The Exeter Advocate, 1890-1-9, Page 3enereenees
YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS.
Tie Terms of Solemn in, Michigan's Reform
Schools.
A Paper On This Stlbjeot Read at the State
Oeinferen0e of Concede* and
Oharities in Detroit.
,GIVE THE YOUTH A OHANOE.
(Grand Rapids, Mich., Eagle.)
J. W. Holcomb, Esq., county agent for
Kent county Se gentleman welt -known in
the county a Wentworth, Ont.], attended
the annual convention or confer-
•enoe a the agents of the State Board and
the poor offeaers in Detroit last week anti
reaci the following paper, which is et strong
plea for a change in eome a the State's
laws and methods: Tne people of this
Statewealthy in its forests, its mines and
broad 'road and fertile bores, are rioh
in the charity which has given
a line a State institutions designed to
the needs of the unfortunate. The depend-
ent and neglected child. is provided a shelter
in a hospitable home; the wayward boy and
girl are restrained in descent to crime • the
'
blind are almost made to see the darn% to
apealt, the deaf to hear ; the flickering
light of reason gently brightened to a steady
item°, and the old mi
en n comfortable re
tirement receives the wages earned in days
of battle and blood. These congratulations
are for the people of which we form a pert,
but the duty of thie conference is not per-
formed if we do not well consider whether
the law may not better have leid out the
work of the institutions in view of the pur-
poses for which they were established and
•are capable of.
What, then, is the work and best par.
poses of the State juvenile reform institu-
tions? The answer of years ago, had they
then exieted, would have been that they
were places of imprisonment for boys and
girls who were being punished by the law
for crime; the answer of these more
hamene days may be that these schools
and temporary homes are places of deten-
tion for boys and girls who have developed
in bad conduct, evil tendencies, and need
moral training and better home influences.
SENTENCING TILE BOB.
For thieoffences usually cionetituting the
lesser crimes, and for those speoially pre-
eeoribed by statute boys between the ages of
10 and 16 may 1311 sentenced to the State
Reform School until they be of -the age of
of 17 years. Under Act No. 218, eession
laws of 1889, are certain promedings pro-
eviding a dieoretionary and lesser term
of sentence, in case of unmanageable boys
and girls, but this law does not enter
into the present discussion. While to a
boy of between 10 and say 14 years of age,
-et sentence) until he be 17 years of age may
seem ponderous, yet it is not oppressive or
cruel in the view that there is often for a
young boy no other home; or, if there be a
home, its influences are usually worse than
no home at all. The boy may beoome a
truant from school, int), city, beoome known
to the police '• may be found on the street
at tete night hours ; may be connected with
petty thefts, and by hie mischievous and
boyish criminal conduct, force the ques-
tion as to what had best be done with bim.
An extreme sentimentality on the part of
a police court audience offers its sympathy
•for the neglectful mother, •and the sud-
denly repentant lad departs for a better
school, home and government than
lie has ever known. And in passing
I may say that in advising as to
the disposition as to charges against
the smaller boys, we may better look to the
-character of the home, its tendencies and
the consequent association of the boy, than
to the offence itself. The acts of such boys
hardly to be called criminal, are often little
more than the sequences of their home life,
but as the home influences go on from day
to day the daily sequence of wrong doing
may be expected. It is a justice and benefit
to the small boy so situated to remove him
from such dangerous influences. It might
not be necessary or advisable were hie
home and its influences better. Older
boys than those last referred to may oleo
reaoh the reform school for offences not
-from home causes. ' The policy of this
institution is equally kind and wise. The
'boy committed when young, before 17
years of age has usually been released from
actual residence in the school, and if at
later years at his commitment, he has
• only been held there sufficiently long to
•determine the value of his opportunities.
The age of 17 is a fitting time for the
release of boys absolutely from the reform
school. It is the age when the boy lay -
ling aside boyish thoughts, sometimes with
undue energy assumes the thoughts,
•strength and manners of the man, and on
the farm, in the factory, the mill, the
,store and like occupations, claims with
more or less modeety to be connted as a
man. It is well, then, unless' his previous
life denies it to him, that he, feeling
etrong in his purposes and resolves, should
ibe free to take up the burden he seeks to
• carry.
PUNISHMENT OF GIRLS.
The Industrial Home for girls should be
what the Reform School is for boys—as
:staple a sohool for literary and moral in-
•struction as is possible, consistently with
the control of the pupils. It should be as
,near a home as possible, for many who
have never known that rightly called a
home may learn what a home should be, in
its just and kind governmenttin its sympa-
thy for the despondent, and in all its aide
to encouragement in ehe honest ways of life
These being its purposes, are the present
t arms of sentences favorable to Stich pur-
preeee ?
