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The Signal, 1898-1-6, Page 2e t . ,. TsVR DAT, Jan. 6, 1897. • 14, ,+ . lir 8I(r' Ar. CO1►FRiCH (NTARI e 11MMTtifftrIMMIMMINt1“101fAtffttfffrtMIttrYtt Itt mm f" Praises • . • For the quality of skein sold by us is what we hear from our,eu•towers daily. Under such circumstances they will continually be our patrons in the future. We will do as well by YOU as by anyone else. And you can de as well with Us an with anyone else, and it might be that we c .0 prove to you that you can do even t Better . . e . with Us than with anyone else. Anyhow, we are here, and we have some eery nice goods fur men and women. We [hake your feet (:lad, and put money in your pure by saving for you on your purchase. Repairing .. Neatly done. ST. GEO. PRICE. Woo side3 of equate . e44444US444U1 HEWS OF THE DISTRICT. Froin ourown Correepondenta Ibsen le lntersesle.• Mere l tai Can■et be /•and Asywafre glee—News •f the V.u'i' s)eelaldy ateported for TM INgs.L •- DUNG ANNON. Norica.—The local agency in Dungann o for THIS tltQN&L 18 111 the utllce of J. U. Wert, J. P„ c,nv.3aco,r, kc. who w Il receive or- ders for .t.becrtpttoue, advertLmg and job work, and is authorit d to give reeelpte fur amounts paid for the sane. TUsstAv, Dec. 28. DUNGANNote PUBLIC CHOW. —Tee trus- tees prtnmpal sed pupils of the Duogauoon publio school are i0 he highly ouogratulated for the souoeeslul result. of good school wurk to receiving a the k from the Government for the sum ot 8100. being a grant of coolie uattee food wppeetroud to abs school ler . noo.+sful work in E.atranos, P 9 Le.v ng and 3•d I tits o•rt'boats examinations, out of the oh...24 b given es a ;teat to 'de 1'om'rrwp.otorserby feeverotosat. ._,e,,.,,,.,, EAST ,)1/U4WANOSH. TUtaDAY, Dec 28. Ontrr,IRr. -There dad et hie residence on the 12th oonoes.too, on Tuedav, Dec. 21st, Archibald Anderson Altt.ough slightly til oo the day p,evp s and oo the day of his death, yet no serious results were anticipated, l.e•viov the house, as hu wife and daughter thought, to go to the barn, he did not returr. A search was made, and he was toned quite deal. Drosses 1 was born in Fermen'.a.h County, !retool, on January 21st, 1822, and war aged. at the time of his death, 75 peon amt 11 mouths. H. emit. grated to this country In '49, and settled n ear Cookeville, where be lived tor seven years, working at his trade as • tanner. He moved to Eest Wawaooih in the fall of •56. having been married three years previous to Matilda Elliott, ester of the late William Elliott and John (idiot(. He settled o0 the tarm whish he, has occupied till his death. Here, by held work, carefulness at1A lruga µy, ha made for himself • good ajttec Hte;l�t!is'Y€t*r..xms and thres'daurht rs : oho. pisooipal of a Toronto •innotion school, Welham, a farmer on the 12th too., Anne Jena, rending at bows, apd two other daughter.. who died wean eery young from an attsok of scarlet (ever le 1863 Mr. Anderson. when a youog man, was a famous walker, having in the early days of the enmity walked from Os home near Wingham to Goderioh and bank • rate as tar as Me.nohester in one day. He poues.d a remarkably ragged constituting, and although lacking only one month of be- ing 76 years of •se, he bad dons all the work on his term of 150 •ores. never finding it n ecessary to vire any help. The r.l•tivea of the deceased have the wooers sympathy of the oommuoity to which be has been so lone • sterltnet example; for his has truly been " A good life lived, And a good fight tough ." least, Mi.. Aegis Herbert, in taking snob paras to ensure • pleasant eveotog tor tin- people hepeople of the allege. SEAFORTH. TOVIDAY. Dee