HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-10-31, Page 61111 THE Ie0CeE WE USED TO LIVE IN.
' ietheiwya Wetheraid In Youtlee companion.
sae heuse we wee to live in looks at us i
no wistfully as we go erivItte by; ;
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The wind that makes its near tree mur- 1
murouti
nem swiftly after with entreating sigh.
none back! come baek! we hear it taw en -
:lore.
Lift up the graes choked gate, the earth-
etained :tiler.
And enter In your ehilehood's home once
Mere.
ith, noi let us make merry with light
oseseeuh
of newer days and pueh tho past aside
erose to that door the baby used to rout
The knob and play with it -before he died;
Ile used to sieep on the broad sitetiew 3111
A sunbeam in bis eurls-no, not that lall-
Tbis level road. Drive faet-oli, teeter still.
Row email it was! Before the lairds are
grown
They lie so warmly In one tiny nest;
But all the world te theirs when they have
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And toreigu roofs replace the mother's
breavt.
Ala, well•-ood eared:. See, before us now
The ampler home beneath a. lofter bough.
Lift up the eaddened heart and clear the
brow.
For in thy empty zest beyond the Mil
Are blessed shadowe of immortal ease;
The sun crowned baby on the window eili,
The happy children beneath the trees,
old house, look not so piteous. Thou art
Of larger Ryes the very sweetest part;
The first love of tho unforgetting heart.
PRAYER.
Almighty Father, God and Lord of all,
Thou seest the evil -which is in the
world and by which we are surrounded.
Thou knowest our weakness and how
strong those s?rincipalities and powers
are against which we tuust contend. Yet
thou dost call us to this conflict and
dost bid us fight against our enemies
and Thine. Because Thou Quest for us,
bemuse it is Thy will that we should be
saved from sin and death, because the
battle is Thine as well as ours, we are
confident that Thou wilt give us victory
over our foes. Increase our faith and
help us. to do valiantly tes we contseid
with our besettiug sins and as we face
the ranks of evil. Save us from self-
eonfidence. Give us grace to listen for
Thy. voice and to obey all Thy *Qom -
mends. And when the long campaign is
over, bring us to the rest of heaven,
through Christ who is our life. Amen.
"771) 411M THAT OVERCOMETH."
(By Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D.) it,
There is a glowing list of rewards pro-
mised •in the New Ttestament "to hint
that overcometh." 'Pliny are enough te,
fire every Christian heart and more thee
satisfy his highest aspirations. They re
the splendid crowns laid up in heave for
all those who, through Jesus 0 list,
come off conquerors. But the fi hting
and the crown -winning have go to be
done down here in this world. onver-
sion hy the Holy Spirit does t end the
warfare; it really only be ' s it. Con-
/
eating grace is a free gif , but it is not
a Grown. Just as soon you give your
heart te Jesus, you re enlisted for a
conflict, and a con .. ct that will continue
until the last b y is struck. You will
e.nob reach he en before your time.
When -we -mil st for Jesus, He furnishes
us our weapons, and commands us to put
on the whole armor; if May part is left
exposed to the enemy, that point is the
point of danger.
Of one thing you may rest assured, and
that is in a genuine, earnest Christian
life eonflict is unavoidable; you cannot
escape it'if you would. Conversion to
the core, which is ahe only conversion
worth having, means a declaration of
war; it is a challenge to the devil. The
only way to avoid a fight with him is to
carry a dark lantern, awl be content to
creep along in a by -way 'with soft moc-
casins under your feet. Even there Satan
manages to discover the cowards and the
time -servers, and make them ground
arms or s render. Out of the vast slum-
s! lure -I.
wonder how many there are who can re-
port themselves- every morning to their
Master as "fit for duty"? How many of
them begin each day by grasping the
sword of the Spirit, which is the word of
God, and putting on the shield of
faith and prayer? We never know what
day may he, a day of special temptation
and assault by the adversary, and the
times in which we lay our armor off ana
over-estimate our own strength are the
disastrous days in our life record.
Dangerous as the devil is, dangerous
as worldly tsmusements are, the most
dangerous enemy that we often have to
conquer walks in our own shoes. That
cunning, artful, smooth-tongued heart -
devil, self, is the foe that needs the con-
stant watching, and subjects us to the
worst defeats. "The flesh lusteth against
the Spirit and the Spirit against the
flesh, and these are contrary, the one to
the other." Paul had a tremendous
battle all along these linos beating dowe
his carnal nature by hard blows; and the
r•• old. hero was able at last to shout: "I
have fought a good . fight; henceforth
, there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness' " Whoever - stetemig my
reasters hes, by Gedt help, laid 'los de -
Aires, his plane; lits purposes, his Ilosses-
sions, and above all, his own will, at the
feet of Jesus Christ. is already one of
the overcomers. He already begins to
wear the white raiment, and the omnis-
cient eye of God discerns on his brow the
first flashinge of the victor's crown.
NOTES.
9t is not enough to have the truth
of God in the Bible -it is not enough to
have the Bible on our tablee; we
ought to have its truths in our heerts.
The Psalmist kept them there; hence
he could write 'Thy word have I hid in
my heart, that I might not sin against
Thee.' The Saviour Himself kept the
truth then when Re was on earth,
hence He eould easily reply to Satan's
temptations: `It is written.'"
At the death of a Christian girl a
bosom friend said: "Everywhere she
went flowers bloomed in her path, and
the air was sweeter, when she passed
through the room." 'What a record to
leave of life! The aroma of such a
character is incense in heaven. There
• eat be no death to olio who is in such
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,slevery one of us needs some influenee
and some imputee outside of ourselves
• to tompel us to strive for our ideals.
