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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Times, 1900-6-14, Page 7T HE EXTEER TIRES LEGAL. DICKSON Se CARLING, Barristers. Solicitor's. Notaries, Conveyancers, Comnii i .ncr:, Ettt•, Money to Loan at 41 per cent. aurid per o.nt, O1+FICP : FI N2'ON'S BLOCK, EXETER, I, It. camel- O, D. A. h'., iI. DICKSON. member of -bo tires will be atHouealt on hur'sda►y et each week. M.ED1CAL CI R ERt RIVERS, M 1) L B. M. Tani Culver Pity. 0fUco-Crediton, Ont.,, toW,Il.lStiWNIh,ta Ste II.,el. Ca, • I'. S;, Itradnate 91oto11a Out vv reify Oleo and residence. iloeninion Labora- tery, Exeter, Ili, j1 XIV13MAN. coroner ,fo: the L County of limos,. °rice, op:•OSits Curling Brett stare, i• ::e:•,e•. CLTM U. AliY, Tennent & ennent eeelv1.EIa, graduate if the Ontario Vete. mfrs ;Sal - :erre. Cflee--One doors:uth tf Town Hall. 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They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or purge, but by their gentle action please all who use then. In vials at 25 cents; bre for 81. Sold everywhere, or sent by mail. 0A&'r&& 33Efl101tT 00., Hew York, all P 1 all Dear :Main NON NE, W. e, °ovary erg that cm a the rots e•::. o of • Nervous Debility Lost Vigor and BEANS Failing Manhooei; restores tho weakness of body or mind caused by over -work, or tho errors or es. cesses of youth. This Remedy ab. polutc y cures the most obstinate casts when all other xtr;.. tzars have failed oven to relieve. cold by drug. gists at 21 per packs c or six for $5,or s•: _t by mail or ea, ip ` of Prim t ,;t. i r„.1 in "!LrTCI I Jct.. •e ' , Sold at Browning's Drug Store Exeter • REFS! if.9ir• la_ lllr �q;z?a�il,tu o; e peer: '. r” i;'Nlo ^.,keel TRY TO SLEEP. A novel remedy fox insomnia is to •. try to picture to yourself anotherper- • son asleep. The moreclearly the sleepless sufferer can do this the • stronger beooxiCies the subjective feel- ing of drowsiness. BEHIND NI) THE SEASON. ASON. Chully, in ebeap beanery.-I say, wait.e•,v! There's a fly in this soup, ye know Wai L r.—Ca fellers! Hex'e's a guy � le. Y, .. guy still dreamin' it's winter, UNREQUITED LOVE • ,s1+ BY MISS M. E. BRADDON. 3 °r CHAPTER III. The meeting had been convened by the Local Conservative Association, but it was not a ticket meeting. The chairman opened the business in a mildly conventional manner. He re- capitulated the usual eommonplaces_ This was the chairman's popular style, which he had generally found answer before a mixed audience, Colonel Spillington was a poor irator, and he had nothing new to Ray. But he was hearty, and he had a pleasant manner ; he had the Cour- age of his opinions, too, and threw some pretty big stones at the oppo- site party, in the teeth of hisses and groans from the majority. for it ap.• peered as if the Radicals were the most numerous. Before the colonel could sit down, a roan stood up in the middle of the hall, an Anak, a giant among dwarfs, for the then of ]Brumm were stinted by unhealthy toil. A Oath, threatening face was turned to- wards the platf'+rm. full in the glary t+f the gas; at larges bee with a broad forehead, high eheekboues and hollow ebeeke, flashing eyes antler sh.tggy brows. a shock of coarse black hair. Lashmar looked at that face trans. fixed. He had seen it before—seen it years and years ago in a dreatll, Before he wee born, yes, in some tnya- tical anterior life. as it seemed to him. He knew its every line. Yes, those lineaments were graven deep upon the tablets of memory. # s M e . s "1 ries to move an amendment." said 'Jonathan lluldwuutl, in a deep, Krung voice. "Oa the platform. get upon the plat- form, Iluldwood;" roared the crowd. "Let's hear thee, men, thou 13a'st al. war% tsuu tris gored to s:ty. Brave. lleaidwaoell Three cheers for llold- 1"• rte want( to !tear 1131 tipe;lk, Merit's," he said. in his deep. thrill - 11:1d plenty of fustian from me—stuff drat twill, wear and tear, not devil's sin et Mat will cense to bit'. directly you pull at it.' •aud then he began to at lack • the e0100lerS speech. "tied made the toiler, evade Adam to Vwurk for his bread• -his own bread. utind you—sowing and reaping on his own Land for