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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1894-10-10, Page 6"44' ."'" • ; .s` • . 4V, 4,- • .4 4; 4" h.• • es • %fa, !a. • r 44" "For , Yottrs," STOCtsWatae ot Chester; ' , Seldt . X. Xi. iftiiii Ives, atillotect 'with 44. isstrenselly; sevens nolo in the lower oartatf' ititselle114 Ille feellug was as it R ton • We/ght, was laid s en li, Spin the ltiz9 A ,AFAIri k‘'Z'1111,t... . perapiratiCiA i•VOlild , tug the attache, ties• 11I eta heads Per, „,,..,,, . dives on it,\. myiase, AO it wag ,'-''. agony, tor me as „ ,itteleS. 0 444101$ Is sa la& - 'egrataveatowilite sl 44 r , per, They Oftiao sa, . , timid:0,41y, at all' a' 110111, of the 44Y or • eight, lastIng AffOlt .:, ball a Awe loathe, aa,i but,ato'kIrdr7en.intyputes forto • , '„ SeYeral dal's', Aro* T vas quite , asollx"Sse aetrafiagari; then 10$1141 es the atPta"eki; *boat Nue years' of tars recltlents After taken down with bilious Iltiliput=6 Is, Wa ac1 ‘,.....04 x• began to recover, I had thee worstn ., *melt of my Old trouble I ever experience , . .0 pi aro of the fever, my mother so . t, • ' • ,Icyl.ti•Yer'e rills, Mar doctor recommend!" 'guru as befog 'better than anything11S ,,,,, . `,„•°14,,..21 prepare. I continued takingtb he • ,•,' Jvine, and so Feet was tho ben --ese ,, ,,, • s, , , ; . that &whir nearly thirty years el4liadveerIlviaecill but ona attack or my former trouble, which 7,!4`1"1 readily to the same remedy." " i 0 AYER'S PILLS , tamed by Pr.J. O. Ayer &Go.,Lowelt, Ham very P989 Effcctivic 44. The ,VJE. 114NGEAGEI‘TtiA11$. R Tray or it wwaineturandiff,8lt ax r lacs4s inhtvuendaya: ' scheol, 01 course beeause I want- ed girls they had to .glyo me a algae of boys. Not but what 1 liito boys, I lovO' *ern; but boyein, l ,•aErlddaboY0 osjlethol eo it are as different as hens and bumblo- bece. And there Sarah would sit of a Sneday,, with her seat full ° of 010 OWOIlIegt, prettiest girls in Peinlgewasset looking like peaches and MAUI, so to tipoak. They always knew their lessens, and when the minister asked any question they could answeras prettily aid promptly as heart could wish. And I'd be across theuisle with my seat not by any means • BO till of a 'wiggling, twisting, uneasy set Otrestiess mortals, pinching each other, stopping on each ether's toes, .roaring out the wrong answer to the minister continually, and threatening to punch each cither's4 heads. The leading spirit of it all, was a red- head, and it didn't make thingany better when -the rest of them would re- mark, sotto voce, "You. red-headed sin- ner, go home to 3 our dinner," which re- commendation he would receive with a sly pin thrust or a pinch. Teaching that class wasn't easy wort bY any means but es a trial and 'a means of grace it wag an 41ectro-silicon sue- COSS. ;Yell, one day in November just after Huron News-Recora eirur.:11 and before Sunday scl:ool, Sarah came up to me and said, "There are $1.80 a Yet -41.25 in Advance. fringed gentians over in the swamp by the school house," "There aro-l" I cried, for I had never found any, "I'll take my boys and go get some with you." "Jet's take the minister," sold' she. "I think a minister is too holy to take around gentian hunting," said 1. "Be- sides, they don't like to get their feet wet. Now, boys do." "Humph 1' said she. "Boys can't talk." " 'Tisn't talk that's wanted so much on this occasion," I answered. If youve got to take him we will flock, by our- selves." "Pshaw 1" said she, "let's all go to- gether. "Yes," I said, "all together! You nd he sit on tho bank and repeat .Blue, blue as though the sky let fall A bit of its cerulean wall,! while the boys and I make k holy show of ourselves wading out in the mud after the bits of 'cerulean wall 1'" "Well," she said,"you are so good you don't mind making a holy show of yourself, "Ah," said I, "there's a fee generally, but in this case the spectators get everything." The delicious air and the soft sky of one autumn day, were so beguiling that I couldn't stand the house any longer. . • WanwEsiasar, Oma:tan 10th 1894. • '."0041017/41 Township. .01404411:,i,ownebli.i council met to- 4slasOotobee let; Inc Members all prosent with exception of the reeve, who was unable to -he present