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When Horace lased to tilng.
"Don't you remenaber Horace, Brown g
Our ebaging nmeter—nouree you Io.
There waon't ;nen lo all the towe
Could pitch a tune an' fCarq it thrOr
Like Iforace, nivery Sunday night
He'd standee' ineke the old church ring.
It helped the parson out a sight
When Horace used to sing.
Ohs voice wets tenor—so they said—
I've never heard another like it,
efie every hymn. the nevem read,
No ometer whet the tune—he'd otrike it.
seGreenvalle," "Boylston" or "Isleyers
He'd sing in praise unto his King,
.An' many an eye with tears was dim
When Horace used to sing.
He was a eerie feller, too ;
Not like the most of men Yoe meet;
Maybe he wouldn't speak to you
af you ehould meet him on the street
Sometimes. nut, I,or', that was his way
Ile waren put out 'bout anything.
Somehow that feelin' didn't stay
When he began to sing.
'Teats twenty years since I've been home,
.An' things have changed a sight somehow;
3 couldn't rest, so thought I'd come
An' see how the old town looked now.
I've seen the old church standing there,
The pillar where the ivies cling,
climbed the narrow gallny stair,
Where Horace used to sing.
'It almost seemed that lie muat be
Within that place he loved so well,
.Aen those old tunes come back to me
On which his sweet voice rose and fell.
I've home them foreign fellers soar,
An' split their throats, but couldn't bring
Me tears that come in days a yore
When normalised to sing.
Ne's dead, you say—that voice is lost/
I don't believe it—never will.
In that fair land with streets embossed
In shinin' gold, he's single still.
He's leadin now an angel choir,
An' makes the courts of heaven ring,
aan' some day when I get up higher
rn hear old Horace sing.
"0 41 "
3
•••••••••••......
(Edgar Yates in the Boston Globe.)
• "It IRST of all, inasmuch as the evil
genius of this story is the young
man in the Globe counting -room
who ha a to sort and distribute the
replies to " anaall want ads," I
wish to apologize to him right
here and now, and to assure him
that this incident never did really
la,ppen, and couldn't possibly happen, ex-
cept in a story—and that, of course, is this
story.
Capt. Sprowl threw his hat on the bed,
and eat down in his easy °heir in the cabin
to light his pipe. Up curled the smoke,
and through it the captain looked ruefully
at a neat package that lay on the table.
"What a fool I was to buy that," he
thought. "Old sextant was plenty good
enough, though I have had it nine years.
Bought it in Liverpool when I was second
mate of the Julia A. Smith. And now I've
put out a month's earnings for a new one.
What possessed me, I don't know.
And to the captain went on.
Now, Capt. Sprowl was not, you might
think from the name, a bald-headed old
xnan with bushy whiskers.
No, names are very misleading. Instead,
be was tall and slender, with a sandy
mustache, and had not a gray hair in his
head.
He came from Maine, and, although but
BO years old, he had been for six years cap-
tain of the bark Edna Dann, which was
now lying at Constitution wharf in Boston,
discharging her cargo of sugar.
"Well," puffed the captain, "nothing to
do now but to get rid of the old sextant. I
should go ashore next trip if I had two sex-
tants to navigate by. Must work the
t old one off on some landlubber or some-
elOilitiner" 'body."
The package was lying on an old news-
paper—a Globe—which be had read through
and through oa his last trip mite
"The very thing !" said he " I'll put a
notice in the paper; 'Sextant for sale,
cheap,' and if somebody doesn't bite at it I
miss my guess."
The next morning the only thing the cap-
tain could see in the paper was this:
Sextant for sale be, a ship captain nearly
new and in perfect order; will be sold cheap.
Address 041, Globe office.
And now my story's begun.
Etta. Bourne had been at work in a milli-
nery store in Boston for nearly two years.
,She and her older sister Annie had learned
the trade with the 'village milliner down in
Ketmebunk.
But Annie who had long been the belle of
the village, got married. and Etta concluded
to try her fortune in Boston.
She was full of ambition.
So it fell that, in her two years in the
millinery store, she studied shorthand and
typewriting, with the indention of fitting
herself to be a confidential clerk.
One Sunday she saw in the Globe this ad-
vertisement
For Sale—Jones' Premier typewriter at half
price; been used less than a month; in perfect
order. .teddress 047, Globe office.
