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The Exeter Advocate, 1892-9-8, Page 37 When Dee Train Comes Ien NINA yeta T ca'culate it is a little quiet here Ter one who's been about tho world an' travel() for aunear; But, webby 'cause I never lived no °the place to.mo Tho town seems 'bout as lively as a good town orter be. ' Wo go about our bizness in a quiet sort o' way, Nor thinkin' Of the outside world, except& wunet, a day We gather at the deep°, where we laff an' talk an' spin Our yarns an' watch Um people when the train comes in. Si Jenkins, he's the justice of the peace, he allers spends Ilia money for a eaner which he glan ces through an' Iends To seine the other fellers, an' we all take terns an' chat, An' each ono tells what he'd do if he was this or that. An' in a genet sort o' way, afore a hour's gone, Wo git a Purty good idea o' what's a goin' on. An' gives us lots to think about until we meet agin The follerhe tomorror when the train conies in, 'When I git lonesome like I set around the bar- ber shop it'r corner groc'ry, where I talk about the growin' crop elth fellers from the country; 'nif Who sun an' out too hot We go to pitchin' hoss-shoes in Jail Thompson' vacant lot Behind the livery stable; an' before the game is done Ez like ez not some feller 'II say bis nag kin clean outrun The other follern, an' they take 'em out and have a spin; But all git back in town after the train comes in, see it in the papers 'at some folks, when sum- mer's here, Pack up their trunks an' journey to the sea- shore ever' year TO keep from gettin' sunstruck ; I've a better any 'en that, 'Per when it's hot I put a cabbage leaf inside my hat An' go about my biziness Jest as though it wasn't warm— Fact is I ain't doin' much since I moved off nay foam. .An' folks as loves the outside world, if they've a mind to, kin See all theyorter of it when the train conies in. An' ell. I like excitement an ther's nothin' suits me more Sti to git three other fellers, so's to make a even four At knows the game jist to a "F," an' spend a half a day In some good place a lIghtin' out a battle at croquet. There's Tubbs who tends the post -aloe, an' old Doc Smith an' me An' Uncle Perry Louden—it'd do you good to soo Us fellers maul them balls aroun'; we meet time an' a.gin An' phty an' play an' play until the train comes in. An' take it all in all I bet you'd have to look aroun' A good long while afore you'd find a nicer little town 'An this'n is. The people live a quiet sort o' life, Not carm' much about the world 'ith all its Woe au' strife, An' here I mean to spend roydays, an' when reach the end rn Say "God bless ye!" an' " Good-bye I" to over' faithful friend; An' when they.foller me to where they ain't no care ner sin I'llteeet'em at the deep o when the train come in. —Waterman NIXOn. A 31ISSI8G SON'S VOICE. THE IMPERIAL DRAON." George Lawrence Abandoned Poetry and Married His Critic in Heyenze, THE combination of cireumetan- oes that served to bring Mies Damon to L moneylees but determined was known to nobody. All that anyone knew of her was imparted by a brief statement mid° by the editor of the Dispatch to the effeet that on a certain blustering afternoon in January law had walked into the office and asked for employ-, merit. He had declined her services with thanks, but she came again and again, until one day she found a vacant dole, sat down at it and had been there ever since. • She wrote two or three caustic articles, struck at one or two local atrocities, and in a little while made an enviable reputation for bitterness and oyniciem. Her name got out, and after that everything that ap- peared in the paper was unhesitatingly set down to her credit. She was not known outaide of the office, but the impressions that prevailed concern- ing her were not flattering. It was gener- ally agreed that she knew too much to be young, was too cynical to be agreeable, and there was a theory current among the paper's readers that she had been crossed in love and disappointed in her literary aspira- tions. She did her work in the daytime end was little more than a myth to the men who spent their nights in journalistic harness. They were frequently questioned about her, and they generally answered all queries by the broad but meaning statement that she did not "run with the gang." Soon after she began her work in her new sphere a book of verses appeared, written by a gentleman of L—, George Lawrence. Copies were sent to all the papers, and one of these fell into the hands of Miss Damon. She prefaced her