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4YedllesdaY, July 8t11.
THAT VOTE OF OE. r8URL .
Mr. Laurier's motion of censure
of the Government, as stated last
week, showed an immovable maj'or-
ity for the new Ministry of at least
35 in a full House. Sir John
Thompsou's reply to Mr. Laurier
was a Masterly speoimon of accurate
statement, couched in the chastest
parliamentary language and deliver-
ed with unerringly logical airn and
such destructive force that the
labored tissue of gossipy statements
made by ir[r. Leurier vanished into
their original nothingness. The
following is a condensed report of
Sir Juhu's reply :
SIR JOHN T'IIOMPSOM said that
when the other day Mr. Laurier had
intimated that he intended to arraign
the Government for supposed depar-
ture from the principles of Sir John
A. Macdonald's policy, his utterance
wrs so vague that the Government
could not understand his objection,
and now, after listening to the
lengthy address just delivered, he
must confess that he did not under-
stand it yet`- The only indication
given was in the objection taken to
Hon. Mr. Abbott, but when Mr.
Laurier said this was a departure
from Sir John iMacdohald's policy, he
forgot that Sir John made him what
he was until his present promotion
—not only a colleague, but the
leader of the Government party in
the Senate. This new found desire
on the part of the Opposition to
maintain the policy of Sir John
Macdonald no doubt resulted from
the spectacle of united ranks of the
followers of that statesman. (Ali,
plause.) Mr. Laurier had expressed
astonishment that Mr. Abbott had
been made Premier, not because he
held a dollar in the stook of C. P. Ii.,
hut because, forsooth, his heart-
strings are tied to that great organi-
zation. It was no matter that he
had led the Upper House without
reproach, whilst all the time his
heartstrings were tied to the C. P. R.
Mr. Laurier had forgotten to state
what particular interest of the coun-
try is jeopardized by Mr. Abbott's
appointment, and when any issue
comes before Parliament indicating
any surrender to the C. P. R. Co. it
will be titne enough to tell us that
the heartstrings of some in authority
are tied to that interest. Mr.
Laurier had spoken of rilral factions
and of divisions of the Empire, but
he (Sir John Thompson) could tell
him that in the •Conservative party
there was no rival factions, and no
disposition to divide the Empire.
1t was@not in vain that they had for
so many years been companions in
arms svith Sir John Macdonald.
They had learned from hint their
first great duty, each to abase his own
personal interests and advantages
for those of the country; but it did
not take very strong eyesight to see
across the/louse rival factions all too
eager to divide the Empire at a
moment's notice for their own per-
sonal gratification. As to the refer-
ence made to Mr. Abbott's statement
In the Senate, if it was to be under
stood as declaring a compromise
between rivals for the office of
Premier, he for once must differ from
hie colleague. There was no rivalry.
On the other band there was a dis-
position to avoid the responsibility
which had broken down the, greatest
statesman this country ever possess
ed. He read the eulogy of I11r.
Abbott made by Mr. Power, a leader
of Liberals in the Senate, and agreed
with the statement that Mr. Abbott
is Premier because he was the . best
man for the position. In the long
experience he had had with Mr.
Abbott he had learned to esteem
him, if for one reason more than
another, because he never allowed
any measure affecting his pecuniary
interests to be discussed in his
presence in council. Respecting
the quotation from La Presse, he had
this to say, that the Government
were iu no way bound by the state-
ments appearing in La Presse. He
for one was not in the least bound
by it, and was sure the Secretary of
State was equally independent
while he no doubt equally respected
the gentleman who writes the opins
ion in it. As to the Montreal'Herald
interview, Mr. Laurier apparently
forgot to state that Mr. Chapleau
had publicly and distinctly repudiat-
ed that interview as false. As for
myself, he said, I have no hesitation
to avow, and defend if impugned,
the policy I have pursued. I was
honored by His Excellency's request
that I should advise him as to the
course he should follow. I was furs
ther entrusted with His Excellency's
request that I should undertake the
task of forming an Administration.