Etta Bourne, being a Maine Yankee,
knew a bargain when she saw it. She
wanted to own her own typewriter, and so
she wrote a brief note addressed to " 0 47,
Globe Office," asking where the machine
could be seen, and dropped it into the letter
box as she went to work Monday morning.
Now, I said at the beginning that the ad-
vertising clerk was to blame. Perhaps the
mistake was partially that of Etta Bourne.
At any rate it will never be known.
The clerk was sorting the replies and
putting them in their appropriate boxes.
When it came to Etta Bourne's letter to
"0 47," he read it " 0 41," and put it in
the pigeon -hole as such.
That was a very, very little mistake, of
• course; but you who have noticed how
things go in this world of oars have discov-
ered that the most serious changes in the
course of our lives come about from just
au& little happenings.
For it was that very day that Captain
Sprowl advertised his sextant for sale. And
Capt. Sprowl was" 041."
Now, the tall captain was a very busy
man, and it was late that afternoon before
he went to the office to gather in the replies
from people who were anxious to buy a
sextant.
But the sextant market was apparently
rather dun, for all the clerk could give him
was one solitary letter. The captain tore
the envelope open and tossed it aside.
"1 saw your advertisement in the Globe,"
read the captain. "1 with to buy a good
second-hand machine of standard make,
and if the one you offer is in perfect repair,
And the price ie satisfactory, perhaps we
can trade. But I cannot givo more than
$50, and if you eels more you need not reply
to this. Send address, stating Where
machine can be aeon, to IT. E. Bourne, 450
Winter street."
" Well," soliloquised the captain, "I've
got one answer, anyhow. But what does a
woman want of a sextant—for thia is cer-
tainly a woman's writing She seems to
• be in earnest, though. And $50! Coe -
violence ! I never expected to get more
than $25. Well, she'll have to mine on
board, I suppose, ao I'll send her my ad-
dreso. And, standing at the public desk,
he wrote :
H. E. Bourne.
Dear Mios„—Youta it) reply to my advertise -
malt in the Ofobela at band. Please call on
me on board the lairtimICdna Dunn. Constitu-
thin wharf,. lactween 2 and 6.
Ersiviet E. Solemn, Contain.
The nettrafternOtai about 4, a trim little
agure walked. rapidly °veal he rough planks
of Censtittition wharf.
WS a miter place to find a emond-hand
typewriter;" the -tight Etta Bourne, "but I
OunPose the captain got fired of it, or
couldn't use it because the yeasel pitched
eo, or something like that."
She saw the gilt letters "Edna Dunn.,"
A fat; bald -heeded Man with a little ging.
ham apron on, looked out at the door of •a
box -like house in the middle of the vessel.
A broad plank extended from the wharf
across the bulwarks. The man in the
apron mono forward.
"1 wish to see Capt Sprowl," said she.
"Yes, Adm. Come right aboard, mini,
on that there plank, mim, The captain's
down in his cabin, mina,"
Etta Bourne stepped hastily along the
plank, and the ettout cook,putting his broad
palms under her elbows, lilted her lightly to
the deck.
This way, inim!" and he led her around
to the atter companionway,
They went down the braserailecl entire,
and, as the cook knocked at the door, Etta
noticed how vide and open everything
1°°Akseda.matter of fact, the captain, in view
of a lady's visit, had kept the cook scouring
the wood and brasswork all the forenoon.
"Captain, sir, a lady wishes to see ye."
The captain, with balf an hour's work in
his four-in-hand, bowed respectfully.
"1 am Mies Bourne," began Etta ; "1
came in response to your acIvertieement in
the Globe about a—"
"Yes ma'am," said the captain, "this is
the place. Will you take a seat ?"
As Etta sank into an easy chair she
glanced about her in astonishment. She
had no idea that those little low houses on
ship's deck were so comfortable as this.
Here was a dainty little sitting -room,
with a rich, soft carpet, a hanging lamp
of elaborate design, huge plush easy chairs
and sofa, a pretty rattan rocker and a table
strewn with the latest magazines.
"1 beg your pardon," said the tall cap-
tain, who had been looking curiously at
her, "but are you not related to Miss
Annie Bourne, of Kennebunk ?"
" Why, yes, indeed, she is my own
sister," answered Etta with animation.
"1 used to go tu 'whoa with her in the
old Berwick Academyyears ago, but I
didn't know she had a sister."