For the well understood general offences
and those found by statute, with the ex-
eeption as before stated as to boys and
.girle between the ages of 10 and 17 years,
may be sentenced to the industrial home
until 21 years of age. Although slight
• offences of girls extend further in their
nonsequences than these of boys, I think
Ihe law incorrectly asthma that they
=omen* do as involving. moral errors.
iE believe that with yonng gala as well as
young boys a kind horde, sympathetic sur-
roundings, with wisely offered moral teach-
•i•ings, may •often be sufficient correction.
Poverty and strife of parents at the cheer-
less place celled home suggeet the street
corner and pool room ae the refuge of the
son, and the street and the dance that of
the daughter. For snoh refugee the boy
may be sentenced to the reform ohm'
until he be 17 and the girl to the indnetrial
Mime until she be 21 years of age. Can we
,juatly assume that thegirl is go much less
i
sasceptible to moral nfinenoee than the
boy? Is it not an unjust disorimination
against her? The °believer may wonder
why for a potty Iseceny it eminence of ten
years, covering an entire girlhood, may be
•inilieted in a etette whom constitution pro-
• vines that "excessive fines shall not be
imposed or cruel or unusual punishment
)infitoted "; and also how it can be con-
esistent with a liko sentence to a grown
speteme kir stealing thousands by tome or
why the girl of from 10 to 14 or 15 yeare
of ego elaould, for lounging about the
etreeta contrary to the commend of a per-
haps diesolute parent, reoeive double the
putliehment in years proneunoed ou
woman liviog an evenly immoral life who
in a druniten brawl bilis the aa$00iate fiu
her ein-
MIEN To RELEASE GIRLS.
And now some one tella tla not to amid
young girls to the industrial home, or any
similar institution, for Blight offenoeS.
What, then, shall be done with them?
Tb,e jeil is not a suitable pine° in this
humane age- Fines cannot and will not be
paid by the parents. Must we then allow
the young girl to rata astray until her
greater offenoe Booth our sensibilities to the
legally prescribed aentenoe ? The people
of this state who °rested it may make the
institution fit the needs of those for vehorn
It Wee oreated, end if a yotuag girl of from
10 to 15 years of age needs ita morel train-
ing ahe should not necessarily be obliged to
'pay for it witb her liberty up to 21 years of
age. My proposition then is that girls
sentenced to the industrial home between
10 and 15 years of age, being usually for
effete:lee which do not presumably involve
grievous moral error, should be aboolutely
released frona all connection with the home
at 18 years of age.
' It oan now be suggested that the power
given the board of °entree, temporarily to
release girls for good conduct at any age,
oan better accomplish the cleared object
than by the absolute discharge which I pro -
pen. I ask the exeroiee of the power in all
oases where the girl has hown herself
worthy of the favor, and if her former home
and neighborhood are not suitable for her
return, I think, on the Well founded advice
of the agent for the county of ,the state
board, the young girl should be placed in a
family in whioh she may be in truth a
member of the household, weaving as
well as she may be able, her lot with the
good and ill fortune of her proteotore.
Thus at 18 she may be able to try the value
of the moral teal:Adage, to guard herself
against the traps and dark ways of the
world and rightly to study the plans and
the hopes of her approaching womanhood.
TICKET OF LEAVE.
An even chance for a respectable place
with those of like age is a birthright to the
young woman of 18 not sacrificed by the
follies of the child. She may have more
valuable aid and encouragement between 18
and 21 years of age in the sympathy of the
friends she makes than in the proteotion of
the Home. The " Tioket of Leave," pain-
fully suggestive of a prison, may not be as
easy badge for the wearer, who—otherwise
welcome in pleasant association with
respectable people --always beam the
thought that the temper of a petulant
employer, the jealousy of a rival, of the
malice of an enemy may by slander Bend
her back to the home to wearily count the
days until her release at 21, or to be again
" placed out" before that happy yeae
where perhaps disheartened and discourag-
ed she timidly and deferentially assumes
new duties.
A few words with respect to girls over 15
years committed to the home. I think the
age of admission should be extended to 18
years. There is frequently more than the
waywardness in a girl over 15 in those
whose offences make their commitment
proper, and when the offences are in th.ir
oases of an immoral nature, no more eine
course can be taken than residenoe in the
Home, or a kind and strict supervision out-
side under the limit of the law. But let
the burden of her who has sinned and re-
pented be made light and easy to her galled
spirit. Let the °entrain between days of
wrong -doing and better conduct be forgot-
ten, except by herself, while words of en-
couragement fall as the gentle dews of
heaven.
