HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-2-4, Page 7" ' Rev. Hr, Peters on Cechtails.
"a The Analyst" of Town Topics thus
lilts oft: Rev. J. Madison Peters' lecture on
1,310 analysis of litiuore, recently zo much
discussed, lu this wwe
Xao Reverend Doctor Peters is a very learned
man ;
Metes mastered all the devil's arts that any
mortal can..
'But the last to take his scourging was theneck-
hiloyeAnd thisherye,e dose is that ye clubmen
drink when dry
Apinoh of pepper, capsicum, a copperas and
nitro,
Sulphuric acid, cardamom and wormwood as a
lighter ;
ail bitter almonds, orris root and black ants
powdered fine,
Some iron sulphate, Iiquori 0 and logwood
soaked in brine.
Then, as a topper -oft', he prays a dash of
marble dust,
Of hartshorn and japonie root, and prussic -amid
rust;
'Theo powdered glass and lemon juice, -and
salad oil and salt,
,end a cherry red and luscious just to call bho
thing a halt!
Then a bit of round -town gossip, and a sn
upon the fates g
And you raise the glass, andwink your eye,and
part the pearly gates
Then you dram the festive vintage ofKen-
tucky's fields of slumber,
And the "cabby" hunts your hat -crown for
your name and street and number
The Drummer.
The drummer has au EZ way
When he SA's to sell ;
He spreads before you an RA
Of samples that XL.
Then talks and talks with NRG
Until you DZ grow,
And feeling he's your NME,
An IC manner show.
You say you don't want NE thing
No PT he displays,
Then getting read, say UL fling
Him out in KC stays.
He'll SQ then to take a "smile,"
And tell HS nut tale;
And thus LA your anger while
In PC makes a sale.
If you should CIS place to hide,
With glee he'll CQ too,
And when at EV leaves your side,
He's sold Lis goods—& U.
A drummer cannot CA snub,
And you'll XQ's a kick,
Like YZ doesn't fear a club,
And to UE will stick.
PAYLIWIT HOR11OR.
An Early Morning Scene of Tragedy. Be-
hind Stone Walls.
OVERHEAD TILE 'BLACK FLAG,
" Your tickeb, please."
Away over in the east the firat faint red
glow presagesthe coming dawn, Out in the
maples theearly rising sparrows begin to
twitter. But the hush of night is still upon
the streets. As the official on the lauding
at the head of the great stone steps holds
high my pass to catch the rays of the dimly
burning vestibule' lamp, the clock in the
distant steeple strikesthe hour of four.
All right; pass on."
The huge door swings open to admit me
and shuts behind me with a clang which
reverberates along the wide corridor with
its double row of grated theirs and bare
sepulchral walls. There is no mis-
taking the way ; there is but one
way open to me. Far down, where
the walls seem to coeverge, there is a light.
I advance. Ugh 1 What a tomb -like struc-
ture ! The echoes of my own footsteps
strike on my ear like a knell. Ah ! At the
light I turn abruptly to the left. There is
an open door ahead, and through it I see
in the imperfect light figures moving about.
It is the jail yard.
Early as I have come scores have preceded
me hither. A seat ? No; I will look about me;
I will see what is to he seen. Already a
square of aeats made of planks resting on
blocks is filling up, and even as I looked
around, men continue to steal in guiltily
and with the silence of shadows and take up
their positions on the benches.
• Tables, too
Yes ; over in the corner there are four
of them, and •on'• each a set of
telegraph instruments — key, sounder
and relay. And • there are the wires
trellised over the wall fifteen feet
above me. Just a pulse -beat from the
world. Yes, and here are some of the
operators. And those men gathered about
the lamp, writing ? They are reporters,
each busy over a notebook. And --
What is that tall, dark framework, dimly
outlined against the north wall, and at
which these men on the benches glance as
they whisper to one another ?
That is a gallows !
Ah 1 I have a curiosity to see a gallows.