Jae. Bertin left kat weak for West H threw. G l Moores, of Asked, taped slew d y salt fundus Gm. Cordite loped ,Cbr1s$ at sed a fee Honest D mote of Str•tfeed, wan a visitor in tarso on M...dsy. Ali his frauds war p1ew..1 to see h m. - J.n. M -tuella, of this tows, spent Christ• was eve wit h friends in K.nburn. He re Love bevieg • good time. It wee remote,' test one of our best hotels was caught sell ng after hours par Cons w.. n ght, but such was not the or..., Walt Stewart, of St. Paul, Wow. ur eeeemed townsman, Al.. Stewart, 1' .t pre •ut .'0 • visit to friends in town. John Wouigh;41 old S •forth boy, but n ow ot Re -4 (:ity, Mich„ 1• spending Claim aim hohdaysimith friends about here. Wat Andrews speaks of building • shoot toy 'celery on the flying machine pene,ple, e epetrewte.to eater.ete Zanotr-Nerl•r'• Y-wir Darr year. - - Jame* Bacon, of Hartoey, Man., is • via - HAY Mere, arse lb+eall prebe.Mr (.suet• l,fe partnership before returning. Make • rastie Jim. Thus. McGarrev, one of the largest oat • create,. to Manitoba, from Deloratse, Mae., arttxat bag t,4e other day auLIIill spend_ tew days with friends. VV m. Ryan, the eapeoted-to be mays Mitch. II, spent Sn"ley with hes friends here. SDoceu to /on, W iii. J Downey also socompanied him. Geo. Nichol spent • few hours at 1 1 .dbury sod Walton, trying to bed in rs n his nen* iD the Kloodtke G rood canvasser, but got ao iarestors. K J. Dawson, of the Klondike n ae les intend. spending his New Y hoh.l.y, to Besobwood sod vicinity, especially, the guest of Miok Meanie. te ,r. BLUEVALE. MONDAY, Deo. 27. Frank Sent spat Christmas in Seaforth. Rev, W. J. West spat Christmas in Goner. Rev. J W. Woe is visible. M 1111 home in Woodsteek, Mrs Wm. Messer is naming s lore hand, o•uaed by a felon. Mrs. Geo. Hanley and two childrei ars 'intim in Toronto 3. B Doff. who has been very ill, has oompbetely recovered. Will Gray, of Wingham. spent Wednes- day wibo Louis it. Duff. Edwin Bailey, teacher .t Haesville, Mani Christmas with hts mother. Rob. Stewart, high school Mather at Alexandria, is vatting at his home. Geo Acheson and has eran'id.oghter,Miu Annie. spent Christmas in Seaforth. James Acheson, of'Higk Bluff, Manitoba, is visiting his brother, Geo. Acheson. Mr. sad Mrs. Marsh, of Woodstock, ars 'teeth's Mr. sad Mra. Robert Duncan. Mrs. Motile, of i'ort Herm. meet (;hrut- rem with her mother, Mrs. Waiter Rather• ford. Andrew Jeffrey, of London, sad John King, of Kinhoro, are visiting Mrs. Duman King. r . 1 many John nab invest - .n ole Years more Thos. Hadley and wife gave • very In- teresting euohr. IT t on Christmas ave, and no the following .•veniou W. Cady en terteined a litres number of friends at hie neadenoe next door. It is our duly to record this week the death of Frank Anden.00, • young nine well known and re.pseled by ail in our taws, which eveet occurred in hie 32od year from 'yphoid fever. All lite friends have toe sympathy of the entire cornmunt•y in their hereay.meet. One of Seefortb'e.JTdat and most rider ed el, iz n•, Robt. Car in'cheel, is on the sick Let at present, but at the latest writing h• is moodily improving I' "oold he • ver. esriousdrawb•ik to 'h- (;,ledonia Sonte'y were they to miss R .b re's haggis on ti., eight of their supper. Mav he be spared long to prepare the haggis. 