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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-1, Page 6The Step ut Cite Gate, The twilight shadows are creeping Along tne garden wall, The entumor wind comes rolling by, And showers of rose leaves fall - Where I sit et my cottage window, And dream and listen and. wait For the sound of a cheerful whistle And a well-kuoven step at the gate. Outin the kitchen, the kettle Is humming is loudest sous ; " Pm boiling," it say, " 'Us time to make to Pray, why don't you come along I" The cozy table is reedy, Rut the singing kettle must wait, Because, yon see I never make tea. 'Till I hear tho step at the gate. alv sleeps in her cradle, Dreanaing with all her might, And over both of her blossom blue oyes Are drawn their ourtains white. See! she smiles in her slumber! She seldom sleeps so late ; She'll wake in a glow of gladness When she hears the step at the gate. This is our little kingdom— This cottage with vines o'ergrown, Papa's the king, and mamma's the queen, And baby's the hem to the throne. Why lingers the king. I wonder? Supper will be so late Ah, lie is coming! 13aby, wake up! Far I hear his step at the gate. THE SPECTRE WEDDING. A Little Plot by Whiola a Stern Parent'e Consent Was Fereed. MR. MARTION DUPONT was a justice of the Peace in the little town of Marlburg. He had been elected to office at the close of war of 1812, and had acted in his present capacity •for nearly nine years. Men of Mr. Dupont's type were very common in those days and even now one does not have to search far to find one of those self-complacent,pompous gentlemen who delight in winning admiration from their associates, who always have at their tongue's end a great many stories in which they play the leading part, but who are, nevertheless, very superstitious, so much so, indeed, that a glimpse of the moon over the left shoulder or a howling dog has power to make them melancholy for a week. Having failed to secure for himself as large a share of this world's goods as he wished, Mr. Dupont was fully resolved that his two children Henry and Margaret, should not be lacking in wealth. As for his son, he very wisely concluded that a good education, added to his natural abilities, would secure for him a place in the world, and already Henry was showing the wisdom of the Irian, and by his rapid advancement in business was more than ful- tilling his father's expectations. It had always been Mr. Dupont's desire that his daughter should marry some rich man, but Margaret had fallen in love'very foolishly, according to her father's idea, with the Principal of the Marlburg High School. Charles Foster had several times pleaded his suit in vain before Mr. Dupont. There was no fault in the young man, Mr. D. rather grudgingly admitted, except that he had to depend upon his salary, but still no man should presume to become his son- in-law who had not money enough to sup- port his daughter in better style than that in which she was then living. He liked the school -teacher very well as a friend, but as a:eon-in-law—thatwas quite another matter. 'Nevertheless Charles and Margaret did not despair of their cause, although Mr. Dupont was seemingly immovable. The thought of an elopement was banished by them both as being dishonorable, and as no other plan seemed predicable they very wisely resolved to wait until some kind fate should come to their aid. This, then, was the condition of of affairs when our story begins. • Mr. Dupont's duties as justice of the Peace did not confine his law practice to • Marlburg, but veryfrequently he was called away to attend various lawsuits in neighbor- ing towns and hamlets; and it so happened that at that parbicular time he was engaged in a case of some considerable importance in an adjoining town. On account of the near- ness of the place it was Mr. Dupont's cus- tom to drive his own horse back and forth and to spend his nights at home. One night, on account of an unusual press of business, he was obliged to stay beyond his'ordinary time of leaving, and after the • work wart completed he yielded to the urgent invitation of his client to chat for a few moments. As they puffed • away at the choice Havanas they began to tell each other of various exciting ad- ventures and wonderful experiences. Time slipped away so rapidly that it was after 10 o'clock before Mr. Dupont suddenly remembered that a seven mile drive lay be- tween him and his home. Hastily bidding his friend good-bye, he started for the hotel stable to get his horse. The weather had changed while the two gentlemen hadbeen chatting, and now the ominous stillness and the cloudy sky ad- monished Mr. Dupont that if he wished to get home before the rain began to fall he must hasten. Hastily throwing a quarter to the sleepy hostler, he sprang into the buggy and set out