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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-8-31, Page 7.A.irGITST 31, 1894 YOUNG FOLKS, Begs and Bell In tt Garden. U�1 and flown i to garden walla Ahro" a Hummel. horning a home, i'?oss and Bull, with merry talk, Called, upon their friends, the Rowel's, ",All the Pansychildren laugh When they look M us," they said, ""Lily, you are pale 10•day, And you droop your pretty head, "Hollyhock, how tall you eve! Plnke 0011 Papeetee,,t5 oulare just loll otloughfor us to kiss, "Maar Rod hose," said 111410 Bell "I ou aro sweeter than tient ani ; glut Iwish you'd put away All your needles wbon 1 call." "SPening glory 1 Honeysuckle! Clllnlbing up the trellis attar, Do you hero us nay 'good morning'? can you see us—'way up there?' YSee1—tbeysmlleand whisper low, And they say,'sald little 13808, "net 1110.40 litle girls are YOU, Very, vary aloe, !guess. "Good bye, dears—we're going now 1" And bile little maids wore gone. And the gossips of the garden Nodded', smiled, and gossiped on. [Mary A. Latlibltr7. 'What Bob Forgot. Little Bob sat very still at the breakfast' table. He was so busy thinking that he only ate one saucerful of the big, red rasp berries fresh from grandpa's garden, and covered with golden cream from grandma's vlilk•pane. Bob was speeding his vacation at grand• pa's farm, and there were so many pleasant things going on that the little follow hard- ly knew what to do first. " Now if I ride to the mil] I can't go fish ng with Sam," bethought, shaking his little puzzled head. " Sam says the fishes in the creek are big's grandpa's turkeys, and they bite quicker n 'squitoes. Guess I'll go with him." But just at that minute he saw grandpa and the hired men in the empty hay- waggon aywaggon ; they must be going to the meadow for a load of hay. What fun it would be to ride home on the soft, sweat hay, away up among the tree tops ! It was nicer than riding on the elephant in the park, Bobby thought. So hie little heels made quick time along the path to the barn, and he clambered in. to the big waggon, over the wheel, and cared nothing more for Sam's wonderful fish. Wait a minute, dear 1" called grandma from the kitchen door, " Do you know any tittle boy who wants to climb up into this tree and get some cherries for grandma's pies?" "No -o grandma," said little Bob with a very long facie. "I don't know any ouch boy, honestly. Aren't you 'fraid he might tumble out of the tree and break his arms and legs?" "011, ho, Bob !" laughed grandpa. " That's the first time you ever were afraid to climb a tree I" Lary Bob hung hie head, but he did not give up his point. 'Sides, I don't think cherry pies are very good," he argued. "Kind o' sour and puckery." "You'll eat 'em fast enough when dinner time oomes," said grandpa. "Well, never mind, Bobby, boy," said gentle grandma, seeing how sober the little fellow looked. "111 get alongwithout the cherries. Go and have a nice ride, dearie ; you can't bo a little boy but once," So the long wagon went jolting and rattling away so fast that Bob had to catch hold of the high rook to keep from tumbling over. The meadow looked so pretty with the green haycocks dotted evenly over it, like wigwams in an Indian village, Bobby fanoiod. The bleed men jumped out of the wagon and pitched in one cook after another wibh their long pitchforks. tlrandpa arranged the hay in the wagon so that the load would .balance well, and little Bob's seat rose higher and higher as the wagon was filled . Bet somehow Bobl>y was not having a very good time. He could not help thinit• i0g that grandma was always ready to leave her work and hunt for itis missing balls and whistles, or to give him a dough- nut when ho was hungry—which, to tell the truth, was most of the time from break. feat to dinner, and from dinner to tea. He remembered, too, how yesterday he had poked a ;tole in a hornets' nest, jast to see what it was made of, and how the hornets' etiugo hurt; and how grandma cured them with code and told hint stories till he forgot the pain. "Say, grandpa, let me out," said Bobby. "I want to go to the house. I forgotsome• thin'." "Forgot what? Your knife? Here, take mine," said grandpa, fumbling in his pocket. "No, thank you, grandpa," said Bob. "Something else." "Something to oat I'1!' warrant I" said grandpa, pulling outs paper bag. "Grand - said you'd be hungry, so she put you up a lunch." Bob looped into the bag and saw it was full of grandma's nice, sugary cookies in the shaPe of little rings and hearts. He felt more ashamed than ever, and he could not have eaten one of those cookies if he ha d been starving. 