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The Exeter Advocate, 1889-12-26, Page 3DO YOU ADVERTISE? ,A1 Little Talk About How to Reach the Public. IlaTuoDs AND mEDI-uus. 'The Ethics or Advertising - Perfect Probity ateceesery to secure the meet Besalts-"Pakes"-itelittive Obeaimess -Writing Ads. -Don't Hamper -We VemPositer. 'The Non•Advertiser We have all gem Itim He neuelly had a small, dark shop in an ebeoure street. He was consietent in that be wag careful that the opecity of hi win. -dows should preventeh_e prying publio from entorilegions familiarity with We dusty Wad abelfworn wares; and. he Wag OCAleaftent, ton, in furnishing the publio with evideoces of his business incepaity in the shope of Bigots written in chalk or olierooal on shine gles, barrel heads and tiox covet% and diss played in delighttul irregularity hither and thither about hie premises. "Slow & Tardy, Artistik Talere," eteriug from. dry goods box in Italic- lettere " oo bender," alternated with Roman capitals Amok by lightning, always impress people with the idea of an artistic outfitting •emporium. ', Hear is the epoti for your Dna dress =dome," bashfully peering, on A thee* of wrapping paper, thrbugh a murky Vane, &veep cetehes the faney of faatidtons thuiluou worshippers. The grocer whom den is littered with pieces cif barrel heeds decorated in thareal usually has ti.ne +enough on his bands to improve his taste for art. THE VIIMOSOPUT OT arevElirtatNO, Why do people advertise? Ask why people trade! Why do they go Into bueineee ? Generolly to buy and eell geode? Why do they buy and sell gods ? To ethumulete money from the prodts on ,014.tile trangeotions. %tow do these profits arise? Commonly the reerchoota' profits . arise in this way The dealer cetera to the wants of the public. Heving studied his constituency he seeks out the sources of eupply in the required lines and by reason of his shrewd business skill and his reedy -cash buys at the IOWeet possible figures 'Oath a stock as he deem will meet the reaniremente of his trade. Supply and demand regulate prices, of pours°, but it ie 010 true that cheap:len increasee the con- sumption of any given clue of geode; so the theeperhe buys the more he may count on ailing at a moderate profit.. 'Raving ,bought his goods and laid them dawn at his shop he adda to hie inimical the *mount of purchasing agents' enemata .freight, customs duties, cartsge and that. .dentale, each as damage to goods at his own risk, and (it be has bean fortunate enough to be able to pay spot cash and Itilive it), hooting deducted hie ash discount, tat marks his slime so as to leave him a reasonable margin of profit after retying the expenses of naming hie store. Shortly (dated : Re goes into heathen to sell geode; he mile goods to make money. Tug MUTUAL MEND. llere the edvertieensent onus in. The merthant leases a +hop, agape staff of clerks end bookkeepers and puts in a dock. He le ready for work. It every man in We employ is worked as hard a reaeonable employer wants to see him worked the expense of the inerchant for rent, fuel, light, taxa, insurance and help will be little over who it wou1d. he if things dragged along in semialenese for three or four days every week, while the deteriora- tion of stook -lasses by shelf -wear, and esoeumulatione of outefettyle •goods -will •be very much less. How ie he to get thie additional trade 2 He must advertise He wants more people to visit his store. Se wants more people to know that he has what they want and that he stands ready to sell to them at prices that willbe good news to them. Is it unreasonable that he should . invite people to do business with him? Isn't it natural that people ehould be ;interested in anything relating to their events and advantageous methods and 'Insane of supplying them? And ien't it a f sot, proven by the experience of thotteands upon thousands, that self.interest is thus served to the mutual advantage of both parties? TiinaEse niOXET 18 IT. 1Does it pay? 'Leine make a calculation I jones has been in business for some -time. He has done a fair business, but in these days only a large trade oan secure mercantile prosperity in any branch. Cue- -flowers must be promptly attended to and to do so a good staff of duke is neoeseary. ' The freehest and best geode must be kept in fall lines and the stook must be up with the season. If goods are not sold in season they are sacrificed without profit, if not even at a discount off net odet, to the ae- firoration of the trade. How has business been going: ,s2 per torxeen: of store $2,000 00 475 00 " " light, fuel, etc- 350 00 "insurance and sundry expenses 800 00 duke, bookkeepers, :etc 6,400 00 $10,525 00 NoW to this ought to be added a very • considerable sum for intesest on invest- ment, deterioration of stook, eta. We find he has been selling about $60,000 math of . goods &yea, which, at 20 per cent. net profit (Ube Immo bad debts) will leave. : him a small, but fairly healthy, margin. But he has the store