on his homeward way. The road home was a lonely one • houses were few and far between and a few miles out of Marlburg some lonely woods lined the road on either side, an adjoining the woods was a graveyard. As Mr. Dupont drove on into the darkness he began to become nervous, the weird stories that he had just been hearing kept flashing through his mind, a great many wrong deeds of his life oame before him, magnified by the darkness and solitude, and among other things he began to wonder if he was doing just right in refusing his consent to his daughter's marriage. In this frame of mind he approached the woods; in- voluntarily he tried to quicken his horse's pace, but the darkness and the low murmurings of thunder seemed to have affected the horse, too, and the sagacious brute tried constantly to slacken his pace. How lonely it seemed • there, no houses, no living being—nothing but the dead in the graveyard beyond. Suddenly the horse stopped and snorted. Mr. Dupont saw two white figures suddenly dart into the road; one etood beside his • horse, and the other beckon," him to de- scend from his waggon. His hair rose, and his tongue seemed glued to his mouth. The silence was terrible, If those white beings would only :Teak ; but no sound came from them. At bet in desperation he stammered out: "Where are you, and what do you mean by stopping me here in this way?" We are epirits of the departed dead," a eepulehral voice replied, " and we have need of your servicea descend froni your vehicle, fib as we bid you, and on. the Word •of a ghost you shall not be harmed." The terrified lawyer &mended and stood by the speaker's side, while the other ghost tied his horse to a tree and joined them. " Yield yourself entirely to uli and you shall be eafe, ' said the spokesman. You must needwalk far and must allow us to blindfold your eyee, in order that you may not discover before pent' time the way to the land of the shades. No mote words must be spoken. Obey." Mn Duporit was so terrified that he could not speak, and in silenee allowed a cloth to be hound over his twee ; then, escorted, by his ghostly companions, he began to walla It 'mined to him that he would never be allowed to stop ; iiecouds eeemed ages ; every attempt of his to epear was checked by impatime groans of his guides. At last, after walking half around, the earth, as it seemed to him, he realized that he was being piloted up some steps, and by the feeling of warmth be knew that he had left the open air. "he Jestice of the Peace may be seated," said the ghost who had done all the talking. Mr. Dupont at down and the cloth was quickly removed from his eyes, revealing to his astoniahed gem the interior of a room dimly lighted by WaX candles. Every side was hung with Week ourtabss, and on four black -covered stools facing him sat four white -robed spectres, while beside him steed another dressed like his companions. Be- fore he had time to more than wonder at his strange surroundings the spokesman began: " Mr. Dupont, we have a solepan duty for you to yerform. You area justice of the peace in the world of the living, and a man dear to us on aecount of your noble life ; therefore are you here. We have in. these abodes of the dead two young shades recently come from the other world. Each of these died of a broken heart because a stern parent forbade them to marry? What do you, think, air, of such a parent as that l" Mr. Dupont wiggled about uneasily in hie chair, and at last said: " I think, good shade, it was very wrong of him." "We knew you would," resumed the ghost, "because you are a kind man and one who loves his children. Now, do we understand you to say that if the poor girl had been your child it would never have happened ?" Surely it never would," replied the frightened Mr. Dupont. • We have not misjudged you, then," replied the shade, while the other four ghosts nodded approvingly. "We have summoned you in order that you may unite them in wedlock, so that in this world at least they may be happy. Such a marriage as this is not common among us, so we brought you here, a good justice of the peace, rather than a minister, who might have been shocked ab these proceedings. You can marry them jest as well as a clergyman. Now, sir, will you oblige us by marrying these two shades? If you will consent you may depart at onoe to your home. Will you ? " Marry the two shades? Of course he would; anything to get away from this terrible spot. And so, without the pre- caution of atipulating his fee, he stam- mered out: "Oh, yes, surely; anything you wish." No sooner had he given his consent than one of the black curtains was drawn aside and the two other beings in white entered and stood before laim. The other shades rose, and Mr. Dupont, not wishing to be the only one to keep his seat, rose too. The good Justice had never