"Oh, yes, I went to the academy myself,
but it was after she graduated."
"And was old Brown principal when
you were there ?"
From this they went on for ten minutes,
and each knew so many that the other did
that they soon became old acquaintances.
The captain at once noticed that she was
a remarkably neat and pleasant little
woman, and Etta Bourne thought the
captain a fine-looking man, tall and strong.
"Well, Capt. Sprowl," said she finally,
"1 mustn't forget what I came for. I be-
lieve you have a machine that you wish to
sell ?"
"Why, yes," ;laid the captain, wonder-
ing what on earth this attractive young
woman could want of a sextant.
" And how did you come to want to sell
it," pursued she, wondering what use this
sea captain had for a typnwriter.
"Well, the fact is said the captain,
reddening a little, "1 bought a new one
the other day, when I didn't really need it,
and, of course, I haven't use fer two.
.And," continued he, "since turn about is
fair play, I am going to ask you what you
want of one."
"To earn a living with," said she.
The captain looked puzzled as he went
into hies stateroom to get his sextant. He
had heard that women were becoming the
rivals of men in almost every trade and
profession, and he vaguely wondered if Miss
Bourne was intending some three to ,becotne
Capt. Bourne.
"Well," said he, coming back and bold-
ing the sextant out toward. her, "here it is.
The ivory on the scale is a little yellow, and
the Vernier glass has a little crack across
the outer edge, but"
He stopped. Miss Bourne was holding up
her hands with amazement.
"Why—why—what is this?" she stam-
mered.
".Why, it's the sextant" said the cap-
tain. I thought you knew what they
looked like."
"Bub there's some misunderstanding
here. I dbn't have any use for e sextant.
It was a typewriter that I understand you
had to sell.•
"A typewriter," said the captain, aston-
ished in turn. " Why, no. Here's the ad-
vertisement," and he put the paper in hcr
hands.
Now. as I have mid, Etta Bourne was a
Maine Yankee, and in less than ten seconds
she had guessed how the miatake was made.
"Well, now,"u said the captain, "1
thought it was awful funny that a woman.
should want to buy a sextant. Now you
have disappointed. me I don't see how I
am going to sell it, unfese I leave it at the
instrument makers and let him get what he
can for it."
Oddly enough from this point this story
runs along so naturally that you can tell it
yourself.
The tall captain escorted Miss Bourne up-
town, called on her two or three times while
he was in port, corresponded with her when
he was away, and in lees than a year this
notice appeared in the marriage column of
the Globe:
&mom-Somme—In Hennebunk, Me., May
• 8th, at the residence of the bride's parents.
Capt. Edward It. Sprowl and Henrietta E.
Bourne.
And now my story is done.
A Few Temperance Nolen.
One drunk may cost more than the value
of many lives.
The drinker courts disease and gives his
offspring in marriage to insanity.
Gladstone has given the world another
grand axiom ; " There can be no inequality
without degradation."
I want," says Sir, Wilfred Lawson,
"the hearthstone vote. Every person in
the household of full age should have a vote
to preserve the purity of the home."
The sixteenth annual report of the British
Women's Temperance Association gives a
list of 48 new branches and 11 Y brandies
gained to the association during the year,
bringing up the total number of ;societies to
577.
We learn from the Hobart press,- that at
the invitation of Lady Hamilton eighty
ladies assembled at Government House to
meet MiSS Jessie Ackermann'missionary
of the Woman's Christiat Temperance
Union. That lady gave an interesting
address on her work in connection with the
orgattization he represeat's, Lady Hamil-
ton expressed her sympathy with all phases
of religious and temperance work carried
on by the women.
The Sweet Baby.
Those ovenfond parents : "0h, Tem, the
baby is so sweet t To -day he took off his
Shoe and thtew it in the fire, and when I
told him that he was a bad, bad boy, he
only ead N h.' "
Nab,' eh? Well, what do you think
I'm Made of—money ? Thatn the Eetoncl
pair ho's lost itt a week." Atithrela may be greatly relieved by soak
Oh, no dear ; it woo the mate of the ing blotting or tissue paper in strong salt
ono be tore'te pieces," ' petre watet ; dry it, theii burn it at night:
" Oh, thrtide differeint—iertInhe cunning ?" in the aleeping room.
TELE DISABILITY Or SEX.
Are Women 1.e58 Moral or Ideallati a
Than Men?
