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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-11-3, Page 3To Byte -Town. 'What's the way to Bylotown Bylo-town I Bylo-town 7 What's the way to 13y10 town Baby wants to go. Cuddled in her cradle low, That'the way, That's the way, Cuddled in her cradle low, That's the way for babe to go. That's the way, That's the way, Way to Bylo-town. Keep the little lashes down, That' e the way, That's the way. Keep the little lashes down, That's the way to Bylo-town. That's the way, That's the way, Way to Bylo-town. The Song of the Farmer's Wife. Monday is for washing Tuesday is for ironing, Wednesday is for mending and putting clothes Thursday is bar churning, Friday is for baking, Saturday is always the grand cleaning day. But, then, there la the breakfast. And the dinner, and the tea to get; Besides, there is the milking to be done each night and morn; The hens to feed, the knitting, The sweeping and the bread to set, And the carding of the wool when the pretty sheep are shorn. There is never any ending, But always work beginning, Mom early Monday morning till Saturday at might ; But oftentimes I find If a merry sang I'm singing, My heart is gay and happy, then all my work seems light. What Great.E'randniother Now, my little daughter standing 33y my chair, is oft demanding, 'Tell me, mother, what your grandma used to do. Did sho have much time for reading, Pauses heeding, And succeeding Well, with music, draw, and paint on china, too. "No, my darling, grandma never Had the time for such endeavor. For she worked from morn until the setting sun. She would call the cows so early, Daisy! Gurley! Don't be sur:ey,' And the milking then would speedily' be done. " She would strain the milk and churn it Make a cheese and deftly turn it; . Make soft soap and brew the nicest currant wine, Dip the candles, nightly glowing, Little knowing, And bestowing Scarce a thought on what as future light would shine. "Card and spin the wool nor leave it, TM she into cloth would weave it, And she raised her liax and wove her linen Ina quilting she delighted, All invited None were slighted; Or &paring and husking bee combine. "She raised geese and plucked each feather, Cut cloth and sewed together. Every strip, to make a home-made carpet gay; And she knitted every stocking, Meanwhile rocking, Oh. 'twas shocking, All the work that women wont through in y, —Rehoboth Sunday Herta As You Go Through Life. Don't look for the flaws as you go through life . And even when you find them, It is wise and kind to be somewh a tblind And look for the virtue behind i hem. For the cloudiest night has a tint of light Somewhere in its shadows hiding ; It is better by fax to look for a star. Than the spots on the sun abiding. The current of life num ever away To the bosom of God'great ocean ; Don't set your force 'genial- the river's course And think to alter its motion. Don't waste a curse on the universe— Remember it dyed before you; Don't butt at the storm with your puny for, But bond and let it go o'er you. The world will never adinst itself To suit your whims to the letter ; Some things go wrong your whole life long, And the sooner you .know it the better. It is folly to fight with rho infinite, And go under at last in the wrestle ; The wiser man shapes into God's plan, As water Ehapee into a vessel. —Jewish Tidings. My Betty 'When I sit and hold her, little hand, My Betty, Then all the vexing troubles seem to shrink, Grow small and potty. It does not matter any more That ink is spilt on parlor floor; That gown is caught upon the latch— And not the smallest bit to match; That cook is going, housemaid gone, And corning guests to me -t alone. It matters not at all, you see, For I have Betty, and Betty has me. When I sit and hold her little hand, My Betty, Then all the pretty, foolish nursery talk Grows wise and witty. I'm glad to know that "Pussy Mow" 'VI, as frightened at the wooden cow' • I mourn for "Dolly's" broken head And for the sawdust she has shed; I take with joy the cups of tea :From wooden P•a-pot poured for me; And all goes well, because, you see, I play with Betty, and Betty with me. When I walk and hold her little hand, My Betty, Then every humble weed beside the way Grows pink and pretty. The clover never was so red, Their purest white the daisies spread, The buttercups begin to dance, The reeds salute wEh lifted lance, The very tallest trees we pass Bend down to greet my little lass; And these things m he my joy, Von sec, For I love Betty, and Betty loves me. Bobby's Train. Don't you want to cOme and ride On my cars with me ? It's the nicest rain of cars Ever you did see. We're stop sting for refreshments AU along the way. Little bits of frosted cake; Grandma