Wby should I hesitate ? Why should that
creepy feeling come over me ? Tut, man !
it's but a piece of woodwork—a crude one at
that ! I will see it. Yes, it is simple
enough. Just two tall, strong uprights
braced strongly ; a long crosspiece extend-
ing over one end ; a rope hanging through
a hole in the middle. But, see ! Look at
that chain looped up high and held by a
slender cord that passes down alongside the
post ! See the murderous weight of iron at
its end 1 And harming beside the cord
see that long, thin -bladed, keen -edged
chisel 1
This man beside me? Oh, yes ; he is the
sheriff 1 I know him by his cocked hat and
his official sword. I even withdraw myself
from the contemplation of the gruesome in-
strument of murder before me, long enough
to indulge in a democratic sneer at the
ridiculousness of the official toggery. Poor
man ! Ile looks disgusted enough with the
hat ; but he seems really afraid of the
sword, But, then, how could the law be
enforced if he did not wear them both ?
The other man? No, I don't know him;
but he's about as mean looking a s, ecimen
as outraged nature ever bore since Judas—
" Everything is ready, sir ; there'll be no
bungling, sir."
That's the hangman—the Men of Blood !
He's the sheriffs hireling ; but what a look
of disgust and loathing bis employer gives
him as he turns his back on him and enters
the corridor again—as if his very presence
in the yard polluted the air ! Why do
these amen on the benches curse the Man of
Blood as he carefully examines his machine?
Why blame him ? He is only the hand of
Society which for a few miserable dollars
strangles their fellow -man to death at
their command, What a huge satire it
all is 1
The hours pass ; the crowd increases ;
the telegraph ' instruments click on ; the
distant clock strikes seven.
Hark ! Voices are heard in the corridor.
All eyes are on the:door. Here they come !
First the sheriff, his three -cornered hat in
his band ; then the bare -headed, surpliced
priest, who as he steps from the stone
door -sill upon the greensward raises his
voice to be heard of all :
" I am the resurrection, and the life ; he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yetshall
he live."
I hear no more. Behind hien comes the
Victim, bareheaded, his arms pinioned by
his aides, pale but firm, walking between
two warders with tear -streaming faces.
And behind comes the Man of Blood. No
waiting now. Time is short ; the steps are
few. The priest reads on. The warders
kiss the victim and step aside. The Man of
Blood straps the Victim's legs together.
He slips over his head that snaky coil. Has
he anything to say ? Nothing ! Never
again shall he gaze on the bright sun just
peeping ovor the eastern wall. His last
look has been cut off by the ugly black cap
drawn over his head, down to his chin, by
the Man of Blood. And thepriestprays on.
It is the Lord's Prayer he is repeating
now. What ! "Forgive us our tres-
passes as we forgive those who trespass
against us"? What mockery 1 How
does Society forgive the poor
wretch who has trespassed against it ?
Strangles him to death. Aye, and as if it
would fain follow him after death with its
vengeance, it puts fancied indignities upon
his poor, inanimate body ! " As we forgive
those who trespass against its " indeed 1
Ah ! If we get no greater ;need of mercy
Have You Ever Noticed
That it is not the woman with the neat
ankles who declaims against the short
street skirt ?
That it is the learner who falls whose
skate straps require the most attention?
That the man with the clyde-horse tread
is prepared to prove that dancing is the un-
pardonable sin?
That the man who mistakes the " Dead
March in San" for "Rule Britannia" is the
list positive of musical critics?
That it is the man who cannot write a
single sentence in pure English who de-
lights in showing the editor the typographi-
cal errors ?
That a play that is sacrilege in a theatre
may be religiously produced in a church, if
it be called ano ratorio?
That embonpoint and hatred of decollate
dress rarely co -exist in the same lady ?
That the most ardent advocate of church
union is the most satisfied with his own
sect ?
That a streak of good luck is apt to spoil
the most ardent socialist ?
That the loudest screamers about mer-
cenary motives in politics live by their
loyalty ?
That the sound of a dog fight can give a
church ball odds and get under the wire first
every time ?
