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The Exeter Times, 1889-10-10, Page 3The A ND most powerful alterathim is Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Youeg caul old are alike benefited by its nee. For the eruptive diSe ea= peetilien ta cb.tutren not:Line, else is so effective as this medicine, while its agreetle ble flaw: makes it easy to admin.. ister. "My little boy bad large scrofu- lous ulcers on his neck end throat netaaf fr o sa which be suffered terribly. " - Two physicians attended him, but he grew continually verso under their care, and everybody expected he would die. I had heard of the remarkable cures effected by Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and decided to have my boy try it. Shortly after he began to take this medicine, the ulcers com- menced healing, awl, after using several bottles, lie was entirely cured, Ile ie mow as healthy and strong as any boy of his age." — William. F. Dougherty, Hampton., Va. "Da May last, my yonngest fourteen months old, began to. have sores gather on its head and body. We ap- plied various simple vemethes without avail. The sores increased in number and disehaventl copiously. A pleyelcian was called, but the sores continued to multiply until in a few months they nearly covered tho child's head and body. At last we began the lase of Ayer's Sar- saparilla. In a feev clays a maxima change for the better was manifest. Tho sores assumed a more healthy condition, the discharges were gradually dimin- ished, and filially ceased. altogether. The Chilli is livelier, its skin is freeher, and its appetite better than we have ob- served Mr months."—Fraule. M. Griffin, Long Point, Texas. "The formula, of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, presents, for chronic diseases of almost every kind, the best remedy known to the medical world." —D. M. Wilson, M. D., Wiggs, Arkansas. Ayers arsapariiia, 1.312PAIMD BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Price el; six bottles, $5. Worth se a bottle. A STRANGE 0011IPACT It was a dreary night in tba winter oi 17—. Outside, a heavy fog piled the nue row unsavoury areas of the greet English Metropolis, and the lunge and eyes of ouch anfortunatea as obaneed to be abroad, It even invaded the small wooden eanotenns ot the nighb watotnnen, interfering with alurn. bers to which the inmatea were both by age and office entitled. Across the river, in the (alloy ill -paved lanes of the Borough, the fog eeemed at its worst, a light warrnieh haze being the only indiciation of the pre. settee of those shops which salt remained open, and round which email ill -clad urohins with the moat tuirotetakable intentions persistently hovered. "A sweet night for footpads," muttered young Dr. Moslem, as he disengaged himself from % chance reconbre with a post, and felt his way along by tapping with his latent atiok at the houseeralls, a proceeding by which he had already ;severely damaged the legs of three a his suffering fellow-oreatures and poked a large hole in the kitchen window of a fourth. "And now," he con. tinued, talking to himself for the eake of company, "for home and supper and a fire. —Ah, and a patient or two, perhaps. Who knows 2" At this oheerirm prospeot his spirits roe; end he banged mightily at the wall with his stick in consequenee, until at length, coming to a small street an his right, he turned smartly down, and having made euro of his own door, keocked briskly at it. "Who's there ?" (tried a shrill female voice in response. "It's I, Bet," said her master. "Open the door, my good girl." "Not if I knows it," was the cheering reply. "You take yourself off, young man, whoever you are. There's two bulldogs and three men with loaded guns standing by me, to say nothing" -- "Open the door, Bet 1" roared her master through the keyhole. "Don't you know inc! "Is in nine (Meek, or is it eleven 2' pro- pounded the damsel • "because if it'a eleeen o'clock, my eyes deceive me: and if it's nine o'clock, your voice deceives me for the doctor said he'd be at home at eleven and not before ; and considering the fog, I should say a good deal arter." "Open the door 1" said the surgeon sharp. lv. "I'm back already because my patient's dead. Come; open at once!" There war, a creaking and ehooting of bolts as he finished speaking ; and the door being cautiously opened, discovered an angular woman of some five -and -thirty years whose nervous face oleared directly Ole stew her master. "I'm asking your pardon for keep- ing you so