I immediately begged that His
Excellency would lay his command
in worthier hands. The closeness
with which I have followed Sir John
taught me the great responsibility of
the office ; and reflecting upon the
situation , and believing that I could
confidently count upon the -united
loyalty and support of the whole
Conservative party—(great applause)
—I believed there were in the ooua-
try many electors who would have
greater confidence in a man who had
not served Ave or six years, but who
Was My ilettier not only fn age, but
vastly also in public service and
position otherwise. As to the alleg-
ed agreement for decapitation, no
such was ever entered into or con-
templated, except by the inventive
genius of a Grit editor. When the
d?remier.,oame. to. us. .-to, ask our .00•.
operation, the answer unanimously
given was, "Yes ; we will assist you
either by serving under you or by
leaving you free to choose others in
our places, as you prefer. We are
determined to sustain the policy of
the Itarty in offioa, or ol?t of iaflfoa.'"'
As to the. delay la too forming Of the
Ministry, I know that Parliament,
will not hold His Excelle loy'a
advisers. responsible, because during
that period His Excellency lead rro
advisers at all. .
PROHIBITION.
As a preliminary to an eventually
possible plebiscite vote on prohibi-
tion the government bill brought
into the house by the Finance Minis-
ter, and passed by a vote of 107 to
88, is of an eminently serviceable
character. The result of it will be
to educate the people, by the in-
formation that will be afforded by
it, up to a proper understanding of
the probable effects of a drastic
prohibitory measure, so that
they will be able to intelligently
vote for or against it. While we
agree with Rev. Dr. Norman and
Rev. Mr. Troop, in the Anglican
Synod in Montreal, when they de-
clared that "God is not a prohibi-
tionist," we are fully aware that
secular legislation is not always sup-
posed to be in accordance with the
higher conceptions of the will of
God as found in his revealed word,
yet the will of the people must be
obeyed. And if they want to ex-
periment in legislation that is cal-
culated to improve upon the higher
law, who will say them nay. 'Bibli-
cal history has several instances in
which the chosen peole were per-
mitted to attempt to improve upon
the divine law which ended disas-
trously, except from the lessons of
experience learned thereby. God
is not a sumptuary prohibitionist,
nor a legislative or moral prohibi-
tionist. Freedom of will is the un-
derlying thesis of his attitude toward
mankind.
Mr. Foster's prohibition resolu-
tions which were carried, the three
members from Huron voting against
it, Mr. Cameron consistently so, but
Messrs. McDonald and McMillan
inconsistently, are :—
That, in the op?nion of this House,
it is desirable without delay to ob-
tain for the information and consid-
eration of Parliament, by means of
a Royal Commission, the fullest
and most reliable data possible re•
apecting
1. The effects of the liquor traffic
upon all interests affected by it in
Canada.
2. The measures which have been
adopted in this and other countries
with a view to lessen, regulate or
prohibit the traffic.
3. The result of these measures in
each case.
4. The effect that the enactment
of a prohibitory liquor law in Can-
ada would have in respect of social
conditions, agricultural business,
industrial and commercial interests,
of the revenue requirements of m un-
icipalities, provinces and the Do-
minion, and also as to its capability
of effectual enforcement.
5. All other information bearing
ou the question of prohibition.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is given as a Scotch estimate :
"There are good and bad of a' sorts
but far worse the Irish." It remain
ed for Scotchman, John McMillan,
M. P. for South Huron, to amend
this in his remarks in the house on
prohibition. Mr. McMillan said : "I
heard the other day of a condition
of things in my native land tor
which I- was ashamed. I read a
statement from the contractor for
the construction of the bridge over
the Frith of Forth, in which it was
stated that in building the bridge it
was found that the workmen of
Bi•eohin had fallen into ouch a con-
dition that when men were required
who were prepared at all times to
do their duty the contractor had to
employ Italians and Bavarians after
the Scotchmen had worked two or
three hours, which was the time
they were able to work on the foun-
dations of bridge. The mom-
ent they left work they wont to the
hotels, and when they again return-
ed to take their places they were
not capable of performing their du-
ties, hence foreigners were put in
their places and the long boasted
British workmen had to give place
to men who were not, I believe, sup-
erior, but inferior, except for this
drinking evil." Proceeding, Mr.