That the fellows who rush "to thehelp of
the Lord against the mighty " would some-
times prove better defenders if they were
less precipitate ?
That the man who has several good coats
at home doesn't worry about being seen
wearing a shabby sine 2
MASQDJrri
Slavery in Canada.
The following copy of a receipt for a sum
of money paid for a negro woman in Canada
eighty years ago will be read with interesp.
The transaction took place where Colborne
now is:
" This maycertify that I have this day sold
for the consideration of forty _pounds to me
in hand paid by William l3. Wallbridge, my
negro s oman Batt, of about twenty-five years
of age, and her infant child, to have and to
hold from me or every other person whatever,
as witness my hand this 14 h day of March,
1812. "•Joshes HELLER.
" Witness present :
ELIAB WALLBRIDGZ
" ASA SMITE."
The above is an item of local interest, as
the Joseph Keeler referred to was the father
of the late Joseph Keeler, M. P. for East
Northumberland. Wm. H. Walbridge was
the father of the late Hon. Lewis Wall -
bridge, formerly of Belleville, Chief Justice
of Manitoba. Elias Wallbridge, the first
witness. was the father of the late Shelby
Wallbridge and of Asa Wallbridge, of
Ameliasburg, half brothers of Wm. Kerr,
Q. C., and J. W. Kerr, of this town.
Slavery, whether illegal or not, seems to
have existed in Upper Canada at a much
more recent date than is generally supposed.
—Cobourg World.
the Inorein lime beams kindly down on ns
the little birds, now fully awake, twitter
merrily in the leafy boughs ; the perfume
of the flowers greets usand the hum of We
in the streets combines to give the impres-
Won that the scenes of the last few hours
were but the phantasms of some horrid
dream,
But a black flag floats. ominously over the
jail. MASQII>,TT15,
'ROMANCE OE THE STREET..
A. Young Couple Who Successfully Blended
Love and Business.
.A. little ovor ten years ago a quiet young
man of 18or19 was engaged by a Wall
street firm of brokers as a clerk. One day
the office boy became ill, and this clerk
generously volunteered to take a message
to another office for him. In that other
office was a pretty typewriter, in petti-
coats. They became interested in each
other immediately. Her employers were
three of the biggest speculators in the street.
They thought nothing of dealing in 50,000
or 100,000 shares a day, They had branch
offices uptown, and in Baltimore, Chicago,
Boston, London and Paris. The typewriter
was also a telegrapher, and all telegraph
orders she filled. She knew just what stocks
to go long and short of. So did this quiet
young clerk, after a while.
Whenever that firm went long of Wabash,
Lake Shore, New York Central, Topeka,
St. Paul or Manhattan, the clerk would
take a flyer in that stock in the bucket
shops, In a little while he had enough
money to buy stock in the Stock Exchange.
Whenever his girl's firm sold stocks lie was
carrying, he immediately got from under,
too. When they bought 5,000 or 10,000
shares of any stock, ho bought from 100 to
.1,000 shares. In no time he -was' worth
$10,000. In less than that ho was worth
$50,000. Then he stopped making money
long enough to marry the girl, and then,
keeping the marriage secret from that firm,
he pile 1 up considerably over $500,000.
All the time he worked as a clerk for $12
a week. He never lost his head. He never
paraded his wealth in fine raiment and gen-
erous jewels, but went right on until he had
built one of the finest mansions in the
suburbs of New Jersey, to which he
escorted his Little Blessing. He is now
telephoning his orders to his brokers from
that mansion and taking life as easy ae it
took him. -117. Y. Advertiser
A Letter from the Late Cardinal Simeoni.
One of the last letters written by the late
!Cardinal Simeoni arrived in Hamilton to-
day, addressed to His Lordship the Rt.
seatev. Thomas Joseph Dowling, Biahop of
Hamilton, acknowledging with thanks the
receipt of a generous contribution from the
bishop and his flock in aid of the missions
for the abolition of African slavery. The
Cardinal adds that the Holy Father Pope
Leo XIII. takes a heartfelt intereat in the
good work of the emancipation of the Afri-
can slaves, and concludes by sending his
kindest regards to the biahop, and his bless-
ing and that of the Holy Father to all who
have aided in the good work.