said we may. Then we have such accidents, Oh, it is such fun ! All the oars are oft the track, Every single one. Some of us it breaks our arms, Some it almost kills; Then the doctor has to come, Gives us candy pills, Ilere'e a tickei. for my train, You eau )aftve it free, Juqt the nicest kind of cars Ever you did see ! LAucal AND LEARN. A Bachelor's Misgivings. X have thought of getting Married When I've seen thee, Mary Jane, With thy dainty silks and satins, With thy crinoline and train ; But a whisper came across me, Like a ego with omen rife. "An 'tis very well to marry, But ! cameo though keen a wife If the last new bonnet suits thee, Canst thou wear it still the mutual Though a newer pattern tempt thee, Lately handed down to fame? Will a dress or two content ther, When stern fashion orders more, And a solitary, head-dress do, Instead of half a score But they tell me I am -raving, To expect so strange a thing, And they laugh to scorn my musings And the hopes to which 1 cling, Se I fear I must resign thee And a bachelor remain, Yet I never can forget thee, Oh, too costly Mary Jane ! If any young man wants to find out what the wild waves are saying, let him go tome. Some restaurant tablecloths are like a country fair ; they display a little of every- thing. "Anything new on foot? "Yea." "What is it?" "Our baby. He's just learned to walk." St. Louis boasts of a man who has lost two legs and two arms. They say he is not half a bad fellow. The "big guns" at a banquet are those who are fired with eloquence so as to pro- duce reports in the newspapers. It was an agricultural editor who wrote: " Pumpkins are said to be fattening for hogs, but we have 'never tried them our- selves." A L0111SVille man has been sent to a lunatic asylum because he persisted in sing- ing " Ta-risera boom -de -ay." Let this be a warning. Wife—James, did you mail that letter I gave you last Tuesday for Mrs. D----? Husband—Yes, dear. I mailed it this • morning. "I see villain in your face," said a judge to a prisoner. "May it please Your Honor," said the latter, "that is a personal refleotion." She—It was right here that I accepted you, John. Had you forgotten? He—My dear, there are some things that I can neither forget nor forgive tion may remain.a-Prepta/ae Science Monthly. The cucumber fights best when We down, The small boy can learn the lesson of life from the fire engine, Itmuet workor it can't play. "I hear your shooting party had an mei- dent. Is it true ?" "Yes ; Billy Smith shot a duck." "Will you have another cup of coffee ?" the landlady asked the boarder. He shook his head. "The spirit is willing he said," "but the coffee is weak." "I understand," said the employer to the committee, "that you want a longer time for meals." "That's it, sir," replied the spokesman, "we want ate hours." "The paragraphista make all kinds of fun about girls turning the lamp down low when their lovers come to see them. I never do." " No?" " No ; I put it out." Mrs. Chinner—Why does young Mr. Gur- ley always knock at the door when he comes to call on you? Miss Chinner—He's afraid if he comes with a ring I'll regard it as a proposal. Invalid wife—John, dear, I do hope if you should marry again you will find a bet- ter wife than I have been. John—There, there, my love, don't worry; there will be no trouble about that. Mrs. Motherly—What is the matter, Miss Dudely ? You seem to be agitated. Miss Dudely—I am agitated. Just think of its That silly, stuck-up Fanny Jones tells everybody I'm not her equal. It's a wicked lie. The Groom—You look envious, old man? The Best Man—I am. The Groom (hap- pily supposing he is the envied one)—Of whom? The .Beat Man—Of the minister. You say you are going to give him a hun- dred. A boomerang joke : "Parker's fire insur- ance policy covered the coal in his celler, and the other day, just for a joke he put in a claim for all the coal he'd burned." "What did the company do ? " "Had Parker arrested for arson." "Just throw me half a dozen of the big- gest of those trout," said a citizen to the fish dealer. "Throw thum ?" queried the dealer. "Yes, and then I'll go home and tell my wife that I caught 'ern. I may be a poor fisherman, but I'm no liar." Victoria's maids of honor, who are paid $1,500 a year for their services, earn their salaries. They are obliged to appear before the Queen in a new gown every day. and to be in readiness to attend Her Majesty at any and every hour of the day. "I paid the man for finishing the cistern this morning, Josiah," said Mrs. Chngwater, "and it took the last cent t here was in the house." "Never mind that, Samantha," replied Mr. Cbugwater, soothingly ; "we've got something for a rainy day as last." Col. Yerger, very much under the influ- ence of ardenespirite, is