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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-07-08, Page 3COA'NeN''"V"NeeleeeeteleeteseeeNeseeeeeeesesseeevseeserevaseeeeaseeeeeseeseveeseaatearese-ee Mixing Business With Romance eeerneseeeereeeueneeaeseseedeeeeeedearseeeeleseeereseeeleeneseeereeerelee eseeese Don't see why you should affect to re- gard the proposal ae preposterous M. leerry I" retorted the young advertis- ing manager, tuggiag at his fair moue' tache irritably, but still speaking calm- ly, "Miss Limy loves me almost as much as I love her, and—" "You presume to talk of marrying My daughtee on a beggarly salary SA4h AS you aro receiving?" stormed the famous pill proprietor, bauging his office desk with a, fab, red fist. "Ian delighted to hear you adrait my salary is beggarly, air. The last time I applied for a rig° you guild it was munificent." "Tut -tut! It's beggarly from the present point of view, young fellow— beggarly to talk of marrying ixiy daughter on Stick to the point, will you—stick to the point !" "Certainly I" agreed Cuthbert Gar- rettereadily. ”And the point is that Miss Lucy and I love each other, and are quite prepared to marry on an assured income even though 'email, with. every prospect of it being ine creased." "Assured? But it isn't assured.! llow is it assured?" erred James Perry defiantly. "I think we may regard it as as- sured, Mr. Perry — 1 really think we may," seid Garrett urbanely. "You have the reputation of being a sing- ularly shrewd business man, and I don't think a shrewd bueinesaeman would dismiss leis advertising man- ager, who has worked the sale of the pills up froire sixty to a hundred gross of boxes a month within a trifle' over two years." "But you've spent a confounded lot of money doing it. I am not at all sure that soraeone else , might not have done it much cheaper!" "Try the experiment. I have had an offer at a considerable advance and commission besides, from Harvey, Brooks & Co., the carpet people, end I'm willing to give you an appor- tunity." "I don't want to argue it further, and I won't. You've no business to make your proposal to marry ray daughter a peg on which to hang a demand for a rise, and a threat to leave my employment 1" "I've done nothing of the sort, Mr. Perry!" returned the young man sharply. "On the contrary, I was wish- ing to imply that my present Income being an assured income, is not insuf• ficient to start married life on. I om quite sure too, that when I have we. k- ed the sides up to a hundred Dee twenty-five groes a month you ever cm me the justice of raising my salary. "I wish you wouldn't come and dis- turb me this way, young fellow!" exclaimed the pillmaker, with an edd mixture of pathos and irritation. The fact of the matter was, he found himself in an exceedingly em- barrassing pesition, and did not know how to extricate himself. He could not afford to lose the services of Garrett, who was little short of an advertising genius and had worked up the sales of the "Patent Peerless Pills" to a mar- velous degree in spite Of the fact that, in order to increase the profits from 40 to 60 per cent, Mr. Perry had lately been leaving out the most important and expensive ingredient. He was too good to be lost, was Garrett. On the other hand, an underpaid advertising manager was an impos- sible son-in-law for a man of the pill- makees social pretensions. How the dello° to, retain tho serv- ices .of the one and dispel the preten- sions of the other was a problem, in- deed. "Look here, young feller," exclaim- ed Perry, rising suddenly and begin- ning to pace about his handsome of- fice, "I don't want any painful Ilia, agreement! Let there be harmony in the business—perfect harmony I" - "With all my heart !" cried Cuth- bert. "And nothing could 'strike so strongl and harmonious a chord be- tween us as for your daughter—" "Now, look here," interrupted Perry quickly, "if you hark back so I shall lose my temper, and I don't want to! Be quiet while I say my say. Look- ing at it as a stranger—a mere spec- tator—I can't agree that your salary is assured, or that you really do earn it! Now —what did I say? Be quiet and let me speak! The pills are good —really good—and when any one has once tried them nobody would ever give them up. Any day I might dis- cover that the sales were not influ- enced by your advertising, but by recommendation." "Oh,enonsense! I can prove—" "Shut • up and listen!" "Go on, then," said Cuthbert, wear- ily. "Well, when I made that discovery should want to sack you; and if you were nty son-in-law I don't see how T, could," "Oh!" exclaimed Cuthbert, grasp- ing the point instantly. "Then by be- coming your soli -in-law my salitey would become assured, and. therefore it would be an assured income to mar-. ry Lucy on." Perry turned away distractedly, took a step toward the window, and turned back. "Are you talking, or am I?" he bel- lowed. "At the inch:levee-of speaking, talking," replied the Young Man. abashed. "Then shut up, will you? You prove to rne that you have assured yout in- come by beirig well worth your sal. ary to the businese, and I'll think over the matter. If you work the sales up to 150 guise a month*" "Fifty per cent?" "Fifty per cent—in three months, atid 411114 am un - keep 'mai at that for three months, so as to prove the increase is steady, I'll consider Mir Proposal again." "lisn't good enough, Mr, Perry. Add $1,500 a year to your icome, and then have you say 'No,' perheps? Not mule sir!, With all due respect to TaleY's father, I repeat, not much I Give me 4 definite promise that if the sales increase 50 per cent, within three months and show no falling off for at least three months, you'll censent to Lucy marrying me, and you'll assure me an incoine befitting your son-in- law by making MO a partner." "What? Why—well—" Otherwise I must seek employment where my services will be appreciated and suitably renumerated," "Yoe dare! What! Oh! 