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ClekAPTER,
"Let me see," said ha venttering
to himself, as he paused beside tbe
Marble Arch ot Hyde Park, ad
leoned his heaa against the railings
of that structure, "Mr. Auberly hos
been an' ordered two boys to be sent
to hiat to -morrow forma:sone-dial he!
ski" (the chuckling got the better
of him here) ---"very good. An' eriV,
mother has ordered one o' the boys
to go, waile a tall fereman has or-
dered the other. Now, the question
is, which 0' the boys am I -the ono
or the teother-hal ski ha! Well,
of course both o' the boys will go;
they eaa't help it, there's no gittin'
over that; but, then'wench of too
will eat the situation? There's a
scruncher for you, Mr. .eitlaerly.
You'll have to fill your houto with
tar an torpentine an' set the to it
over agairi 'afore you'll throw light
ot that pint. S'pose I should go
•in for both situations! It might
be managed. The firstboy could
take a well paid situation as a
clerk, an' the semed boy might go
in for night-watchenan at a bank."
((atitekling again interrupted the
Bow of thought). "Fraps the two
situations might be got in the same
place o' business; that would be
haredyi Oh/ if one o' the boys
could only be a girl, what a lark
that woula-ski ha i ho!"
Iles was interrupted at this point
by a shoe -black, who remarked to
his corapanion-
"I say, Bob, 'ere 's a lax% 'Eee
's a feller bin an' got out o' Bed-
lam, a larien at nothink fit to burst
hiseelf!"
-So Willie resumed his walk with a
chuckle that fully conernaed the
member of the black brigade in his
pinion.
He
He went home chuckling and went
to bed cleackling, without informing
his mother of the cause of his mirth.
chuckling he arose on the following
reorniag, and, chuckling still, went
at noon to Beverly Square, where he
discovered Mr. Auberly standing,
gagent and forlorn, in the midst of
the ruins of his once elegant man-
sion.
ell1APPER VL
"Well boy, what do you want?
33lave you anything to say to me?"
Mr. • Auberly turned sharp roun.d
on :Willie, whose gaze had gone be-
yond the length of simple curiosity.
In fact, he was awe-struck at the
sight of such a very tall and very
dignified man standing so grimly in
the midst of such dreadful devastae
*ion.
"Please. sir, 1 was sent to ycru,
sir, by,-."
"Oh, you're the boy, the son of,
that is to say •you were sent to me
by your mother," said Mr.' Auberly
;with a frown.
etleall, sir," replied Willie, hesitat-
ing, "1 -1 --was sent by-byo-"
"Ah, I see," interrupted Mr. A:li-
berty with a smile that .was meant
to be gracious, "you were sent by
a 'fireman; you are not the.-theo--1
mean, you're the other boy."
Poor Willie, being of a powerfully
risible nature, found it hard to con-
tain himself on hearing his owe
words of the previous evening re-
echoed thus unexpectedly, His face
became red, and he took refuge in
blowing his nose, during which pro-
tess-having observed the smile on
Mr. Auberly's face -he resolved to be
'the other boy."
"Yes, sir," he said, looking op
modestly, "I was sent by a fireraan;
1 ant the other boy."
Mr. Aube -1y smiled again grimly,
and said that the fireman was a
brave fellow, and that he had saved
'itis daughter's We, and that he was
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uation of some eort-s, clerkship, I
suppose?"
Willie admitted that his ambition
soexed, tothat tremendous height.
"Let me see," muttered Mr. Auber-
ly, taking up a pen ond beginning
to write; "Yes, she will be able to
aelp me, What is your name, boy?"
'Willie, sir."
"Jeust eo, William; and your sur-
-'your other name?"
"Winders, sir,"
Mr. .Osaberly started. and looked
'Mine full in the eyes. Willie, feel-
ing that be was playing a sort of
double part without boing able to
avoid it, grew red in the face.
"What did you say, boy?"
"Wenders," replied Willie, stoutly.
"Then you're not the other boy,"
said Mae Auborly, laying down his
pea, and regarding Walla with a
frown. •
"Please sir," replied Willie, with a
look of meelcness winch was mingled
with a feeling of desperation, for his
desire to laugh was strong upon him,
"plea,se, sir, I don't rightly • know
whieh bey 1 Eon':
• Mr. Auberly paused for a moment.
