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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-1-7, Page 2• Chrlateaw DV. old-fashioned Chrismas with tb. logs upon. the hearth, late z10 U1d,1. with feastere, an' the room =oar Ith. mirth Ankh the stookin's ermined. Oa bu'stia', an' the ineddera piledlth snow - good. old-fashioned Ohrisauaa like we had so long ago! e.lbar that's a thing I'd like to see ag'in afore I But Chris.'mas in the city tiro --:it's different, oh my 1 With the ere wded hastleanutle of the :dully, noisy street, An' the scowl upon the faeoa a the strangers that you meet. Oh, there's buyin', plenty of it, of a lot o' gorge ous toys ; An' it takes a mint o' money to please modern girls. an' boy. Why, 1 mind the time a jack-knife au' a toffy- lmnp for xne Made nay little heart an' stookin' just checkful of ehrisanas glee. there's feastin . Think o' feedin' with these stuoicam eity folk hy, ye have to spank in whispers, an' ye dar'sn't crack a joke. remember how tho tables looked, all crowded with your kin, 'Then you couldn't hear a. whistle blow across the merry din You soo Ian so old -fashioned -like I don't care lunch for style, An' to eat your Ohrisanas banquets hero 1 wouldn't go a mile: I'd rather have, like Solomon, a good yarb- dinner set, With real old 'friend% than turtle soup with all the nobs you'd get. There's my next-door neighbor Gurley-fancY how his brows 'ud lift If I'd holler, "alerry Chris'iDas I Caught, old fellow, Chrisaime gift 1 Lordy-Lord, I'd like to try itt Guesshe'd nearly have a fit, Hang this city stillness, auyways, I can't get used to it. Then your heart it kept a swain' till it nearly bu'st your side, An' by night your jaws were aohin' with your smile four inches wide. Are your enemy, the wo'st one, you'd just grab his hand an' say, "Mebbe both of us was wrong, John. Come, let's shake. It's Chris'mas day!" Mighty little Chrisanas spirit seems to dwell 'tween city walls. Where each snowflake brings a soot -flake for a brothel: E1,9 it falls: Mighty little Chris'mas spirit! An' I'm pinin', don't you know, For a good old-fashioned Chrheraas like we had So long ago. -Alice Williams Brotherton in the Christnuzs Century. The Elder's Sermon. Our elder told us yesterday we had not learned to live, 'Until we learned how blessed:tie to pardon and forgive; The dear, sweet, precious words he spoke like heavenly manna fell; ,. The perfect peace they brought our hearts no human words can tell. "Love brings millennial peace," he said; and though my lips were drunb, / still kept shouting in my soul, "Amen, and let it come.' " When men forgive all other men, the year of jubilee Will dawn upon the world," he said. "1 said, " So let it be." "So, love you neighbor as yourself," he then began again, And Silas Fitz, across the aisle, he shouted out, "Amen !" What right had he to yell "Amen," the low - toned measly hound! Who took my cow, my new milch cow, and locked her in the pound ! The low-down raw-boned, homely crank, a lunk-head and a lout, Whose love and. grace and heart and soul have all been rusted out - To sit there in the sanctuary and holler out " Amen 1" If 1 could choke the rascal once he'd never Shout again. One day his dog cameby my house, I called the brute aside, GaTe him a chunk of meat to eat, and he crawled off and died. He just crawled off and died right then. Says, , I. III let him soo, Noleng-legged simpleton like him can get the 'best of me." But,. h, ,that sermon -I would love to hear it preached again, Ab ? at forgiveness, charity, and love of fellow men. should have felt as if I basked. in Heaven's ., especial smile, If that blamed villain, Silas Fitz hadn't sat neros4 the aisle. • -Scum Walter Poss. Poor ltabes at Christmas. Come, Yiou whose heart with pleasure teems, Who know not sorrow, know uot woe, Whose 1' fe-such gifts the fates bestow - Is filled wiiu pleasant twilight dreams; And ou who, smiling and content, Lok through the vista of the years, Atl, see no cause for grief or tears, But only joy and solacement; 1 Give heed td,those who have to climb The rugged roads, who have to go O'er thorny paths, and let them know The magic of the Christmas time. .And gathered in your homes secure, Oh, mothers brave and. daughters dear, Do what your hands can do to cheer The babies of the worthy poor. In lowly homes you'll find them; turn To them the hand of charity, And, lessening their misery, The luxury of giving learn. A Christmas tree. a doll, a ball, A little thing will make them gay - Then shower kisses on them. pray, And bless them, bless them, one and all! The Old Shoemaker. A shoemaker sat in his little shop, Hammering, pegging and stitching away, So tired sometimes that he felt like to drop, Hammering, pegging and stitching away. And he said