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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-10-5, Page 6Iteoken HOW I'll Scold Ham. g�eh'a"good fur nuthin' is my old man Jake, (7fl aglu a,flshin' over to the lake ; Corn it needs eeh:oein., hayin time is nigh, Beckon how I'll scold him when he. Duma birnebY. Man aro tillers shifless-nigh as bad as duoke- Net to bo disputed, never 'mount to shuoks; Carden sass needs weedin'. ortor cut the rye, t tarhus, won't I scold himwhen he mums bixnoby ! Rouse is alleys loakin' every time it rains, Tbld him all about it, labor for my palm; ; Never mounts to nuthin'-never seems to try - Won't he catch a scoldin' when ho cums bimo- bY1 Children doeskin' shabby, can't purvide 'cm sloes, Patch and patch and patch 'ern, that's the way it gods. Wish I'en born an angel, had the wings to fly - Won't the old men catch it when he Dunes bimeby ! Hark ! that's him corrin', hear him at the gate ! Won't I give hien Jesse, well I calculate IArdy, sec them fishes ! Nuira in to fry ;r (assent scold him hardly, beta will bimeby. K1RS . Y'S CAPER. The Trick She Plowed on Dr. Nutt and this Outoams, (Mrs. J. X. Lawson, formerly of Hamilton.) HE doctor was a bit of a cynic in his way. Ab last he toad been so for lime four or five years emir, ever since the breaking off of his en- gagement with the woman he had expeoted to marry. What had eosins bea.veee. them uo o•'e ever keen, Tae r,? i'e had been fu-es.h...l, the aervaat who had kept house for him and looked after - him tie. al Y had been a t t• told to expect a mien s .,n. Everybody wan on the alert tor marriage bell, when, presto ! it was all up Why ? Ah, that Was the provoking e iee about it ; no one tie the doctor l was a nt (maid tell. The lady 118 y , kept behind a dignified retteemm when an y of his naris friends expressed surprise ; la fact, his distingnishing trait grew mere and n}ore to be than same reticent dignity. He was so naturally, but it grew with his yearn, albeit Dr. Nutt wan yet a young man of thirty-two. „His youth had been studious, however, and he had ripened early. His housekeeper, Margeb F:int, was a model el her kind, ode Or a type fast dying out ; a woman whose humeri of conscienti- ousness and vseeratlen fix her social. super - Io s were only groaned bY her ownn nato• zespeot-a happy combination. To her the doctor was a men to be spoken of and to with the highest respect. Never on the most ordinary ecaasions did ehe ferg,t te "sir " him; at extraordinary times ;he had added a curtsey. The seven years she bad nerved the dootor had gone by without the slightest ripple or jar. Margeb's domes - bio machinery was always so oxoellently well lubricated by method and good manage. ment that nothing short of an earthquake could possibly throw it out ef kelter. The dootor attended te his proiecsion,entertained his Mende hospitably, and somehow found everything connected with his wearing ap- parel always at band and in order. If there were momenta after his friends had all de- parted after a imolai eventog, when he would sit in his easy•ohair gazing vacantly into the dying fire until the great bell in the tower stru tit ons, that was not Marget Flint's fault. She had as usual done her duty and was snug in bed slosptng the sleep of the just. Dr. Nutt rather prided himself on that dignified manner of his, but for once he forgot himself and allowed it to drop from him like a looaened cheek. It was when Marget gave notice of leaving. "Impossible, Margot! You mnsn't think of arch a thicg. I can't let you go. What is wrong ? Do yon want more wages'!" " No, sir ; eh, no, air 1 I osuldna' tae the censsience to seek ony main wages. It's no' that " Here Marget, with a heightened color and a moat unusually foolish expression of countenance, put her fioger tips to her lips and made a little cougb. What !sit, then?" demanded the doctor with an a;ceselon of hauteur. " I'm gaun to be marnit," answered Marget simply, but red as a peony; and then the doctor wilted, wilted like a crisp cabbage -leaf in the sun. He sat down in his surgery chair and stared at Marget as the stood en the threshold of the apart- ment. j "Married 1" he managed to say, at last. "Why, Marget, you are forty if you are a days a, i?or the first time Marget was angry with the doctor, and showed it. " Aweei, sir, if I am forty, there's them that thinks me as munkle worth as I was at twenty. I've been a faibhfu' servant to ye, sir, an' it's ill your part to ouist up my age because I'm gaun to be a gude