Don'ts for Preachers.
Don't pray to your congregation.
Don't try to frighten people into Heaven.
Don't let your sermons exceed thirty
Mutes in length.
Don't spring a collection on the congrega-
P
on unawares.
Don't devote all your time to the saving
f female souls.
Don't neglect the great sins in running
own the small ones.
Don't treat a rich man's sins as if his
oney would save bins.
The beggar is generally an open-handed
follow.
—When moat people go into a closet to
pray they go into the one that holds their
skeleton.
--There is no nicer thing that can be
said of a woman than that her husband
loves her more every day he is with her.
A ghost has driven the workmen out of
the 700 -foot level of the Anaconda topper
mine at Butte, Monb. It is' said to sit on
the rafters and give orders, and resembles a
former fireman of the mine who was killed
there.
The Duke of Cambridge uses the moat
violent language of anybody in the Fenglish
army.
AN OPEN LETTER.
' Tl ,. 1fiAl1111eS Droste,
in One ltlontla. fie Established ,Dls Ab lily
to Hurt the House,
First week—lie near as I am able to
kedge frown. appearances, my arrival has
icked up quite an excitement An the house -
bold, I have been weighed and the figures
were given at eight pounds, I have also
been carefully inspected and have been pro-
nounced sound in wind and ;limb. It's a go
as far as I sin concerned. My yoking dad
seems to be tickled half to death and his
breath smells of beer. When he heard I
was a boy he went out 'back of the house
and jumped on his hat for loy. If I don't
make him jump for some other cause before
I get ovor this redness of complexion then
you may play marbles on my bald head ?
Second week—Nurse is here yet and I'm
on my good behavior. She looks to me like
a woman who wouldn't take much sass off a
youngster, and I don't want a row until my
muscle works up a little more. Several
parties in to see ire, and I bad to listen to
the unusual congratulations. Some talk of
bringing me up on a bottle, but I'll have
something to say about that later on. I'm
laying low and taking things easy. Dad is
stili walking around with a grin on his face,
and there was a smell of gin cocktail in the
room last night. When he remarked that I
was just the quietestand most good-natured
baby in all New York I came near giving
myself dead away. There's a surprise in
store for that hayseed, and it'll hit him like
a load of brick.
Third week—Everything se -so. Nurse
goes Saturday night. She brags about what
a little darling I am, but she's talking for
wages. I'm quite sure she mistrusts me.
People keep coming in to paw me over and
look at my •feet. The general verdict is
ahern 1 that I'm just the euteat, handsomest
young'un ever born, That's all, bosh, how-
ever, and I'm not at all stuck on my shape.
They allowed dad to carry me around for
a few minutes last evening and you'd
a -thought he owned the earth. He said he
could walk with me for a week and I just
gurgled. He'll drop to something before he
is a week older. I haven't said much thus
far, but I've done a heap o' thinking just
the sante. I don't propose to take advan-
tage of the baby act much longer. Had a
row with the nurse and had to give in.
Beaten but not conquered.
Fourth week : I told you I'd do it and I
did ! The night after the nurse left I took
up that unfinished business with dad and
along about 2 o'clock in the morning he was
the sickest man you ever saw. I didn't
want to kill him in one night and so saved
some of him over for the next. Colic, you
know. All babies have it and I wasn't
going to be left out. Kicks, squirms,
wriggles, yells, with dad trotting up and
down until be finally shook his fist under
my nose and hoped I'd die.
Then I iet up a little, but I've got a lot,
more colic saved up. The happy grin has
quite vanished front his face and they say
he has lost five pounds. That's all right. I
propose to take a hand iu from this time on.
If the old man gets.out tolodge or a checker
party again this winter you just ask me
how it happened. I'm keeping the run of
things under the proper dates and now and
then I'll dish you up half a column or so,
and let you know who's running the house.