on ac- untscif having received a severe kick one of his horses. Minutes of Jeat meeting read and passed. Moved by James Connolly, seconded by Chas. 1W. Williams that the Deputy -reeve and treesurer'be empowered to borrow the sum of one thousand dollars, and that a by-law be passed confirming the game to defray the expenses caused by the recut floods. Moved by Jr: Connolly, seconded by Jas. Johnston, ' that by-law No. 6, now read, be passed. Moved. by Jas. Johnston, seconded by e. W. Williams, that the following ac- counts now read be passed, viz., regis- trary search, 50c; Henry Porter,keep of indigents, $50; Mrs. McCrae, Indi- gents, $15; Council, for looking after indigents, $5.50. Adjourned to meet or first Monday in Noveniber.-NIXON SrililtDY, Clerk. The following is a report showing the standing of the pupils of S. S. No. 8, for -the months of .Aug. and Sept: V. claas-Claressa, Elliott. IV class -Sadie Stirling, Amy Naf- tel, Jessie Stirling. Sr. III -David Woods, Lillie Prouse, Eddie Weston. Jr. IH -Luella Stirling, Mabel Wes- ton, Hannah Harrison. Dind-Eva Woods, Milly Sraftel, Jennie Woods. Sr. part II -Edna Green, Minnie Harrison, Della Harrison. 11.1r. part II -Clara McGuire, Lottie Stirling, Orval Weston. class -Ellen McGuire, Percy Cook, Ruby Aldsworth. Average attendance for both months 37.-E. W. JERVIS, Teacher. CAPTAIN SWEENEY, U. S. A., San Diego, Cal., says: "Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy is the first medicine I have ever found „that would do me any good." Price 50 cents. Sold by J. H. Combe. To Be Held In Brantford. HURON ANGLICAN' LAY WORKERS AND S. S. TEACHERS' ANNUAL CONVENTION. The annual gathering of the Sunday &school teachers, lay workers and clergy of church of England in the diocese of Huron, takes place inaBrantford on Wednesday and Thursday, October 31st and November 1, and it is expected that not less than from 150 to 200 dele- gates will be present. Committees, representing the local Anglican churches, will provide for the entertain- ment of the visitors. The local secre- taries will be A. K. Bunnell and Mr. William Moss. The complete pro- fultmtne has not yet been issued, but it is understood the proceedings will be neatly as follows: First session of convention, Wednes- day, 31st, 2.30 p. in., in Grace church school room. Divine services in Grace church at 8 p. m. Short addresses by the visiting laymen. Lessons for the day by lay readers. Sermon -The Bishop of Huron. Thursday, 0. a. m. -Holy communion it Grace and St. Jude's churches. The bishop will admioister sacrament at the latter church. 10 a. m. -Annual meeting of Huron Anglican Lay Workers' association. At the same hour in another place, Miss Jenette Osler, of Toronto, will give an address to ladies on "The Lay Women in the Parish." At 11 a. m., the convention will resume its sittings. The afternoon meeting will be held at 2.30 p. m. At 7.30 p. m., the conven- tion will assemble for its final session in Wickliffe hall, where an address will be delivered by Rev. F. DuVernet on the "Missionary Spirit," and some other able speakers will be secured for the occasion. The bishop will preside at all 'the meetings of the convention, anct at the annual meeting of the asso- eisttion. Among the contributions already promised in addition to those above mentioned are: "The Ideal Sunday Schaal," by Mr. James C. Morgan, M. ' Pr S. L, of Barrie; "A Voice from the Lectern," Rev. IL A. Thomas; The tittle Ones," Mies Grace Dennison, wrho, Rural Deanery Meeting, Its Objeeth and Uses," Rev. Alfred Brown,Ae "Our Older S, S. Pupila," Mr. A. W. Reaveley, B. A., of Thorold; "The Datig'hters of the King," Miss L. • Downie; "The Ideal arish," Rev. Xiavid Williarna, M. A., etc. 