011 tisn't—that, grandpat" he said: with a little shake fn hie voice, "1 f -tor• got what lots of things grandma does for me. ",Roy? Well, I gneos you did, " said gradilpa, "Threw cherries must be tired of waiting for you," So with grandpa's help Bob slid down to the ground Geld' ran Homo like a squirrel. In a very 813001 time grandma was sur. priced to see a small boy Doming in at the wood.ahed door, with a big pail of ripe, zed cherries "And, grandma," said Bob," I won't for• get again, you'll see." The World's Life Insurance. The total amount of life insurance now in force in the world is $9,831,777,000. The annual proeniuuie upon this are 3383,811.- 000, and the policy holders number 15,137,• 067. America loads with 54;949,905,000 insurance in forge, and 8,087,778 polioy holders, the English figures which are noxi, showing $2,461,020;000 insurance and 1,• 006,307 policy holdeia. Pennsylvania produces 84,000,000 hart els of petroleum oil annually, SODA FUNNY PIECES, "Banklcy is taking great interest in maela these days." "le he studying the piano?'' 'Il o; the baby," Ho., -"If T should prapoeo to Yeu, what would bo the outcome?" She --"It would depend entirely on the income," Sweet Sixteou-,"Do tell mo, Elsa, when my accepted lover asks for the liras kiss how many obeli I give him?" Ifo- '''9Vill you think of roe when Tin gone?" She (yawning)—."Yee, ldr, Stay late, if you will give me an opportunity,' "Cliolly hag a very thoughtful expression on hie face," said one girl. "Cholly'e be. coming deceitful," replied the other. First drummer—"Say, buoinees is look. Ing right op again, isn't it?" Second drum, mor—"Well, it ought to; it's fiat oil its bank." Jaok--"What aro you going to take ego as your career—law, medicine, or what?' Will Marigold—"Mabrimony, I think." Ne—"You are the girl among a thous- and." She—"I didn't suppose there had been more than a dozen or so." It's so far to the credit of a young men that when his girl is looked in his arena be, koro marriage he never thinks of a latch. key. " I hear that old Muchmup is your rival for the heart, of Miee Sommermayd, Is lie ?" " Oh, no. Merely a rival for her hand." Stella—" Wouldn't you like to know if you are the first girl that Tom ever loved?" Isabel—"No ; I'd rather be certain that Pm the last ono." Mr, Smallwort (sleepily)—" What is the matter, dear? Was I snoring?" Mra. Small. wore—" No, you were not. That's what made me wake." "Isaw a very ourioue thing to•day." "What was it ?" "A women driving a nail with a hammer instead of with the book of her bast hair brush." ,Timmis—" Papa, why is this called a fountain pen ?" Papp—"Probably because it produces a wonderful flow of language whenever it ie used." Melton—" I wish I hadn't read that ar• tiole on " How to'Cie a Necktie.' ' Beaver —" Why" Melton—" I knew how to tie one before I read it," "Did Miee Gotrox'e father try to draw you out while you were there last night?" "Draw me out? Great Scott, man l He was behind me not in front." Uncle—"So you have several debts of honor, oh? Colne, tell mo honestly how much you owe," Nephew—"Just as much as you are able to pay, uncle." 01d lady_" Poor man; so you've been living on water for three days. Here's a quarter." Rollingetone—" Yee'm, I was workin' me way on a canal -boat." Guest—" Waiter, bring mo some rice pudding." Waiter—"Bose, I can't just recommend m rad de riasddin t •da " Pu g u Y, " What's the matter with it?" " NnfSn, 'rept dar aen't none." Clara (at Santa Cruz)—"That letter seems to have made you very happy." May— " Yes, it is from Jaok. He has heard that I am flirting terribly, and is delightfully angry aboutit." Maude—" Only thinly ! Mr. Spooner pro- posed last evening." Ethel—" 1Ve11, you shouldn't lay it up against the poor fellow. There's no knowing what a man will do when he gets desperate." At a uountry summer resort.