HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1892-08-03, Page 600. N $U PTION,
IH its lrststtzgcst caulbe successfully
checked by the !prompt use of Ayer's
Cherry Pectoral, Even in tile later
periods of that disease, the cough fe
woaderfully relieved by thin medicine.
" I have used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
with the best c1 eot in my practice.
This wonderful preparation once saved
MY .liter I hada constant. cough, night
sweat, was greatly reduced in flesh,
and given up by my physician. Ono
bottle and a half of the Pectoral cured
ine."--A. J. Eidson, M. D., Middleton,
Tennessee,
"'Several years ago / was severely i11.
The doctors said I was in consumption,
and that they could do nothing for mo,
but advised me as a last resort, to try
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine two or three months I
was cured, and my health remains good
to the present day."—.James Birchard,
Darien, Conn.
"Several years ago, on a passage home
from California, by water, I contracted
so severe a cold that for some days I
was confined to my stateroom, and a
physician ou board considered my ]ife
tit danger. Happening to have a bottle
of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, I used it
freely, and my lungs were soon restored
to a healthyy condition. Since then I
have invariably recomtnended this prep-
aration." --J. B. Chandler, Junction, Va.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
PREPARED R7
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell,, Mass.
Idea by all Druggists. Price $1; sixbottleo,$55 •
The Huron News -Room
.60 a Year—$1.25 in Advance
Wednesday, August 3rd, 189`x.
FOR PARENTS ONLY.
I have just returned from an
evening at the play, or rather from
visitiug my friends the Robinson's,
which is much the some thing, if
you don't mind my pipe, I will
picture you the drama.
Robinson, an amiable Juan except
when his shoe -lace breaks, eat alone
and glurn is the study. His teeth
were clinched, his face was pale,
and ho stared hart st the fire. He
welcomed me with an effort, and
then forgot me. He is a business
man, and lam not ; so I concluded
thot etock3 or debentures had fallen
or risen (or whatever it is these
things do to plcnge those whoknow
what they are in despair). I tried
the drawing -rooms, and there found
the two little girls crying, and Mrs.
Rsbinson on tha couch with her
face to the wall. This was serious,
aud seemed to me to mean, at least,
a "corner" in stocks.
It. was not stocks, however, my
hostess told me from behind a hand-
kerchief, it was Bobby. Had not
her husband shown me "the let-
ter"?
Bobby is the heir, aged seven,
and I concluded from hie another's
tragic tones that he had run off to
be a pirate or an engine -driver,
leaving a written stitemeut to that
effect on bis dressing -table. I softly
wthdrew "from the drawing-roorn,
and returned to Robinson, who,
with trembling arm, handed mo
"the letter." It was from the pm -
ter of a school to which Bobby goes
by train daily, except during the
birdnesting season, when otner mat-
ters claim his attention. The letter
read thus :
"DEAR Stn,—I regret to have to
apprise your of the fact that I had
to day to cane your son severely.
Ho is the youngest boy I ever caned,
but his delinquencies have of late
been so frequent that no other
course was open to me. This com-
munication will doubtless cause
you pain, but the punishment will
have a beneficial effect not only on
him, but on the other boys of his
age whose loader in mischief he has
been. They will uo longer make a
hero of one whom they have seen
publicly chastised. The disgrace of
the punishment, indeed, is greater
than the punishment itself. That
Robert may feel his shame more .
keenly I have read this letter to
him, and ho shall be the bearer of it
to you.''
"And where is Bobby at present 1"
I asked, when I had road this let-
ter.
"Crying his eyes out in the
nursery, no doubt," answered Rob-
insou. "Of course I should have
him here, but I can't face him—I
can't face him -1 can't face Lim.