'ell "CAN I ASSIST YOU, MESS PATIENCE?" "There isn't a thing more to be done till to -morrow," said mother, "and Patience, if you want to—" "Mother,' said I, "I am going for fringed gentians. Sarah Weller says there are some in the swamp over by the school house." "But you are not going alone, Pati- ence ?" "No, I'm going to take my Sunday school class. And I did. t gathered them up as I went along Main street, and by the time I got to the forks of the road I had the whole of them. "We are seven!" shouted Jim Doolan with a vault over Deacon Eastman's granite horses , posts. " Fritz, you wild Dutch- man, what are you comin for ?" "Fringed gen- tians of course, you green exile of Erin. Aha /of White wings they e never groar weary," he sang, as little Harry a- els Bannigan came e flying up the s, , street.. " What a on earth are you out in a white waist for, Harry? Didn't you know they were called in a month ago ?" "Sure, Mike!" was all Harry's ans- wer as he swept up. but ho gave Fritz's cap a knock that sent it flying. Fortunately the people of . Pemige- wasset were used to seeing me go up or down the street with those seven un- fledged angels hovering around me, so nobody said a word or did aught but smile at us as we sailed by, gave old Ellen, who called out, "Good luck to ye, Miss Patience, with yer byes," and we got to the swamp in fifteen minutes. "Now, boys, scatter and hunt, and if one of you gets -stuck in the mud, shout." With a whoop and a halloo they were off, and 1 skirted the edge hunting on my own account. I found a lovely clump of black alder berries and gather- ed a nice bunch of them, then a frost - grape vine with its great clusters of tiny grapes clambering over a low dogwood, but no gentians. Suddenly I saw them, a little bunch of them just a little ways from me on the edge of a bog. "0, the darlings 1" I cried and sprang forward. The ground gave way and my foot and leg plunged into that nasty mud Ins to the knee. I screamed. The boys wore over the other side of the swamp. I stihggled, but ah me, "the more I tried to pull it out, the more it stuck the faster !" I caught hold of a tussock and. tugged, but in vain'. Then like the andent Israelites I lifted up my voice and wept. Suddenly from behind me came a voice, a calm, Ptipity sort of voice: 'Can 1 t700$ two Inches ex mnIst.ola1dlgnity "Ohs, wgo away In' I cd. ,To go aw4.IIV?" ask 04 4011...r9110150"Imay he too holy to take gentian hunting but it 18 to be expected that I,siould puu pee - Pk out of the ditch, you know. vivo me yourf nand." 44. T "Yourg41"rio. rhan 11.4 Sarah Wellcan nd just . "Ditty first and P.leasere afterwards," said he sweetly. oft•csidee,i AS you justly rcinarked 140 Sunday, talk isn't what a Medea on thie interesting occasion. Give me your hand." •1 obeyed this time and in a Minute Mere he had .me aafeon dry land, I look- cdn1) at him, '40ho won't you please get me those gentians?',I begged, "No," -he answered quietly, "I don't like to get my feet Wet," and he robed his hat and walked quietly off. For two minutes I wished I was a boy so that I could stone him. But it was no use, I knew I couldn't hit him. couldn't hit a barn door, so X Just sat there and cried for vexation. However, that wouldn't do for lens*. Delightful as the air was it was a little cool with one foot and leg all mud. I got up and began to walk around the swamp calling the boys as I did so.• In a few minutes they heard inc and began to gather with much shouting and laughing and exult- ant waving ortrcasures. "Did you get anygentians, Miss Pati- ence? ' "Miss Patience, look at my beauties 1" "And, Miss Patience, look at the beautiful feet on him. Faith, you'd take him for a mud turtle! Wouldn't you now, Miss Patience ?" • "Humph, that's nothing. Wait till you see White Wings. kept his feet dry and went in with his arnas -and he's a sight for a circus." "Ho! Look at Miss Patience's shoe. Did you fall in. Miss Patience ?" "Come dip your foot in the brook, Miss Patience, and wash off the mud. You'll faint away and we'll have to carry you down Main street if you try to carry all that mud home on your little feet." "Come on, boys, let's carry her'home and the rest of you 'march ahead sing- ing and playing. You tootle like a fife, Jim. There's .a tin pan will do for a drum, Harry, and we'll all sing. Let's sing'Marching through Georgia.' " isat right down on the fence. "You'll do nothing of the kind if I go home with you," I said decidedly. "There's the minister in his carriage. Glory! let's ask him to take Miss Pati- ence home." Before I could stop them they had surrounded and were besieging him He looked down at them with a:mali- cious twinkle in his gray eyes. "Did Miss Patience send you?" said he. "No, I didn't," I cried in wrath and