to himself it is time I was done With working, my race it is nearly run, And this making of shoes isn't very much fun, Hammering, pegging anci stitching away. Some people talk about being a slave, Hanimexang, pegging and stitching away, I guess I muat follow it down to my grave, Jlammering, lugging and stitching away. Oh, deary me, 1 am needing a lest, . But' suppose is all for tho best, Although life to me hasn't been quite a jest, Hammering, pegging and stitching away. It makes my bones ache and. it makes me shiver, Hammering, pegging and stitching away, But it's only for life, itasn't forever, Hammering, pegging and stitehing away. There's comfort) in that, there's a place where 111 be, Tram sin and from sorrow and turmoil set free, My life then will be but one long jubilee, In the meantime I still must keep pegging away. A. H. WINGFIEDD. The Bachelor's tnErfstmas. Before the glowing fire I sit, Within an easy chair, / feel of worry not a whit, And say good-bye to care. And many greetings I receive From friends, and give them, too, And many pleasant take I weave Before a chosen few. A book f Christmas tales I read, And stings the bards have sung, And dreaming pleasant dreams indeed, I think once natire I'm young, The tivrelling of the bachelor tact° Is worthy of a rhyme; it is not such a lonesome place - The club at Christmaa time. Wanted. The girl who'll rise at 5 or 6, The tire and coffee thus to fix ; Who good and wholesome bread can make, .And also light and dainty cake. The girl vh&ll Mend a felloW'S sock, And make betimes hr Sunday frocks ; Ode tot afraid to brash and broom, • And, if need be, Who'll scrub the room. Who taiods tobecco not at all, And never will doubt the lodge -night call The girl whexi thinge are all amiss Will meet the frown with tender kW, P! A BARITONE'S DEVOTION; OR, A TALE OF SUNNY ITALY, • CHAPTER, L "THE IIAPPIEST MAN IN BAYLES." "They came at a delioete plain called Ease, whore they went with much eontent ; but that plain wee but narrow, so they were quickly got over It." -Pilgrims Progess. "Presto ! off with the paper 1 let us soe how they look 1" exclaimed a fresh, mellow voice. "Permit me, signor," interposed the Neapolitan stationer who presided behind the counter of a shop in the Toledo ; end taking the little white packet from the hands of the speaker, he slipped- the blade of his penknife through the wrapper, drew forth with a flourish one of the cards within, and bowing and smiling, hoarded it to his customer. "There; signor, accept it wibh my sincere coneratulations." The young man glanced eagerly at the card, upon which was engraved in copper- plate the name, " Avvocato Carlo Poerio Donati." Possibly they thought themselves practi- cally alone in that foreign a,ssembly ; certainly it did not occur to them that there very Italian -looking neighbor under- stood and spoke their language as well as his own, for they were talking freely on subjects which Englishmen are not wont to speak of in public. " But really now," urged the younger of tlae two, with some warmth, •"you can'e possibly maintain such a notion. Do you think we are not improved, vastly improved, in the last two hundred yeas% ?" "'rho increase in civilization gives us a better appearance I grant," sadithe elder, "but I de not be;lieve the sum total of evil is leasened." • Carlo listened attentively, for thie dreary doctrihe was opposed to his whole nature. "Why, tent to history," exclaimed the younger man, "see how indifferent people were to suffering, and then look at our nineteenth century with ite innumerable eharition its missions, its hospital% its guilds." "True, lanite true," said the elder tam, quietly; "5 'wave of philanthropy is passing over as ; there is much telk-even, I admit much good work, but men are not ITIOre Willing to live the life of the Crueified." The younger mat was silent. Ilftherto he had been very ready with hie replies, now ho foll into deep thought Carlo Donati, It was to him the sign and symbol of manhood, of freedom; it meant that he turned his back upon examinations and tutelage; it meant that he was at length free to declare the love which for many years had been the great guiding influence of his life. " Ah, Signor Pietro," he replied, turning to the friendly old shopkeeper with a smile which illumined his whole face. "I am the happiest man in Naples to -day 1 Come, Enrico, you are not half enough excited !" and turning to his friend, who stood beside him watching the scene with good-humored. indifference, he caught a similar little packet from his hand, and tearing it open, produced a card bearing the name " Avvocato Enrico Ritter." Enrico was of German parentage, but the Ritters had lived for half it century in Naples and were naturalized ; nevertheless, spite of his