married. shades; he did not know quite how to proceed. They looked exactly alike • he did not know which was the bride and which the groom. He wished be were well out of it, and the only way to gain his wish was to proceed quickly with the ceremony, and so he began at once. Some way he managed to get through, although he could not have told afterwards how it was done. Returned to the bride when he said: "Do you take this womau to be your wedded wife ?" and to the groom when he should have ad- dressed the bride; hue at length, much to his relief, the "1 do" was said by each, and the Justice finished with the "1 pro- nounce you man and wife." But all was not yet over. No sooner had the words left hislips than one of the beings before him threw aside its ghostly robe, and tbere'in a beautiful wedditg gown, stood—his daughter, Margaret. Mn Dupont started to speak, but only gasped, for around him stood the other ghosts ; they, too, had thrown aside their robes and stood revealed. Could he believe his eyes? No, there was no mistake. He had married his daughter to Charles Foster, in the pres- ence of his wife, his son and three family friends; andtheJusticeknewenoughoflaw to realize that the ceremony was binding. The black curtains, too, were tom down, and there they all stood in his own parlor. There was no help for it, consequently Mr. Dupont submitted, and some way all his friends thought that he was very glad that the joke was played upon him; at any rate, in later days, as he trotted his grand- children on his knees, he never tired of telling over and over again into their won- dering ears the tale of the spectre wedding. —Frank D. Blodgett, in Amherst Literary Monthly. Methodist Superannuation. The commission appointed by the general conference of the Methodist Church two years ago met yesterday afternoon in Toronto. The work of the commission outlined by the conference was the revision of the constitution of the superannuation fund. At yesterday's meeting the report of a sub -committee was received and consid- ered clause by clause. After a number of modifications had been made the report was adopted. It will be laid before the general conference at its next meeting. The scheme recommended by the commission, if finally adopted by the conference, will result in several radical changes in the regulations governing superannuation grants. liars Miselon. It is announced in New York with a flourish that Nathaniel 7S/ISKay has sailed for Europe to get the rate of wages paid in Europe so ae to show what will be the doom of the American workingman if Free Trade finds a foothold in this country." That will be nice, for then we shall know all about the high wages received by the highly protected laborers in Germany. Mr. McKay must not forget that Germany is in Europe. Bon voyage, Nat. --Rochester Herald. A. Dude's Calainity, Hoffman Howes—Wheah has Howell Gib- bon been lately? • Rockaway Beeche--Staying at home, deah boy.His name was misspelled in one of the society papal% and he is waiting faw the affair to blow ovah. She Is Not a Criminal. Mr. Dolley—Will you let ine steal a kin. Miss Gasket—If you will ideal, you must do it unaided, I do not intend to be an aa. cessory before the fact. The Voice of Envy. " How did you know so cluickly that he is a reporter ?" "Betause he is acting in such a patroniz, ing way towards all the great men who are here."—.Puck. "Did you go on that trout fishing excur- sion ?" I did." " Did you fish with flies ?" "Fish with flies? Yee Ashed with theta, camped With thchi, Yes, With there, dept with thern—Why, Man, they alnloat a.te us alive " Theosophists know all bout the Weather On Maria, bizt When it Witte to this rattildeile aphere they get caught in the Min juit 08 ofteit as other people. TO ows UES UOIIIF. Brick Pomeroy'e paper, .alduance Thought, coataine an illuatrated arttele descriptive of "The Sailors' Snug Harbor " on Staten bland, from whieh the following is ex, trected ; As a rule, it is an easy, listless life they lead, thanks to Robert Richard Randall, whose brenze statueompies so prominent a Wage on the lawn, not far from the main buildings. Who was he/ A pirate. More politely speak- ing, a privateer. 'SVith a good ship and a tried and trusty, crew he sailed the seas over and compelled those he met to hold up their hands and lighten their loads. Re accumulated all the money he wanted, grew tired of the busis ness, and quit. llis love of adventure and of money were gratille ,d and he quit the business and settled, in New York City. His name was Thomas Randall. He had 8800, Robert Roth- ard Randall. The fortune he had was left to the son, Robert Richard.. He bought twenty- two acres of land, centering net far from Eighth street and Broadway. He paid twenty thousamidellersfor these twenty-two acres,now worth more than one hundred, millions of dol- lars. The SOD, in honor of the memory of his father and perhaps to make restitution to the sailor world, deeded this property in trust to erect and maintain a Sailors' Snug Harbor free to any and, all who were sailors in salt water. 