There's an old, old problem, the solution
of which the world le gradually working
out, but at a rate of progress too Blow for
the impatient ones who fail to comprehend
the vastness of he field to be covered or
the prodigality of time in which evolution-
ary processes are comialeted. It came into
the world with Eve, oo theologians tell ea,
and it has occupies1 the masculine mbad
more or less ever since, Indeed, I am of
opinion that the presence of the problem is
about all that saves one minas from abso-
late vacuity. The problem is woman, An
unchivalrous and cowardly • theology
has charged to her account all
the inherent ineanness of masculin-
ity ; mythologists have worshipped
her as a goddeos and feared her as a power
malign ; our anceetors pictured her as both
fairy and witch. Vedas, Zencl.Avestas,
Bibles and Korans have preocribed rules for
her as subject, but she has remained queen.
Parliaments, synods, court's, assemblies.
have circumscribed her sphere of libertyand
action, but their "thus far" has had little
restraining effect upon the evolutionary
wave of femininity. Mankind has fought
and bled for her; has in turn treaten her
as superior, equal, slave and plaything ;
has been her worshipper, her tool • has
tyrannized over her; and'through it all the
race progresses toward its destiny.
A lady friend sends me, with a request for
my opinion of it, the following from the
National Observer
"Woman is incapable of an ideal ; and in
her best aotions, as in her worst, she is in-
dependent of morals, With Celts and
negroes, she is emotionally spiritual ; yet
her religiosity is no proof of a soul, but
rather of an insane habit of body. In con-
versation, no doubt, she is unapproachable.
* * * But a good tongue is no proof of
discretion, ani, indeed, a little wit is
valuen in a woman, as we are pleased with
a few word e spoken plainly by a parrot."
God pity the woman who becomes the
pet, the toy, the slave of the author of such
a sentiment !
Woman incapable of an ideal ! Why,
the sentence is a libel, of which the world's
literature is the refutation. Who wrote
" Romola "? Do not women contribute
their full share to the literature of idealism?
Whose brains have best idealized, whose
pens best portrayed,in philosophical fistion
the hypocrisy, the vices, the follies and the
reforms of our age? Woman not idealistic,
indeed! Hasn't she won her way into un-
generous recognition, often under cover of a
masculine nom de plume that she might
escape the handicap of our unreasoning
prejudice of Sex? Consider her disabilities,
legal, theological, social, literary, and then
wonder at her enrichment of the literature
of idealism.
"That she is "independent of morals,"
and that her religiosity is proof only of "an
insane habit of body," are scarcely worth
discussing. There are moral women and
immoral women; but the world is largely
what our mothers and sisters have made
it. If there ever shall come a time when
women generally are immoral, the outlook
for humanity will be dark indeed.
Character building is largely a mother's
function. She may be "independent of
morals" ; she may act according to her
nature ; but if the tendency of her nature
be to cultivate and perpetuate truth and
courage and nobility, and to make war upon
falsehood and villainy, we need trouble our•
selves very little about whether ehe does so
because she acts according to her nature or
because she fears she would be eternally
eteasted.,Af she acted otherwise. -
Nor ia religiosity any more a proof of "an
insane habit of body" than it is of the exits-.
tence of a soul. I am prepared toadmit
that were it not for the devotion of woman
to the cause of religion there would be—in
Christian countries at least—many preach-
ers out of emdloyment and many a to -let
card on the church doors. But what does
that prove? She may err in judgment, but
her instinct is not often at fault. and man-
kind generously pardons her errors in detail
when the sum total of her work is reckoned
up. The world is the gainer. And then if
religiosity be an evidence of insanity how
shall we elaasify the world's religious great
men? Or is there one rule for men and an-
other for women? Is there sex disability
in logic as in law and theology?
There are women who exhibit very little
of the celesfial. There are men so much
lower than the angels that they are very
near the brutes. And there are brilliant
men with brutal instincts.
There are men alio marry to obtain a
servant, an ornament, a toy. Diamonds are
a very poor article of diet; and. even
diamonds in the rough are not found in
every bit of limestone.
There are women who live, to flutter in
society; who are mere lay figures on which
to display fine dress goods and laces and
millinery. They are the butterflies and
grasshoppers of the sex. But in real life
men do not look to butterflies • and grass-
hoppers for sweets; they depend on the
provident bee.
