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The Exeter Advocate, 1890-10-16, Page 7r ()LIPPING THE EARS. Sass of Punishment Onoe Customary in Oanada, J3►N1 INTERESTING REMINISCENCE. CENCE. Mr. James JayFarley,an old resident of actin 's "countoontr utes the follow, �h g Y� bog e Belleville n lain en er a to th Belle Z to c 1m,—Last week's Ontario contain axi article headed " Presqu'Ile," telling us that *be first court house in Canada was built at SPreequ'Ilo and the first oriminal was to be tried there, an Indian accused of murder. The writer in the Ontario is a little man ;taken in his foots. The first struoture to try criminate in was erected on the Carey- nog arryfug Place, a few miles east of Presqu'Ile, 'life first oriminal to be tried was Collins, a government land 'surveyor, charged with Pia y r ! a . The sentence would be oars cropped and banishment. He was em- ployed by Government to lay out the town- ships of Sidney and Thnrlow. According to the oath of office he was to do the work as the statute directed. The statute :directed he should reserve the equal one seventh of all lands he surveyed for the nee of the clergy.4 The U. E. Loyalist refu- gees from Yankee intolerance had been ,orowding in faster than the land was sur- veyed. 'They took possession of the front of Sidney before the survey was made. When Collins passed down the front he found a located on almost every lot. To :reserve every seventh was to dislodge a family. The mother and children would beg most piteously to remain. He then :concluded he would make no reserves in the hist, second and third concessions ; then in the fifth, sixth and seventh reserve enough to make up. He made hie returns aoeord- iugly. He then commenced Thurlow ; had passed through the first concession and anal -way through the second, when he was a:amplained against that he had not dealt equitably with the church. He was arrested, manacled and kept in enetody. 'Has work was etopped. A staging was nreeted on the Carrying Place in whioh to try the prisoner for perjury, and a day appointed for the trial. On that scorning every male resident, every mother, revery boy over. 13 years old in it be settle- ment were in their canoes paddling for the appointed plane of trial. At the appointed hour (noon) the presiding judge and the Crown proteoutor were on the stand. The prisoner was brought forward. The male residents of Sidney put in defence for Collins as best they could. Then Mother ,C.rysdale ascended the platform (Mrs. Crysdale was a soldier -woman belonging to .Bnrgoyne's army, and had shared in the perils and the fortune cf that army, and is tshe grandmother of Brock Ostrom, Ketchan Graham, Minerva Ketcheeon and others cit Sidney), and, addressing the presiding judge in her own forcible language, .de- nlared that the act laid against Collins was ado sin against God nor wrong to the Church, :no injury to any living being, and had not Tut one shilling in his own pocket. His only crime was he declined to assist in driving, mother and children out from their ;home into the wild, wild wood in the depth ea a Canadian winter that herself and as. 9ooibte mothers would not stand quietly by and nee Collins' ears cut off, bat would de - fond him by every means in their power. The crown prosecutor and presiding Judge consulted for half en hour, then proposed abet Collins ehould sign a writing to tho effect that he should leave the country ;forthwith and never return again, then they would release him at once. The =others consulted a few momenta, then answered they would not agree to those •nonditione. Collins had saved them their homes and now, it needs be, he should shard with them. Collins then advised the ernothera to accept those conditions. For :birneelf, he was but a wage earner here ; his home was elsewhere, and he would not aetnrn again if permitted. He would rsanestly request his friends to aooept those terms. The mothers assented, Collins :signori the writing and was immediately released. The Sidney fleet, with Collins ern board, pulled for home. The mothers understood " forthwith to mean before" the rising sun. That live long night they were :busied in preparing his wardrobe and in leaning and roasting provisions for his journey. By morning light Collins, with • escort, was paddling down the bay and out through the St. Lawrence. I have never beard from him more. Among those ma - trona eo faithful and true stood the mother of Pater Matthews, who -in after years was by a foul laid in a felon's grave for fighting against what, he perhaps erroneously, but no doubt ooneolentiousiy, believed to be a Lawless Tory mobocracy. EOr'RIOITY'S GROW TO. Bow it Ras Developed Since the 'Wonder- ful Centennial. In sauntering through the eleotrioal department of the Exhibition one is etruok ley the wondroue ohangea wrought in mo- tive power singe 1870, 11 was " Machinery Elall" at Philadelphia then, and the mighty engines illustrating