long, sir, said she ; "but one never knows who's who; and judging by the noises and runnings, there's been rare doings round the corner tonight." "Anybody been in, Bet 'I" asked the ours geon as, ten minutes later, he Sat down to a carefully grilled chop. "Not a soul," replied his hand maiden. "And a nice person you would be to open the door, if an accident had arrived." "Oh, I should have opened it at once," said Bet with decision. "Directly they used the word 'accident,' I should have opened it and chanced it." Her master, smiling at her devotion, drew his chair to 1:he fire, and having carefully filled a long day pipe, fell to smoking with an air of great enjoyment and content. Then, thinking it extremely unlikely that he would be disturbed at that late hour, he dismiseed his retainer to her quarters in a neighbouring house, and being left to him- self, lapsed into v. brown -study. Ib might have been the fog, or it might have been the unsxpected deeth of his patient; whatever the cause, his thoughts took ts very gloomy direction indeed, and he elicit& his head despondbagly as he thought of hie future prospects. His mood was not made more cheerful by the room, which was largo and dark, and panelled with oak, and ornamented with battered oil portraits of dead and gone worthies, with whom he claim- ed some kinship more or less remote, who seemed to stare at hira to -night in %particul- arly ghostly not to say wooden manner. Be- sides all this, he was in love; and. he had no sooner built a magnificent castle—in the air and plaeed her in it, than an anything but airy landlord called for the rent, and the dream was spoiled. He had been sittiog thus for some time, nursing his wows and sipping a glees of hob cognac which he had prepared, when he was disturbed by a load imperative knocking at the trent door; vvhereat he snatched tip one of the guttering candles and marched down the narrow stairs to open it. The feeble light of the candle, when he had done so, showed him a tall, strongly built man of middle age, whose ne.turally fine proportions were increased by the fog, which clung to them and exaggerated them. The surgeon noted that he was richly clad, and also that the embossed hilt of a sword protruded from the skirts of his coat, while his face, from eome powerful emotion, was pale and aravvn. "Are you the surgeon?" aeked the new- comer abruptly. "At your service," was the rtply.— " Come in." The stranger obeyed, and waltina until the surgeon kad secured tho door, followed him upsteirs. "Examine me 1 'said he, taking off his laced coat and standing pale and upright before him. "Unfasten your shirt," said the other, falling in with his strange humour and com. mending a careful examination. "Well ?" inquired the stranger when he had finished. "Sound as a bell and as hard as oak." "Not likely to die auddenly 1" suggested his visitor. "No. I should think that that would be the last thing to happen to you," replied the puzzled surgeon.— 'Why, what is the matter with you? Do you feel ill 2" " No ; I feel hale and strong, capeble of eajoying life with the beat. I've never had an illness in my life. But for all that, I shell die at snidnight." "01 ammo,)1 said the surgeon, somewhat provoked at all this mystery, "I you are going to kill yourself, you, can speak with moro authority as to the time than anybody elms." "1 hems no intention of committing sui- cide," was the tstern rejoinder. "Never' theless, at midnight my time expires. The manner of My death is unknown to me; but I shall never rose the lifting of this dreadful bleckness, which on my het night upon earth hag fitly fatal:seised itself between Ina and the heaven 1 have renounced." The surgeon, listenbig to this etrange out- burst, turned to the table, and filling a glue With brassdy, handed it to hie extraordinary patient. " put heatb into you," said he, "Bali not a soul," riaid the other ; and ehodderieg convaleivelyi &auk it at ts draught; thee planing the glees upon the table, he drew a purse from hie pookeb aiid booked. at the surgeon. "Your fee 2" "Noshing. I krioev not What your trouble ; but I With male that I totild help You." The Most Delightful SUMMER TOUR Palace Steamers. Low Rates. 5four Tripe per Week Between , DETROiT AND MACKINAC And Beery Week Day 33etween DETROIT AND CLEVELAND lArrite for. our " P iota r e sq u e Mackinac," illustrated, cannel= e'en Fartiettlars. Mailed Free. Detroit & Cievcaand Steam Nav. CO. C. D. l7C0 9, GEN. Pass. Awr„ DISTWr. NASAL BALM. A certain and speedy cure for Cold in the Head and Catarrh in all its stages. SOOTHINC, CLEANSING, HEALING. Instant Relief, Permanent Cure, Failure Impossible. 