greeted by his wife as follows: "That's a nice state you are in again ' You will break my heart, coming to me this way every night Oh, what shall I do ?" Col. Yerger (reproachfully)—Mishes Yerger (hie), if you 'buss me, 'buss me thish way regla.r every night (hie), first thingyou knows I'll (hie) take to drinkina Shee if I don't. Speaking of girls taking exercise suffi- cient for their health, a grumpy old 1 heath- elor, whose feet were not built for dancing, said : "During the ball season a girl gets lots of exercise. I've made a, study of dancing, and figure that an average waltz takes a girl over three-quarters of a mile of floor ; a Nome dance is good for a half mile, and a plea) equals a run of one mile. Twenty such dances is the average, you know, that is, if the girl is not a wall flower. Of the 20. 12 are waltzes, and you have nine miles; three are galops, and that makes 12 miles '• five other dances at a half mile give you a total of 15 miles. That is not counting strolls, promenades and other trips. So you See that if a girl attends two balls a week she gets plenty of exercise." Well Shaken Before Taken. All the ruddy apples ripen On the trees, trees, trees, And are shaken gently earthward By the breeze, breeze, 'breeze, Or, perhaps, more quickly shaken By the boys, boys, boys. Who commit their depredations Without noise, noise, noise i ; Then the farmer's dog s loosened From his chain, chain, chain And the boys themselves are shaken Into pain, Pain, vain. "What makes you think Mine Hennings loves you?" " I am the only man she won't flirt with." Ethel—I beard last night that George was head over heels in love with me. Mrs, ICROX—You can't believe al you hear. Ethel—No; but I shouldn't wonder if there was something in it, Mrs. Knox—Who told you? Ethel—He did. Priscilla—When Charlie proposed to me the poor fellow did look so silly ! Prunella —Well, no wonder. "Gosh. I" exclaimed Josiah Punkerton, as he gazed at the leopard in the menagerie; bl 11 In freckles 1" "Do you believe that knowledge is power?" "I do." "That explains then why dudes are eo frail." "Slogs is up for office." "Yes, but I'm afraid he won't run well." " Why not ?" " He used to be a messenger boy." Smithleigh—I'm going to send my, boy to a private school. What branches do you think he ought to take to make him smart? Faiglish friend—Birch. Jose—Whatever chappie may, be, he isn't conceited. Bess—How do you know? Jess —He nearly always begins his sentences, "1 have half a mind." What are you in for ?" " Matrimony," said the prisoner. "That isn't a crime." " Yes it is. I neglected to kill my first wife before marrying my second." Customer—Where is Gabbier, who usually shaves me? Barber—Hia is going to take a vacation for the rest of the month. Cus- tomer—And the rest of the community, toe "Mrs. Neverlisten is a charming and fluent talker. Has she traveled a great deal?" " No, but she has attended more musicales than any one in town. Call Boy—Sire, there's trouble in the chorus. Manager—What's the matter? Call Boy—Pearl Blanc Madge has lost her tights and says she can't go on in the march. Manager—Well, I should say she couldn't. She—There is no doubt about it that marriage does improve a man's politeness. He—How so? She—Well, you frequently get up and offer me your chair now. Before we were married you never gave me more than half of it. THE LATE DE. JOHN BABONE. Famous Shorthand Writer, Manufacturer Stoioranner or the " Mhistler at the rlotiels." Mr. john Reboil°, who has just died at Handsworth, in his 73rd year, was one of the few expert shorthand writers in the Midlands when Mr. Villiers made his earheet speeches as member for Wolver- hampton, and when Sir Robert Peel governedthe country from Tamworth- So successful was he in shorthand writing that he had more than one offer of a seat in the gallery of the House of Common& But he declined to accept an appointment of any one newspaper, and from first to last was a free lance in the world of letters. At the outset he studied stenography merely in order to follow the debates of the revived Political Union, under the chairmanship of Philip Henry Muntz. The sysrein he learnt—Taylor's—was cumbersome and diffi- cult in contrast with the system of to -day. Phonography was not yet invented; con- tractions and "grammalogues " had to be devised by each man for himself; and it was more to his ability as an inventor of arbitrary signs and his skill as a writer than to any virtue in Taylor's stenography that i Mr. Rabone owed his mastery n reporting. To skill as a stenographer he added such enterprise as enabled him once or twice to give the now defend Morning Herald the earliest verbatim report of some of the most important of the Tamworth speeches, which he used