. The most recent
candidate for well deserved immortality due
to large hearted and patriotic benevolence,
ia Mr. Jacob Tome, of Port Deposit, Md.
who has willed properby valued at between
two and three million dollars for the
establishment of an it:Austria,' school. Both
boys and girlie will be given opportunity to
avail themselves of the advantages which
such a school will afford and the whole
equipment of the establishmenb will be of
the most complete kind. It is rine of the
most cheering signs of the times that the
number of wealthy men and women on
both sides of the Atlantic, who leave great
sums of money for the benefit, of future
generations in var bus wise and noble ways,
seems to be steadily increasing. Where it
used to be the custom to leave bequests for
the foundation and endowment of cathed-
rals or inonastries, it is wiling to be more
and more the case that the departing owners
bequeath their money to found colleges and
schools.
The resources of British Columbia are too
riohand vast to be negleeted by capital. The
Victoria "Colonist" records an important in-
vestment by Wisconsin capitalists in timber
lands in Vancouver bland. The transaction
has been brought to eamomplishment by the
exertions of Hon. Robert Dunsrauir, and the
aura involved is over $600,000. The Wis-
consin firm has purchased the Chemin:is
saw mill and timber limits, and the mill will
be enlarged so as to admit of an increased
capacity for output, and the investment
means an important impetus in the develop-
ment of the lumber industry of the province.
The manager hes already taken up his resi-
dence in Victoria and will erect a $25,000
residence there. •
A correspondent' of The NewYork Tribune
believes that ohildrens' features, like their
manners, can be trained. He writes: —"To
joke upon ears that atand out from the
head' would be sombre fun for the victim.
But all young parents ought to know that
this trial to a child may be just as timely
averted as a tip -tilted' nose. If the mother
teitches her nurse always to lay the infant
in the cradle on its ear, never letting the
pillow push 1b-dit, the ears will grow- fiat tie,
the head. • Just so the nose can be educs,t•
od' by a very gentle pull ab the bridge of it
every day of babyhood to grow straight. A
pretty monde is often spoiled by melon
patent allowing the throe -year-old to suck
its thumbs,"
The Greek town of Castri is to be bought
ub in order that enthusiaetio explorers may
°mate the sit of the anoient Temple of
polio at Delphi. To buy oub the town
ill cost $75,000, and. this sum, together
ith a similar one for the American College
Athens, Professor Norton, of Harvard, is
w trying to raise in the United States,
ti a meeting the other evening in New
ork the professor, on learniog that two
ntlemen were willing to start the etbscrip.
on list with a thousand dollars each, re-
etted that the first donation was not to be
silty thoueattd. The rage for digging up
cien6 remains in the East has haediy
ached that stage of iambi', in the oboes
by of New York.
The star of empire may or may not
itter in the West, but of thieetany rate there
n be little doubt that on this oontinent
e further west you go, you will find the
ar of woman's asaeridency growing brighter
ct brighter, tied mounting higher and
glow in the firmament of public tights
0
ex
A
00
at
go
ti
gr
tsv
att
re
01
08
th
et
an
end privileges. In Wyoming territery, fot
example, women have the fell right of
Suffrage ; in Kansas they oan vote ab all
inuaimpal elections; al lOarteen other
etatee their peivilegee at yet extend no
furthet than the tight to tote 011 edueational
matters. In the Aseertibly pith° State of
New Votk, a hill has been intredueed,
whieh,le thought' to . have bull tlhri Shell.
At a recent meeting of the Colonial Instil-
tute Mr. H. H. Johnson, her Majesty's Con.
sul for Portuguese East Africa, read a paper
on "British West Africa and the Trade of
the Interior." He showed that if England
declined to develop these regions—the basin
of the great Niger river—other European
nations would assuredly do so to the detri-
ment of British trade. Cattle rearing was
psi:bible to as great an extent as infAastralia
or America. The mineral we:ebb:was great
as were also the animal and vegetable ere
ductione. British trade with the west Africa
comb amounted to more than £5,000,000 a
year. Mr. Johnson said he saw no reason.
why England should not make of West
Africa a second India. In closing he re.
marked that "If we had not parted with the
energy and resolution which as a Govern-
ment and people, had characterized us of
old ; if we 'should frame and patiently carry
out a sensible, settled policy in these regions
yielding to no sentimental clamour from
false philanthropists, nor ignoring the jest
rites of the natives and our responsibility
towards them as their guardians and in-
structora, we 'should melte of Western
Africa another India, equally worthy of our
renown and e may prolatable to our trade.'