the etook end the •staff to do twioethe balloon. He reflects: Why should I not increase my sales when • by doing so I will not materially increase bay outlay Every new easterner I get, every old one whose purchases are inoreaged, will add to my profits by the sum of the net profit on mole trade bee the sum I am • obliged to spend to get such trade. His reasoning is sound! He draws on hie resources for a few hundred dollars in advertising space. He uses the fund judiciously, and he finds that at the end of the year hie trade has grown to 575,000. The extra sates leave him a iprofit of $3,750 out of which to , pay his advertising bill. Be finds helm drawn a better class of customers; he does not acouninlate old stook, hie reputation as a . Merchant has risen and his namehasbe. come a household word. Yon can't bury thie merchant again among. the cobwebs and loneliness of a oonadveitising store. He has out his business eye-teeth THE SCIENCE OE ADVERTISING. You will advertise 1 Good enough ; but bow? Many men embark in business enter - •,prises and lose money. Many men squander • money in their efforts to advertise and Yet derive but little benefit frora the outlay. Advertising is a science; it requires to be studied. Like every other investment it re- quires to be,treated on businese prinoiples. You pay so peach money for so much pub- licity. The shrewd adVeetiser will secure publicity among the people he desires to reach and see that he gets the worth of hie money. The advertiser start out with eeneething he wishee the public to know. The advertisement will not make hie goods better than they are; it will not furnish the readers of it with money to buy them ; but if 1510 pre. pared properly it will put before them exteatly what the nterchent wishes to tell them. That is its object ; the megohant'e offers and the quality of the goods mutt anewer for themselvee. .And tag* here it may be remarked that mendaeity never pays -it never heti from the days of An- nanias down. If sat advertiser beguilee 4 customer with afore that are not iniple- mented, or by the htekus between his advertieentents and hie business, he will lea tbe confidence of that oustomer, and powerful as 4 good advertisement is it can- not melte truth out of falsehood. Tell the truth 1 And, make your advertigentents attrac- tive. Specialize; talk businese to your cuotomers. State your offer ptaildr, briefly. Don't resort to circumlocution. Don't fret about your specie. A reader often gets the penile of a few well.displayed lines when he would not stay to peruse a regular ride illustration of redundancy. And be particular about Whet you write. Everbody can't write good advertisements. Funny? Yes, it is; but there are men who spend large sums in getting good ado. written, Lagt Year a Chicago Mar Pia a prize of f$1,000 for the writing of a single advertisement for the purpose of booming itself in ito OWA 00innina. A Deflate epecialist has paid thousands of &dim in prima for copy. One gentleman is employed m this work by a Philadelphia mercantile firm and earns a larger eatery than any regularly eratoloyed newspaper water in Canada. And *helm Menknow the import. Ana ot "1(904 copy," itibon. eau't write the best of ado. it will pi you to get tiorar. bodyiwho an do so to put your mattee late attractive shape before it goes out to the public, WO:4TM** TAM." They are legion 1 And they got a good dal of the mar. chants' looee °hinge, giving la return --? What is AU advatielag " fake " ? Oh, the tem is quite amnia, and will include all, that clam of " echomes" which are in reeulte equal to printing, (or palating) your card paper and boreeng it, or using bp $10 itt furnishing IR worth of publicity itt an unprofitable and undignified way. We've seen people who seemed afraid of the merest mention of their mingee itt the newspapers when they had by some lapse getinto police court or become conneeted with a scaly transeotioo, who said it advertisements "m4 read," ye* they patronized every railway, theatre, direc- tory, fair prize lid or other advertisement mausoleum orel every transitory and Mar. tietio dodger, ciroulor or card fake that any glib.tongeed agent preeented ; and we've lived to see several each concerns attain distinction -in the hinds of the eheriff. Of cease any degree of publicity 10 useful; 15 ie desirable, if not too °patty. There's the rub. Dealt your customers I No Ontario rotait grocers edvertiee in Quebec papers. Why? Boone° they could not reach through them the people whose trade they compete for. Here be the key to the eituetion. TUX BEST scovranzeo =mum The newepaper 1 • One of atanding and influence 1 Ono that eiroulatee among those you would reach. Circulation ramie publi- city ; standing and character give Mau. enoe. Both aro !motors in securing the desired result. A. newepaper that endorses humbug, either in its news or advertising columns, depreelathe the value of its ewe to it onetomers ; a *newspaper with poor circulation, or with a oironletiett