The best impulse that ean uplift the.
life is the blend:ship of &sus. He
saye: "Ye are my friemls if ye do what-
soever I command you."
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absence arrived at llowlet Hall. At no
time of' the year was the country more
inviting. And they gave thentaelyee up
with a perfect abandonment to the re-
pose and recreation they so much needs
ed, The shooting season hat). commenced,
and every morning Mr. flouter would
equip himself, take his gun, and go forth
for a whole day's sport.
When Mrs. Hunter presented her little
adopted child to the family they re-
ceived. the orphan with much tenderness,
saying to each other that Augusta, with
her ample fortune, had a perfect right
to choose her own pets, whether they
sheuld be birds, puppy dogs or pauper
babes. And Letty took the child on her
lap and said it was a pretty little thing,
but that it was no use, she couldn't love
it! she lid made a vow never to risk her
happiness in loving any other child under
the sun. But at the same time Letty's
eyes were so full of sweet affection
that the little one looked up in her face
and told its little sad story in two
words:
"Mother's dead."
And ' Letty impulsively pressed the
orphan to her bosom, while her tears of
pity fell upon its bright head.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter had been at
Howlet Hall a month, and November had
already arrived before they received the
unexpected information of Ellen
O'Leary's escape from the plague, and
her continued existence, and of her hav-
ing COMO into possession of the Silver
Creek farm. It was with unalloyed
pleasure that Augusta first received this
news. But then succeeded muck per-
plexity in regard to the adopted child.
Mrs. Hunter knew that Sister hlartha,
must have informed Ellen O'Leary of her
adoption of the little Honoria, and she
wonda ed why Ellen had not written to
her upon the subject. She finally con-
cluded that the mother deferred reclaim-
ing her child until she could be comfort-
ably settled at Silver Creek farm. Bus,
by the middle of the month Mrs, Hunter
was advised that Ellett had established
herself at her new home in the neigh-
borhood, and then she waited dItily in
the vain expectation of receiving a, visit
or a message front her. But days past
without any sort of communication from
Ellett, And as the time approached when
Governor Hunter would be obliged to
return to the city with hie family, in
order to be present at the meeting of the
State Legislature upea the Bret of De-
cember, Mrs. Hunter grew very anxious,
and resolved to make Ellen O'Leary a
visit. •
CHAPTER XIV. '
When Ellen O'Leary was sufficiently
recovered to be able to leave the in-
firmary her first care had been to go to
the lunatic asylum and inquired after her
unhappy mother-in-law. She had found
Norah in a state that precluded all pos-
sibility of her removal from the care
of her keepers, and she had been unwill-
ingly obliged to leave the wretched
maniac in their charge. She made her
few preparations, and with the two chil-
dren and old Abishag set out for their
new home, which she reached upon the
second week in November.
Silver Creek farmhouse was built just
upon the spot where a torrent reached
the foot of the mountain, and' flowed
under its shadow -a creek. It was a
substantial cottage, with a steep roof,
broad lattice windows, and walls a
mosaic. of various colored sandstone and
quartz. A dilapidated barn and corn -
house, and an old "quarter" for the negro
laborers, comprised the sum total of the
outbuildings. A small stun of money,
left Ellen O'Leary for the pur-
pose of repairing the cottage and
farm buildings, by great economy
in the outlay served also for the
purchase of a few articles of necessary
furniture for housekeeping. And in one
week after her arrival she was comfort-
ably settled in the farmhouse. Her fam-
tly consisted of berself, her son, Willie
Falconer, Sylvia Grove (our own little
Maud), and old Abisbag. And her farm
laborers were a negro family of -lour
!Itemisers -namely, Leonard Fox and his
wife, Mary, and their son and daughter,
Leonard, sun., and Mary, jun.-in com-•
mon parlance, big Len and little Len, ancr
old aunt Moll and little Molly; though,
be it known that little Len stood six
feet on his hare soles and was stout "ac-
-cording," and little Molly weighed some
hundred and sixty ppunds. Ellen sat
alone on ler docestep, in the full blaze
of the morning sun, listening to the song
of the waterfall, watching . the crystal
flow of the creek and the rich, autnm-
nal foliage of the woods on the opposite
hills and thinking whet a serene and
blessed day and scene this was, as she
mechanically plied her knitting -needle.
She chanced to raise her eyes and, to
her surprise, saw a lady equestrian, at-
tended by a mounted groom, both care-
fully ,picking their perilous way among
the jagged rocks and through the foam-
ing water, along the narrow, dangerous
ledge, between the foot of the precipice
and the running creek. And while Ellen
was gazing breathlessly with fear and
wonder to see the rider's admirable man-
agement of her steed, the lady turned
her head and revealed the beautiful, pale
face, and long. black ringlets of Mm.
Daniel Hunter. The noble horse strug-
gled up the bank and ambled up to the
cottage. The groom followed, dismounted
and came forward and assisted his mis-
tress to alight from her saddle. Ellen 0'.
Leary started up and ran to meet the
lady.
"Your little girl is very well, end very
'playful, Ellen,' said Mrs. Hunter, an-
ticipating the mother's anstfety.
"I ant very glad to bear it, an& very
glad to see you, him. Hunter," replied
Ellen, es she opened the gate to admit
her visitor.
"'Sroit have a rather rugged and haute.
dorm path to your pieturesque hoMe, El-
len."