—Wilbur— "Do they always keep that big bell on the oow 1" Papa—"` Yes, Wilbur." Wilbur— "I suppose it is to keep her from falling asleep in this quiet place." Little Ethel—. I wonder why men like to talk about their old school days ?" Little Johnny—" I suppose after they get groomed up they is always trying' to find out where the teacher lives, so they eau lick him." Rank was denoted in ancient France by the shape and style of the shoe worn by the ladies. Only ladies of the highest rank were allowed to wear the peculiar -shaped shoe known as the paribarides. "You are nothing but a big bluff," re- marked the river to the bank. " that so?" retorted the bank. "If I take a no- tion to come down on you, your name will bo tnud." First mosquito—"!What's the matter, in. seat? How did you Dome to herb your bill so." Second mosquito—" kly own fault. I tried to bite that Toronto girl over there on the cheek," POURING MEN INTO COREA. China Advancing Through Manchuria, But .Tapia'. Seelta 00 Thebe it TInater- strolte Before These Troops arrive. A despatch from Tien-Tsiu says t—The Emperor of China has directed that a levy for war tribute be made upon the Viceroys of the different provinces. A foreign war Ioan is mooted. Chinese troops, with European officers, are rapidly advancing through Manchuria towards the Corean fron tier. The Shanghai correspondent of the Cen- tral News says : " According to advices from Yokohama and Nagasaki, Japan is pouring .roinforcemonte into Corea, using for the purpose all available fast steamers flying the Japanese flag. The Japanese newspapers are forbidden to refer to the war preparations or to publish any army news, except such as isonpplied by the Gov. eminent. The Japanese aim to attack the Chinese before the arrival of the Manahur iun coops, The Chinese fleet makes no effort to leave the tweet. Fast Japanese cruisers are constantly watching." ohirtA WILL PROTEOT 100R11iONEnS. A despatch to The Times trop Tieu•Tsin, says that the English ,00lony hawing pori. bioned that British gunboats be sent there the Chinese Government hae ordered the Chinese officials to protect all foreigners and missionaries. Mostly a Native. Are you a native of this parish ?" ask- ed a Scotch sheriff of a witness who was summoned to testify in a case of llllo11 tilling. " Maietly, ycr hotter," was the reply. I mean wore you born in this parish f" " Na. 1 tvasua born in the parish, Pm maist a native for a' that." You eagle here when you wore a child, I eppposs you moan 1" said the sheriff, "No, air; I'm here about sax year nom." " Then how do you conte to be nearly a native of this parish ?" +" Weol, ye sex, whet 7 cam here sax year Bin' 1 jist weighed Dight atone an' I'm seventeen steno, poo 1 sae ye sec that about nine stane 0' 1110 bolongo to bide par. tell an' the Ether eight comes from Cham. Leckie." CHINA'S liArt DESCRIBED. AU Aecolnt1 er 11,e War Snipe lteIou;0g to the 111lddlo llipgdont h all a century ago China's navy consisted ei a eountlese fleet of high prowed, 0,10011. cal looking wooden junks, with entirjuated muzzle loaders, Te.day eho possesses a omplete navy of the modern type, concis• Ping of arrnor:elnds, cruisers, palmate and torpedo boats, enabling her, so far as t110 9poara8oe of her ships is concerted, to refile it among the loading navies in Pacific waters. The Chinese fleet consists of the North Coast Squadron, the Foo Chow Squadron the Shanghai Flotilla and the Canton Flo- tilla. Of those the first 1e by far the most important. The ooneentration of the neva! strength of China in the North is due to two things— that the gulf of Peuhilli is the invaders' road to the capital, and that it is the Viceroy of the Northern Province, the lemon's Li Hung Chang, who is the actual ender in organizing the national defence. The North Coast Squadron consists of five sea going armor clads, two of 7,280 tone each, two of 2,85Q tone each and one .ef 2,320 tons; three Book probeeted cruisers of 2,300 or 2,500 tone, three torpedo cruisers, a fleet of over thirty torpedo boats, and eleven gunboats raging from 3,235 to 440 tans. THE GEnt1A0 BUILT OltulanES, Nor are the two Stettin cruisers, the Lai -Yuen and King Yuen, mush less for- midable. They are somewhat heavier in tonnage and lighter in guns than their English sister ships ; but their speed, with engines, indicating 5,700 horse power at forced draught, is given at only fifteen and a half knots per hour, and experts have pronounced their fittings inferior to the ships from the Messrs. Armatrong'e yard. Like the English built cruisers, they are builb with bulkheads. They have each two Krupp 8+ inch 12 -ton breechloading guns, worked on a turntable forward, protected by a barbette of 3,4nole steel, and two 0 -inch 4j•ton gune, mounted on carriages antid- ebipe. Each has a displacement of 2,000 tone. They are fitted with exactly the same torpedo tube arrangement as the Arm- strong cruisers, and have a similar exten- sive and