1 he municipal nominations were hold on Maness, in the council chamber, and the following is the result : Mayor, R Scout end B. B. Finn ; reeve, Jas. Beattie, R teihron and Jas. Watson ; deputy reeve II. Nordin, A. Hay, J. D. Roe , A. Mob .n• aid, John Wilson and John Dor in; south ward. James McGinnis, J. S. Roberts, Ja• Gillespie, R. Willis sod Geo. Sill.; nor h• ward, 1). Molntvre, Jae. rade, John A Reid, John Wiltws, Alar. Wilson, W. Ameot and R Winters. Little Mabel Tobin was the recipient of • valuable Fold nw:klst and sold braee•e. o- Fraley last io rsooseitden ot her serviees a' a school entertainment at the L•'adboiy school homes last week. This wooderfu' child artist will appear here on Wednesday evening, the 29th, and in Mitchell on the following evening, and will also appear the follow ler week at Woodstock and London, and is in great demean for severe) other Mmes. Sim 1s a 11111. wonder to all eh'. have the pleasure of listening to her. Ma; her success soetlnns, as she deserves it, for .he D. • little star, and cannot be eolipsed even by her own father, " Patsy." SHure NOT FOR SALES, Chinese Merchants Piemonte* the Ilhri- rea•ge of A es.rica s. Tho worst salesmen In New York ars the Chinese whose shops ere ID Doyen and Mott streets, whose windows are filled with Chinese handiwork se • bid for the curious be enter. When a would be pur- chaser ones gets Weide a shop, the propri- etor treats hint as an Intruder. Moat el th1'so shops aro modeled on the same plan. Near the deer, is a little boxlike Mace, and from this extender counter half the length of the ewro. The back of the Bur 1e shut off by n board partition, and If the visitor' la curious and pokes his head around 1t • Chittatauu is very likely to appear from the darkness and gently push him toward the first y( tho rconi. if the storekeeper Moos.% W entertain a few friends back there, It 1s no one's busluose, and he SO. -101'f propoao to have intruders get any Idea of what sort of cutertaintuont he may be furnishing. The dull, heavy odor that fill* most of these little shops makes 1t phs.ible to gueaa pretty accurately as to what Is going on behind the partition. Each shop hats about the same oolltr'tlon of warm. • Chinese edibles fill the shelved, and In the windows are brightly adored Chlnuao vases, bowls, fans, ci,ildren's toys and oticaslonally a piece of carved Ivory. 'There isn't much demand forcers -e( ivory In Chinatown, and the *mall dealers say that it is too expenatye to carry In stook. An America ustamer' bo cit etre iifle of- these shops le grectcd• by the proprietor Au_ tndlff.evnt ••IIe.1pt" and a. Mr - footle, c'preasi.nless face; The proprietor" _uhliuL tho counted' b _.....,,....troft 't anxious to sell his goods. "Hove you any owrved ivory?" asks the customer. The Chinaman stares at hint suspicious- ly and answers: "No. No ivly. No got." There aro three pieces in the case behind hint, and the customer points theta out. The Chinaman turns and looks at them es if ho had never seen them before. "Let (rte see them," asks the cttetomer. "Want to buy!'" says the Chinaman, still without intend. The contemner nods, and the:-ahapkaaper go1s over to talk to a Chinaman who has just conte In. Incidentally he looks at the co -Mouser's leder to use if They have tho heavy solea and the square out toes which stamp the wardman. 11. bis conversation to th'one ettarrb1eg Wirfi''pre•tretwtatese eating. fie *1ff'lllttie't' I to his crfktlf eii and eye him suspiciously. He may even be persuaded to take the ivories veto( the case and tell their prices. Ile shows no In- terest in it, and it apparently doesn't oc- cur to hits that 1t is his business to sell 'hlagates.