There are brainless men who prove leaden
weights to high-minded women, whose re-
pressed mentality yet rescues the progeny of
such unions from the degeneration of idiocy.
And there are healthy -minded men and
women who unite for love, for companion-
ship, for mutual harpiness ; wbo view each
other as equals, as complementary parts of
a perfect pair; with whom there is no
question of superiority or inferiority. To
them genius is without sex; it is divine.
Burns saw the time coming when man '
kind would " brithers be for a' that." In
this later age we see the flush of the dawn
of the happier time when they will be
brothers and sisters.
No proof of a soul in woman, indeed !
Was it the author of such a libel who, when
a boy, wondered why he never saw any
pictures of "he angels " ? You see, the
artists' instincts are generally in the direc-
tion of the?' stream of tendency."
The saddest commentary on the sex that
I could gather from the excerpt sent me is
that the writer of it had a mother.
MASQUE/TB.
Precisely.
Featherstone—You get all your clothes
made in London, don't you? How do you
continue to have them fit?
Ringway—They don't fit. That's what
makes them look so English.—C/oafer and
Furnisher.
Didn't Mee It.
Skidds—Why did you leave your neW
boarding house? Didn't Mrs, Small pro-
mise to treat you like one of the family?
Gasket—Yes. That's why I left.
Tried. '
Cora—You'd make a trusted bank cashier,
Jake.
Jake (much fla,ttered)—Why so, dear?
Cora (yawning) — You'd never "skip
onL»
Inn FUNNY Wig.
ahe Talks u Fellow to Beath MIA Rualltia
Him for not Saying a Word,
The talkative girl is apt fit be pretty and
vivacioun She °uteri: the parlor with a
little rush—a mixture of eleverlyhdorte im-
patience and eagerneee to be with you—and
greens you entlainiastically. "Oh, good
evening, Mr, Vaal Dyke! Row good of you!
you don't know surprised I was when the
girl brought up your card. I was not ex-
pecting such Nomura after the way you
have treeted us lately; it meat be weeks
and weeks 'since you've been here. I hope
I haven't kept you waiting Jong; but you
men who have sisters know fleet a girl can't
possibly dress in two minute's, no matter
what the shied.
"What have you been doing with your-
self? Yeti look awfully pale. You haven't
been rushing society too hard, have you?
I haven't met you anywhere since Lena
Mineral german. And did you know that
Lena'a engaged? Actually—at kat 1 It's
announced now. To Mr. Hicks, the blonde -
whiskered man who lea. Oh, hen awfully
sweet.! I wouldn't mind having him my-
self."
And so the young lady rambles on with-
out a single pause until you rise. Then she
says:
Ohl must you be going? It's very early
yet. Do Conte again. I've had a moat
delightful evening. It's such a pleasure
to talk to a genuinely intellectual man.
Give my love to your sisters, and tell them
I'm coming to see them soon. I'm going
through my liet now; but they're down in
the lan, and I've only got to the M.'s. Well,
good ni,ght then, Mr. Van Dyke—good
night 1'
Then the Talkative) Girl goes upstairs and
throws herself wearily on the sofa in her
mother's room.
" Oh ! these men make me so tired! she
exclaims. "That Mr. Van Dyke was here
this evening, and—well t—if he didn't make
me do all the talking! Positively, he
hadn't a word to say for himself. Not the
ghost 01 50 idea, I think it is the height of
impudence for a man to call on a girl and
expect her to do all the entertaining. If he
wants to be amused why don't he pay $1.50
and go to the theatre? But these society
men haven't brains enougb to tie their own
neckties 1"—Pv.d.
• STEVER BY IIGHTNING.
A Doctor Deserilbes Ills Experience With
the Electric, Fluid.
Dr. John K. McKinley, of Perth, who was
struck by lightning last week, has written
a letter giving an account of his unique ex-
perience. The • doctor says "Making a
visit to the farm of my brother, he, with his
two men, were cultivating a crop of pota-
toes when a thunder shower suddenly arose,
and to escape getting wet the three hid
behind a large granite rock near a green
maple tree, myself standing under an
umbrella quite close to the others. As
the shower was drawing to a close the
lightning seemed to be so near as to
call forth sorne remark, and then sod-
denly I experienced a sensation or know-
ledge of something happening, followed
by complete obliviousnese. After a period
of probably five or ten minutes, as nearly
as can be ascertained, light and returning
consciousness prompted me to look around
at my companions. They were lying close
together, evidently dead. On a closer
examination the eyelids twitched slightly,
as well as the muscles of the arms and legs.
