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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-3-9, Page 3DOMINION PiRLIAMENT Mr. Davin presented a petition from M. John 3. Beeeley ewe twenty-seven others, inembeis of Meoecjew Agricultural Society, praying theti whore combines' exist all pro, toction my he withfirewn, and, in so far as reveaue will permit, protective duties be removed trete egriculturel implements, binder twiny. 014.1 ett and barltetil wire. The tenor lee privet° bills were intro- duced : Respecting the Leke Erie & Detroit River Railway Company—Mr. Freeer. To inommorele the Automatic Tele- phone & lnleetrie Company of Canada—Mr, Taylor. A. tVER, 'Mr. Moleetune, in reauining the debate ., on the budget, admitted that grain was , ,higher in (Janata warier the Maokenzie Ad- , ministration then now, but grain was also . higher in Greet Britain then than now, and the British miwirets governed the narkets here. It would he well for the ferment ef %thin countr y to elite into their consideration , the fact diet 833,000,000 in taxes was col- lected in the &Mate of New York last year, • or $22 per heal, or i112.000,000 more than the whole custom s t ex of Canada. (Efear, hear.) Mr. Devlie urge4 that the Minister of ;Finance hinteell Iasi acknowledged that there was e merit of unrest in the country. This spirit ce merest wee not in the ranks of this Oppositiens. it wee found in the Con- servative pertymers the member for North , Simcoe in the member for West Assiniboia, • and in the merntwre for the Eaetern Town- . ships'. It woe a mistake for the hon. • gentleman to say that any man who wanted to could get, work in Oeuada. Every day there were men trying to get work who -could not get it, and he was surprised if the hon. gentleman himself did not every day get letters Morn men applying for work. Mr. Craig agreed that the United States 4$19• a whole wes prosperous, but thought that more deselention prevailed in one of ' their large eitiee than in the whole of .Canada. The McKinley tariff had pressed • hard on mow °median farmers. He • thought the Canadian consumer was willing to pay something to live in this country. Mr. Mc:Canny preeented a petition for 13,577 members of the Patrons of Iadustry, praying for the removal of the duties on coal oil, binder twine, corn and all wire for fence purposes; and from 14,207 mem- bers of, the Petrone of Industry, praying that the Act for the suppression of aim- binationa formed for the restriction of trade be so amended as to make it a crim- inal offence for anypersons to conspire. combine,ciai or asso te n anywise to control • the price of any manufactured or °trimmer- cial articles. Mr. Taylor introduced a bill to incor- porate the Owasela Marriage Company. Mr. McNeill, before the orders of the day , were taken up, begged to rise to a matter of personal explenittiou. It appeared that the remerks of the First Minister the other day, when the member for Bothwell (Mr. Mille) raised the question of the unconstitutional- ity of the member for Albert (Mr. Weldon) and his friends in laying certain facts before the Governor-Gezeral, had left an im- pression whith he was sure they were nob waloulated to leave upon a large number of people in the country. The facts were that be and his friends approached His Excellency for the express purpose of lay- ing certain facts before him. He did not wish that there should be any misconcep- tion with regard to that. That was the mole object of their going to His Excel- lency. They had previously brought the matter to the notioe of the Government. ',The member for Albert had done so, and he . understood that he was received with the ;.greatest courtesy and heard with the greatest attention. and patience by the Premier and Finance Minister. He and his friends coosidered that they had another, • avenue of promo /Inge, and that was to bring •the matter to the notice of the statesman -who was here to represent Imperial intereets as well as to be the head of the Govern- ment. They believed that there was an Imminent and pressing danger, not only to the Dominion nut to the Empire. They understood tin an immense Mien corpora- tion had secured from two-thirds to three- squarders of all the coal mines in Nova 'Scotia, and under certain conditions they might secure the remainder. They un,der- ntood also that they had secured these mines undera lease altogether unprecedented in Canada. Mr. Speaker interrupted, telling the hon. gentleman that he !Mould not enter into a discussion on the aubject. Mr. McNeill min -lurked that all he had to ,say was that four members did not go to the Governor-General to give advice, but fthey laid the Mobs before