THE ALMA MATER.
The proposition I have made would open
wide the doors of the home. A greater
number of young girls I think would be re-
ceived, who would in' time soon go forth re-
garding the home in sincerity an alma
nutter. Those committed to its care would
come with less apprehension. The reluct-
ance of parents and the hesitation of those
placing girls there would be lessened—in
short the home would, I think, better meet
the purposes of its establiehement.
I have read so far in oritioism of the law
and not of those acting under the law or of
the management of any state institution. I
understand we are met here as much for a
practical conference asfor ethical disquisi-
tions. To this conference and this distin-
guished assemblage I respectfully present
my view asking that while with wisdom we
discuss, we have in our hearts for the un-
fortunate the "charity whioh suffereth long
and is kind, whioh vannteth not itself, is
not puffed up and doth not conduct itself
unseemly."
As She Is Writ.
In Vienna they know how to write Eng-
lieh. The Viennese are going to have an
agricultural exhibition, or, as they call it
in the English programme whioh has just
been published, a "General Rural and
Forest Exposition in the year 1890." The
following are some of the exhibits as set
forth in the programme: 1. Produce of
agriculture and forest culture, of garden
fruit, vine, and hopoultrire, of chase and
feel:eery, also of fowel, bees and silk breed,
etc. 2. Beasts as: breed mart rise, and
'menu beasts—viz. : horses, oxen, sheep,
swine, fowl, dogs, game, fishes. The exhi-
bitions of beasts, of garden and fruit cul-
ture take place in several series, those of
the latter being made knowe more lately.
For all sorts of objects of exhibition prices
of about v. A. floe. 66,000 mill be gizen,
consisting in medals of honour, distributed
honor prices, medals, in money and honor-
able acknowledgments. For special accom-
plishments of collaborators of the exposers
epeeist prices will be given.—St. James'
Gazette.
reteGNZTIO MisSore-Es
Why Vr9luto North. So Pereletently.
The col:epees needle.pointe north became)
Pteotinally Irbe earth, le a menet, not dif-
tering esseotially in i.a Magnetio properties
freme a bat" of magnetized f,oteel. eaes
American, Notes anti Queries. 1t has two
poles ot great intensity, and like most large
steel magnets, there are aeveral eupple-
mental poles of Lesser intensity, Juet as
the pole of one bar magnet attraets the
end of another, so the magnet poles of the
earth behave toward polea of the 00mPasS
rieedle, unlike poles attraoting, and like
polea repelling eaoh other.
It is well M modify the statement that
the needle points north and south; as a
matter of font there are but few localities on
the earth wbere it does point dile north and
smith, and these are constantly °bonging.
An irregular line drawn from the month of
the Orinoco river through the east coast of
Hayti, Charleston, South Carolina and
Detroit, Michigan, represents very nearly
the line in whioh there is no variation at
the present time. In all plum east of
this line the north end of the needle swinge
alightly to the westward; in all plaices west
of it to the eastward. At the month of the
Columbia river the variation of the compass
is about 22 degrees east; he Alaska it is
from 40 to 60 degrees east; nlidWay be-
tween New York and Liverpool it is &boat
35 degrees west.
The reason is that the 00MpaSS needle
points not to the geographical, but to the
magnetic poles, and these do not coincide
in position. The magnetio north pole is at
present on or near the north shore of
Boothia peninsula, in the northern part of
North America Its position is constantly
changing, and in the last .six hundred
years it has moved about half the dietance
round the geographical pole. During a
period of 300 years, in which observations
have been carefully made at the magnetic
observatory in Paris, the variations have
changed from 11 degrees, 20 minutes,
east • of north to 22 degrees, 10 minutes
west. In the United States the rate of the
change in variation differs much in differ-
ent parts of the country. In Washington
State it ohenges at the rate of about seven
minutes a year; in Arizona and New
Mexico it is stationary; in the'. New
England States it is from one to three
minutes per year.
Hanna Philosophy.
Dallnese is always highly respectable.
Prosperity makes men spend and women
Much that yon do now will haunt you
next year.
- The present national flour is buckwheat.
Any man can talk all right, but not
•every man clawed all right.
, It is the man on the outside of the walk
who aggravates the dog.
All the philosophy in the world never
stopped a runaway horse.
think he knows it all. nie
You hardly ever find does
fool who not
Most people have friends they are afraid
of the same as enemies.