ltiinselt and (tie family. enjalyinh the tarsi fruits tit the l• tttl. rejoicing its the fulness of the harvest. the f;itittlss at hiss flock, having 1118 share in all the beauty and the glory of his earth. That was patriarchial man as God trade hint and as he might have been this day, since Gods earth is wide enough for all who live M ttpnn it if it were not for Int -has and park fences. God's earth is not big enough to keep an aristocracy, not big enough to give parks and deer for- ests to all the dukes and earls who have sprung from the amours of dead and rotten kings. ',Chat is what this earth won't do, and that is what the people of England raven to set their faces against—the profligate splen- dor of the few who fatten upon the bloody sweat of the many. Can any one amongst you be simple enough to swallow such a lie as that God's im- age is reflected in this type of man? No, my friends, these are the sons of Be•lial,who came among you that night flown with insolence and wine, not to ask you for your suffrages, but to dictate to you how you shall vote." Ile flung back the coarse, iron gray hair from his low. broad brow, and stood like a tower, while the halt rang with applause. Where had Lashmar seou him be- fore ? It was either in that dim, un- known, world of a previous life or it was long, long ago in his earliest boy- hood. Yes, he recalled it all now ; the whole scene stood out before him. It was at the university boat race. The crowd and the river seemed to rock under the cold brightness of the. !March day, as the two boats shot un- der the bridge, Oxford three lerlgilxs Behind. "That big man, number six, pulls like the mischief," cried Lord Lash - mar. "If he can only last, I believe he'll make them win. I never saw such an oar." The Oxford boat came past the lawn gaining upon its antagonist, and then Hubert Lashmar saw the face of the oarsman—a dayk, ugly face, strong jaw, broad forehead, beetle brows, bat a face made radiant, glorified, god- like almost by triumph. Oxford wail winning. "Oxford wins!" • Men thrilled with the delight of having witnessed a•miracle,; and that: Ox- ford crew were cheered as never men were -cheered along the banks, of the Thornes. �r :F'•s. '(his ryas the man. Number six in the Oxford boat nineteen years ago and • the braso-worker yonder were die • and the Same. 'The face was tun peculiar a faces to, be easily forgotten or mistaken for another. Lashmar ruse tied came to.'`lhe•front of the platform, braving .that Matti, tulle :of eyes, that, broad. glare of int; wire. "You ?Avilt 1 'Vint have light, But here there were no street boys to jeer at his deformity. He stood. up before men ; and nature's un- kindness was a claim upon the re- spect of even the lowest among the crowd.. He began to speak, and was heard in silence. "aly friends,' he began, "the gen- Oman who has just addresse•1 you calls himself your friend, but we all know That the demagogue's friend- ship means. it means climbing into somebody else's seat upon other lien's. .shoulders. He would taunt Tau with your daily labor as if it were a dis- grace to work for your living; as. if every one of us—queen and princess, cabinet ministers, general officers, great sea captains, lawyers, land owners, painters, poets, musicians—do not toil and bring forth that whl:h we have to produce in the sweat of our brows. Granted that there are the sons of Belie!, that there are among the honorable and honored aristocracy of England a few black sheep, are there no dusky fleeces, du yo,t think, to be found in the factory.? Are there no black sheep in the mine? No idlers and malingerers battening Ilp- eo the toil of others? Be sure (hers le something in every shoe that pin - she exclaimed. "I hope his people will not' be buret." 