criticism with the remark that the verses were not uniformly bad, but ranged from bad to very bad, and thus mercilessly impaled the author to the extent of three-quarters of a column. Lawrence had never forgiven her. He referred to her ever afterwards as "The Dragon " and the " Imperial Dragon." The name seemed appropriate and ie was generally adopted. The criticised versifier experienced some satisfaction at having thus baptized her with indignation, but he by no means considered himself avenged, and at the mere mention of her name his muscles grew rigid and every artery throbbed with a wild desire for ven- geance. Beim:. clever with a pencil, he made a sketch her which embodied the popular impression that ehe was a shrewish person of uncertain age, and it was a source of endless amusement to himself andfriends. It must be confessed that Miss Damon's was not the only adverse criticism, a,nd Law- rence was a good deal depreesed, but not wholly subdued. He did not intend to be snuffed out in this summary fashion, how- ever, and though for a time he attempted nothing in a literary way, he was casting about for a fresh motive, resolved at no dis- tant date to make another effort. " The Dragon" had recommended prose; he would try prose. * * * * * In the meantime summer had come and Lawrence was to epend several months with some friends in California. When he returned he would go to work in earnest. It was a glorious day, bright and cool, though it was the middle of July; the sun was just rising over the eastern rim of the cuposhaped valley, a luminous mist shining from pink to purple was rolling away from Pike's Peak, and the bits of eky showing between the serrated ridges opposite were deeply blue. Lawrence, on his way to California, had stopped to spend e day at Manhole. He had reached the springs the evening before, and was eating his breakfast this bright morning in the great Sahara of a dining - room -when the waiter came in to announce the carriage he had ordered for the day. For the last half hour the gallery in front of the hotel. had been thronged with tourists ready to begin the day's sightseeing, and the double line of vehicles drawn up outside werebeing loaded with all possible despatch. As Lawrence emerged from the dining -room the la.st waggon drove up to the door, and a lady was on the point of getting in when the driver amid: "Beg your pardon, ma'am, but this car- riage is for the gentlenia,n." But I ordered a carriage for this morn- ing." "Your order was too late. They were all engaged. This was the last one in the stables. I can give you one to- morrow." "1 shall not be here to -morrow." "Maybe the gentleman's going to stay over a day or two and would just as soon drive to -morrow," suggested the driver." By this time Lawrence had come up. "If you can give me a horse and saddle it will answer my purpose just as well," he said. "1 haven't got a horse." ",As I leave to -morrow on the early train," said Lawrence, "1 can not con- veniently postpone my drive. But we are probably going in the same direction, and I should be delighted to accommodate you with a seat in the vehicle." There was nothing else to be done. She aceepted with thanks. Lawrence handed her into the carriage and thought as their eyes met that she was not an unpromising companion. He was a gregarious animal. He hated being alone, especially in a crowd, and a chance acquaintance was not to be despised. He handed her his card. She looked at the name, raised her brows slightly, dropped the card into her handbag and then, looking squarely at him, said: " My name is Vincent." He called her Misti Vincent at a ven- ture. She did not correct him, and they fell to discussing the points of interest on the way. It was a delightful drive, and neither regretted the circumsthnce that brought them together. They dined at the same table, finished up the sights in the after- noon, and, getting in rather late, took supper tete-a-tete in a corner of the de - deserted dining -room. That evening the rooms were cleared for a bell. He met her at the door as she was about to enter the ball -room She wore a dress of black lace with a sleeveless corsage that displayed a pair of superb arms and a smooth white neck. The sharp contrast of her hair and drese with the singularly fair complexion made her look like a hie& and white cameo and he thought as he stood there looking past her into the ball -room, that no carving corild be more chord° then her pronle. " Shall we po in there 1' oho asked. "It seems dreadfully warm and crowded." "Then