hlminhis capacity • as an officer of the Imperial Government, tend considered than they had a right uiader •the constitutioa to do so. • Mr. Weldon eudorsed what the member for Bruce had said as to the object of his visit to His Excellency. When crane= upon the act was first made by the member for Bothwell it seemed to him so perfectly ...preposterous that he did nonthink the hon. gentleman could be in earnest. The seeming . flippancy of hie own remarks was due to. then fact. Ib was after his right to speak was gone thin, he found the member for Bothwell was really opeaking seriouely. . Mr. Charltoe introduced a bill to amend the Revised Statutes of Canada, ohapter 33, and 51 Victoria, chapter 15. The gbject of the bill was to place the lumter trade of the - wountry in a condition of security With re gard to export duties. Chapter 3e of the Revised Statutes contained provisions which established export dutiful and gave to the ..Governomin•Council 'flower to increase, eliminish, or suspend those dating. . The bill provided that tha Governor -in -Council whould be debarred from dealing with nhe . ;question of export duties except by and with the content of Parliament. l Mr. Coatsworth asked whether elle Gov- ernment was aware, through its officers or otherwise, of the • unsaitability of the Gov- ernment buildings in Toronto f or Icarrying ,on the Government business in a satisfactory enanner. , Mr. Onimet said the matter Intel been brought to the attention of the department, 1.. m tend a report had been ordered to be ade with ri, V1OW of giving the mita) rvicemli ethe accommodation that rnight oonsid- wred necessary. Mr. McMullen asked, in view of the very important statement made in the House on the 171,11 of February, 1):Ir the hon. member for Smith ()Attics (Mr, Smith), .regarding combinetions formed -by. the -cotton niantifectimere of Canada, and in view of the promise of the Piot Minister lase session, as follows : 4' If it was esteblithed, as the hon. gentlemen. . eerrs to assort, that the tariff was the anemia of enebling euela a company to sot •. oppresaivoly to consumers, it, would cer- • tainly not very long remaitt eo," what action did the Government intend to take in order to relieve the corteurnere of cotton from the • . entortion to which they were subjected, whereby four /Milieus of dollars in excess of value had been mbetntoted from the paid consumers diming the laeb year under the present tariff'l Sir John Tilos-apse/a earl he won afraid the hen, gentle/teat wars not in order, and would have to withdraw the andertions. Mn Foster introduced a bill telating to ,i otoiseye payable ie conneetion With pro - °selling bolero Perliament II0 eXplained that its object Was to regulate the peyment tend receipt of money in connection with priente bill. , Mr. Foster, replying to Mr. Choghette and Nfr. Braman, who asted respeotlenlO what were the name of the thirty-seven manufacturermentioned in the last content as existing in Montinagny, Quebec, end of 128 manufeeturers et Sorel, mid the censers was taken by sworn enumerators, Nothing but geeerel stelisticel results wore published. No names could therefore be given or persona particulars communicated. (Opposition mughtern He would nuform hon. gentle- men opposite that this had always beeu the praotioe in the census of Canada. Mr. McCarthy asked when the the,papers rerspecting the Manitoba school case would be brought down. Sir John Thompson said they were all brought; down'and by arrangement with the leader of the Oppoeition last evening tbe first set were ordered to be printed at once. • The following Bills wore read a first time : Respecting the Canadian Power Company —Mr. Tisdale. • To isicorporato the Maritime Manufac- turing Company—Mr. Stairs. Mr. Kenny, on motion to go into !supply, said he had received a telegram announoing the arrival at the port of Halifax of the Allan line steamer Mongolia.n, after avoyage of 13 days and 20 houre from Liverpool direot. Estimating the distance between Liverpool and Heaney as 2,400 miles, the average rate of speed per hour of this subsidized Canadian naail steamer was only 7e miles. He thought it important that the matter should be brought to the attention of the Post. masterGeneral, as he considered this was an extremely uusatisfactory mail ser- vice. This steamer had, after arriving at Halifax, proceeded to the port of Portland, Maine, where she made her principal dis- bursements, to the detriment of Canadian ports. There were a number of men at Halifax at this dull season who would bave been glad to have earned a small amount unloading and loading the vessel. The House went into Committee of sup- ply. Ain McMullen said it Was