formidable auxiliary arrangement of Hotchkiss and Gatling guns. They also, on account of their small draught, could be .navigated where only suoh vessels as,the Heroine and Mutine (screw composite sloops of the British navy, of only 1,130 tons and 1,120 horse power, with a consid. arable weaker armament) could be success- fully manmuvred. Each of these four cruisersP possesses manyfeatures certain to be of great utility in warfare. Powerful eleotrio lighting apparatus, both for search purposes and for facilitating the working of the guns at night, may he enumerated among those special advantages. EFFICIENCY Oil THE OHINESE PLEIIT. When Captain Lang, of the British Royal Navy, was permitted to leave their 'service four years ago, it was generally con- sidered that the Chinese naval authorities had committed a fatal mistake. The organ- ization of the nascent fleet had made aston- ishing progress under that devoted officer, and it was his own opinion that another two or three years of unremitting labor would have brought the Chinese navy up to the point of being able to hold its own on the high seas. When, therefore, he was intrigued out of the service by hie own sub. ordinates, who proved themselves for that omission stronger than the strongest Min• cater of the Empire, it was predicted that the Chinese fleet would soon lose its train- ing an,l degenerate into a disorderly mass of corruption. These apprehensions have not as yet been realized. The Chinese fleet has not only kept the sea, but to out- ward appearances has made considerable progress since 1800. Without a single European officer, except a German engineer here and a German gunner there, the fleet hos made extensive cruises every year, free from acoident of any kind. Lost May it went through ITS 0000130 TRIENNIAL INSPEOTjQN by the Viceroy Li Bung Chang, and O. other Imperial Commissioner, General Ting, and knocked about the various porta in the quit of Peohilli in a way to test, at least the efficiency of engines and boilers and the manoeuvring skill of the officers. Theships were moved about in perfect order. Both in target practice under steam and in et'e- lutions in open water they acquitted them - wives as well as possible, and in ten days' operations not the slightest hitch occurred. The Vioeroy, Lf Huug Chang, who is well aware the more possession of costly ships and modern gaps goes only a little way to- ward affording natural security, seems to have the crews as well trained as possible. The schools of instruction, under European officers, are vigorously supported, the men are well drilled and the soientiho branches aro thoroughly looked after. Both ol7ners and mon, however, are handicapped by having not only to learn, but practically to carry ou their work in a foreign language. This, in the navy, is English. The signal book, compiled by Captain Lang, is in Eng- lish, and the drill books, in which the proper driil for every gun in the service has been elaborated by Lieutenant bourehier, are oleo in English. The peculiar structure of Chinese neoessitates the use of 80100 alphabetic language, for Chinese ideographs cannot be telegraphed. Hence the men have to learn at least as tench Lnglisit ae enable& them to spell out words .in sem, phoring, and the officers are obliged thus to communicate in English. Tux 1'0Op1 ste OF LIIAniil23riIP, But although the ships are good, and the men are beyond doubt splendid material, dooIlo and musonler, is is not easy to pre- dict with certainty bow the Chinese fleet would comport itself in fano of the enemy. It is bard for the Western mind not to be- lieve that its fighting value must be griev ously impaired by the abuses which prevail. The officers aro addioted to gambling, not merely among themselves, but with their inferiors ; the grossest nepotists is prao• titled ; syetematio poctrlation goes on, and the contract system, wibh its division of the spoils, the starving of the needs of the ser• vine in'ordor to put money into the pockets of the officers, is winked at by those in authority. To the foreign onlooker 11 seems impossible that either loyalty to the government ora proper spirit de corps 080 co•existwith these gross abuses, and it is on euoh promiaos that the expectation of a collapse in the Chinese 'navy is founded. Sumo oliowance is donbtlese to be made for Oriental peouliaritiea of temper and admin. istration. It is hard to speak poeitfvely in the absence of a practical test. All that can be said with