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Si) The features of the poetese Sappho have perhaps boon discovered tn a mosaio reciently unearthed air Sputa, The greater pars of the mosaic floor of a private hone°, in fair preservation, oentaine rquere with a woman's bust labelled Sappho. The head le crowned with a wreath, and tho face is handsome. Other portraits are In the manes inoetace but unfortunately that which eves labelled Alkeladea lecke the porbrait itself. Colonel Paul Frederick De Quincey hag recently been made sergeantiafearms of the New Z taliend Perliantent. He la tbe sole stirvieor of the five sone of the famoue Ent glish esoeylet end opium eater, arid is thug referred to in Mr, Leslie Stephen'a skotteh of De QuineeV in" The Dictionary of Nation- al Biography"' "Petal Froderiek became an officer Of the 70th Begittiont, served at So briieu and through the Mutmyt was made brigade,inajor by Lord Surathairns and ulti. mately gabled hi NeW Zealaticit" moving tower& the door; then pausing, as the eargeon took up one of the mollies to light him down, tie Brdd in irresolute totem ; Aa you !then jadgei if you care to beer 7" "By 8,11 menus,' maid lidostyn Intertily, aa, replaeing the candle, he poked, the fire an drew up a oltelr for his viaiton "Twenty years ago," Said tho letter, so. eel:Oleg the proffered seat and leaning to- ward° the eurgeon, "my circumstaneee were very different front what they are now. Young and etrong, I had at the death of my Wants rejeoted, the bread of dependence ()flared me by relatives, and full of hop; had come to London to make my fortune. It proved to be haraer work than I had andel.. peted • and in a very short while was reduced to the verges of starvatioa. Ono dreadful night, of which thia is the twern tieth anniversary, I was half -crazed with poverty and deepair. For two daya I had not tasted food, nor did I see the slightest proepect of obtaining any. Add to this, I wao deeply in love, though unhappily the interference of those who should have been our beet friends kept us apart. As I crouched shivering iu the garren whioh served me for a lodging, I think I must have gone a little bit mad." He broke off sudden- ly, as though unwilling to continue, and stared gloomily at the fire. ° Well 2" said the suigeon, who had been listening with much interest, "Have you ever heard of compacts with the Evil One ?" demanded the stranger. "1 have heard of such thing's," replied the surgeon, on whose spirits the 000aaion and the visitor were begininng to tell. "1 made one," said the other hoarsely. " Crouohed by the empty grate, which mocked me with its cold bars and white ashes, my thought turned, as though direct- ed by some unseen power, to all that I had heard, and read of such compacts, 'Arimy mind dwelt upon it, the subject lost much of its horror, tintil a gentle rustling in the neighborhood of the fire drove me with quak- inghearb to my feet. My fears, however, were momentary, and with fierce determination called upon my unseen visitor to lend nee his awful aid. As I spoke, the sounds sudden- ly ceased, and a voice seemed to cry in my ear : "Write, write I" I dragged a small table into the moonlight, which atruggled through the begrimed panes of the window, and with my own blood and the miserable stump of a pen, wrote out the terms of an agreement with the Prince of Darkness, possessed, as I did so, with the horrible con- sciousness of something in the room watch- ing me. I vowed that if for twenty years he gave me wealth and the possession of her whom I loved better than my own life, my soul should be the forfeit. If the next morning brought change of fortune, I should take it for a sign that he had accepted my conditions. I signed it, and swooned. -- When I awoke from the sleep into which the stupor had merged, the sun was shining brightly into my foul lodging, and below was a nrieesenger who brought me news of a large fortune whioh had fallen to me through the death of an uncle. God forbid that my nosh vow should have had aught to do with it! Since then, every- thtng has prospered with Inc. I married the woman I loved. We have a large fam- ily. I have kept my secret to myself. To. night at twelve my time expires.' "The change In your fortunes was a mere coincidence, said the surgeon uneasily. "Another coincidence for you, then," said his visitor, whose face was now