I don't blame his master, but—My
dear friend, think of it ! The
marks won't tvear off his hands for
a week, and think of his agony of
mind every time he looks at them 1
'Bobby is a sensitive boy, otherwise
I should not take it so much to
heart,"
"Why not bring him here," I
said, "and tell him that if he turns
over a now leaf all will be forgot-
ten 1"
"Forgotten 1 How can I expect
him to believe that 1 I know that
if I had ever been caned in my
school -days I could not have got
ever the shame for years. Be-
sides—"
"Besides what 1"
"I must notaeem to take hie part
against his master, who is, I know,
a most conscientious man. No,
Bobby must bear the disgrace.
But that does not snake me feel less
keenly for him. My hands, I
assure you, are tingling as if I had
heels fAXted ttlyeelf.".
X fottild the, •t\ya little girls still
moaning at' the drawing room win•
dew—the younger lest Bobby
should die, and the other because
his friends would ,tell their sisters,
who could newer again be expected
td esteem the name of Robinaou.
. Robinson wa
M s s a tno•
r . s for the
went not on speaking terata with
I otilinson, because he seethed to
think that Bobby should couttnue
to go to "such a .school." It' Bobby
had misconducted himself, surely
the Wenn) lay with a meter who
d.d not understand that he was a
boy who could beet be ruled by
kindness. She had never had the
least trouble with Bobby, No, ho
.vas not in the house. H'e had tun
out immediately after delivering
the letter, and sho hart„ searched for
hie; everywhere in vain. His pride
had been broken. He would never
bo the same boy again. 1Ie woe
afraid to be looked at. He was no
doubt hidden somewhere in the cold
night ; and he had not even on his
great -coat, and lie would catch hie
death of cold.
"If he does, mamma." asked the
older girl, brightening, "will do
•nlaster be hauged 1 And, oh, the
you thiuk we could get tickets 1"
The night was dark, so we lit a
lantern, and set off to look for the
unhappy Bubby. At lost we found
him—it Mr. Mackinnou's stable. •
We looked through crevices iu the
wood -work, and this is what we
SEW :
Bobby, In tremendous spirits, was
the centre of a group of envious
and admiring youths, some of them
school fellows, others ragged !'ids of
the village. If they began to brag,
Bobby stopped them short with.
"That isn't nothing; you didn't
never get caned."
"Yes, I did, though," insisted
one. -
"Let me see your hand,' retorted
Bobby. "Oh ho ! he won't; and
'cause there's not no marks an it."
"Let us see your hands again,
Bobby."
Bobby held out his hands as
proudly as if they contained a dia-
auond.
"By gum ! I say, Bobby, come
and play with me to -morrow."
"Let me walk beside you, Bobby;
and I'll give yon my crossbow. It's
broke, but—"
"Bobby, I'm the one you like
best, ain't I?"
"I'm the youngest he ever lick-
ed !" cried Bobby, in a transport of
delight. He began to strut up and
down the stable.
"Weil, then, you needn't bounce
about like that."
"So would you bounce if it had
been you."
"I'll be caned to -morrow."
"So will I, and then I'll be as
good as Bobby."
"No, you won't," thundered Bob-
by. "Though you was all caned
twelve times twelve is a hundred
and forty-four, I would always be
the first, I would. I'm the youngest
he ever caned ."
"But, Bobby—"
"Look here, you chaps," broke
in the hero of the day, "I amn't not
to be called Bobby any more.
You'll have to call me Robinson
now. He called me Robinson
when he caned ine."
"Gnm !"
"And, what's more, I'm the
youngest he ever—" .
The other Robinson here retired
with a hopeless loop on his face.
Mrs. Robinson seemed less humbl-
ed. I came home reflecting.—J.M.
BARRIE, iu the Editor's Drawer, in
Har er's lAIccgcc::ine for August.
• i
MESSRS. TrCICETT & SON are often
asked to sell their "Myrtle Navy" to-
bacco to retail dealers. They never in
any case do so, and for the beat of rea-
sons. The wholesale tiade of the coun-
try have a distributing machinery which
handles the "Myrtle Navy" without any
addition to its permanent expenses. If
the manufacturers were to undertake
that work, as they would by selling to
the retail trade, it would require an in-
dependent machinery, the whole coat of
which would have to be borne by the
proceeds of the tobacco sale., and of
course it would fall upon the consumer.