Italian education Enrico re- mained German to the bachbone, and presented in every way a most curious contrast to his friend and companion. "Why, devil take the cards 1 they're not so much to me as to you," heexclaimed with a laugh. "Signor Pietro does not expect to see me wild with excitement over a trumpery piece of pasteboard." "Most matter-of-fact, Enrico 1 Where is your imagination ? " cried Carlo, laughing. "Gan the magic word Avvocato call up to your German brain no visions of the future " "Visions 1" grumbled Enrico, with assumed despondency; "ay, visions of hot courts, long cases, rusty gowns and scant fees." Both Carlo and the stationer laughed heartily at the dolorous face of the speaker. Well, Signor Pietro, it was ever the same story, was it not? He is prosaic now as when we came to you years ago for note -books and pens on our way from the Ginnasio. But come, it is getting late ; • I must be off, Enrico. Good -day to you, • Signor Pietro, and many thanks for your congratulations." The two friends left the shop and walked through the busy, crowded streets to the Piazz del Plebiscite. More than one passer- by turned to glance at Clarlo's beautiful face ; for, truth to tell, good are the excep- tion, not the rule, in Naples, and among the swarthy or sallow Neapolitian.s his rich, ruddy -brown coloring could not failto win notice. The face was singularly attractive, not only from the beauty of its well -cut featurds, but from the unaffected modesty of the expression and the sweetness of the dark liquid eyes. He looked what he had termed himself -the happiest man in Naples. If in appearance he lacked any- thing it was height • but we cannot all be heroes of six feet, and Carlo, though small and slight, was so well proportioned, so lithe and active, so imbued with the grace common to most Italians, that it was impossible to wish for any change in him. He might that day stood a true impersona- tion of Optimism, while Enrico Ritter, on the other hand, might well have posed as the ideal Pessimist. Enrico was of the Germans, German; there was no mistaking that fair, straight hair and mustache, that light coloring and broad face those small, light -gray eyes, honest, hard, yet With good humor in their expression which contradicted the cynical mouth. What had first drawn two such curiously contrasted men together it was impossible to say ; scientists might have argued that it was the very fact that they were polar opposites. But whatever the cause of their friendship, friends they were in the best sense of the word, and their friendship had stood the wear and tear of ten years. By this time they had reached the Piazza ; the afternoon ,sun was shining on the real walls of the Palazzo Reale, lighting up the hem y arcades of the San Carlo, glorifying the dome and stately front of the churcla of S. Frances° di Paolo. It seemed a strange medley of ancient and modern, haunted by memories of King Bomba's cruelties - haunted by visions of Garibaldi and Carlo Poerio, while hither and thither plied the busy tranncars,. and amid a gay throng of people dressed 1EL the latest Parisan fashion there filed slowly past a procession of white -robed monks. "Ten minutes to spare before my horse is ready," said Carlo, looking at his watch; "let us have some coffee ; " end so saying, he led the way into the nearest restaurant. Enrico panaed to buy an evening paper, then followed his friend. The place was crowded, and there arose a confused babel of voices, a mingling of French, English, and Italian. Carlo had seated himself at one of the small marble tables, and, since Enrico seemed more inclined to read his paper than to talk, was fain to listen to the discussion going on between two English tourists close by. too, we struck by those leat words. They broke in very painfully upon hit repturoua happiness, his joyful anticipations. He had been spared most of the usual doubts end fears of a lover; he was practically risme of Francesca Britton's love, and, already he had received her father's permission to propose to her, Captain Britton having only stipu- lated tlaat lie should wait till his education was finished. Now his time of probation wa,swover ; within a few days, nay, perhaps within a few hours Francesca might be his own. Could he bear on that day, Of all others, to dream of the possibility of a cloud arising? • His sky was so clear, his life had been so happy and successful, the very thought of gathering darkness on the horizon was tor- ture to hurt "Let my happiness last ! Oh, let it last 1" was his inward cry, ancl,a,s if in answer, there floated back to -'him the stranger's words, and he knew that they were true: Men are not more willing to live the life of the Crucified." Involuntarily he turned to glance at the man who