Meng clam that is tuilikely under favorable dr- cumeianthe to yield patrons, is a poor medium. The respeotable, carefully con, ductecinewepoper goes into the bosom of the family ; 111 thousands of homes 15 10 a daily or weekly visitor and is as one of the family oirole. It relates a history of • the day's or wades events and ite advertis- ing patrons' names grow so familia to the readers that they attain, with them, to the exclusive position of the business men in their respeotive lines. When they offer something special that strikes the fancy the reader does not drop into town to make a tour Of the stores of Brown and Robinson and D'Smith, but saves time, trouble and money by going direotly to Jones, on the principle (and a very sound one, too,) that if the others had anything worth offering they would /Ave celled the attention of the public to it. Circulars? They are all very well in their way, bat they are expensive. A hundred dollars epent judiciously in placing tasteful, well- written advertisements in a good paper will go farther thao four times the amoant in earoulars and postage, and will have better melte. Circulars and dodgers have their um% but those uses are merely supplemen- tary and cannot take theplaceof legitimate newspaper advertising. FEW roiNTEits. Be liberal? • Your advertising bill is as much an in- vestment ea your rent. 11 1* is well done, you should spend as muchin advertising as in rent. The experiences of the world's moat encoessful men warrant that observa- tion. Get a goodaolean medium; see that it reaches the people you would induce to trade with you. Write your advertisements • ha a neat style, or get them so written. Don't weary your readers. Don't try to get the worth of your money by crowding -your space, or you will defeat your own objeot, Don't let your ad. grow tale. Have eome variety about you. Don't roinance ; be scrupulous about carrying out all you .promise; it is worth Emmet/ling to have a reputation for strict advertising probity. Don't think you can advertise enough in a meek ora month to do all year4or you cen't do* it, any more than you can eat enough at a meal to:do you a month. Keep your name before your readers and don't let them fancy you've been queezed out. Ajtd when you get your copy reedy put it o the printer's hands early. Give the printer a chance. Unlees you, are a printer don't try to run the composing room; if you do you'll very likely make a botch of it, even if you don't know it Of course he will try to help ont your ideas, as he ought ; but the generol "build "of the ad. is much safer in his •bands than in tapirs. Anyway he would only • laugh if you aked him to set dieplay nnes in agate and body matter in four Many a good ad. „isepoiledhy limiting the i taste of the compositor n its display. When.yott send reading notices let them • tell a plain, business story and not too long a one at that. But the most ,important thing, after a good medium is secured, is to be,always at it. A good journal works every day or every week, and it is • largely to the regular, soientifio and liberal use of suds that our modern . merchant princes owe their standing in the business world to -day. Moral.:• Begin now I MASQITETTE. Chicago, pretty girl, has hung up her dainty, silk stockings interwoven with gold threads, and will give Mr. Santa Claus a kiss • if he will depoeit that longedf-or World'a Fair in ft. -Chicago Totes. cIIRIOSITIES , OF TATERATGRE. Tbe longest word we have ever seen in any longtime is " Lepadotemaohoselaoho- galeekranioleipsanodrimripotrimnistosilph. loparaemelitoketakechtimennhivhlePilmsn- phophattokeristeralektruonoptegkephalok - ig kb o pe leiolagoosiraiobaphetraganoptern. goo." This is e Greek word used by Aria.," toptittnes, and it be the name of a dish oompoeed et ell kinds of dainties, &IL tiesla andfowl. It may be briefi,y trans- lated " For long sentencA311 We had always sup. poeed that on. Edward Blake's speeohea and Bev. DL Oarman's lettere ott the Jesuit question would be the chief sources of supply, but there is one in notion 322 of Rev. Dr. Theokeray's book on " The Land and the Community," recently noticed in these columns, that must take precedence. The author ie disposing the question of compensetith to landlords in the event of the State taking ground mote for public revenue. After giving -the argument and a decision in a Court of Low, he imagines An appeal to a Court of Equity, where the landlord would plod that he had inherited the bola from his ancestors, who had for averal generations held it in possegaien for their own use and enjoyment, and that it wait a Manifest hardship that lto should be prevented from doing the same* that he arid hie children after him, had &lama nothing bet whet had been permitted to hie ancestors for a temple of centuries at least preeticelly without question; and, that he himself had in no may abased his privileges or so be- haved himself as to hove justly. forfeited his riot to she continued emeyment of them. Why