Selling to the wholeaale trade alone ie,
therefire, for the consumer's benefit, and
is a convenience to the retail trade, be-
cause every traveller who calls—in the
grocery line—can take orders for"Myrtle
Navy."
—Rain has only fallen twice in
twenty-nine years in Aden, Arabia.
Previous to the last rain, which oc
curved 1888, none has fallen in
twenty-six years.
The distention of the stomach which
many people feel after eating, may toe
due to improper maetioation of the food ;
bat, in most oasee,it indicates a weakness
of the digestive organs, the beet remedy
for which is one of Ayer's Pills, to be
taken after dinner.
—An ingenious barber in Lon—
don has set the fashion of placing
an incandescent lamp upon a bar-
ber's pole to indicate that a shave
can be had "as quick as lightbing."
ROBERT GEO. WATTS, M. A.. M. D,,
M. R. C. S., of Albion House, Quadrant
Road, Canonbuty, N., London, Eng.,
writes : "I cannot refrain from testifying
to the efficacy of St. Jacobs Oil in caees
of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and
neuralgia.
#1.R It onorM flees* Woe Safe.
The Igllaiaiug Story has bten told mit
Omit Jamas Legate, the lobhytat, and a
coital* Judge of Lawrence, Kan.; Jim it
eeQtna, wanted to enlist the services 9f tire
Jude in tite Galveston doep•water preject.
,AYencan steer 'cm up to lee, Judge,"
14i4 Alb ."and get them to hire me to pro-
Rioto their little scheme. They want
deep water and an appropriation ; 1
want,$,Q,e00. You put me in line to make
it, Jude, and We a divvy. We take $5,000
Apiece. .
Tito Judge hoeltated, but he wanted'that
$3,000 just the name.
"Of course," said the Judge, gingerly.
"I would he very glad to serve you, Mr.
Legate. The money I don't care for, but 1
would like to do you. a favor. 'Jut," be
continued, impressively and low, "mind
you, if I do, my natne must never be men-
tioned in the transaction. That you must
promise. My name must never occur or be
mentioned in the transaet]on at any stage,'
Jim promised, and the Judge "saw" the
Galveston projectors, with the result that
Legate was engaged and paid the $10,000.
Then the Judge came around.
"Well. Mr. Legate," said he, in amiable
antici1 c t it of getting his $5,000, "we
nnatiagetbal nt i'ery nicely." •
"And 1 et eternally obliged to you,Judge,
too," interjected Legate. "I don't think
I cal. have turned the trick without your
aid."
After a pause, during which Legate had
a flim -far -away look in his eye, tile Judge
concluded to spur him gently.
"You got the tnouey all right, Legate?"
"Oh, yes, got it in my war hags right
now," and Jim slapped itis enriched pocket
approvingly : "And I'll always remember
the help you were to me, Judge. \\'hon
ensu in a friendly, disinterested way does
me a favor, I 11 neve: forget him. I'm a
callous man, but that sort of thing touches
rue."
Well," said the Judge, after a brief
wait, "I suppose you remember your prom -
iso 9'"
"Oh ! distinctly," said Legate, warmly
,_tasping'the other's hand, "rin4 I'll keep
11, too. Your name shall never be men-
tioned in connection with the transaction.
Never in any way or form. You can rely
on my secrecy implicitiy."—Kansus City
Times,
A Shantytown Sinecure.
Mrs. O'Hara—Faith, 'tis an ilegant job
me man has now, Mrs. McClune. 'Tis a
night watchman he is.
Mrs. McClune—And how in the wurrold
do you call that an ilegant job, Mrs.
O'Hara ?
Mrs. O'Hara—Why, sure, he sleeps all
day an' that saves his boord ; and he works
all night—an' that saves his lodging !—
Puck.