an injustice to the people of the country that 37n millioa dollars was spent annually in creating new offices for friends of the Government. He did not see the necessity of creating the office of Minister of Trade and Commerce, and the office had evidently been created merely to shelve an old Government sup- porter, whom they did not wish to turn out like an old horse to pasture. Sir John Thompson said that when re- marks like those to which the House had just) listened to were made, ib was necessary to answer them or nob as their inaportanoe demanded. But when an hon. gentleman made such insulting observations as the hon. member for North Wellington (Mr. Mc- Mullen) had made of an old public servant, who had been an active and respected member of the House, it became necessary for him to enter a protest. The idea of re- ferring to an honored member of the Senate as an old horse turned out to pasture was unworthy of a member of the House. Mr. McMullen said he was nob going to permit even the First Minister to mis- represent him. In the discussion which had taken place, he had pointed out that it was unnecessary that the department should have been created, and that the present 00011pallt should have been placed in charge. He had pointed out that the statute under which that gentleman had been appointed had been in existence six years before the hon. gentleman took advantage of filling it. He had said that the Government could nob turn the hon. gentleman out as an old horse to die, but had nob termed him an old horse. The Minister of Trade and Com- merce was one of the most pronounced Tory partisans, and a man always willing to take a party and a petty advantage. He did not retract a single word he had said of the hon, gentleman. (Hear, hear.) The item was carried. The following private bills were read a third time and passed: To incorporate the Dominion Burglary Guarantee Company—Mr. White ((lard- epeoting the Hamilton Provident and weR11! Leen nociety—Mr. McKay. The House went again into Committee of Supply. On the item of $8,652 for arts, agricul- ture and statistics, Sir Richard Cartwright said that a com- plete list of the industrial establiehments in towns, as collected by the reoent census, should be placed before the House. He could conceive of no policy more calculated to bring the entire census returns into dis- repute than the line adopted by the Goverre ment of keeping such information moron In towns which he knew well he could nob conceive how there were 80, 100 or 140 in- dustrial establishinents. • Mr. Foster said the information obtained at the last census was obtained under the same conditions as formerly, and was always taken by sworn enumerators. Many remons would present themselves why such infor- mation should noWbe published broadcast. Manufacturere gave their information on the understanding that it was to be kept secret. Sir Richard Cartwrighb did not I;cquiesce in the argument advanced. If such ri, con- dition of things prevailed it was cptite time they were abrogated. It was not desired that the information !should be givnn of the capital ensployedorof the process employed, but simply a list of the industrial establish- ments in towns. He could not conceive of a more flimsy excuse. , Mr. Leerier said there was ni, reason why the name of a manufacturer and the nature of his business should not b known. f No manufacturer could object to bat. Mr. Casey said a roadside tin ier, with a bundle of umbrellas beside himt consti- tuted an industrial or reanufacturieg estab- liehment. The whole business wall a hum- bug. ' Mr. Lister said if the 0013SUS returns showed a proportionate growth . all over the ceuntry, as they did in his own town (Sarnia), he could understand the enor- mous growth in itidustrial establish- ments. The enumerators game 117 industries in the town, and, having lived there fpr forty yeare, ie knew the bactustral erstabliehments there to • be three fiour mills, two brewehios, two sash factories,. one furniture factory, two waggon factorme, ouo agricultural imple- ment Mallory, one Move foundry, one Mohnen mill, andlone nootrancl .opoke fac- tory, or a total of fourteen industries. and Sarnia was one of the growing towns of the Dominion. Mr. Foster said it would be better to postpone the discussion till the general eetimates were again before the House, and when the enunieratoreinstructions would be brought down. Mr. Deviee mid the Government owed it to the country to give the information melted fon • Sir John Thompson said he had tt vety dhtinot reeollection that all the regulations governitig the census together with the schedules had been brought down. • Mr. Flint wed levet either