man's meoheni. oal skilt were governed and directed by steam, To - day steam as a motive power hae been largely usurped by the mysterious and irresistible force whioh was just be- ginning to be understood fourteen yeare ago. The electrical exhibits aro slow in arriving, and much space remains to be 000upied, The machinery attached to the fountain met with a miehap last evening, and the water did not play. Despite these drawbacks, objects of in - tercet meet the visitor at every turn. There are seemingly dynamos by the n hemachineryt in motion a d t n dozen,P guides the course of electrical contri'vanoes too numerous to mention in detail. There. are oleotrio railways and eleotrio fans, cooking stoves and plows, cascades and a dozen other devices. Ioneekeepers will be attracted to a remote corner, where water is boiled, clothes ironed and food cooked by eleotrioity. Fancy using a flatiron with- out the aeeistance of a fire, frying griddle: cakes without coals, preparing meals and smoothing the family linen, in short, without fuel ? Yon will be able to see this realized at the exposition to -night. What a boon to women, to be sure. One can enter the kitchen, push a button or two, and presently the breakfast is cooking or the tea singing merrily. Great is the genii of electricity 1—St. Louis Republic. A 3'411W krZZC.E., It Looks Fiuoplo, But It's Mighty Deadly. A new puzzle hoe been sprung upon the inoffensive people of this city, It ie an innocent -looking affair Lind an inexpensive one, withal, but more deadly than is 'Again the pen." This latoet brain -racking devroe emulate simply of three oolumns of figures, arranged thus; The World's Diamonds. The world's stook of diamonds has in- creased enorrnonely in the last fifteen years. Iu 1876 the output of the African mines was about 1,500,000 carats, last year it was over 4,000,000, and the great " trust " which controls all the principal mines assert that they have 10,000,000 carats "in sight" at the present time. Mean. time the demand for diamonds has wonder- fully increased and they are higher today —pertly because of the " trust," but also because of inoreased domande—than they were a year or two ago. In one respect the diamond industry is diffeaent from almoet all others. Its product—that is, of gems— is never "consumed." Of gold and silver a much larger amount than most people would believe is literally consumed in the arts past recovery, but a diamond once out goes into the world's great stock and it is liable to come upon the market at any time. Hence the world's annual taking of dia- monde, which appears to be steadily in- creasing, even at advancing prides, is an index of how much of its surplus earnings it can afford to spend yearly in this partio- nler form of 'usury. The romance of diamond -mining is all gone. It is now a matter of exoavating vast beds of blue clay by machinery, waehing it and sifting out the diamonds, whioh, after being roughly eorted for size, etre sold in bulk by weight. The men who do the actual work are mere laborers and their pay is proportionately small —Boston Post. Government vs. a Etat. A Rome cable says: It is stated that the British Ministry, through its friends In this city, is bringing all the influence possible to bearupon the Pontiff against the bestowal of a cardinal's ;bat upon ,Archbishop Walsh, of Ireland. The effect of these appeals is not known, but it is said that the Pope is deeply perplexed as be- tween .the British Government and the Irish people. It is claimed on behalf of the British Government that the elevation of the Archbishop at this time would be an se:rpreseion of approval on the part of Rome of the prelate's course in sanctioning the National League agitation and the Plan of CQ+mpaign, which have heretofore been condemned by the Holy See. It is rumored in Rome that the opponents of Arohbishop Waieb have obtained an assurance that he will not be promoted for some time to come, 11 ever. 1 1 1 5 9 9 Now, the point is to add together any six of the above figures and make the total 21. 140010 A#'t'LIEA., If rain le Only Su One'a blind, Are Not ilruises and Outs Also ? IN EAOH OTHER'S ARMS. A Fatally Burned to Death, the Father Only Escaping. A Dubuque, Ie., despatch says : This morning at 4 o'olook the residence of ex- Policeman John McBee was discovered on fire. A neighbor ran aorose and tried to arouse the family. While he was knock- ing at the dour a window in the upper story crashed, and Mr. McBee fell to the grannie. For a few moments he was senseless. When he recovered he began Drying that his family were upstairs. The flemee were quickly extinguished, and the firemen entered the house. Mrs. MoI'ee and the eldest daughter Rose, aged 18, were dead. The youngest daughter, Bertha, egad 16, and Charley, 5 years old, were still alive. The boy died this forenoon, The girl can- not recover. McBee is too dazed to give a connected account of the tragedy. It is