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BUYING A CRAIDLE.
It %happened many years ago,
when the Philosopher was young
and sanguine, where the grizzly
white mustache which now occupies
the Philosopher's upper lip was but
a faint limning of black. •
At that. time the Philosopher was
blessed with a sister—a sprightly,
merry lass, with eyes as black as
coal, and cheeks, the roses of which
fairly vied with the .roses of the
garden. Alack ! when I look at
her now, a sober, sedate matron,
fat, fair, and forty, deeply interest-
ed iu the wedding, •which is soon
to come off, of her daughter, I be-
gin to realize the flight of time.
And it was the same daughter,
my bonnie niece, who caused me
the trouble which I am about to
describe.
It occurred when my sister had
been married about sixteen months
to as nice a fellow as ever Lived.
Poor Harty rhe fell at Seven Oaks.
Said my sister to me one morn-
ing,. as I was about starting for my
commercial cell (I was a bookkeeper
at that tune( :
" Will you do me a favor, please,
Philosopher '1"
Naturally Isaid I would.
" What is it?" I asked,
"" You know the cradle I got for
Elms?" (that was the'baby's name).
et Yes't
"It broke last night."
"What of it 7"
"I've got to get a new cam right
away."
" Well get it, sis ; you have my
full permission."
" But I can't go out. Erma is
sick, you know, and Harry is away.
so I want you to stop down some-
where in the city and buy me one."
Rashly I consented.
Kissing toy sister good -by -._I was
not melded then, and had nobody
else to kiss—I went for the train
which daily rattled me from the
shades of the suburban village in
which I then lived to the sun baked
streets of the city.
•
Arriving amidst the bustle and
toil of metropolitan life, as exempli-
fied by the scones about the foray
lodge at which I landed, it oecnrrud
to me that I had neglected to ask
my sister one very important ques-
tion :
Where could I buy a cradle 7•
For myself 1 frankly confess that
I did not have -the faintest idea;
So I went 'to- a portly, middle
aged gentleman, who was anxiously
• waiting for' an opportunity to escort
several ,juveniles across the street. .
" Beg pardon, sir 1"• said I, " brit
will you please toll me where I can
hay a cradle ?" •
• IIe looked at me and laughed.
" First one, I suppose ?"' he said,
with a wink, " You'll get used to
it by and by. Boy or girl?"
" Oh, it isn't for myself," I said,
while I felt my cheeks suffuse with
scarlet. " It is for—for a relative."
" That's all right," laughed he.
t` I was just that way myself at
first. You will get over it after
half a dozen blessings arrive. Just
you go to Wicker & Wicker, at
No.— -- strict. They will give
you the best cradle you can find
• anywhere."'
I went to Wicker & Wicker:"'
There I was root by a jolly old
fellow, with a face suggestive of
wit and good nature.
" What can I do for you?" asked
he.
" I'd—I'd like to look at cradles,'
S responded hesitatingly.
"Certainly," ho answered, "What
kind of a cradle 7"
"I owned that I didn't know.
" ICs the first cradle I ever
bought,"'I said.
"Just married, eh4" joked hr,
'Well, I guess we ata suit you.
Iiere'e a nice style,"
From a mass of cradles he pulled
out one of the finest wood, inlaid
with silver.
"There'll a cradle," he said, " fit
• for en earl or a Marquis. Price
only 175."
I earnestly answered that I was
not an earl or a marquis. Besides,
I di,i not have $75. I wanted a
plain, unostentatious cradle for
about $6.
Tire wit and goo(, -nature appear-
ed to fade as if by magic from the
fellow's face.
"1\'e don't deal in such cheap
goods." replied he ; " the lowest
priced cradle we have is $15."
I knew very well that my sister
would not stand any fifteen dollars
for a cradle, for we are not a rich
family. No fortunatus' purse is in
our possession.
" Where can I get a cheap
cradle?" I•inquired.
" Basket Brothers, I believe,
manufacture such goods ;`' and with
a frigid grace he told me of their
place of business,
To Basket Brothers 1 hied.
I encountered one of the Basket
Brothers themselves.
Ile was portly, and wale side
whiskers; was affable and agree-
able.