"Yes, madame eepesially after a rain,
when the torrent is swollen and the creek
high, as at present. Few would have
ventured along that narrow ledge. I was
frightened to soe you, yet you were per-
fectly forless."
"My Andalusian !steed is as sure -foot -
"Alt I if you knew how kind, how good,
how saintly she is—that blessed lasly!
She preferred to remain in town during
all the rage of the pestilence, riskin,a her
precious life, and devoting Iter time,
money and personal attentions to the
sufferers — the saiut: — the blessed
saint I"
"I wonder why sbe did not take one of
the other children---espeeitilly, why she
did not take Sylvia Grove, who is real-
ly an orphan, end no child of mine?"
"My dear, the two children were ill as
yourself then—anly Ilonorie, was well;
besides, how could she have known that
one of the three children was au orphan,
when wo did not know it ourselves?"
"Ali! true. I am all in the dark about
what happened after I was taken ill. But,
Sister, who irs the lady tbat wishes to
adopt my child? You told me she was
of high rank What is her name?"
"Mrs. Daniel Hunter."
"Mrs. Daniel Hunter!"
"Yes—the governor's wife."
"Mrs. Daniel Hunter!" again exclaim-
ed Ellen. "Why, she is not childless. She
has a little girl, or a boy, I forget which
—or at least she hit done three or four
—or at least she had done three or four
thoughts painfully reverting to the sad
time when she first heard of the govern-
or's child.
"Olt, yes, she had a beautiful little girl
-a child whose angelic lovelinees was
the theme of every tongue -but she lost
that child so terribly -it was drowned
in the Severn. While they were all on
a steamboat excursion to the sea, that
child dropped overboard and wit,h drown-
ed.
"God heaven! I never heard that be-
fore! Oh, how awful! And to think I
envied her once! Ohl I envied her once;
-and now—" exclaimed Ellen, coveting
her face with her hands and shuddering.
At length she raised up her face and in-
quired: "Where is Mrs. Hunter now?"
"She left the city several days since
for Howlet Hall, the governor's country
seat."
"And took Honoria with her?"
"She took the whole family, I under-
stand," said the Sister.
The conversion ceased here. The Sis-
ter's term of attendance was up, and
she rose to take leave and departed, -to
be replaced by another. Ellen O'Leary,
left alone, fell into deep thought, the
result of which was a clear appreciation
of the immense advantages that must
accrue to her child in being adopted by
Mrs. Daniel Hunter, and a determination
that she would, for the present, leeve hor
in that lady's undisturbed possession,
reposing on the knowledge that she could,
at any time she pleased, reclaim her
little daughter.
Ellen's convalescence was very rapid,
The time was approaching when she felt
it would be necessary to leave the in-
firmary, or be placed upon the paupers'
list indeed. Autumn was also advancing,
and it was expedient to provide her chil-
dren with some sort of home for the
winter, and herself with some occupa-
tion by which to supply them with
food and clothing. When Ellen was anx-
iously and painfully cogitating these
subjects, without being able to see a ray
of light in the darkness of her present
prospects, she received a message from
Father Goodrich eaying that he was com-
ing to see her in a few days with good
news.
"Good news! What goad news could
come to her?" she asked. She did not be-
lieve in it at ell. The only possibility
she could think of was that Mrs.
Hunter, having heard of her unexpected
recovery, had determined to provide for
. her. And this Ellen thought she could
not submit to. It would seem to her
like selling little Honoria for a price.
No, indeed! if she gave the •ehild, it
should be a free gift, for the child's
good -she could not receive any assist-
ance that might look like pay, or, whet
was worse, alms.
But while she was still emulating
upon this subject, Father Goodrich came
in with EL cheerful, open smile and brisk
etep. Ellen arose to meet him:
"You need not tell me, dear Father,
thet they want to give me something for
my little girl, for I don't take it -I
won't, indeed! I can'teta,ke pay, however
well disguised, for my child, especially
from those who-ohl indeed, I do not
think I can leave her there, anyhow!"
"What are you talking of, Ellen? I
.brin.g you no message from Mrs. Hunter.
No one wanti to pay you far your child,
that I know of. I come to tell you that
you have received a legacy -not a great
one, but sufficient to place you and your
children beyond want."
Ellen could only gaze in wonder.
"You know, Ellen that your relative,
Colonel Falconer, Willic'e; god -father, is
dead, I presume?"
"Yes. I heard it before I was taken ill.
I was very sorry to heal. it."
"He was very old-ppward of eighty,.
Ellen. He died full of years and good
works. His death should be no cause
of sorrow. Well, yet know, he owned
much property in various parts of the
state?"
"I know."
"As usual, however, he has left the
masa of his estate to his wealthiest rela•
lives; but, Ellen, he has remembered you
also. Do you recollect a small farm,
called Silver Creek, lying near Howlet
Hall, Governor Hunterat seat in A—
ettainty 4"
"Yes, I remember."
"Of fifty acres, half in timber, half
cleared, with a small dwelling house -and
a few outbuildings?"
"Yes, T recollect the place perfectly. It
id very much out of repair, and no one
has lately lived on it but the three old
negroes who have tilled the soil."
"He has left those negroes in your
care, Ellen, and left you the farm, all
Stocked as it iss-no great fortune, Ellett,
but suffieient to keep you ena your dal-
dren, and your servants in the neces-
saries of life. I have. been appointed one
of the executors of the will, and only
Wait until you are well enough to travel
to take you thither, if you wish to go,
as I suppose. of course, you do."
Ellen took his hand and pressed it,
saying: ed as a -mule my dear."