"Boy, yoe're a fool!"
"Thank 'ee, sir," said Willie.
.This reply went a long way in Me
Aaberly's mind to prove tbe truth of
his assertion.
"Answer me, boy," said Mr. .Au-
berly, with an impressive loolc and
to; "were you sent here by a fire -
"Yea, sir," replied Willie.
"letiat is his name?"
"Same as mine, sir-Villderse°
"Of course, of course," said Mr,
Auberly, a. little confused at having
put such an unnecessary question.
"Does your mother know you're
here?"
This brought the slang phrase,
"Does your mother know you're
out?" so forcibly to the boy's mend,
that he felt hlinself swell internally,
and had recourse again to his poc-
ket handkerchief as a safety -valve.
"Yes, sir," said he, on recovering
his composure; "arter I saw Blaze -
Frank, 1 mean, that's my brother,
sir -I goes right away home to bed.
stops with my mother, sir, an' sbe
saw me come off here this =min',
sir. She knows 1 was comin' here."
"Of course; yes, yes, 1 see," mut-
tered Mr. Auberly, again taking up
his pen. "I see; yes, yes; same name
-strange coincidence, thouglo but
after all, there are many of that
name in London. I suppose the oth-
er boy will be here shortly. Very
oldd, very odd.indeed."
"Please, sir," observed Willie, in a
gentle tone, "you said I was the
other bay, sir."
Mr. Auberly seemed a little annoy-
ed at his muttered -words being thps
replied to, yet he condescended to
explain that there was another boy
of the same naane whom he expected
to see that morning,
"Oh, then there's another other
boy, sir?" said ;Willie, with a look
of interest.
"leaold your tongue/' said Mr. Au-
berly in a theirs voice; "youat a
fool, and you're munch too fond of
speaking. I advise you to keep
your tongue quieter if you wish to
get mi in life."
'Willie once more sought relief in
his pocket handkerchief, whde hi
patron intlited and sealed an epistle„
which he addressed to "Miss Tippet,
No. 6 Poorthing Lane, Beverly
Square."
"Here, boy, take this to the lady
to whoni it is addressede-the lane 13
at •the opposite corner of the square
-and wait an answer." .
"Axm I to bring the answer back
to you sir?" asked Willie with much
"No; the answer is yourself," said
leery glad to do anything that lay in Mt. Atuberly, testily; "and hork 'ee,
ais power for him, and that he un- boy, you need not trouble me again.
.lerstood that Wilde was the fire- That note will get you all you de-
mon's brother; to which the boy re- sire."
plied that he was.
"Wen, there come this way," con-
tinued Mr. Auberly, leading 'Willie
alto the library of the adjoining
ao•use, erhith his friend had put at
eis disposal, and seatirrg himself at
a, writing table. "You want a sit -
yon lenoar; but plectee, Sir, 1 wielito
ahOU't that other boy -no,
tbat's Me, bitt the other Other hoYx
yen know -a"
"Begone, boy!" cried .3Sar. Anberly
o voice so stern that Willie fouled
...hirneelf next moment in the Street,
alOog which 1» ran. 011,1101db:1g Worse
than ever. "
.A. little reflection might have open-
ed Mr. Auberly's eyes to the truth
in regard to Willie, but a poor rela-
tion. was to him o disagreeable sub-
ieet of contemplation., and he pos-
sessed the faculty, in an ernineot de-
gree, of dismisSing it altogether front
his mind, Hewing care enough on
his mend at that. time, poor maxi,
be deliberately cast the confusion of
the two boys out of his thoughts,
and gove himself up to matters more
intereoting and personal.