to transcribe while journeying to London by special train. In 1845 Mr. Ra - bone conceived the idea of applying steam to the business of his father—the manufac- ture of rules—and so he abandoned his work as a stenographer, and applied himself with such zeal to the rule trade that what used to be a very small business developed very rapidly, and ranks to -day as one of the biggest concerns of its kind. When he took the matter in hand measuring -rules were made by hand by a very slow and tedious process. Mr. Rabone devised ingenious machines which perform, automatically, the most delicate operations, applied steam - power to every branch, and revolu- tionized the trade. For a quarter of a century Mr. Rabone has been beat known in Birmingham by the intense in- terest he took in all matters affecting the history of old Birmingham. His genial face was to be met at nearly every gathering of antiquarians in the district, and he con- tributed most valuable "notes" and articles on the growth of the city, its ancient cus- toms, and the traditions of the neighbor- hood, over the signature "Ion." As a lad he had noted every circumstance of interest, and had known many of the personages of the time ; mid his memory stood him in. He (after the introduction)—I don't sup pose you will remember mo, but I think we used to be in the same Sunday school to- gether. She—I•don't think BO. When was a little girl in Sunday eohool, I was always in a girl's class. He—But this was when you was a teacher. Nora—I heard from Miss Singer this morning; she writes me she is going to ap- pear in opera soon. Dora—You don't say! What is she going to appear in? Nora— She didn't tell me, but knowing her taste so well, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if she ap- peared in garnet silk as usual. Queen Victoria, sears the Buffalo. News, is a thoroughly good woman. Even her superstitious notions help to scatter bless- ings around. She became impressed with the idea that anything made by a blind person brings good luck. Accordingly the cradles and furnishings of her grandchildren have been prepared ehtirely by the blind. And now the blind people of London have numerous orders from fashionable and well- to-do people for similar articles for the nursery The Utile OM Store. Oh, the little old store with the boll on the That rang, as you -wont out or in, With a ting.a-ling-ling, as it swung on the inning And doefened your cars with its din! Oh, the little old store gave measure 'and more, And everything emelled sweet of spice; Though 'twee dark, to say true, and hothing was 110W. Yet everything sold there was nice. For a quaint little maid., in muslin arrayed, Would answer each ring from the door, And smiles sweet and simple played tag with the dimple In the cheeks of the maid of the stare. I used often to stop in that little old shop, And sometimes for nothing at all, 33nt to just shako the spring and to hear the bell ring, For Nellie to answer its call. Alt those times are all over, ,the little old store Me vanished with old.fash toned ways; Till sometimes it seems as Nit one Of the dreams. That we have of our boyhond days. Though a faint, vitgue regret cernee Over me yet As I think of those fair &lye new no more, lo my heart I would be a glad lad again And with Nell to the little old dere. —Roll L. .112eCfatkielt. There is an art in dusting which does not receive the attention it demands. According to the various analysis of different ebservetis the components of ordinary dust exhibit special characters in almost endless variety. Mineral matters, animal and vegetable debris, morbid germs, and whatever is small and light enough to remain for any time suspended in the air, falls into the the category ; and among these things are many substances that in the air do mischief. The spread of cholera and exanthematous diseases bee, doithilesa with truth, been at tributed to its iefloence. Methods of sleet- ing, therefore, which mereiy remove the dust to another place or fill he air with it, are net sufficient and eve not lowtentolece. It should be Wiped, rather than brushed away, and carried away off or destroyed. Then lee the sunlight in to kill what infilo- The Sago Palm Tree. The sago palm tree bears but one crop of fruit. Its load of nuts is its first and lanai effort in the way of fruit -bearing. The nuts become ripe and are strewn in thousands around the tree until the great stem stands up by itself, empty and bare. The branches turn brown and drop one by one to the ground. Inside the trunk the work of decay is going on until what at one time was a mass of white sago and pith becomes nothing but a collection of rotten brown fibers. One day the trade wind blows more strongly than usual and the leafless column