the census re- turns ef 1881 were oentemptiblysmall, ex, i them of 1891 ridicelmiely lerge, n vole -Mon te his own town of Yarniou th, 1,1 5., which gave ia the former yen, 15 industrial eetebr litenneete and in the latter year 151 such establishments. The Mot woe that the manu- factories in 1891 'were exacitly the gem ae in 1881, though one Or two bad somewhat developed, What was wented woe a mea of vertticetion of the eyetern. Sir Richard Cartwright raid it was abaci- lutely necemary that the enumerators' in- struceions !should be furnished the House before the item was even considered. The item was allowed V stand. A. number of other itenss were passed and the coeunittee rose. The House adjourned at 12 o'clock. IsHOPPED ItElt MITTEN. A Deaf Han Sympathized with Her and Caused a Lot or Trouble. It was just 6 o'clock, and the cer was packed with people going home. She carried some bundles, and in:her efforts to handle them and save them from crushing she dropped her mitten. She 80W it go, but was powerless to stay Ms demean and it went down in successive stages in a Waimea', space between herself, a man who looked over her head and an individuad who was deaf, "There goes my mitten 1" The deaf man leaned over and said: " My mitten—mitten—it fell down." Well, ye can't get it, mum. Yell have to wait till the car gits to the end of the line, so the conductor kin pull up the floor." "I'll do nothing of the kind. Besides, I ain't gone' to have all these people welkin' on it for half an hour." "Haven't ye got another one ?" said the deaf man. 1` Course I've got another one," and she wiggled the hand encased in her other mitten. The deaf man saw the movement, and knowing that women often carry oar fare inside their hand coverings, reached over and pulled her mitten off for her. Then she screamed. Tue conductor was the only man who could edge his way to the scene of trouble. • "What's the matter hero ?" "Lady dropped her nickel, and can't pick it up," said the deaf man. "Didn't drop my nickel—dropped my mitten," said the lady with the packages. "Said she had another one," pursued the deaf man, "but she lied." "You're an old door posb," said the woman with one mitten. "Queer how folks go travelin' about town with only one niokel, said the deaf man. "They get along better'n people with no ears," said the woman who didn't drop her nictkel. "Was that all the money yer husband give ye ?" asked the deaf man in a tone ot sympathy. "He must be a regul'r brute." ".11 he was here now he'd eat you up." "I s'pose them's collars and cuffs she's been doin' up and is ;min' to deliver 'em," mid the deaf man to the passengers. Then the conductor said "Fare'please," and the woman gave up a nickel that she had been carrying in her mouth. "Thought it was in yer mitten," said the deaf man. "You don't know how to think," said the woman. - "Wonder why she didn't carry 'em both in her mouth ?" said the deaf man. "You ought to stuff both your own mittens in yer mouth," said the woman. "Ain't ye afraid ye'll smaller yer nickel that way some time?" raked the deaf man. "11 I do I reckon it won'b injure my hearin'," said the woman. Then the conductor got down on the floor and recovered the woman's mitten and she got off at the next crossing, wondering why some people !Min% carry ear trumpets. The deaf men mid,by way of enlightening the other paeseegers guess it was her mitten instead of her nickel that she dropped." DrealtliS. The Salt Lake Tribune has been speculat- ing about dreams. Here are some of ite theoriea : "There is no telling how much the body interferes with the actual work- ings of the mind. There are a thousand of men who cannot get up before an audience and talk five minutes to save their lives; but in their dreams every one of that thou- sand can get up before an audience and make a speech, never hesitating for a moment. It is inconceivable to believe that his mind is brighter in sleep than when he is awake; the only conclusion eeems to be that when hie body is awake it puts clamps upon his mind and prevents is free action. Thus, as people grow o d, we say they are losing their faculties. Now, that cannot be recon- ciled with our thoughts of progress,. The mind, because of the body, is driven into a corner and doors are put up against it, and it can no longer exert itself. The only question is that when the light goes out and the body is dead, is the mind able to throw off those environments, or does it go simply into a long sleep. That is the mystery of sleep and of death. What is the connec- tion between a man's mind and his body? We know what a controlling force the mind has over the body; who knows what con- trol the body has over the