livid, "In the morning, when I awoke, the agreement which I had left on the table had disap- peared." Mostyn rose and, taking great care not to extinguish the fiemea, anuffed the candles. "As I supposed my death would be a strietly natural one," continued the sbratger, "I thought I would consult s. surgeon, in order to see whether my heart was Pound, or whether I was to die as I have said, in a perfectly natural manner owing to ita disease. A wateth man whom I met direct. ed me to your door." "Do you live in the neighborhood 2" "No—at Westminster,' was the reply. "But having put all my affairs in order, and wishing that my dear ones should be no witnesses of my death, I have been roaming about the streets to meet it there." "Alone 2" queried the wondering surgeon. 6' 1—hope so," said the other ehuddering. "Bo guided by me," said the surgeon earnestly, "Return to your home, and for- get all about 'this mysterious compact you fancy you have made." His companion shook his head and turned to the door. "Are you going to roam aboat in the fog again 2" asked Mostyn. " Unless you will let me stay here," said the other, glancing at him wistfully. "You are not nervous 7—you do nob think I shall die 2 ' "You will die of fright if you die at all,"said the suegeon sturdily. "But stay and wel- come, if you will.' And to avoid the thanks of his guest, he poked the fire until the re. suiting blsze almost oaused the candlts to snuff .hemselves oub with envy. For some time they sat Olean The streets were now entirely deserted, and no sound save the flickering of the fire disturbed the silence of the room. Then the surgeon arose and, upon hospitable thought intent, busied himself with the little spiriwcase which stood on the side- board ; and after sundry moat mueical gurg- lings from the bottle as it confided its con- tents to the glassee, appeared in his place again with two steaming potations and a sugar -bowl. "Cognac," said he, "with all its fiery nature subdued, now in its trarquil old age,' "Thanks," said his visitor, taking the proffered glass. "The last toast I shall drink: Long life to you." He tossed off the contents and again lapsed into silence, while the surgeon slowly smoked his long pipe, removing ib at intervals in favour of the spirit he had so highly coramended. Half an hour putted, and a neighbouring church clock gender boomed the hour of eleven. One hour more. The surgeon glancing at his companion to see what effete) the sound had upon him, saw thab his oyes were closed and that be breathed heavily, Rising cautiously to his feet, he felt the pulite of the atrong sinewy wrist which hung over the side of the chair, and then, returning to hi rt Fleet, sat closely regarding, him, not Without oastiug certain uneasy glaneen into the dark omega of the room, Hie pipe went out ; the fire beret low, and, aeon throtigh the haze of fog and emolte, the motionless figure in tho chair seerned dimly to loom large in front of him and then to be aimed °bemired by darknees. • • • • For a few seoondsain seemed his eyee clotted. When he opened them. the fire was oat), and the figure in front of him still eat in the ehaiti though its heAa had now fallen on its breast. Full of a horrible fear, he glanced hurriedly at the °took and saw that it was just upon the !stroke Of fettle thee he eprang be the tilde of his guest and eeized the twat nettrosete him. As he did se, he stetted back With a wild cry of horror, for some elippety thing, darting swiftly betWeesa his feet, ennithed in the gloom of a neigh. bouring cortex "I'm past all help,, said the other Sadisro Ere he could recover himself§ the tnen itt THE LATE PROF. PHELPS. The above is a portrait of the late Prof. Edward E. Phelps, lVf. D., LL.D., of Dartmouth College, He was a strong, able man, whostood high in the literary and scientific worlds. It is not generally known, but it is, nevertheless, the truth, that Prof. ?helps was the discoverer of what is known to the Medi- cal Profession and Chemists universally as Paine's Celery Compound, unquestionably one of the most valuable discoveries of this century. This remarkable compound is not a nervine, an essence, a sarsaparilla or any devised article, but a discovery, and it marks a distinct step in medical practice and tile treatment of nervous complications. It has been freely admitted by the best medical talent in the land, and also by the leading chemists and scientists, that for nerve troubles, nervous exhaustion, insomnia, debility, senility and even the dreaded and