man's wife," " Ob, hut dub, Margeb i Devil take ib ! yon know I don't mean that, I'm selfish enough, don't you see, and whet I'm to do without you I don't know. Have you no relatives yon could recommend -somebody like yourself, you know. Really, Marget, I wish you all joy, and I hope you will bo happy ;but yen must provide a successor to yourself befere you go. Have you known the -a ---your intended long ?" " Ay, a wes while," said Margot, quite mollified, " a mender o'twonty year or sae." " Twenty years 1 Geed gracious 1" " Ay ; he was twenty an' I was nineteen the last time we were gaun to be merit ; but ho's a Baptist, an' a' hie folks are strong Baptists, an' me bein' a Presbyterian they would tae me dippit. But toy mlther weuldna hear tell ome bein' dippit, an' I dldna care aboot bein' dippit navel', an' his mlther said we' ehouldne marry ava if we couldna marry in the Lard. So he gaed awn' to America an' I buk a place, an' when he cam' Name he cam' to ace me an' slid he had oomo to the conclusion that a' bh!B kirk notions an' bapteesin' ower again, putting dispeaee amen' friends, was 'a havers, an' 'at the main thing was to love ane anither." " Sensible man !' said the doctor. " Ah, but, sir, ye maunna think I lathim see he could throw me door* ant pick' inh'iip again whenever he likes. Eh, nit 1 A,a 1 ff I havona keepit him in big. -tour title twelve month it's a peaty. But When L I saw the purr soul gaun fairly tiff his f set thinkin' I wasna gaun to bac hint after a' 1 thooht 1 would gin him a woo inlet. So ye maunna think it'n nip's wautin' to leave your service, doctor. Ye'vo been a gude moister to mo, A'11 nay that -but---" Hero Margot applied her apron to her eyes for a moment, and then with twitch- ing lips resumed : " But your at'n's your sine ye ken an' though I never toll't him am'muokle, hos the only mail I ever cared fora my days. The doctor v✓as nob ungenerous. He took oub from his pooketb0ek a five -pound note and heeding it telar et , said "''There, take that end bay some wool - ding present .for yourself --you know about them) tbinge tetter than I do. Only, get' somebody in your place before you go. 1 HAY can't be bothered—e° " Youwcutdua ogre fora young axis, would ye, Or ? ` B misuse nay Meter has a lassie they ea' Kirsty-Klraty Blair ; T haeua Seen her this Seven year, but my sister le anxious for me to gob her iobil a gude plaoo. Maybe if the was to come an' be In the ktbohen wi' me until the term oho miohb get into oor ways here ?" "The very thing, Mengel?, and now don't nay another word about it. Get the girl. I der'etay she'll be right enough ; and, anyhow, you oat tell her what ehe doesn't know." Teat was how Kirsty Blair came to be installed as housekeeper be the doctor. It was, however, the old story of man pro. peeing and Ged disposing, for, alas 1 Marget was eummaned to the bedside of her in - bended husband, who had mot with a serious accident. M.argel.'s mind was distraoted between a double duty to mro',ber and lover. " Ye see, dotter, l'm just gaun to leave it to yeu to say el—lamer I'm to gang or no'. Ktrety's ni•roug /Lori rend -handed an' willin'; hate ye toe, she never was cob at rho framed Moro, an' shwa an meta' let to leers. But if ye thooht she would dao for a wee while t111 we saw- -" For answer the doctor took Margot by the shoulders, and pnahed her out of the surgery. ' G to bhe man at once, Marget. Kirsty can keep tyre house in order at loess, and for a week ow eo I can dine in the city, Jueb you give her a few inetraobiona on thinge in general," Marget sat down in the kitoheu and wept with gra,-itude. " Noe, K'rsty," ehe eatd, drying her eyes and loob:ieg appealingly at her niece-"noo, Kirsty, my woman, ye'll gang to fifty peaces --" " No' me 1' Interrupted Kirsty, in great Marne `' l've come here an' I'aa gaun to bide here; mak' yoarsel' ears v' that. I'm gaup to nae clary places -I think I see novae'. n vAP i . l a a looked at her ar - Meget turned and o sh p tongued nt-ce in angry eeboniehment. Klraty was a dettdedly good•looktng girl, with brown Bair., bright brown eyes, bright red cheeks in a pure milk -white complexion, her chief malt g t a bein a oerbain earnest energy, a a,telwart unconscious independenoe of spirit, and an honest eut- spoktennews whfoh horrified her circumspect and precise Anat Marge°. Kiraby had been allowed " to hing as she grew " at home ; the free fieher•iife had been devoid of all but the very slmp'tset conventional trammels, and thane related more strictly to morality than