then should the State now atop in and ejel3t biro from his position, taking front him so malt to which, he had been long ansuatomed, and which had be,. ream new se eseentiel to hie continued, comfort and floppiness, without rendering hire any compensation therefor? It ie in mower to this plea that the fol. lowing long sentence mune fiit wald then he mailed how than onceatere baa PO other original right to the excluelve poseceeion of them lands than can be derleasi from conquest; that they had afterwards coutieutid to hold them as they had first gained them, by might only, DOS by right that their origins' estate had been stolidity enlarged by parectieg persietent policyof taking unfair advantage of the weekuess of them neighbors; that they had at all time need them preponder. Ming influence in the Legislature to give legal anatien to their eyetem of &pada, *ions; that they had appropriated aud etiolate for theirown use the commonithle lade and waste* which had for pane Siena prerielia been recognized o belonging to the whole community ; that in order to do so, they had, without scruple, ejected from their humble homes the Bottlers who were entitled to gain * scanty though inde- pendent livelihood from the land, and had oftneed them often to be degraded and branded as poachers mon the lade from which they had been driven t. that they had caused poverty and proclamation of livelihoodto take the plow of horaely oom. fort end independence in the laborer's household; that by their fencing in of the laud and divorcing of tbe laborer trona the soil, they bad brought upon the minim of poor in the land unnumbered instereses of unrecorded privations and wont, resulting itt eicknees and suffering, wasting away of health and strength, and premature decey and death; diet they had built up their prosperity upon the adversity and tnie. fortunes whioh they had inflicted upon thousands of those ,whom they had made by their selfleh polity to be dependent on them ; that they hAri grown rich by spate - Matte extortions Or large proportions of She earnings rightfully belonging to labor. ere and that without contributing any real labor on their own part ; they had need the hoards which they had thug colleated to min- ister to their own extravagance and luxury, °fan beedlese of the eatery and want which surrounded them; ilia instead of endeavoring to relieve the distrese and equator which was so largely due to their behavior they were content if only it could be removed to some place where it meld not offend the fastidiousness of their tastes, or perchance excite the compassion ot their eyes; that they have habitually looked down with pride and conecione superiority on tbe meanneee and degradation of those whore they have depressed, and frowned and trampled upon the efforts of those who 'would endeavor to arise and escape from their oppression; that, *in short, every page in the hietory of landlords in the past furnishes a record of the injustice of their oonduot to the reat of the people; and that without attempting to consider whether the present existing landlords are less selfish and unjust than the line of their predeces- sors, it is manifest that they are quite unable, even if they were ever so wel/ dis- posed, to undo the °vile which have remitted from the pernicious system of the past; that in basing their claims to a lenient consideration upon the fad of their inheritance from their ancestors, they mud perforce be accounted in a measure responsible for the many misdeeds and acts of injustice whioh their forefathers com- mitted, and of which the present landlords by virtue of their enjoyment of the inheri- tance hem allowed themselves to become sharers in and to benefit by; that they are now posseseed of immense wealth which ought rightly to have passed as rental values into the common treasury in past years, and which would haveprevented the growth of the heavy national' and loud debts with which the community is now and must continue perhaps for generations to come still burdened; that there is no suffieient evidence to show that they will be really injured by the proposed change which they so Wed th dread ". that if iideed they, should be injured to some extent, they would still possess much ospital in houses and personal property, and would remain more than saffidently wealthy and pro. , vided for • that throughout the many centuries during which the landlords, by their -continuous Policy in •legislative matters and by their repeated acts of '• op- pression and spoliation towards their weaker neighbors and dependents, were de= priving the cointrtunity of theie•rlghte iff the lane, there is no single instance on record to show that at any time any pro- posal of compensation emanated from them for the benefit and relief ofthose whore they thus dieinherited ; .that 'even if any such a proposal of oompeneation had ever been made,lt ie not too much to pay thitt it' would not have been seriously entertained by them, even for a moment; that