'1/11. (400drieh, to you I owe They svalk41 en to the I u 4 a
thie piety of good for tune. You are the tered it. Ellen 'drew it largel°fIsaeg bnottoemn:
best friend ever had. God bless and re- ed emir to the fire and ee'tablii.thed her
ward sem. ob, I am vers: thankful- guest in And as the lady drew off
very thankful' Thank Goal.' her gloves, she mutt an inquiring glance
CHAPTER XIII around, The room and its furniture had
Daniel Hunter and hie family Were all the eharaeteritsties of old-fashioned
doleeeti ated for A fittOrt season at, his country cottages-. ft VMS large. equine
eotaiirs scat. the far-famed ItoWlet room, with low ceiling, with two
at ihe 1,otions of a mountaiii broad lattice windows, and a 110er lee
de:I. tries i:s teem:amble shape Widely' WWI them at the :south front, and tevo
tes.st "Caullatte" narrow ts•intiows with h. decor •hetween
sif Giber when Mr. there to the north, with a small door
fe: fret. a throe roan° leading Into a bedroom at the watt eial
Were we to ask but one thing of our
Heavenly Father, there avere reason it
elmuid be, Lord, give us a fountain.
'Why, bleeeed by His name, Ile hath
given us one. Not only springe of
stater useful for our outward
land of' springs, like Canaan, but a.
Christ. It ist for our
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ehildren whieh diameter they liked
The. queation was eskerl in a party of I
hest in Bitriyan't "Pilgrim's Progress." t
One replied. "I like ftriatian best"; nit. I
another "1 Chrifitiana beet, be -
pantie she took the little ones &mug viith
her.19
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and the Witle eltimitey-ptitee at fire wagt
end, And the homemade rag Olivet, tile
white oak table. the flag -bottomed
chairs, blaelc walnut cheat of drawera,
rouud looking -gime trimmed with ever-
greens, just the things that may be
found in every old-fashioned farmhouse,
comprised the furniture of this apart-
ment. But Mrs. Hunter missed some-
thing as sbe looked around, and finally
asked:
"Where are your children, my dear? I
would like to 13 tbem." •
"They are gone up the mountain to.
get ebinkapins and chestnuts."
"Are your children well since the fever,
Ellen!"
"Yes. =dam. perfeetly well. You
know that evsry one who recovers from.
that dreatlfel fever has better healt1
tban ever before."
"I know. What 4re the ages of your
ohildreu, Ellen?"
"My boy, William Falconer, or Faleeni
as we call him, it; about six years of
ago; but he is so well grown you would
take him to be eight; and Sylvia is about
four years old -but Sylvia is, not my
child."
"Ah not your child, Ellen?"
«No, madam. She le an orphan, but she
was the only child of my husband's cou-
sin, George Grove. Her parents died of
typus fever on their way from Ireland.
and I have taken the child. and wilt
share my ebildrense bread with her, if
it was the last cruet, and it has often
been a mere crust,"
"ft will never be so again, dear Ellen.
You are very comfortable now."
"No, madam, it 050 never be so bed
again, I trust. As you say, we are well
m:ovided for- news But if it were ether -
setae and the last piece of bread were
broken among Us, Sylvia should share
it, for slue is Willie's relation, and
lie's relations are dear to me as my owtf
—jest as dear,"
"1 :lave no doubt of it, Ellen, It . is
natural, 13ut, Ellen, why have you not
been over to see me, or your little girl,
and why have you not written to mei
about her?"
"Mrs, Hunter, my. mind was so tossed
and distracted :about that same thing
Laid not know what to do."
"why, my dear Ellen, you know there
is one but yourself that has a right
to decide. You have doubtless heard from
Sister Martha, Ellen, the hopeless coo-
dition, in which you and the other chil-
dren lay when I removed this healthy
ono to my house? It was better that 1
should have taken her for a time, Ellen.
It probably saved her from contracting
the fever, und made her comfortable for
the month. And now, my dear Ellen, she
it'• your disposal.
Ellen began to tremble. She thought
she saw .at once all the splendid pros-
pects of her daughter melting into thin
air. At last she said, in a disappointed
tone;
"I thought you wished to adopt her,
Mrs. Hunter?"
"And so do I, most devoutly, Ellen."
"Well, then why? Oh, does the childd
*fret for me and give you trouble?"
"No, Ellen. For the first few days,
indeed, she grieved alter you, But that
must have been while you lay in tho
deaa-in the infirmary, where she could
not have been permitted to see you, of
course. But after the first few days -
you know the blessed elasticity of a
child's. heart -she grew very bright and
cheerful and now sbe plays about all
day long, the blithest bird In the world,
tho very life of our old Hall."
"Forgotten me so soon. Well! it is- like
a little child! It is very well! I ought
to be gladl I am glad! I hope I am 1 1
believe I am!" mused Ellen. Then she
spoke: "Mrs. Hunter?"
"Well, my dear."
"If you -if you wish to adopt her -oh,
dear me. Do yen love her, Mre. Hunter."
"Very fondly and deeply. Ellen. The
little ereature has crept into my heart
and is at home. She is a- great comfort
and delight to me."
"Mrs. Hunter! if I give you my little
child for your own, will you love her
and do for her as for your own? Forgive
me the question,"
"If you give her to me I will love her,
and educate :her, and provide for her as
if she were my own. I must have a ehild,
Ellen. It is a necessity of my nature.
And I prefer this little one, because it
seems to me that Providence laid her
in my lap, and because I have learned to
love her. And if you will give her to
me, I wilt do a I said, and more also."