certainty is that, in the beat infertned opinion, the orowe, if handled by Europeans or Americans, could and Would flgl>t to good purpose, but that !whether they will .exbibat a good figure under native leadership is a gnoetion inroi. vod in 0onaideraGle dailbb, A TAX ON RACEIELORS, A Madly alae T01088 Upon Ulineoll a A'/llo, Ila Sert•fee Svhtela elle liiaebo1ol' 811tr11e, No form of taxationcould he fairer than the one proposed by Mayor Cox, of Ottawa, on bachelors, if only it wore possible to devise some way to hit them a000rdiug to their means and acoording to their deserts. The diflioulty of doing, this le, we presume, the chief reason why suoh a tax has Lot always been resorted to in underpoopled Countries, as it was with surprising effect. in the early days of Canada. On this point the Montreal Witneee ?aye :—In any coon. try he who brings up a family takes Upon him is public service which the baohelo ahirke. In addition to the eerioue natural burdens which attach themselves to this publio servino the state stripe in and taxes him in a variety of ways from which .the bachelor Is comparatively free. In eouneriee which are seeking increase of population— and what country does not record with pride any increase in its population—the value of the service rendered by the family man is obvious ; but even suppose a country to be overpeopled it will be generally agreed that it is better for the country to occupy its situations with natives who are loyal to its very soil tied who are bred to its insti- tutions and understand and love them, than that they should fall to strangers who to their dying clays harbor the sense that the country is not theirs, and who often never beoene fully transplanted. You will hear people who have been twenty years in Canada, enjoying its best privileges and positions, still talking patron- izingly, perhaps disparagingly, about "you in Canada." The natural condition of ratan is thee of a head of a family, and no other is good for him or for the community. "It is not good for man to be alone,' is the dic- tum with: which the Scripture starts out, and throughout the Old Testament a man without a wife does not seem to have been imagined. The difficulty about the bathe• for tax is that though it would bo a stand• ing in-ucement to got married, it would in some eases hinder obis end by making it harder for a man to lay by enough upon which to got married prudently. As ap- plied to young men. at the beginning of their savings it would do more harm than good. Many men are kept from marrying because of their reeponeibility to their parents and their families. Nothing so worthy ae this should be the subject of taxation. Again, the only fair bachelor tax would be one proportioned to income, and there is nothing mote difficult to apply fairly or even with common honesty than an income tax. A poll -tax would have to be comparatively light not to be a hardship to many. A taxon bachelors, if it included grass widowers, would catch John China- man on a very fair ground, that of not being tied to the soil by family ties, GAVE $30,000 TO HIS SWEET• HEART. An Elderly Trap's Act When lie Saw Moat Death WOOL! Prevent Their Marriage. Miss Mary Amelia Holden of 858 Folsom street has alntoetsecured a windfall of 830- 000 through the aot of an old man who fell in love with her, willed her his property and then died, says the San Francisco Chronicle. James Bowles, one of the oldest booksellers of the city, was the man to whom love came just before death overtook him, but then Bowles was always peculiar. About eight years ago he took a room at Mrs. John Holden's lodging house. He gave Miss Mary Holden a position as sales. woman and bookkeeper in his store. Bowles formed agreat attachment for the girl, and in the middle of May last proposed marriage to her. Miss Hoiden was but 19 and Bowles 58, Bowles' suit was nob dis• pleasing to the young girl, and she referred him to her parents, who consented to the match. A few days after the proposal Bowles told Miss Holden thab under the circum• stances she need not keep a complicated set of books. The mere account of sales would be sufficient and she could help herself to the proceeds of the business. It wee but a few Boys later that Bowles felt the premon• itory symptoms of the troubles which caused his death. He decided to go to Paso Robles, not knowing the nature of his diseaae. Before departing he informed Mise Holden thabhe did not think he could live long. He