Dad may go any day next week, but as for
me I've come to stay.—M Quad in World.
To Business Men and Commercial Travel-
lers.
The Travellers' Circle of Canada wish to
call your attention to the system of treating
and being treated to intoxicating liquors
when transacting business. We are pleased
to note that this custom is now by many
entirely avoided ; yet some are led to con-
tinue it, perhaps fearing that to discontinue
a practice they have followed for some time
might affect the success of their business.
We believe no merchant will allow himself
to be biased in the placing of an order by a
treat from the traveller who visits him ;
but we feel the practice in the past has
sometimes been adopted in the hope of so
influencing the customer, and some travel-
lers who have practiced it have been gradu-
ally led into the use of intoxicants to such
an extent as to injure themselves, while iu
some cases it has resulted in the loss of their
situations and suffering to their families.
In these days of keen competition a travel-
ler sometimes finds his sales not equal to
his anticipation, a spirit of despondency is
apt to take possession of him, and if he is
susceptible to the influence of alcohol, has
taken some with his customers during the
day, he is likely to indulge further at night
when he meets his fellow travellers, after
his customers have gone home. We ask
retail merchants to give this matter their
careful consideration, remembering that
many of these young men have come from
homes where parents, sisters and brothers
are anxious abort their welfare, or perhaps
a young wife who has confided her all in
him, has high Tropes of his success on the
road, trusting he may soon secure promo-
tion or establish a'busiaess for himself, and
continue for her a comfortable and happy
home. Kindly abstain from being a party
to any course which, if indulged in, will
wreck all these high hopes, and leave the
victim a nuisance to society. It is indi-
viduaI effort that counts, and every man
should recognize that he has a responsibility
on this. question. Signed on behalf of 'the
Commercial Travellers',Circle of Canada,
R. M. STUART, President.
E. FIELDING, Secretary.
han—
Crash 1
" God of mercy 1"
' The cry rises involuntarily from many
lips as released by the stroke of the keen
chisel the huge weight jerks the pinioned
body of the victim high in the Mr, to settle
backandswing to and fro iii the growing
light. The unfinished prayer is continued.
Dare I look again ? I most. I will.
Where is the man of blood ? Gone !. The
thing beside which the priestkneela quivers,
swinge, turns. The feet are drawn up
spasmodically. Convulsions pasa over it.
The chest heaves 1 My God 1 Will it
never bo over ! I want to do something—to
go somewhere, but I am rooted to the spot.
I am speechless. In my soul I curse the Man
of Blood ; I curse the law and its minions
I curse myself for doming here! I look at
my dumb accomplices in the tragedy and
see that they too are frozen with the horror
of the scene. Why doesn't somebody do
something ?
What is wrong over in the corner ? Some-
thing has happened. Yes, a telegraph
operator has fainted. The curses ? Oh ! a
disappointed reporter whose " stub'" will
be two minutes late in consequence, and his
paper may not be on tho press before the
law b Victim is dead. But the key is soon
manned, and while the news is flashed to
waiting thousands cold-blooded doctors,
watches in hand, feel for the last throb of
the Victims heart,5 * if +R
And as we cleaceud.the great steno steps
A Hairless Horse.
Some weeks ago we gave a description
and illustration of a horse with phenomenal
growth of the hair of the mane and tail, the
rest of his coat being quite normal, • In the
present issue we give an example of the op-
posite extreme, from a life study of the
curious animal portrayed. This is a horse
absolutely destitute of hair. Neither neck
nor tail nor any part of the body shows the
least hirsute growth. The texture of the
skin is silky and smooth the color is almost
a full black. The animal is of rather heavy
type, and with his delicate surface does not
produce any unpleasant impression. There
are said to be two such horses known to
exist in the country. One of them was
foaled in the west ; the other is credited to
Australia. The akin in one of these animals
is affected curiously, the perspiratory func-
tion seeming to be absent. The horse does
not sweat when exercised, and the mouth or
nose seems to provide the escape for what
would otherwise be true skin perspiration.