—New York Sun. e.thel and Rob. Klag, of Wingham, ars spending the Christmas holidays with their arced mother. Mr. sad Mrs R. N. Doff spent Sandsy at the residencies of Mrs. Duff's mole, the late Arebibald Andantes. ul Rett Wawsaesh. Mr. and Mrs. Fred ano.,raoken, of Bros• ee1s, sad Mr and Mrs. J. MoDonald. et Goderioh, .pent Christmas .t John Gardin- er's. The entertainment le the Methodist ehureh Thursday evening was not a roomer, as the weather was stormy and seine at the performers failed to appear. Th. entertainment e.vso by t1. pili of the Preshyteriae Sudsy school ffla Christ- mas eve in the Foreshore' hall was a decided ..arca Miss Agile Herbert, the exoelleat orgasi.t, although young, has the knack of training the yovog voices, and the result WWII that every word tang by the elaildree is the phoreses was dlKlaotly heard. Tse dialogues ie ere well noted and the rs.ltatieas well delivered. Perhys the best testers of the program w.. a drill by sixteen girls. dressed is white, with red, white and bine sashes sad ear. Is se Interval le the drill Mies Bird McCraekw nested •' The British Flag," and et the sloes of the re.teattes the esteem girls shag *0. .ber.. .1 the " Sed, White .ad Rha.. " The trotteds am.anted Mb swap twenty Amish. Ment theeka ere Ase be Me. Maltose. Mies Freese. Mn. Ma- Deeald, Rev. 44r. 1% set, sad, W Me set '4 The Coming Aristocracy In America __While in France --what with our "mod- ern ed iun 11(01,'' the "spreializntion of our a'ienccs," "t he spirit of reel, :nal sn" with which we aro trying to inoculate our un1- versiucs—enc are diminishing the met of general instruction, in .America, .•n toomay.. e Thg to tncreuso rind to consolidate It. While we art insensibly detaching ourselves from our traditions, the _Americans—who are inconsolable -Cin not having an ancient history—aro precisely essaying to attach themselves tethe tmuattko...we aro forsak- ing. Of all that wo affect to consider too useless or superannuuted of tho history of .Creek institute -ins or the exalnl,nntion of the books of the Old Testament they ars composing for theu_s.•lves, as. one might say, an intellectual prase And if perhaps the catalogues of their universities do not keep all their promises, which is often the case with our own, that is unimportant. The function always ends by creating its organ and It In tendencies which mutt be regarded. Tho unhorsitartan tendencies In Muerte• nro on the way to constant,: aD aristocracy of intelligence in that great democracy, and, which le elrnest ironies(, of that forth of Intelligence which we nre no wrong he led and stupid ns to drend s1 the most hostile to the progress of democ- racy. — Ferdinand Bruntticre in Mc- Clure's. A BRAVE TURK. n ew a Trooper Cas aced a earvlaa nen. try. "I aver In my life saw • mon with snob • magaHleent physigos. He was very handsome, splendidly proportioned, and et asteendiag pbyeei.l strength. A few day. before I met him he had been the hero of • feat shoot which alt the troops in Nob were still talking. It seemed that Abdul Kerlin Paha, the commander to chief, while in. e moting the troops one morning, e•anal;y expressed • wish that he meld capture a 8orvtaa prisoner from the Serving' linea. Ahmed Bey, who overheard the remark, rods op, and minder, asked to he permit ted to get the oommander • prisoner Ab dalKerlm wonderingly gave the required netmision, and Ahmed Bey, withon mother word, wheeled Me oh.rg.r, deehed the spars into his flanks, and galloped off In treat of the astonished dstu,henent * Thigh& ter the nearest Vervian outpost As he appee•ea.d the Unita half • doses rifles °reeked, fes the Servins vedettes open- ed era as him, hepisg to drop him o. the Wier. Bet Ahmed Bey galloped ea an panned, bevieg deUherwtly .asked eat one tissue for Ms prey. Tb. wiry emptied kb nee at tis .sdaeieus hennas* in vale. sad too lett started to ran. Ahmed ley •weeesd doers none him like a SpaFNw hawk epee . lasdr•il, sad beadle. down 'rasped the area by the .star easea Cres rip sed pseg idea without an .duet qhs middle le Aust of bila. 