McMillan said that the sea captains
would not take Scotchmen for Bail-
ors on account of their drunken•
nese; that Italians and Danes and
Norwegians and even Chinese were
preferred in their stead.
IN CROWDS.
Mr. H. I. MoTntosh, Secretary and
Treasurer Universal Knitting Machin@
Co.
pleasure in saying a good word for St,
Jacobs Oil. Our employee use It exten-
sively, and report it as an invaluable euro
for pains, bruises, eto. Cases bave been
reported to us where it has worked like
a charm." There's nothing like it.
4,,.1112 AT SIR .WCTIARD..
4n effective 'retort, no nhatter figui.
NYbleii side of the IJouse- i4 comer, iA
always appreoiated. In the (iQtage Qf the
budget debete on Friday, Mr, Weldor
landed one on Sir Richard Cartwright's
proboscis that fairly staggered the
knight ofthe motel eouptenance, Ur.
Weldon bad been dealing caeaticelly
with Sir Richard's campaign in the
United Statea. After referring to the
visit to Boston, Dr. Weldon proceeded :
"Then came that famous ennexesion
pamphlet of hie paid servant, and then
came hie movements to Washington aud
Boston, and the intrigues of Mr. Farrar
and the movements of Mr. Farrar who
was in hie pay as we have heard. I
would be glad if the hos. gentleman
would contradict this. Was Sir Richard
Cartwright at Washington plotting the
dismemberment of the empire and the
taking away of Canada from the Queen's
Dominions ? We know that he was in
close friendship and- oomradeehip and
political association with Mr, Eraetus
Wiman, a gentleman who came to Cana-
da and boasted here with impudent
falsehoods on his lips that he was a
loyal Canadian, and who went to the
committee of the American Senate and
to $oston public meetings and openly
deolared that he was an aenexationiat.
Now, in view of the fact that Mr.
Wiman was that hon. gentleman's ally,
that Mr. Farrar was in that hon.
gentleman': employ, that the member
for South Oxford had got control of the
Globe newspaper, that he himself was at
Washington in May, and that he was
making these apeeebes in Boston, war
there not good reason for our fearing, as
1 may say I did fear, and as I do now
fear, that that Hon. gentleman is at
heart, although he may not say it openly,
an annexationist."
When any Minieterialiat speaker ie re-
ferring to him Sir Richard usually affects
the deepest disdain and this is what he
did on Friday. Dr. Weldon had pro-
ceeded as far as the words quoted above
when Sir Richard, who had evidently
been listening, and did not like hie true
character to be so vigorously painted, he
coule stand the thrashing no longer and
he snorted out the words: "Perhaps you
had better ask your present Premier
about that."
The Grits cheered as is duty bound,
but Prof. Weldon was by no means dis-
concerted. Quickly he replied : "Ah, go
hat k to history if you like ; look at the
career of Sir George Cartier, who was
onoe in arms against hie English Queer,
but who afterwards devoted his life to
the cervica of his Queen and ended that
life as a true servant of his Queen. Sir
George Cartier did not take honors from
his Queen, and then seek to betray her."
How the doo.or's friends cheered at this;
but the Grite were dumb. Proceeding,
he said : "I wonder, Mr. Speaker, if,
when the roar of the Beaton banquet had
died away, and the hon. member for
Smith Oxford laid hie head upon his
pillow and thought cf the early days
when his Queen, for good services which
he had rendered to her, had decorated
him with knighthood, I wonder if then
there ever came serosa his fancy the
Image of that good Queen, and if there
ever came a feeling of baseness that after
having taken the oath cf allegiance to
the Queen, as all members of Parliament
have taken it, and after wearing then, as
I am informed he does not wear now, the
decoration of knighthood, I wonder if he
did not, looking at the future, say I
know that this unrestricted reciprocity
is humbug ; I know that it is nothing
but comma:oial union, and I know that
when Cauada puts her feet upon that
inclined plane she will irretrievably
plunge down to political union with the
United States. The hon. gentleman
knew that perfectly. Long aeo we read
the words which Tennyson puts in the
mouth of the old English king when he
met first hie beautiful Guinivere after
her flight : `Lieet thou here so low
whom once I knew in happier summera?'"