—Scientific American.
•
The Boons of the Young Man.
One-eighth of the population may be put
in this category—that is, that there are
7,500,000. young men in America. Only 15
in every 100 go regularly to church. Out
of each 100 some 75 never go. Only 5 per
cent. of the total number are Christians,
viz., 375,000. In our jails there are 150,000
prisoners, 70 per cent. of 'whom are young
men, Only one-fifth of the active criminals
are ever; in Jail at any one time. This would
make our criminal population number 750,-
000, of -which total 500,000 are young men !
These are appalling statistics.—St. Lords
Republic.
Gilbert's "Opbelia.'
In "The Mountebanks," W. S. Gilbert's
new opera, one of the songs that made a
great bit relates to the story of " Hamlet."
Two of the characters discuss Ophelia's
untimely end, and one of these makes a
suggestion. Here is the song :
• Ophelia was a dainty little maid
Who loved a very melancholy Dane,
Whose affection of the heart was, itis said,
Preceded by affection of the brain.
Whp was born to the crown,
Ile thought lightly of her passion,
Having wandered up and down
In an incoherent fashion
When she found he wouldn't wed her,
In the river, in the meaddor,
Took a header, and a deader
Was Ophelia.
Then coma the suggestion :
Ophelia Whom nobody could feel compassion for ;elix to her sex was a disgrace
Ophelia should have gone to Ely Place
To consult an eminent solicitor.
When such promises as these
Breaks }•suitor rich and regal,
Why,
a panacea legaial l
a jury—sons of Adam,
Though as stony as Macadam,
Maid or madam, she'd have had 'ern,
Would Onheiia.
It is estimated that the right hand of a
good compoaitor in taking type from the
frame to the stick while setting up 9,000
ems in eight hours covers a distance of 36,000
eel.
—Why is necessity like some lawyers 2
Because it knows no law.
-J. Gould is proprietor of the largest
watering place in the world—his office.
GERMANY has the sectarian education
trouble in an aggravated form. The new
education bill makes religious teachings as
compulsory as any Ontario enthusiast could
desire, and the prospects are that unless it
is greatly modified several ministerial resig-
nations will follow. Old Catholics, Uni-
tarians, Greeks, Anglicans, Jews, Nieto,
all must be educated as Catholics, or as
Lutherans. The Emperor says he is de-
termined, to crush out the liberal religions.
Others before him have undertaken time
task, with what success let history tell.,
The state hand is not expert in the. Ilse of
the sword of the spirit..
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o„„,;"J A Chinese Execution Ground.
In Canton, China, is a small, triangulss
quarteracre lot walled on two sides only,
the other open to the street, where 100,000
persons have been executed within 25 years.
The earth is red with blood, and all about
are signs and implements of decapitation,
crucifixion and other horrible tortures.
Boyish Pleasure.
Tid-Bits:-" Why do you not eat your
orange, Tommy ?"
"I'm waiting till Johnny Briggs comes
along. Orangee taste much better when
there's some other little boy to watch you
eat 'em,
Perspiring Feet.
Wear tow shoes, wool socks and dust the
feet over twice a day with iodol; they will
soon be as hard, sweet and comfortable as
one could wish.—Pharmaceutical Era,
A Sure Remedy.
Texas Siftings : Jones—Are you going to
put all your fortune into the toboggan
slide ? You must be crazy 1
Smith—Not at all. There is a heap of
money to be made in the business.
" But the craze will soon die out ; what
will you do then ?"
" I will get the minister to denounce it
as immoral and the craze will be greater
ban ever."
An Aerial Postal Line..•
A company has been formed in Chicago
for the purpose of rapidly transmitting
mail matter and packages by overhead
cables, the motive power being electricity.
It is proposed to construct a aeries of lines
stretching high enough to avoid the tallest
buildings, the wires radiating from the post
office to all central distributing pointe, and
being strong enough to carry tons of mail.
