The Exeter Advocate, 1891-11-5, Page 7ill
BACKBONE AND GRIT
The Story of a Brave Boy'S Struggle with
Poverty.
The stage has gone, sir, but there's a
widow lives here, and ithe'e got a boy, and
he'll drive you over. He's a nice little fel-
low, and Deacon Ball lets him have his
team .for a trifle, and we like to get him a
job when we
It was a hot day in July. Away up
among the hills that make the lower slope
of the Monadnock Mountain a friend lay
very ill. Iu order to reach his temporary
borne one must take an early train to the
nearest station, and trust to the lumbering
old coach that made a daily trip to K—.
The train was date ; the stage'after waiting
some time, was gone, The landlord of the
little white hotel appeared in his shirt-
sleeves, and leaning his elbow on the bal-
cony rail dropped down on the hot and
thirsty traveller what comfort could be
extracted from the opening sentence of my
sketch.
" Would we not come in and have some
dinner 1 " "Yes." Would he send for
the deacon's tearn ?" "Yes." "And the
boy? "
And the dinner was eaten and the team
came round --an open buggy and an old
white horse, and Just as we were seated the
door of a little brown house across the
way opened and out rushed the "widow's
boy."
in his mouth was the last morsel of his
'dinner; he had evidently learned how to
• "eat and run." His feet were clad in last
winter's much -worn boots, whose wrinkled
legs refused to stay within the limits of his
narrow and faded trousers. As his legs
dew forward his arms flew backward m
.an ineffectual struggle to get himself
:inside of a jacket much too short in the
sleeves.
" There he is," said the hostler, " that's
the Widow Beebe's boy. I told him I'd
hold the horse while he went home to get a
bite."
The horse did not look as if he needed to
ihe held, but the hostler got his dime, and
the boy approached in time to relieve my
mind as to whether he would conquer the
jacket or the jacket would conquer him and
turu him wrongside out.
He was sun -burned and freckled, large-
mouth and red -haired ---a homely, plain,
wretched little Yankee boy ; and yet, as we
rode trough the deep summer bloom and fra-
,grance of the shaded road, winding up the
long hills in the glow of the afternoon sun, I
learned such a lesson from the little fellow
az I shall not soon forget.
He did not look much like a preacher as
he sat stooping forward a little, whisking
the flies from the deacon's horse, but his
:sermon was one which I wish 'night have
been heard by all the boys in the land. As
it was I had to spur him on now and then
,by questions to get him to tell about him-
self. sea'.
"My father died, you see, and left' my
mother the little brown hnuse opposite the
=tavern. You saw it, die n't you, sir—the
one with the lilac bushes u tulerthe window?
rather *as sick a long time, and when he
-could not work he had to raise money °lathe
house. Deacon Ball lethim have it, a little
.at a time, and when father was gone mother
found the money owed was almost three
hundred dollars.
"At first she thoughtaehe would have to
give up the house, but the deacon said, 'Let
it wait awhile,' and he turned and patted me
-on the head, and said: When Johnny gets
big enough to earn something I shall expect
him to pay it. I was only 9 then, but I'm
13 now; I remember it, and I remember
mother cried, and said, 'Yes, Deacon. Johnny
/ is my only hope now ' ; and I wondered and
wondered what work I could do. I really
felt as if I ought to begin at once, but I
couldn't think of anything to do."
"Well, what did you do?" I asked
quickly, for I was afraid he would stop and
I wanted to hear the rest.
"Well, at first I did very funny things
for a boy. Mother used to knit socks to
sell; and she sewed the rags to make rag
-carpets and I helped."
"How? What could you do ?"
"Well, the people who would like a car-
pet could not always get the time to make
it. So I went to the houses among the
farmers and took home their rags, old coats
and everything they had, and out in the
woodshed I ripped and cut them up. Then
mother sewed them, and sometimes, I sewed
,some, too, and then I rolled them into balls
and took them back to the owners, all ready
to be woven into rugs."