The drubbing Sir Richard got will not
be forgotten by him for many a day.
CANADIAN FINANCES AND
DUTIES.
Mr. Foster in presenting his buds
get to the House, dealt succinctly,
yet fully, with the present condit-
ion of our finances. The revenue for
1889.90 had been greater, and the
expenditure less, than was anticipa-
ted, leaving a surplus of $3,883,893
on the year's operations ; that is, on
consolidated fund account there was
this to the good for the year, with a
million and a half carried to the re•
duction of debt account. There had
during the year been an expenditure
on capital account of $5,776,301.
Thus it had come about that his prog-
nostication made three years ago that
in 1891 an equilibrium between re.
ceipts and expenditures, including
capital account, should be reached,
had almost been literally verified, for
this year the debt had been inereas.
ed only by $3,170. This excellent
showing, it may be stated, made Sir
Richard Cartwright look bluer than
one of his own speeches, a tinge of
countenance not relieved by the
point Mr. Foster made immediately
afterward, that the rate of interest
on the debt this year was the lowest
with one exception in the history of
the country. For the present year
the revenue to date was $36,656,357,
and calculating the 10 days yet to
elapse by comparison with last year
the total would be $38,858,701.
The expenditure, taking into ao
count the extraordinary outlay in
the °ensue ar.d other matters, would
be $36,200,000, leaving a surplus of
over $2,000,000. Including capital
account there would not be a diger.
ence of $100,000 this year, while
the debt per capita was lower than
it had been before for many years.
These statements evoked the great-
est enthusiasm on the Ministerial
side and exactly the reverse oppo-
site.
THE NEW DUTIES
The discussion of the probable in:.
Dome for next year brought Mr. Fos-
ter to the changes in the tariff.
hers malLkl o-41 lSia41, ,11gl lIMI.,.
revision of the tariff this year, but
there was one article which appeals,
ed to men's palates and pockets that
should be dealt with. This was the
item of sugar. The Minister discus -
J. WOULD not be doing Justice to the afflicted if I
withheld a statement of my experience with
Jaundice, and how I was completely cured by using
Northrop et Lyman's'Vegetable Diem:very.
Niton can tell what I suffered for nine weeks, one-
third of whicl> I was -confined to fay bed, with the
hest medical skill I could obtain in the city trying to
remove my affliction, but without even giving me
temporary relief. My body was so sore that It well
painful for me to walk. Icoutd not bear my clothes
tight around me, my bowels only operated when tak:
ing purgative medicines, my appetite was gone,
nothing would remain on my etnr�h, and my eyes
and body were as yellow as a guin L When I ven.
tured on the streetI wasstared at or turned from with
a repulsive feeling by the passer-by. The doctors said
there was no cure for me. I made up my mind to die,
as LIPS HAD LOST ALL ITS =ARMS. one clay a friend
celled to eee me and advised me to try Northrop ft
Lyman's Vegetable Discovery. I thought If the
doctors could not cure me, what is the use of trying
the Discovery, hut alter deliberating for a time I con-
cluded to give it a trial, so I procured a bottle and
commenced taking it three times a day. JUDOS or
ur eoaraise at the expiration of the third day to find
any appetite returning. Despair gave plane to slope,
and I persevered in following the directions and tak-
Ing Hot Baths two or three times a week until I had
used the fifth bottle. I then had no further need for
•
the medleine that had south er Lws-that had re-
stored me to health-ae I was radivally cured. no
natural color bad replaced the dingy yellow, I could
eat three meals a date in fart the trouble wee to get
THE. • \
GREAT'
enough to eat. When I commenced taking the Dia-
covory my weight was only 1321 lbs, when I finished
the fifth bottle it was 172£1bs , or an increase of about
half a pound per day, and I never felt better in my
life. No one can tell how thankful lam for what this
wonderful medicine has done for me. It has rooted
out of my eysten every yestlge of the worst type of -
Jautidice, and I don't believe there le a ensu
of Jaundice, li,iver Vompialnt or J5yspepAJ .
that It will loot core.