"Cradle, ell?" he said poking'
me in the .ribs.
" Rather young fur cradles, ain't
yuu I I didn't need a curdle till 1
was thirty, hut the rising generation
gi h
well rise. Want a swtnorna cradle
or a rocking cradle, or a cradle with
a parasol topl"
" About a $6 cradle," I answer-
ed.
He looked at ate in surprise.
"A $6 cradle for a young father!"
he ejaculated. " Havu't you any
pride about you, man?"
" but it is not for ale."
" It isn't?"
"Ne."
" Who is it fol'?
" fly sister."
The Basket Brother placed his
finger aside of his nose.
"Nonsense!" he altered ; "you
cannot give me that. You had uut
ought to be ashamed of your lirst
born. I bet your wife ain't. Buy
a $10 cradle at least."
-
It was no use of talking to that
plan. He persisted that the cradl•
was for myself, and that I should
buy a nice one.
IIe actually ran down his $7
cradles; said they were made of bad
wood, were liable to fall to pieces
and drop the brthy upon the floor,
which drop tnight crack the child's
skull, and how would I feel if such
an accident should happen ? Would
I not, to a certain extent, be au
accessory to the inf'ant's death?
At last I got to be ashamed of
myself. His glib talk halfconvinc-
ed me that I was buying that cradle
apou my own account, that I was
unworthy of the companionship of
my fellow men if I did not buy a
nice, expensive cradle.
So I bought one.
Price $16 with two patent attach-
ments upon the side, where a milk -
bottle and a soothing• ring could, be
put.
I had it sent home by express.
I had philosophy enough even
then not to carry it; for the sight
of a man—especially an unmarried
man—convoying a cradle, is apt to
excite comment, and I did not
yearn for excitement.
When I reached home the cradle
was there before me.
"flow much did it cost 7" was,
womnanlike, my sister's first ques-
tion.
• I lied. -
Lied deliberately.
"Five dollars," I stated, for I
was afraid of the avalanche of wrath
which was sure to follow my men-
tion of the true price.
"Five dollars?" disdainfully she
said ; adding, thoughtfully : "I
could have got a bettor one for
three myself."
And that was all the thanks I
ever got for buying that cradle.
Persons wishing to improve their
memories or strengthen their power
of attention should send to Prof.
Loisette, 237 Fifth Ave., N. Y., for
his prospectus, post free, as advertis-
ed in another column. 5I1 ft
—On the northern face of Castle
Peak, Nevada, is a furrow cut this
winter by a snowslide. The slide
started from a point on Mount
Snowdon high enough to overlook
the intervening ridge. As it went
down the mountain it increased in
volume until it reached the timber
line, and there it cut a furrow one
hundred feet wide and many feet
deep, not leaving a tree standing
for half a mile along the base of the
peak. Where it finally stopped a
small mountain of huge boulders,
earth, aud.shattered trunks of trees,
many of them throe and four feet in
diameter, blocks a deep raviuo.
VIE I{()USE OF COMMONS
Cannot pass a law that will prevent
people having coughs, colds, asthma,
bronchitis and lung 'troubles, but
Ila yard's Peotoral Balsam does
away with the difficulty by prompt
ly curing all affections of the throat
and lungs. It is the pleasantest and
safest cough remedy in use.
—James Clark, a negro boy of
Albany, Ga., is one of the wonders
of the place, because, though never
having been taught, he is well edu-
crted,da gond mathematician, and
writes a "pretty hand," He buys
many books. and says that when he
studies a text book and tries to mas-
ter a lesson he can't understand
anything about it, but at night in
his dreams the entire ]essou is im-
imeased npou his mind, and he
never forgets it. He is described
as being "exceedingly absent mind-
ed and flighty in hie manner and
his far away look gives him the
appearance of one who has visions."
LIKE HALF A DOLLAR.
"About 8 years ago my feet and legs
became poisoned, and came out in
groat sores as large as a half dollar
which ate in almost to the bone. Af•
ter the failure of other remedies, the
sores wore completely healed by one
bottle of Burdock Blood Bitters."
Joseph Gonyon, Tupperville, Ont.