Ellen was sobbing bitterly, but it was
because she had come to a resolution,
and was shedding her last tears over it.
And at last she raised her eyes to the
saintly, pale face of the lady and said:
"I will give her to you, Mrs. Hunter.
Heaven knowa I would not do it to se-
cure her mere advantages of rank and
wealth, but I feel I can truet my child's
higher interests, her intellectual and re-
liigous interest with you with more con-
fidence than with myself. Yes, you may
have ber, Mrs. Hunter, and I will keep
entirely away until she bas totally for-
gotten me, though that will be very
hard."
"But remember this, dear Ellen, that
this is not irrevocable -that at any time
in the future, if you should feel you
could not abide by the terms, you can
take back your child; though do not
think you will depriee us of her -you
*Ito have two others. And now, .Ellen,T
must leave you."
"But not until you get sonies dinner,
indeed. It will be ready early."
"Indeed, my dear, I mist set out al-
most immediately. I cannot risk your
mountain roads late in the evening."
"Well, then, you can certainly stop
fifteen minutes until I make you a cup
of tea."
Mrs. Hunter smiled and reseated her-
self, more for Ellen'es satisfaction than
her own. And Ellen O'Leary made haste
and soon set a fragritnt cup of Hyson be-
fore her visitor. And after partaking it,
Mra. Hunter arose, kissed Ellen and de-
parted.
CHAPTER XV.
Six years, with their vicissitudes, had
passed over the lives of the two families
Whose interwoven fortunes form the sub.
ject ourenatrative. Daniel Huntef,
with great eclat, hed completed, his sec-
ond term of office as governor Of M—.
And with these fresh laurels upon his
god -like brow he would willingly have
retired for a space from public life, but
almost immediately he was appointed
Secretary of State, and was called to a
seat In the Clabinet at Witshington.
And Augusta, in the Federal eity, am-
ong the assembled wisdom and beauty
of the Western World, Wak still Whet
she had ever been, by virtue of her Im-
perial beauty, intellect and goodness, a,
queen of the truly, "beat society."' At'
her house convened the most distinguish-
ed .politieians, artists and autliore; cele-
brated as touch for moral und Christian,
as for intVectual worth, And mealy also
found a d'ardial welcome there whose
flames Were only
"fit the unobtrunive 'paths .
Of quiet goodness known."
The Bunters .wero 'still at Washington
at the point of time at which we resmee
the thread of our story.
(To be sonatina/
Vendor -But madame will find ie me-
ter to find another husband than to get
a monkey like that for three Mesterei-
Tretutlated for. Trensollitaltie Tales from
t4 Rare,
Piro* In Vienna.
For a, city of itiore than two million
inhabitable Vianna certainly enjoy* an
amazing immunity front fires, The re-
port of the eity fire department, just
issued, shoWs that the total lows: from
fire in 1906 were. less than , ammo.
The department coat the city about
goo,000.
In all there were 1,100 fires, an aver-
age of a little more than three a day. Of
these thirty-seven were classified as
large, 130 medium and 976 small fires.
Thirty-four were in public buildings, 420
in private housea and 109 in the streets.
The ,small total of the aggregate loss
is duo not only to the activity of the fire
department, but also to the very solid
eonstruction of all buildings in the city
public and private alike, While practi
wily the whole population live in flats,
it is seldom that a fire will extend be-
yond the apartment in which it breitka
out. -Vienna correspondence Pall Mali.
Gazette.
TRADE MACK Mel -STEREO.
Blood Tonic Is a pure, safe, pleasant cure low
nervous exhaustion, palpitatioa of the heart,
variable appetite. sour stomach and otherdisorden
caused by bad blood or overwork.
Don't negledt yourself. Clear the poison out
of your body—by wing Mira Blood Tank.
Every detail of its manufadture is personally
• supervised by experienced chemias. Nlade irons
the pure.* and best ingredients on the most effedtive
'formula offered by modem science. $1 a-botde.
At drug-aores—or from The Chemists' Co. of
Canada, Limited, Hamilton—Toronto. With
Mira rableis assd Oirtinuat—a trio for health..
TROUSERS OF RECENT ORIGIN.
A Hundred Years Ago Methodists
Thought Them Immoral.
The modern custom of wearing trou-
sers woe taken from the military dream
introduced into. the. army by the Duke
of Wellington during the Peninsular war,
says the Tailor and Cutter. In early
:days these were known. as Wellington
trousers, after the duke.
When they were coming iuto general
use at the commencement of the nine-
teenth century, the religious world and
the fashioneble were most determined in
their opposition. A clause in the original
trust deed, dated- 1820, of a Sheffield
Nonconformist chapel provided that
"underpo circumetasices whatever shall
any preacher be allowed to occupy the
pulpit who wears trousetese
But this was not all. Some doubts
were expressed in many quarters con-
cerning the question whether a man
could be religious and appear in trou-
sers. One of the founders of the Primi-
Live Methodist body remarked to a cal -
league in the ministry that "trousers
wearing, beer drinking so and so will
never get to heaven."
Father Rece, a famous Methodist min-
ister, twice president of the conference
(born in 1705, died in 1850), could not
be induced to adopt trousers, and among
the Methodists was the last to follow
popular fashion in this respect.
BEER° IS
LAGER
A FOOD
is amild appetising pro-
duct of malt and hops,
with less alcohol than
sweet cideh, which can-
not ferment in the stom-
ach. It is specially suited
to women as a dinner
drink.
A L
as brewed in Ontario are
so rich in the food ele-
ments of malt that they
rank above milk as an
item of diet, and are far
purer than most milk is
when city -dwellers get it.