to manners. " It's very onbecomin', Klraty, for you to interrupt yoor teunti,t like that ; ye winna sae much as gee me .time to finish what I Wan genre to s.y I was gaun tee say ye would gang to fifty pewee Wore ye would gat a maisber like Dr. N tete Noe, ye'll do my bt,i,it', an' unit 1 4 do just «e I say, an' 1f ye b"ham e yerael' au' cin y..nr duty you'll find you've fa'en on your fe, t the day ye cam' here." Margaret want cm -r all the Babies to be deme, and Kiraby Jemmied eagerly, inwardly determined to 00 tie good a servant and a ' far better worker than " Auntie Meg." When she was about to depart the turned on the doorstep solemuly to say one word lStere— Noo, Kirsty, I'm awe', an' there's se thing yemerino s forgeh. Ye're to may Yes, sir,' an' ° No, air,' when ye're spoken to, an' no' gar the man think ye've come fres the hills. Mair nor that -when re dinna just heir what he's eayin' to ye, ye're no' to turn roo>ed an' tap ' Eh?' like a winkle black sheep bieaein'. Ye mann say ' Sir ?' an' ray ib neat -thio way, 'Sir?' Noo, guile -nay, Kw My, an' see an' lab's had a gads report e' yo " " Gude-dap," responded Kiraby, gra. °toasty enough, bar the moment the door closed on her %ant up wont her sharp little nose in the air, and up went her plump arms akimbo. "Ay, na 1 Pin to say ° Sir' here an' Sir ' there ? I'm to say ' Yes, sir,' an' ' No, sir,' every time he speaks, am I ? An' it'll no' be the day 1" A very warm-hearted and sentimental lass was Klraty, and before the day was out she had made fart Mende with the eervanb next door, and teem her had received the whole of the doctor's nafortuuato love history. Frem that moment Kiraby book the doc- tor under her pitying wing. He all uncou- ecious wondered what made the girl's eyes shine with etch safe pity whoa it was escessary to opeak to hint. He had observed that she was not so deferential in her man- ner as her aunt had been • bat ho rather liked the plein " Yes " and " No," when given with that etraighbferward, earnest tons of here. The change was brought home to him very forcibly one day, however, when pon- dering deeply en some vase in which complications had arisen, he heard -or thought he heard -a voice near saying, .a HoHe paid no attention to in however, until a seosnd " Hoy 1 I'm eayin' 1" caused him to look up, when he beheld his rosy yoang housekeeper, with a duster in one hand and a carpet broom in the other, in the eat of addressing him. " I'm gaun to soop sot tbab room o' yours, so yell better a'we an' bak than Berke o' yonrs oot o' the ether." " What's that ?" demanded the doctor, with more than his usual digniby. " C'wa an' tak your serifs sot' o' bhe steer," repeated Kirsty. Not understanding what oho meant, he knit his brows with alight annoyance and followed where she led him into his own room, the furnitnro of which was lifbed into the corridor proparatory. " Look," said Klraty, pointing to the bed, on which lay tome heaubifully lauudried linen shirts, " they'll get 'a' atoor. if ye dinna lay them awn', an' hoo am I to ken whaur ye keep yer cerke. Ye manor be care - fu' ; linen auks are no' Erse easy gotten." (rho doctor peed helplessly at the shin- ing linen, and the humor of the situation flashing en him, he sank into the easy chair that had teen wheeled into the corridor, peal after peal of laughter breaking from him. Ah me 1 The tears of mer- riment ran down his cheeks an they hed nob y a done sines his college days. "Yo maun be 111 of for something to 'much at," quoth Kirsty, hotly, as she be- gsn :to sweep the room. "My Auntie MO a bonuie ano to bring me here to be 1 uc 'ee t, wono' m . a h i e A e1 lb's w t) if ,y Y e .the get a' steer." While she swept fiercely the iooter gathdre&himself up limply and returned bo the surgery, where he had a violent relapse. So' infectious was hie laughter that the minded 'of Kirsty's face began to relax, toe, and siniling, she covered bhe shirts with a 'towel and sat down to meditate over bhe matter. " What the man wants is a wife to look after his aortas an' things. Never you mind, my billle l : There was never onybody. leached at me yet but I ayo gob upsides wi' theme see if I dinna got Upsides wi' you efero lang." .' Kiraty gob upsides with the dootor within the week. One day a cab drove hastily up ba Dl', Notb's .door, and a lady stopped cab and ran up the steppe whore she' was admitted by Meaty, who closed the door and with her forefinger uplifted solemnly breathed the word--- " Hueh 1" "1a he oonsofoua?" whispered the lady, who