mind? About all there is to it is that we are 'made of such stuff as dreams are.'" Heavy tiara the Host Satre. Every commercial traveller has 55 opbaion of his own as to that position whioh makes a car the safest one in a train. Some of them hold that it is the one next the baggage ear ; the majority maintain that the centre of the train is the least dangerous, while there are still individuals, in the minority, to be sure, who favor the rear car. These opinions have been gained in many instances from pratical experiences in railroad wrecks, which are, of course, by no means infrequenb in certain sections of the country. As such they are entitled to some consideration, but the dissimilar views really go to rshow that the position ole. oar in a train as regards its greater or lens safety is a matter of speculation alone. Upon one matter, however, all the travel- ling men agree, and that is that no matter what position the oar is, the meat ones of all are the heavy sleeping, paanor, buffet oars and the like. They are commouly referred in by the drummers "as better than an acoidenb policy," There is every reason for the holding of this favorable opinion of these cars. Thera heavier frames autl trenks render their telescoping a difficult matter, and they are less likely to leave the rails in a time of oollision than other care in consequence of their greater weight. A Boy Simi trp the men. This was a schoolboyle essay on " Peultry : "Hous is curlews atimals. They dornb have no nose, nor no teeth, nor no oars. They Wallow their vittles whole and chow it up in their crops inside thein." fWigmeg ---Maneleugh ter can be trans - °mewl lobo a, very enjoyable act if properly arranged. Blebbri—Great Scott 1 why, how 1 Wigwag—Well, when it's eeparated him mere/4 laughter. WON 1011 WITH A SONG* An Opera Singer Whs nude a leelettatien and Got a litishand Through Wood j VI 1 dO Og allrt t " hers and imprelearicei may say what they like about youngsiugers Meeting out with grand operas in their throats, but I know a batter plan," said Jessie Bartlett Davis the other day to a Louisville Times reporter, " It's the song !system. 111 ran a con- servatory I would tell the pupile who had ability and were anxious to begin a public career to get one song—never mind whet— ballad, hymn, serenade, ditty, carol, cradle or topical song, and work aii it until they could make of it all that the composer and author intended. "Take the girl, for instance'who wants a poeition in a church choir. What under the religious roof does the committee on music care for ' Marguerite or Elsa ' ? Operatic efforts are wasted on them. If the applicant wants to win let her sing, Bury Thy Sorrow,' There Is a Green Hill Far Away,' or 4 Rook of Ages. The possi- bilities of those three sweet old songs are only limited by the ability aud soul of the anger. 'Move two hearts in a committee of three, get a couple of heads to bend, bring four or five eyes to tears and let the rest of the applicants do the mad scene in Son- nambula ' and the 'Ave Maria' until they are blitek in the facie or hoarse as crows. nt'e a good deal better to reach the human heart than high C, and the average church- man would lather listen to a familiar Sunday school song that he used to sing when he was young and good than the grandest opera that was ever staged. "Managers of conoert companies will not listen to jewel songs and operatics invoca- tions. They haven't got time and they wouldn't waste it if they had. *Mat they want, I think, is something with touch and go in ib. Scotch and English ballads are always good. No man is ever too busy or too tired to listen to a plantation melody, and eleven in every dozen surrender to the com- monest street song if you begin at the right phew. There's Teaching McFadden to Wane,' for example; that will go every time, and 'Rook -a -Bye, Rook-a-Bye'— well, there's ababy and a woman in every man's heart, and three bars of that littee lullaby that the whole country has hummed and whistled for half a dozen years will bring tears and smiles, according to your treatment." "And your song is "My song is Sweet Genevieve.' I can sing it better than anything else, and I love it better than anything else. It got me every good engagement I ever had. The first time I tried it was in a Chicago church committee room. There was a vacancy in the choir that I wanted; I made applica- tion, and when the reverential deacou said he would like to hear me sing something I didn't know what to do. I was trying to decide between a Gounod and a Bach solo, when I caught sight of a locket hanging from the good man's watch chain. Thee settled it. I concluded that Genevieve's picture was inside, and I