1'I think, mother, if you'll allow me, I'll stay and see the end of this busi- ness after I've put you into the car- riage," said Lashmar. "I .can get a fly at the George to take me home." "I'll stay with you," said Colonel Spillington. "And I," cried Victorian. "No, Victor, I will not have you Struggling in a Brumm erowda" ex- claimed his smother; "and you, Lash - mar, you would surely not be so foolish as to trust yourself amongst those roughs." "They would be safe enough with me," said colonels "But the young one can go home with your ladyship; Lashmar and I will see it out." Lady Lashmar remonstrated; she offered to wait at the hotel until her step -:son was ready to go home with her; but to this Lashmar would not consent, He took his another to her • carriage and saw Victorian seat him - seas" by her very reluctantly. There were half a dozen streets and an arid. waste of market garden- and grouted newly plotted out for building to be traversed before they reached the scene of the fire. "The, fire trust have gained ground :•terribiy before the engines arrived," said 7,asbmr r. "Engines never are in time to elo any et br tanLial good," answered Spilling.. Awl. "Bow lucky the fire did not happen in the middle of the night. Pee,. pie would be up and about and uhle to help themselves." rhes the wearer. What I have to do. "But the children," cried Lasbmar, and what we all have to do. Le to ; almost with a moan of anguieb. "The snake the best 02 the world we live`litIle children, left alone in dries in for ourselves and for each other; . tower of Babel. The careless young improving away evil gently and by mothers roaming the streets, the degrees aud not by rapid wrenches 'fathers listening to Boldwood God and - voteanlio ttplteavals, but in the help the little children 1 I'll a•.Irt•: gradual ripening of the days ard, that there Were .dozens of them left years; clinging to all that Neal geed, to take care of theulsetves in that in Baglaud's past and discarding all l,iti house to -night!" that Was evil; lupping off the wither -1 "That's a horrible idea," mut ter.'d ed branches►, but zealously guarding .the colonel, and he felt that there teas tree." only tau acusis ground fur hesbw:+r's fear. There was considerable applause: "Wait (" s:►iei I+astlA3tar [u the cab. from the Conservative minority after man as he slighted, and be and Split_ Lord 1, teltmer's speech. Buldtvoud sat facing the ;tudie'nee, his arms rowed ;lttgton pusheal their say through upon the back of a chair, glaring at , the mob. theta from under those bushy* brows It was a moment', tet arra+cblcsa ex. , y of his. with eyes that seethed always citement. The engines were un the to r.hint+ with the setae angry lii;b.t; other side of the budding; • tate fire. b' anger at fate, life. fortune—a wudd in ese41:e'a were in full action; hut they which fur him all things were ad -.could nut be everywhere. Lashmar verse and creel. Suddenly -there bad conjectured rightly. Tie arose it murmur of voices, excited lire had broken out suddenly voices in tett! crowd just below the with an astonishing fury. It was all platfurue--nlnruiurl in. which he the work of an hour; but the mischief caughthis own name, and iben thehad been slowly wurkiug for long word "Fire 1" Same men by the core silent days and .nights. The brick Her of the platform were talking twork of theft huge t•baft which, went about him, looking up at. him. up from the laundry — the common lie bent dawn and questioned one ehimney of kitchen, laundry and tub. of them. "What's the matter, mate?" "Goldwin's 1 You live at told, w'r'u.'s don't your Yes." "Goldwin's is afire." The demagogue bounded from his chair, dropped off the pldtform and pushed his way through tbo crowd, muttering as be wept; "My God! And. Hurt child—lacked in her room on the fourth story—" Ile clutched the man by the shoul- der. "What about this fire?" he gasped. "Is it true? Who brought the news? When ?" "Not five minutes ago; there's a lot has run off to see. There was a lot of 'em here—a lot of Goldwin's peo- ple." Boldwood waited to hear no fur- ther, but pushed his way on to the door. The news had wrought con- fusion in the hall already, and the crowd was surging outwards. A great fire was one of the spectacles which Brumm most enjoyed. Goldwin's was a gigantic building on the eastern outskirts of the town, on that side most remote from Lash - mar Castle—a huge model lodging - house, built, some years before by a friend of humanity who only requir- ed nine per cent. for his capital. .Bold - wood had a couple of rooms there; two little square boxes on the fourth