When things get serious women atop'
talking and men begin.
There are no lawleagainst the fools, be-
cause fools make the laws.
It would be better to go thirsty than to
askyour Lazerne for a drink.
When a mon confesses to being a liar it is
safe to doubt him in everything.
No man needs proof of e man's guilt; no
one wants proof of his innocence.
• The delicate woman is going oue,of style
and the delicate man is coming' in •-
Everybody has to have something; a
woman has cold feet and a man dandruff.
A man nevernorgives hie wife for having
kin unless they are rich or distinguished.
The things a man likes to eat the beat
are the things that always make him sick.
As soon as some people know each other
real well they are ready for a quarrel.
The most reliable good man in the world
is the man who has tired of wickedness.
People forgive a man for having sinned
only as long as he does not forget his sin.
No man ever believed that a crying baby
belonged as much to him as to itinniother,
The easiest way to commit suicide is to
put yourself in the hands of a faith doctor.
Mean thoughts come into your mind un-
bidden ; good thoughts have to be coaxed.
A man has need to exaggerate the
amount he earns, but the amount he spends
exaggerates itself.
A great many people don't ory who want
to. It is the man who doesn't cry whose
heart hurts worst.
A women's happiness is in danger when
she begins to compare her husband with
other men.
When a woman cries she is learning
something that she will forget the next
time she laughs.
Another Book on Robert Burns.
Rev. Dr. Charlee Rogers has compiled
for the Grampian Club, Edinburgh, a work
entitled "The Book of Robert Barns,"
containing genealogical and historical
memoirs of the poet, kis associates, and
i
those celebrated n his veritinge. For the
last seven years the doctor has been engaged
on what promisee, from the appearance of
the first volume, to be his magnum opus. As
to bulk it will most assuredly leave all the
previous biographies of the Scottish Bard
in the rear ; end on acciannt of its plan it is
not only it Life of Burns ,but also it most
important contribution to the family his-
tory of Scotland.
Every man ought to be as good as his
word, Nothing is expected of those who
never have a good word for anybody.
Although theEnglish fashion of starching
napkins isgenerally abhorred, it decided
i
preference s abeam for their ample dineen.
sione and the 7x9 fringed doylie of Yankee
origin lute given place to the 34x25 ineh
piece of fine linen. ,
Great regret has been caused in O&M -
nese -shire by the death' of Lady Sine pf
Tilbster, who was deservedly reepeoted in
that meaty, and especially.by the poor, to
whom the eras not only Invariably kind,
bat oftentimes evengentlrotts. Lady Sin-
clair'e death took place at Wellesbourin
Hellen Warwick.
'n —sornonmenissommummii•M•ksimmOniaris•ismemaisinawimosy—-.
The money you intend to make does not
come in with theregularity of the men who
holds yeur note.—Aitchison Globe.
A Corner in Guns.
Clerk in Kansas Hardware Store—I see
that the authorities have ordered it county
seat election.
Proprietor—Is that so? When does it
come off? •
" Twa weeks from to -day."
"Great Scott! so soon as that? Look
here, go right down and telegraph for a
large order of guns and ammunition. Tell
them to hustle them through double quick
County seat elections don't come every day,
and we must stir our stump to clear a
thousand dollars on this one."
INCMENCE or GREATNESS
It was a jovial banquet board,
Great guns were feasted free,
Great generale, great senators,
Great counsellors -at -fee.
And eo next day eaali great one lay
Within his own great bed,
And ran his fingers through big locks,
And greaned, Great head! Gra:ahead!
—Charles Mackay, the British poet,
whose death was announced on Tuesday,
was the author of the stirring poem,
" Clear the Way," familiar to every school
boy:
There's it fount about to stream,
There's a light about to beam,
Tlacre'01 a warmth about to glow,
There's a flower about to blow,
There's a midnight blackness changing into
gray,
Won of thought and men of action clear the
way.
—The ideal Worldle Fare—Three square
meals.
—Don't grew' at this world until you are
sure of it better One.
—Live withie your income, 13eoituse it is
very inconvenient *olive without it
—It seems Bingo's!, but we never hear of
the ill-fated turkey gettitig its the soup.
—Lewis Morris is regarded in England
as the heir apparent to the laureateship.
• —We suppose it ie the fall of the year
that prevents it from living threugh the
winter.
—Misery m0Y love company, ttt the
company doesiet generally return the con-
pliment.
inazwrip cy$T. OF THE
New and, Dangerows OPerait014 SuoueoarullY
PerrOrMed.