(Signed)
W. 1.I,E, Toronto,
WHAT8IS 'IT ?
This celebrated medicine ie a compound extracted
from the richest medicinal barks, roots and herbs. It. -.
is the production of many yeare' study, researels au
investigation. It possesses properties purely vegae
table, chemically and scientifically combined. It is
Nature's Remedy. It 1s perfectly harmless and
free from any bad effect upon the system. It is nour-
ishing and strengthening; it acts direotly upon the
blood, and every part throughout the entire body. It
quiets the nervous system ; it gives you good, sweet:
sleep at night. It is a great panacea for our aged
fathers and mothers, for itgives them strength, quiet.
their nerves, and gives them Nature's sweet sleep, as
has been proved by many an aged person. It is the
Great Blood Purifier. It fs a soothing remedy
for our children. It relieves and cures all diseases of
the blood. Give it a fair trial for your complaint, and
then you will say to your Mende, neighbors and
acquaintances: "Try it; it has cured inc."
sed the sugar question fully. A few
of his figures may be explained.
For instance, he showed that in
1878 we imported 109,000,000
pounds of sugar; in 1880, 116,000,
000 pounds, and in 1889 223,000,
000 pounds. In 1878 94 per cent,
of the imporation was refined sugar
and only S per cent raw ; in 1889
ouly 5 per cent. was relined 95 per
cent. was raw, showing the growth
of the industry. In 1878 the duty
was 2.35 cents per pound; in 1889
it was onty 1.58 cents per pound.
The 109,000,000 pounds cost$6,185,
000 ; the 223,000,000 pounds only
$5,800,000. The Government had
dr :Wed, said .dr. Foster, to sweep
away with oue stroke of the pen the
dirty on raw sugar and thus relieve
the people of a burden of $3,500,000
of taxation, and never had a Gover-
nment in Canada come down with
such a sweeping reduction of taxa-
tion. Having to face this reduc-
tion, he proposed to meet it in two
ways, first, by an even more rigid
economy in the public expenditure,
and, second by a slight increase in
the duties on liquors and tobacco,
which he calculated would produce
an increa.el revenue of $1,500,000.
The Grit idea of taxing tea and cof-
fee was properly scouted. As will
be seen by the list of changes the in•
dustry of sugar refining is amply
protected under the new regulations,
and the beet root sngar industry of
Quebec is given a bounty, for this
season only equal to the protection
they would have had had the tariff re-
mained the sante as it was at the
opening of the season. In this con-
nection Mr. Foster took occasion to
announce most emphatically that
this wits in no sense to commit the
Government to the policy of bount.
ies for that industry. Finally it
was announced that the duties on
Halt were reduced one-half.
UNREASONING FAITII.
EXAMPLES IN HISTORY OF ITS INFLU•
ENCE UPON IIUMAN HAPPINESS.
They were not wretched at all,
these -early London citizens ; but,
on the contrary, joyous and happy
aud hopeful. And not only for the
reasons already stated, but for the
great fact—the greatest fact of the
time—of their blind and unreason-
ing faith. It le impossible to ex•
aggerate the importance of unreason-
ing faith as a factor in human hap.