shame. "Well, boys," he said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Miss Patience will be a great deal less likely to take cold 11 she walks home as she is doing now.' I was. I had started the moment he began to speak. • "'Tell her," he added benignantly, "to put her best foot forward." I laughed when I heard that, mad as I wee, but I did put my best foot for- ward and it wasn't lona; before I was toasting myself at the fireplace in the south room. The boys had each given me a gentian and I sat there in the low chair caressing them. I love the toueh of a flower against my cheek and in my fingers There's nothing but your mother's dear old, soft, wrinkled face that will compare with it. There came a step upon the porch and the next mo- ment that minister was before me. "Sit still he said, and bending over me he filled my lap with those beautiful fringed gentians. "Oh ! oh !" I cried, "but how did you get them without getting your feet wet ?" "Rubber boots," lie said quietly. "By the way you. would find them a great comfort if you are bound to go skylark- ing with those boys." "Those boys !" I exclaimed indignant- ly. "Those boys love me, anyway." "So do other people," said he. I hadn't anything to say to that. What could I say? In a moment he went on : "When I was ordained to the minis- try a dear old brother admonished me that whatever else I lacked I must have Patience. I have found that he was right. Will Patience come to me?" Well, she went. The Secret of Ripe Old Age. M. Barthelemy -Saint -Hilaire has en- tered upon his ninetieth year, having been born on August 19, 1805. A Paris correspondent says : "The life-long friend and adviser of Thiers, and ex - Foreign Minister, is in perfect health, and his intellect is unimpaired. His memory is astounding. A friend, hav- ing congratulated him yesterday, the venerable statesman said: "I have really to bo thankful to God, but at my age I am bound to take precautions. Yet I work a great deal, and hope to work till the end, and I have been in harness for 70 years. However, I givo myself a little more rest than formerly. For many years I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning, and trait' an hour later I was ' at my desk. Now I get up at six o'clock, because my servants are entitled to a little rest. M. Barthelemy - Saint -Hilaire is at 6,80 in his study, where a wood fire is kept up all day in good or bad weather. He writes and corrects his proof -sheets without spec- tacles. He takes a light dinner at six o'clock, with a glass of waters, and goes to bed a short time after. He says :-- "I understand living for work only. If you want to live to be old be always at work and diligently. Do not listen to those who aspire to save enough money to rest. They are lazy bodies." M. Barthelemy -Saint -Hilaire was rather unwell last winter -almost his first 111. ness-but he has completely recovered. He punctually attends the Senate and Institute, except when engaged upon errands of charity.-Baston Herald. The Phonetic Visiting Card. "May," said her husband, as they prepared to go out calling, "do you really mean to we those phonetic visit - Ing cards, with your name spelled `Mae Kathryn Alyii Smith ? "I certainly dol" replied M,G. May Catharine Alice Smith. "Very well, then," said her husband, firmly, ‘.tI am with you." And he politely handed her a card very neatly inscribed "Jorjo Phrederyc Albyrt Smith." -Answers. •••••''',7 • ,i11)11( AT.XI •NO7 WIFE. a 4 that bt1 gii 04 tho 1114Tizgelg111):0 'leftover there fp a vacancy In the Married inarters. permission is ,given 110 the w1fe.441% live "on the strength.n ' In CaSeti of tho transfer of such a Nol4ier to another country the traveling ex; HAROSHP THE 1,0T OF HER IN HO MARRIES* BRITISH SPi.DIER Meager. ray, relf, PrildOglea *ad Mlserabte jlfe 'tha Oatiiiiiii•o-Moopood in •I'ierrow Ago"! Rad Divided irilte Tare Cliestere MilferrOlte linen Pelireyill Beauty and Grace la Molt. RUC/Yard R/PUng has. Profusely de- scribett the lire or Tommy Atkins in India, and there are same thousands of hooka at least, at present, dealing with the life of English,SeldierS at home, in Africa, and every other country which a fraction of the army is to be found. But the woman who shared