We may add here that :Mrs. Will- to the proposal, and followed tbezn
ders was faithful to her promise, and into the toy -shop. . -
never neore addressed her brother -in- lea-vid Boone, who • stepped out of
law by word or letter. When Willie the' back shop to serve them, was, if
afterward told her and Frank of the we May any so, very unlike his trade
absurdity of his interview, and of A. grave, tall, twig -legged, long -
the violent, manner in wheel Mr. An- nosed, raw-boned, meloneholy-look-
herly had dismissed hem when he ing creature such as he, zeigat have
was going to explain, about the been an undertaker, or a mute, or
"other" boy, his mother thought it a sexton, • or a pOlicemet, or a
best to let, things rest as thee horse-oteardsmat, or even a lawyer;
stood, yet she often wondered in her but it was the height of impro-
own quiet way What Mr, Auberly priety to have mode him a toy -
would think of her and of the non- Shopanan, and whoever did it had no
appearanee of the "other" boy; aged notion, whatever of the fitness of
she felt convincedahat if he only put things. • Ono • could not resist the
idea that his clumsy legs would cor-
things together he rn.ust come to un-
derstand that Mlle and Prank wore thinly upset the slender wooden toys
her sons, But Mrs. Winders did not with which the floor and eounters
know of the before -mentioned happy were covered, Med his fingers' seemed
facility whigh her kinsman possessed naade to break things. The figure
of forgetting poor relations so, af- of Punch, -winch hung from the ceiling
ter wondering on for a time, • she appeared inclined to hit him as he
ceased to wonder or to think about Passed to and fro, and the pretty
it at all. little dolls with the sweet pink •faces,
and very .flaxen hair and cerulean
eyes were evidently laughing at him,
CHAPTER. VII. Nevertheless David Boone was a
Miss Eenelina, Tippet was a maiden kind-hearted man, very fond of
lady of pleasing countenance and ex- ohildret. and extremely unlike, in
ceedingly uncertain age. some respects, to what people int -
She was a• poor member of a poor agined hira at first sight to be.
branch cf a,n aristocratic family, and "Well, Miss Word, what can I sup -
feeling an unconquerable desire to ply you with to -day?" said he,
joreathe, if not the pure unadulterot- blandly.
ed atmosphere of Beverly Square, at "Please, enr, Boone, I want a site
least as much of it as was come and a piece of slate pencil." Banana
patible with a very moderate in- looked up with a sweet smile at the
come, she rented a small house in a tall shopanan, who looked down up -
very dark and dismal lane leading on her with gra,vo benignity, as he
out of the great center of reanement, produced the articles required.
It is true that Beverly Square was "D' you kap° turpeetine?" said
not exactly "the West End," but Matte as they were about to , quit
there are many degrees of West-enxia the shop.
ness, so to speak, in the western Boone ' started, and said almost
neighborhood of London, and this testily,. "No, I don't. e.Wher do you
square was, in the opinion of Miss ask?"
Tippet, the West-endiest place she "Sure there's no sin in askina"
knew, because there dwelt in it, not replied Matto, in surprise at the
a very genteel and uncomin.onty rich man's &Lunged manner.
portion of the coneneunity, but sev- "Of conirse - of course not," re-
eral of her own aristocratic though Joined Boone, with a slight look of
distant relations, among whom was confusion, as be Made a sudden as -
Mr. Auberly. Sault with his pocket handkerchief on
The precise distance of the rela- the cat, which was sleeping i inno-
tionship between them bad never cently in the window; out o'
been defined,' and all records bearing that, you brute; you're always
on it having been lost in the mists agoin' in the winder, capsizin'
of antiquity, it could not now be as- things. There! you've been an! sat
certained; but Miss Tippet, laid claim on the face o' that ere wax doll till
to the relationship, and as she was yooeve aanost melted it. Out o'
an obliging, goad -humored, chatty, that with you! No, Miss Merryon,"
and musical lady, Mr. Auberly ad- he added, turning to the girl with
mitted the claim. his wonted urbanity, "I don't keep
Miss Tippet's only weakness- for turpentine, and 1 •was only surprise
she was indeed a most estimable wo- ed you should ask for it in a toy -
mane -was a tendency to allow rank shop; but you'll get it of Mr. White,
and position to weigh too much in next door. I don't believe there's
her esteem. She had also a sensitive anythink ixi the world as he can't
abhorrence of everything "low and supply to his customers."
vulgar," which would have been, of Bayed Boone bowed them out, and
course, a very proper feeling had she thin re-entered the back shop, sheik -
not fallen into the mistake of con- frig his head slowly from side to
sidering humble birth low- side,
ness, and want of polish "1 don't like it -I don't oven like
vulgarity - a mistake which is to think of it, Gorman," he said
often (sometimes even wilfully) made to a big low-browed man who sat
by ,persons who consider themselves sPooking his pipe beside the little
much wiser than Miss Tippet, but iireplace, the fire in which was so
who are not wise enough to see a small that its smoke scarcely equal -
distinct shade of true vulgarity od in volume that of the pipe he
their own sentianetits. . smoked: "No, I don't like it, and 1
The dark, dismal lane, tamed won't do it."