suppose we stay here." " I believe it is ninon pleasanter here," she answered. The ball -room was full of promenaders. They passed out on the veranda and sat talking in the moonlight. Occasionally they would return and beguile the intervals, waltzing when the muisie permitted, until the °roved of dancers began to thin and the pierlor clock struck one. "1 really niust go now, ;laid Miss Vin - It was Heard in the Prison Choir and Shocked Ills Friends. "1 am going to join the army, and will be gone three years." Thus wrote a young man to hie dear old mother and sisters at home. The boy was under sentence to the State Prison when he wrote the letter that be supposed would quiet all inquiry as to hie uhaieabouts. He had been found guilty of forgery, and the Judge in pro- litouricang sentence upon him gave him three years he hard labor, says the Salem (Ore.) Statesman. This was several months ago, and the young man is by this time well acquainted with the mon- otonous routiee of life in the Oregon State Penitentiary. On Sunday after- noon a couple of young ladies, sisters, new arrivals in Salem, visited the prison. They arrived too late to be admitted to the services, but were given seats in the wait- ing -room. At the first sound from the choir they were interested, but as the mimic of the song filled the chapel and resounded throughout the corridors they recognized a familiar soiled in a sweet -toned voice that carried the air. They advanced nearer to the chapel, impelled by they knew not what, and glancing through the barred doors recognized among the singers, wearing the swipes, the absent brother who they believed was serving his country in the army. The recognition was mutual. And it was pitiful. The k‘hock was more than the delicate nerves of the young women could bear. Bab it is only one incident of the many. The prison is full of sad romances and expectations that are never realized. De could Not Get Away. A weary old man dropped with a sigh into a eeat in the street car. At the other end three or four young men wore talking and laughing. "They have just returned from their va- cation," said the tired man to his next neighbor. " They seem to have enjoyed it." "Yes, they seem to. They work in the same store that I do." "Yes. They have all been away now— everybody in the store—clerks, book- keepere and heads of departments, even the rash boys and the wrapping men and the porters. Everybody has had his vacation— but me." "All but you?' "Well, I ehould think your employer would let you off too." The old man shook his head. " What's the reason he won't ?" " Well," replied the weary man, with another sigh, you see, I'm the proprietor niyeelf."— William Henry Siviter in Harper' s Bazar. A Doman Wee or nen:lone. Did you ever hear of the Roman cure for malaria ? I would advise a judicious preparation for anathema when about to administer the dose ; it will give the mar- ble Venus a wry face, but is claimed to have cured stubborn cases. Allow one pint of water to one lemon—four lemons make ;sufficient for many a dose ,• out up the lemmas' rind, pulp and all, in the water and boil until tho whole is reduced to one pint; a teaspoonful before each meal is the dose. Oa hot mornings, when appetite fails and The eight of food disgusts one, try sliced lenions for breakfast. Peelcarefully, remove every particle of pith, slice down iris:at:el of across into a deep glass saucer and strew liberally with sugar. Do not, I pray, be induced at this season of the year to save your lemons. cent rising. "There is 1 (Meek, and I must leave at 8. Good -night." Which way do you go to -morrow 1" asked LaWrenee. "Best. I must be at Immo by the 20th." "And where is home?" She geve the name of a village about fifty wilco distant from the town where he lived. "P11 fitee you in the morning," he said. " I believe WO leave this place on the tame train, ao I won't say good -by. And now, just one more dance—the last." Down the long gallery they floated into the shadow and out into the light, his clasp gradually tightening as they went, her faee against his shoulder, and hie head bent for - %lewd until his cheek touohed her hair. The melte ceased suddenly, but the arm about her waist did not relax. She gave a, furtive, upward glance, then dropped her eyes. With a Swift movement of his left hand he drew her arm up until it encircled his neck, leaned forward, and kissed her. She darted away like a swallow, and he caught a last glimpse of her as he turned a corner of the stairway. When Lawrence came down to breakfast