I realized at once that the cause of the
disaster was a lightning stroke, and set
about trying to resuscitate them with such
means as I had at my disposal, and was soon
rewarded by knowing that one, at least,was
slowly, though surely, gaining. The other
two, though they gained slightly at first,
seemed the second time to sink, the face
becoming pale, the lips and eyelids bine,
but, after another shaking up, the circula-
tion again started afresh and recovery was
gradual from that time onward. I
myself moat have been altogether in-
sensible for at leaat from five to ten
minutes. One of the others was a full hour
before he regained partial consciousness or
multi stand without suppora The other
two were fully three-quarters of an hoer
before they could use their limbs or under-
stand nhat had happened, and all three
were far from being natural for some hours
after they received the stroke. In none of
the oases was there any pain or discomfort
experienced until consciousness returned to
them. The two most hurt felt a sickening
of the stomach, which ended in vomiting
about an hour after the accident. The third
experienced a partial paralysis of one leg,
which was burned and blistered, and the
only feeling I had was if I had received a
blow on the side of the head. The pupils of
• the eyes were strongly contracted and their
pubes rapid and weak in all the cases."
Facts About Quinine.
Perhaps no drug known to medicine is
more generally used than quinine'and,
certainly, none presents such a wide differ.
ence in price as the quinine sold six years
ago and that sold now. At that time
nearly all the cinchona bark, from wbich it
is' extracted, was brought from South
America, subject to heavy import duty.
But the duty was taken off, and this
marked the first big decline in price. Before
that time it sold for about $1 an ounce.
Shortly after this English capitalists con-
cluded that the bark could be grown in
India as well as South America, and large
plantations were purchased. The climate
and soil suited admirably, and, byScientific
i
culture, the yield was greatly ncreased.
From India the bark io largely shipped to
England and the quinine extracted, being
sent here in crystals. Because of the taking
off of the duty and the largely increased
supply, the price in quantities of 10,000
°unmet is about 20 cents per ounce.
Some time ago the rumor of a big foreign
trust caused the price to advance several
centa, but it dropped and is now lower than
before.—Philadelphia Record.
Her Exact Words.
Housekeeper—How's this? You prom-
ised to saw some wood if I gave you a
lunch.
Tramp -1 remelt no such promise! madam.
"The idea 1 I told you I'd give you a
lunch if you'd aaw some wood, and you
agreed."
"Pardon me, madam. Your exact words
were I'll gine you a lunch if, you saw
that wood over there by the gate. "
"Exactly. That'll just What I said."
" Well, madam, I saw that wood over
there by the gate as I came
ST. LEGER BETTING.
Latest English betting on the St. Leger,
to be run on September 7: 1 mile 6 fur-
longs, 132 yards -7 to 2 Orme, 5 to I Sir
Hugo 5 to 1 La Fleche, 100 to 6 The Smew,
tol The Lover, 25 to 1 St. Angelo, 33 to
I Flyaway, 66 to I Hatfield. Evens on
Onne, Sir Itugo and La Mech.) mixed, laid
nd °fired.
—" You have got a new hired girl, I see,
Miss Youngwife." "Yea, /gob her about
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most as 1 lik Plea the house.'
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
A 5 -year-old boynamed Steelwas drowned
Hull yesterday
Work is likely to be resumed at once on
the Chigneoto ship railway.
A 10 -year-old London boy named Shirlock
died yesterday of sunstroke.
Thirty-five business failures in Canada
were reported to Bradstreet's during the
past week.
The body of Edward Huddleston, drowned
at Belleville on June 8th, was recovered
yesterday.
The obolera epidemic in Persia is spread-
ing to the provinces bordering on the
Caspian Sea.
The Duke of Aosta, nephew of King Hum-
bert of Italy, is a guest of the Queen at
Windsor Castle.
Prof. T. H. Cooper' music teacher, of
Toronto, died of heartfailure at Niagara
Falls on Thursday.
An agent of a syndicate is in Manitoba
purchasing all the mulch cows he can obtain
for shipment to Japan.
• The National Convention of Colored
Democrats has adopted resolutions endorsing
Cleveland and Stevenson.
George Montieth, aged 25, of Exeter,
Ont., fell off a chair and died from heart
yesterday while shaving himself.