evidently hed been wowing. "Hush 1" breathed Klraity, pausing a moment before opening the door. "Ia the doctor and nurse with him'?" whispered the lady, her wan, awoet fago strained and anxious. Bab Kiraty only breathed " Hush 1 again, opened the door, and pushing the le,dy bo, cloned it and cleverly turned the key, which she waved over her head, exe- cuting a pantomimic jig on the eon carpet, "Who's lanohia' neo?" ehe whispered, triumphantly, and speeding down the stairs she =Molted up the bin box oonteinfng her belenginga and made off down the street in the direction of the dation. The doobor had been out) all night, and. was now stealing forty winks after lunch before going onb on his afternoon rounde. The window was darkened, bat the doctor was a light sleeper, and the sound of the door shutting sharply behind the lady awoke Mm inebanbly. " Anna 1 What is this ? Am I dream- ieg ?" The lady was dumb. abaplfiod, indignant, and turned to clutch the handle of the door. It was looked 1 " What friths meaning of this ? Have you made some mistake 1" " You ought to be able to explain that batter than 1, Henry Nutt. I did not think you capable of playing such a triols en me." " Trick 1 What trick ? I am as much at a loss to account for your visit as you seem to be," he said, flushing red, and wreuohing at the door handle. " What the deuce -eh! -who the— Why, bhe door is locked on the outside 1" " Yes ; your servant thrust me in and ookod it," said Anna, icily. " Kirsty ! That new girl ? Good hea- vens !" and springing to the bell he jerked it until they could hear the Summons echoing loudly from the empty kitchen below. Then he hammered and wrestled with the door in vain. " A pretty kettle of fish bili I must say. 1 can only say that I am more than torr a you should be the slig ht- unthat easinss on my account. I assure you, you were the last person in bhe world I ex- pected a visit from--" f° Well yea, cerbainly. Bab your aervanb ce,me to hie and represented that you had been taken suddenly ill -that you were dying and had sent for me. Oh, such a cruel-suoh a wicked trick." Such war bhe Lady's morbifioabionthat the tears filled her eyes, her Lipa twitched de - ciente her efforts to appear palm. The deo- tor himself bsoame agitated. " Will you believe what I am about to tell yen ?' he asked. " On my honor I know no more than you do what trick this allotefgirl has been up n to. But were it a not for thannoyance it bas paused you I should be glad far one thing -you Dame when you thought I sent for you." "She said you were dying ; she actually orled herself 1" apologized the lady, in evi- dent d tebrees. " Well, this door has to be opened In the first place," said the doctor, decisively ; and, failing to open it by other means, he drove his foot through the panel, shattering it to splinters. With the greatest difficulty he crawled through the aperture, and, tolling his Molter to sband well back, he applied his muscular shoulder with all his force to • the door, and in another minute it flew back with a crash. " Wait till I get my handle on that girl. She deserves penal servitude for this," he said, panting. And then the two looked into nob other's eyes -and it was as of old. " Anna ! My God, how long is this sort t of thing to be kept up ?" he exclaimed, with sudden plosion, as she stepped out into the oorrldor. " Why should we spend oar lives miserably apart, all because we differ on a very small matter of opinion. You maintain that every weed in the Bible is liberally true ; I nay no, emphati- cally no 1 Bat what • has thatto do wibh your happinsss and mine? Cannot we agree to differ ?" " No," sighed the lady, biting her lips. "Bat why?" "Because I have come round to your way of thinking," sae said, and there was that in her face which expressed so much mere to him that once again he whispered: " Anna 1" "Forgive me. I thought you were dying, and came to ask you to forget my stubborn- ness and--" The doctor held her so fast in a sudden embrace She could slay no more. " Oh, dear 1 what will people say?" "Never mind; ib is what we may. Kirsty is forgiven ; bub where is the girl?" He rang again, bub the bell only eohoed in the empty house. " Sho'a of the jade. Well, you see why plight. Take pity en me and Iet me come for yeu nest week." .. „ ,a .' Merger's horror at the temeriby of the untamed Kiraby baffled speech ; and ib was long after the doctor's marriage before she was able to furnish the true explanation. Kiraby confessed to her that She had est her mind en