gathered that he awoke nearly suffocated, and roused his wife. They groped in the emoke and darkness until McBee etruok the window, through whioh he leaped or fell. The mother was with him, but remember- ing her children, went back to save them. When found the family were in a group with their arms about each other's neck. Legislating for the Hive. Pare honey from the hive is regarded by the legislature of Ontario as sufficiently important to warrant the peening of a special act in the interest of honey -con- sumers. The object of its regulations, pains and penalties, however, is not, as might.beinferred, the dishonest trades- men, but the uncleanly bee -keeper. In brief, the measure is deeigned to check the progress of the dieease of the honeycombs technically known as " foul brood," which has done miscbief in many hives in Europe, and in Canada bas assumed very serious proportions. It indicates almost a touching faith in the omnipotence of legislation that the Ontario Beekeepers' Association, after prevailing on the depart- ment of agriculture to institute a formal inquiry into the subject, has asked for and obtained this epeoial act. It seems, how- ever, well established that the " epores' wbich infect the honey in the',comb and defy even freezing to the point of 35 below zero to destroy them are caused by leaving decayed brood in the hives. This practice the Act which has now received the Queen's assent seems calculated to keep in check.— London Daily News. $15,000 for Cablegrams. More than 180,000 words were cabled 'armee Woodstock in twenty.fonr hours to the London newspapers. They took a verbatim report of the summing up on ysoth aides and the Judge's charge, the •i longest cablegram ever sent. The cost of cabling the day's proceedings will be dose to 1615,000. A Quiet Attain. Cape Cod Item: She—Who are all those =en going into the jail ? ;hie -They aro reporters. She -What are they going into the jail 3.or2 $c --There is to bo a secret execution abere today. lrhe Chewing -Gum Habit. New York physician told A prominentP y Tao a few days ego that the constant chew- ing nf gum bas produced weak minds in girls now under :fourteen eases of young g treatment, the constant movement of the =loath causing too great a strain on the :bead. -Ladies' Home Journal. A Christian f3cientiet, whose time was fully occupied in thinking about the un- reality of dieeases at 162 per think, once treated a highly unappreciative man for a obronic neevone ah'eotion of a very painful character. After this man had depleted bis puree by sending n40 tines without any improvement, ement he desired to ting when he p w should get better. Then the Christian scientist waxed wrath and, eaid ; " 0 you of little faith! Know that you would already have been cured if you bad believed me when I told you that your pain was not real. Pain and suffering do not exist; they are merely phantasms of the brain. There is no such thing as matter," con- tinued he with such emphasis that he. rat. tled some silver dollars in his pocket; "none whatever; the only real thing is thou= t. subtle for your h All this is too a 1 6 commonplacea mind, and hence I can do nothing foe you ; yon had better go and fill your coarse, unappreciative system with drags." Then a vision of $40 that had vanished, and of pain that had vanished not, came before the mind of that long.suffering man, and he arose and took that Christian scientist and he mopped the floor with him, emiting him sore upon the head and back, so that, when he was through, con- gestion, abrasions, contusions, incipient echymaase and epistaxis were among the phenomena presented by his Christian countenance. " There is no real suffering," said the unappreciative man, with soorn. " The bruises on your alleged head are entirely hypothetioel ; the choking I gave you was simply an idea of mine, and a devilish good idea, too ; the pain whioh you feel is merely one of the ideal conceptions of the cerebral mase. Believe these things not to exist and they vanieb. Good day, sir." And the patient departed.—The Medical Visitor. France's Declining; Population. The population of Franco has been steadily decreasing, or at least its rate of increase bas been steadily diminishing, and the dwindling process has gone on continn- onsly over a longer period than is supposed. The loss is double, . for it is both relative and actual. In the ten years from 1770 to 1780, in a population of 1,000 the number - of children born was 38. In the following decade it was 32, and then it sank to 30, 28, 27, 26, till in the decade of 1870 to 1830 it was only 24. ,01 course, there were special oaneea of this deoline—e. g., the Franco- Prneeian war and the poverty which fol- lowed the injury to the national credit. But still for a century the descent has been constant. The details of the annual inoreaee of population are in many ways surprising. England, whioh might be expeoted to head the list, is second. The German population increases at the rate of 14 to the 1,000 ; the English at 12 ; next, but at a long interval, is Austria, and then follows Italy. Hungary and Sweden are the same, and last on the list is France.