A Supreme Court Yarn.§
Speaking of graveyarda reminds the of
a story which Justice Harlan, of the Su-
preme Court, has been telling, but whether
it is a personal experience of his own, or,
as he gives it, that of a Judge in Ken-
tucky, I do not know. Tho iocident oc-
curred in a Kentucky court room, where
the Judge on the bench at the time was -the
soul of dignity and pomposity. An 'Lash -
man had been arrested for assault, and his
language during the trial was such that
the Judge fined Hint 810 for contempt of
court. The Irishman pulled out $10 and
handed it to the Judge. The Jude re-
fused to take it, and said that the Court
did not accept money, and that, he must
give it to the sheriff or clerk. He did this,
and as the sheriff took it. he said :
"But, Your Honor, I must have a re -
sate,"
"But you can't have a receipt. The
Court never gives receipts. You will not
be asked for the money again and the books
of the Court will be a receipt. What more
do you want ?"
"Why, you see, Your Honor, I'ma good
Catholic and I expect to go to heaven, and
when I come to the gate I will find St.
Peter there with his keys to let me in or
keep me out. And St. I'eter will say,
`Yat, are you fit for heaven?' And I will
say, 'Yes, Your Honor.' And St. 'Peter
will say, 'Have you paid all your debts,
Pat?' And I will say, 'Yes, Your Honor.'
And then he will ask me for my resates,
'and when he looks over them he will want
to know how alseht this $10, and when he
finds I haven't got The resate for it he will
send me back to get it. And,Your Honor,
I don't want to be running all over hell
after you to get that resate."
Whether the Irishman received a second
sentence for contempt or not Justice Har-
lan does not state,—N. Y. Herald.
Poetry and Boarding.
"Poetry, thou sylph divine," he rhapso-
died in his seven -by -nine hall bedroom,
when there came a law- but distinct rap at
his door.
"Oh, dearest, may I call thee mine," he
concluded his rhyming measure as he open-
ed the door and fell futo the arms of his
landlady, who was a widow.
"Then this board bill is canceled," she
said as she tore it up and flung her 250
pounds of too, too solid flesh into his arms,
which were aghast at receiving her. [That
may not be the right word, but it sounds
better than agape.]
"1.o more board bills," he murmured
blissfully, as he took in the situation, like-
wise the widow.
"And no more impecunious boarders in
the hall bedroom," she said in a tone that
made him wince ; "this room shall bring in
a weekly income of seven trade dollars."
"It shall, he said, "and we will collect
in advance, for you can never toll when a
boarder will skip out."
And late that night he acted cn his own
suggestion, and the landlady is minas a
border, a board bill and a prospective hus-
band. The poetical youth had eloped with
his muse.
A Slight Change.
Gabriel had blown a blast on the last
trump, and Cholly crawled from under a
tombstone. -
"Deuced wacket !" he exclaimed.
"It's the resurrection," explained Ga-
briel. "You've been dead, you know."
"Have I, weally? Thanks awfully, I as -
numb you. Nevah should have noticed it."
• Considerate.
Young Mr. Fiddleback—Ie Mies Red -
bud at home''
Servant—She is, sir ; but the minister is
talking to her just at present, sir.
Fiddleback—Oh, all right. Don't wake
her up. --'Life.
,4 f O F E rr 1 M .I 11 4 s TBDA.
BONES, HORNS, ENTRAII.t EVERY-
THING GOBS
To Swell the rr0Ats of ti*e Stook Nara
Poker — w e
a ti Ifo Cattle Are Slaughtered
Tor Market—Theruugh Economy and
ingenutty Characterize the Caginess,
Some railway traoks are crossed, and the
sight -seer stands in the thick of a cluster of
tracking -houses. ''From out of a doorway
under a phenomenally long porch come huge
sides of rod and white beef, shot out as if
from a multiple cannon. These great
weights of meat hang from pulleys that run
upon a track overhead, and they swing
along one after another as boards are turned
out of a saw -mill, and with force enough to
toss the men who are paid to guide them as
if the men where jackstraws. These junks
of meat wore moving in the pens a short
while before ; now they are being loaded
into refrigerator cars. In this building the
cattle are being turned into butcher's meat.