Ecoentrio lteguiremonts ma Will.
The will of the late WMiam F. Foote, of
Parsons, Penn., which was admitted to pro-
bate on the 22 ult., provides that no crape
shall be used at his funeral, and that there
shall be no signs of mourning of any kind;
no minister, no fiovvers, nor any kind of reli-
gious eervice. Furthermore, be wanted to
be buried in a plein wooden ooffin, without
nails, and no hearse to be used. As desired
the remains to be taken to the cemetery in
his old spring Waggon, drawn by, hie horse
Bill, He also wanted to be placed in his
ooffia on bbs side.—[Philadelphia Record.
A Illaharaiah's Diamonds.
The Maharajah of Maeda posseesiseS
jewels valued at $15,000,000, ited on State
occasions wears a gotgeous collar of 500
diamonds, some of them as big as walnuts.
With the addition of a few almanac: lakes of
the vintage of 1810 the Maharajah would
Make a big succeed ae an end man in a
toinetrel show. It is difdoult to understand
why a man who is nob a member of a Min-
strel oompany, or a summer resort hotel
clerk, should wear tio many diareondia—
ornatown Herald.
Landlady—"That neW bent nesidint
try to make oie think he is a bac dor. ilehi
either married Or 0. Whit:Met." Millings
oan yen tell 1" standlady.—tikto
always tarohie back to ems when he tipebe
hia pocket -book 80 imp his board."'
".7
N1GHWAY R01313,Sat.
Collector Oltyer of Weidman, Vitetintized
VOOtsTOCE, Feb 13,—Word reached asion
Saturday of a moat Miring highway robbery
wniott took /neer+ last nieba near Washing.
ton, townehip iif Inenbeim. M. John Oliver,
the township oollector, was the victim, to the
amount o 600. The following are the par -
80 for ea aniertainable : Mr, Oliver
had been out collecting all day aed was just
retureing aeon bill labors about seven
o'oloct. When but a short distance from his
home two men, who had overtekera him
with. a horse and cutter, jumped from the
conveyance and pounced upon hitn. They
both drew revolvers and ordered Mr. Oliver
to hand over "b raouey or bis life." Being
convinced that t te highwaymen were in
earnest, Mr. Oni handed them over all be
had, which in pun down at &bout $600. The
robbers then jumped into their rig and made
off. It is evideot that the arelacioue villains,
whoever they were, knew of Mr. Oliver and
his business, and were not entire strangere
in the neighborhoed. Searcb hes been made
tor them, but so far without any sucoe.ss
Glazed Fruit.
Glazed fruit and nuts are a very pretty
dessert dieh and especially pleasing to chin
dren. Oranges are the fevorite fruit for
this purpose, and they are first peeled and
quartered, or separated into sentient, without
breaking the thin inner skin. A porcelain -
lined kettle may be used in place of the
copper boiler directed in the following re-
cipe, and a pound and a bad of loaf sugar is
a convenient quantity. Put the sugar into
a copper sugar boiler, with three gills of
oold water, and bring it slowly to a boil,
'As often as the sugar boils up lift the boiler
an instant to cheek the boiling, and when it
falls wipe the sugar from the sides with a
clean wet cloth. Have a bowl of cold
water by the fire, and when the sugar boils
up in large air bubbles, dip a little stick
into it and then quiokly in the cold water;
if the sugar crackles and breaks enmity
away from the stick, it lam boiled to the
proper poinb. The moment the proper
point is reached take the boiler from the
tire and glace the fruit. Have each nub and
piece of fruit stuck on a thin skewer; dip
the fruit into the sugar and lay the skewer
on a sieve so that the fruit hangs over the
edge and no two pieties touch. The sugar
will harden quickly, and the fruit may be
laid on a dish till wanted for use. Grapes
may be held by the stem and moved about
in the sugar. A. clear day should be chosen
becauee dampuerie softens the sugar.
Nearly Wreaked by Dynamite,
New York, Feb. 15.—A terrific explosion
occurred about 9. 15 o'clock thismorning be-
tween Williams Bridge and Bedford Park,
00 818 New York, Newhaven St Hartford
railway, just as the train from Stamford,
which is due in this city at 9 40 a.m. passed
there. The train, made ap of pessenget
ooaches and a baggage oar, was nearly blown
of the rails. Every window on both sides
in the four forward coulee was blown out,
rearly every window was shattered in the
baggage car, the engine and last oar only map •
iag umojured. The majirity of the passen-
gers, who numbered nearly 500, were cut and.
bruised more or less seriously by flying glass
and the heavy jolting of the train. At this
poinb some very heavy blasting had to be
done, and just as tne Stamford special was
approaching the foreman of the Harlem con-
struction gang had. brought out several dyna-
mite cartridges preparatory ta blaet, The
cartridges were being thawed out at a point
fully 200 feet from the track when, without
a moment's warning, severalof them exploded.