Old Found-1)rowned's Lament.
"I have always wished," soliloquized
the coroner pensively, " that I could have
held this office immediately after the flood."
A Laudable Ambition.
Alton Sentinel: What a young man
who has a beat girl wants is to hold his own.
Organ vs. Congregation.
Topeka Capital Minister—I think we
should have congregational singing.
Organist—Then we must have a new
organ.
" Why so ?"
" This instrument isn't powerful enough
to drown 'em out."
An exchange says that a girl can keep her
feet dry without rubbers this way : "A sheet
of heavy or blotting paper, out out to fit the
shoe, can easily be slipped in before the shoe
is donned, and will be as efficient a protec.
tion as a cork sole." The girl who tries
that must not expect to wear a piece of blot-
ting paper more than one day, however.
"You don't bring your wife with you, Mr,
Jones," said the small boy of the house, ad-
dressing the visitor. " No, my, boy, would
you like to see her?" " Yes. Leastways,
1 would like to see her thumb." " See her
thumb t What do you want to see her
thumb for? " Well, ma says your wife
keeps you under her thumb, and I'd like to
see it, for it must be a pretty big one."
—If a man is stronger than his neighbor,
his additional strength was not given
him to fight his neighbor, but to protect
him.
The new census of the Penobscot Indian
tribe shows the tribe to number 386, a gain
of nine during the year. They raised 3,500
bushels of potatoes in 1891.
Acknowledged.
New York Herald : Harry—Wasn't
Belle angry when you complained. of her
dancing ?
Jack—Yes, because she had to
acknowledge the corn.
Kate Field's definitian of plagiarism, a
"lack of skill in effacing coincidences,"
• scarcely comes up to a western clergyman's
idea, who described it as a " case of morbid
ly retentive memory reacting upon unusual
receptivity of mind and producing uncon•
scions assimilation ideas."
Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso will soon
be connected by a railroad, there being but
forty-nine miles of track not completed.
There are now some 700 miles open to
traffic.
—A naturalist says spiders usually live
two or three years. That is when they are
very fly.
At informal gatherings a great deal of full
can be extracted by the introduction of a
game called " rushing rhymes." Penciland
paper is given each guest ; at a certain sig-
nal they begin to write, and at the end of a
specified time, say fire minutes, what has
been written must be read. A com>rtittee
is selected to decide on the merits of the dif-
ferent literary efforts and award the prizes
—In the bright lexicon of speculation
there is nothing eo uncertain as a sure
thing.
t3
—Receipts for snaking restaurant chicken
salad should begin t "First catch your
cal1.'y,
1T'M at
Tired Feeling
Is a dangerous condition directly due
to depleted or impure blood. It should
not be allowed to continue, as in its
debility the system is especially Liable
to serious attache of illness. It is re-
markable how beneficial Hood's Sarsa-
parilla is in this enervating state. Pos-
sessing just those elements which the
system needs and readily seizes, this
medicine purifies the blood, and im-
parts a feeling of strength and self-con-
fidence. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best
remedy for that weakness which pre-
vails at change of season, climate or life.
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
CARTER'S
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IVER
PILLS.
CURE
Sick Headache and rel'eve all thexroubles inti,
dent to a bilious state of the system, snch'•tth
Dizziness, Nausea. Drowsiness Distress after
eating Pain in the Side, &c. While theft -mote
remarkable success has been shown in curing
SACK
Headache, yet CARTER'S Luer.!~ .r..,w :a PiLa
are equally valuable in Constipation, curing
and preventing this annoyingeorntaint, while
they also correct all disorders of of the stomach,
stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels,
Even if they only cured
EAD
Ache they would be almost priceless to those.
who suffer froth this distressing complaint••
but fortunately their goodness does not exalt
here, and those who once try them will find,
these little pills valuable in so many ways that:
they will not be willing to do without them..
But after all sick head
is the bane of so many lives that here is where
we make our great boast. Our pills cure it
while others do not.