the soldier's joys and sorrows as well as his rations and his shilling a day, Seems to have been forgotten, or -considered too trifling an accessory_ to be much written about. It is true, Kr. 1U1ing lutfi in IrOdUctid a certain class of wives into some of his works, but he has failed to touch upon the masses, or even the bets ter class of wives' and the sordid and immoral women he portrays in his "Tales from the Hills" givo one about as good an idea of typical "soldiers' wives" tis a putrid piece of Meat would givo of a Jefsey cow, In investigating the English camps where the wives of the soldiers are allowed to live, I arrived at the conclu- sion that if the women of India -that women-leadis, the English the fast and loose life Mr. Kipling depicts. the Home Government must, In a measure be held responsible. And just how the Govern- ment is responsible • can be understood by any one inquiring into their home life. stake, for example, one of the largest of the English camps. The houses in which the women Hee are mostly old and rotten. They consist of but one story and each building con- taining four rooms is divided among from two to four families. These build- ings -known to the people as "huts" - are placed in rows at certain distances from each other, aud with their tarred felt roofing, relnind one of the black spots on fachess board. The intervening ground is sand that is parched to a powder by the sun of summer, and re- duced to a bog in the rainy winter months. In consequence, cleanliness in many cases seems to be a lost art. Dust and puddles are the order of the day, and the interior of the houses varies little. "Two or more children" entitle a soldier to the two rooms which each end of a hut affords. "One child or less" allows husband and wife only one of the rooms and thus often two husbands, two wives and two babies have only two rooms for the lot. The idea of a family of three eiting, drinking and steeping in one small room, with its low, dingy ceiling, its battered furniture and small window is, to say the least, revolting. In, the way of furniture the Govern- ment provides what is known as a "ha'- penny mount" for the married people. It gives to the s'oldier who is married, with the permission of his colonel,. an iron -framed table, two stools, a bench,a bed, a poker and a shovel. The rations allowed to the married man are only the same as are given to the single man and the former must take home such rations and "divide up" with his wife and family, If his wife isn't able to work at washing or sewin the house- hold must receive its only further sup- port out of the seven shillings a week - minus fees -allowed a soldier as salary. If a wife is so ill that she must be taken to the hospital her husband's pay is stopped during the period of her illness. Of all the eccentricities we hear of in the category of charity, this, providing a hospital and compelling the ill to enter it and then stopping a man's pay be- cause his wife is, by sickness and rules, obliged to occupy a cot, is the most in- explicable. In London and all English cities there are hospitals for tho vagrant sick, who have no claim, save that of humanity, upon the country, and they are nursed and doctored free of charge,. while the man who may be called upon to forfeit his life for his country at any minute is obliged to pay his entire salary toward the care of his wife in the goy - men t hospital. Would it be any wonder then 11, in the face of such facts, wives bhould in this struggle for sustenance, forget their reli- gion, forget their moral obligations and become indifferent to the undulating boundary between right and wrong And yet, instead of this order of things that one could almost expect, the wives struggle bravely to keep themselves and their families together; and instead of eloping with one another's husbands and chasing ono another into ravines and jungles, they are engaged in the less romantic occupations ot plain sewing and washing. The wives of soldiers, and at times the wives of corporals and sergeants, 'that are strong enough, do the washing for the regiments to which their husbands belong. Each woman has five er six pieces per week, from thirty men or more, and from this work she