story, one with a fireplace, the oth- er without. He had macre the room with the fireplace his little daughter's bedchamber, while he himself slept, and for the most part lived, in the cold. It was a huge quadrangular building, six stories high, with a courtyard in the centre—a monster pile of ugly yellow brick, pierced with windows all of one pattern, opening on to covered balconies with iron rail- ings—everything straight: and square and fln.t and uniform. The beneficent Goldwin had bought a couple of acres of waste ground far a song it quarter of a centu>'y be- fore, and when a great cry .had gone up to heaven from the penny news- papers about the way in which the poor of Brumm were lodged, Mr: Goldwin had stood up at a public meeting and pledged himself. to build a model dwelling- which should be as the workman's paradise. The meeting ended aro.idst confusion and the 1:.:t eeiSechat w'Cra unheard. Even her lndysh p`:a oympnthies were aroused by the 1r a„iady of the scene. "lace think that such tt, urea Lure should have so much human feeling 1" room—hast ueen red -hut, and none knew.Years ago he was promo to a partl- ' h td only fort the,c J ey h, ular form of practical joke, which he wit,inth and unnuyuriee in the hot gused to platy un the illuntre•1 report- A. CfRD.A.T RAILROAD 11 N1 SIR, WILLIAM C. VAN HORNE, OF THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.. is a Painter, An Architect. a Surgeon, An Author, :; l ot•13ttst and to Student of History-Relu.trk:►t►le Capacity a 'or worn. They say of Sir William C. Van Borne, of the Canadian Pacific Rail- way, that, had he not decided to bea tion on the shot. Naturally, in the circumstances he had his share of hardship and adventure. On one occasion he was out with a surveying party in the Canadian Northwest. They were to meet an- other party, which was to bring stores and supplies, at a given point. But there was some miscalculation and the other party. PALLED TO APPEAR, Van Horne and his men were far re,. king of transportation, he might have moved from any center of civilization, won fame and fortune through his. and they waited for a day ar two, hop• artistic abilities, and they base the ing for relief; but none came. At last saying on the fact that he not only It seemed that the only way out of the sketches cleverly, but is also an expert trouble was to push on to the nearest with the brush, both. in oils and water settlement, several days' travel away, colors. #Fatigued as they were and with scant it alight also be truthfully said that supplies, that was no easy task, he could will his way to the front as Stili, as they had guns and plenty of an architect or a civil engineer or a ammunition and were in territory writer, for he has proved his ability i abounding with game, they concluded in all these lines and many others. to try it. Crossing a stream however, • His knowledge of the geology of the their pack mule stumbled and fell; Queen's dominions in America is pro- their little food supply was swept found, and his collection of Canadian away by the swift current, and their rocks and fossils is unsurpassed by any .ammunition was soaked in the waters • private collection in all Canada. He is of the stream. Their realebes, too, • a recognized authority on botany. Be • were wet, so that they could not light is fond of historical research and bas a fire, even if they had food to cook. gathered a vast amount of informs.. It was with rueful couutl'annees that : Linn concerning the early sett:ements they scrambled nut of the :-trealir and of British North Arnerica. In ,bort, i tont account of stock. A11 thal was he is undoubtedly the most versatile left in this way ofpravisiultewas aurae railroad magnate in America, the only :loose flour, which heti t.i ill,',1 in the +one who rivals bim in any appreciable • bottom of a saddle -bag. It wee not degree being James J. Hill, of the ;eery clean, either, and nothing but the Great Northern, which, like the Cana - most dine necessity would farce them dian Pacific, unites the populous East , to eat it. But necessity waits not on with the ,Pacific coast. Curiously squealtei.shness, and they made a kind enough, Van Herne was