Poorthing Lane, besides forming an "Well, well,. you can please your-
asyhem for decoyed and would-be ar- self," said Gorman, knocking the
istocrats, and a vestibule, as it were, ashes out of his pipe, and placing it
to Beverly Square, was a convenient in his vest pocket, as he rose and
retreat for sundry green -grocers and buttoned his thick pea -jacket up to
public -house keepers and small the..chin.; "but I'll ten you what it
• trades-
people, who supplied the is, if you are a descendant of • the
densely -peopled. Surrounding district, butter of, the far, west that you
and even some. of Beverly Square it- boast so "mach about, it's precious
little of bis pluck that you've got;
self, with the necessaries of life. It
was also 'it thoroughfare for the gay an' so I tell 'ee to your face, David
equipages.- of the square, which pass- 11"ns- All I've got to say is, that
ed through ft daily mi -their way. to you'd better be :wise and talto my
and from the adjoining stables, advice, and think better of it."
thereby endangering the lives of pre- So sayin.g Gorman went out,, and
cociOus babies Who could crawl but slaanmed the door after him.
"Thank you, sir," said Willie, mak- could not walk away front home, as
ing a bow, and preparing to retire; well as affording food for criticism
"but please, sir, I don't very well
know, that is to say-ahern!"
"Wall, boy?" said the patron,stern-
ly.
."Eaeuse me, sir; I can't help it,
"She deee. boy, wiled (rye eveat
With her?"
'1: Want to see her, young honnan,
so yOned better cut away up an' tell
her a gerebeen requests a few werds
private conversation with her,"
'rho little girl laughed at his
epeech, azea Motty, addressing Willie
As a °dirty spalpeen," seld he had
better gp with her to a shop %trot,
and she'd then take hisn back aad
introduce him to Misa Tippet.
"You see I can't let ye irs all be
yer lone, amble; for what would the
neighbors say, you know! I'm only
gem' to the toy -shop, an' won't
icape ye a minit, for 'Miss' Emma,
don't take long to her bargains."
Willie might probably have demur-
red to this delay, but on hearing
that the blue-eyed girl wanted to
make purchases, he at once agreed
Jim Dumps found Mrs. Dumps
distressed
About an unexpected guest.
"There's nothing in the house
to eat 1"
"There's something better far
than meat."
The guexst endoraed tines VIM,
with vim
When helped to "Force" by
"Sunny tine."
teasers ea leatisee "roost:.
"Thatka iyialoroo I eat it
amei 4 aka este 4SW:tzar
Week etite to OA WO fee One,
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"Sege' Is toe RUM°
and scandal, not to mention the
loa.ving behind of species of second-
hand odor of gentility such as coach-
men arid footmen can give forth.
Miss Tippet's means being small,
she rented a proportionately small
residence, consisting of two fibers,
which were the upper portion of a
house, whose ground floor was a toy -
shop. The owner of the toy -shop,
David Boone, was Miss 'Tippet's
lan,dlord; but not the owner of the
tenement. Ple rented the whole, and
sublet the upper portion. :Miss Tip-
pet's parlor windows commanded a
near view of the lodging opposite,
into every corner and crevice of
which she could have seen had not
the windows been incrusted with im-
penetrable dirt. Her own domestic
arrangements were eoncealed from
view by small green venetian blinds,
which rose from below and met the
large venetians which descended from
above. The good lady's bedroom
windows in the epper -floor eon-
nianded a near view -Much too near
-of a stack of chimneys, between
which aed another stack, furtber
over, she had a glimpse of part of
the gable end of a house, and the
topmost bough of a tree ix Beverly
Square. *It was this prospect into
paradise, terrestrially speakitg, that
ielluenced Miss Tippet in the choice
of her eacide.