almost broke my heart resurrecting her vocal namesake. But I gob the vacancy. "The next time? The next time I went to see Mr. Davis. He was manager of the Chicago Choir Company. I wanted more money than I was getting, and I applied for an engagement. I sang 'Sweet Gene- vieve' again, and gob the part of Little But- terewp. I frequently sang it byrequest, and Mr. Davis fell in love with the song and married the singer. "When the American Opera Company was getting into shape I went to see Mr. Theodore Thomas, and when he said he would like to hear something I knew how to sing I gave him "Sweet Genevieve." Well,' he said, 'any girl who can sing 0, love song like that can sing American opera,' and he engaged me. When I applied for a position in the blapleson Grand Opera Company Mr. Mepleson made an ap- pointment for me to meet Mine. Patti, and I gave her S. G. She heard me through the whole song and applauded me by clapping /13V face between her hands. "Mr. Barnaby admitted me to my pres- ent position in the Robin. Hood Company on the strength of the lamented Miss Gene- vieve. and he pays me the mischievous compliment of getting out his handkerchief every time I sing it. But I shell sing 'Sweet Genevieve' until my voice cracke, and if there is any delay at the kingdom of heaven I shall try it on St. Peter." Demonstrated. Sometimes it costs hundreds of dollars to convince a man; very often leas is required, but in the case of Poleon's Nervilioe, that sovereign remedy for pain, 10 cents foots the bill, and eupplies enough Norviline to convince every purchaser that it is the beat, most prompt and certain pain remedy in the world. Nerviline is good for all kinds of pain, pleasant to take, and sure to cure cramps and all internal pains. It is also nice to rub outside, for it has an agreeable smell, quite unlike so many other preperm Mons, which are positively disagreeable to use. Try it now. Go to a drug store and buy a 10 cent or 25 cent bottle. Polson'e Nerviline. Take no other. The rower of Habit. Husband in bed—Now, old woman, go ahead with your curtain tecture, for if you don't I will not be able to sleep. The beat school for any psrects to �t themselves for businest life ie t he GeatBitsi- nears College and Shorthand Iustitixte, Gee., Oat. At this school the back ward boy er girl receives special attention, and the effl- meat ate assisted to good pestle:ie. Alliusiness Lome. He—Even tha undertaker was overcome with grief. She—Was he a relative? He—No; but the deceased was the only doctor in the town. GIBBONS' ToOTA011331 GUM MON as s temporary' filling and Mope toothache in- stantly. Sold by druggine. Not Great Unction. Visitor—Don't you think it possible) that a pardon may be procured for the poor man? Ilia offence was t ot great, arid further 005- finotoent will kill him. Warden—I'm afraid it is imposeible. The crime he committed WWI not sufficiently atro clans to interest the public in his caee. Nothing Mints Out COVas Like tight bootie Nething re/novels corns with sueh certainty as Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor, 13oware of poisonotte sub- Mitutee. Ask for and get Putnana's Pin. lesa Corn Extreotor at dmiggists. Smell Boy—Don't you have good ti11000 when you travel on the oars? Mrs. Gabbier —Why, dear? Small Boy—Well, mamma said you wore two-faced, and I'd think i would be an awful lot of fon to look out two oar windowrs at Once. A thorn In the hand attracte mere atten- tion than tWo in the Muth. "Hall Columbia f" was written in the opting oi 17981 who war with Franco seented imeitable. GE11114 MOM 10100lee' SERMONS* *Wry and Pregnant iftterancel Witai which. Ole Hiseoursee Alltotinallaels Following are a few detaohed thoughts taken at random from Bishop Brooks' ser- mons. They show something of his breadth of mind To furnish truth to the believieg heart, end to furnish believing hearts to truth, certainly there is no nobler office for human life than than ar4e union of energy and wisdom makes the completest character and the most powerful life. • Every truth which it ie possible for man to know ib is good for him to know, Everything keeps ite best nature only by being put to its best nee. The glib and ready Sunday !school teacher goes from his °lase to his borne, and in the presence of his own children he is ss eilent as a Attiring. The serpent, the spirit of evil, has forced his way into the humeri drama. The future of mankind is s religious fixture. To believe ie the true glory of existence. Wonderful is that faith in faith by which the soul dares to be pure, even in the very thick of doubt. In belief, and not in un- belief, is ite eternal rest and home. There are indubitable evidences that