of the trunk falls with a orash,destroying in its fall many of the young palms that are already springing from the nuts scattered some months before. The tailput or Pal- myra palm, a native of Ceylon, is another tree which flowers and bears fruit but once. says the Brooklyn Eagle. When about 80 years old, which is when it has attained its fall growth, the flower spike bursts from its envelope with a loud' report. In the course of 15 or 20 months it showers down an abundance of nuts, and this effort to pro- duce numerous succession proves fatal to the parent. The fruit is round and very hard, about the size of a cherry, and so abundant that one tree will produce suf- ficient to plant a large district. APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES , DANDRUFF D. L. CAVEN, Toronto, TrarntgaV_ Vssaneer Ageut, V It., Ssie: Ala.& loth porteetrearyor utHin. era set(Vl reelerollnee—lagFn V4,80 a few applIca on() rest orgy fluttroy annoyed GUARANTEED excessive dandruff geoluputallun u stepped fillInSlr9.hrgy, MOO it sort emit/Sable dud iosowen. And acee: WINTER IS COMING ! Restores Fading hair tel original color. Stops failing of Wet, Keeps the Scalp clean, ;,‘ Makes hair soft and Pliahl0 Promotes Growth. ' U141.411911419.14140401.140u... With it come ay.fety.• Old Grini-Visaged Want,,.:' SPARKLE 01? GEMS ; FLUTTER OF RAGS. Joy Or Sorrow in the Sound I All Depends On Your Point of View—The $1,25vitv Day Man's Case—Ahns or Justice 2—Will les:tenter Throw Off His Burdens URRAH I Winter is coming Hear the cry of joy- ous anticipation of the boy who clubs down the chestnuts from the yellowing trees 1 To him the fall of the leaf en- and the cool mornings —!--m suggest skatieg and sledding and sleigh - rides and the many divertione of those who have not yet entered on the anions work of life. Winter is coming ! Winter is coming I What a joyful thought to the bailee and beaux who look forward to a long season ot operas, balls, at homes, musicales sacred and secular, and all the other "functions" of the season's gayetiee. Speed the hours that nearer bring the strains of the dance orchestra and the merry music of the sleigh. bells ! Winter is coming How the joyous cry tickles the fuel men, an gazing into the future they see visions of higher prices increased demand and swell- ing bank balances ! Glorious winter ! But there are those to whom the approach of winter brings no such joyous thrill, no such pleasing pros.pect. Nor is it only the victims of chronic catarrh and rheum - such good stead that there was scarcely a tism, and the motormen of street oars, who street or person of the Birmingham of half a , dread the icy breath of the north wind. century ago concerning whom he could not To multitudes the approach of winter pre - tell a tale or relate an incident. He was seats a problem in dollars and, cents— able to write a unique biography of Alex- bodies to clothe and keep warm and ander Somerville, the "Whistler at the appetites to satisfy—the solution of which Plough," who was sentenced to 1,000, and taxes their utmost ingenuity. The honey actually received 300, lashes, and was bee working industriously during the sum - drummed out of his regiment, ostensibly mer is able to lay in a winter's supply of for refusing to mount an unmanageable food; the grasshopper pursues summer horse, though the real cause was said pleasure and dies to escape winter. The to be his action in joining the Poli- human butterfly and grasshopper find in tical Union. He told the tale of the the coming of winter merely a change atrocities committed in the old Birmingham which gives zest to a round of varied Jail, from the inquest on the boy Andrews pleasures; the mass of the workers must to the imprisonment of the governor of the strain hand and brain to merely keep their jail ; gathered the history of the Lamb .House and yard in Bull street, and the roinance of the Herefordshire baronet who relinquished his title and lands to marry the good lady who lived there. He claimed to have discovered the Shakspeare beaoch, and wrote a pamphlet on the subject, and spent years of leisure in the most conscien- tious search after facts which he believed to be of interest in tracing the history of his native town, sparing neither patience, labor nor expense in a work that is none the less of abiding value if it be unostentatious and little noticed. He was a welcomefigure at all gatherings of pressmen, and was one of the first to be elected an honorary mem- ber of the Institute of Journalists.