"But did they pay for your work ?"
"Oh, yes, we got so much a pound, and
I felt quite like a young merchant when I
, weighed them out with our old steelyards.
But that was only one way; we've two or
three old apple trees out in the back yard by
the wall, aud we dried the apples and sold
them. Then some of the farmers who had
a good many apples began to send them to
us to dry, and we paid them so many pounds
dry and had the rest to sell."
"But you surely could not do much in
ways like these."
"No, not much, but something, and we
had the knitting."
"Did you knit ?"
"Not at first, but after a while mother
began to have the rheumatism in her hands
and the joints became swollen and the
fingers twisted, and it hurt her to move
there. Then I learned to knit; before that
I wound the yarn for her. I had to learn
to sew a little, too, for mother didn't like to
nee the holes without patches."
And he looked half smilingly at the speci-
mens on his knees.
"But you did not mend those ?" said I.
"Yes, sir ; but I was in a hurry and
mother said it was not done as it ought to
be. They had just been washed, and I
couldn't wait for thein to dry."
" Who washed them ?"
" I did, and ironed thein, too. I can
wash and iron almost as well as mother
.can. She don't mean to let me, but how is
'she going to help it? She can hardly use
her hands at all, and some days she cannot
'leave her chair, so I had to learn to make
the beds and to scrub the floor and wash the
dishes, and I can cook almost as well as a
girl." ,
"It is possible? I shall have to take
supper with you on my way back to the
,city and test your Ain. " '
Johnny blushed, end I added:
Ice a pity, my boy, that you haven't a
es,ieter."
"1 had one," he said gently, "but she
,died ; and if she had lived I shouldn't have
wished her to lift, and bring weed and
water, and scrub as poor mother did.
'Sometimes I wish I could have sprung all
the way from a baby to a man. Its each
slow work growing up, and it was while
mother was waiting for us to grow up that
else worked so hard."
"But, iny boy, you cannot expect to be
son and daughter and mother all in one.
You cannot do the work for a whole
family."
" Yes'I can ; it isn't much, and I am
going to do it and the work my father left
undone. I'in going to pay that mortgage,
if I live."
Heaven grant you may," I said, fer-
vently, under my breath, " for not many
mothers have such a son,"
" Mother don't know I mean to do it, and
she is veryanxious I should go to school,and
I mean to wane time; but I know juatwhere
the boys in my class are studying, and I get
the lessons at home. Mother reads them to
me out of the book syhile I arn washing the
dishes or doing her work, and we have great
fun. I try to remember and repeat it, and
if we come to anything vve can't make out I
take it over to the teacher in the evening ;
she is very kind—she tells me."
Very kind ! Who wouldn't be kind to
such a boy? I felt the tears corning to my
eyes at such a sudden vision of this son do-
ing girl's work, while his poor old mother i
held the book n her twisted handseled tried
to help him to learn.
" But all this does not earn money, my
y HOW do you expect to save if you
spend your time indoors ?"
Oh, I don't do girl's work all day ; no,
indeed ! I have worked out our taxes on
the road. It wasn't much, but I helped the
men build a stone wall down by the river ;
and Deacon Bell let's me do a great deal of
work for him, and when I get a chance to
take anybody from the hotel to ride, he let's
me have this team for almost nothing, and I
pay to hizn whatever I make. And E work
on the farm with the men in summer; and
I have A cow of my own and sell the milk
at the tavern; and we have some hens, too,
and sell the eggs. And in the fall I cut,
and pile the winter's wood in the sheds for
the people who haven't any boys—and
there's a good many people about here who
haven't any boys," he added, brushing a fly
from the old horse with the tip of his whip.