Aimee xo Morssag—Are you dis-
Curbed at night and broken of your rest
by S s.ie)t ehfld suffering and crying with
pain of Cutting Teeth? 11' so send at
once'attd get a bottle of t'airs Wiustow's
Soothing Syrup" for Children '1'eethiug.
Its value is iucutcuhthle. It wilt relieve
the poor itltle sufferer immediately. De -
pond upon u .,'Nat' ed:era ; there is no mis-
take about it. It cures Dvt,eutery and
Diarrhoea, regulates the Stomach and
Bowels, cures Wind Colic, softens the
Gums, reduces tuflamma'ioo, and gives
tone ano energy to the whole system.
"Mrs Winslow's Soothing hyrup" for
children teething is pleasant to the taste
and is the prescription of one of the oldest
and best female physicians and nurses in
the United States, and is for sale by all
druggists throughout the world. Price
25e. a bottle. Be sere andask fur "airs,
Winslow's Stt)Lbiug Syrup," andtake no
other kind.
—Messrs. Crawford, of Teruuto
and John Scott, of Galt, have pur-
chased from Messrs. 1Valket, of
Walkerville, 2500 uftheir fret cattle,
which it• is their intention to ship
to English markets as upporuu1ty
offers. The purchase onebnae,'
Sum well nppr'uaching $200,0110.
UNSIGHTLY PIMPLES, B1,0.1%
CHER, TAN, and all itching humors
of the skin are removed by using
Dr. Low's Sulphur Soap.
—Au aged lady reputed to be
105 yeass old, named Dins. Cushing
residing in Arthur towush1p, about
nine miles frow Arthur village,
hearing that an old neighbor resid-
ing in the village, was approaching
her epd, decided to visit her.
Without consulting any person she
forthwith started ou fuot and walked
into the village to bid a last farewell
W her old acquaintance. A
party passing the old lady on the
road invited her to drive with hien,
but the sturdy centen,ttiau thanked
him and said that as rhe had not far
to go she would prefer walking
She reached her sick friend's bud -
aide appoarently none the worse of
• her long walk.
CONSTIPATION CLAIMS many
victims. Ward off this dread disease
by the use of Small Sugar -Coated
Burdock Pills when needed,
—Of all the races of mankind
that migrate to Ameriea,the'Chineso
and the Italians caro the least about
becoming the owners of laud. Few
of thein strike out for the fertile
fields of the far West to enter upon
the work 01'tilling the soil, to live
in cabins built by their own hands,
and to "grow up with the country."
, SAID TO BE SPLENDID
I am pleased with Burdock Blood
Bitters, because it cured my rbeuma
tism completely. My son also, and
many other people in this vicinity
have used it and say it is splendid."
Mrs. O. Perrault, Hat Portage, Ont.
—A clergymen in (ho oast end of
London having denounced boxing
as an unchristian exercise, the Bis-
hop' of Bedford has said:—"1 can
see no possible harm in boxing. It
is a capital exercise, and calcuiated
to promote good temper aud self-
control. I do not know why every
man should not know how to de-
fend himself,"
THE MOST AGREEABLE, restore
tive tonic and mild stimulant is
Milburn's Beef, Iron and Wine.
A "rambling courtship" was de-
scribes] by a young man in Iiroydun;
defendant for breach of promise, as
"Walking out with a young woman
to see if their dispositions would suit
aach other and to see at the right
time whether anything would come
of it.', Ile claims to have conduct-
ed the rambling courtship only.
DR. LOW'S WORM SYRUP has
removed tape worms from 15 to 30
feet long, It alsMdestroys all other
kinds of worms.
I3aru11111 ought to go down
to Arlington, Mese., and look at
Frank Nichol's horse. It was
raised on Cape Cod, is rod iu color
and weighs600 pounds. A descrip-
tion of the beast reads thus; "It
resembles a cow when looked at
from one direction, a mule from
another, has the tail of a
mule, but not the ears, and no mane
except a ridge of curly white hair.
Its body is covered with a short
woolly substance."
OUR VANCOUVER CORRESPON,
DENT.
From Esquimault,B.0 Mrs. A. B.
Cameron writes that being very much
troubled with dyspepsia Ole tried two
bottles of Burdock Blood Bitters,
which •gave great relief,and hopes that
others may be induced to try it also
and receive like benefits.