even if the resumption of the lend by the commie. nity should involve some real harclehip to some fewlandlords, it could yet be excused as being only a necessary and unavoidable •concomitant in making a Otriotly just and • 'mu& needed and Most beneficial change for all other members of the community, whereas the wrongs done by landlorde to the community had been recklessly and •ruthlessly inflicted for their selfish gains ; that there is in fact, no souroe from whiteh compensation to landlords 'could be provided except at the expense of the community whioh has been for so many generations, and is' now BO greatly de- frauded of its rights by the landlords, who . . might rather, if strzot Justice were to be 1110iSted OBI be celled on to refund to the community a large portion of their ills gotten gains; and, Anatly, that to Impale a tax on the community's earninge in order to provide compensation for the landlorde would be precisely equivalent 59 allowing them to continue to receive the reatal values of the Med, only substituting for it the slightly changed tom ,.at tittered on debt, and thus would in effeot perpetuate the preplan% evile, and entirely nullify the benefioial effeot which the &lenge of system M deeigned to Rodeo." essrx.erteXNyO ntxrri. Remarkable Story Told of a Popular Brooklyn Writer. 4. New York pahlither, or rather a gen- tleman. editorially oonnected with a pub- lishing Arm in New York.told recently thie story about a now popular gontribtitor to the megaainetk He, with hie partner; was seated in their private office one day about sin yeses ago, when a gentleman entered. He was in great distress, ood, after some hesitation said In words some- thing like these It is with much em- barrassment that 1 luive oome 10 you I have an excuse, however, that I hope you will scoot* fily daughter is a Young, beautiful, and talented giti. She is tot' only child and elle is metherlese- I hove spoiled and petted her, and I confess her violent temper has given me great nototp. Ogees, since it greatly affeote her health. She is lying desperately ill at my residem in ftrooklyn with a fever that we teer will terminate fatally. This fever was brought on by exceesive rem, grief and diseppotote meat heoeuse yen Java rejected her meoueeript. She refused to at when the recenved the new Of ite fellore to pleeee you, Mai:aged ia t.eare wed cries, and finally worked herself into e. delirium. It ie impossible for Xne or her nurses or her phyaielea to antral her, She -aye ehe will tithe neither fad nor medicine and will die if elm oenoot eee her story in print, and Ile she ha always done what oho threatened to do, 1 believe tbet ellen lose my detiehter it you will not eq. lent and arefept it." The par fellow was overwhelmed with ntortinostion After tbie confession, but managed to stammer oot that be was a rich man and would be williog tom the editors handsomely it they would gratify the whim of his opened child, and, producieg the mitnueoript, begged them te re -reed it and ea whether it did net heve etiffioienti merit to enable them to print it without seriouely refloating on their literary late. The editerstot come related the bribe, hot, being knolheard.d men, and vatuinge life more than their readers' approbation, oon. anted, atter some diem:aloe to take the stay, my Wood having oso4thined from the girre physiotaile that the father's amount was Absolutely true. lie *leo learned tho melt of the intelligence upon the i,etmg WOMAD, who at onoe took * earn for the hater, rapidly recovered, and *it soon as poesible ',toga to write again, send- ing her not contribution to the gime pub. Inhere, who toned it to good that elm 10 now one of their regular contributors. Ritrtford Courant. Forth and Cede Ship Canal, 15 10 proposed thet tins route should dart from the 'Forth et a sulteble point shove Grangemouth, paeeing Stirling, and fol. lowing the direction of the Forth and Clyde Janata= Railway to within a abort distance of the Water of Bartok, where it would branch off and enter the loch near tbe month of that stream. tipto this point a cuttiog of about $2 Mile; would be xectulred, without taking the deepening of the Penh from Grangemouth Into so. count. From the loch itself several routes are praticeble. A, cutting C011iti he mid* across the narrow nook of the land et Tu- bed, or the valley of the Leven could be converted into a cared. looldng at it merely from the standpoint of a water -way be. tween the Forth Sea and the Atlantic Orman, the route passing through Zooh Lomond has a number of potato in its favor. The lath is -about 20 fat above see -level, while the ground from Stirling to within a few mita from the loth is lees Shan 60 feet above setalevel, being eon- elderably lower than the ground on the direct route between Maryhill and Falkirk. •Near Loch Lomond, how- ever the ground rims oonsiderebly, and a very' deep cutting would be required. • The supply of water from Loch Lomond for looks would be greatly superior to any that could