the good in the world is stronger than the evil; a great, slow, steady progress of the good, forever gaining on the evrl. Hope and charity—these musbboth spring up from the soul of faith. If Chad has truly a purpose for our lives, who dare be hopeless? Alt l we do only half believe The repose of old age is full of the charac- ter that came from the early struggle. Trial is an absolutely necessary element in all perfected. character. Every true strength is gained in Enrage°. The world has elovrly learned that Christianity is true. Heaven will not be pure stagnetion ; not idleness but active tireless, emmest work. The beist glory of most full existence is in the overfilling of its fullness with the love and fear of God. The New Testament is our book of authority; but the New Testament is always leading men astray, because they deal with it unreasonably, because they do not take into account the times in which it was first written. Our theological systems are artificial and arbitrary, not natural. There must come a natural selection of religions, a survival of the fittesb among ittiths. Most men are neither rages nor fools. Do not be chary of appreciation. Heads are hungry for it. Sin is a dreadful, poaitive, malignant thing. Make yourself at home in the Public Library. Seek your life's nourishment in your life's work. The 'highest natures are most dependent upon timeliness and fitness. Sin and holiness are not in things, bat in, souls. Never comfort affliction witha falsehood; never try to silence error with an argument which man do not believe. The idea of Jesus is the illumination and the inspiration of existence. Withoub it moral life becomes a barren expediency, and social life is a hollow shell, and emotional life a meaningless excitement, and intellectual life an idle play or stupid drudgery.—Boston Globe. Women of Irritable Temper. It is like living in a den of snarling animals to live with a person who has this sorb of temper, writes Ella Weeder Wilcox in an article on" The Destroyers of Domes- tic Edens," in the February "Ladies' Home JoumaL" Many an Eden is destroyed by it, while the possessor prides himself upon being a good Christian, and doing his whole duty by his family. Yet, if the soup lacks a little salt., or contains a little too much pepper, if a meal is a moment de - /eyed, if a child is noisy in its mirth, if a. drawer sticks, or a door slams, or a chair creaks, each trifle calls forth an exhibition of disagreeable temper, which rains; the comfort and peace of the household for an hour. Many a woman is addicted to this sort of temper and calls ib "her nerves," and considers herself the most devoted wife and mother in the world. Yet if she is obliged to delay her dinner for any member of the funny, if she is called from one task to perform another, if the children matter their playthings, or leave theirschool- books in the parlor, she indulges in such petulant scolding that a gloom settles over the whole household. She would consider it no difficult thing to die for that house- hold, if it were demanded of her But to control hemirritable temper is a task too great to demand of her. And so the Eden is destroyed, and the children grow up eager to get out of the home where everything is uncomfortable, and the parents wonderwhy all their sacrifices are eci poorly appreciated, why their children, for whom they have toiled and saved, seem to care so little about their home, and why they seem so anxious to seek pleasures elsewhere. Good Luctc. Mr. Isaac Rutherford, Dobbin ton, Bruce Co., Oat, writes: "Mr. C. F. Segsworbh, Toronto. Dear Sir,—I having used one box of Texas Balsam 01:1 a horse's neck of mine Shat has been sore for the last year and could get nothing to heal it, and work the house, till I got This salve. I cannot speak too highly of your Texas Balsam. I would reeomme.nd it to everybody. It ie a pity it is not known better through the country. Enclosed please find $l, for which please eenel me the worth of it in Texas Balsam by mail, as 1 QM in a hurry for it ; I got a horse badly corked to -day and want to use it on him. Please hurry lion." Use only the best. The best is the cheap- est). The best is Texas Balsam. Price 25 cents. Ask your druggist; for it; or sent by mail by 0. Ir. Segsworth, 6 Wellington street east, Toronto. Nature Against Him. "Von ipso° been walking about this great city for six weeks and haveri't found work?" said tire kind woman, feelingly. " Yeahn," replied the seedy man in the kite/leo, hie nunith closing over a wedge of pie. Thet'e tight." , '1Itou are will sag to worle, I dare say?" "Willie', mum/ rd work my laiget off ef I could gib a chance. Just a leetle more cream in the oatviy. Thanky." 