born itt the of dough and baked it, and. Gf',ttiug United States, while Hill was born in'tbemeeiwees on loge, began to et"mach Canada. the unsavory compound. It i•: safe to \'an Horne is a big lean physically, say thee Sir William never partook of and he itnpresse% you as a man of int..' a worn, meal than that unleavened niense vitality. His color is rudely, his M dough, aud, to add to the t rine of the • skin is clear, and bis eyes are I•enetrat, :sit nation, he remenibere.l ae he ate dint;- tie is that his life insuranee preiniums were A T11E i IIINDOAS WORKERN due that day, wbi!' be was entirely cut Y • or he would never h;tve found time 10 , 0ff from communication with the in - perfect himself in the aceoropiishwents : surance company. • which give him su wellfuuaded a re -i Seen after the me.tl bed been fini-b- put;ttion for vers.t.ility, aud hie rap -;ed, however, tit' members of lit • for - achy to acrunlplieb things i.'s alutost burn gr)'up heard rima;, and divined doubled by the fact that he requires that a relief (.art: was in : e;:r.•h t<f nut mere than four 0r five hunt:; of thin. They a caul not fire in return, 'sleep in each twenty-four. sof calor.. -e, but they shout eat the top But he is quite as fund of i.lay ;Ishii of their lungs, and .{err soon os. r- iss of stork. In the privacy of his Ileum taken by their friends. A few hcur:, be is aril light-hearted and sportive as later they were ct,ruturtal.ly ec3acunced u dchuul buy. In hie own house In. in aprivatee ear. 'once startled a guest by shuff,iug Like malty anther man cif tiff.urs ,rajidly across the carpet, after which who possesses Mlle hastily slapped a piece of bluttiug A DEFT PENCIL, • paper against the welt to -ee if enuugh ;sir William often sketches at his desk • electricity had been generated to held ' while talking business; sketching, in- -.it there. Ile is fond of games of all deed, -eems to be one of bis favorite ;sorts, and plays everything well. His methods of concentrating thought. isen.e of humor is tell developed, and Tbe clerks in the Canadian Pacific of - be scrutinies y,u)'petrates practical fire -like to father up the :craps of jukes, though never of the coarser Paper which he has ornamented for t sort. souvenirs. Sumxner nights. No one had guessed that there was danger; and to -night; at ten o'clock the skirting of one of the rooms next the chimney had burst into flame, and then another, till a column of flame was rushing up to heaven through the middle of the house. While the mothers were rushing to and fro, threading the crowd, falling into the arms of strangers to sob out their woe, shrieking in wildest hys- teria, ar standing white and dumb waiting for fate to strike, there was one father who was acting vigorously for himself, asking help from no man. "Look at him!" gasped the crowd, as Jonathan Boldwood's huge form scaled the iron balconies. "Look at him! There's a man for you, a man with the heart of a lion. .His little girl is up in one o' them rooms—one o' the toepest. Tbe firemen and the 'stapes are all 1' other side o' the • ONE OF THE PRACTICAL JOKES building. God help him. He'll be sof- {which lie played years ago when a fontted before he gets to that top train dispatcher on the Chicago and ers who called upon him in search of ;railroad news. On one of his°tril's in ; the IIudson Bay district he had picked up ar lot of cigars, made of native 'tobacco, which tt'e.re almost too rank Ito think abuut. Whenever a news.. paper man called to ask about some - !thing which Van Horne did not wish to discuss, he would hand out one of !these cigars. shine times in ten the third puff at the vile weed would drive the newsgutherer out of the of£ireand an Horne would get out of being in- terviewed without having to refuse to ;talk. That pretty Little scheme :worked only a little :while, however. :'The reporters compared notes, and, be- ing satisfied that Van Horne had been guying them, each promised never to venture into the presence again with- !aut a freshly li mouth. • gntea cigar in his room 1" This w -as about the gist of what the crowd said, in short gasps of speech, loquacious, excited, eitying but im- potent: to help, around