CARTER'S LITTLE LrvEn Pecs are very small
and very easy to take. One or two pills make
a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do
not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action
please all who use them. In vials at 25 cents;
live for $1. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail.
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" I believe it is to the use of Hood's
Sarsaparilla that I owe my present
health. In the spring, I got so com-
pletely run down I could not eat or
sleep, and all the dreaded diseases of
life seemed to have a mortgage on my
system. I was obliged to abandon my
work, and after seeking medical treat-
ment and spending over eco for different
preparations, I found myself no better.
Then my wife persuaded me to try a
bottle of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Before
the first bottle was gone I began to
amend. I have now used two bottles
and have gained 22 pounds. Can cat
anything without it hurting me; my
dyspepsia and biliousness have gone.
1 never felt better in my Iife." W. V.
EULOWs, Lincoln, 111.
Makes the '
Weak Str g
"Early last spring I was very much
run down, had nervous headache, felt
miserable and all that. i was very
much benefited by hood's SarsaparilEa
and recommend it." Mits. J. M. TAY..
LOR, Xtxq'Euclid Avc., CIeveland, 0.
"1 was very much run down in health,
had no strength and no inclination to
do anything. I have been taking
Hood's Sarsaparilla and that tired feel-
ing has left me,'my appetite has re-
turned, I am like a new man." CIiAUN-
CEY, LATHAM, North Columbus, Ohio.
F
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Soli by druggists. t 1; six for 85.
only by 0.1. IIOOD d°s co., Lowell, "
100 Dose4 ?tie Dollar
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The skin of a black deer is worth about
X500.
Professor Heilprin will lead the Peary
relief expedition.
Scientists figure it out that a man breathes
seven hogsheads of air a day.
A breed of wild pigs has been discovered
in Queensland, which climbs trees.
A girl in Norway must be able to bake
bread before she can have a beau.
Colorado cliff dwellers are said by scion•
tiata to have existed 10,000 years ago.
A carpet -tacking party is the Iateet
Missouri invention for evening festivities.
The highest velocity ever imparted to ta,
cannon -ball is estimated at 1,626 feet a
second.
Trunks for travellers are now made of
paper pulp that has been subjected to great
pressure.
It is confidently predicted that the in-
coming Iowa legislature will repeal the pro•
hibitory law.
Chicago is to have an Edison electrie
plant which will cost $1,000,000 and be the
largest in the world.
The world is full of men so engaged in
saying " Amen" that they fail to see the
contribution basket.
It is torbidden to use the words " hurt
ger " or " famine " in Kayau, Russia, buts
the people are starving there.
Miss Frances' E. Willard's return to
health is noted by a Chicago paper, but her
secretary is ill with the grip.
A factory near Paris makes 20,000,000
quill toothpicks a years, and is the largest
establishment of the kind in the world.
" A man can accomplish a great deal,"
said the Missouri judge, "if he only has
time—therefore, I give you four years 1"
—One of the highest offices in the gift of
the United States Government is that of
watchman in the Washington monument.
Hundreds of fish are still alive in the „
royal aquarium in St. Petersburg that
were placed there more than 150 years ago.
Before he came to New York to grow
famous as a millionaire Rufus Hatch had
acquired a local celebrity in Indianapolis as
an organist.
Maude—Congratulate me, Clara ; Pm
engaged. Clara—Well, you've been mighty
quick about it. Here it ie only the second
week of leap year.
Washington Star : A beautiful New
Year's anthem should be written on the
office towel and entitled, " Wring out the
old, ring in the now."
The Department of Agriculture states
that the posterity of one female sparrow in
ten years is something like twohundred and
seventy-six billion birds.
George R. Sims, of London, is out on the,
Northern Pacific coast with $5,000,000
at
British capital to invest in American pro.
parties on Puget Sound,
Ho who imitates what is evil always geed
beyond the example that is set ; on the con
teary, he who imitates what is good always
falls short.--Quiccias'dini.-
No one objects to a btrike in a oleelr
factory.