1n May, 1831, the rentals of this land justified the purohisee of one hundred and. forty acres on Staten Island, and in 1833 the Sailors' Snug Barber was formally opened. The income from the land stall owned in the city of New York amounts to not far from a million dollars a year. sufficient to care for a thousand or more people and give them all a beautiful, restful home. Had Roberb Riehard Randall directed the income from his New York property to be invested year after year in non-taxable, inter- est -drawing United States bonds, such as an ignorant Government at times issues, and thus compelled the millions to toil to meet the inter- est on those bonds, his family, if he left any, could have all this time lived in idleness and • now be among the millionaires, still living in idleness at the expense of industry. Instead, he pet his wealth to a far better use, and there- fore is a benefactor of mankind. It does not seem to have occurred to the writer of the above that the millions have to toil to earn the one million dollars a year whioh the Sailors' Snug Harbor Trust collects and expends upon the maintenance of. the old sailors in an easy, listless life." Suppose Robert Richard Randall, instead of founding a home for old sailors, had left the 22 acres to his son, as private property, the land would have increased iu value just the same'and the people of New York would have had to give that son $1,000,000 of their hard earnings every year, for him to spend for his personal enjoyment. Randall in- vested $20,000, and then he died. Once under the sod, he quit earning. He really bequeathed the products of the labor of men who were not born when he died. Can that be right? Thomas Jefferson said that "the land be- " longs in usufruct to the living," but the laws of England and America say that dead men can exercise control over the land and its rent. A man cannot take his portion of land with him when he dies, but he can tie it up in such a way as to deprive succeed- ing generations of men of the use of it. In Hyattsville, near the oity of Washington, the ratepayers aremaking an effort to release land from private ownership by the application of the single tax. We are told that the first important effect of the adoption of the single tax in Hyattsville is the positive proof it gives of what every thoughtful man already knew, that the tax, instead of making it more difficult, makes it easier for poor men to own homes. It used to be said in Hyattsville that a tax on land values would increase the value of land. That WEIS what the large land- owners said. They say it no longer. On the contrary, they are whining now over the prospect of being obliged to sell their land at lower prices than ever. That the single tax will force landowners —that class of landowners who appropriate land and hold it out of use, thus caurang a scarcity which increases land values and enriches them at the expense • of their industrious neighbors—to sell at lower and lower prices as the single tax mounts higher and higher, is obvious to any one who gives the subject a moment's candid thought. It is also obvious that this result must benefit the man who owns a home or who wants to own one. Land advances in price as population grows, which is equivalent to saying that the value of land increases with the de- mand for land. When there is a low tax on this value, so that a good margin of profit will probably remain, men speculate upon the probabilities of increase. They buy land and hold it for a rise. That diminishes the supply, though the demand increases with the effeet of making the value abnormally high. But if taxes on land values are high enough to absorb most of the possible profit, the inducement to speculate is removed. Land is then taken up only as needed for actual use, and the value is determined by the actual demand for use relatively to the actual physical supply, instead of being determined by demand for use plus demand for speculation relatively to physical supply minus specula- tive holdings. In other worcba the single tax gives a larger supply of land, and other tax systems a smaller supply, relatively to the demand. The justice of this tax is apparent when it is remembered, that it is not the owner's labor but the growth of the community that causes land values. The New York Sun has at last come to see that. In a recent issue it says that "Mr. Henry George, of this city, has made himself famous by drawing attention to the fact that land advances in price as population thickens, entailing a constantly increasing expenditure upon tenants, and bringing a