'well— well, I don't event to seem hard, Let there be harmony. I agree to that, but you must consider yourself a stranger to ray daughter until—" 'All right," said Outliiiert, willing to make this sacrifice as a price of a wife and a partnership. "I'll go and write out an agreement form for you to sign." "My word's good enough." "It's a business compact, Mr. Perry." "Very well, then, if you don't trust me," ,snapped the pillmaker. "Now I think," he muttered, when Garrett had disappeared, "that I handled him very well Indeed. I don't suppose he can do it— and I'll take jolly good care he does not," Well, of all the jibbering old jug- ginses," exclaimed Cuthbert with re- lish, as he re-entered his own room and dropped into his chair. "By Save, it strikes rue that Lucy and the partner- ship are on the bargain counter this time. I• must get him to sign the agree- ment beforeahe finds out what an in. vestment he's offered me for my capi- tal. Cuthbert squeezed the girl's hand and laughed softly. The girl was jus- tification for the former and his self- satisfaction reason for the latter. "My darling Lucy," he said, repeat- ing the squeeze, "with luck you are as good as mine." "And without luck?" she inquired gently, glancing over her shoulder at the laurel bushea which' baoked their seat in the park, and wondering if any- one resting on the other side of the shrubs could overhear thole conversa- tion. "And without luok, too," he exclaim- ed, confidently. "It's e certainty, dear- est. I've worked up the sales to the hundred and fifty geese per month, and he doesn't suspect' a thing—not a thing. And even if he did, -what could he do? All that is necessary now is to con- tinue buying for the remainder of the three months to keep the sales up and the game is won. But de you know how many boxes of Perry's Patent Peerless Pills I've got stored away at my dig- gings? Roughly speaking, about 30,000. You see, the sales have not actually increased very much, for your father re- fused me more money ,for advertising, so I've had to buy the quantity neces- sary to raise the sales up to and over the stipulated one hundred and fifty gross. Of course I've got them at wholesale price4hrough the chemical friend I mentioned, but it's eating up ray capital. However, I still have funds enough to keep things going the neces- sary period, provided nothing occurs to cause a sudden slackness in the legi- timate demand for the pills. That weuld spell—would be awkward." - "Am I worth it—all the expense, trouble and diplomacy?" she inquired, sadly. "Worth it, dearest of angels! Rather' But you are scarcely worth the trouble it has been to keep away from you so long. Still, 1 have those pills coming in almost daily to console me and. make me feel nearer to you." "Do you think if father knew we had met here like this he 'would beak out? He might, you know." "He couldn't, Lucy— simply couldn't. It was not a condition of the written agreement tbat we shouldn't meet, and that's what I hold him by. Only by the sales falling below the stipulated hundred and fifty gross a month can he back out!" "Pea afraid that is so?" muttered the pillmaker, sitting on the seat behind the laurels, whither he had taken him- self in the course of shadowing his daughter, whose sudden determination to "go shopping," at an hour in the evening when most shops are closed had evoked his suspicions. "Pm afraid- it is so," he rePeated, as he rose and stole noiselsesly away across the grass. "And. so he's got something like thirty thousand boxes of Perry's Patent Peerless Pills at his lodgings, has he? A pretty sort of vil- lain he is! And, of course, he would sue me ou the agreement, knowing I would never doze contest it for fear of be- coming the laughing stock of the world! Brute—. I wonder he hadn't cheek enough to advertise the terms of the agreement as an extra inducement why people should. cure their stoma& troubles by taking Perry's Patent Peer- less Pills! I do, indeed!. And meeting. Lucy like that! And her laughing at his villainy! 