next morning it was nearly 9 o'clock. The early train had gone. So had Miss Vin- cent. It was summer again. The work Law- rence contemplated a year ago was fin- iehecl. He had acted on the suggestion of his critic ; ha had turned Pegasus out to graze and given his attention to prose. The result was a novel—the etory of a day—called "En Route," which he as- sured hie friends was suggested by an in- cident of his Western trip. The book had been published, and the reviewers to use his own phrase had "let him down easy," and he was much surprised to find himself gently and affably treated by the Dispatch. The writer was not surprised to find so indifferent a poet capable of pro- ducing a tale so pleasing and graceful, so full ot felicitous description, so fresh and unhaekneyed. It was untierstood that the young man was under a solemn promise never again to attempt verse, and, in consideration of this assurance and the promise of success held out by the latter work, it was but just that the public should extinguish its reeentment and take the author to a forgiving and indulgent boeom. There followed a criticism in which the claimof the book were seriously treated, and by the time Lawrence had finished the perusal he was thinkiug that, after all, he might have been a little too fierce in his resentment upon a previous occasion. There arose within him a desire to make amends in some way for his own derision of this person, who, however hard upon him at first, was clearly without malice in the matter, and had no doubt in each instance expressed an honest conviction. He wrote a note in which he acknowledged the courtesy and asked leave to call and thank the writer in person. He had a few copies that had been handsomely bound, intended as souvenirs for his friends. He would be most happy to present one as a token of his appreciation. The reply to his friendly overture was written upon a card, across the upper left- hand corner of which was the day of the week in gilt lettering ; on the opposite corner was a pen -and -ink skethh of St. George in the act of vanquishing the dragon. Below was written : " Miss Damon will be at home to Mr. Lawrence this evening at 8 o'clock, 705 West Broadway." This sketch, despite the limited space it occupied, was spirited and indicated a knowledge of her unflattering sobriquet. As he looked up at his own sketch upon the wall he was conscious of a strong impulse to destroy it. At 8 o'clock that evening Lawrence, bearing his peace offering coquettishly bound in gilt and morocco, rung Miss Damonn bell. He was ushered into the parlor, and in a few moments he heard a ruatling of drapery behind him. As he arose he encountered a slender figure in a toilet of black lace. " Miss Vincent," he said exultantly, "1 have been looking for you everywhere. I bave written you innumerable letters, and I have been four times to that horrid hole of a town where you said you lived. Why did you deceive me so cruelly?" " Why did I deceive you? Well, I did not think it would add anything to your pleasure just then to know the truth." A horrible presentment seized him. "Then—then--.-your name—is not Vin- cent ?" Alice Vincent -Damon." "You know me, of course ?" he faltered. A Gentle Dint. Uncle Jack—What will you do when you got to be a man? Little Jack—I'll give all the boys I know a baseball. Some Primmer cottagers splurge because they want to ehow how much money they have, but a good many more ephirge be- cause it is the only way to get credit at the grocery - BilEACII rittoDUSE. in Eng1151"Iropthe gebaYfiSteittsllio isNn.etN""sarY to Gentlemen inclined to think the art of love -making a safe one, so long as guellingly tender speech omits certain aped& declare - tions, had better beware. The point of law (loth:1111g a promille of marriage has been laid down by Mr, Justice Mills in an unmistak- able manner. To youths of both Sexes, as well as to many of elder growth, this Mee been a vexed question, eapeoially where a suit has been instituted for a breaeh of promise, in which, on the male side, it has been insisted that no offer was made, or at moat merely a declaration of love. At the essizes at Exeter the other daythe judge had before him the action against a °reclaim veterinary who had denied on oath that he ever made any promise. The learned judge remarked in summing up "Could any human being, after reading the letters that passed between them, and reading the defendant's answer, to an interrogatory, '1 asked, do you love me, Kate ? ' and he replied, 'Of course I do,' have any