—English paper. The Girl and the Seer. The fortune-teller is a great boon to her sex. A few davit ago a Detroit girl, who was trying to keep track of her lover through the eyes of a secrets, at 50 cents. a see, became hopelessly insane. This morning the telegraph tells the story of a Pennsylvania servant who gave her whole fortune—small, indeed, for it was only $38 in all—to a pryer into futurity who promised her wealth greater than that of the Asters and Vanderbilts and Rothe- childs within a few hours after she paid in the last cent of her own money. The servant paid and waited for the promised shower of gold, but evidently she did not wait long enough, for now the fortune- teller is in jail, charged with fraud, and the girl wants her $38 back. This looks something like balm ingratitude. Fortune- tellers are not frauds. They never make mistakes. If that girl waits long enough and -works hard enough, and has sense enough to save her earnings from the other fortune-tellers in the land, the promised wealth will come to her. It's a way wealth has as Artemas Ward would say.—New Yor'le In the Might of Fashion Now. "Fifty dollar for a little dog like that?" exclaimed the lady. "Why, you offered him to me a week ago for $10 I' " Yee'ren" answered the owner of the kennel, "but things is different noW. That dawg, mum, you kin see fur yerself, is a rich terra cotta." The Liverpool Overhead Railroad, which as nearly fiuished, rune the whole length of the docks, about six miles. The MS will be moved and lighted by electaktity, gen oration at a station and carried along the track by a steel conductor. They will run in trains of two cars eaoh, each car having seats for 56 passengers, with space for a motor at one end. Bellefonte (Pa.) phytticians are puzzled over a barometical young lady Who it; amiable in fair weather, becomee tigly tie a storm approaches and is a Mall cyclone her about the tune for the storm to break. She ma, we believe, the only woman whose changes of temper °an be foretold with oolong& accuracy. An Old Cure. The old cure for the drink habit, which consisted of chewing raisins every time at drink was desired, has been tried in a lum- ber of cases with great success, and it is now being freely recommended in various quar- ters. Another remedy, which is endorsed quite often by the medical fraternity, con- sists of eating apples in great quantities, both during meals and whenever thirst is felt. It is singular that both these remedies are strictly homeopathic in their use and application, because wine can be made from mains in large quantities, while raisins themselves are' practically dried grapes. From apples, of course, cider can be made, and the agreement appears to be that using both these ingredients in small quan- tities kills the desire to partake to excess of the more dangerous product,. As excellent brandy is made, especially in the South, from peaches, the treatment, to be logical, should include the free use of peaches by those who have little love for either wine or cider, but who can scent brandy through a stone wall or across half a dozen blocks. The Turf. Mr. F. A. Ehret leads the list of winners , . . during the season of legitimate' racing in the State of New York. His $156,443, are $40,000 ahead of Marcus Daly's winnings. Thirty-four horses have won over $10,000 each. The winners of over $25,000 are: F. A. Ehret Marcus Daly M. F. Dwyee J. A. & A. H. Morris Rancoea • Stable W. C. Daly Gideon Daly Walcott & Campbell A. F. Van Ness Brown Sc. Rogers Foxhall Keene Ono* Stehle Bleinton Stable G. B. Morris J. T. MoCafferty pre Stable W. Lakeland $ 156,448 116,175 114,166 97,165 92,536 64 072 62,196 52,004 49,551 48,517 47,935 14,145 '36.443 35,846 33,806 28,931 26,827 Three Canadien owners have secured over $1,000 each. They are: (4. Littlefield, J'an George Forbes Joseph E. Seagram CARTER'S ITTLE IVR Pli Sick Headache metre' eve all the troubles inci- dent to a bilious State of the systera„ such as Dizziness, leausea. Drowsiness, Distress after - eating. Pain in the Side, .Y4e. While their most reinarhable sllecess labs been shown in curing 1 K Fleadache, yet Matreves Lerer4o Liven Pieta are equally valuable in Const.tiee, meeng and preventing this atmoyitog cestplathe while they aid() correct all dieorders of the siteneore, stimulate the liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only cured Ache they would be almost priceless to those who suffer from this distressing complaint; but fortunately thew goodness does not end here, and those who once try them will ffrid these little pills valuable in so many ways thSt they will not be willing to do without them. But after all sick head Is the bane of so many lives that here is where we make ow. great boast. Our pills cure it while others do not. CARTER'S LITITX Piles are very small and very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose. They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all W1.10 use them. In vials at 25 cents: five for $1. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail. GAME& 11101011TE CO., Pew York. 11 2M. ball Don. hall lit, You may know how to support in respecta- bility and comfort a wife and three or four children on $1 to $1.25 a day, in this city; I confess I do not. And what must be the anguish of a parent who is ohliged to help- lessly see his family Euffer while the profits from the exercise of his earning powers go others? THE $1. 25-A-DA1 MAN'S OSSE. Let me jest make a rough estimate of receipts and of the principal items of ex- penditure. Let me suppose a man earns $1.25 a day, on which he must support his wife and four children. I need not go into details; every housekeeper can supply them. He will be fortunate, indeed, if he families in life. Queer, isn't it, how men's I can put in 290 days' work in the 313 -day laws have improved upon Nature's? We work year, earning thus $362.50. I allow have all but repealed the scripture, "He for rent, $7 a month, 84;$fuel, $25 ; food that worketh not neither shall he eat." IS THERE PRESSURE HERE ? 38,500 7465 1,706 Protection. By many interesting experiments a lec- turer in Dakota showed that feathers are a non-concuotor of lightning, and he advised a person in a thunderstorm to cover himself with a feather bed. A week later Mrs. Marshall's 4 -year-old boy came running into the house, exclaim. tog: "It's going to rain, ain't it, ma "No—why ?" "They are puttin' lots of feathers and tar on Jim Budd, what stole them pige." 4 The Modern Vision. Laura—ver meet Mr. Fitts? Flora—Oho yes. But I don't think much of him. I haven't any use for 4 man Who is tied to his wife'S suspender& Surelyfew industrious families are so pressed in this young and rich country? Surely none in this city.?' Did it ever occur to you that to a man of family, earning $1 to $1.50 a day, the ap- proach of winter, with its necessarily increasing cost of living, must present a problem of supreme importance? Did it ever, strike you that when clothing. fueland rent have been provided out of such an for father, mother and four children, at $1 a week (can they live on that ?), $208. Then allow $12 for shoes and $4 for school fees and we have left $29.50 to clothe the family and fay for the hundred and one inciden- tals of living and keeping up the housefur- nishings. This allows nothing for life in- surance or sick benefit provision, or doctor's bills, and if sickness or idleness overtakes the father, or if he is taken away by death, what an outlook for mother and children And what of the $1 -a -day man whose in income the amount remaining will ill warrant Mae is $72.50 less I the little expenditures which many families ninonmen WOMEN'S LIVES. view as necessary to the healthy enjoyment Yes'I know; the women help out the of life even on the most economical scale? account by sewing. God bless the patient You hadn't thought much about it? No; toilers who wear oat their lives to save the family from want or the diserace of nape d debts ! But why should ieiate necessary? Why, as our powers of production increase, should the producer's life become more of a grind? Why should young 'girls be bound . by the bonds of want to the murderous sewing machine until they bring to marriage only the wreck of womanhood -and have to look forward to a life of suffering as the expiation of the physiological sins to which they were driven in order that they might live? Why should the worker both toil and suffer, while the idler, who would scarcely touch her lest she soil her gloved hand, revels in riches unearned, without a thought of the sighs and heartaches with which her luxury is bought? Why doss the breadwinner fail? Are our economical bal- ances true, think you? Why is it that while wealth increases the pressure on the producers thereof forces them to give not only the labor of the husband and father, but that of the wife as well, and often that ot the tender little ones, in exchange for tbe bare necessaries of existence? And what of our boasted charity? A mere drop Hamilton is not a dear place to live in. of water on the parched tongue of the in Not extraordinarily so ; but cheapness is dustrial victim of our economic hell. It only a relative term. Rents are probably does not. extinguish the fire! Blood of the lower here than in Toronto or Buffalo or humble! Thy stain is alike on banquet Detroit, quality of workingmen's houses board and altar! considered. But that granted, what re- mains to be claimed? The staples of life WE MUST RE TRUE TO OURSELVES. cost about as much as in any other part of Charity, indeed ! Why will we skulk Canada, ; poultry is dearer than elsewhere and hide? Nurses do good work, but they in Canada, unless I except Toronto—and I do "t carry arms. The