'Iles he �a8aj.d bask wake. heed*, .ver his heroes meet se the Mlles winet1'id ear ►le head, sod lehvered lie hs.irdarel primer to the ?erbbii gseeeeesder amid the t.1lihted t hemes of tae ."—Under the Sea Oemesi a, ... Why the Cock Was Plumed. Whatever the frogs of Ireland may or may not have suffered from St. Patrick, there is no doubt that snails, flies, beetles, threatened will excommunication, by oth.oth- er saints and bistiops, and however fab"- lous may be the story of the jackdaw of Rheims, It is a historical fact that a track was publicly turned at Basel In August, 1474, for the diabolical crime of laying an egg, the egg being also burned lest It should produce a cockatrice or fiery flying serpent. "On the Thursday before St. Lawrence's day," writes Grose In his "Kurtte Balder Eronik," "*bey banned a coek on the Ko- Ienberg together with an egg which he bad laid, for they feared that a dragon might be batched therefrom. The execu- tioner cut open the 000k and found three more eggs to ham, for, as Vicentlus safth In the sixth book of his 'Speculum Natn- rale,' it bath always been held that • cock In his old age may lay an egg, whams ariseth a basilisk, if 11 be batched out on • dung heap by the serpent called eolober. Wberehea the basilisk 1s halt oock and half Serpent. He settb also that certain persons declare they have seen basilisks batched from such -eggs. "—Oornblll Magasine. • THE INNOCENT CHERUBS. flew May Worked' Papa 1.r • Donau, Dees of Cady. He had settled upon a system of rewarl- and punishments for the children and felt that he had solved the whole question of family dtselpllne. There were certain things to M dose and mortals things to be left undone ter a whole week, atthe expire - tion of which he agreed to bring home a small box of candy to be divided among such of the ohlldren as had lived up to the rules and regulation. 9'a, be deprived of candy when the others were *.ting tt be was sure would be sufficient punishment W make a repetition of the offense unlikely. It worked to • charm the tint week. With the promised candy ever in their minds the four of them lived such upright lives, according to the standard set for children, that each one cattle in for a share of the reward. The next week, however, the novelty bad worn off somewhat, and to a mnment of thoughtletesuees one of them did something that forfeited his share of the candy. The fact was duly Im- pressed upon him, and when the Dandy was brought home be was brought in to see 1t divided among the others. "Huh!" I •h exclaimed scornfully when the box was opened. "1 don't like that kind of candy anyway." Now, here was a feature that had not entered into the calculations of the head of the hou.sehoid, 1f the boy didn't like that kind of candy, It was no punishment' to deprive him of IL Consequently the only thing to do wan to bring home an- etber box containing something that he did like. and thus 1t happened that the other abbbdrer ge*a double supply oT can• dy that week In order that a valuable les- sen might be impressed upon the one who didn't get any. The nett week It so happened that a lit- tle girl was the offending one who had to be punished, and touch W the aatonlab- nretit of the head of the household she turned up her little noes when the box was opened and said, even as the boy had said "I don't care. I don't like that kind anyhow." Of course that necessitated the purchase of another box, but it.was brought home with many misgivings. There was some- thing suspicions in the tact that the only one who didn't like � candy was the one who couldn't lave any. However, .the box was opened, and then it was that the boy -was 1tEar� Leo. tittle heeded la Ci o f'or er'" "Say 1t again," he urged. N Won't do It, " .Ot rtaptiw3. " You didn't do it but once." "1 didn't think of it," he persisted. "But you say 1t again so that we can get mother box this week, and whoever gets Wield next week will fix it so's to Sella many extra boxes for you." And thereupon the little girl piped up, 'I don't like that kind, either." But ;his time 1t didn't work.