PORTER
differs from ale in that
the malt is voasted (like
coffee) in the brewing
process, and this makes
porter so nourishing that
it is a real specific for
aenemic and run-down
people.
STOUT
Is the richest and most
strengthening of malt
beers; it contains nearly
as much nourishment as
eggs, and digests easier.
Thin people will find it
builds healthy flesh,
DEER*, used
LI with meals
, and before
bedtime, increases
digestive power,
gets you more good
out of the food you
eat—and is itself a
food.
It Beer does not
contain enough al-
cohol to react upon
the system— just
enough to induce
the stomach to do
its work better.
IT, Beer is not an
intoxicant—it is a
beverage with defi-
nite valuefor
almost every
grown person.
(1, A s k your own
doctor whether it
wouldn't be good
for you and the
adults of your
household.
*BEER tonn width covers Inger, ides, porter, and stout;
and, In the pmethm of Ontario brewers. Implies beverages
made under nioat rondltIono from Ontario barley
(the bent In the world) malt, hope, and pure water. 1
,...77" n .
COST OP A 'POSSUM DINNER. .
A tourist in Georgia stopped overnight at
the Palnee Hotel, in a little village, and sup-
pressed a desire. to taste Georgia 'possum,
acording to the Atlanta Constitution.
A wbole 'possum cooked in genuine Geor-
gia etyle, with 'taters on the aide, was plac-
ed before him.
"Two dollars extra for the 'possum," said
the landlord, when the guest came to set-
tle.
"It's an outrage!" said the guest.
"It's 'cordin' to the way you look at it,
etranger," said the landlord, "but it took
mo six nights' swamp wadta' to ketch that
Rossi= an' when I 'retched him I kotohed
the rheumatism with him."
7 PIECE WATER SET, $10.00
THE above cut glass Water
Set, composed of one jug
and six tumblers, which sells at
, $1 0.00 is exceptional value.
THE design is one of our
latest, while the cutting
and finish is unexcelled.
EVERY piece bears the
stamp "Ryrie," which it
the best guarantee of both
quality and workmanship.
Bend star our catalogue.
EYRIE Duos..
thrilled
184438 Yowles Si.
,TottoNTo
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LEARN DREBB-MAKINO BY MAILI
in your spare time at home, es
Take a Personal Course at School.
To enable all to learn we teach on ;
cash or instalment plan. We also teach a
personal class at sphool once a month. I
Class commencing lest Tuesday of each
month. These lessons teeches belt, IO
lit and put together any garment front the
plainest shirt waist suit, to the most elabote
ate dress. The whole family can learn from
One course. We bave taught over seveu
thousand dressanaking, and guarantee to
give five hundred dollars to any one that
cannot learn between the age of 14 and
ao, You cannot learn dress-malcing as
thorough as this .course teaches if you
work in shops foryears. Beware of imita-
titans as we employ no one outside Um
school. This is the only experienced Dress
Cutting School in Canada and excelled by
none in any other country, Write at once
for particulars, as we have cut our rate one-
third for a short time. Address :—
SANDERS' DRESS.ellITING WOOL,
81 Erie St., Stratford, Ont., Canada,
According to Scripture,
"Young man," said the clerical -looking
custemer to the clerk at the book coun-
ter, "that purchase of mine amounted
to oes dollar and fifty cents, I believe."
"Yes,"
"Well, I gave you a two dollar bill
at least twenty minutes ago, and have-
n't received my fifty cents back yet."
"Very sorry, sir," replied the clerk,
"but you know what the Good Book
says on this point." And politely hand-
ing the customer a Bible, lie pointed to
Job, fourteenth chapter, fourteenth
verse: "All the days of my life will
wait till my change come." -From tha
October Bohemiau.
ellere
When 6, Horse Gets Hurt
u s E
Fellows' Leeming's
Essence
But don't wait until an animal is
injured. GET IT NOW—and you
have the remedy that CURES all
lameness in horses.
If your dealer does not handle
it, send 50c. to
National Drug & Chemical Co., Limited,
MONTREAL 13
Regulating Amount of Perfume.
Scent manufacturers declare that
ladies nowadays demand very strong
perfumes, which will retain their scent
upon the handkerchief for several days
at a time. -
It is to be hoped that they will take
warning from the fate of a lady who re-
cently entered a Berlin tram car after
having freely perfumed herself with
musk, a scent which experts declare will
cause polished steel to become fragrant
if placed in the same ,box, contact not
being necessary. On this occasion the
passengers were ahnost overpowered, and
said so with no uncertain voice, with the
result that a free fight ensued between
a gentleman who was accompauying the
lady and the aggrieved ones.
The police were called in, and now, it is
amid, a law may be passed by the munici-
pality fixing the maximum extent to
which a woman may perfume herself be-
fore becoming a public nuisance: -From
the Pall Mall Gazette.
How to Clean Sewing Machine.
Sewing is not half as hard as some
people find it if the sewing machine is
kept in good running order. When the
sewing machine works hard and heavily
take the needle and shuttle out and give
every joint and bearing a generous ba.th
of gasoline. Of course, there should not
be a lighted lamp or fire of any' kind in
the room. Turn the wheels briskly for a
few moments, to enalile the gasoline to
penetrate every part and to loosen and
wash away the old oil and grime. When
all the grime end oil ha.s been 'removed
oil with proper lubricating oil, running
the machine for two or three minutes
before inserting the needle. Now, with
a piece of chamois skin, wipe away all
superfluous oil. It is a pleasure to sew
on a machine treated. in this manner.