11 58 enough to —" He raised his stick, and, flourished it threateningly at the crescent moon, Which was diseemertring behind the trees in the west,ered devised into language whieh for fame and fervency Might heve led: dwellers in the neigh- borhood of the park to imagine that e volcano had buret within the' city. "But I'll do hini yet," he panted, when his breath was spent. VoinehoW do him yet." In execution of tide resolution and the plan he had devised during a. restless night, he sent for the advertising men - eget the moment he arrived at business next day. oe "Mr. Garrett," he began, tryiog to speak or-dine:61y, "I've 'been looking at the stile -book again, and I think that now the demand is se great as to corn! the retailers to stock the pills, / rah afford to raise the whoksole price. It isift your business, of C011111C, but like you to know such things. The rise will •take plate immediately," Cuthbert started, and fingered his tuiderlip nervously. The, odes two- pence oft every box would fruattate him, for his fund were insuffieietit to meet it, in view of the feet that the legitimate sales would fall heavily in regoonst to the himosition. "I wouldn't do that, Mr. Perry," he Staid, rather weakly. nit would b<4 dangerous move. At all evettg, !shouldn't do it until you've felt the pule Of the retailer" he added, Mee roalidently, "The probable effect will be that al!'erY eatea yea Make on. %eh box you. sell will 14 OffSet by OW cleavage ht the denmed and ineratee4, advertising to, sell that box." "You think so?" impaired Perry, turn- ing round and. facing him, 4'len afraid "Very well, then; I will," • There was a pause. "lleekles,'I don't think you're entitled to take such a Step until tlie rex months on which Lucy and my partnership, de - wide ltave expired," urged. Cuthbert. "1 don't ask. you what you think, young feller! But,sinee you. volunteer to tell me, I'll Acquaint, you, with what 1 think—which is that you're a Seamp, if you know whal that is! Pve found out! 1 know all about it! I've geen through your plan—a" "Pardon me, the plan was Tome, sir; I have merely adopted it," retorted Cuthbert instantly. "1 regret that it was indeed you we heard. nnitteringin the park halt night, for it Ives my wish on being admitted to your - family and busine,,es to make you a present of the thirty odd thousand boxes of Perry's Patent Peerless Pills I own, at some email compensation for my trickinees. But, as it is, 1 suppose 1 shall have to save whet I can of my expended capital by flooding the market with the same thirty odd thousand boxes of Perry's Patent Peerless Pills, which would rather upset your move of raising the wholesale price of them," "You—you wouldn't do that, Cuth- bert?"' gasped the pillmaker, horrified. "What else could I do?" exclahned the young man, with a fine air of hum- cenoe. "Sugar-coated though they are, elmY by swallowing the whole thirty odd thousand boxes, and it would be sinful to destroy them," He paused and waited tentatively while Perry frourished his handkerchief and blew his nose loudly, which seemed to irurpire him with fresh nor; ege. "Well," said the pillmaker, quite con- fidently, even condescendingly, "1 don'e want to be hard on you, young feller, seeing you've been worsted, too; I'll buy the pills beck from you," "Very well," agreed Cuthbert, pleas- antly. "And that being the satisfac- tory conclusion to the incident, I may say I believe that the sales might actually be worked. up to a hundred and fifty a month in time." "What do you want for the thirty thousand?" inuqired Perry, picking up a pencil and jotting down some figures, "Lucy and the partnership," answered the young man, with a, business -like promptness. Perry leaped to his feet with a vol- canic utterance, and subsided again, "It's a fancy price, 1 know," Fined Cuthbert deprecatingly, "but• I happen to command the market, "Never!" cried the pillmaker, fiercely. "Never! You shall ruin -me first!" "All right," returned Cuthbert agree- ably, making for the door. "I will see what I can do." Perry called after him, but in vain; went to the door, and shouted his name down the passage, but in vain, went to his room wrathfully, but in vain, Cuthbert had vanished. Some two hours later, when Perry had esdurusted his mental energy and drawn heavily on his fund of unparlia- mentary expressions a,nd his spirit flask, in an heroic attempt to plan something feasible, a knock fell upon the door. "Come in!" he shouted, hoping it was Cuthbert in a more reasonable fraane of mind. "You, Mr. Garrett?" demanded a smutty faced boy, who smelt of print- ing ink, entering and holding out a big envelope. "What is this?. Who is it from?" inquired the pillmaker'nOn-committally, 'Proof of the bills you ordered of Hardy & Wills; an' the gornor sez 'e can't let you 'ave 'ern before 12 to -mor. row, if :that'll do," answered the boy; crisply. Perry, perplexed and uneasy, took a folded sheet of paper from the un- closed envelope, and shook it out. It was a large poster, printed in red type, and ran: "PERRY'S PATENT PEERLESS PILLS, GUARANTEED GENUINE, HALF PRICE. WHY PAY MORE? The pillmaker gasped, and Cuthbert, having been waiting in the passage for this right moment, bustled into the room. "Oh," he exclaimed, "that's come, has it? Sorry you should have been trou- bled. with it, Mr. Perry...