—Chicago Post. Oulllwr'. Travels. ID The Atlantic Dr. Hill, who edits 'Saiedt'a Lenexa" quotes our testimony in regard to ulliver'. Travels" as follows: "'Outlives' Is In ev- erybody's hand. I lent the book to an old gentleman. who went immediately to his map to starch for L1111pt:t." Gay wrote a few clays later: "The whole impression sold In a week. From the higher• to the lowest 1t is universally toad, from the cabinet rnu:tell to the nursery." used to leave the pronto of his writieng the bookscII, re. Ii 1735 he w never got a farthing by anything 1 except one about eight year+ ago, add that wan by Mr. Pope's pendent manage • for me." The time ret publication rend...I 1t almost eertaln that this book was "9n1- ilver's Travels." He is said to hart roe celvod re300. By the Irish edition, p�o!1b- lished in 1727, he made nothing. "]IMnb- lle booksellers," he wrote, "have no the least notion of paying for copy." If the book was "mangled- in the prees,' , It�wY owing to therttrnldIty of its Londdn iiub- lisher, Benjamin Motto. who mai ve feared a prosecution for libel. Swift, keeping up the mystery of attl�or- ship, wrote to Pups, "I sad the attar - ship, and in the second volume oNNerved end passages which appear to be pato and altered." He added, "A bisbop sold that book was hill of Improbable and $atone tis earliness@ Mauer Table. "Place the table for the Chrlatmaa din- ner In the center of the room, under the chandelier if then 1s one, and then See that it is perfectly k'rel and the leaves well fitted," writes Mrs. R. T. Rotor 1n The Indies' Home Journal. "From the chandelier hang a large spray .f mistletoe or holly, tied with scarlet ribbon. If there be a mantelpbse. In the room, 1,}nk it with holly and ferns. Arrange • pretty Hornier, blending an the greens used On decorating. Cover the table first with • Milky uottoa flannel cloth and plane over 1t tb. rpotled linen tablecloth. Piaoe In the center of the table • mat of Christine's ferns, In the center of which stand a high trait dish, filled with polished red apples, grapes and such other fruits es may be obtained. Coves the hese of the dish with sprays d holly. On each Odell this place cut glass tr aline dishes filled with bonbons, einem and Silted almonda The water Nettles and a dish or two of celery may occupy the ether plane." O. tee Lewisville of a Osfraleees. The needless and Importunate capital letters at ti ingllgh printed catalogue are a grimness 1 fwore he one who hes bean . hrsw4— 1101 is, Id etrs01 Insular min dice—by ebOMettkse et the m dbedk pt.r- g eed h eses111Mwiae M*Mseta/hy b•11 beet seadledahee a kthgslr thee than in r►d.—" 111.5. " by Charles F. Black Sia ekadsee dela. N1111(ee*0— -Mkalyy—flow much cls 79v thiallt we dolt let se the thew, tai!+ td liois ls)--How minx yea menet—ALelr AND) Tilaame. .or...,. - 1t." Mr. Craik argues with great pgob•- bllity that his suggestion of garbling was "a loophole for disclaiming what yeti( air his friends might afterward otmdame. " HISTORY FROM A TREE. Louder ee.es'w Sias • MetNs et Trask ass Isere ell. A.t the Natural History meatem in Reath Hsaigeos then 1. a soothes of pollded Deu4t.i pine targe enough, goy. M mks a round table tosses a doses peruse. Instead of aeaktag 1t au objets lenses in honey abs mweeee authorities have Iagedoealy ahead it ..e • medium for the tesobiag of hey The tree was eat dew,. ". 