correspondingly augmented income to landlords," But the Sun, with characteristic crookedness of -vision, finds a complete remedy in the building association systems. Pointing to Philadelphia as a city where, through build- ing associations, some 60,000 families are hound in homes of their own, it says that "by becoming their own tenants they have captured the unearned increment,' which would have gone to the landlords," and intimates that building associations offer a means of escape from landlordism. Of the usefulness of building associations there is no doubt. We Should be glad to have them increase, and to see them all much more prosperous than they are. They open weal' of obtaining homes, which thou- sands have availed themselves of. But they do not offer a means of escape from landlordism. On the contrary, they are menaced by landlordism, which is responsible in far greater degree than (my other cause for the failure of such associa- tions as have failed; and their members, who acquire homes, are relieved only of a part of the burdens of landlordism. These evils, which threaten building associations as well aeeindividual line:movers, would be remedied y the single tax. Buildi , ;iodations are not specula. tors in lansl. They are improvers of land. Neither their profits as an associatiOn nor the proftte of individual znemberie as mem- bers, are derived to any great extent from the rise in land values. T.herefore the sin- gle tax, which falls upon the value of land, irrespective of the value of its improve- ments, would come as a relief to building associatione and their members. It would exerept imptovementa from taxation, and tax only, according to the value of the bare land. And it would tax all the land of the eominunity, whether improved or imim- proved, at the same tate Upon its full selling Value. I there were two lots, one sateaut and the other improved, but eaeh equally well located, the owners would be taxed alike. Any member of a building ites0oia0 • *rust see that thisi would Make hie taxes light, for it is very seldom that *Ile value of his land approaehes to the value of hie hue. Thus, the :Angle tex would reduce the taxes of the members of building amooletione, at the expense of the specula- tors who hold land out of use for a rise. But it is not in the reduction cd their taxes that the single tax Would tell Mort strongly in favor of members: of building SS- SOOlatiODS. WS in the direction of cheaper building land nearer to their placers of bud - nese. Aa it is now, when a building associa- tion member desires tobuild a home he must go a long distance from the place where he works—a dietance so great that he expects to vend two hours or more every day be- tween his home and his office or shop. This is not because ell the land between is in use. Far from it. He passes over thous- ands of acres of umised land before he comes to the land of his choice. Neither is it be- cause he can find no desirable building place nearer to his office or shop. Some- where in these thousands of unused acree there are spots which, for a home, are much superior to the one he selects. The reason ho passes over the superior spots is that the perm is too long for his purse. Ile goea farther away because there he can find lots for a lower price. And even where he aeleota, he is compelled to pay more for his lot than he can afford or it is worth. It is in a sparsely settled distriet, and rt acre after acre unused land strobe es out all around him. It is unused, but not unappropriated. It is held for a rise, and as more members of building asso- ciations come there for homes, it does rise, until home seekers with short purses are forced to go still farther away, though un- used land remains at this point, if they would find a building lot within their means. Meantime, the home -builders are taxed on a land appreasement of from 50 to 100 per cent of sellieg value, and also on their houses and their furniture, while the land speculators, who make all this land BO BOMB to the house -builder, are taxed on land value alone and at a valuation which seldom exceeds 50 per cent. of selling value, and is often as low as 10, 15, or 20. Suppose the single tax were introduced. Many of the owners of vacant land, from the busineas centre to the suburban circum- ference, wculd be obliged to sell. They could not pay so high a tax on property that yielded no present income nor any pre- sent service. That would increase the market supply of land, and when the home -seeker went forth to buy he could find home sites for a lower price Vann he now pays for much poorer and much more distant sites. The single tax would make building associations more prosperous by making home sites cheaper. And, indirectly, the beneficent effects of the single tax upon euch associations would be past computation. Some of