and about Lord Lashmar. "He'll do it!" roared the crowd, and Lashmar's memory went back to that other crowd roaring -on ,the Surrey shore, roaring from the flat swamps of Chiswick yonder, two voices meeting and blending across thhe river, "One story snore and he's there!" cried the crowd. One more rail to grasp, one last ef- fort to swing himself to the higher level; but before he could grasp the rail a great wave of flame and smoke rushed out from the shattered win- dows in front of him, poured over him like black water and wrapped hint in Egyptian darkness—darkness flecked with arrows of flame. Then there arose a groan as of Samson when the pillars yielded and the roof fell—the groan of a despairing Titan. The crowd•eeeleal backward with a shudder- ing recoil and that. bulky figure fell in their midst, almost at Lashtnax••s feet. There was no help, no hope. The demagogue's neck was broken. He expired without a murmur. To bei Continued. RUSSiA'S TREES. Russia in Europe alas a forest area of about 500;000,000 acres. One third of the country is forest. Alton is still retailed by the employes of that railroad. Somehow or other he learned that on a certain night run some of the trainmen were in the habit of taking cushions from the coaches to make themselves comfor- table in the baggage car. Late one night at about the time he thought the men would have taken the cush- ions, he wired the head trainman of the crew a messatge, which was de- livered by the agent at a small way station. It contained only these four words: "Put back those cushions,'' but it filled the hearts of the men with cunsternation, not to say awe, for how, unless he was blessed with the gift of second sight, could the dispatcher know they had meddled with the cush- ions? It is hardly necessary to say that they never molested them again. Sir William's job as executive head of the Caaactian Pacific has never been a. sinecure; when he began service with the road his task was almost superhuman, inasmuch as it combined the financing of the company and the overcoming of the physioial problems incident to the operation of a line through a mountainous region, where snow and We were common much of the year: Like every other, successful pioneerrailroad president, he deter- mined to study these problems at abort range and work out their solution himself. .Be went here, there and everywhere, seeing things with his own eyes, and dealing with, the situa-. Iiis phenomenal memory is one of the most remarkable things about th's remarkable man. He seemst ttls,,lute• Ily to forget nothing, and hie power of retaining facts and information has, ar course, been of enormotoi benefit to Ihim all through Rae. But this mem- ory is not wholly a gift; it is largely !acquired. His father died, leaving scent means, when the lad was about 18; and he began the battle of life for ,himself by getting a job in the rail- road yards. If he was late in return- ing from his work, his good mother, to use her own graebie expression, would "flatten her nose against tiles window" looking for him, thinking he might be skylarking with buye of his own age. But he rarely did anything of the sort. After hours he used to linger about the station and dards finding out alt he could about. rail- roading. He trained his memory by fixing in his mind the ixlset•il,t ions on the cars, so that ha could tell their numbers, the roads they belonged to and their destination without refer- ence to an» record. Ii' had alrea„y formed t be ambition to reach the tap in his chosen vocation. Sir William's men -wry ot'ca-ior,ally plays queer tri.ks with his friends and acquaintances. "You may sometimes make a re- mark in his presence or ask him a question,” says a lifelong friend, "to which he will pay not the slightest attention' Naturally you will as- sume that lie has failed to hear you, but nine times in ten you will be wrong. His failure to respond may mean that. be has not consciously heard you, or it inay mean that he was not then ready to reply. But two or three days afterward he is far more than likely to remind you suddenly that you have said so and so or this and that, and then proceed to discuss the question exhaustively. In this way he is often a source of great sur- prise to his associates." MYMO1)ERN FAMINES. The worst famines of modern times were the famine in Ireland in 1846-7. in which 1,000,000 people perished; the Indian famine of 18,60, which claimed 1,450,000 viotims; the Indian famine of 1877, in which 500,000 people per- ished ; and the great famine in China in 1878, in• which 9,500,000 died. 