190A0u. article in the Paris Figaro, supposed
to be inspired by the French Government,
proposes a Universal Exposition in Paris in
The Commercial Hotel at Sanger, Cal.,
was destroyed by fire last evening.Six
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persons are said to have perished n the
flames.
John Hayden, aged 20, employed on the
new athletic club building, Toronto, was
killed yesterday by the falling on him of a
derrick.
Palacio, ex -Dictator of Venezuela, and
now an exile from his native land, arrived •
at Martinique on Thursday on his way to
Europe.
The Theatre Royal, at Birkenhead, Eng-
land, was destroyed by fire last night. The
audience had left the house before the fire
broke out.
Rev. Thos. Iaury, formerly of Barrie,
Brentford and Toronto, said to have been
the oldest Presbyterian minister hi the
Province, died neat Milverton station,
aged 81.
Mr. Balfour, a member of the India
Council, and Sir Charles Fremantle, Chief
of the Mint Department, will probably be
the British delegates to the International
Monetary Conference.
Mrs, Delia Parnell, the mother of the
lete Charles S. Parnell, has returned from
Europe. She has been abroad several
months and went to Ireland to help in the
liettlenient of her eon's estate.
THE PEG DACE.
A New Attraction at County Fairs. t
The peg race is becoming a feature at
county fairs. It is a bona fide race and ex-
ceedingly amusing as well as interesting. The
race is made to waggons, and each driver •
has to hitch his horse to the waggon on the
track and start. The waggons are brought
in and backed over against the fence on the
same side with the judges' stand with the
shafts pointing towards the centre of the
track. The horses are taken on the other
side of the track, each one directly opposite
the vehicle to which he is to go. The har-
ness is removed, all but the bridle, and hung
upon the fence. The driver stands on the
side of his horse, with the left hand holding
the bridle and facing towards the stand.
When the word is given the horses must be
harnessed to the waggons and driven a half
mile. The horse winning two heats gets
the first money. There must be no mis-
take in barnessing or hitching the horse.
No hooks are allowed. All the straps must
be buckled, and, in fact, the horse hitched
to the waggon just as he would be in ordi-
nary road driving or he is disqualified. —
Newark Sunday Call.
ADLAL E. Seevensoss, the Democratic
candidate for the Vice -Presidency, is a
comparatively unknown man outside of his
State or country. He is a Kensuckian by
birth, and first saw the light in 1835.
When he was 16 years of age he removed
to Bloomington, Ill., where he industriously
applied himself to the study of law. In
May, 1858, he was admitted to the bar. In
1874 Mr. Stevenson was nominated for con-
gress. The district was Republican by
3,000 majority, but, after a very exciting
canvass, Stevenson defeated his opponent,
Gen. John C. McNulta, for re-election by
over 1,200 majority. He was defeated for
re-election to congress in 1876, but was re•
nominated and reelected in 1878, this time
defeating his opponent, Congressman
Tipton, and being elected by over 2,000
majority. After Cleveland's election in
1884, Stevenson was appointed first assist-
ant postmasterigeneral and held that office
during the entire Cleveland administration.
He was called "the executioner" when he
was Don M. Dickinsort's first assistant.
People called him that because of the won-
derful rapidity with which he chopped off
the heads of Republican fourth•class post-
masters. Senator Ingalls calculated that
Stevenson's axe fell every fifteen minutes
for seven hours each day and. six days each
week, and every time it fell a Republican
bead fell into the basket. He controlled
45,000 appointments. Stevenson is a man
good to look at. He is tall and straight
with a bandsome gray mustache and a
round head covered with rapidly thinning
gray hair. He has regular features and
blue eyeo. He dresses well and, although
of a jovial, sociable nature, brings little of
his gayer nature into his daily business. He
is a man of very few words, but comes
direetly to the point.
• —Mother—I'm shocked to hear that
Willie Findlay whipped the poor cat. My
little boy wouldn't do such a thing. Bobby
(with conscious moraa superiority)—No, in-
deed, ma. Mother—Why didn't you atop
him? Bobby—I couldn't ma • I was hold.-
ing the cat. —Dundee Weekly News.
The Duke of York was formally connnis.
aioned commander of the Melampus yester-
day. The Prince of Wales and other mem-
bers of the royal family bade him farewell
on board the ship before he started ort a two -
months' oruise.
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