imparted the information that she was to be his heir. He gave her his bank books and the keys of his store, saying : "Take this ; it is yours. I may need a little of it before I die, but if I do, I know that you, whom I have known so long, will take care of me. I want you to run the huoincee. Do not bo extravagant., but keep the store going, and it 111 bring you a good income." He then went to Paa0 Robles Springs, but returned a very stoic ratan, He con- sulted a physician, who informed him that Ile had cancer of the bowels, and gave him hope of but a few weeks of life. He ddvis- ed that Bowles go to the German I:iospital. Bowles informed his affianced wife of the news and went to the hospital, whore the lust days of one of San Franotaeo'a most noted old booksellers were made ae pleasant as possible. When in the shadow of death Bowles reiterated the gifaofall hia worldly possessions to Miss Holden in the presence of witueseees. Cu July 20 he died, and the Publics Administrator has oominonoed to administer cn the estate. bliss Holden gave up the bank books and keys of the store, and in accordauco with legal for. malities site has brought quit for the mousy in bank. Thus the little rommnoe of Bowles' laeb days has been brought to light. The suits aro amicable once to give the banks legal authority to turn the money over to Miss Bolden, Tho German Savfttgs and Loan Ssolety is sued for $2,4/32.03, the Humboldt Savings and Loan Society for 32,852,21, and the San Promisee Savinge Union for 310,024.• 07, Bowles' entire estate, which °wusiets of this money and the hook store, is valued at 330,000, It is not known that Bowles had any heirs, but Ilise Holdon claims that all the proporty was given to her before his death, so that the heirs, if any, would be shut out. Bowles made a request of hie fiancee that she pay a few legacies aoeord• hg to his wishes. These will out a small figure; and virtually tho whole of the estate Will fall 10 Mies Holden. A Wisconsin man failed to kill his wife because ler corsets stopped the bullst. THE COLOR OF WATER, 11' cele l akes'aro Illus, Sumo i'.arletta Shades ottareoa, and 880100 aro Almost Blaen, Almost every person who Wee ne special knowledge of the subject will nay water has no 4e1or. Yet everybody knows that the ocean le blue, Why the ocean is blue is a question that few who have oroesod ft have. ever sought toeolvo,aod there are,probably, many traveler? who, though they have seen most of the famous rivers and lakes in the world, have failed to notice the remarkable difference in color which their waters pre- sent. Even the oo0an le not uniform in color; in some plaooe Its waters are green or 15020 yellowish. Some lakes are distinctly blue, others preeent various shades of green, so that in some eases they are hardly distinguishable from their level grass -covered banks. A few are almost black. The Lake of Geneva is azure colored ; bhe Lake of Constance and the Lake of Lucerne are green ; the color of the Mediterranean has been called Indigo The Lake of lereinz le greenish yellow, and ire neighbor, Lake Thun, is blue, The colors of rivers differ yet more wide. ly. The Rhone is blue, and so is the Danube, while the Rhine is green. The St. Lawrence in blue. These various hues are not caused by mud or any opaqueeediment, suoh ail that which makes the Mississippi coffee -colored, but belong to thewatere,like the golden oolor of tea, without greatly impairing their transparency. The oause of the ditferenoe in the color of lakes and rivers has engaged the attention of many celebrated investigators of nature, Recently Prof. Spring, of the University of Liege, has carefully investigated the ques- tion of the color of water, and has reached come interesting conclusions. According to him, absolutely pure water, when seen iu mosses of sufficient thickness, es blue, and the varieties of color exhibited in lakes and streams arise from the presenoe:in the water of mineral salts of different degrees of solu- bility and in varying quantities. Water oantaieing carbonate of lime in a state of almost complete solution remains blue, but if the solution is less complete the water will have a tinge of green which will grow stronger as the point of precipitation is approached. Prof. Spring concludes that if lime is added to blue water, in which so much carbonate of lime is already dissolved and limestone, is generally efft greener kine 1115 elsewhere. tkk ae Thay Own Body Bones, ne s, 0 Experiments in