the members are mechanics'who know that they are workingmen; but some are teachers, law- yers, doctors, clerks, storekeepers, journal- ists, and the like,who never include them- selves when they talk of the working classes. All of them, however, are work- ingmen. Their "fees," their "salaries," their "profits," are wages, which are regu- lated by the supply of opportunities for work relatively to the demand for ouch op- portunities, as certainly as are the wages of mechanics. Now, the relative supply of opportunities for men to work in any voca- tion depends upon the relative supply of opportunities to apply labor to land. If these opportunities are plentiful, all other opportunities will be. If wages for that kind of labor are high, wages for all other kinds of labor are also high. This • much every intelligent member of a build- ing association should see. He should see, too, that opportunities to apply labor to land are diminished by systems of taxation that make it more profitable to hold land for a rise than for use. But the single tax, by removing all bur- dens from production and placing them upon land values, makes it more profitable to use land than to hold it for a rise. It must, therefore, necessarily increase oppor- tunities to apply labor to land, and so it must increase wages for that kind of labor, and, consequently, the wages for all kinds of labor. With wages thus iuereased, build- ing associations would prosper as they never have yet. Suustruck Mainsprings. "Mainsprings are very muck like people," said a Broadway watchmaker the other day. "They are as susceptible to ex- treme degrees of heat and cold as human beings. When the thermometer is hovering around the freezing point or dancing away, up in the nineties the little mainspring will give up in disgust and uncoil itself and die, just as men succumb to freezing or MM. stroke." The jeweller said that on Monday, Aug. 1st, he received 79 we tales to be fitted with new mainsprings. —New York World. DISCUSsiNG the question: "What should be the true relations of the newspapers to private and domestic life ? " Harper's Weekly cites the case of a married woman who went to New York from her home in Canada in the company of an unmarried man who was an intimate friend of herself and her husband. The immediate object of her visit was to join her husband, who was in that city on business. The naan wibh whom she made the journey was going to New York on business. But scarcely had the two reached the city than several newspapers published the statement that they had eloped. Suit for libel was im- mediately brought. The court held, among other things, that it was not the province of a newspaper to pry into domestic . . infelicities. The Weekly aproves of this de - cotton and says: And why is not this ruling sound in ethics as it 18 10 law ? A newspaper ghoul& conduct itself towards its public as a gentleman carries him- self towards his neighbor. A man of character governs himself according to the precept of the Golden Rule. He does not pry into the Secrete of others. He does not see tt to know, nor care to know, what goes to make up the happinees or the miserios of those whomay happen to live next door to him. If bickerings and disputes, if wrongs committed against the marital rela- tion come to his knowledge, he keeps his lips closed and his conscience clear. We are assuming that no relations of friendship to one party or the other impose exceptional duties noon him, and. that the demands of public justice do not require action from him. He remains silent because it is his duty as a good xnan and citizen not to add to the sutn of human unhappiness. He will not assist in setting husband and wife by the ears. He will not plant the seeds of distrust between parents and children. He will not breed dissension between neighbers. The rules that govern good conduct in an individual are thoss that should prevail in the offices of 'newspapers. There is news enough in the world in which the public is highly interested to fill the columns of our newspapers every day in the year; but the trouble is that gossip and scandal are oftenmore interesting than matters ef real moment. The rule of gentlemanly con- duct ought to bo the rule of the editor and pub- lisher—as happily it very often hi and, as Judge Wallace wisely pointed outs mere gos- sip and scandalmongering are not oxcused by the a.nswer that the patrons of a newspaper want what they ought not to have. Friends may fall away from a man his wife may go to het Motheraiand his political acquaintances may cross him from the list, kit aelong As he can keep his bald headabove the waters of oblivion the friendly house fly will never desert him. "Where's Torn ?" asked the department clerk. "Taking an outing ?" "No," re- plied the Inez% at the next desk, 4‘ 110'S tallizig an