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11`"11
mange. Prairie Scratches and every form of
contagious Itch on human or animals cured
in 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion.
It ;Levee fails. Sold by druggists.
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Social Clubs 'in Cuba.
There are social diitinetions in Cubs.
based upon color; there are not one but
several ewer lines, though these are not
eternal, hard, fast and unchangeable, as
in the United States. In Cuba social
life is run largely by social clubs. There
are in almost every town and village
negro clubs, two or three grades of
mulatto clubs and white clubs. 'In one
and at its functions may appear the
husband, excluded the wife; in another
the wife but not tbe husband; in a third
their children, but neither the father AM'
mother. To the world. this will appear
incredible, almost incomprehensible; here
it is convention, fixed, settled, accepted'
and operative. These distinctions, how-
ever, run but for a lifetime. By crosses
from generation to generation, though.
some deny it, men ascend. A little of
the blood if it but be decreasing is not
remembered against them forever: -
Army and Navy Life.
LITTLE LAUGHS.
(From tbe Smart Set.)
"Man to see you."
"What does be want?" *
"Wants you to take back something
which was printed in yesterday's paper."
"Tell him it will not be necessary for
him to come in; we've already taken
back everything we printed yesterday."
Pendelly-Now. eandidly, what do you
think of my book?
Grimsbaw--Well, I always did ad-
mire the courege of a man who, with-
out knowing bow to write, writes; on 4
eubjeet of which he knows nothing.
:Seine so-ealled friends are like burglar -
they go off when there's trouble
around.
"Thiele Bill, what is an affinity?"
"Oh, 'tenet nityleele that you art
040, married to. Wilie,"
On Seeing "Tint BOUM Of Atli*" at
Uorcutanown.
Not great vesavius, in all hie ire,
Nor all the centuriee, could hide your
shame;
There is the Httle windoW, where you
cam e,
With eyes that woke the demon of de-
sire.
And lilts like rose leaves, fashioned out
of fire;
And from the lava leaps the molten
flame
Of your old slim The walls ery out
your name -
Your face seems tieing from the funeral
pyre.
There must have dwelt, within your
fated town,
Full many a virtuous dame and noble'
wife '
Before .whose bloom yours was as
sitar to sUISI
How strange the genturies have handed
dow a
Your Millie, fair Julia, of immoral life,
And left the others to oblivion.
November Smart Set.
Shiloh
Use Shiloh's Cure
tfor the worst cold,
ht esharpest cough
Cure —try it on a guar-
antee of your
money back if it
doesn't actually
CURE quicker
than anything you
ever tried. Safe to
take, -nothing in
it to hurt even a
baby. 34 years of
success commend
Shilo h's Cur e -
M., 50c., Sl. sia
Cures
Coudhs
and Colds
QUICKLY
To Cure a Dog's Fear of a Gun.
Any dog can be cured of gun -shyness
if you take enougb trouble and exoreise
enough patience. The process proceeds
on the inference that, since he is alarm-
ed because of memory or fear of dis-
agreeable circumstances, he must learn
to associate the gun with the agree-
able.
It is best to apply the treatment when
the dog is on gama In probably four
cases out of five, he will quickly learn
to disregard'the gun, or like it, if you
let him hunt up the game and chase ti,
shooting Whea he is at a. distance and
in hot puksuit. Often gun -shyness dis-
appears the very day he makes his first
solid point and becomes deeply interest-
ed in the businese. In the midst of this
new delight, he disregards and forgets
other matters.
Sometimes the fear is too strong,
and a regular treatment must be under-
taken. Oftener the owner will have a
short shooting season and does not care
to take chalices on a quick cure. His
dog must. be ready for business when
the season opens. So,4t is necessary to
know tbe systems which have been suc-
cessful in dealing with this trouble.
°net before I told about the man who
put his bird dog to chasing cats, When
tho eat was treed, he would clap his
hands and "sick" the dog into excited
attack. At this psychological moment.
he would fire blanks from a small pistol
Two or three treatments usually suffic
ed.—From "Gun -Shy and.Blinking Dogs,"
by Joiseph ,A. Graham, in the Outing_
Magazine for October'.
Minardee Liniment Co., Limited.
Gentlemen, -I have used MINARD'S
LINIMENT on my vessel and in my fam-
ily for years, and for the every day ills
and accidents of life I consider it has no
equal.
I would not start on a voyage without
it, if it coat a dollar a bottle:.
0A.PT. F. R DESJARDIN,
Behr. "Straker," St. Andre, Kamoue-
mikes
Afraid of Them.
(Oakville Record.)
This week we had returned to us a bundle
of last week's issue from Omagh, accompan-
ied by a notice from Postmaster Wilson,
whicib reads as follows :
"Please don't send any more papers for
a while. The people refuse lo take them
from office. Afraid of small -pox."
We wish tp assure tho postmasters in the
cenntry, who are always courteous and oblig-
ing to newspapers. that so far as the papers
et Oakville are concerned. and The Record
in particular, that there is no reason In the
world for any person being afraid of taking
a paper out of the post office.
ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT
Removes all hard, soft and calloused
lumps and blemishes from horses, blood
spawn, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney,
stifles, spiains, sore and swollen throat,
coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by drug-
gists.
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Had Heard the Sound Before.
Mrs. Knicker-Weren't you frightened
when the bull bellowed at you on ac-
count of your new dress?"
Mrs. Bocker-No; it was exactly the
way Henry bellowed when he got the
bill. -Melbourne Times.
Mniard's Liniment Cures Distemper.