oo•operation find Interest- ing illustration in the Pullman affair and the lamentable 00neequenoos of the rotten strike. The city of Pullman with its 15,r 000 inhabitants fs the absolute property of the Pullmans and no man or woman there would dare to call their souls their own f the Pullman company had any objection. Not even a ohuroh can establish itself there without being obliged to hire the church edifice, and not even an independent halt for benevolent purposes can be obtained there. Not a newspaper is suffered to be printed there and the use of the " public" library Ilea to be paid for at 3110 rate of $3 a head per year. Whatever cue eats,drinhs or uses for any purpose has to he paid for to the company, which is landlord, supply master apd employer all in one, Every- body exists in,through and by the company, and any one who would undertake to live in any other way would find himself out of existence, so to speak. The company per- vades everything, and everything lives, moves and has its being only within it, It is the worst Daae of paternalism in the history of the world. Eyesight Saved Atter Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Pneumonic and other prostrating diseases, hood's Sorsa patella is unequalled to thoroughly purity the blood and give needed strength. Bead:tltis: "My boy had Scarlet Favor when 4years old, leaving him very weak and with blood pas. oned walk tanker. Ills eyes became in- flamed, his sufferings. were intense, and for 7 Clifford B1aekman• weeks he eould not even open his eyes, I took him to the Eye and Ear Infirmary, but their remedies did him no good. 1 began glving hint Hood's 8 .; rsaparHja which soon cured hits. I know it caved his 013380,1! net his very life." Ann/08 F.132deIC- DAN, 2888 Washington. St., Boston, Mass. that it is almost saturated, the water will become green. In proof ofthiahe01100the H00o'S Pit-Leta:a the hest after-dinner rhia, a& fact that the water near the shores of 1 akeastutedigestion, care hendacheand'1 L30noneaa EMBER 'BEN kat � TR", : 1 Zion. lioubeu E. 'Truax, ono of Canada's ablest thinkers and states- men, a loan so highly esteemed by the people of his district that he was honored with a seat in rarliament, kindly furnishes us for publication the following statement, which will bo most Welcome to the publio, inasmuch as it is one in which all will place implicit confidence. ilir. Truax Says: "7 have been for about ten years very much troubled with Indigestion and Dyspepsia, have tried a great many different kinds of patent medicines, and have been treated by a number of physicians and found no benefit from them. I was recom- mended to try the Great South American Nervine Tonic. I obtained o bottle, and I must say I found very great relief, and have since taken two more bottles, and now feel that I am entirely free from Indigestion, and wonld strongly recommend all ray fellow -sufferers from tho disease to give South American Nervine an immediate trial. It will cure you. "BELDEN E. TP1TJAX, " Witlirerton, Ont." It bas lately been discovered that certain Nerve Centres, located near the baso of the brain, control and supply the stomach with the neces- sary nerve force to properly digest the food. When these Nerve Gen - tree are in any way deranged the supply of nerve force is at once diminished, ttnd as a result the food taken into the stomach is only partially digested, and Chronic Indi• gestion and Dyspepsia soon make their appearance. South Amezioan Nervine is so prepared that it acts directly on the nerves. It will absolutely sure every ease of Indigestion and Dyspepsia, and is an absolute specific for all nervous diseases and ailments. It usually gives relief in one day. Its powers to build up the whole system aro wonderful in the extreme. It cures the old, the young, and the middle-aged. It is a great friend to the aged and infirm, Do not neglect to use this precious boon ; if you do, you may neglect the only remedy which will restore you to health. South Amelioan Norville is perfectly safe, and very pleasant to the taste. Delicate ladies, do not fail to use this great cure, because it will put the bloom of freshness and beauty upon you lips and in your checks, and quieltly drive away your disabilities and weaknesses. Dr. W. Washburn, of Now RRicbmond, Indiana, writes: "I have !�! used South American Nervine in my family and prescribed it in, my practice. It is a most excellent remedy." A. DEADIYIA1V Wholesale and Behan Agent foir Brussels