I saw two fat and comfortable steers coming
out of ari alley, and was told that they
were trained to load the other cattle to the
foot of an inclined and enclosed gangway,
there to turn and leave thein, while the
other brutes went on and up the walk to
the slaughter -pens. That is earning their
living—and an honest one—with a sten.
geanee !
I saw that £he beeves were driven into
pens, and that men ran along or stood over
thein on planks laid across the tops of the
pens. I saw that they jabbed and prodded
the poor beasts into the right position for
their purpose, and then that they fulled
them with crushing bialys from hammers
upon their skulls. Tlien the doors of the
pens were thrown open, chains were fast-
ened about the hind legs of the unconscious
beasts, and they were swung up so that
they hung upon a trolley running on a
single overhead rail. Silently and methodi-
cally the slaughterers walked along and
gashed their throats, and the mysterious
red essence of life was flung with drenching
volume on the slippery floor. Rapidly, far
more rapidly than the reader would believe
unless he had seen it done, the carcasses are
sent back to the next and the next and the
next set of operatives to have their hides
taken off—so skillfully that they fetch more
than ony other hides discarded by any other
butchers in the world—to have their entrails
removed, to have their heads and hoofs
taken off, to be split and washed, and to be
sent swing along to the cooling rooms. Si-
lence, skill, expedition,these were the char-
acteristics of all the labor in that murderous
place.
Everything—without particularizing too
closely—every single thing that appertains
to a slaughtered beef is sold and put to use.
The horns become the horn of commerce ;
the straight lengths of leg bone go to the
cutlery -makers and others ; the guts become
sausage castings; their contents make fertil-
izing material ; the livers, hearts, tong res,
and tails, and the stomachs, that become
tripe, all are sold over the butchers' count-
ers of the cation ; the knuckle bones are
ground up into bone flour for various uses ;
trio lltood i dried and sold as a powder for
commercial uses ; the bladders are dried
and sold to druggists, tobacconists, and
others ; the fat goes into oleomargarine,
and from the hoofs and feet and other parts
come glue and oil and fertilizing ingredients.
Oved the slaughterhouse I found a series
of rooms heaped full of bones and horns.
Th): bones had been boiled to get the fat of
tht marrow as well as to clean them.
Then they had been dried and shaken about
.until they were as smooth and clean as
cotton spools. The knuckle joints had
been cut off them, and one room was filled
with the ground -up flour of those parts.
The white and pretty bones that retrained
were to be shipped to Connecticut, Eng-
land, and Germany, to be worked into knife -
handles, fan -handles, tooth -brush handles,
backs for nail -brushes, sides for pen -knives,
and into button -hook handles, shirt -
studs, cuff buttons, and so on, ad infinitum.
What was to become of the horns was still
more astonishing. By heating them and
then tapping them skilfully, the operatives
had loosened the soft cellular filling which
solidifies and strengthens each horn. The
substance ttrounrl this, between it and the
inner surface of the horn, goes for glue ; the
rest is ground up into bone -meal. The horns
were then to be sent to the makers of horn
goods, who, by cutting each horn skilfully
and then pressing it between heavy rollers,
manage to spread each one out into a flat
ribbon. In this shape it can be used in a
thousand ways. The artificers who do this
work cut each horn spirally, so that it be-
comes a tight curl capable of being straight-
ened out. By immense pressure the curve
is taken out of it. Good horns sell at $125
a ton. It is by such thorough economy and
ingenuity—by losing nothing and wasting
nothing—that the great firms in this busi-
ness have monopolized their ficldt A small
butcher in the east cannot kill his meat and
market it in competition with the stock-
yard packers, because he must waste what
they save and sell.
I made a tour of the refrigerating or cool-
ing rooms. They are kept at a temperature
of 30', I believe. Yet when the meat fresh
front the slaughter is railroaded into such a
room, the animal heat in it warms the room
for a considerable time, and fills it with
steam as with a fog. Once it is cowled, the
the sides of beef are.firm and haul and al-
most appetizing. Everywhere, except at
the actual scene of slaughter, these houses
and the work in them are clean, and above
criticism. While I looked on tlacywere
killing four beeves a minute, or 250 in every
hour. There were slaughtered in those
stock -yards during 1890 no less than 2..'19,-
312 head of cattle more than 1,000,000
sheep, and 5,733,082 hogs.