—There is a war iu the jelly
business. A year ago forty three
firms formed a trust under which
all their establishments except fif-
teen were closed down, and prices,
it was expected, would be put up.
Two large firms in Camden, how-
ever, refused to go in, and have been
making things interesting for the
trust. Recently the trust cut prices
on jelly to 2i -and 21 cents a pound
and guaranteed ,purchasers against
any lower prices, from outside firms.
The two Camden firms piomply put.
jelly down to 1 cent a pound, and
sold enough at that rate to give the
patrons of the trust ground to de-
mand a rebate of the difference
between trust prices and Camden
prices,
CONSUMPTIQNI f URED.
,tn old physician, imired from poetic.),
having had pineed in his hangs by nu
East belie missionary the 1•urmala of a
simple vegetable teutedy for the speedy
and periueut•nt cure of C„nsuniplfon,
1411(.4111s, Catarrh, Asthma and all
throat aid Lung affections, also a positive
and radical euro for Nei v, us Debility and
all Nervous Cumpluinls, 811erhnvi1 test-
ed its wonderful curative powers in thous-
ands of eases, has Telt it his duty to make
it known to his suffering Callous. Actua-
te,, by this motit•0 and a desire to eelieve
human sntfering. I will send fee
charge, to all who desire it, this recipe,
oeru1;11), Ftru.It ;;r 1$u"fish, with ft
(I'itectiensfot piquing alt u.:iug, w
by mail hyatidress'ugwith stamp, iumi
this pull., \V. A. "<;1v1 110 P, we
Blor/r, Ruches'e,N Y, 507 NM'.
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A WONDERFUL FLESii PRO-
DUCER.
This is the title given to Scott s
I;mulefwt of Cod Liu( r Oil by many
thousands who have taken it. ft not
only gives flesh and strength by vir-
tue of its own nutritious properties,
but creates an appetite for fond.
Ilse it, and ley I/O?'•ouuo'iO'hl. Scott's
Emulsion is perfectly palatable. Sold
by all Druggists, at 50c. and 811.00
--DIr. Goo. Law, of I)rumbo, has
instructed Messrs. Harley Sz Sweet,
barristers, of Brantford, to begin a
shit against thw; Gland 'Trunk rail-
way for damages for the death of
his wife and grand daughter at the
r Paint aenidellt at Paris.
L11'E AND LIMB
Areoften in jeopardy through various
accidents on land and water. A
prompt relief and sure cure for all
painful wounds, bruises, burns, cuts,
scalds, rheumatism, neuralgia, sore
throat and croup is iIagyard's Yellow
Oil, knowii as reliable over 30 years.
Keep it in the house always.
—Charles Moore, a u•eI1 to•do fer-
0160', w•as fatally burned iu his bed •
near Nanticoke, HaldiIna 101.
\V leen (1i8eovcred he .res Lull
btn'ii-'d about the hind and 01108
at ti ,lit d it: a few 110444'.. 1'i, Cause
of the firs, h is not been t.<c'•tt
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Milt FiVE YEARS
For o• er five years we have used
lfagyarti's Yellow Oil in our family
for coughs and colds, burns and soar
threat and our experience is so sells•
factory that we would recommend the
medicine to any person," Mrs. F.
Sanderson, Bosworth, Ont.
--On Saturday night the resi-
dence and grocery of Mr. Peter Mc-
Gaw,,of Kincardine, was entered by
burglars. Tho found their way to
the room in which Mr, Dic(iaw• was
slet;piug and abstracted a pocket-.
hook from his pocket containing
$110.
CONSUMP'T'ION SURELY CURE.
To Told EDITOR : • G
Please inform your readers that I
have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been
permanently cured. I shall be glad
to send two bottles of my remedy
FREE to any of your readers w'ho have
conaumpt;on if they will sen,,. Inc
their Express and 'P, 1), address
Respectfully, Dr. A. T. SLOCUM,
37 Yonge street, Toronto, Out, 499y
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Bedroom and Parlor Sets, Lounges, Sideboards, Chairs, Springs,
Mattnissoa, etc., and general Household Furniture. The whole Stock is hem the very
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