1' And yeti would do any kind of honor- able work, I 'Marseille?" "You're, anything that's in my line. I b'leeve in every man stioldn' to his perfern sloe." "May I age what your profesnion is ?" I'm a inventor, nitim.' "An inventor?" " Yoshio," said the needy man, reaching for a doughnut, "inventor of is new process for curio& eunstrokee." The iNtgeot sheep retch In the :world ie 15 the eseerities of Ditninet end Webb, Tem It emit:aloe upwards of 400,000 :scree end 'warty pastures from 1,000,000 to 1,6000100 armee My Laden nathroom Some of the prettiest bathroonts are fitted' out in pure white, says the Tribun$,With no touch of color save the blue and white tiled which cover the tide walls above the high, coke:dal weinseoting of white enamel. In place of genuine tiling, them Isethroems are often fitted Up with French tfie paper, which is the most perfect imitation that we have of the blue -and -white mixture or. the Freneh tile. This Paper 0008 $1.50 Ifs roll, but, like all other Freneh papers, the rolls' are coneiderably larger then the orb. - nary roll of paper. In these new bathrooms the wainscoting of white enamelled Woad takes up about hell the wall. The remainder is finiehed with the tile paper or tiling. Pb ceiling is finished sometimes with the same, paper and sometime with a broad, flat cornice of enamelled wood at the sides* while the centre is papered with plain whits tiles, showing a crackled glaze, such as im charaoteristie of fine oriental porcelains. The window of such a bathroom is finished with white crackled glass, set in leaded pattern. The tint is of white enamel, sets in. white wood with the plumbing exposed. wining the Wash. How much bluing Should be allowed to it tub of water, aud what kiud is, best? If clothes are too blue, how hest to counteract the next time? There are a number !Avery. good. bluings in the market. Indigo is, cd course, one of the best. After the tub halt sufficient water, add, if you urse a liquid blue, sufficient to make it a lighb blue color. Take the softest fabric you have, an Oki handkerchief, for instances dip in the water, wring it out; if it is not blue enough, add. more; if too blue, add more water. Fine fabrics take the blue more quickly than the, coarser ones, so always try with a fine pier*. If you use a dry blue, dissolve it first, not more than half a teaspoonful in a. howl of soft water'then strain this into the - tub, Never, under any consideration*, sprinkle dry blue into the tub, as the elothen will he spotted; these spots will after turn. into iron -rust marks. Why American Girls Hate Housework. • The great reason why housework is ress pugnant to self-respecting Americans is not so much on account of the work itself, for other kinds of labor are hard and mono- tonous, but on account of the conditions, under which it is performed. The single domestic lacks society; she is isolated from. the family life and she can never call any time her own. Girls will work all day amid the steam of a laundry, the fumes of. a factory, the bad air of a sewing -room, .because they bave companionship, their hours are defined; and they are their own, mistresses when the day's work is done. It is impossible to have these conditions isa domestic] service, except in very wealthy families, and there the workers must be branded as servants. As there is every probability that house -wages will go higher rather than lower, and as the girls will not come to the houses, the houses must go to the girls.—Miss Frances M. Abbott in thz February Forum. Wilt Sheets. Silk sheets are an elegant caprice of women that find it difficult to spend their income. They are usually of plain white and herostiched with the raouogram cipher - along the hem. But sheets of pale pink and blue are also made with a delicate line of embroidery along the edge. The fancy ia one which will probably be indulged only by the favored few, and its reign, like that of silk lingerie, trill be brief. Still, on July nights it might seem like sleeping on mot cloud billows to dream between the cool silken web. If anything could make &July night worth living such luxury is calculated to accomplish it. —New York Sun. 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Our took iS very itne and prices aWay down. No agents. Send postal for ottr moo illuetre Led, priced, i900 Catalogue. See medal offers by mail. A. G. HULL 86 SON, Central Nursery, Sb Catharines, Ont. (Send to day and Mention this paper.) • FARMERS', • TEXAS BALSAM is guaro.nteed ttt u o ly and uickly heel all orks, S cratches, Sore Shot*. dors, and aft Wounds on 1-Iorses and, Gatti e. ?nee 25 code. Ask yOur druggist for it or detets, Toronto, Onti