As I passed out of the yards some one
handed a card to me. It contained a record
of the business of one firm, the lead ng one
of the "big four" packing concerns. It
showed that during tine year ending April 1,
1891, that company transacted sales of 860,-
000,000 worth of meat and other goods. It
killed 712,000 cattle, 1,714,000 hogs, and
nearly 500,000 sheep. It employed 7,900
persons, and paid nearly $4,000,000 in
wages. It owned 2,250 refrigerator cars and
50 acres of buildings. It made 7,000,000
pounds of glue and 9,500 tons of fertilizer.
I suspect that its hogs and sheep and boxes
of glue and sides of beef and cans of meat
may stretch out, if piled one on the other,
from here to the moon, but I leave the cal-
culation to others, satisfying myself with
the reflection that America is great, and
Chicago is its prophet.—Julian Ralph id
Harper's Weekly.
Christian Science.
One of the most remarkable cases on
record of dependence on faith cure is that
of a Dexter woman who is reported as
having become so infatuated with the
Christian Scientist theory that she laid
away on the shelf her false teeth: that she
had worn several years, declaring that she
had faith that natural teeth would grow
again. She waited patiently for the result
for six monthe,but for some tnexplicable rea-
son the new teeth yet delayed their ceming.
—Lowistres Journal.
The News-Reeord
--.-FOP.L-••—
The Finest Job Prilltillg
Posters, �}
Dodgers,
Cireulars,
Bill Heeds,
Letter Heads,
Note Heads,
Statements,
Blank Forms,
Tags, &c.
Superior Work. - Low Prices,
STUMPY GREAT MEN.
THEY HAD BRAINS AND INTELLIGENCE,
BUT NOT INCHES.
Qentlenaxn's Hagaaine : Confucius
was a man of middle height. We
would have preferrrd him short.
But one must not rob a man of his
inches to fir a theory. Socrates was
stumpy, also St. Paul, and Alex-
ander the Great, great only as a wers
rior. In stature both he and his far
more intellectual father, Philip of
Macedon, scarce reached middle
height. In this regard we may
rauk them with the famous
Spartan general, Agesilaus ; with
Attila,, the "Scourge of God"—
broad-shouldered, thick -set, sinewy,
short; with Theodoric 11,, King of
the Goths, of whom Cassiodorus
writes : "He is rather short than
tall, somewhat stout, with shapely
limbs alike Lithe and 'strong."
Aetius, too, Commander-in•chief of
the Roman troops, and prop of the
tottering Roman Empire in the days
of Valentinian, was a man of low
stature, therein resembliug Timour
the Tartar, self -described as a
"puny, lanae, decrepit little wight,
though Lord of Asia and Terror to
the World ;" also the great Conde,
and his pygmy contemporary
Marshal Luxembourg, nicknamed
"'The Little' by those who admired
hien for Making Louis XIV.
Louis the Great, who, by the by,
less his his high -heeled shoes and
towering wig, dwindles to about 5
feet 6. But even thus pared down
to the inches nature gave him, he
was a giant compared with Sir
Francis Drake and with Admiral
Keppel --"tittle Keppel" as every
sailor in the fleet fondly dubbed him
from pure love and admiration..
Whereby a tale, if but to break the -
jog -trot of this catalogue. When,
then, Keppel—a commodore at 24
—was sent to demand an apology
from the Day of Algiers for an in-
sult to the British flag, lie. took so
high a tone that the .Day exclaimed
against the insolence of the British
King for charging'a "beardless boy"
with such a message to hit). Re—
plied the "beardless boy" with sue,h
a message to him. Replied the
beardless boy : "Were my waster
wont to take length of beard for a
tent of wisdom, he'd have sent your
Deyship a be goat."