be obtained on the direct route. One or two looks at etch end would be suffi- cient, whereas if the ordinary eyetent of, locks were adopted on the direct route pro. bebly eight or ten would be required at each end. On this mute there are fewer railw aye and roads crossing the line than on She direct route. Further, on this route vessels could enter or lame the canal at the western end in deeper water than by the direot rade. As the cutting reseired on this route in any case would be very great, it is eatimated that the cost would probably be seven or eight minions. From a national standpoint the distances of the respective route may be taken from Greenools to Grangemouth. By the direct route the dis- tance would be about 4$ miles; by the Looh Lomond route, via Vale of Leven, about 60 miles, and by the same route, via Terbert, about 75 miles. From the great armaments whioh European countries are building up, there is an increasing risk that Great Britain may sooner or later be involved in war. Were two or more first. class powers to combine in making an attemk that country would, beyond doubt, be expoeed to serious danger. The bit. moose extent of the empire, mattered as it is :in detached portione over the globe, would tax even the great resources of the fleet to guard it. Only a compara- tively small number of ships of war would be available to protect the 3,000 miles of coasts. The present Government have recognized the urgent necessity for aug- menting the naval defence of the country, and Parliament has voted a sum of about twenty millions for the purpose. Any soheine, therefore, which tends to increase the noel sresouroes of the onnutry is worthy eftetational support. Thilpeoheme is pre-eminently one to aid in the .defence of the nation. Were it curia out a passage would be afforded to ships of war through the heart of the country at important strategical points. Fewer ships would be required, as a greater nunabee could by metes ot the canal be concentrated at ,any point in a given tithe. Glasgow and Edin- burgh and the towns on the two firths would, at all events, be rendered practi- cally itOpregnable. Men-of-war would constantly bein the vieinity of the canal, ready for service on either side of the island, and for • the protection of the moat itself, and thus the firths would be thatirely guarded. The national advantages of the canal in times of peace would also be mat. By providing this highway for British ships and those of foreign nations the trade of the whole country would be stimulated, and the revenue of the Government in: creased. • "I'm bright. I'm sharp," exolainaed the counterfeiter when he stood'up for sentence. " Yes, yotere guilt edged," observed the judge prior to giving him 20 yeare tor re- flection. CRUELTIES IN (METE. The " Deaf News" Reiterates its Cheroot Againat the Tarkiali Government,. The special correspondent of the Daily News, writing frees Olney, says: The Daily News' revelitione of the Turk- ish exemsee horrore in Crete oaueed great contusion in the eiroles of the Turkish Government. The Orst step taken oo the part ot Chaliir Pasha and hie sepportere among the European Goneule in the ielend wao to oontradiot the feats. But as Vele failed, accusations followed. eid Excel - hemp endeavors to threw an blame on hie assistant Galip Bey, who is aupposed to haVe beeu. given to hien as a spy, and the commander Ibrahim. Peeba. .Both are represented as thwartiog Caeltir Peeha's work of paolfication. Tne Porte ia besides amused by Chattir Pasha of refusing to give him definite orders es tolde future polioy. The Terkish Goverument 10 aleo per - plotted by the recent mutiny of tear battalions of mans (reserves) who have already been sent home, and of three Mere batialione who mutinied since. They feel tmeasy lea other eroops may follow those eXanapiee. Indeed, signs et A rebellious tendeue7 are becetaing manifest not only enotog the remainiog troops, but even among the faincen Alhenien gendarmerie reeentlY recruited, to replace the Cretan meo. Troops and gendarmes alike 00n3-. plates the farmer of the eeentioese of their food, clothing aria payment, the latter of the non-payment of their salaries. Since the let of Augame tat no more that 417.000 heve been reevivei from coneten- tinople tor the meleteleenee of 25,00 soldiers hi Onto CONBlieging er vu arena& Meanwhile alt eats of Incase* oontinu to beperpetreted in the ielend, and the newedeily reoeived here fosin the dietriot of Rethymo ie *laming. Whitmore in botches ore daily brought into the prittone, inad the ill,treatMelat Continuos. All eherobee within MI* Of the troopa beve been (lacerated and damaged, woe - - lima in *Meat brutal nuinuer. Whaling. steffe, OA Whiell gags repreeenting their p&Sron ealute were hitherto hoisted, have been taken off by order of Oluilde Zoe* who has abolished that old religious ca- tom- J301010$ ie etifl in, fall practice, veld in ardor to MOM it more palatal, water le often poured over the 14(4Y et the victim