A rare and serious disclose, which is
'mown as hydatid ()yet of the liver, is being
wetthed with great iuterest by the proles,
sons, doctors and neediest students at the
City Hospital, Baltimore. The patient is
a Gerneen, John In Sersenbruoh, 44 years
of age. His dimwit) is due to the eve of
peouliar kind of tapeworm which inhabits
he dog aid other enamels. The ova And
their way into the atm:mune of man in
drinking water, and are thence carried to
the liver by the blood vessele. The egg 18
about 100th oe an inch in diameter, and the
parts which develcp it are found in the
water, on the ground, and stick to the sur-
face of vegetables, and thus it is possible in
eating vegetables uncooked to take the ova
into the body. The animals from theta
ova, however, are iaot developed in man.
The eggs once in the stomach of man
increase at an enormous rate. From the
eternal% they are absorbed by the blood
veseele leading to the liver. Here the ova
form cysts or little bags around them-
selven like the caterpillar in its cocoon.
When this cyst is taken into the stomach
of the dog, it develops into the fall grown
hydatid, which is one-quarter of an inch in
length, with et head one -sixtieth of an inch,
and having numerous little hooks and
suckers.
Bereenbruch was admitted to the City
Hospital on Oot. 25th, 1889. He was a
laborer at the Jesuit College in Woodstook,
and had complained cie it dull but severe
pain in his right side since last spring. He
had waded away and lost nearly forty
pounds of flesh. The dootore at the City
[(minted diagnosed his case, and on Nov.
1st Prof. Cherles F. Bevan, in the presence
of Drs. J. W. Chambers, Thomas S. Lat-
imer, W. F. Smith and John Branham,
performed what has up to the present time
proved it very successful operation. Prof.
Bevan made an incision in the wall of the
right side of the abdomen, just below the
rine, and about a gallon and a half of pus
was taken from the man's liver. The
method of removing the hydatid oysts is by
means of draining the liver, whioh opera-
tion is of modern surgical art. The pain
of the patient before the operation was
intense, the tumor in his right side having
extended his liver nearly fifteen inches.
The greet pain seemed to leave him after
the operation, and he now appears to be
recovering.
PETTING A. SICK CHILD.
It is Almost Sure to Develop Unenviable
Traits of Character.
The mother at the sick -bed of her young
ohild is it being quite often as difficult to
manage as her child. All the instinctive
maternity is up in arms. Deep in tne
heart of many mothers there is an ninon -
teased and half -smothered sense of wrath
at the attack which sickness has made on
her dear one. Then nothing is too much
to give; no esorifioe of herself or others
too great to grant or demand. The irri-
tability and feebleneesof convalescence make
claims upon her love of self-sacrifice, and
her prodigality of tenderness ea positive,
and yet more baneful. That in most asses
she may and does go too far, and loses
for her child what is hard to recover
in health, ie a thing likely enougle, yet to
talk to her at such a time of the wrong she
does the child is almost to insult her.
Nevertheless the unwisdorn of it course of
reckless yielding to it child's whims is plain
enough, for if the little one be long ill or
weak it learns with sad swiftness to exact
more and more, and to yield less and less,
so that it becomes increasingly hard to do
r itIII many little unpleasant things
whioh dolmen demands. Character comet
strongly out in the maladies of the child,
as it does even less distinctly in the sick-
ness of the adult. The spoiled, overin-
dulged ohild is a doubly unmanageable
invalid, and when in illness the foolish
petting of the mother continues, the doctor,
at least, is to he pitied.—From ".Doctor and
Patient," by S. Weir MitchellIALD., LL.D.
A Dreadful Experience.
Stepleene—Why, George, what is the
matter? Your coat is torn, your hat
crashed, and yourself well nigh a physical
wreck. Have you been the victim of foot-
pads?
Viotim—Worse than that. I've been
shopping with my wife, and got caught in
the °rash around a bargain counter.
The Farmer Knew Better.
"What is that ? " asked the farmer of
the musician, pointing to his tuning instru-
ment.
" Tbat is a pitchfork," was the reply.
" You must take me for a jay, com-
mented the farmer, as he took his departnre.
He Woke Up Cheerful.
Pater (at breakfast table)—There was a
fire in the house last night and you slept
through it all.
Mater (alarmed)—Fire 1 where?
Pater—In the stove.
Hoyt et Thomse have cleared 510,000
thus far this season.
Life on a Farm.
Farmer Oatcake (in summer)—Come,
boys, get zip! It's 4 o'clock and there's a
big day's work ahead of us.