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NO, INDEED.
Patient—Doctor, do you think that
people are oecasionally buried alive?
Doctor (feassuringly—It never hap-
pens to my patients.
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Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
4 I
Mr. Samuel Valentine, ef Brixton, who
died recently, left R.3e)00 to the Nation-
al Lifeboat Inetitution, and about £20,
000 to London hospitals and various
charities. He left specific directions for
the payment of a medical man who
should after the testator's decease, sets-
er an artery or puncture his heart, other-
wise the funeral wits to be delayed fa -
teen days.
ISSUE N O. 44. 1907.
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slnelure. lo mesh- Sm
our newer.. derien-noth1ne ,like them itt
Canada, other in beauty or vanety.
1.2eques the free book that rhows•thewhele
oilers wry. Send for it to.day. 210
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Carnegie's Teat of Respectability.
(New York Bun.)
The Eon. Andrew Carnegie, the prutessor,
we .had almost said the president and fac-
ulty, of humanity, has just .given the world
an infallible touchstone of 'respectability";
"There to no better test of a reepectable
member of society than a bank book' showing
a good balance or title deeds to a house or
farm unencumbered by debt."
A mortgage is a title deed of disreputabil-
ity. So is the want of a bank book or the
want of a good balance in 0110'13 bank book.
Tho test is simple,
The twelve apostlee had no money at all,
and were utterly diereputeble, Mr. Carnegie
has all the money that his too generous
heart has not plunged him into giving away
out of his income; and he must be one of
the moot respeotable persons in the world,
not excepting the head porter of the Grand
Motel, Venke.
"I can take you to a hundred
homes, right around my store, in
which St. George's is used."
"You can ask those, who do
the baking, what they think of
St. George's
Baking Powder
"And every oneof the hundred
will tell you the same - that
St George's stands every test
and never loses its strength."
Write/or free cofty of our Cook Pools.
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SELFISH SALVATION—SEEKING.
To be saved means, slot to get some-
thing, but to give something. When we
have given ourselves and all that we
have to Christ and his service, we re-
ceive, it is true, anore than we can ever
give; but if that is our chief purpose
in so doing we have not caught the
spirit of Christ's message. "Individuals
who seek religion for heaven alone are
merely bargain -hunters," is the search-
ing way a Chautauqua spea.ker is report-
ed to have put the truth. Getting saved
merely for what he can get out of it
for ourselves is a e,elfish and unworthy
way to seek salvation. But to come to
Christ ip joyous aeeptanee of His salva-
tion because only in Him can we live
a life that •counts, is to seek salvation
for what it will make us worth to oth-
ers -and that is what Christ wants us to
think most about.
BETTER THAN SPANKINO.
Spanking does not cure ohildren of bed-
wetting. There is a constitutional cause for
thi-. trouble. Mrs. M. Summers, Box W. 8,
Windsor, Ont., will send free to any mother
her successful home treatment, wit& full
instructions. Send no money but write her
to -day if your children trouble you in this
way. Don't bhune the obild, the chances
are It can't help it. This treatment also
'lures adults and aged people troubled with
urine difficulties by day or* night,
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How the Rattles Are Worn.
The rattles lie edgewise. It is evident
that they must do so, inasmuch as they
are but continuations of the backbone.
The snake carries the rattles on the
ground except when he raises them to •
sound his warning. This will .be
denced by the fact kithllaetd ituheevreartytlessnakaree
lathe under size. -From
woforannythsriozengthhaotn
Forest and Stream.
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Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows.
Don't Worry.
(Philadelphia Record.)
There is:only $6,000,000,000,000 worth of goId
left in the Witwater's Rand in South Africa,
and at the present rate of exploitation it will
all hays" been mined and smelted by the year
41,007. Speculators in futures had better
cover their "short" sales of the yellow metal
before the inevitable calamity shall come
to pass.
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Minard's Liniment Cares Diphtheria.
A Lesson of Lessons.
(Philadelphia Record.)
England is collecting in her home waters,
the greatest fleet eVer assembled under one:
commander, and Is doing It without taking a,
ship from her principal squadrons. Tho pc -
Weal purptee of this display is to quiet
public isentiment, which the opposition party,
ha.s alarmed by representing that the Minis-
try was sacrifieing the naval power in an
efort to reduce taxation. It; eolitical effect
in this country will be to incite the President
and the Jingoes generally to demand a vaet
Increase of our navy, to that wo can mass
110 war ships In front of Oyster Bay with-
out depleting the regular naval stations.
A lame horse .
is a dead loss.
rt costs as much to keep a lame horse,
as it does a horse in harness — and the
cripple bringe nothing in, You can't afford
to support idle stock, That's why you 'can't
afford to be without
k I
fa/
Kendall's Spavin Cure
It takes away the pain and stiffness front Sprains and Bruises, --draws
the soreness out of Strained Muscles and Tendone—CURES Spavins,
Soft 'lunches and Swellings. Used for two generations by two nations.
ItATIUMS 6TATTOrr, ONT., Bee. 18,
" liave twie ketithtles spavin cure for a Bane Spavin of 4 yeare
et/sliding, which has entirely Cured the lameness end greatly rCdnred
tlie swelling. Another bottle of the Spotvin Cure, 1 am sure. will
complete the cure." BOWAItt)
OM a bottle or for Sd, Sold by &Mere everrehere. write for free copy of our
famous book..." Treatise On The Boric." WM Will Bud a need for it every day.
tht. a. J. KeNDALL 00., tsiOsittreta Mal, Veil MONT, U.S.A. 29
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