before *he oral proceeding boom The prieonere are not only beaten hard 011 their way to the fertreee, bet within the prieons they aro periodically gauged till the floor le atm covered with spots et blood caused by the whip. The orisons are full of such victim, au espeeielly la the district of Itethyroo, reported to be packed with them. The terror of the knout hi felt not only by the prisoners bat by the entire _population. Renate are whipped/I:alba alighted pre. text. I witneeeed le few days ago *Houten* ont.00lonel beating * poitient slusetr be caauo he did not tosice the remrnsli--Turk- iah selutee-to OCIEUM8 ON 80=0 THE ISSUE OF TB/a toaer. Azoozing Igziorance of an Ambit:lova and Aspiring Young Ban. " 1 Darling!" Osere Was a tremor in the fun, riche =only tones. He looked tip with beneeek- ing eyes, itt whioh the faint suspicion of a tear glistened, at the fair, perfeot type Of all that could be lovely io woman thek good before him, and as no looked Imes, earilts1Y2 intensely, his 1/01ce broke in-., tremellug treble. Outside on the briek ewathed pave could be heard the low, dna sog of the rain drops and the soft, plaintive. gurgle of the organ grinder ite he gyrated • GHQ crank for ell there wee in it, while the merry invitation of the men next doer kA have Ammer one 'fore wog° home" broke neoe his °are with a etertling diametrical: teat eesde hie tired heed ache, "Phylli's1" o Whet is le, Clem:moo ?" sAla the beitt44* 04. girl, turtling the rammed deseling !eve - tutus of her face toverds his, bat there was no answering treiner in her voice. "Rave you. & pain? Perlospe a porous plaster or a 011,-; " Do yen; mock me atilt ?" ha cried, springing to his feet, while all theOent•Itif hg0131' that 1144 twieted hia internal +meanly with A gaeilier twist tortured hie teatime him au awful leek ei deslatir. " Ton knew hew roaaiy, paseloaatety, !elope, le trite, you are rich and I "Owe for your teat week's bead," came the cold, calm, matter -a -4C* and broinelli. like reply- " True, Alla I tee URN Dat it Will Ord elweye be Om* 1 4M AG4 callow," chipped in the reeidea. Not notiolug the interruption be eon. United " I will work, nerve IMMO for ikoapate it OR oath intootiesivie , the loader of bone, until wealtk. and poslticri are mine. For yon I 4$ 'ate; to nee, Claence Cough and there wee & told, steely glitter itt hs eye -it I oohed you 4 question last night— AMIple every day qoation that etory choo1 boy and wheel girl 10 the lend oqulit- have auewered with their eyes ehut-yow oiiared et tee in Wink amaromeat. Tow illettember it, do you not ? " drat," he faltered, "1 remember. Xi was whether I favored the Lagos or the BrOther1100317 " 44 Asia you told me -told me without gen helloW of * jolt, but in deed earnest, the* *flyover head of the Lento or Brothae ocel and did not know whet theY MASAI* le it out so?" Ciarierse bowed lite bead, He wield net And you expect roe to merry yew' tuned the now thOtenghly arouasd An. 44 Too 1 A man who oedema baleen lethally ignorant Of the existenott ti League or Brotherhood. Tour:met think I'm a chump." And Slaw parted forever 4-101441kurg 40044 Thie regime, paver beard of previmely, is especially telt by the women. They do t venture to go out in order to get water, or to collect their olives, now in seeeoa, They are Wen upon, or had pursued by the soldiere or goodermee, who reit after then( with orireinel intentlone. A greet number of eaves of violation of women might he given, if it did not expole to dauger or compromise the viotints or the sonars It 111 obvious that any *Motel inquiry on the subjeot would expel* theiat to greet risks, the more so 44 the eorapret, mised authorities would hoe to carry out the investigatione.liroreover,,the question le co delicate that it la a point ot honor with any injured woman to avoid making public: a scandal refleoting not only on her, but aim on her husband and the whole him. 1ly. For these oonsideretions no women or man will eveeperralt the n ame of the violated person to be known to the public. I know perarmaity of several 04809, bat I am threatened with personal injury if I pablish the names of the Indiana A.gentleman of the highest standing ooiatessed tomo some dope ago that his own sinter, with two other young women, while returning from their olive gardens, were fallen open by eoldiers, and had, only after a diming ex- pedient, a narrow agape. But I am also particularly requeeted to avoid compromis- ing his sister. I repast then, it would be wrong to give definite and precise leak,. The situation is aggravated by the fact that the Christian population is subjeoted to forced labor. Thus the inhabitants of Setino were invited by the Itaimakan 4.11 Biz' a, on the 16th ult., to labor attho emo- tion of blockhouses intended, fie the authorities ironically prat:indite eeoure pub- lic peace. The Pet Wedding Months. The rasjority ot summer bridal chows Sone for the happy event which terminates their el engagement," while the winter brides favor November of all