terrible Paresis, nothing has ever been discovered which reaches the disorder and restores health equal to this discovery of Prof. Phelps Paine's Celery Compound is now being prepared in quantities, and can be procured at any reputable druggist. An attractive bunch of celery is to be found on every wrapper. It has become specially popular among professional men, raincl workers, ladies burdened with exciting social duties and fret quenters of the leading clubs, front of him Barred uneasily, and risin g unsteadily to his feet, gezed stupidly at him. "What's the matter 1" he asked at length in dazed tones. "Matter 1" shouted the still trembling surgeon. "Why, it's four hours pest mid- night, and you are alive and well." With a violent abed), as he remembered his positien, the stranger glanced at the mantel shelf. " .Four o'clock 1" said he— "four o'clock I Thank God, there was no compact 1"—Then another fear possessed him: "Is it—is the clock right 2" "To the minute," eaid the sargeon, -Wad- ing gravely by with averted head, as his vis- itor, heedless of his preeence fell upon his !Knees and buried his faoe in tils bends. As he rose to his feet, the old. church clock slowly struck the boar of four, appear. ing to both the listeners to do so with an emphaeis as unusual as it was welcome. As the last stroke sounded, the stranger who could even now hardly realise his poeition threw up the window and extended his heed. The fog had disappeared, the air was crisp and dear, and tne distant rumbling of the early marketorarts betokened the beginning of another day. "How, came I to sleep ?" he inquired, closing the window and. turning to the sur• goon. " I drugged yout drink. It was the only thing I could do. You were in each a strange state of alarm Ono you would either have died or gone mad hacl I not done so." The stranger extended hie hand and might the young surgeon's in a mighty grasp. "You rau a fearful xiale 1 StappoBe that I had died. My death would have been attri- buted to the drug, and you would have been accused of my murder. "I chanced it," said Mostyn simply. "There waa no time for consideration." "It has been a strange businese," said the other. " What could it have been that was in raygarret that night, and what could have taken the agreement 2" " &its " said Mostyn, "Otto of tham frig'htened me terribly just now; but be %you'd not have done so h I had not been in a very excited condition. The same state of mind, perhaps, though in a milder form, that you were in on the night you wrote your agreement." "There were rats in the room I re- member," said the stranger; Ault I never once thought of thenn—You have saved my reason, if nob my life," and he again grasped him by the hand. "You shall net find me ungrateful." Nor did he ; for, aided by his influence, the young surgeon rose rapidly to fame and fortutie, which he altered in the most liberal manner with the girl for whom his poverty had long kept him waiting. Advice to Dairymen. Tho annual report of the dairy and creamery aesociations of Ontario has jean been issued and contains a vast amounu of inbereeting news for farmers. The proceed- ings of the dairymen's assooiations, both in eastern arid western Ontario and the cream erica association, are reported at length and many questions relating more er less intim, Maly to dairying and stook -raising are die - cussed by authorities peasessing special qualifications for dealing with them. The reports of inspectors and inebruotors will be found of special value to almost everybody engaged in agriculture. They are replete with suggestions and advice. It may be use- ful to farmers about to embark in dairying to know that the dairying demands that the beef element in the cows shall not be considered or plaoed upon a basis with dairy production ; that) it mut always be con. ducted in close observance to the laws that govern motherhood : that wear barns and comfortable quarters be provided for the Lowe ; "speak to her ea you would to a hody" ; that the market ehould be carefully studied soad production equalized, and that the dairynnue should become a close and economic feeder of Moak. Some valuable Mate are give about the menufacture oi butter. There is more batter injured while in its cream state than at any other time, Tiais ia Attributed to the neglect of butterennhers to properly ripen the cream. The defects in preparieg and churning the cream are too numerous to mention, Dairymen are cautioned es bo the nib they use. It is satisfactory to know there