1885, and as the sae of • tree can be Inletted from the num b r of rings tablas its arose notion di.elos... tn,. c.•a mustiwr I eon 533 years old. Ie of k' r w'., de, it was born i• 1352, sad it lived r oak the most interesting part of Kaabsk bktary—fr. m IWward III to Fiftieth. It is therefore a simple matter to mark d Serest rind with their dates sad the n•-•••• h Me desats Met were ha while tiny are Wag here. This abet , nue— amu I er of the tree 111 two directions, right away to the bark. t't a marking,. wbiot, are really executed is white paint, reveal some tatersatins 1 • u. Thus, when this pies was four moms old the tattle of Pseudoe was fought, ba 1836 ; when it was 25 Edward III died. It was 119 when Cextos discovered pristine, and whoa Columbia discovered America it wa 140. When Shakespeare wee bets 212 crag. hod already made theft appear•ao. ; when R.le•gh *staled Virgt'..a, 940 Fifty sears liter Sir lea•e lie etno was here. When the great lire of L udou was relish thin venerable .p.oln.ea could bout of 314 nage, sed 80 eteee whoa the battle of Cal• lodes was foeght. It had resehed the reamskal,le see of 424 witted rebid' Ltin iedspeudnee was d -elated, and the yet more remarkable are of 485 when Quer. Viotora amended Lite throes. And even. thea it bed • long; time to live. Evidently there is something to be said for the theory tow* ilia more we vege- tate the treater aro our .bsgn."" of longer.ty —Leedom Moil. COT NO OHIOKENS. not • Brehm Lee rs Is 4—reealter and. 1■11 1. •Ttgbe'a Gere.. !.burry. A few steles ago a robber! wan attempted at Tishe'o Corners, ea the Longswood rood. and the manrauders would probably bated' been .eooss.iul bee for the timely detection of them by Routledge, of Lambeth. The Amstar "-etas aitaliternite a p•ttsit;t he paved the residence of a friend bis .upitiooe were aroused. A horse and rjR, war standing by the roadside, and there were todioatioos that some one was reify an ooh (den visit to the barn. Lir RoutlMee drove on • short d. team and returnee on loo'. Atter taking the straege horse hum siva. rig he ted it dow• the reed and tied it. 1 ten returning. he west to his friend's hose and told him rem* one was stealing his fowls. The doctor and the farmer west to the here sad found two men makinr awav with the grain. One man got away through the door. end the other fellow jumped out of the window, Mt in dolor as broke his leg. "Hold oo, Rill," he said, " way leg 'a broken "; but Bill didn't •, bold on." No ■otion was taken,—London Ad- vartuer. It Was a Meek. The last time Roland Reed was In Cleve- land he dropped into adown town rest•o- rant and apcidentally picked up an from of considerable interest. This is the way he tells the story: "At an adjoining table sat two gentle- men who had evidently been to the deserter. I heard one say: I've jest been to hear Roland Reed' He got no further, for hie eompanfon in- terrupted him with the remark, delivered with most cutting sarcasm: y�y, "'Why, you chump, Roland Read been dead three ten years.' "what kis oompanion's reply. don't know. I was shocked beyond don ■t the sudden neqr of my and motioned to my oo anion, w was oonvnlasd with laughter, that I woubd see - de for the wine I told him good nig rather sadly end went to my hot.L olerk banded me my key and the bellboy asked: 'What time do you wish to be called, stet' " I was not feeling very e b i pper•.