Farmer Oatcake (in winter)--Corne, bore
get up ! It's 4 o'clock, end there ain't a
dummed thing to do to -day.
"reiX BLOODY Sellene"
A Phrase That may Have Sprunir froen
on Incident tie Smitten Iiistory.
A abort time ago my attention wee
attraoted to an inquiry in the Iscreleville
Courrenneurnat as to the origin ef the
popular plereee " the Bloody Shirt." The
answer given te the (leery esoribes it to this
recent period of recouetruotion. Contrary
to the prevailing belief, thin political weapon
was forged and effectively need long beioni
any differences bad arisen between certain
portions of our Union, and before, in fent,
it union ef States existed. Toe Incident
which gave the expreesion birth ia to
some extent legendary, and is
releted. by Sec Walter Scott in
the preface to Ins novel " Bob
Roy," and briefly is as follows : The glen
AleoGiregor posseesed lands and, fleeing
whioh excited the 'Sapidity of their It+,,
fortunate neighbors, who,, by force seed
other methode, gradually despoiled them in
their property and drove them from their
homes. The elan, thus empoverished, re -
elated the encroachment upon their rights,
and in the frequent collisions that occurred
need every tempornry advantage they
gained cruelly enough. Their oonduot,
wieich was perhaps not unnatural under
the oircumetancee, was studiously repre-
sented at the °spina as arising from an in-
nate and antameeble ferocity, for which
the only remedy was extermination.
These suggestions resulted in the pro-
soription of the Man by act of the privy,
council at Stirling, and prenaieeion was
given certain powerful chieftains to pursue.
the MeseGregors with fire and sword, ana
all persons were prohibited from affording
them meat, drink or shelter. As might be
expeoted, oivilzation progressed very
slowly during this period, and the Mao-
Gregors, feeling all the severity of the law
and none of its proteotion, became wilder
and more lawless than ever. As the legend
runs, two men of the olan MacGregor,
overtaken by the night, asked enelter from
a dependent of the Colquhouns, and, on
being refused, retired to an outhouse, seized
a wedder from the fold, and supped
frugally off the carcass, for which they
offered payment. The laird of Luse, hear-
ing of this enforced hospitality, caused the
offenders to be apprehended and summarily
executed To avenge this act the Mao-
Gregore assembled to the number of several
hundred and marched toward Luse. Sir
Humphrey Colquhoun received early notice
of the raid, and assembled an army of
superior numbers to meet them. A battle
took place in the valley of Glenfruin (Glen
of Sorrow), where, encouraged by the
propheoy of a seer, and aided by it
superior position and skilfal generalship,
the Menearegore were victorious, pursuing
the enemy furiously, and mercilessly
slaughtering all who were unable to
esoepe. This battle and the fury of the
proscribed olen were reported to King
James VI. in a mariner most unfavorable
to that unfortunate clan, and, more
strongly to impress that impressionable
monarch, the widows of the Blain, to the
number of eleven score, dressed in mourn-
ing, riding on white palfreys, and each
bearing her husband's bloody sheet upon
the point of a spear, appeared before the
King at Stirling and demanded vengeance
• upon them who had made their homes
desolate. By Act of Privy Council, A.D.
1613, the old Acts against the clan were
revived, and others of the greatest severity
enacted. The bloody shirt had unquestion-
ably accomplished its purpose.—New York
Tribune.
—Born and raised in a Chinese tea -
drinking establishment a Chinaman in this
city says the only way to make tea in to
pour the belling water on the leaves, stirr-
ing them briskly at the same time. I*
should be served after allowing merely
time to settle. The whole operation takes
only a minute—Philadelphia Record.
trisrnonen.
Where have you been 2" said Mre, Jones.
"I've been out to the lodge."
He dodged the poker, and she said:
" Ah, that's tho same old dodge."
cc" Stern winter rules the sky.
—He has not lived in vain who finds oat
before he dies what a fool he has been.
—It is proposed to light up horses' heads
with eleotrio lights during fogs in London.
—Women rarely are great inventors,
though they are often the first to discover
new wrinkle.
A woman 96 years old committed sun
oide on Sunday. Some women can't wait
The knives and forks used at Anglo-
Saxon tables are generally larger and
heavier than comfart requIres. There is it
leaning towards the light -weight cindery of
the French or the meats, and still lighter
and denatier patterns for the other courses.
Zola reports that his attempt to reduce
hie weightewhich was very great, by not
drinking resulted I'D a rednotion of ten
pounds irt eight days. At the end of three
months he had lost forty -Ave pounds and
was math improved in health.