are Canaditai brands of twat which are up to all the requirements for the manufao• hire of cheese or butter, The Kilt &omen should be mean and free from specs, oven sized in grain, easily and throughly soluble dry and white, and the grains fiat rather than cube shaped. Salt which has a yellow on grimy appearance or attreats moieture through from the ale to appear wet elunild be avoided. These and kinered itubteete are ably dealt With la the report. Everything about it rattlesnake keeps eonl in thne of danger exoept its tail. Thab gets rattled, new They Aro Manufactured n tne amend of Sicily. With three strokes of e sharp knife the cutter peels the lemon lengthwise and lets the peel fell into a tub under the ohopping.blook, stile a Pater:no letter to the London Ile then outs the lemon in two and throwe it from the knife iato a Welton He works with wonderful rapidity, and fille from ten to twelve tubs with peel a day, and is paid laa pence a tub, weighing seventy -even pounde, His left hand and right index linger are protected with bands of osno,berge or leather. The fresh peel is soaked an water fifteen minutes before the essence is extracted. Peel that hae saw' a day or two remains soaking from thirty to forty minutes that it may smell and offer a great. er resistance to the sponge in his left hand, against which he pressers each piece of peel two or three times—Ample pressure, follow- ed by rotary pressure. The women employ- ed in this work run a piece of cane through their spongos to enable them to hold ths m more firmly. The outside of the peel is premed a,gainet the sponge, as the oil glands are in the epicarp. The crushing of the oil cells liberates the (enema therein contained. The sponge, when saturated with the eseenoe, Ea squeezed into an earthen vessel in the lap. Tne peel is so thoroughly pressed that not A single cell eecapes. This is ascertained by holding the preesea peel to the flame of a candle. Should ib neither crackle nor diminish the brillianey of the fieme the cello are empty. This protons yields, besides the eseenoe, a small quantity of juice and fecola (dregs). The separation of the eszence, juice and fecoia soon takes place if the vessels are not diaturbed; the oil floats on the juice and the dregs fall to the b Atom. Tb.ese three products derived from the peel have no affinity with each other. As blie essence rises to the surface it is skimmed off, bobbled, and left to settle for a few days. Ib is then drawn off with a glees siphon, into copper cans, which are hermetically eealect. After the essence has been expressed a small quantity ofjuice is pressed from the peels, which are bben given to oxen or goats!, or thrown on the manure heap and well rotted, or they would make too heating a fertilizer. The yield ot essence is variable. The industry is carried on five months in the year. Immature fruit containeithe most oil. From November to April in the province of Messina. 1,000 lemons yield aboub ionrteen ounces of essence and several gallons of juice, The essence is so valuable thab the workmen are closely watched, for they are most in- genious in secreting it about their persons. Six men work up 8,000 !croons a day ; two cutoff thepeel, while four extraot the mance. Dealers sometimes adulterate their easenceo with fixed oils, alcohol, or turpentine, but - those mixtures may be easily detected. The; essence of sour orange mixed with the essence of lemon produces an aroma similar to that of the essence of bergamot. 14 AS been saved by the peorapt nee of .Ayees Pills, Travelers by land or sea are liable, to constipation other derangements of the etoroaeli anti bonsehl which, if negleoted, lead to seriolie and Often eatal eousequencee, Tho rnostsure means of correcting thee evils the use , ot Ayer's Cathartie Pills. The prue lent sailingnnastee would as esoon, go to sea without his chremonaeter as without a supply of these Pills, Though pronipt and energetio in operation, A.yer's Pala leave no ill offsets ; they ate purely vegetable and sugar-coated; the safest malicine for old and young, at home or abroad. 1 "For eight years I was afflicted constipation, Which. at last became so bad that the doctors could do no more for me. Then I began to take Ayer's Pills, and soon the bowels recovered. their natural and regular action, so that now I am in Excellent health."