eh° chilly months. Apropos of engagements, the senti- ment regarding the selection of the stone seams to be entirely lost to thought. With but few exceptions the diamond is chosen. In olden times there wee a sentiment surrounding the various!stones, and the character of the ring was determined by the month in whioh the bride was born. If ia January, the stone was a garnet, believed to have the power of winning the wearer friends where. aver she went. -Cleveland Union. Fires are Raging- Everywhere. Firat Small Boy -We had a fire at our house last night.. Seoond Small Boy -That so? F. S. B. -Yes. Pa fired sister's bean. No one is satisfied with his own forams nor dissatisfied with his own wit. He hoped to ,inhe ,by his presents but she said hie pregenoe wasn't desirable, so .4.9 didn't Bend apy. t, • =Watt:et trL DANCES. The kisses that are never kissed, Sad poets sing, are sweetest, And opportunities we've missed Must over seem the 'neatest. But this is true, wliate'er may mar The rest of Fate's bright chances. • The dances thatwe sit out ars The most delightful Actives. -Wife--I believe4on only married me for my money. Husband -Everybody else thinks the same thing. Why doth the Reverend Doctor shoot The Wady coutil-a, base pursuit-. Since by his weekly pupu rail , • Be makes his congregation , X do notwant it dog forfeitr he'll bite me; I do not wish a girl, for fear she'll siignt ; do not want a horse, for fear he'll kick me; 1 do not wish a friend, who'll miyhap stick me I do not want to live, for really I Am fearful, when life's over, I must die. The liVilkesbarre magistrate who last Thareday came down from the bench and unmercifully thumped a. wife beater who • had been brought before him, preferred to adrRinister justice rather than, law. , The death is announced of Bey. award Bradley; :" Chthbert Bede," the author of " Verdant Green," perhaps the best story ' of Oeford University lite after " Tom • Brown." Rio' Little Mr. %meter," will long be remembered. E. Talking Umber. No One nowadoye on put * joke an theca se a garrulous! tribe. The " talki borher bee disappeared. No clam artigana talk less, unlegs it be boiler.mater. In none of Mir Aril -oleos chops does it barber spear until 10 10 'poket at by a anotomer. If the customer is chatty and the harbor reeponde he is soon brought to ggietude by 1101330 algaet from ties roprufter. be barber.bat eviclentljr dotornilnod to deprive the newspepee tate of one joke, at beet.- irarbingues. Gaping. • The Power et rale. "A small drop ot ink, falling, like aew upon& thought, predefine that which makes; thous:ands. perhape =Whine, think," wrote Byron. The inspiration of his pea miht give the dusky fluid such 4 far-reaobing power, and wa with we were posseesed ot such an inspiration, thet we might, through a like medium, bring into such extended intim the matchless virtues of Dr.Plerotaii Pleasant Purgative Pellets those tiny's, sugaremth eted granalee wid' contain, In a concentrated form, the active ptinctiples of vegetable extracts Ilia Dame Nature des eigned especially to promote a -healthy action of tbe liver, etomaole and bowels. A rata Farm. Recently the Duke of rite sold& farm to two of his tenante under intoreosittg circemetanoee. Messrs. A. and G. Shand are the eels:Tiers of a holditignear Meodufe, and they represent the oldest family on the estate, the seine farm having demanded in sucoession from father to eon 4or over 300 years. /t is now their freehold, bought from the Duke, together with the adjoining Drafts, at the rate of 26 years' purchase. Don't hawk, hawk, blow spit, anddime gust everybody with your offensive breath, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and end it. 50 cents, by druggists. Bard Muck. Aunt Susan Turner (just returning front a visit)-D'ye mean ter any that Big Simpson' i died 'n' been buried since I ben gone? Well, I never! It jest beats the Dutch how lack runs agin me 1 I was sick, 'n' lost Decoration Day. Jane Thompson ant for me to miss her when Maria had her quiltina Fourth o' July it up Ox. rained; 'n' now l've lost funeral I always set Beth store by buryinat too Poor Widow- Redott 1 She tried to write love poetry to the deacon, and could frame only-- " Affliction Bore Long time I bore." Had the lone creature need Dr. Pierce'e Favorite Preeoription-the sue remedy for the weaknesses and reenlist ailments of her sex -she might have secured the deacon's fever by the cheerful oharaoter of her.verses. • Let the Good Work Go on. Young lady -I want a very stylish hat and something aw4ully becoming. Milliner -Now, here is one that I think would suit. The broad brim is especially ,suitable for you. • Young lady -That won't do at alt. Show me something with a narrow brim. (Sotto voce) -The sleighing swoon is coming on and Harry must have half a show at least • Many a man has east it shadow on hie life by standing in his own light. .t 513 89. „A GENTS MAEE $1004140N111 1-31.- with us. 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