After this we fell into silence and rode
through the sweet New England roads, with
Monadnock rising before us ever nearer and
more majestic. It impressed me with a
sense of his rugged strength—one of the
hills, "rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun";
but I glanced from the mountain to the
little red-headed morsel of humanity at my'
side with a sort of recognition of their kin-
ship. Somehow they seemed to belong
together. I felt as if the same sturdy stuff
were in them both. It was only a fancy,
but it was confirmed the next day, for
when I came back to town after seeing my
invalid friend, I called on Deacon Bell. I
found him white-haired and kindly -faced.
He kept the village store and (sealed a
pretty house and was evidently very well
to do. Naturally we talked of John, and
the Deacon said to xise with tears in his old
watery blue eyes :
"Why, bless your heart, sir, you don't
think I'm going to take this money, do
you? The only son of his mother and she
a widow,
and all tied up into double bow-
knots with the rheumatics besides ! True
euough, I let his father have the money,
and my wife, she says, says she to me,
Well, Deacon, my dear' we've not got a
child, and shall be justas well off a
hundred years from now if the widow never
pays a cent but 'cording to my calcula-
tion it's ' better to let the boy think he's
payin'. She says I might as well try to
keep a barrel of vinegar from workin' as to
keep that boy from, workin'. It' the
mother in him and it's got to work. We
think a good deal of the widow, Mend and
me. I did before I ever saw Mandy but
for all that we hold the mortga.g and
Johnny wants to work it out. Mandy and
me, we are going to let him work."
I turned away, for I was going to sup at
Johnny's house; but before I went I asked
the Deacon how much Johnny had already
paid.
"Well, I don't know; Mandy knows—I
pass it to her—she keeps the book. Drop
in before you go to the train and I'll show
it to you."
I dropped in and the Deacon showed me
the account. It was the book of a savings
bank in a neighboring town, and on its
pages were credits of all the little sums
the boy had earned or paid; and. I saw
they were standing to the Widow Beebe's
name.
I grasped the Deacon's hand. He was
looking away over the house -tops to where
Monadnock was smiling under the good-
night kiss of the sun.
Good-bye, sir, good-bye," he said, re-
turning my squeeze with interest. "Much
obliged, I'm sure, Mandy and me, too; but
don't you be worried about Johnny. When
we see it we know the real stuff it takes to
make a real man—and Johnny has got
it. Johnny is like that mountain over
there—chock full of grit and lots of back-
bone."
"our Money or Your Life i"
Such a demand at the month of a "six-
shooter," sets a man thinking pretty lively!
With a little more thinking there would be
less suffering.
Think of the terrible results of neglected
'consumption ! which might easily beaverted.
by the timely use of Nature's*Great Specific,
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Consumption, which is lung -scrofula, is
a constitutional disease, and requires just
such a thorough and effectual constutional
remedy! Taken in time, before the lung -
tissues are wasted, it is guaranteed a radical
euro! Equally certain in all scrofulous
affections and blood disorders. Large bottles,
one dollar, of any druggist.
An Exacting Girl.
New York Herald: She—No, I will not
marry you.
He (bitterly)—Thank you. I have done
everything I could to please you. (Very
bitterly.) Is there anything I can do for
you before I leave you forever.
She—Oh, if you really feel under obliga-
tions to me you may mention the fact that I
have declined you to your friends. It will
save me heaps of trouble.
Taking the Stump In Ohio.
TexasSiftings "The campaign must be
pretty lively in Ohio."
" Why, what's the latest from there ?"
"More than three hundred men, who
have never been prominentlyknown in
politics, have taken the stutnp.',
"You don't say! Republicans, are
they ?"
" No ; dentists."
Bodiless Jerry's Reform.
Rochester Herald : Jerry Simpson appar-
ently has joined the drese reformers. In
Ohio the other day he shouted: "My
good friends, hurrahing for Sherman won't
put a pair of pants on your back." The
Simpson dress reform isnot likely to become
popular in civilized communities.
She Didn't Nee& Delp.
Washington Star: "Darn your hose,
ina.dam 1' exclaimed the man, as he stum-
bled over the sprinkling apparatus that lay
stretched acroes the sidewalk.