'When :William :Vialiders reached the
amen door of No. 6, Earthing
own accord, and 'Miss Matty Merry-,
,
on iassg.:eci. forthofollowed by a. bright,
1'1 at Ilea::: ees' - ta tia '1,z sdno i dribdeirdla,:itsoewodpaosetthnmi yes handidet,aevisitorsIo1h:eflhoci:tkfrds',
•471:- joryeeds :iartityo: aabsoutthetwlaealvesteerpepaeras
ethic to let, them Pass.
"Yes, I Was. 'Does lase Tippet
live here?" •
Meanwhile, Miss Matty Merryon,
having purchased a small vial of
turpentine, returned to No, 6, and
ushered 'Willie Wiliders intcothe pres-
ence of her mistress.
Miss lenielina Tippet was neither
tall nor stiff, nor angular nor bony;
on the contrary, she was little and
plump, and not bad looking. And
'people often wondered why Miss Tip-
pet Wes Miss Tippet and was not
Mrs. Somebody else. Whatever the
reason. was, Kiss Tippet never di-
vulged it, so we won't speculate
about it here.
"A note, boy, from tifx.-Auberly?"
exclaimed Miss Tippet, *with a beam-
ing sznile; "give it ma -thank you."
Sho opened it and read attentively,
while Master Willie glanced round
the parlor and took mental notes,
Miss Ea-nnao Ward sat down on a
stool in the winnow; ostensibly to
"do sums," but ' really to draw
faces, all of which bore a strong
caricaturetl fosemblance to Willie,
at whom she glanced slyly over the
top of her slate.
. Matter remained standing ot the
door to hear what the note was
abotit. She did not pretend to busy
herself about anything. There was
no subterfuge in Matter. She had
been Miss Tibbet's confidential ser-
vant before entering the service of
Mr, A4uberly, and her extremely short
atay in Beverly Square had eat al-
tered that eondition, S.he had come
to feel that she had a right to know
all Mee Tippet's affairs, and eo
waited for information.
(Tts Be Contlaued).
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worst mole we ever had." nvcoyt wa6laigleht wtoas droeflualdhotruorms
19(3 to 160 poueds, and though
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DUAL-PURPOSE COWS.,
Tama are .perbaps no subjects to-
day that attract the attention of
the daaryznan more than those per-
taining to the special and dual-pur-
pose cows. One can 'hardly read a
dairy paper through without ending
an item about one or the other, and
Which will bring them the most pro-
fit is a,' hard problem for many dairy
fonnex•s to •docide.
As generally conceded, the dual-
purpose cow IS one width will give a
reasonably large amount of butter-
fat and atthe some time produce a
calf that will have fairly good beef
qualities; so the heifer calf can be
sold for beef if she does not give as
much milk as her owner thinks she
should.. A. goad cow of • this type
should produce at least 250 pounds
of butter -fat each year and at the
stone time raise a calf that will
bring nearly the top palm' per pound
if sold for beef.
The advantage, then, of the dual-
ity over the special-purpose cow is
in the calf which she will raise, pro -
aiding she will give as reach batter -
fat, winch i generally not the case.
In Many instaoces, however, the ex-
cess of yield of butter -fat in . the
Letter over the former wili not be
worth as much as a good calf.
Of course the female calves of the
special type are worth as Much as
those of the other kind, but the
males ATO not unless they are extra
good stock and can be sold as bulls,
at a high price.
Probablythe best breeds of cattle
which are used for producing both
milk and beef are the Red Polled,
the Polled Durham, and the Bates
family of the Shorthorn breed, and
there are some good Angus. The
ordinaoy cow, however, that an-
swers this purimse is a cross be-
tween two or more of any of the
breeds of cattle, Many farmers
raise this class 'of COWS with good
results, selling the male calves for
from $3.5 to $20 per head -when one
year old, and it is not impossible to
get a cow tbat will yield from' SOO
to 400 pounds of butter -fat per
year and at the saane time raise this
kind of a calf. We all know that
there are some good dual-purpose
cows; but wade this is true there
aro many which will not come 11P
even to the average special "dairy
type.
There is no reason why the dual-
purpose cows should not be made to
average at least 200 pounds of but-
ter -fat per year, por head, if the
farmer would use judgment in the
selection of the beet there are.