piness. The life of the meanest
man was filled with dignity and
with splendor, because of the great
inheritance assured to him by the
Church. We must never for one
moment leave out the Church in
speaking of the past. We Must
never forget that all people, save
here and there a doubting Rufus or
a questioning Prince of Anjou, be-
lieved without the shadow 6T any
doubt. Knowledge brought the
power of questioning. As yet there
was no knowledge. Therefore every
man's life, however miserable, was,
to his happy ignorance, the certain
anteroom of heaven. We are fond
of dwelling on the modiieval hell,
the stupidity and the brutality of
its endless torture, and the selfish•
ness of buying salvation with mass-
es. Hell, my friends, was always
meant for the other man. IIe who
saw the devils painted on the church
wall, rending. tearing, frying, cut-
ting, scouring the poor souls in hell,
knew these souls for those of his
enemies. Like Dante, he saw
among them all his public and his
private foes. He looked upward
for hie hope. There he beheld
loving angels bearing alc.ft in their
soft arms the soul redeemed to the
abode of perfect blies. In that soul
he recognized himself ; he saw the
portraiture, exact and life -like, of
hia own forgiven and eanotified
features.—WALTER BES ANT, in
Ha"per's Magazine far July.
GOLDWIN SMITH.
,t`,,oldvgip ..9�tltith : le o ironed to it
Charles Tupper in mony w6ys,1iUi 11b
lase both would agree that no better cure
for dyspepsia, oonetipation, biliousness,
headache, kidney troubles, akin diseases,
etc., exists than Burdock Blood Bittern,
the beet family medicine known.
AN OLD PROVERB.
An oft -quoted and mostfrequeut-
ly wrongly ascribed sentence occurs
in Laurence Sterne's "Sentimental
Journey." It is, however, but a
rendering of a proverb much older
than Sterne's time. The "Senti-
mental Journey" was written about
1767. But Bishop Herbert, nearly
one hundred years before, in' his
Jacula Prudentum, uses the express
Sinn, "To a close shorn sheep God
gives wind by measure." Estienne,
a French writer, in 1594 said, "Dieu
mesure le froid a la brebis tondue"
(God measuras the cold to the ehorn
ewe.) Estienne gives another form
of the proverb as "Dieu donne le
froid selon la roblie;" that is, '.God
will not let the cold exceed the
warmth of the -fleece," or, as it is
less poetically rendered by another
French writer, with a different and
more practical meaning, not so fre-
quently falsified by the actual facts
of life, "God :lute a man's -coat
according to his measure." That
the proverb is French in origin
there seems no doubt, as various ver-
sions of it are found in different
writers. In Bulwer's novel of
"Rienzi," whose scene is laid in the
thirteenth century, he makes one of
his characters say, "God will temper
the rough wind to the lamb." This
is, of course, no proof that the pro-
verb was in use as early as that, but
it is quite possible that a phrase so
well known as this seems to be from
the first date of its appearance in
literature, had a far earlier origin
folklore.
A NEW DEPARTURE
from all the old established conditions on
which proprietary medicines are sold, has
been made by the World's Dispensary
Medical Aeeociation, of Buffalo, N. Y.,
who having for many years observed the
tbousande of marvelous cures of liver,
blood and lung diseases effected by Dr.
eieroe's Golden Medical Discovery, now
feel warranted in selling this wonderful
medicine (as they are doing through
druggists) under a positive guarantee
that it will give satisfaction in every
case, or money paid for it will be prompt-
ly refunded. "Golden Medical Dis-
covery" cures all humors or impurities
of the blood, from whatever cause aris-
ing, es eruptions, blotches, pimples, old
sores and eorofulou° affections. It is
equally efficacious in bilious disordere,
tudigeetion or dyspepsia and chronic
catarrh in the head, bronchial, throat and
lung affections, accompanied by lingering
cough..
SERMON TO MASONS.
Canon Sutherland, in referrir.g to
St. John's Day, et Hamilton, took
for his text the words from the Acts
of the Apostles : "John fulfilled his
course." The mission of the saint
was preparing the way of the Lord
and to bear witness to Hirn when
he came, and he gloriously fulfilled
that mission. He discharged the
functions of a herald and then as a
witness, the latter with such bolds
nese that he was consigned to prison.
He impressed upon mankind three
duties—duty to our God, our neigh-
bor and ourselves. As the patron
saint of Masonry he has bequeathed
to us a beautiful system of morality,
veiled in allegory and illustrated by
symbols founded on the great prin•
ciples of prudence, justice, temper -
truce and fortitude. The arch is the
symbol of the gate of death, illumin-
ated by the light of truth and pro,
mise ne contained in the knowledge
of a Savior's sacrifice. The moon
reminds us that we should reflect as
strongly as possible the life of tha
Man who suffered and died for us.