A man named Taylor, of New Rochelle, was
struck in the temple by a piece of glees. He
pulled the glass out and nearly bled to
death.
A Great Speech.
A lawyer whose eloquence was of the spread-
eagle sort was addressing the jury at great
length, and his legal opponent, growing
weary, went outside to rest.
"Lawyer B—is making a greet speech,"
said a countryman to the bored attorney.
" Oh yes, Lawyer B—always makes a
great speech. If you or I had occasion to
announce that two and two mikes four, we'd
be just fools enough to blurt it right out. Not
so Lawyer B—. He would say:
"'1!, by that particular arithmetical rule
known as addition, we desired to arrive ab
the sum of two integers added to two integers
we should find—and I aseerb this boldly, sir
and without the fear of successful contradict,.
tion—we, I repeat, should find—and by4he
particular arithmetical formula befere men-
tionecraeand, sir, I held myself perfeotly
responsible' for the assertion I am about to
make—that the sum of the two given
integers added to the other two integers
would be fotteP
A. Close Catoulation.
Early last December, a Boston paper re -
fates the Board of Health af that city de-
siredto learn what the death rate for the
year 1888 would probably be. The statistical
clerk, after studying the records carefully,
estimated that the total nuniber of deaths
during the year would be 10,190, and the
rate per thousand inhabitants 24.57. "The
full returns were nob received at the board's
office for the three weeks afterward, and
then it was found that bhe clerk had made a
mistake of only one, the total number of
death e being 10,191. He had made estimate
upon the probable number of people who
would die of a great many diseases, and
there were very alight errors in a few oases
He estimated that 441 would die of cholera
nimbus, and the number turned out to be
440. He expected that 090 persons would
die of pueurnonia, stud in this he was exactly
right.
She Will be True.
"Sault Ste Marie Pioneer If true to
herself Canada will rule the continent, and
while she dividea the honor with the Re-
public south tf us Algoma holds the key to
the West, and the constrilotiOn of the Sault
canal means that °Meade, intends that] we
shall keep it, The little "Afe too" Cenadian
&mit, skipping along ander lighter baxes,
better government and with better prospects
than any of her neighbors, is marching to
become a plea: second to none on the, upper
lake, end the pubatione of her neve life are
being felt fe.r and wide and jealously scanned
by her rival of bygone days. The march of
empire is westward', and Algoma is in the
midge. ofeallei „highway and therefore she
„
fl
i� Plural of Girl.
"What'e the metter, Snipkite?" ma one
travelingman to ,io thee, "you look dejected.
illaven't vent love affaire prospered."
"You've got the diffieulty right there. I
wasn't oonteat to mill on one girl, end Went
to tee two. By the Way, obn yoU tell me
what the plural of girl lin'
4,Why, gide, of coinvie."
"It may be in some grammars, bat i
the plural for girl 18 Mental WOm"
THE sERTEB, TI14E0.
Xs n01104104 every Thorsday morn ng,at be
TI MES STEAM PRINTING ROUSE
Iflaimaltreetosearly opposite Pittenfs Joyeboy
store, Exeter, Out., by aohn White & Sower toi
pratoxia
ILkW413 or ADATUTIMM
Fleet ertiou, per lino e„...„10 e roan:.
Ehu all ea se (plea t ertion ,p er line,. cents,.
To itmure insertion, advertbenients ehould
00 sentbn notletertaan Wednesday morning
OurS01; PAINTING 70EneliTIVENT is one
toe largeat twirl nest equipped in the Count,'
f Huron. All work entrusted to ue will receiv
ur promet attention.
Decisions Regarding NO Wile
paperS.
'any persen whet:aces:a parmeregularlyfrorn
he post.onlos, weie tiler directed in his name or
another' a, or whether he has subsorined ornot
a responsible tor payment.
9 If a pears= orders his paper discontineed
Oe inuetpay all tiarears or the pubitsher may
aoutinae to send it until tbe peg:eons is made,
and then coneet tne whole auto:inn whethet
uhe paper te taken froin the office or not
8 In suits for subseriptions, the euttraeY be
nebituted in trhe place where the vapor Is Pub.
ished, although the subscriber may reside
hundreds Of 1131102 awaY• ,
4 The courts have decided that refOSIng to
take newspapers or pmiodioals from the post-
offioe, or removing and. leaving them uncalled
or is prima facie evidence of intentionelirane.