bringing theme two parted lovers together -ever sinus the next door girl had told her the story. What had parted them she knew not. All ehe did know was that they were parted, and she was going bo make it her business to bring them together again -somehow. It was when piqued at the doctor laughing ab her that the idea ef playing a praobical joke, and eo getting " upsides " with the doobor, had occurred to her ; but she did nob dare to stay and face the coneegnenoer. Besides, She was tired of being cooped up in a house all day alone, and there was no saying how that impudent Effie Hutt might get round Jamie Fyall when she was away. So she packed her clothes, played her trick, and went, grinning all the way home, though nob without a spice of fear mingled with her triumph. " Aweel," She protested, in answer to her aunt'm solemn remcnetranoe, "lb was a' year wyte ; ye had nae bu°iseae nendin' for me. An' what war the man laughin' at when I teil't him to take hie sears onb o' the steer? My faige, I garb him laugh wi' the ibher side o' hie mon' afore the day was dune." " There can be no doabb about it, Kirsty is a rare epooimen. I like her," the doctor remarked k ed com lacentl . " Well, 1 ought to," laughed his wife. Why suffer with toobilaahe when Gibbon° Toothaoho.Gum will afford lnntaub relief ? cooler,. The heireia (hesitatingly) -Ho is a more suitable match than yon are. . He -Yea; but he doss net 'love you as much as I do. She -Why not ? Itc-Why, bo is not as poor as I am. In the same Category. 119faudie�Dld you hear that Ethel had lout her muni ? Monte -What ? And the poor biting We married Only lad week 1 Metttdie---:Chat's What .I Mid, ENEMA GOLDMAN 01g )LUb:llile.- Tare herr York Female dnarelliit Talk, About That Institution. "! I was married," she will, with a little sigh, "when I was seemly 17. 1 suffered --bet me say no mere about that. I believe in marriage of aff obion. That is the only true marriage. If two people care for each other they have a right to live together as long as that love exists. When it is dead what .baso inamorelity for them to keep atilt together 1 Ob, I tell you the marriage oere- meny is a terrible thing ! Toll me," she added very eerioualy, " how can a woman go before a minister and bake an oath bo love ' this man ' all her life ? How can aha tell but bo -morrow, next week, she may get to know this man and hate him. Love is founded on reaped, and a woman cannot bell what a man ie until she lives with him. Instead of being free to end the relation when her feelings change, the liven en in a state that is the most depraved of all, "Take the woman who marries for a home and for fine clothes. She gee to the man with a lie on her lips and in her heart. Stilt" -with to little uplifting of the hands -" ehe will not let her skirts` touch the poor unfortunate upon the street who de- ceives no man, bat is to him jueb what she appears 1 Do away with marriage. Lot there be nothing bub voluntary affection and there aeasee to exist the prostitute wife and the prostitute street woman." " Bat the children ? What would you do with them ? Men would desert ; women and obildren would be left uncared for and destitute," I protested. " On the contrary, then men would never desert, and if a couple decided to separate there would be public homes and schools for the children. Mothers who would rather do something else than care for their ob,jl- dren could put them in the schools, where they world be cared for by women who preferred taking care 'of children to any other work. In this way we would never have diseased or diaablod children from carelese and incompetent mothers. B:slden this," rehe went in our on , " free echoole every child would haven chance to learn and pursue that for which it has ability. Can you imagine the number of children to -day, children of poor parents, who are born n withbh ability for music or painting, er lettere, where abilities lie dor- mant for the lack ef m; ans andtha necessity to work for their daily bread at Booties they are out ef their cradles ?" TOTE FINS OF FISIII. Next in Power of Fishes' Candid Fins Are the Ventral Fins. Tlaa fiat's batt, or, more proparly, it nendaI tin, hes a peeeliar twisting move menti, alternately from right to left, that embodies bhe dame principle that is made ua o construction of a sc a ro- c of themew pro- peller. The dorsal and anal fine that steady td in the water find their ooanterparb is the masts with their sails and keel of a vessel. Ib is bhe forward dorsal fin that the &eh mainly relies upon as a weapon of offence and defence. Next in power to the fieh's caudal fin are its ventral fios, which cor- respond with the loge of men and of birds, and the hind lege of animals. With them the fish ascends and descends in the water and it uses them as a brake to shop for- ward motion. The pectoral fins are need as an adjunct of respiration in renewing the water in the vicinity of the gills. The water, containing air, is taken into the mouth, and forced through the gibe, whose blood vends are able to absorb oxygen from the air in its passage. )Pleasant information. Daughter—When your little &tickle dar- ling gets married, you'll no longer be the same to her, will you ? Old Gentleman -Nonsense ! I'll love you as much as ever. " And won't our relations change a bit ?" " Of course not." " I'm so glad, because now I can marry Mr. Slimpuree, and yet go on being your little duckie darling and having things charged to you jueb the same." A heavy Job. Surprieing as it may seem, it would re• quire five years for the mints of bhe United Staten Government bo coin 167,000,000 sliver dollars, but the time is nob so sur- prising when one has done a little figuring. The mints have scarcely 300 working days in the year, er a little more than 700,000 working minutes in five years. To coin 167,000,000 in that time, therefore, it would be necessary to turn eat mere than 250 dollar pieces per minute. The Lightning's Touch Im scarcely mere rapid than the lightning like action of Nerviline in all kinds of pain. Is it neuralgia ? relief is oerbain and rapid. Toothache is cured en if bymagia. Rheum- atism finds a master ire a few applioatiens of the powerful and penetrating Nerviline. In a word, pain, whether internal or exter- nal, finds a prampb antidote in Nerviline. Give Nerviline a trial. Druggisba and dealers everywhere sell it, and it wets only 25 cents a bottle. A Sight O' Comfort. Ragged Robert -What fur are yah car- rytn that scrap o' paper around ? Moldy Mike -It's a eight o' oemforb, that bit o' paper is. I get it oub of a now;-. paper. Rigged Robert -What's it about? Moldy Mike -It's an article tellin' of th' millions o' disease-breedin' bacteria that's been found in a bank note. To Raise lilore Corn To bhe more always use Putnam's Painless Cern Extractor, Always safe and painleaa. Beware of subsbitutes and imitations. Use Putnam'; Painless' Corn Exbracter. At draggints'. A Bumble Beginning, He—I am so glad that you are willing to begin housekeeping in a simple and econ- omical way, but are you euro you can get along without nervants ? She -Yes, indeed; that's easily fired. Wo can biro furnished apartment° which have been loft in charge of a housekooper, yen know,and AS for the male, a °we y , can leave our order with a caterer. Surety It Willa Mr. Medlin -Ob, web?, one awallow doesn't make 8, summer. Mr azzam(significantly)-Bat G Swallows the size yeu bake are enough to make one fall, Cast iron metta at 3,975 degrees Falwell - holt ; eoppor, at 2,548 dr;gree + ; gold, at 2,590 degrees ; Silver, at 2,233 degrees ,• head, at 617 degrees, and oesb bin ab 442 dogreee. The reclamation of 200,000 acres ef the Mojave desert is one of the mosb abnpendoua enterprieee ever undertaken in Salthorn California, and from the indioatiors the project will go through. The plan le to irrigate bhe largo aoroago noir Victor, in Sen Bernardino scanty. Some of the beet engineers of the State have reported the enterprise feasible. Overwork exhausts bhe Memory,, Mang a roan forget:fa the location of bhe keyhole after a hard night "ab the °iliac," TUE HEST COAL TO WEL la uw to Secure value ter the Maley Tour Fuel Ceais. Wien coal is the fuel of the household there is lose care in getting the winter sup- ply, writes Maria Parloa in a valuable araiole on " Opening the Winter Homs," in the September Ladies' Honce Journal. Sbiil, there aro manic thinge to consider. Coal le a mineralized vegetation, of whioh there are many varieties, The two kinds most) in use are anthracite and bituminous. Tee anthracite le the most thoroughly mineral- ized of all the variebiee, and burns without dame. Good anthracite will oonbainupward el 90 per cent. of carbon. Ib will be hard, brittle, black and lustrous, Coal that hie a brownish, dell loek,and that will eoaleoff, will be uasabiefaotery-not burnieg well, nor giving bhe proper amount of Haab. Thia is what is termed slaty coal. (Marais great watts, because of the large proportion which is not oombusbibte, and it €e unwise be buy at