doubt that they had promised to marry? Such a question as that ought not to have been asked unless marriage was intended." In effect he laid down as the law: "11 you ask a young lady if she loves you, and she replies that she does, you are then sufficiently bound to be liable for damages if you draw back." So that there need to be no formal offer of marriage on the part of the man to constitute a promise. From the amount of the damages messed at by the jury it was evident that as men of common sense they concurred in the views of Justice Willis, and thereby created a precedent which will probably be quoted in future oases in which there may be a doubt as to the nature of the offer made. The case in the sister county Was deprived of the cus- tomary amusing aspect, the parties having agreed to destroy all their correspondence, and this having been done before the rupture occurred between them, the action resolved itself, as Mr. Bullen put it for the defendant, into "dry matter of 4 s The jury made it a matter of 4225.— Weston Super -More Herald. Yes." "Don't you think you have taken rather a mean advantage of me 1" " No ; I think the truth would have spoiled a very pleasant day." In the conversation that followed the purpose of the visit was well nigh forgotten, and the souvenir played a very incon- spicuous part in the diversion of the evening. A ,ttek or two later, as Lawrence was sitting in his room, his friend Harrison came in, took a seat on the opposite side of the tahle tind, after gazing at his host for some tune with a most lugubrious ex-pres. doe, said: " old man, is this all true that I hear abou t. you ? " "What do you hear ?" "That you have actually caught the dragon ?" Lawrence laughed. " What does it mean ? " persisted Har- rison. "11 means that at last I am about to take my revenge. I intend to marry her." Lawrence made this announcement with dramatic intensity, and Harrison, who had arisen, dropped limply into a chair. After a pause he pointed to the sketch on the wall and'asked pathetically: " I say, Lawrence, does she look like that'?" Lewrence reversed a photograph that was standing on the mantel -piece with its face to the wall, and, holding it before Harrison, said : "She looks like that, and she is the heroine of my story."— fraveriey Magazine. To Keep Flowers Fresh. IlietH ,WIONS71.11080OGRLY, REMOVES DANDRUFF IGUARANTEED fiStEd'Ildmalua*Itin4 $1411Irelal P. L. CAVEN, Tomato. Travelling p Ajtorke, p.2., ilamea Soya eetansamsarie a rahiever paean - dna -Its oottokis Lk ow mu esco 5 fOW aasurattanaba0Cadr ?a Magma Restores Fading heti° edgiest Colorefi% Stops lallittg of 1e1r4 Keel:SIM Scale etepn, erW, Makes hair oft and Pitablo PrOMotlsOrovitb.v,''' A BARRIER. why Genevieve Codd Could Not Marry Dlr. Fish. " It can never be, Mr. Fish," she said, trying to be firm, although the tears were welling up in her forget-me-not eyes. "Why not, Genevieve?" he asked, bend- ing toward her until she could distinctly hear him swallow the lump that had risen in his throat at her words. "Don't you love me any more?" "Yes, yes ; I love you. Believe me. I love you," ehe sobbed, hastily drawing her hand from his. "Tell me !" he asked with anguish, " have you learned to love another ?" " No !" she cried. " Oh, how could you doubt me?" "Well, then, why have you changed ?" " It is—it is—oh, how can I say it?" she jerked out. " It is—it is—your name." " My name?" he echoed. "It is among the 400 as well as yours, Miss Codd." "You wrong me. You wrong me greatly," she sobbed, drawing off his ring and stand- ing before him in all her stateliness. "1 mean I can never be yours, because it would break mamma's heart to sink the family name, and how can I become Mrs. Codd - Fish ?"—.AT. Y. Sun. COLOR LINE EltA.SED. How English ltleihodiet Delegates Astounded Washington. There is a woman at the Desplaines camp - meeting this year who figured in an inter- esting episode at Washington se recently tis last October. Her name is ,Amanda Smith. She follows the honorable calling of an evangelist, says the Chicago Evening News, and her features are of the purest African type. It was the occasion of the great Metho- dist Conference. Methodists from the world over were gathered in decennial con- clave. . There were men prominent in five continents. Among the English delegates was Mr. Henry J. Atkinson, Conservative member of Parliament for Hull, England, a brilliant, wealthy and eccentric man, one of the moat picturesque figutes in the House of Com- mons. Needless to state he eta.yed while in Washington