=private nea- ter of my own." And he took the paper front the pillmaker's nerveless fingers, and hastily folded it up. "Tell Mr. Wills I'll be around about it in a few minutes," "Ri'ch'arel" returned the boy, slouch- ing out. "Pretty auick week, that," muttered Cuthbert, audibly, evidently pleased. "Cuthbert," said Perry, faintly. "Sir," said the young man, alertly, "You really do think the sales could be worked up to a huielred and. fifty ,gross?" ni'm—yes, I think so." "Well, see what you can do; and paaaps we should work more hernson- ious together, Cuthbert, if we, were partners." "And connections by marriage?" Perry grasped the arms of his chair, and, pushing himself on to his feet weakly, held out his hand silently. "You shalt never regret it, Mr. Per- ry!" cried Oirthbert, eagerly. "Nor shall she! And I sha'ret come empty handed into the business; / shall bring those pills!" • .••• SUBSTITUTION. "Good morning, madam!'" voiced the chatty salesnaan, "Good morning!" echoed the quiet - looking matron, "have you soneething very choice in Irish lace?" "Well—er—no; bet here's sdniethhig just as Rod as seventy-five cents a yard." "Jaist as good?" doulithigly. "Yes, yes; in fact, eonfidentially, superior to the real article, How watch do you wish, please?" "Jut a yard," sweetly. "Here's your money." "But, madaml"—in confusien, "'you've made a mistake—this isn't money." "No?" agreeably, "Why, no; it's /*matinee ticket," "Solt isl" sweetly. "But It repre- Bents seventy-five cents, and, while it isn't actual money, it's just as good. Adios," The clerk fainted.—Erom the July Bohemian. !, • ee 0 Greater Freedom for Press in aolexido. The Chamber of beraties will discus the proposed new prose Jew, et the Batelle, bill, ea it is known, during its Present period of seesions, actordirig to Cengreseinen Diedore Batelle. For some time several rnembere of the cluteiber have been eotitidering the ltd. viettbility of hitrodtteing redical reforms itt the present Jaw on publieations with the view of eideeging the libertieg et jertnialists and publishere iti expressieg thoughts and opinions, the present la* being dorisidered as. too Arid, Con- gressmen Patella feels eetifiderit that it will he Pallaga.--Itexieen Herald. "Only Six Weeks to Live Coustipationifilliousness, hays - Von, Rheumatism. A Dying Women. Rescued Through the timely OSO of . „Dr, Hamilton's Pi ls. "My doctor told me I had only six weeks to live --that nothing Mango eoeld help me, but to -day 1 am /welly and well, beeauee 1 took a lone treat- ment with 'Dr. Hamilton's Pia-- they saved my Continuing her deelaration, Mr. jam- -keen says: "1 leed from ehildbood been eufferer from biliousnese and liver complaint. 1 suffered exceseively from wind and eould not eat my food without feeling ill ,afterwerde. Sometimes 1WAs so bad 1 ouldn't stand up straight for the pain. The wind settled le iuy stom- itch, chest and sides, and Rhyne caused blinding headaches. At times 1 seemed one nines of aches end pains—a became rheumatic because ray blootl was so poor. The benefit I received front the firs t box of Dr, Hamilton's. Pills encouraged me awl. I coetinued their use, three to fivapille u, evele, for .several mouths ,and was brought to the most perfect condi- tion of health." If you suffer from constipation, flatu- lence, indigestion, palpitation, anaemia, headaches, 'nervousness, sleeplessness, depression, general debility, loss of ap- petite, liver and kidney troubles, acute and &rooia dyspepsia, or any form of stomach and digestive weakness, you rimy look with eertaie hope for 4 com- plete cure by the use of Dr. Hamilton's Pills of Mandrake and Butternut. Safe, mild and sure to cure. Price, 25c. per box, or five boxes for $1.00 at all dealers or The Catarrhozone Company, Kings- ton, Ont, SEED HAD FALLEN ON- ARABLE GROUND. A well-known prelate of the Cleveland diocese recently preached a series of ser- mons, his general. theme being "Humil. ity." In the course of his sermons lie necessarily dwelt upon the nothingness of man without the help of grace. His auditors were the gentle nuns ot the Villa Convent, and the convent school pupils made up of many young ladies, girls and small boys. At the conclusion of the sermons, says the Leader, the prelaie, while divesting himself of the garments of the altar ser- vice, turned to the sanctuary boys, lads of 10 or 11 years. "What are you?" in- quired the venerable priest of one of the two boys. Quick as a flash crane back the answer, "Pin an Irishman, and I'm proud of it." "And whet are you?" he asked the other lad. Crossing his little hands upon his breast, he quietly re- joined, "Father, I have been listening. I am nothing." The aged aderinistrator of the Cleve- land diocese chuckles as heetinfolds the tale. The seed had evidently fallen on arable ground. WHY HE CAME. "I dined with Somerset Maugham at Ritz in London," said a poet. "Maugh- am, who now grinds out a million -dol- lar comedy every month or two, began by writing tragedies in German. "From tragedies in German to Mrs. Dot !" I cried. 'How did you come to it, Somerset?' "He peeled the silver wrapping from a greate black, cigar. "'My German . tragedies,' he said, 'had few hearers, and these hearers were sympathetic, I, hi those days, was like the escienc,e professor who found one night that his audience consisted of but a single person. 