receives a penny a day from all but the infantry. who are only obliged to pay a half -penny a day. The women that are not strong enough to do the washing, together with the wives of sub -officers, are furnished with needlework, which is poorly paid for, but which, on the half -loaf principle, is better than no work at all, With the money thus earned the mother of four or five children finds little left at the end of the week for the odds afffi ends that go to make a room cheerful. The Government "ha'penny mount" is divided between her two rooms, while the furniture she managed to buy before the little ones came is still doing service. Pictures from the week- ly pi pars serve to cover cracks in the w 11 and mould on the coiling, and ar, \ hey have served as dust -catchers for ew weeks the effect is positively grewsome. Women with fewer child- ren have more time and money to spend, and in the buts of the newly - married couples one will find fresh cur- tains, bright carpets. cheap chintz chairs, towdy bric-a-brac and pots of ferns -all backing in a fresh coat of dust, of course. But the attempt at cheerfulness was quite in contrast to those of tho huts of the older people who had tired Of battling with the dust, and so let it 1h1 So much for the wives who are, sati- rically I fancy, considered "on the strength of the regiment. Staff sergeants, sergeants, corporals and privates, must, as I have said, ob- tain permission to get married from the eommandere of their regiments. The applicant for permission to marry must give proofs of a good military charaeter, Chat his intended bride is respectable. pewee of the wife are paid and 0110can, go wlth tho regiment, gorwlveg married wit** permission :but littlo is done. These are of two tlesses-thoge that are "reeo &Wandthos thc set41411aftltd iItt Cti=44tcriet= his NM) outside of the camp and to ,sltra his rations with his wife. But the rooms outside of the camp must be paid for with private money, for the Govern - Ment *We no allowance for lodgings. The husband of the 44unrocognised" wife 40,40 privileges other than those accorded to the bachelors. He must inhabit the barracks and eat at the Mega. Most of the "unrecognized" wives are Helt,eupporting and wink in neigh. boring shops. Some are fortunate enough to get thoofficers' laundry work or dresses to Make for the wives, and needlework association gives them work when it cau.be done by the other women of camp. The 'recognized" wife is allowed to go to the hospital dur- ing iliness,and a benevolent fund allows sixpence a day as a refund of the shil- ling the g.!vernmont extracts from her huaband.-This is all that keeps her child- ren front the street. Poor women! 'When their husband "aro ordered away they are left behind, together with the "recognized" wives. Sometimes part of a husband's seven shillings reaches her, and sometimes it doesn't, and he forgets her. Sonic of these *omen go out as servants, others Manage to eke out On existence as mil- liners, etc., while many -God help them -become discouraged, and -are lost in the crowd. There is absolutely no pro- vision for them. Out of his shilling a day a soldier must pay a penny a day for his washing and a penny a month for his barber fees. Then, with an eye to business, the Government in most places has provided a recreation room and the soldier must pay a penny a month for the use of the library, whether he is able to read or not. The recreation room is also provided with steaming coftee and summer drinks so that the soldier may refresh himself -by paying for it -at those moderate rates that take away a penny here and a penny there until he hasn't a penny left. So it is rarely that anything is saved for a rainy day. And after he has served his country twentyyears perhaps he may retire on a pension of 7 shillings a week or less, or perhaps in the last year of his service some little fault may be fbund with him and he will receive no pension at all. Great is the British lion, his roar can be heard to the Antipodes, and his charity is so renowned that England is overcrowded with pauper .aliens who sap away the benevolence of the few and grind down the native regiments. Posts that should be given to tried and trusted servants are given to petty princelings, and knighthood is dis- pensed at so much per head. Great are the institutions of monarchy, where- under the nation's best men live and support their families on a shilling a day -minus fees. 