—London Daily News. A Boy With a Prodigious Appetite. Whatever credit is due to the possessor of the largest appetite on record meet be given to a boy named Matthew Daking, who, after recovering from a fever, ex- hibited an extraordinary craving for food. If not fed he would gnaw the flab off his bones. Dr. Mortimer, Secretory of the Royal Society, kept an account of the food eaten by the boy, and states that in. six days he swallowed of bread, meat and various substances 384 pounds 2 ounces. J. Cookson, M. D., who gives further par- ticulars of the case says the boy looked pretty well in th' face and was always cheerful, but her , ,d lost the use of his legs. —Nottingham ng.) Sun. Can String a Yarn. rooks n Life : Ada—It is strange 'nitwit a long article a reporter can write on �,e► mere trifle. day 3f,nln—I should sayee. The other sane of them wrote a wbole column on a bathing snit: —A crease down the legs is still eeet on the swagger trousers. .--:.A•a s rule! the than that works like selock'doesn't have a good time. England's Eloquent Woman. Annie Besant is said to be the most els. gnent woman living to -day in all England. She is not young, nor pretty ; she hasn't any tante, any money or any reputation, but she is better than the whole London pglice force or the House of Lords when there is a mob to be controlled. Her face is red and bloated, her hair is short and .gray, her eyes are sad and sunken, the grace of her figure bas disappeared, and she is a lonely, disappointed, discontented, old young woman and as fierce a Socialist as Lucy Parsons. -New York World. Like Fattier, Liko Daughter. Benedict—I understand yon are going to marry Miss.Cnttem, the tailor's daughter. Singleton -Yes. " Ab, er, do you think she's just the girl for you ? " ' " Why, yes. Her father has suited me for a long time, so I think the daughter will. THE Lirl+e',?f' 1 EU In Moat Persons It le fitronifer Than the Anent. There is 4 popular idea that because the right arm is mote often used and stronger, titan the left, so the right leg ie stronger than the left, This is not correct ; there is evidonoe that the left leg in most people ie stronger than the right. Freon the theoretrical point of view, it would appear that in all manual labor requiring i ng an - creased use of flee right hand the left leg is also employed on the principle of equili- brium. In the case of .the lower animate (except ambulatore—camels, ate.) and babies when walking oa all fours, the right fore limb moves with the left hind limb, and vice versa. It follows from this that man, using the right arm more than the left, would probably use the left leg more than' the right. Many people find less exertion in walking around large circles to the right than ing g oi t n to the left. Thisis also the a Daae in rade paths for !dietetic po eta nearly arl y all of whioh are arranged for the racers to go in circles to the right in running. Again, travelers have observed that hunters, when boat on prairies, wander around in circles to the right. This fact has been attributed to their following the course of the sun but this does not appear to be necessarily the case. Many skaters can perform more figures on the left than on the right foot—or, at any rate, in commencing, figures are more readily done on the ;left foot. With rope -dancers it is usually observed that the more complicated feats of balancing aro performed on the left DOC—Nineteenth Century. The New Commander. After considerable passing round from one general to another of the command of the Canadian militia, an officer bas at last been found to aooept the office with its cares and responsibilities. It is announced that Col. Ivor Caradoo Herbert, of the Grena- dier Gaards, and military attache at St. Petersburg, has consented to try bis hand at commanding the soldiers of the Domin- ion. Col. Herbert, who is comparatively a young man, being born in 1851, entered the Guards as Eneign and Lieutenant in 1870. His promotion was rapid, for the year 1889 found him a Colonel. He has seen service in the field in Egypt and the Soudan, and is looked upon as an excellent staff officer by Gen. Viscount Wolseley. . He is said to be a man of large wealth, so it cannot be the pay as commandant that ternpte him to undertake the control of an office which has proved to older and more experi- enced soldiers.a thankless and nnappre• crated one. Mn. BLUE, chief of the Statistical De. partmont of the. Province of Oatario, attended the meeting of the British Iron and Steel Inetitnte in New York yesterday, and on behalf of the Ontario Government invited the membere to visit Ontario and judge for themselves of the immense min- eral wealth of the Province. The institute has come