'The amphitheatre was very large. The audience, a little man sat high up and far back on the last french. 'My friend,' said the professor, gen- ially, "why don't you COMO nearer? You would hear much better on the front row." " `Ah, rats!' said the audience, "I didn't come in to listen to you. I came to get warm." ' ONLY ONE CURE FOR A BAD STOMACH Indigestion and Similar Troubles Must be Treated Through the Blood. Indigestion can be treated in many ways, but it can be cured in only one way—through the blood. Purgatives cannot cure indigestion. By main. foece they move the food en still undigested. That weakens the whole system, uses up the natural juices of the body and leaves the 'stomach and bowels parched and sore. It is a cause of indigestion— not a cure. Others try predigested foods and peptonized drugs, But drugs which digeet the food for the stomaeh really weaken its power. The digestive orghnus can never do the work properly until they are strong enough to doit foe theme:elves. Nothing can give the storegreh that power but the new, rich, red blood so abundantly supplied by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. So the reason ler their success is plain. The health of the stomach depends upon the blo•od in its delicate veins. If the blood is weak and wetery tiro gastrie glands haven't the strength to secrete the jukes which alone can digest the food. lf the blood is loaded with impurities it cannot ab- seil) the good from the food when it is digested, othing can stimulate the glands, and nothing can absorb the, mourialunent but pure, red !blood. And nothing can give that pure, red blood but Dr. Williams' Pink J?ills. Mrs, Al- fred Gallant, Mill River, P. B. I., says: "Par several y•MYS, previous and up to two Tett.1% tigo, 7 suffered eontinuelly from indigestion. I could not eat eitenigh to keep my strength, and what little I did eat, no matter what kind of food, eaused greet pains, so that 7 became much reduced in flesh, strength and en- ergy. 1 tonsulted severel /lettere and took medicine from them, but without any herrefit whatever:, On the advice of a friend 7 began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and 600.11 good mantle were noticed. I could slightly increase the amount of foott day niter day, and suf- fered no inconvenience, until after tak- ing ten boxes 7 could eat any kind of food, end in Short time got back to wly normal state of health, and. feel that Dr. Williams' Pink Pillhave surely eur- ed nes of 4 1110St stubborn ease et Indi- gestion." You an get these PIM from any dealer itt medicine or they will be sent by melt at 60 Mitts a box or isix 'boxes for $2.50 by eddroming the IP, Wilhelm' Medleine Co.,Brockville, Ont. .4410,+++4,4-*-seesee-e tee +see esteelelelee Tillif• FARM Pennsylvauie, fernier gives thie eit• perionce with wooecheeke (greUnd-hogs). tile had set several hundred early cab- bages, and in going through his patch early one morurng he found eeveeal plants missitig, JJe fonad the wood- chucks' hole under the wall—in feet, several hole—neat hie cabbage field, LIE armed himself wieli several 0..01 tram: and twee all his ounning in setting them in the burrows of the woodchtiaks, but After several mornings of patiaat waiting, eapture by trap proved 4081),.. cessful. But, having heeled that Gen Were very foga. (if salt, lie IlliXe4 A eral quantity of Paris green in ebe.tt a quart oreatl and plaired a handfe! neer each burrow. Ile was not trouoled again that season, and this has been hrs remedy OVer If it was not for butter whir, not a pound of oleomargarine or poor haler could ever have been sold as the gene- ine, clean product of the cow. There is ono thing the farmer cannot afford to overlook In sheep raising, and that is thrift, Thrift means health, gain in cordite, quantity and productivenees, the elements out of which the profits are derived, It must be the first object of the owner to keep his pheep itt thrivieg condition. The quality of the wool, as well as the quantity, and the general productiveness of the flock make this requirement imperative. An odor will be observed in the nailk if silage is fed to cows a short time be- fore milking, but if given shortly after milking the silage smell cannot be de- tected. , There aro several points in feeding sheep that must not be overlooked. The feed lot must be dry, with plenty of clean, dry bedding; the animals must have plenty of clean, purci water, aed the feed troughs should be kept clean. These should be arranged so that the sheep cannot foul them with their feet. Another point is to keep them from be- coming excited or frightened. To this end it is better that one person feed there all the time. It is said that Greater New York con- sumes 7,704,930 gallons of milk, 361,. 