'Cycling on the Sea. The water cycle cannot hope to com- pete in utility with the one which has taken such swift possession of' the land, but it may not be an entire failure, and one of thein in England, has just made a successful trip across the Bristol chan- nel, which is at times quite a roughstrip of water, calculated to put such a device to a Severe trial. The instru- ment consists of two metallic cylinders very light and strol.g, pointed at each end, 17 feet long, joined by a, light framework, praviding a seat from which the pedals and the steering gear are worked. It is driven by paddlewheels on each side; and runs swiftly and smoothly in ordinary circumstances, but its speed is not yet officially certified. It may become of great importance -there is no telling -but it would seem as if its field were the smooth inland water of lakes and rivers, rather than such occasionally tempestuous tides as the British and Irish channels, both of which it has un- successfully essayed, and is going to try again, and keep at it till the feat is ac- complished, or the cycler drowned and instrument whirled on the hurricane like thistle -down on the sunken Atlan- tides and the still vexed Bermoothes, to any possible geographical distance, pointing the moral that he would better have gone slow. It is likely that the water cycle may have something in it and come into general use when condi- tions are favorable; but is a mistake to put it t� severe and unncessary tests which only a lifeboat could live through. -New York Tribune. A Wonderful Monster. A mountain of heavy flesh, wrinkled and rough, ugly as a satyr, and even more clumsy than a hippopotamus, lives in the Arctic ocean wherever there are clam -beds, and enousgsh open water to afford him a home. The Pacific walrus is the most uncouth and ungainly beast that ever sets foot on land. For two or three centuries he has been called the Morse and also the Sea Horse -possibly because he is more like a horse than a humming bird, though not much. Three hundred years ago, when travellers and men of science were strugglingto obtain a mental grasp of the form and habits of this strange creature, but wholly unaided by the collector and taxidermiet, their pictorial efforts produced some astonishing re- sults -just as may always be ex- pected under such conditions. Mar- vellous, indeed, wore some of the pictures of the walrus that were pub- lished in the sixteenth century, in the dark ages when taxidermists were not, and zoological museums were "without form and void." And yet, with the exception of the figure by Olaus Magnus, which is half fish and half hog, with four eyes on each side and a pair of impossible horns, none of these gro- tesque figures are one whit more won.' dernil than issthe true character of the Pacifio walrus. His real personality was only half known to the world until, in 1872, Mr. Elliot landed on the rocky shore of Walrus Island, armed with sketch book, note book and tape measure, and made an elaborate series of studies of this species actually at arm's length. His published pictures and notes were such a complete revelation regarding the actus 1 form and habits of the Pacific walrus as to cause much astonishment among naturalists. and to some it seem- ed almost beyond belief that the form of the wairuf was really as pictured from 11* by this painstaking artist. - St. Nicholas for Spptember. Inn CarLT OduOrt buTalvhstr• e reemautrit7dgr,or r cez not ill odors na/tYpn tie 40:14 rili0 lit II taklitm on guar, allt:en.thrtioUlr9.'s °Lamicibe7Bal"olc-21or" Cheek __UN , ' ILO li'S'.4107-CAIrt SHILOH'S alf4I,IsaPONNA PIAIITitames s sa ass , FIEM- IWO YO Utiarrii reraedr toodtocureyou. Alco,4900. Sold by J, H. COMBE; • in ilIentorinm, AIRS. ANN ELLIOTT DAEK Bowapx. • Thou art gone -'tis well-eorrow wili ne'er ruffle thy cairn brow more, Thou art gone to those who oe'd the gates, so many years before; Thou art gone where Celestial joy awaits the faithful soul, • Whose heart was wholly givetoHim, who doth our lives control,' Yea! He