Even a. gain of 100"pounds of but-
ter -fat for oath cow would mean a
great deal to the farmers, and it
will be the result if the farmers keep
their best dual-purpos cowe and nev-
er alloev a poor one to stay in their
heeds.
POULTRY AND SMALL FRUITS.
Keeping of poultry combined with
mere of small fruit makes the land
doubly useful and the profit more
than double as each erop assists in
the protection of the other, wbele
the waste enriches the soil, and if
well stirred, rotation of crops and
health of fowls are better than if
either is pursued alone, writes a core
respondeat.
With the exception of strawberries
and grapes, fowls .enjoy the shade of
the vines, without injury to the
crop, and will do much good in pick-
ing up the fallen fruit, and there-
by destroying the 1V01111, which does
neuch towards preventing the
aeourge of these insects during an-
other season: The shade too, is
very essential to fowls during the
hot sunenxer days, and while they
scratch and, wallow .underethe .bush,
the working of the soil keeps the
moisture ie the ground and he...proves
the crop. If the little •chicks - are
free to run into the garden as well,
the* food 'will consist of 177.01:71113 and.
insects injuaious to the plants; in
this little difference the amount of
food saved- in feeding .them will be
many dollars during the year; many
breeders seem afraid to let their
poultry have aocess to the garden
and berry add, 'while I have always
found their preseoce a benefit to the
crop. MY flock is healthy, free from
nee and diseete, always laying, aled
go about With a lively eactsle, seem-
begly glad that they are eso and
reap a, prOfet from thorn juet because
I give them riature's way as far as
possible in eldeleendom.
To conclude, 1 think, twenty del -
tars' Worth of fruit, and twenty dole
hoe' worth of eggs and poultrye eau
be raised on a einglo
each year.
USELESS TRICKS.
To try to form without a judicious
application of manureto your
lands,
To buy. what you do not need be-
cause it is cheap -or nice,
To plant rn.ore aores than you can
properly take care of in the way of
cultivating because you wish to
have a "big" crop.
To expect to grow
due attention being
cultivation.
To expect to grow good crops
from poor seed.
,To expect to have good faxra steak
without feeding and giving it at-
tentima. •
To expect to hts,ve good milk cows
without ptoviding for their com-
fort at all seasons. -
To leave yaw farm tools emposed
to the weather. •
To lounge about the village store
or Net Office. when the weeds are
growing in your *op.
To talk of what your farming op-
erations will be next year while you
are doing nothing this year.
• To plant fruit trees, ami ?hen al-
low the cattle to destroy them.
To leave your 'neighbors', gates
clam, and then expect yours to be
alwaysaura Yoe thus teach a bad
lesson by your own example.
To elect to office men who canoot
take care of themselves by ordinary
pursuits of life.
To be surrceended by Mud when
you can easily have good paths
about yoor premises.
crops without
given to their
OARID OF WORHING HORSES.
The teamneed and deserve spe-
cial care when work is the hardest.
Like a man, the horse is only at his
best when he eats and sleeps well,
and feels comfortable in general. A
team at heavy work requires liberal
.feeding. Oats and cracked corn is a.
good mixture for 'tele hard-working
horses. Feed with good, mixed
hay, and at regular hours, three
times a day. A little green feria:
given, oft* work is aver will do no
harm. Add a little salt. A full
hour should be allowed for the noon
meal. Card and brush daily and
sponge shoulders after the day's
work. Chafed places should be
waeb.ed and rubbed with vaseline or
tar " ointment. A piece of strong
gum plaster will protect a sore
place from fOrther wear. The cause
of saddee galls may be removed by
side-parlding and raising the saddle.
Collars cease much strain when
plowing and hauling Irea,vy loads,
and they should fit well and be fully
paraded. In Case of sores under the
colleen use inetead a breast -strap for
a while:
Piles
To prove to yen thee nit
Chase's Ointment is a certain
and absolute cure tor -each
avd eve -y form ot Itchim
blecdingancl protrudlagpiles,
the me.nefacturere have guaranteed% Bee too
timeniala in the deny loess and ask your neigh.
bore what they think of it You can ea it and
eetyour money back if not cured. ee0 a box, at
an !meters Or EDMANSON,BATES & CO, TOrOnte,,
Or.Chases Ointme t
THE OLDEST STAMP.