600 gallons of cream, and 83,160 gallons of condensed milk in one month. The daily average is 242,490 gallons of milk, 10,340 gallons of cream, and 1,480 gal- lons of condensed milk. It will mean a loss to the farmer to have the oow afraid of him. It is a _loss every time she is frightened. To rifir a coy to pasture is like throwing money away, A cow in any way worried will not do her best. The cow that is made a pet of will make money for its owner. The milk of a frightened or abused cow' is poisonous. If orchard grass is not sown thickly It will not be a. success. Three bushels to the acre should be used. Orchard grass ia more vigorous than timothy, with a stornger root system; but if a permanent is expected it must l'eetop-dremeadow le After making a most careful study of the matter, U. S. Govern- ment scientists state definitely that the common house fly is the principal means of distributing typhoid fever, diphtheria and smallpox. Wilson's Fly Pads kill the flies and the disease germs, too. MATCITMSS MISERY. I'm disappointed, pained and sad; My heart down at my feet, My case is bad, and very bad, My misery complete! I seem to have no comfort left The 'world is black and blue; I feel so hopelessly bereft I know not what to do. ' Indeed, were I a coward -fool, With nothing in my sconce, I'd take a halter and a stool, And end the thing at once! It isn't that the bank is broke, And all 1 had lot in it; I have more cash than many folk, And able still to win it. Nor is it that the looks are cold, That were so warm and tender; She's true as steel; she' e good as gold; And may all good attend her! 0 no! I haven't lost a friend, A. sister or a brother; Or seen a good position end e • Before I got another. I haven't traded off my horse, And got a spavined cripple; Nor am I eaten' with remorse After a heavy tipple, It isn't grippe; it isn't gout; Nor any pain or ache; My sight is good, my limbs are stout; My hearing wide awake. And yet, I never felt so bad, So downeast and forlorn; So helpless, miserable, sad— No, not eitice I was born! Toothaehe or headache; grippe or gout, ,Is noght, compared with this! The miseries men talk about— Well—[ should call them blies! Not one is mine of all the batch; And yet my woe is ripe; I find I haven't got a match, And cannot light nry pipe! DIFFERENCE IN THEM. The head of a big firth of contractors Was walking around the premises and stopped to eonverse With old George, a stableinan. • se "Well, George, how goes it?" he said. "Pair to m41(11111', sir," George an- seveted. "Pair to middlina" And he continued to rub demi a bay. hoss, while the other looked on ill silettee. "Me and this 'ere hoss," George mid, sudden- l"has worked foi" you sixteert year." "Well, well," said the boss, thinkinga little guiltily of George's very low wage. "And suppose , you are pretty highly valued, George, eh?" "Wm!" saki George,. "Both of es Was took ill last week, and they got a. doctor for the hogs, but they just deeked my poi" 4 11 411.- " CHRONIC, "Away down in her heart," said the boarding house philostopher, "every wo- n pessimist. "When any lamity hansom she itheeys wants te know ilte worst, and isn't happy until she hears. 'Five Largest °Wet. The area of aeres of the five largegt eities of the Milted States are as fol. lewet New York, 202;21111 New Orleens, I2.5.0001 Chicago, 114.022; Philadelphia, 81,822; Duluth. 4o,5511, When shown positive and reliable proof that a certain remedy had cured numerous cases of female ills, wouldn't any sensible woman conclude that the same remedy would also benefit her if suffering with the same trouble? Jiere are two letters which prove the efficiency of Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Glanford Station, Ont.— "1 have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for years and never found any medicine to compare with it. I had ulcers and failing of the uterus, and doc- tors did me no good. I suffered drdfully until I began taking your medicine. It has also helped other women to whom I have recouitnen.ded. RenryOlark, Glanford Station, Ontario. ' Another woman. says. Lydia E. Pinkharn's Vegetable Compound is the best remedy in the world for women. 'rex Creek, N. B. —641 have always bad pains in the loins and a weakness there, and often after my meals my food would dis- tress me and cause soreness. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done me much good. I am stronger, digestion is better, and I can walk with ambition. 1 have encouraged many mothers of families to take it, as it is the best remedy in the world for women. You can publish this in the papers." — Mrs. William Bourque, Fox Creek, N. B., Canada.. We will pay a handsome reward to any person who will prove to us that these letters are not genuine and truthful —or that either of these women were paid in any way for their testimonials, or that the letters are published without their permission:, or that the original letter from each did not come to us entirely unsolicited. What more proof can any one ask? For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for female ills. No sick woman does justice to herself who Will not try this famous medicine. Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and has thous ands of cures to its credit. Mrs. F:inicham invites all siek women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health free of charge. Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass. 1N E NEW, MOTION PICTURES. • Harrowing Scenes That Seem to Please the Audiences. If the proprietors of the moving pic- ture shows rightly judge their audience the latter come not to be amused so much as to be instrueted, and most of all to be horrified, Tragedy takes a laglfbr place than comedy in some of the bills, and seemingly the audience enjoys it, especially those of the afternoon, lour - fifths of whom are women. An hour in one of the better grade of these places of amusement left a first visitor in a depressed state. The show was' in a theatre onee the home of high - plass plays, the attendants were neatly uniformed, the place was well kept and the seats were filled. with. prosperous ap- pearing women. The first shock was when the screen announced "Saved by a Waif," and the whirring of the picture machine intro- duced us to a happy- home, obviously French, with a chidl, a doll, and the pro- per number of parents. The next seen called out the handkerchiefs. The child is in bed. sick, the doctor is summoned, He examines her, shakes his head. sol- emnly, and then with a horrible struggle the little girl dies end the mether faints. As if that were not enough we are next introduced to a mother turned man- iac with grief and laughing idiotically over the doll of her dead ehidl. The doctor is equally hopeless over this ease, The rest of the plot is brief. The plryeician finds in, the street a stray child wire betas a remarkable re- semblance to the dead. girl, brings her to the house, dresses her in the clothes last worn by the other, and presents her to the erazy mother, who ill some way not quite clear is at once cured, while the waif is returned. to her poverty- stricken parents with a large bunch of paper neweneirire Thc dof the piece is cheerful enough, but its early progress was punc- tuated by sobs, while the death struggle of the child made most of th-e women Val). A.s if this were not enough the audi• enee a few minutes later was treated to another domestic tragedy beginning with a happy home' also of father, mother and little girl. This time the home is humble but still French, From this abode of poverty but good cheer the child, falls from the window and is brought in- lifeless and inspected by a doctor, apparently the same- who turned up in the other pictures ana whose sa,d fate it is to be perpetually NV.M./.1. shaking his head to indicate that there is no hope. In this series the father takes to drink, heats his wife and is about to leave her. In packing up they find their dead daughter's belongings and can't agree as to their division. Ire weeps, begs his wife's forgiveness, throws tlw bottle out of the vindow and presumably never takes another drink. No one can find fault with the moral, but it hardly seems as light hearted an amusenient as the weary shopper would. wish. Not content with being mournful and moral, the moving picture of to -day is also instructive. Whole series are de- voted to reproducing methods of manu- factum or famous seenes of history. Sprinkle in a reasona,ble amount ofiriv- olous matter and what more could be ex- pected for five cents or even ten?—New York Sun. • VC:f t. I Never Knew. I never knew how much she v- to me, I never knew how patient she,* culd be; I never realized until she went away, How much a woman helps a man each (bay. And, 0, I never knew how thoughtless I Had been at Muses, until I saw her die. I never knew the creases that she bore With smiling patience, or the griefs that Wore Upon her heart strings, as she toiled away. I only saw ner smiles and thought her gay; I took for granted joys that were not 80. I might have helped her then, but didn't know. I thought -she worried needlessly, and yet I see her life was bounded by regret; I might have done much more for her, Bet knhoa‘aveIher sorrows, or had thought t Butnowtat Pm alone at last, I see How much of pain her sinning hid from me. I never knew how much I leaned upon That little woman, till I found her pee, ROW much her patience, gentleness and cheers Had meant to me through all these early years. How many little things she used to do To smooth my path. Alas, I nevel knew! 111 SHOE POLISH is different from any other — the best—the brightest and blackest, Quickest to shine — longest to stay shined. It is real Insist on "2 Shoe Insur. i n x." N o luxe. \ other is even Peeds and half a.sgood, preserves the leather. 212 ihc. and HEART DALM. Selected. rell me about the Master; I am weary And worn to -night,. The day lies behind me in shadow, 4114i only the evening is light! fight with his radiant .glory That lingers about the West. MY poor heart i aweary,. aweary, And longs like a child for rod. Tell me about the Magic'', Of the 111118 he Jai/men/40m trek When the tears and blood of itie an,- guiell Dropped down on •Judett's sod.. For to Inc We's seventy milestones But a sorrowful journey mark; Hough Hee the hill eountry before me, The mountains behind me are dark, Yet I know that, whatever of sorrow Or pain, or temptation. befall, The infinite Master has suffered, And knoweth and pitieth 411. So tell me the sweet,. old story, That falls on each wound like a balm, And my heart Ontwas bruised 'and broken Shall grown patient, and strong, and calm, , A. DEGENURATE RACE. (By A Banker.) That ancient and once powerful se- mitie race, the Moors, when in: their