The proclamation suppressing the Chinese
seorot societies has been published all
through the Straite eettlements. - The pro-
perty of tlae eocieties May be disposed of
though the governrdente do not desire to
confiscate it.
Pay as You Go.
Patient—Then you think it'e all up with
me, dootor 2
Dootor—I'm afraid so.
P.—Well, we must all die once and I
neigh as well go now as afterward. You are
sureym going?
D.—Yes.
P.—Then let me have your bill?
D.—My bill? My dear sir, this is very
unusual. You should give your thonghte
to more serious matters.
P.—My motto has always been "Pay as
You Go, and now that I am going I want
to pay.
So he paid and went.
Just so.
Wife (affeotionately)—How is your rheu-
matism this morning John dean?
Husband—Pretty bad, my dear; pretty
bad.
W.—Why don't you try the mind euro?
H.—There ain't anything the matter
with my mind. Its my joints dear; my
joints.
The Spanking Days Gone By.
"Don't you look back on the palmy
days of your youth with regret 2 "
"No. Mine were not so palmy as they
were slippery and etrappy."
A Candid Girl.
Father—What was John saying to you
last night, May, that he stayed so late?
Daughter—Nothing much. John isn't a
great talker. He's all business.
Very True.
Teacher—All things whioh can be seen
through are Called transparent. Fanny,
mention something which is transparent.
Fanny—A pane of glass.
Teacher—Quite correct. Now, Fanny,
mention some other object through which
you oan see.
Fanny—A keyhole.
New Troubles.
• Wee/eDingirUle NYE&
linienn edfaaa hnennie allerotwoper.
Jelin Thomaa Heelop, of Rieneinnieltele
Bog., is a ittd+ evnese Powers of vele*
am to be accounted among the meevellmen
He is knewit 00 "'theljvip miorosoope,"
on account of being able te gee the MOS*
minute objects clearly defieed. In 1878 og
1.879 be was attacked wine oerne beating
eye trouble and come very neer loellen_enn
„
eight forever, Alter the diseasie nen
reachen its worst there wati an instant and
startling change for the better, which re -
elated in it complete cure of all inflaromar•
tion ux an inoredibly short time, It wan
nut it cure, however, that brought back
the old, eyesight Wee that posseseed by tint
eve; age genus homo. When it returned
it wee with extraordinaeilY increased
'awe', of vision. To John Thomae the
minute plant louse was Sa large as
8 rabbit, and the mosquito's bill silt
I ,tg, as an Bxe.handle. He could see and
dee‘ribe distant minute objects with seat -
ling clearness and precision. He was
amazingly shocked upon repairing to thee
well to get it cooling draught to nes
the immense number of hideous
oreaturee that were floating, fighting
and wriggling about in the water.,
;and
that day till this water has never
Famed the lips of John Thomas Heslop
his drinks consist wholly of coffee, tea and
milk, thoroughly boiled. The doctors say
that the entire organization of the eye hat
undergone it straotural change; that the
°ernes bas become abnormally enlarged
and that the orysteline lens has divided
into three different discs or choke, each
circle surrounded by another of light blue.
In the centre of each of these three circles
appears an iris, greatly diminished in size.
but an iris nevertheless. Medical reporter
have been made on the ease by joules's,
enoh as the Lancet, Medical Times ant
many others. The young man has been
visited by all the greater and leaser lights
of the British medioal colleges, eaoh ot
whom pronounce his case the moat won-
derful in the annals of optics.
• Why Blind Persons Seldom Smoke.
A peculiarity about the blind le that i
there s seldom one of them who masa.
Soldiers and sailors,. accustomed to smok-
ing, and who have lost their sight in tuition,
continue to amoke for a short while, bat
soon give up the habit. They say that it
gives them no pleasure when they cannot
see the smoke, and some have said Mate
they cannot taste the smoke unless they
see it. This almost demonstrates the
theory that if you blindfold a men in a
room full of smoke and put a lighted and
unlighted oigar in his mouth alternately,
he will not be able to tell the different-.
St Louie Republic.
For Ladies only.
Lamen—Why bit, that when your hus-
band or your children are ill, you coneula
the beet physician at once, care for them
day and night, wear yonreelf out with sleep-
less watohing, and never begrudge the
heaviest doctor's bill, if only the dear ones
are restored to health; while day after day,,
week after week, you endure that dull pain
in you baok—that terrible" dragging -down"
sensation—and do absolutely nothing to.
effect a cure? In a few yeare you will be
a helpless invalid, and soon your broken-
hearted husband and motherless children
will follow you to the grave. Perhaps
delicacy prevents you coneulting sphysioian.