had disturbed his peace, e,nd saw a strong, intellectual face, which, metwith- standing traces of deep thought and hard conflict, bore it calm and tranquil expression. Bat the conversation had been checked by those gra.ve words. The stranger called the waiter, paid for his coffee, troika' his " Baedeker " under his arm, and roe to go. Carlo followed him with his eye,/ as he left; the restaurant ; he felt strongly that curious conviction which comes to some people when a stranger has unconViously influenced them -that in this world, or some other, they will infallibly meet again,,, So engrossed had he been with the two Englishmen and their talk that he avasnot heeded his friend. He had not seeti the start of surprise and dismay with which Enrico had noted a paragraph in thePicco/o. What was there in those brief lines which filled him with apprehension? Why did he glance with such anxiety and regret at Carlo, and then once again read that un- welcome paragraph?- " We understand that the season will be commenced at Whitsuntide at the Teatro Mereadante, with the operatic company of Signor Merlin°. Madame Merlin°, whose singing has created a very fieverabla inn pressiou in America, will be the prima donna." All the andifference had vanished now from Enrico's face. A dreadful annoyance awaited his friend, and that it should reach him to -day of all days seemed to him in- tolerable. He would, at any rate, do his best to give him a respite ; Carlo should at least propose to Miss Britton, and enjoy if it were even but a few hours of-nonalloyed happiness. Seizing his opportunity, when his companion turned to watch the English- men as they left the restaurant, Enriad tore off the corner containing the unwelcome news, and was about to thrust it into his pocket when Carlo checked him with a question: "What is it? About our examina- tions ? " " No " said Enrico, composedly • "1 saw nothing about them. I only wanted a, scrap of paper to wrap up these confounded cards; thanks to your eagerness to see them, they're all loose in my pocket." s So saying, he deliberately wrapped the cards in the paper containing the bad news, and pushed the rest of the Piccolo towards his friend. "Take it home with you if you like, I have done with it." "And I,' said Carol, leughing, "hope to have little time for it." He took it never- theless'stowed it away in his pocket, and got up to go. "111 walk with you as far as the stable," said Enrico. ",Now follow my 'co and ride home calmly. If yo a t vas state of fever you will not be or' your interview with that stately old Englishman, upon whom you have to make a good im- pression as future sort -in-law." "Stuff and nonsense 1" said. Carlo, laugh- ing gayly. "Make an impression, indeed! Do you forget that we have been next door neighbors this age, and that he knows me as well as you do?' "An impossibility," said Enrico, smiling, "for with me I have taught you, as we say in Germany, to be as you are to yourself. Now with that old English captain you walk as though treading on eggs, you are courteous and deferential ; you never forget that you hope to be his son-in-law, and you'll never quarrel with him -at any rate, not until the hope has become a tame r e iteye" The dry, sardonic tone in which this had been spoken turned Carlo's indignant pro- test to laughter. "The only topic on which we are likely to quarrel is politics; and as he knows nettling of Italian affairs, one needs now and then adroitly to turn the conversation. But don't make me speak against Captain Britton to -day, amico mio." "Ah, poor fellow 1" said Enrico, pity- ingly • I knew he would prove the crumpled rose -leaf to destroy your perfect bliss. There is always a fatheran-law, or a mother-in-law, or a cantankerous relative, who kicks up a row about the settlements. Don't you expect the course of your true love to run smooth -that's against nature." As he spoke he glanced rather anxiously at a large boarding which they were ap- proaching, rapidly ninth% his eye over the theatrical posters, but, much to his relief, the Mercadante bills were not yet out. "You are as depressing as a funeral 1" said Carlo, much tickled by the notion that the substantial Englishman was s, crumpled rose leaf; "and, indeed, if I have no worse crook in my lot than Captain Britton, I shall fare well. No one could have been more courteous and helpful to my mother all these years; no one could have been more genial and hospitable to me. Of course we all have our faults." "Too true 1" said Enrico, mockingly. "The Englishman loves a lorde and has an eye to the main chance, and knows that you are heir to a certain rich uncle, and that unless the money is secured and tied up in the orthodox English fashion, it will all be flung away upon 'Young Italy,: or some hare -brained scheme for educating organ: - grinders." "If it were not in the public street I would punish you well !" cried Carlo. "There never was such a fellow for imput- ing,low motives to all the world." Well, well, rail at me as you like," said Maxima indifferently; "but as yet I have never found myself at fault in assum- ing that egoism rules the universe. Ah, your horse is waiting for you, I tee, and the hostler tries to look hot and tired to cajole a large coin from you. A rivederci I But I advise yoa to avoid Naples for the next few daysi; but don't come to me for sym- pathy n your rapture, for I've not the smallest deube that love is egoista, and Marriage is egoism, and—" "You are incorrigible I" said Carlo, as he Mounted the beautiful Arab which was waiting for him. not wait to hear you out." And,with a wave of the hand, he rode off, looking back laughingly at the interrupted egoist, who, with a shrug of the shoulder% turned away. And yet it was something quite other than egoism Which brought a grave leek to Enrico's face as he Walked home through the minty streets. Suddenly perceiving an upright alert -looking old man on the opposite side of the way, he crossed the road and ineetened'after hint Pardon me, Signor Piale 1" he ex - gleamed, but inay I ask you a question? You are probably acquainted with all that is going on in the nausioal world. Is this true that I see to -day in the Piccolo ? Is Merlino's company really ooming to the Mercadante 1' " Diavolo I it is true enough, more's the pity," replied the old man; but I have not said a word of it to my pupil. Carlo is over -sensitive ; he felt that affair too mucla ; only of late has he seemed to have forgotten it somewhat. He is One whose life should have been exempt from shadows." "1 should have thought common decency would have kept Merlin() away from Na- ples," said Enrico, hotly. "ferlina does not care a fig for common decency," said the old musician. "110 is no credit to our profession, Probably he knows well enough that the Merlino-Donati scandal is just fresh enough in men's minds o make his operas draw well. "Let us, at least, do our best to keep back the ill news as long as possible," said Enrico ; "it will be a frightful annoyance to Carlo just now, ad I do believe it will be the death of his mother." "Tis always the innocent who suffer for the guilty,' said the old sineing. master, giving a fierce rub to his parchment -like cheek. "If ever there was one who de- served to be free from care, why it is Casio; there are but few nowadays who could show so blameless a life." You speak very truly," said Enrico. "Lob us hope his blameless life will weigh with worthy Captain Britton, and prove heavier than the family skeleton." (To be continued.) There have appeared from time to time in, our issue during the past year accounts of remarkable cures in various parts of the Dominion. In each case the circumstances connected therewith had been investigated by well-known newspapers, and there could be no doubt as to the entire reliability of the accounts given. Perhaps the case that attracted most attention was that of Mr. John Marshall, of Hamilton. This was not, perhaps, because his case was any more re- markable than some others, but because it was attended by some other peculiar circumstances that served to empha- size it in the ininds of the public, as for instance the fact that he had been pronounced absolutely incurable by half a score of clever physicians, and was actually paid the $1,000 disability claim allowed by the Royal Templars of Temper- ance. Elsewhere in the issue is given the particulars of a cure in Cape Breton, which is quite as remarkable as that of Mr. Mar- shall. The particulars of the case are taken from the Halifax Herald, but they are also vouched for by Mr. Richardson, the editor and proprietor of the Island Reporter, Sidney, C. B., who says that not in a single particular is the story overdrawn. We fancy we hear some reader say, "Oh, pshaw 1 this doesn't interest me." But it does. The story as told elsewhere is worth reading, and we will guarantee before you are through with it you will be thoroughly interested. A Girl at the Keys. The train -dispatchers of the United States have a nationaassociation which has recently been greatly interested in two lady dispatchers. These are Miss Etta E. Spencer, chief train -dispatcher of the Provi- dence end of the Providence divi- sion of the New York & New England Railroad. The other is Miss Lizzie Thayer, of the New London Northern rail- road, who was at one time under Miss Spencer's direction in the telegraph office at Plainfield Junction and learned the business fgom her. These two young women are the only dispatchers of their sex in the world. Miss Spencer hails from Phenix, ten