to Amerioa at the invitation of the American Association of Mining Engi- neers, whose guest it is, and purposes making. a tour of the States. It was resolved to aooept Mr. Blue's invitation and visit the mineral distriots of Ontario in the latter end of the month. The mem- bers will oleo visit Ottawa at the request of the Dominion Government. A burglar got fast in the window of a hoose occupied by John Roach, of Paterson. John is a moraliet, and he dressedhimself and sat down on the chair and talked to that burglar for two long hours without a break. Then the burglar asked to be either knocked on the head or let go, and Mr. Roach talked to him one hour longer, and then Buffered him to depart. May and December. British Justice Swift and Sure. (Buffalo News.) All the summing up, the charge of the Judge, the verdiot and the sentence came in a heap yesterday in the Birchen trial. They do those things differently in Canada from what we are accustomed to on this side. A small State prison case would take longer in our courts after the testi- mony was in. e * * * The trial has been one of the celebrated oaees of recent times and once looked as it it might rival in •interest the Cronin assassination of a year ago. Like that. and the famous Maxwell- Preller tragedy, it created a profound sen- sation in the old world.. Its interest spanned the Atlantio. . It has been quietly and decently handled by the Canadian authorities, and the general belief will be that substantial justice has been reached. (Philadelphia Iteeord.) That the sentence of the law will be carried out is almost certain. English justice, as a rule, is prompt, and there is but little opportunity for new trials and appeals on hair-splitting technicalities. (New York Commercial Daily Bulletin ) The celerity of British methods in judi- cial proceedings might well be imitated here. In the Birchen case in Canada, the jury was Bemired in less than an hoar, out of a panel drawn from a people greatly prejudiced against him. The trial was of unusual length. for Canada, some six days, and was closed by a verdict of guilty and the sentence of the prisoner. A murder case of startling interest is now in pro- gress in New York. Five er six days were exhausted in getting a jury, and at lest specimens of the requisite monumental ignorance were found and the examination of witnesses began yesterday. The trial will be long, the result appears to be cer- tain, but sentence ie imposed, how many and great the delays may be before it is enforced 2• New York World : A unique canvass is now progressing in the Fort Scott, Kansan, district, where General John H. Rice and his sen are the opposing candidates for the Legislature. General Rice asks his friends to deal leniently with the boy ; that be is young and immature, and while he means well be does not know near es ranch as he thinks he does. The young -man tells his audiences that 'the times and events de- mand the blood and vigor of youth, and that the lean and slippered pantaloon ahoald Beek the quiet of the chimney corner —and so the oampaign goes, with the friends of each candidate certain their man will win. Printers Ink Money. Advertising Gazette : One hundred thousand dollars a yearfor advertising is quite a sum to expend for the extension• of the business of ne angle shoe firm ; yet that is what the W. L. Douglas Shoe Co. will expend among the newspapers of the country this year. Orders for advertising to the amount of 1150,000 were sent out by this firm in one day early in January. DE;!•D MMEa'ti MONEY. Atlee of Man azzel Wife, It is always better for a man to be ever&l years the senior of hie wife. And sell tell you why. The average girl who marries—God bless her—stays at home, and makes a borne a 'blissful abiding place for her husband and her children, The man pee out into the world and has the reaponetbility of oaring for thoee who are at borne ; and yet time loos not seem to set its seal on him as it does .on a woman. and to ` e life ruffle ®her ittl nares of fa ui o The 1 , often make her leek, as we say, " old before her time." Now, even when thio does not happen, she does proper- tionately grow old in appearance eooner than a man, and for that reason she wants to take the benefit of the doubt and let bine have the added yeare to start with. Then, too, you should de. sire to keep your heart and mind young; to be his intellectual companion, and this is much easier when your husband is old " guide, r n enough to be t nide hiloeo he and g t; ,p p friend." The love of a woman to her hus- band always has a little of the maternal in it—that is right and tender—but she does not wish to be mistaken for his mother. Be wise, and marry a man older than yourself ; one who hae seen life in its many phases and who can guide you over the rooky places ; one who has learned that it is not always wise to obey impulse, but that any important duty should be well thought over. Ruth Ashmore