was ever with thee -upheld by His Heavenly arm. ' Thou el idst work in His service -He will keep thy pure soul from barns; May He vide thy son -thy idol -from this cold world of strife and pain, May he offer Heav'ns rood works -and be ready to enter in. • ELOISE A. gICIMMINGS. Goderich, Qnt., Canada, Sept., 3003, 1894. Lines inscribed to the Officers and Crew or "The Petrel," while in Gode- rich harbor, accompanied by a boquet of White neniones, Mignonette and Geranium leaves. • Here's a briquet for "the Petrel" that sails e'er Huron's blue, • Its blossoms white and pure, like the , Petrel's wings so true; Its wings that bear it safely, o'er every. crag and crake Guarding well the treasures, of Huron's far fam'd sounding lake. ' .May.its "White Wings" ne'er be stain- . ed with a sordid love fel. wealth, May the homes oflthose who guide them be bless'd with perfect health; May their hearts be anclior'd to the Cross, that pilots their way To the Haven, where God's sunshine is one Eternal Day. ELOISE A. SKEHMINGS. Goderich, Ont., Sept. 28th, 1894. • THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE OE THE AGE. -There is probably, no fam- ily medicine so favorably and so widely known as Davis' ParaaKira LER. It is extensively used in India, China, Turkey -and, in every civilized country on earth, not • apply to counteract the climate - Wu- ences, but for the of cure bowel troubles, Cholera and Fevers. It is used internally for all diseases of the bowels, and externally for wounds. burns, bruises, &c. Sold by druggists generally. 25e. for a big bottle. Summerhill. Too at, for last week. The I. 0. G. T. open lodge meeting on Friday evening the 28th ult., was well attended, the speakers were Rev. Mr. Fear, Mayor Holmes and Bros. Draper & Kyle of our own lodge. There was also a good programme of music, &c., which was much appreciat- ed. Mr. Geo. Hill has sold two fine horses and bought another 3 year old colt which he will no doubt turn over to good advantage in the spring. G. M. Kilty attended the Teachers' convention at Goderich on Thursday and Friday last. Mrs. Bogie, of Colborne, was visiting her sister, Mrs. C. Beacom, on Satur- day. The Misses Kerr, of Wingham, were visiting their cousin Miss Flora Miller last week. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McVittie left for their home at North Bay, on Thurs- day the 27th ult. We hope they arriv- ed safely tit their destination. IT'S A SECRET that many women owe tbeir beauty to Dr. Pierce's ,Favorite Prescription. The renson-beauty of form and face, as well as grace, radiate the common centre --health. The best bodily condi- tion results from good food, fresh air, and exercise, coupled with the judicious use of the "Prescription." In maiden- hood, womanhood, and. motherhood, it's a supporting tonic that's peculialy adapted to her needs, regulating, strengthening, and curing the cleeekae-- meats of the sex. If there be a headache, pain in the back, bearing -down sensations, or general debility, or if there be 'nervous disturbances, nervous prostration, and sleeplessness, the "Prescription" reach- es the origin of the trouble and cor- rects it. It, dispels aches and painst corrects displacements and cures catar- rhal inflammation of thelini n g mem- branes. It's guaranteed to benefit or cure or the money is refunded. Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation, indigestion, biliousness, headaches and kin,dred aihnents. The Supreme Court will decide shortly whether or not Sir Oliver can give Ontario prohibition. Confusion as td the choice of a blood - purifier is tinnecessary. There is but. one beet Sarsaparilla, and that is Ayer'co. This important fact was recornd at the World's Fair, Chicago, 1 , eing the only blood -purifier admitted. to be placed on exhibition. t Premier Greenway, of Moinitoba; will not reply to Winnipeg Roman Catholics on the separate sehools question . OT/IIIID 18 A DAY.^.--‘1,3ititbiitnetiCAtt Rheumatic Cure, for Ilhenearitiste n d lenrelglit, radiantly area in 1 to g days. Int action non the systeM is remarkable and myeterleilii. It removal at (Mee the cause and the dies** lentedletely appears. The Spit dboo greatly benofiti. 74 dentflA Sold'by Waite & CO, Drugglitt. • '.