inning. Ile's gone to the ball garata' PFA courts, °MAW, SORE SIE101:114DERS, SCRATCHES, oany WOUNDS on x-iconss or 00.21er'1M Quickly Healed. Speedy Cure OVARAN'ITED if you use /MX....A.S .4ent by Muil on receipt of Pries 25 (lents, By C. F. SEGSWOUTE4 TORONTO, CAN. AGENTS Wanted Everywhere, TESTIMONIALS, NANI0A.T1(011 OF TUE AIR. The 4E erumus Declare They Move Made it u Success. When the Swiss Government last year granted permission for the great Breslau him of lileinstorif to conduct aeronautic experiments among the Swiss mountains very little was thought of it, says an ex- change, A few days ego'however, the Russian frontier videttee telegraphed in alarin to the Czar that airships had sailed over the line from Germany, and now the Kleinstorffs declare they have done it. The Prussian Government offered 1,000,000 marks for an invention imitating the flight of birds, and the experimenters went to Switzerland to keep clear of spies. Herr von Prigaldsky is the inventor and conducted the tests. He and the Prussian officers selected for a locality the two peaks of the Napf and Santis, in the com- paratively little visited region near St. Gallen, of which Behead has sung in his romance of the Monk blckehard. On Sept. 28th, the apparatus was taken up the mountainside, bridgelike structures of wood were ereoted on either peak and a connection by wire was established. The experiments began on Oct. 2nd, a windless day, when the country below was hidden in fog. They wore viewed by Herr von Prig- aldsky, the two officers of the aeronautic corps of the Prussian army and by two civil engineers of the Swiss Government. The first flight from one peak to the other took an hour and eighteen minutes. In the beginnang the aeronaut had SOMO trouble in making.the ship rise, but after he had suc- ceeded in this he was able to continue his way with great rapidity. On the following days the time of the flight was considerably reduced, so that in the end they could cover the distance be- tween the two mountains in ahnost as short a time ae a carrier pigeon. All in all, from Oct. 2nd to 14th, the flight was performed eighteen times, until one of the propellers got out of order, and certain repairs became necessary, which had to be done at the works in Breslau. How to make a propeller which is suffici- ently powerful without going above a oer- tain weight still remained a problem, it seems, when the experiments were diecon- tinned. Mothers, are your daughters, pale or sallow? Remember that the period when they are budding into womanhood is most critical ; fortify their system for the change with Dr. Williams' Pink Pille, unsurpassed for the speedy cure of all troubles peculiar Vo females. A trial of a single box will convince you. Beware of imitationsod eke no substitute. A Compliment to the Painting. " Peter"—Oharley Schmidt's iaototum— was leaning against the wank the bar -room to -day, with his fingers curved around his ear, when the Manager asked: "Do you see a ghost? What are you doing, Peter ? " "1 vos listening." "Listening to what ? " "Voll, you see dot bainting of Niagara Valls. For a minute I thought it vos real, and 1 vas listening for dot roar dat they dalk about." siers.—Au Fits stepped tree by thr. Great Nerve, Restorer. 1Ne YIN &Nor first day's use. Marvellous cures, Treatise and Wi.et trial bottle tree to Fit case& Send le Dr. Enee, eelA.rcli st„ PharidelPilla, Pa, To Make Tour Hair Curl. Finely powdered Peruvian bark is recom- mended to keep bangs in curl in moist weather. It is applied with a powder puff. Unfortunately, this suggestion is valuable only to persons with blond or light brown hair. On black hair the powder shows a tine dust, and cannot be used. Beyond a doubt, says a New York Sun writer, this ought to be called "the White Summer." Such a white aummer aa it is— white duck and linen for mornings, white lawn and pique for afternoons, and white muelin and chiffon for evenings. And because it is a white summer there are rumors rife of fall weddings galore. Who can trace the analogy? There seems to be to men a sweet appealing grace, a oharin essentially feminine and winsome in the simple frock of white unattain- able to the richness of silk or the lustre of satin. It was in white that Na- poleon loved beat to find his Empress wait- ing to receive him. It is white which King Humbert chooses ever for his sweet consort, Marguerite—gowns of muslin, sheer and white, with chains of her favorite pearls about her neck. It is the Bettis? falling, sweetly simple frock of snowy lawn that lures the guileless youth into thinkiug that his fair lady's tastes are in sweet and modest accord with the limitations of his salary. It is pathetic to think how mis- taken he is, for the filmy, fluttering gown has linings of silk, fine and firm. 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