at the beat hotel and after the manner ot wealthy Englishmen epent money freely. There were also among the delegates a number of colored repreeent atives from the African Methodist churches. Unfortunately for them, they found a aunt color line in Washington which debarred them in many instances from entering the same hotels and restaurants as their brethren of lighter hue. When the fact became known that ven- erable and good men were denied food by restaurant.keepers because of the fatal color taint, a great outcry arose among the English deleeates, who erred perhaps a trifle on the other side and were in dan- ger of making too much of the colored brethren. However that may be, Henry ekinson, M. P., dogged as a Briton and eccentric as usual, took a step which effectually cowed the restaurant and hotel men. He quietly arranged a little dinner party at the Arlington. To this he invited two English ministers, two black bishops of the A. M. E. Church and Mrs. Amanda 8111ith Theprotest against the drawing of the color line had gone forth in the morning. That evening Atkinson walked with all the dignity with which his stature, his wealth and his long white hair invested him down the great dining.room of the most select hotel in the city of Washington, with Mrs. Amanda, Smith, a perfect African, on his arm, and two gentlemen of color behind him. The Englishmen followed like a rear guard. The manager of the hotel glanced at the party and fled in dismay ; the colored waiters grinned with ill -concealed de- light ; Southern guests scowled fiercely and thee resigned themselves to the situa- tiont. I was a complete victory. For delegates to the Methodist Conference there was in Washington no loeger a color line. Sonic Notable Beelpes. Clear soup.—Take two pints of water, wash them thoroughly on both aides, pour into a dish or something, and stir around in the kitchen until tired. Plum pie.—Get some dough, hammer out a front tend back breadth. Line a dish with gleam, put in a veneering of dough, fill the dish with cough drops, put on the top crust, feather -stitch around the edges and bake in a tinker's furnace. Pound cake.—Mix up eome flour and things, put them into a dish, bake for a while, then screw in the handle and pound, Stomach cake.—Line a small boy with green apples and cucumbers. This can be prepared at short notice. Calf's foot jelly.—Get trusted for a calf —cut off the calf, which can be used for making bash or chicken salad ; wash the teet, thicken with glue, add a few molasses, strain through a cane -seated chair, pour it into a blue bowl with red pictures on it and set in the shade to get tough. Icre cream.—Dry a piece of ice in the sun, stir in some cold cream or vaseline, fen it until it freezes, garnish with Christmas greens. This should be served with the soup. The Culinary Department. When scaling fish hold them under water in a. pan; then the scales will not fly in your face, but will fall to the bottom, and when the water is poured from them they are ready th turn into the slop pail or corn - poet heap. Five or six quarts of biscuit flour can be prepared at it time by taking one teaspoon- ful of soda and two of cream of tartar, or three of baking powder to every quart of flour, sifting it thoroughly three times; then put away for use. Onions are improved by soaking in warm salt water an hour or so before cooking, as this removes some of the rank flavor. They cook tender much quicker if sliced in rings instead of splitting. If they are peeled and sliced with hands under water some "idle tears" may be avoided. Midstunmer Bargains. " In these midsummer days there will be found many real bargains in the shops," said a woman who is an excellent manager. "1 never buy things in Beason,and in that way I get the beet at an extremely low price. .And some of the best bargains are at the high-class shops. "Everything in their assortment is choice, and if you are content to take a simple, good bonnet, garment or pattern of dress goods, you will have an article that will be a pleasure as long as it lasts. My little girl needed is new reefer this spring. In the first of the season good ones were from $6 to $9 ; the marking -down process Flowers may be kept fresh for is long time goes on through the weeks, and yesterday by putting a pinch of soda into the water in came in from where we are staying for the which they are held. They should not be summer and bought a beauty for $1.50." gathered while the sun is shining upon them but early in the morning or after the aun has been down for