occasion demands am not sure that I should. Butter and men ; men of principle, of determination, of eggs have recently averaged Detroit prices, (tourer. There is a work to be done; a and our wholesale beef prices approximate pair ca. oars and strongezms are worth many those at which refrigerated beef sells in prayers in a storm. When those who suffer Liverpool. • The minor articles of the begin to think, and realize that Heaven cuisine are usually high enough. We have, helps them who help themselves, there will then, moderate rents, excellent water and a be hope. When the masses cease seeking romantic location. But, alas 1 there is little for repression of effort and demand liberty; of romance in the demands of a when they acknowledge that what is wrong hungry stomach, and it takes wages in private life cannot be right in public life, to buy food. When everything necessary to and that what is wrong in n eighbors is wrong life is at a mark high up on the commercial in nations, they will be turning light -ward. barometer, and wages stay away down with When they cease to violate their sense of the most temaeious persistence, while oppor- right and justice at the rally of mouth tunities shrink away under the barn cr patriots, demagogic plotters and ward retire into bank vaults, the coming of win- bosses and withdraw their confidence from ter ceased to enthuse the mass of workers law -mongers and tariff -tinkers and place whose unremitting toil cannot do more than it in Nature and Nature's God, there will place a few days' supplies between their dear be reason to hope that in a return to ones and grim -visaged Want. natural conditions and national honesty the ravaerv. slams TE,B stams,,,,,. labor Issachar will succeed in ridding him - f course charity) individual and organ- self of his double burden—the tariff-privi- ized, does much to relieve want, but it leged (Almelo and the land monopolist. It pauperizes also. Many hard cases it never will not take him long then to strangle the reaches, for there are these who can suffer brood of unnecessaryofficial ' Vampires who but Who cannot complain. At the same k h. MASQUETTE. sue away is substance. time there are those whose manhood and womanhood have been so sapped by sodialled charity that they are ready to impose on the generous -hearted.' Why should a man willing and able to work be forced to see his family suffer from want? That's a ' question that ought not to, that will not, down until it has been fairly answered. But the case is not to very bad here ? It is bad enough. Many men in this city of in this age of multiphed legislation, of unions and combines, of circles and conven- tions and social organizations and fakes of one kind and another, we have become so accustomed to viewing society in the con- crete that there is danger of our losing sight of the individuals who constitute it. What if a few men and women toil and suffer? What if a few children perish of hunger and cold? On with the 'dance! We're a great people; we've got the best land, the most beautiful women the mutest men and the moat honored flag of the nations Who dare be so unpatriotic as to suggest that there is aught wrong in our city, our country, our laws, or our so- ciety.? Well, why should the idle grow rich while thousands who toil incessantly, glad to get opportunity to sell their labor for bread, weary of the struggle of beating off the wolf? Take a little time to think of it. Sit down and make a calculation of what you spend—and you are, of course. economical—and then wonder how you would make ends meet were your income limited to the wages I mentioned. . i wealth and pleature cannot earn —ot If they emocirsens—Now,—, jot eht, lietbmege, tIlhfirts:bwnoonicuitn: i egarerantintvianrye dnoontotpgaeitovaerdglilaar ad4dyri,ywIhito uteW, that you put yourself to no unusual strain, many of fait Odttcation and productive A baptist church in England hasprovided abilities consider themselves In city if they a safe shelter for bicycles to encourage can obtain $1.25 to $1,50 flow do those church -going among the Wheelmen. Where of familitei keep the pot boiling? The Tomato. The m ost useful of all vegetables to the usekee per of limited moans is the tbniato* that is, if she is aware that the common slicing in vinegar and stewing are far from the most palatable Ways of Utilizing it. Tomatoes are very pleating to the eye and equally so to the taste when peeled and served whole upon a blue dish with the rich yellow of Mayonnaise dressing poured ovei them. They may be stuffed and baked, er, if the taste is eomewhat heavier, may be hied, while green, with onions. And then, again, they are most delicieue when Oleo it and broiled—that is, if they are eereially Reasoned and buttered.