Exeter Butclier Shop,
DAVIS,R.
Butcher & General Dealer
----IN ALL KIND s or—
F A T
Oastoro.erssupplied TUESDAYS, THURS-
DAYS rain SATURDAYS at their :aside:nee
ORDERS LEFT AT THE SHOP WILL RE
GEM PROMPT ATTENTION.
What Saved Him.
One Christmas morning, many yeara ago,
a young reporter on a daily naper bad mica-
sion 80 oallavith a message M the offiee of nne
of the foremost editors and publishers of the
country.
The younger man was a sickly country lad
of keen eensibilk aud nervous temperament,
who finding hiniselt hemelies and friendless
in a great city, had yielded to temptation,
and had fallen into the habit of drinking and
gambling. The publisher, as he listened 80,
the message, noted the lines -which dissipation
had already left on the boy's facie. Re was
a man who made It Ids work in the world to
help others. No man touched his hand in
passing who did not gain from him new
courage and hope ia life.
He answered the message yvhich the re-
porter brought, and then, holding out his
hand cordially, said, "Let me limb you a
Merry Christmas, my lad." He took from
a shelf a book, containing filtetchos of the
lives of the greatest English, French Ad
German authors, with extracts from their
wo,rka.
lisre,,, said be,
"are some friends for the
new year. When you apend an hour with
them, you will have nobte company."
The surprise of the gift and the unexpect-
ed kindneas from the man whom he regard-
ed with awe had s povrerfal effect upon the
lad. He spent all of his leisure time in por-
ing over the book. It kindled his latent
scliolarly tastes. He saved his moztey to
buy the complete works drat of • this
author, and then of that he worked herder
to earn more money to bay them. Afteee, a
few years he began to gather together and
to study rare arid curious books,. and to
write short papers upon obscure etterary
subjects.
Men of similar tastes sought him out; he
numbered some of the foremost echolars and
thinkers of the country among hie friends,
but he never forgot the lonely friend.
less lad who had been einking into a gambler
and a. drunkard until a kind hand drew him
bank, and he in hie turn sought out other
lonely, friendless' boys in the great city,
and gave them a helpful hand out of the
gulf.
So, year by year, his life ',Moiled and
deepened into a strong current, from which
many drew comfort and help.
Ife died last winter. The sale of his library
gathered all the collectors of tare books m
the seaboard cities. During hie Innen, the
newspapers spoke of him with a auddeu ap-
preciation of the worth veal& had so long
been hid in olaseuxity.
".A profound scholar, with the heart of a
child ;" "A journalise who never wrote a
word to subserve a base end," they said.
He read those eulogies with a quiet smile.
The actor who has left the singe forever
cares little for the faint plaudiba of the crowd
in the distance.
One day he put into the hands of a friend
an old dingy volume. "When I am gone."
he said, " take tbis to Mr.—, and tell bim
that wbatever of good or usefulness there
bas been in my life I trive to hina, and this
Christmas gift of his thirty years ago."
The libtle story is absolutely true. We
venture to tell it because there is no one
living whom ib oan Mart, whilf3theri3 are many
whom it may help to hold out friendly hands
to their brothers who have stumbled into
darker paths in life than they.
PLASHES PROM THE TELEGRAPH.
Ald. Grenier has been elected mayor of
Montreal by noclarnation.
The half.breeds of Dakota are resisting
the payment of taxes, and 131°o:hated is
feared.
John Gray was murdered and robbed by
Italians at Pittston, Pa. The murderers es- •
()aped.
()handler, who attempted to murder Mr,
J. SheMeld in Montreal, has been coin*
wittecl for trial.
A. Se Petersburg correspondent says Rua.
sia is suspicions of the Arose; and Will pre-
pare for any eventuality.
John Lee, who shot and killed Charles
Cheline at Brandon, was hanged the other
day. The killing took plaoe oVer a girl.
Mr. G. W. Smalley cables on the author-
ity of Trieh landlords that Mr. Balfour is
winniog and the infltience of the league wan.
Marti:torn & Co., of New York, have tined
Mrs. Langtry for $2,700, that being the
ainatint of their act:mint for kilts fOrninho 1
Lor the production Of "Macbeth,'
Superintemient Charm, of the Indian
aehool at GeneVa, Ilebrasita, has Aisappear.
ea t 000 belonging, 80 the Goveta-
paid alto to have taken the
iidrn,Which were entreat.