--.o man does atter Ice's been dead ern yesre—and I retorted: " 'I muse ' o be called. I've been dead ten years and don't want to he Awakened M all.' "—Cleveland Plain Dealer. freest Marriage Laws. The formalities preeedtng marriage in 'Franns, which have hitherto bens of a formidable eharaoter, have been 1mndifed, no doubt In view of the dwindling pepnla- tden of the republic. Men oNr fht sed women over e1 naw now Ile nailed without the consent of theirp•nnte prge et - fag a single ....,. ts1 d tktltr kikiltedteend walling lee !Massa gre- seeding to extremities. OssgsSqut j Mesta are no loltgar obliged to Ifava in • sabry •. • formal deed,dayto m tb. nnlctpal ode* and the par- allamion free of node. When the weds are divorced and when they are dead, reladng or tslpebosed, • there oath, day wtlewvs in plane of legal pevbL Wee a Goal Judea. All sort M level and Interesting thing hippie he desegl•, swordtail t. the At- lases OMeltt.t I e. It (Santee tole asetssoe from a sdkee of • veletas of *ogee e by a keel writer wke • soar Nam to hem The soar teenns* Same •t the pelta r .ktoJ d 1114 , . a Very N = as lied 1Nf11f m Mi • —t• -- - CEYt,ON .TLtA ■T ALL Ne, sal Me TIN'S Cbaaaws. •' You," aid she, as abs Dame down the stair, leisurely polling on her gloves, " you seed to say 1 was worth my weight in /old." " Well, what if I did !" he asked, looking at his watch for the third time is 15 mise un'. "And now you don't *Mk I'm worth • wait for two minutes."—Indiaaapolu Jeer- ed. mare tree Neuralgia Bleu sutler les agonies, • ei fail to est • esMey, we want you 1 rev Nervtlioe. Its adds oo nerve pais is deeply marvellous Norville* is the most plasma& and power faltr.no.ty to she market Try 1r. WHEN YUU PURCHASE • - OKI o, - - 'IAN OORlS WICM� dost be Claud Oat! READY MADE CLOTHING' MY OWN MAKE All Bret clew Goody, and well made sp, will be sold at remarkaby low prices to deer it nut 000. A tine assortment of New Goods ter ran sad Winter wear. CALL AND ass Das. H. DUNLOP Weet.t Taller. neat Beak Montre•1. Cray's for Coughs, Spruce Colds, Bron- chitis, .Sore Gum throat, etc. newer, WATSON • 0O., rem essw.es. 4 Fur TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS _- MUMS IKINC _POWDER ICOS JRND HELLO ! THE OLD RELIABLE. ALL KINDS OF COAL ALWAYS ON HAND SCrallI011 9ard Coal All Coal weighed se the Market Scale„ where yon get NID lbs. for a ton. wme LEM Orden IA as LIM • Lai$ Snot prone* weeded in 0aRAti6es WORSELL'S (MALI Stoves WOOD , You osn depend on their beteg�T BARIUM"ARA? BARIUand the M SCONUMICAL ON «UKL of any stove In the market. Seery stove ted perdwt and warranted fort= rear. Beet Canadian and American Coal Oil. dT - • - WORSgLL's, SIIver Plating PRICE LIST. Spoons per dor Knives " Perks Table Cruet, each Piokle " •' Hatter Knife " Candle Sticks " Bad Irons n 8oiosea, per pair 10 and 15o We can Plate anything in Brass, Iron, Dopper. or Steel. Wil and see samples of our wont_ NIDD BIC%CO. 7fie $1.50 75c 760 boa 150 42e Ilio GODMBiOE STEAK BOILER WOMB. A. S. OHRYSTAL Bess.aser to Ohnotaf ♦ Mai, ma•ataatene of ail kinds of BOILERS. Smoke Stacks, Balt PAM, Sleet Ire, Works, eta, oto.. And Dealer DI— Ragbags, Ma.bia.ry Cartage. &e. An gime .f Pipes sad a Pipe FIMlags, Globe Valves. Cheek Vat tamm sad �(irnwrs, Bj.oNrs sad Ie. jeoten Ocest•dly on Head as Loess A this of Steel Water and 8y T for .es el farmers and .there. Retatriaa ttremNb shaded ten A. 11. 018T11TAL. erly P. O. Bot ri, aedwies. Cartago & nal CO. are prepared to handle gage Frei t and Household Ef- fects withDispatch at reasonable rates. Dealers in;all arida; of HARD SOFT AL and Holithing Coal Wooisail us cot to sunt customers and deli ered with promptness. Orem se. 'kited. Telephone as 8. Finite, DL 0 •