The oldest stamps in the world are!
those issued at Bong Hong, which
,have never been changed since they
were arst instituted in 1859. Every
other stamp in the world bas been
changed in the forty odd years, but
the head of Queen Victoria on the
Hong ,Kong stamp has never been
altered. Now, however, it appears
that a new set of stamps is about
to be issued with the head of King
ladsvaade and when the change has.
taken place. the .oldest stamp will
be the Russian, with the doublet
headed eagle and the shield of S.
• George, which Was first issued in
1861,
"What you need," the doctor told
him, "is more sleep." "I know ie,"
said the haggard man, "but how
am I going to get it? There's .
baby on tbe floor above us that's
cutting teeth and a family with a
phonograph on the floor below us,"
ai n
In
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Croat Suffering and L033 of Weight—Doctors Could Not lielp iiim—
A Splendid Tribute to
DR. CHASE'S KFI1EY LIVER PILLS
suck letters as the
following from well-known seed high-
1y- respected people in all parts of
the country you need no longer won?
derw by the sale of Dr. Chase's Kid -
hey Liver Pills is so far in advance
of any similar remedy. When the
people ilnd out the virtue of this
Freat medicine they tell their neigh-
bors about it, and so the good news
lepreade.
Mr, James Clark, Coneecon, Prince
iftclward Co.,Ora.'states: "Eleven
years ago I was taken With Pains in
iny beak, settling in my hips sad
bOtendizig up my spine. The pale
0a5 very elevens; and at times al -
cat tuandurable, and tooter days
When
you
read
kower it. But ehe is go -
leg to stay until We get, soneeone
else." ,
"tiNtat'a good. 1 didret know' but
you trould have to eoolt the meals,"
,
had Consulted Mary firtt-01a00 play -
'melons and tried several advertised
"At this tinie nxy father-bolaW
hadia)rtott eottltie getenoexellefe, „
told me to try Dr. Chase's 'Kidney.
Liver Pills, and said he knew they
would cure me. I secured a box, and
great was my surprise when 1 began
to feel better after using only the
one box. I continued their use un-
til I had taken about four boxes,
which made me a sound man, and 1
also regained my usual weight, 190
pounds. 1 cannot say too much in
favor of Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver
Pills, which have done' so much for
inc. 1 have recommended them to a
number of my friends, and have nose
a' met with one ease where they did
not meet with good success. My
daughter, term Chas. Philips, has
also been cured of a severe stomach
trouble by the um of these pills,"
Dr. Chase's Kideey-Liver ride, one
pill a dotes, 25 cents a bozo IS bocce
for 0..00. At all dealers, or Ed -
Matson, Bates eis CO., Toronto. To
protect ydu against imitations the
portrait and signature of Dr. A. W.
Chase, the fan:iota receipt book au-
thor, *xi olt *Very box of bits roux*
BUIE SENSATIOBAL HOPS
Losnitt V.6,000,000 IN FIVE
MINUTES.
ogorners" That Have Prover/
:Very Disastrous to Tiaeir
• Pr oiect ors .
DIa grimy garret in a Londoo
slum there died the other day the
only man Who ever secceecled in
losing $25,000,000 in live minutes'.
time, HU name Was Henri Thi-
bault. For years prior to hie death
be had eke4 out a precarious sub-
sistence as ox. translator and teacher,
of languages. Yet thirteen yegrs
previously he had been the prime
mover in the great copper corner,
tbe collapse of winch slook to its
foundations the French financial
world. Thibault's idea- was to sec-
rotlY buy up the world's availalel
supply of copper, and wait for the
inevitable rise. Aod he came ver.
near to !succeeding. From his of -
Ace ia Paris he controlled, through
his agents, the markets of London,
Berlin, and Vienna, and in all 01
them he puechaseh every powed of
copper that was offered.
The result was quickly apparent.
On 'July 1st, 1887, "13.0.33,at (best
Chili bars) were selling at aeoo
ton. By Juno lst they had risen,
to ,$260, and the rise continued 1
steadily until the middle of Decera-
b*, 1888, when the unhea,rdecif price
of a fraction over $500 a. ton was
being asked and obtained.