any pride this kind of coal for household purposes. The aubhraoite coals are known by the ashes aswhite-ash or red - ash coal. Tho red -ash burns more freely than the other, leaving but few oiradorn, If the chimney do nob hive a good draught the red -ash !e desir able ; or white and red may be mixed, as one would mix eofb and hard wood. The red -ash le always the mere expensive. If the furnace has a good draught get large coal, but if the draught ie poor use a finer coal, or some fine with the regular furnaea coal. The coal for the eoek-stove should be rather fine. Grates and heating - (stover; will take coal of larger size ; but as it is nob always convenient to get these sues consider the cooking -range before the other aboves er the crates. Soft o'o al breaks so easily that the size in which it is de- livered to the hourekeoper does not make eo much difference ; ;bill, ib ehculd not bo in suoh large pleases that it will be mortuary to break them. Perfeettag Seeds. The exhibit of John S. Pearce & Co. at the Western was Fair ucdeubtedl one of a y the moat prominent and atbrstotllve on the grouude. In the Agricultural 'Hail they had au immense display osnsisbingof wheat, barleb, oats, penes anal beans in the straw tis well ain Orme vas and n infinite s l b a to varlety of seds and vegetablea. They also showed everything in tee way of gardens re' and florlsts'lmpioments and a fail lino ef Flo' - land bulbs for fall planting. Everything in the geed line was represented, but perhaps the firms' specialty is Rosedale Dated tete in onions. A feature of bhoir lousiness le that they test all varieties at their trial grenade, and ars therefore able to abaelubely nuaranbee all seed sold. Be7ween 600 and 700 varieties ware bested this year, and s he firm will have many new novelties to offer next Season. Their oustomers took about two-thirds of an the prizes in the agricul- tural deparbmenb-a feat speaktag more feverably than any comment. In the dairy department they had ale° the largest dis- play In delay sapplivs. Their Alexander cream separator is ea specialty with the firm, and has unquestionable vela:, for all formers, cheese and butter makers. The Babcock milk tester for beating the butter fat in milk is bhe latest and moat perfect invention of the kind, and is invaluable to all dealers. A self gauging combined tubter mould and printer is perfection in itself, and the lever butter worker has only to be seen to be appreciated as a saver of labor. Seed and dairy utensil catalogues sent en appli- cation bo John S Pearce & Co., 119 Dundee, street and Market squire, London. Treatment of the Wrists. Very few pseple know the importance of keeping the wrists cool in warm weather. Actors and actresses tell yon that if one of their number faints they pour oold water on their wrists. Athletes engaged in the per- formance of festa of endurance know that in winter the wriate must be kept warm and in summer cool, bub the general public stili continues to wear tight gloves and heavy onffe in the dog days, and then wonder why it is hot, Taking off one's gloves ((specially in church) often makes quite an amazing dif- ference in temperature. Tight Sleeves, above all things, make the wearer hot in oppressive weather; delicate girls have been known to faint from thio cause alone.— Exchange. The electric light has been introduced into a new flour mill near to the sapposod site of Calvary, and close to bhe Damascus Gats at Jerusalem. A cariesibv in the cutlery line has been made in a Meriden, Conn., factory. Ib is a perfect pocket knife, with thirty blades, shears, files, piercers, awls and ether tools, It weighs one-eighth of an ounce. The salt ata that onoo covered the Yuma desert contained oysters twenty inches in diameter. caltaneetr COUGH ; EASY BY TAKING Eby's German Breast Balsam Yon cough easy and soon are cured of cough. WIIA.T PEOPLE SAIL OF IT. Mr. J. Howe, Port Elgin says Eb German Breast Balsam i"i, s the bosh cough medicine ho has ever used. Mr. D. F. Smith, Organizer Patrons of Industry, has no hesitation in recommend. big Eby'% German Breast Balsam, the best medicine in existence for coughs and colds. Mr. Chas. Cameron, Underwood, says he got splendid remits from using Eby's German btreast Balsam and re- commends it highly. Mr. John • Helmer, Manager Port Elgin Brush Co., says : Eby's German Breast Balsam is anindispensable neceselty in his household and, recommends it a; a valuable remedy for Coughs and Colds. 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