prime were in many respects far in ad- vance of any 'Western nation then ex- isting, excelling them not only in asahi- ttcttir and in literature, but also in scieuce. The florid and richly ornate style of their architecture has .perhape never been surpased, the eurichmeets and many hued embellishments of the wonderful Alhambra at Granada, as an example, being probably more brilliant and gorgeous than those of any °thee building ever erected upon this faith, while many other of the sumptuous pal. aces erected by them—the splendid lei- -gal castle for instance at Chitin near Lisbon, now a summer palace of royalty --compare with almost any even mod- ern structure. But the Moors are now a degenerate, a retrograde, and a. declining race. The population of the City of alcieeeco has declined from 700,000 to about 60,060; while Tangiers, one of their most iei portant towns, is, with the exception of the European quarter, filthy, undraeacd, and insanitary to the last degree. The streets, after rain, are ankle deep in s quagmire of offensive, pestiferous :mid, and the place reeks with foul and mu - some metlodours. The. little shops ere raised during the day and lowered at night, the contents of many of them be- ing but offensive garbage; while almost the whole place has an aspect of squal- or, neglect, and noxious impurity., And yet these same people were once a powerful nation, their Empire ex- tendingfrom Bagdad to the Atlantic, and their army equal, and perhaps sup- erior in bravery and equipment, to the troops of any of the Western nations, who, in vain, for centuries strained. ev- erynerve to oust them froin the terri- tories in Europe, -which they had usurp- ed. But eventually they were, happily for civilization and religion, driven out, and the decadence which had already cceoineirmaenddee. became intensified and ace te But their fall has been an untold boon 'to mankind. Foe what a terrible conte.n- plation if their career of conquest had advanced unchecked, and Europe had been laid 'under Moslem rule. But 1. ap. pity for the human race the Christian nations are now paramount almost ev- erywhere through the world, and the • Saviour of the world, He who, though Son of God, deigned for a time to .drell on earth to suffer obloquy and set rn, and to give his life as a ransom for those who come to Him for life eteenal, Is worshipped and adored. But, alas, with some, Christianity is but a form, devoid altogether of life-giving reality! PRAYER Mest glorious God, Thou Who are light and in Whom there is no darkness at all, we bless Thee for the true Light whom Thou hest sent into the world. 0 Thou who art the Light of men we thank Thee that Thou hest shined into our hearts. Enable us faithfully to re- flect the light which Thou hest given. Make Thy Church a beacon for the whole earth, and let the nations come to her light and kings to the brightness of her rising. Send forth Thy servants ev- erywhere bearing the torch which can dispel the darkness of ignorance and cruelty and sin, and let the earth he filled with Thy glory. Amen. FAITH'S VICTORIES (T. It. Miller, in Presbyterian.) A great deal is • said in the Bible about faith. We live by faith when we believe in things we cannot see and then act as if the things were true. That is what the first verse teaches us. "Faith is assurance of things lloped for." We hope that God loves us. If we become so assured of this that we take the hope in- to our hearts as a fact, that is faith. If we really believe that God loves us, the truth means a great deal to us. We are not then afraid of God—He is our frieird. We 'may helm hard things to en- dute,—losses, sorrows, sufferings, disap- pointments,—but if we really believe that God loves us we will not be greatly disturbed by such experiences. If we actually believe that Christ rose from the clead, We know that We have a liv- ing Saeiour who is our friend, our com- panion, our helper, our guide. Faith is "aconvictiou of things uot seen." That is, it makes us ari sure of the unseen things in which we believe as if they were visible to our natural eyes. Columbus believed tlere was a land, a continent, another country, he. pied the sea, and the belief became such a strong conviction that he pushed out upon the SOA to tied the land he be- lieved in rind sailed on till ho found it. The thns us of A world beyond the earth, our Father's house, home, et- ernal life. We cannot me it. But if we have faith, this heavenly country be- comes as real to us es EngItind is to the tourist who puts out upon the sea this month to cross the ocean to Liverpool. Electric Propulsion foe Ships. Tthe Institute of Marine Engineers in T.ondon reeently di.Acussed this enbjeet, end TT. A. Mayor, of Illasgosv, said that the prospeet for eleetrie propulsion for Millie is very hopeful, Lettaing AMP - builders lutve teen eorisiderleg the sub. leienifor eothe thee. W. P. Durtnall said that in the all-eleetrie Paragon method t°1ePe rivhtg vtlehgv./51%et. itlehet'It'oetpreiellelrialt), ta°111:11 run at venally high offieioney in either direetion. Sinee the etettin turbine am run ht. only one direetion, the new meth- AAV("4 the expense of a toversiblo tut..