in Ladies' Home Journal. The Will of a Chicago Millionaire At- tacked—Cauadiaua Interested. The Chicago News says the will of the late John Crerar, whioh disposed of an estate valued at nearly 43,000,000, much of it being bequeathed to charitable and re- ligions inetiturions, is to be contested by some fourteen heirs living here and in dif- ferent parts of Ontario. The leading feature of the will was bequest of over 42,000,000 to erect and maintain the John Crerar library. The grounds on which it is proposed to invalidate the library bequest are the same as those on whioh the bequest for a library in New York in the will cf the late Samuel J. Tilden was invalidated, viz. : The bequest cannot be legally made to anything whioh does not exist. It is also proposed to attack the bequest to the Scotch Presby- terian Church of New York. city $25,000 ; the Chicago Bible Society, 425,000 the American Sunday School Union of -Phila- delphia, $50,000, and the bequest of 5100,000 for a statue of Abraham Lincoln. The solicitor for the contestants, states that ell the bequests to relatives 'ranging away to third coueine are to relatives on ,the tds- tator's mother's side, and that his rela- tives on hie father's Bide arenotmentioned. W ben Your Dog has Fleas. Buy a second-hand bath tub, but be sure to get one which is not copper -lined. Why, I will tell yon later on. Get some carbolic sheep dip. There are a dozen different kinds, all, so far as I can discover, made from the same general formula. Add 30 gallons of warm water to each gallon of dip, and souse - in your dog. Don't be afraid of . its getting in hie eyes, as it will only smart a little and do no permanent injury. Keep the dog in his bath for a couple of minutes, and if he ie too large' to be entirely covered throw the mixture over his back and head,with your hand. After he is taken out and robbed dry there will not be a live flea on him. The next day, however, he will have a few, and the day after seemingly as many as ever. Pat him in the bath again, and by repeating three times a week in a fortnight the fleas on your dogs will be as hard to find se the proverbial needle in the haystack. There is nothing offensive in this bath. The water and dip form an emuision the color of milk, and it does not injure the hair or skin, and need in proper proportions is a sure and speedy cure dor .mange. The reason I warned againet a copper -lined tub is that the carbolic acid in the dip nnites with the metal and forms carbolate of copper, one of the most deadly skin irritants there is. I have seen cases of dogs thus affected which failed to respond to any known remedy and were positively incurable. The skin thickened and took on a pinkish hue, the hair dropped out, and the victims looked like, Mexican hairless dogs. They never got better. Couldn't face it Out. New York Herald: Mand—Do you pur. pose attending Dr. Ceremonial's church when you go back to town 2 Madge—No, I think not. Yon know he has adopted the new rule of confession, and I have been having such a good time here all snmmer that I wouldn't dare face the Doctor with the load I've got on my conscience. OVER 6,000,000 pieces of mail matter were last year Bent to the United States dead letter office. Of these 427,000 were misdirected, 24,000 bore no addreas,165,000 returned from hotels, 42,000 bore fictitious addresses, 80,000 parcels, address lost, 28,000 contained $48,642 in money, 4,000 con- tained 165,300' in postal notes, 27,000 con- tained $1,471,871 in drafts, etc., 42,000' contained photographs, 1,000 conteined forbidden articles, 162,000 containedtpost- age stamps. The principal causes of all these letters and parcels going wrong were iniu•direction, incorrect, illegible or defi- cient addressee. One would hardly stip- polo that a man would post a ,totter without any address upon it, yet 24,000 of such letters were posted. Fond mother at summer resort—Olara, My dear, yon needn't be anrprised if 'Mr. Dizzy proposes at any time now. Clare— Ent, mother, he pays me scarcely any attention. Fond mother—Tree, but look how ho is flirting with me. —The girl who is often lost in admire. tion easily Elude herself in love. How Children Are Spoiled. It is easy enough to spoil a child. No great art is demanded. Only three or four things are requisite to complete the work. Make all the nurses wait on ham and fly at hie lii3ding ; let him lei:rn never to go for a drink, brit always have it brought to him ; at 10 yeare of age have Bridget tie his shoe- strings ; lot him strike auntie because else will not get him a sugar -plum. He will soon learn that the house is his realm, and he is to rule it. He will come up into man- hood one of those precious spirits that de- mand obeisance and service, and with the theory that the world is his oyster, which, with knife, ho will proceed to open. If that does not spoil him, buy him a. horse ; it is exhilarating and enlarging for a man to own