an hour. To revive wilted flowers plunge the stems to about ono -third of their length into boiling water. This will drive the sap back into the flowers, mauling them to become fresh. Then cnt away the third of the stem which has been heeten and place the flowers in cold we to r. Adeline E. Knapp is the horse reporter of a San Francisco newspaper. She has fled several years' experience in the various phases of journalistic work. For the earache, get 5 cents worth of dried arnica flowera and put them inth small hags; take a pint of whiskey And keep it heated on the stove; dip the bags of arnica flowere into the hot whiskey and lay them over the ear, Atzi soon as the steam stops teeming from one bag, change it for another hot one, Why Does She Wear a Veil ? Veils are generally considered an improve- ment to even a pretty woman's looks, though this is not always the case, as any one may observe for himself, particularly during the warm weather, when dining out of doors is the fashion. A veil wrinkled up on the nose or forehead is very sure to be anything but an improvement. It should either be taken off or shortened, so that the edge will reach just to the tip of the nose. Thus the mouth will be left free without entirely relinquishing this :flight protection from the ravages of daylight. It will also be found well to allow the veil to wrinkle a little on the throat when wearing a hat without strings and a low-cut body. A veil which wrinkles in this manner, or one with a border, will prove is kind of connecting link between the head and shoulders that otherwiee would look rather eut in two. ELECTRIC 1,14.DITS IN CABS. The InDulr to the Eattery by Constaut J01t4 Dig Overeente. Experiments leave been made both with primary and tannage battery lamps for London omnibuses, and the lights have at first twinkled away successfully enough to all appearances, but somehow after a time the old oil lamps have once more been brought into requisition. At length the Lail:mode & General Eke. trio Company claim to have eolyed the problem of providing a cheap, efficient and portable light in the form of a come billed battery and incandeecent lamp. After three months of practical trial the Company have signed a contract with Meters. Williog for the electric lighting of a complete line of omnibuses belonging to the London P.oe.d Car Company. Lithanode is a preparation said to be pecu- liarly well suited to the requirements of storage batteries or accumulators. It is claimed for it that it is light and free from disintegration when shaken up by the con- tinued jolting of a vehicle. The improved apparatus, Pays the London News, cor slats of a small tive-oell battery weighing about fifteen pounds and mounted in a stout wooden box. This bat- tery is capable of discharging a sufficient strength of current for a period of fifteen to twenty hours. The re -charging occupies six hours. Wonderful Things That the Blind Do. It seems as though it were only in a few such cases of brilliant talent that there can be any real competition between the blind and the Boeing; but a blind child, like one who has lost an arm or leg, may learn to make the most of what is left to him, and to that end the work -rooms of the institu- tion claim their full share of each day. The boys ars taught to make mattresses, to cane chairs, and if they have ear and brain enough to be tuners, there are models by which they may become familiar with the anatomy of the piano. The girls learn to knit and sew by hand and on machines; they embroider and make cone° lace, and are also taught cooking on little gas stoves. Not long ago one of them had to go home because her mother was ill, and on her re- turn she was heard to say, half in joke and half in earnest: " 11 was a bad day for me when I learnt to cook, for I was kept at it all the time." The list which is kept of the occupations followed by pupils after they leave the school gives some curious reading. One of the tuners in Steinway's warerooms is a graduate, and another was for years the organist of Dr. Howard Crosby's Chureth. An insurance broker, a prosperous news - vender who owns three stalls, a horse dealer, a tax collector, a real estate agent, a florist, are all duly recorded ; but the moat astonishing entries are those of a lumberman, a sailor and cook, and a switch - tender. Once outside the walls of the institution the pupils find their own level according to their ability; but wherever they may go they always keep a friendly feeling for the teachers who have literally led them forth, so far as may be, from the shadow of a great darkness ; and these in their turn are repaid for hours of patient drudgery by the knowledge that they have helped to turn a useless creature into a man or woman for whom there is a place in the world.