—Mrs. C. E. Clark, Tewksbury, Massachusetts, I regard Ayer's Pills as one of the most reliable general rem:relies of our tittles. They have been in nse in mar faintly for affections requiring a purge,. tive, and have given unvarying satisfac-. don. We have found them. exoellent remedy for colds' aud Wean fevers." --4 W. R. atiamdson, Fort Worth, Texas. a "For several years I have relied more upon Ayer's Pills than. upon anything • else in the tuedicine chest, to regulate my bowels and those of the eliip's crew. These Pills are not severe in their ace tion, but do -their work thoroughly. I have used them with good effect for the 011T0 of rheumatisnai 'kidney trim-, bles, and dyspepsia." —Capt. Mueller:, Steamship Felicia, New Yerk City, "I have found Ayer's Cathartic Pills to be a better family medicine for com- mon use than any other pills within my knowled,ge. They are not only very, effective, but safe and pleasant to take —qualities which must make them valued by the pulalic." Hanel, Perfumer, Philadelphia, Pa. Ayer's 1110 PREPARED EY Dr; J. C. Ayer 8e Co, Lowell', MaeSi . Sold by all DettlerS in Medicines. eel Kentucky Colonels. It is somewhat hard for an outside bar- barian to understand why "colonels" are so plentiful in Kentucky. In the first place Kentucky furnished a great many soldiers, both to the northern and to the southern armies, during the war and naturally some of these soldiers are sure enough colonels by rank and service. Others who were minor cfficers or perhaps high i privates, are new dubbed colonels by way of courtesy. Then we have a ver y few colonels who hold over from the Mexican war, and there are other colonels of Miliita like the Louisville Legion who come by their titles honestly. The Governor of Kentucky has the privilege of appointing persons on his staff with the rank of clonal. These colonels are expected to look pretty and martial at the Governor's ball and to ride horsebaok when the governor heads a procession. The hist duty frequently gives them great pain and anxiety. There are scores of those governorastaff colonels in this proud old commonwealth. Some executives he.ve been more lavish than others in the distribution of these gild. ed honors. Thab kindly old gentleman Governor Luke Blackburn, M, D., was fond of creating colonels. During his term he made some sixty colonels in the aity of Louisville alone, if I remember the figures correctly. There are various reasons which entitle a man to this gubernatorial coin. pliment. Col. Will Hays is it oolonel because he is such a gifted poet, while Col. Albert Dletzman was given his title by Gov. Knott because he was the greatest business manager on earth. I trust these facts will make itisomewhat clearer to the wondering northerner why colonels are so pleatiful in Kentucky. Bat there other reasons. Many prominent citizenare honored with this compliment- ary title simply ati a recognition of their merit by the community. Thus every man who conduete it large distillery is ipso faoto a oolonel ; for instance, Col. John M. Ather- ton, or Col. Tom Sherley. Every prominent railroad official is also a colonel; for in. stance, Col. Milton B. Smith. Every con- gressman is a colonel, as Col. Asher G Caruth. Every man with government office is colonel, as Col. George Du Rolle. Every great editor is a colonel, like Col. Henry Watterson. The chief of the police depern meet is it de facto colonel, as Col. Wood. Then there are other gentlemen who are colonels because no other title fits them. But the law oa the subject is a little vague and has never been formulated by the logisla. ture. If it man has been it captain in the war never call him captain ; call him colonel. He is entitled to this piemotion twenty-four years after the war closed. The only men proud to be called captain are the command. era of steam -boats, the captains of fire °ono panics. the conductors of railroad trains and the °Seers iu a Salvation Army. The title of major is comparatively rare, and, there- fore, is really more of a dietinotion than colonel. Only prominent people who have seen actual aervice wear the title ; for instance, Major EA. Hughes and Major J. Washiugten Warm. But still, if you call a Mei tr a colonel he isnot likely to get m.a,d a.t you, By the observance of these few titles I have jotted down the stranger 00.11 get Along in Kentucky without committing any serious breach of etiquette.—fLonioville Post. The Sea Serpent "They have germ the zea serpent again," said Jenkinson, as he looked up from hie' neweepaper. " Yes; do you know what vest eel eightect it 2" "Nob exactlyo but it was probably a Canarder," tom. 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