—but even this is not neceesary. Poor
sufferer, tell your husband how miserably
you feel—perhaps you never did—and ask
him to stop to -night and get you a bottle of
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It has,
cured thousands of women Buffering"
weaknesses and complaints peculiar to eon:
sex.
It's too bad that the Bloffets are mov
ing out of the neighborhood, isn't it 2 "
'-Too bad? Why, Bloffet was a terrible
Minimum with hie cornet."
"Yes, but now that he is leaving the
rents will go up."
—Pater—On your prospects will depend
my acceptance of you as a son-in-law.
Would-be son-in-law—H'm Well my
prospects depend entirely on your aoacept.
s,nce of me as your son-in-lew.
To decant good wine it barbarous, and to
serve any other kind valger. In the course
of pouring it from the bottle to the decanter
the wine catches cold, loses its aroma and
fletteos generally.
onetinn AND SENTIMENT.
"A kiss is but a common noun," cried Sue;
" Yes, very cenitno0,," artIcesly cried Lock.
"Vee if 'tis common it ie proper too 1"
Cried Sal—a twinkle in her °yeti of blue.
" can't be both 1" said Mabel, reticle perplexed;
And so they argued oat the queetion vexed.
To one thing each a.t last mado up her mind ;
A kik: was sot:dealing hard to be declined.
Bly is in Hong Kong and pro-
bably feels herself pretty near home. he
has now only to arose the Pacifies Ocean,
10,000 miles, and the American continent,
3,000 miles, in order to ranee New York,
where she is dna January 27 if she is to
meowed in her attempt to belt the world in
75 dive. She may possibly arrive January
24, but the °hems are against her doing
so. She will rot be able to leave Hong
Kong till Saturday.
—The growth of the oity of Brooklyn
evidenced by the feet that during the past
year new buildings were erected of the
veins) of $27,000,000. 'Brooklyn is it city �f
home e ail well as of churcnes.
Why She Dui It.
Adorer (after a rebuke by the old lady) -
1 didn't kiss you. I only pretended I was
going to. Why did you oall to your mothare
Sweet Girl (repentently)—I—I
know she was in the house.
"Painting the Town Red."
Yon may call this a vulgar expression,
and as modern as it is vulgar, but in thew
"Inferno of Dante" we read the lines;
"Who, visiting, greet through the purple air,
Os who have stained the incarnadine."
Inoarnidine or red may be the neeenteeee
color for a town, but it is the nature" color
of the blood If your liver is out of order,
your blood will soon lose its ruddy glow and.
become impure. This means kidney dis-
orders, lung disease, and, in course of time.
death. To put the liver right and so atop
suoh a train of evils, take Dr. Piercing
Golden Medical Discovery—a sure remedy.
It is guaranteed to benefit or ours
all diseases arising from a disordered
liver or impure blood, as indigestion,
eour stomach, dyepepsise all skim
eosin ar d scrofulous affections, salt -
rheum, tetter, erysipelas, and kindred ail-
ments, or money paid for it will, in every
case, be promptly refunded.
A Change of sentiment.
"Mr. Binks, would you like to rook the
baby to sleep ?"
"Not mnoh."
" Well then, I'll rock him while you go
upstairs and get my pocketbook from my
dress."
"1 think I'd like to rook the baby."
Better Than He Thought For.
Patient—That medioine you gave me for
my cold, doctor, cured me entirely.
Doctor (in supriee)—Did it ! Well,
bl amed if I dcn't believe I'll try itmyeelf.
I can't get rid of mine.
Colored glass, out glass and engraved
glass for wines are used very sparingly by
people of taste. For lamp, flower, fruits
me and sauce bowls the manufacturers*
skill is taxed, but the simpler and oleater
the crystal the better the gourmet appears
to enjoy his wine.
The heir apparent of the Japanese em-
pire having become of legal age, 11 years
last month, was given it sword which is
said to have been kept in the Imperial
family for nearly 1,300 years, and in-
stalled in an office that will entitle him
to be called Colonel or something of that
kind.
--The fashionable finger -nail is said to
be longer and more pointed than ever.
In Africk it costa more 16 convert a
native to Christanity than it does to curved
him into n slave.
D. O. N. L, 2. 90.
A, GENTS MAKE $100 A MONTH,
with us. Send 20efor term. AcolOrell
rug pattern and 60 colored deeigns. W,
ROBB St. Thomas, Ont.
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