The seven stars moving in their
orbits at His will typify the obedi•
ence that should characterize our
every action.- The present occasion
is one dedicated to the practice of
that greatest virtue, charity, which
should ever characterize the acts of
every true Mason, not only in a
practical sense as represented by
the donation of silver to the support
of the needy and suffering, but also
in the attitude maintained toward
"MANY MEN, MANY MINDS," but
all men and all minds agree ae to the
merit° of Bnrdock Pills, small and sugar -
°netted.
CORNS
CORNS
CORNS
Case's Corn Cure
Removes all kinds of hard and soft
annoyance. Itetc.,ts, without
afeO sureaf and
effectual remedy and there 1s no
corn existing It will not cure, de-
stroying everyroot and Bbranch.
Refuse all sustitutes. Full regretted.
tions with each bottle. Price 25c.
PREPARED BY
H. SPENCER CASE,
Chemist and Druggist, 50 King Street West,
Hamilton, Ont.
Sold by J. 11. CUMBE.
'1E WAS PARTICULAR ABOUT
HIS PAY.
A Georgia editor, who is also a.
real eetatoagent, a building and loan,
association director, an attorneyat-
law, clerk of the Town Council and
pastor of the village church, was re-
cently called upon to perform the
marringe ceremony. He was in a
great hurry ; iu fact, the couple
surprised hint in tlio middle
of a heavy editorial on the tar-
iff.
"Time is money," said he, without;
looking up froiu his work. "Do you
went her 1"
The man said yes.
`'And do you want him l"
The girl stammered an affirma-
tive.
"Man and wife," cried the editor.
"Ona dollar. Bring mo a load of
wood for it—one-thixd. pine„balance.
oak,”
af:
A SEVERE TEST.
When a mauu'acturer, from years of
observation, has so completely satisfied
himself of the universal satisfaction
given by his pruduute, that he feels fully
warranted iu selling them under a certi-
ficate cf guarantee, it in very natural to
believe that such a producer has implicit
confidonue in he merits of hie goods,
and that, too, not without good reason.
Such confidence ie possessed by the
World's Dispensary Medical Association,,
of Buffalo, N. Y., in Dr. Pierce's Family
Medicines, and hence his "Favorite
Prescription' ie sold by druggists, as no
other medicine for similar purposes ever
was, under a positive ff uarantee, that it
will in every case give catiefaotion, or
money paid for it will be refunded. It
cures all these distreesiog and delicate
ailments and weaiaesees peculiar to
woolen. It is not neoee.ary to enumer-
ate the long catalogue of derangements,
both functional and organic, of the
female system which this marvelous
remedy overcomes. They are, alas
tut too well-known to neat females who
have attained womanhood, to need more
than a hint to make thorn plain to their
understanding.
THE CHAPLAIN GAVE BACK
THE CARDS.
"I had rattier a remarkable exper-
ience while I was chaplain of the
army," remarked one of the minis-
ters at the pastor's union.
"What is it?"
"I had been working and talking
to the boys about gambling,
and they finally turned all the cards
in,the camp over to me. The next
day they were paid off. The follow-
ing day I was passing out and saw
a blanket spread out with two lumps
of sugar on one corner, and about
half the money in tho camp spread
out."
"What were they doing?"
"They were betting on which
Lump of Sugar a fly would first light,
and all the money on the blanket
changed hands on the result.
"What did you say to the boys?"
"I said, 'Here, boys, come get
your cards,' "
IT SVEAD RIS LIFE.
GENTLEMEN.—I can recommend Dr.
Fowler's Extraot of Wild Straweerry,
fob }t, rived my. life, We have used it in
our fainitq'w1W1t i giiiitr7-e+ve shim et
it never fails to cure all summer com-
plaint*,
FRANCIS W A LS II,
Dalkeith, Ont.