such an animal. A good horse- back ride shakes up the liver and helps the man to be virtuous;; for it is almost im- possible to be good with too much bile, an enlarged spleen, or a stomach off duty. We congratulate any man who can afford to own a horse ; but if a boy own one, he will probably ride on it to destruction ; he will stop at the tavern for drinks ; he will bet at the rapes. There will be room enough in the same saddle for idleness and diseipa• tion to ride, one of thembefore and one of them behind. The bit will not be strong enough to rein in at the right plane. There a e meet who all their lives have been going down hill, and the reason is that in boy- hood they sprang astride a horse, and got. going so fast that they have never been able to atop.—T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., in Ladies' Horne Journal. Explosion and Panic A Reading, Pa., despatch says : One of the steam presses on the first floor of the Keystone hosiery mill, at Eighth and• Windsor streets, exploded shortly before noon yesterday. The shattered iron work, was hurled into the ceiling. Twenty-five girls were at work in the npper story, who became panio•atrioken by the escaping steam and uproar, and rushed for a largo double door at the hoistway. This was quickly opened, and one by one the excited girls jumped and fell in a heap fifteen feet below. Five had already taken the leap before the forewoman arrived on the scene and pushed the remainder of the terrified girls back out of danger. Annie Goodwin's Murderer Convicted. A New York despatch says : In the case of Dr. MoGonigle, charged with causing the death of Annie Goodwin by malprac- tice, the jury rendered a verdict of man - daughter in the first degree. Sentence was deferred for a week. The maximum penalty is 20 years in State prieon. .As the Twig Ia Bent. Wiggles—That boy of yours is a great y talker. What, are you going to make of him, a lawyer ? Sniggles—No, a barber. Tho Wateh Trick. Braokl n Lie : Caller --I want to see the Most Popular alar Policeman Editor. Oft oo Boy—We have no such editor, now. The contest for the most popular policeman Closed last night, and the man in charge is now the Favorite Burglar Editor. The Young Women of To -day. It is not enough that the young women of today shall be what their mothers are, or were. They mast be more. The spirit of the times calls on women for a higher order of things, and the requirements of the woman of the future will be great. I mast not be misoonstrned into saying that the future woman will be one of mind rather than of heart. Power of mind in itself no more makes a true woman than does wealth, beauty of person, or eooiat elation. But a clear intellect, a well-trained mind adorns a woman, just as an ivy will adorn a splendid oak ; a true woman has a power, something peculiarly her own, in her moral influence, whioh when. duly developed makes her queen over a wide realm of spirit. But this she can possess only as her powers are oniti- vated. Cultivated women wield the sceptre of authority over the world at large. Wherever a cultivated woman dwells, be sure that there yon will find refinement, moral power and life in its highest form. For a woman to be cultivated she must begin early ; the days of girlhood are traneitory and fast -fleeting, and girls are women before we know it, in these rapid times. Every girl has a certain station to occupy in this life, some one place to fill, and often she makes her own station by her capacity to create and fill it. The beginning influences the end.—Ladies' Home Journal. The Lot of the Chinese Laborer. To the most casual observer of the Chinese industrial classes there are two facts which stand out with peculiar and equal prominence, yet whioh appear abso. lutely irreconcilable—the miserable condi- tion of the average Chinese workman and his entire satisfaction with the state of society as ho finds it. His low social con- dition is patent to all, bis unmurmuring acquiescence in it is equally evident. The most conspicuous circumstance in the life of the lower orders is the amazingly smell share which the producers get of those " good things of life " wbich are their own production. Yet hardly less apparent 10 the utter absence among them of any general spirit of restlessness or discontent. And the problem which baffles all attempts at solution is to discover the reason of their marvelous contentment. What are the moral impulses, the inward helps and compensations, whioh sustain the worker whose outward lot is so " weary and bard bestead "2 What inner harmonies give reconcilement to the discordant' jars with. out 2 For, however we may explain it, the hard-working sons of toil, unlovely as their lives appear to ne, are not the most woful of the many " Sons of Han."