Oliver Cromwell, Claverhouse,
and Mehemet all must be content to
take it out in brains for they all
lacked inches. Two of these great
names naturally suggest that of an-
other0famous soldier and usurper,
Napoleon Bonaparte. Le petit
Caporal, as his men lovingly called
him, stood about five feet (French)
in his stockings, say 5 feet 14
English. In stature the Iron Duke
heat him by about six inches, while
the 5 feet 4 of Nelson place him
midway or thereabout between the
victor and the victim of Waterloo.
Anter. Tc MoTREns. Are you disturbed at
night and broken of your rest by a sick child
suffering and(trying with pain of Cutting Tenth 7
If so send at once end get a bottle of "Mrs.
Winelow's Soothing Syrup" for Children Teeth
ing. Its value is incaienlable. It will relieve
thepoor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon
it, mothers; there ie no mistake about it. It
cures Dysentery and Diarrbrea, regulates the
stomach and bowele, mires Wind Colic, eoftene
the gums, reduces inflammation, and gives tone
and energy to the whole system. "Mrs. Winelew's
Soothing Syrup" for children teething ie pleasant
to the taste and Is the preecription of ono of the
oldest and beet female physician° and nurses in
the United States, and le for sale by al1 druggist's
throughout the world. Price 26 Bente a bottle.
Be Mire and ask for "31ns. wrwsaow'e SnoTn1wo
Sraor."cad take no other kind. GSGy
IIE WAS ZEALOUS 1
BUT 'KNEW WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF
HIM AS A MEMBER OF THE
CHURCH.
Detroit Free Press.
A well-known doctor of divinity
had in his congregation, when he
had charge in a country town, a
most determined old fellow who
seemed to be quite zealous in the
good work, but one Sunday he did
not appear at church, and for three
successive Sundays the preacher
noticed his absence and then he
went to see him. Ile found him at
home in his usual health and spirits,
and after some general talk he came
to the object of his visit.
"You haven't been to church,•
lately, Brother Ball," he said.
"No," confessed the brother. `
"You are falling from grace, 1l!
fear."
"Mebby I am, parson."
"Why, my dear friend," exclaim-
ed the preacher," how does that
happen 1"
The erring brother braced up and
hie face grew hard and firm.
"You know that mule colt I
bought 1" he asked.
ve $100 for him 1"
"Yee."
"Not with a hooter unless he is
broke ""
O1
"Well, I undertook to break
him."
ead I , "
"Anfound out that I couldn't
break him and be a Christian at the
same time, and, parson, Pll 'break
that mule if I never got to the New
Jerusalem."
Naturally, the good man was
greatly shocked, but he couldn't
help admiring the zeal of hie bro-
ther, and when he saw him at
cLurch the next Sunday, he con-
cluded that Providence had come to
the rescue and showed the mule the
error of his ways.
air
"Oh, if 1 had only taken this medi-
cine earlier in life, what years of Buffer-
ing it -could have saved me!" was the
touching exclamation of one who had
been cured of rheumatism by the use of
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Scores of such
eases are on record.
—Mr. E. L. Keiby, a student at
the O. A. C., met with a shocking
at that institution the other day.
It appears that he was in the loft of
the barn throwing down hay, and
on finishing that work threw his
pitch fork to the floor beneath. As
he felt tired he did not immediately
descend, but an the contrary sat
down to rest. In the course of a
few minutes he walked to the edge
of the mow and jumped to the floor
beneath, alighting on the end of
the handle of the fork which he had
previously thrown down, and
frightfully tearing hie abdomen'
A medical man was sent for, w
attended to the sufferer,and he is noir
getting along as well as could be
expected. Mr. Kerby came here
from England..—Guelph Herald.
—Mr. Daniel Webeter,tinemith,
of Fergus, went to sleep in his wag.
on the other day when he fell out
on his head. His left ear was torn
almost completely off, probably by
a wheel of the vehicle, his forehead
sustained a big cut, and the thumb
of his right hand was dislocated.
a