miles from Providence. The Providence division of the New York and New England railroad is fifty-eight miles long. The road carries a single track and runs from Providence through Coventry, Sterling, Baltic and other towns to Willimantic. Many through trains travel over its tracks besides the local trains, and, from the train-despatcher's standpoint, the division, with its single track, is regarded as one of the most diffi- cult to manage on the road. Miss Spencer was an expert telegrapher in the employ of the road before she assumed charge of the despatching of the trains. For a while, in 1881, she was an assistant in the despatch- ing department. In 1882 the regular des- patcher lost his place. Pending the engage- ment of another despatcher, Superintendent Palmer placed Mis Spencer in charge. Her success was such that he did not find it necessary to replace her. In a short time she received the regular appointment of train -despatcher for the division, She has kept the place ever since. Mrs. John McLean writes, from Barrie Island, Ont., March 4, 1889, as follows : "I have been a great sufferer from neuralgia for the last nine years, but, being advised to try St. Jacobs Oil, can now heartily endorse it as being a most excellent remedy for this complaint, as I have been greatly benefited by its use." Helps 14 the Way. Borax and sugar will disperse ants and other insects. Sprinkle dry salt among your furs under and on your carpets, as a preventive of moths. Remove iron rust by application of salt and lemon juice. Dip spots of mildew in buttermilk and place in the sunshine. Fruit stains on white cloth will scald out or freeze out. Cut your new bread with a hot knife. Do not fill the room with smoke from the griddle'but "grease" it by rubbing with half a turnip. 17se half earaw potato instead of cork to apply bristtIf brick to steel knives. -Lades Home Journal. A Royal Dressmaker. The Princess Christian, whose daughter, the Princess Louise, was married last July, designed the brocade which formed the gown she wore at the wedding, says the Ladies' Home journal. • It showed the rose of England, the shamrock of Ireland and the thistle of Scotland, embossed upon it, and wen woven on English looms. She also designed and presented to her daughter a very lovely brocade which shows clusters of lilies tied with blue ribbons on a pale creamy ground. Certainly when one real- izes that Princess Christian is an admirable mother and wife, that she fulfils her duties at home and in society, and yet finds time for other work, it is suggestive that it would not be a bad thing if sortie women who do not wear titles would imitate her example. Tun Bristol (England) miners have passed a, resolution censuring their Town Connell for conferring the freedom of the city on the Duke of Edinburgh. • The resolutions say that the miners couldn't see what H. R. H. of Edinburgh had "done to earn Such an honor, except beitg a Inamber of an erne - mental family of idlers and peepers." The miners forget that the Duke is en admiral of the fleet, an expert violinist and son-in-law of the Ozer of all the Russia% Woman's came it maltiag progress in Bosnia, and 1Viohtetegro, wheee the Govern - silent intends to employ 'Women physioiane in the hospitale hereafter. TEA TABLE GOSSIP, A onunotax MOW= • A churchly scheme has come to light Which nankin; lii world.Zy stare; 'Phe deacon s all have just woke un, And. curia no people there. They see the opera draws well, The theatre pays too, And, talking with the managers, They've fond just what to do. Now, if they have a surplieed choir Or preaener unit they prize, They re going to boom those drawing cards .And roundly advertise. So, after this, those wicked sheets, Thp godless Sunday papers, livglving space to reverend ads. 'Will burn QS votive tapers. -A Welshman has written it poem to his cow. -There is not a native-born white grand- mother in all Colorado. - A bee does not weigh the one-hun- dredth part of an ounce. -Darwin says an acre of pasture land contabas 26,000 worms. -Naturally enough e person who has beer' ejected from a place of public meeting feele put out. - When a man discovers his neighbors devoid of virtues never possessed by himself he is shocked. -Her mother -I. saw him kiss you. I am terribly shocked. 1 .dicl not suppose he would dare to do such a thing. Herself - Nor I. In fabt I bet him he didn't dare. -" It wouldn't do for Bronson to love his neighbor as himself." " Why not 1" "He would bow down to him and worship him -which would be contrary to the Com- mandments." .