Then came the collapse. Thi-
bault had sunk all his own money,
in the venture, all he could borrow,
all he could beg; and still, from all
sorts of odd and unexpected corners
of the world copper came pouring
in. As soon as he ceased buying
he had, of course, to commence sell-
ing, and this hastened and emeriti'.
ated
THE' INEVITABLE END,
On February 1st, 1889, the very
Nio
same grade of copper that had fetch. a`
ed over $500 a ton in .tha oreveciae--
Deceznber could be had for $890 a
ton, and by Mara lst the price
had dropped to $196, or less than
it was when Thibault commenced
operations.
Altogether the gigantic gamble
cost him $50,000,000, of -which sum •
fully one-half was lost between noon
and five minutes past on February,
28th, 1889, when :the "bottom" fin-
ally "dropped out" of his "corner.", :
Very similar was the fate which
overtook the groat wlieat "deare
engineered in Chicago some few! ..
years back by „Mo. Joseph Leiter.
rborothoefrridar,
. of the present Vice
y •
Young Leiter had almost malaria -
ed funds at his disposal, for he be-
longed to one of the richest Riad- .
lies in the world. But the more
grain he bought the more was
poured in upon him, and in. the'exualea.-
he had to confess himself beaten.
Unfortunately, however, before he
was compelled to cry "enough," he
had succeeded in sending up the
price of bread, not only in the Unit-
ed States and Great Britain, but all
over the world.
In England two similar "corners't
each of which met with a simile...at
fate, stand out conspicuously. One
was the attempt made by Morris
Ranger, of Liverpool, to buy up the
season's supply of cotton in 1888.
The other was the speculative trust
organized by" the "Salt Union.."
RANGER'S ENTERPRISE.
was skillfully planned, and had it
succeeded he would have made ten
million dollars out of the mill -own-
ers of Lancashire. But the hate
found out what was in the wind
inamediately they put -most of their
mills on half time, shut down the
others, and dispatched swift steam-
ers to Egypt, and even to far-awaw
India, to buy up all the cotton that
could be got for love or money. So
Ranger was forced to,,e'unloada the
vast stores he had accumulated, a
course of procedure which spelt ab-
solute ruin to him. •
The collapse of the gigantic oper-
ations of the Salt Union was equ-
ally disastrous -and.ecomplete. The•
mine -owners of Cheshire did indeed
succeed for a time in more than
doubling the price of salt to the
consumer; but zneanwhile new sourc-
es of supply were being opened up,
fresh brine -springs were tapped, ab-
andoned mines were re -started, un- ,
til, ere long, prices had dropped-.
even below their original level.
And as with the Salt Union, so
was it with the United Alkali
pany's attempt to create a mono-
poly in bleaching poweler and other
kindred products. For a time very
large profits were made, and Wid-
nes and St. Helens, the two prince.
pal centres of the trust's operations,
simply hummed with prosperity.
Then new competitors were attract-
ed by the enhanced pricee, substi-
tutes also were found for many of '
the materials manufactered, and in.
the end the great corporation that
had soared merrily upwards like a
rocket came cloWn like the stiek.
BELATED CONGRATULA.TION.
...----.,..
Returned Tourist --"And so, during
nay- long stay abroad, Miss. PirtIthe
got married -six months ago, too. t
must call to offer nay congratura-
tints, What is her name
Hostess -"Mrs. Blinks, She lives
next door," -
Enter ServanO--"Please, mum, Mrs.
Blinks wants to know the addreesot
some good locksmith."
1-ovismt
tetsset-04:,With pleasure. What it
00I
Servent--"When Mr. Blinks left
the house this morning, he slams:nod
the door so bard that it broke the
EVERYBODY'S DOC'r011..
Automatic oraeleittes, to be called
"Everybody's Doctor," oreaao ise
placed in the bouleverne ami, prin-
cipal thoroughfares of 13ruseele, 13y
patailig s pereay in the Plat one Will
be obit' to obtain a remedy toad
• oleo ethe pa•eseription for S'elCh
rrialt$os eiek betedaeeee, tole, kerne
bago, and thothaolue,