—Front "TheEducationofthe Blind," by Mrs. Frederic R. Jones, in the September Scribner. The Process of Disinheritance. A little over ten years ago a New York capitalistic paper declared that a change in the ownership of the land in America must come; that there must arise a race of tenant farmers on the one hand and landlords on the other. This was not said as a warning of impending evil, but was a prediction of what the paper in question considered not more certain than deeirable. He declared that the time was then even ripe for the change; that the farmers were reduced to the condition where they would gladly sell, if only buyers would appear. At that time, even in the comparatively new state of Kan- sas, 13-k per cent, of the farms were culti- vated by tenants. To -day over 33 per cent. of the Kansas farmers aro tenants. The pre- diction of the New York capitalistic sheet is coming true. Like the people of older lands, the people of America are becoming disinherited. While they boast as loudly as ever of their liberty, they are being surely reduced to vassalage, for it is the veriest mockery to talk of a man as being politically free who is dependent on another for the right to live.—K. of L. Journal. A Itilsogymeafe View. Hannah—I have juet bean reading "Tho Last Words of Great Men." Hannah—I suppose most of them were tender messages to their wives ? " No ; they wouldn't have had any last words ii they had had wives." A man With a large jag stood at the cor- ner of Main and Clinton streets last night. He hailed a passing stranger and, pointing to the Buffalo library building, sad: "Shay, What makeshat buildin' keep welkin 'round ?" "Sire," said the stranger in passing, "that is a circulating library." Sir Archibald Gelltie's Address, restrict our notice to the close of his address, in which he presented a view of what could have been seen from Castle Rock, the central and oldest site in Edin- burgh, during the succeesive changes that have come over the face of the planet since it had been within reach of the conjectures of man. In a few graphic touches he took his hearers back !rem the present time through a long range of earlier landscapes which science has made known to us. His first picture was to substitute the mingled copse -wood and forest of prehiatmic times for the busy streets of Edinburgh. Then he introduced a polar scene,with bushes of stunted Arctic willow and birch, among which herds of reindeer browse and the huge mammoth makes his home. The dis- tant gleam of glaciers and enowfields mark the line of the Highland Mountains. The next scene is more Arctic in aspect, until every hill is buried under one vast sheet of ice 2.7,000 feet or more in thickness, which fills the whole midland valley of Scotland, and creeps slowly eastward into the basin of the Northern Sea. The next spectacle shows that the familiar hills and valleys of the Lothians have disappeared and swamps and jungles and open aeas are dotted with little volcanic cones which throw out their streams of lava and of ashes. Before this took place a wide lake covered the whole midland valley, and contained long lines of active volcanoes, some of them several thou- sand feet in height. Previous to this a wide expanse of sea overspread most of Britain in Silurian times. Beyond this there is nothing but the primeval darkness, and in this picture of what has transpired in successive agee Prof. Geikie has roughly stated about all we know' of the antiquity of the earth. Everything else is a guess or a theory.—Boston Herald. Sick Headache and -eleve an the ;males inci- dent to a bilges stare of tne ey '• shell di Dieeiness, Naligga. owsine Pa • a alive eating, Pain In the Stile, tne. et eeir mgse reMarkeble sliceits hag been B 8' in =lug ereadache yet int'S 1.7.ryt15 Ewan TPA are etiefeafir telnab f: in genartled, earitrg and preneinieg Chia itnae.yang cc it. thy ecifo edrect all Aierara th g stirmirate' the liver and regelitte the Even if they only eufed Ache tbey Would be alums/ PriOeltga to thou Waib suffer frotri thig digtretgifig donipriiiht; tint fOrtainately their goddlirsa does hot chd here, and tlY53se who once tit theta will flea these little in so mad' waYs tiftit they will not be Willilfg tb do without them. 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