-" Is this a fast train ? " asked the travelling man of the conductor. "01 course it is." was the reply. "1 thought so. Would you mind my getting out to see what it is fast to." -s-Lawyers still predominate in the U. S. Congress, as probably they always will. There are 212 members of the present • ses- sion who have at one time or another pra,c. ticed law, while 65 are farmers. -An excellent idea has been recently put into practice by a drug firm in Birmingham. On every bottle or package of poison sold by the firm a label is pasted on which are printed directions aa to the antidote. -Mr. Cheapleigh-I understand Miss Anxious has married an amateur photo- grapher and that they have gone to house- keeping. How are they getting along? Mr. K_nowitall-I understand that they have not developed a single plate. Brick Pavement at Bucyrus. In a paper by Mr. E. B. Shifley, pub- lished in the Traneactions of the Ohio Society of Surveyors and Civil Engineers," is a description of the brick Pavement at Bucyrus, 0., from which the following notes are taken. The street is first excavated to the exact shape of the crown of the finished surface, or, in embankment, the fill is made with 10 -inch layers of earth, each rolled after being placed in position by it steam roller. Curbing is then set and backed with 6 inches of sand. Mr. Shifley states that it should not he less than 20 inches deep, or it will fall into the street during con- struction. A thoroughly rolled layer of crushed unscreened sand or gravel is then put down to a depth of 6 inches when fin- ished, and covered with 2 inches of fine washed sand, on which the brick are laid. These bricks, about 8x4x4, inches in size, are laid at right angles to the axis of the street, except at intersections, where they are given an angle of 45 degrees. After the brick is laid, fine dried sand is thrown over the surface and broomed in, after which a 6 or 8 -ton roller is passed over the surface a few times. When the rolling is finished, Mr. Shifley considers it is sometimes well to flood down the sand, especially if it was wet when rolled, as it does not settle well in that state. The joints are then to be flushed with tar, heated to about 300 degrees. As it is poured out, it is brushed into the joints with brooms made of steel wire splints. Sand is then scattered over the surface. Makes Flesh and Blood. When the system is all run down and there seems to be no hope of obtaining nourishment for the body by the ordinary process of food supply and digestion, when the body is sinking fast, then is the time to use Miller's Emulsion of pure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil. It always -Works wonders, because it is a flesh and. blood maker, and contains all the constituents for nourish- ment found in 'wheat, in fact Miller's Emul- sion is a perfect " staff of life" and has saved and cured thousands. In big bottles 50c and $1 at all drug stores. Another Fond Dope Dispelled. "Your vote isa favor of granting us this franchise," said the promoter of the scheme, " would be worth to us—" "Yes," broke in the listener, becoming instantly attentive, "would be worth to you.— " More than a dozen speeches in its favor, on account of the moral react it would have." • "Um -yes," rejoined the alderman froth the 'Steenth ward, relapsing at once into his former apathy. -Chicago Tribune. Took It Kindly. Materfamillias (11 p. m.) -What's the matter; you look distressed. Paterfamilias -I thought it about time to give that young fellow in the parlor it vigor- ous hint that it was near midnight, so I walked right into the room and, giving both him and our daughter a severe look, I deliberately turned. out the gas. "Mercy 1 Didn't he get &y ?" No; he said, Thank you'" A. Matter of Breathless Interest. St. Paul Pioneer Press: That was a smart man who invented odorless whiskey. By the way, could he be induced to direct hie justly -celebrated ability toward the Ameri- can onion? All nervous disorders, all diseases peculiar to women, such as bearing down pains, sup- pressions of thd periods and weak nerves, can be thoroughly cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Try them. ' Boom to Spare. Buffalo .News: Hee-I don't see what peo- ple keep diaries for, I can keep all my affairs in my head. She--Thatar a good way, too; but not everyone has the room. Why Should Ile? New York Herald,: "The wages of sin ie death," but no sinner goo on a strike to have his wages advanced. About the most miserable man in the world is the one who is expected to laugh at the joke of a story he has heard before The ancient Greeks, it will be remem- bered, bravely held the pats Of Ther- mopylre. But Thentopyhe wasn't a rail- road. There are now 50 "tank ' ateamers ply. ing betWeen that country and Europe, tarry - bag oil in bulk. They carry about 5,000,000 barrels of oil annually. PATO TO KNOW IT." Rev. IL W. la Joneaepaster of the First Preebyterien Church of Bayonne, is not one of the ekes of preachers who kick whenever a