-Correseond- enee Chinese Times. Honest. No one can pursue an honest policy for a long course of years without gaining a reputation more to be valued than great riches. It does one good, heart and soul, to. remember that there are men who aro like pillars of fire by night to move waver- ing consciences, men who can reject a bribe with the hastiness due an insult. The late W. H. Y. Hackett, of Portsmouth, was an exceptionally honest man, one of those law- yers who, like Abraham Lincoln, would not undertake a case wbich did not seem to him a just one, and wherever he was known his influence ' over a jury was naturally great. One day, after the termination Of certain case, Mr. Hackett met an old farmer who had been one of the jury, and who felt that too much time had been con. earned in reaching a verdict. 'r, The fact is, squire," he said, " we shouldn't ha' been so long a-givin' yon that case, but somehow or other there happened to bo a couple o' men on there who didn't know you at. all. Waal, the rest of us, we just told ''em what kind of a man we knowed Squire Haokett to be. An' we kind of insisted upon it that we could depend exactly on what you said. An' so, after that, we all came round together."— Youth's Companion. Tho Coming Woman. The coming woman will appreciate the vast difference between modesty and prudery. She will not allow her daughter to learn tenons whioh must be of vital importance to her from any but the mater- nal lips. She will not be deluded by the fallacy that ignorance and innocence are ayhnnymone terms. She will teach her children that there is evil in the world, and that itis to be shunned and avoided, and that in order to escape the pitfalls set for the unwary, they, her children, mustknow, what and where they aro.—Milwaukee Sentinel. A Pliant Type -Setter. There is an honest type -setter in this city, posasessed of a pliable mind, which he is apt to change according to the impreesion made upon it. . He once set type on a teetotal organ, and, after thinking over the anti -alcoholic arguments in his manuscript, he signed the pledge. He next got s job on a sporting weekly, and was soon led to join a baseball club. He afterward handled his stick in a methodist weekly, and its reason- ing soon led him to membership in the church. He then set type for a presbyterian editor whose copy convinced him of the truth of Calvinism. He next " got a sit " on a free -trade paper, which led him to revise his views of the tariff. He afterward worked as typo on a lignorish sheet, where,. after setting a hundred galleys of argu- ments in favor of grog, he adopted the practice of taking a glass at times. At latest accounts this typesetter of pliable mind was standing at the case in the office of a spiritualistic publication and bad become convinced that his true function in life was that of a medium or faith-enrist.— New York Sun. ADVD1TISING 31N0011. Advertise well! 'tie the secret of glory, Stink to this principle fast as leech ; Think of the names that are famous in story; Advertise well is the lesson they teach, Advertise well1 though business bo waning, Those who spendfreest must win in the end; Up and be doing! No need for complaining Act for yourself, and bo your own friend. Advertise well 1 an Janos have a turning; Nothing pays better than paper and ink. Thousands who daily this motto aro spurning, rind tbat it brings them to BaYonknitruersptcCtyares bttorink; —, •--Silver rattles aro made for babies. " Yon meat be as quiet as possible to- night, Johnny," said his mother, "for we areto have the minister super." for en pper. " r eh Well, i ho e Have him for supper, ? p he'll test© good." • Looking Backward. Miss Dasher (of Denver)—So sorry the season's over, dear. What luck ? Mies Brownbeane (of Boston—dreamily) —I am so transcendently happy. He whom I love asked me to be his wife. He is fond of Emerson, is a member of the Bellamy Society, and is possessed largely of this world's goods end the root of all evil. Mies D.—How jolly 1 I am too engaged. He is redheaded ; says " I seen" and "1 done," and can link anything of his weight in Denver. And he's got the rooks, you bet. They are not Jawsmiths, Buffalo Netts : Johnny Cnmso—I don't like Freddy Fought. He talks too much out of his mouth. Mrs. Camso (reprovingly)—Did yon ever know people to talk except with their months ? " Yessum. Deaf and dumb people talk with their hands." Caution. Little Boy (in crowded street oar to pretty little girl)—I'll give you my seat is you'll take it. Little Girl (whispering)—I'm ever 8o mnoh obliged, but yon shouldn't offer your scat untilyony get g are read to off, 'cause people will think you're from the country. Dif'f'erent From a Mule. Mrs Yeast—I' understand your husband, kioks like a mule at the table ? Mr Orimsonbeak—No, it is a mistake. 9, mule only kioks at things behind hint, while Orimeonbeak kioks at everything I put is front of him. Well, said the oannibak smacking hid lips after dinner ; "that missionary may have bean a saintly man,bnt he wasn't very good.": e 2London There are 50,000 weddings in Ao nt g every year..