'C. Ali UNPLEA13ANT CONTRAST.. Be—I believe I'll go to' church with you this morning, Clara. She—Indeed you Won't; you've got your new ;suit, and mine hasn't come home yet. A CITY OF PAPER ROUSES. 09Lere Wounded Sslaters Are R'ootiafl. Back Health-.1lutidinis 9;i raliaelk• Matte. Not far from London --at you can find a whole paper pity, with i a population of 500 men, livi having their being, all i wrapping. The city is the conval- escent branof lIetley Hospital, and the material cbosen for its papier 3mache. It is a new i bo:.pital hut. There are 45 of those paper hind the red brick buildings o pital, and in each of them there are ten oxen cursing the bad l sent them home front the fro In the hospital till the wou is the convalescent papier until he is fit to travel, an couple of months' furlough t on his feet again ---that is th of the nnan who comes home marls of a bullet wound on rule, he spends a fortnight i Ier city. Tbe houses of the city are g white, long, lean and busin At the end, so that there may tam inside the doorway and no '11r:ught, is a bulging perch. ing from each of tate open wi a scarlet curtain to give a t color to the white landsoape, and among the buildings papier-mache city is the newer -ending legion of wounded in butcher blue. Ins side the p1.tpier-mache build Netley-. •ng, mov- n apaper ch fabric is dee for a tents be,- f thellos- itis: that tit. nd heals, mache city d then a o set him e history with the Wm., As a n the pap - fastening eves like. be a cur- ten Flutter_ ndow•s is arch of And in of the ing it is all cite:etuile and comfort, Etch !:u:ld., ing is 30 feet long. Ranged along the length are ten beds, with easy spring mettresees that van allow for the tCS-ing of a man still in pain, even if its 19 conva.lesrent. Beside each bed is room for the necessary kit, and at one side of the bur—hutnlont is the techni- ca1 term—is the white wooden mese • table. PEARLS OF TRUTH. M'an is unjust, but sod; is just.and finally justice triumphs.-- 1, Kinglet - low, There i- lime influence where there hi not great sy-mp:tthy.--S. 1. Prime. In every rank, butt great and. mall, it it, industry that supports us all.— ttae. tirc'atnees of any kind 1,aa no great- er foe than the habit of drinking.— Walter Sect t. Ile that is ungretoful has no guilt but one; all uther crimes may pass for virtues in biro.—Young. He In armed {without who Is inno- I cent within, be this thy screen. and' this thy wall of brass.—Horace. You are tried alone; alone youpass into the desert; alone you are sift- ed by the world.—F. W. Robertson. I What Is often called indolence is, I in fact, the unconscious conseiousxest of inealracity.—H. C. Robinson. Human nature Is so constituted I that ali see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.—Terence. In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief—enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best .—+Colton. Let all your views in life be direct - ea to a solid, however moderate, in- dependence without it no than can be happy, nor even honest. --Junius. What' right have we to pry into the secrets of others 2 True or false, the tale that is gabbled to us, what concern is it of ours?—Bulwer. BEGINNING AND END OF MAN'S REIGN. Did your wife scold you when you came home su late last night? You don't know what it is to have a wife who was once a school teacher. She simply made me write 100 times on a slate, I must be at home by 10 o'clock. EASY FOR HIM. Well, my daughter, said the man with the round faee, has married a boy, I think, will be able to send his name ringing down the corridors of time all right. I'm glad to hear that, his companion replied. Let's see, whom did she marry? A young fellow named Bell. A SURE THING. 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