termites dollar is spent for anything be- sides ministers' salary mad foreign miesiona He preaches to his flock the gospel of life insurance, and toile them thet religion as useful for this world as well as the next - It eeerns to me, said Mr. Jones in a recent sermon, to be the privilege and duty of every man who has others dependent upon him, and who may net bo able to provide for them in any other way, to insure hie life. When it shall be done, if he has been wise enough to have ascertained with reasonable certainty that the business association to which he hats committed this important trust is a safe aud reliable one, he will not have to wait until death is near to know that "it pays " to be insured. Frora my point of view, it begins to pay immediately, and it continues to pay each day of his life • not in gold and silver :perhaps, but in that which ought to be in- finitely more precious to every husband and ,father -the assurance that if he should sud- denly be called away from those so dear to him they would not be left entirely to the cold charities of a hard and unsympathetic world. His thought, as he leaves his home each morning to engage in the duties of the busy world, that he has done what he could to protect his loved ones, ought to clear his • brain, give buoyancy to his step, and cheer to a weary life. Such a man, too, is an honorable men. -he is keeping the promise he made et the marriage altar, even though it may involve much self-denial. The satis- faction attendant on doing one's duty always pays. • The life insurance busi- ness, like religion, pays too, in the daily tuition in principles of economy, not for selfish aggrandizement, but for the goo of others. The income of the great majority of men does not leave muehof a margin for mere indulgence in luxurious tastes or habits; and the probability is, that if the incentive of the surely coming yearly premium were not felt, this margin, narrow as it might be, would be wasted, or worse, spent in such a manner as might form or strengthen habits destructive of both personal and family happiness. Life insurance pays daily, too, in a strictly personal sense. It is the duty of the examining physician, in the interests of the company he represenee, to discover any actual or probable cause of disease in the person who proposes to be insured. To this end he examines you, that is, he measures you and weighs you and thumpa you and presses you, and asks all kinds of questions, possible and impossible, for you to answer as far as the third generation ' back is concerned. To the man undergoing this examination much of it seems almost. foolish, and yet after it is over and you are told "you will do," you feel all the more comfortable because the examination has been a rigid one. It is a grand fact for a man to be assured of, that he is sound in body and mind. It pays to know it -it helps him in a hundred ways that only those who possess the experience know anything about. What Becomes of the Children.? Northern Christian, Advocate: Go into any church and look over the congregation, and the painful fact will be obvious that but a smell proportion of the children, even of church members, are there. In churchee. where there are from two to four hundred inc Sunday school, often not more than fifty of them will be found in the public service aa and it must be expected that those who are in the Sunday school only will, as they come to years, in many instances cease to attend even its services and will then drifta away from the church entirely. gocietyie full of such who are drifting farther and( farther from the influences which are calcu- lated to bring them to Christ. It Was it Lie. New York Press: "Von don't call on Miss Rex auy more, I understand, Cholly r "They say her father kicked you dower the steps and threw your hat after you." "11 is a lie -a foul lie. He didn't throw my hat after me. I had my hat in my hand." A Caution. Buffialo .News Leap year is drawing nigh. Young men without bank accounts must study the art of parrying a direct proposal. The three-story brick dwelling of A. la. Pritchard, Pittsburg, Pa., was blown to atoms shortly before one o'clock on Friday morning by an explosion of natural gas. Mr. Pritchard, his wife and three children, is. hired boy named David Bennett, and Bar- bara Reich, a servant girl, were buried in the ruins. When rescued they were Mk found th be more or less seriously burned,. but no one was fatally injured. The little toy known a.s the "retuinballin is said to have brought its inventor an income of $50,000 a year. If you want to convince & MOM say something in his favor. 11.119:11,13111NWil 1.7,1 311'444Tallialra4 Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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