"No," she answered, as she adjusted her
spectacles, "1 guess not to day I do all
my own meading."
If sassafras bark is sprinkled among dried
fruit it will keep out the worms
"'Coarse and abusive remarleas that's a
good phrase. By the way, 1Vir. Blower is on
the other side, isn't he?' City Editor—Oh,
no, he's one of our speakere1 Editor—So ?
Let me see. I think you'd better change
that be "keen and incisive."—Roston Tran
Script.
A steel shaving 81 feet 11 inches long was
recently tinned at the Wagner carshope.
If it could be straightened out, it is said
that the slaving would neeasure at lead
twice that length.
CURED AGAINST
After Ten Years of ?offering a Win Man Is
Restored to Health,
A Case Rivalling. the Marvellotte Cure of
John Marshall.
A good name is more to be desired than
great riches." The truth of this scripture
quotation is proven every day. Once a per-
son or a firm or an institution achieves u good
name its road to success; is short , and
sure, but to achieve a good name is
quite is different thing. Not many
months ago the Tints brought to
light one of the most marvellous
cures that has ever been effected. Mr.
John Marshall, after being for years
afflicted with locomotor ataxy, supposed to
be incurable, and after having been paid
$1,000 frOla the Royal Templass as being
totally disabled for life, was permanently
cured by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills. Mr. Marshall may be seen on the
streets any day, a strong, healthy man,
with no trace of his olcl trouble. The case
gave Pink Pills a name throughout the
length and breadth of the land, and vastly
increased sales of the remedy followed. The
results are being seen on all sides now in
wonderful cures wrought.
The TIMES Came aCTOSS two yesterday.
At No. 196 York street Mr. W. J. Clark,
who is employed in Messrs. John Calder St
Co's. clothing manufactory, was seen at his
residence and was pleased with the oppor-
tunity of saying a good word for the remedy
that had put him in a position to enjoy life
after ten years of affliction. Mr. Clark is a
young man of intelligence, and told the
story of his COM in an interest-
ing manner. "Ten years ago," he
said, "1 got a very heavy cold,
which settled in the small of my
back and has ever since, up to is short time
ago' defied all the remedies I could hear of
andthe skill of many doctors. At times I
Was so bad that I could not work,and was
seldom free from pain, whether standing,
sitting, walking, or lying The only thing
that gave me relief was an herb I, got from
an herbalist. For two weeks it relieved me
and then the pains returned. I got more
herbs, but whether they were the same or
not, or whether they simply ceased
to operate I can't say, but I got
no more relief from herbs. Turpentine
applied on hot cloths and taken internally
gave me relief for a little while, but I gave
that up too. Several doctors examined me
and said, Oh, it's nothing They gave
me medicines whichthey said would make
it all right, but which didn't. After almost
ten years of doctoring I came to the con-
clusion that I would never be cured, and
tried to resign myself to my lot. Some
months ago I went into the country to see
my father. He said to me, Will, I have
something here I want you to take—a box
of Pink Pills I replied to him :
You might as well throw them out the
door.'
Take them for my, sake,' Will, he said,
and I said I would do anything for him,
though I had no faith in them—' They are
not worth that,' I said, snapping my fingers.
I took the box and really felt better.
They gave me an appetite, at anyrate, and
lessened the pain. So I resolved to
continue them. After using three boxes
I stopped. That is over three weeks ago,
and I am now well and strong. The pain is
all gone and I do my work like a new man.
I am now working over -time until 10
o'clock, and stand it well. I have .gained.
in weight, and feel better every way. It
was no case of faith cure with me, for I had
no faith in the pills at all. My mate at
work, at my advice,' took Pink Pills to
build up his system, andsays he is much
better; he certainly looks it.
"Yes," remarked Mr. Clark as the TIMES
reporter was withdrawing, "you may use
my name, and if you see any one who has
any doubts as to the curing properties of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills just send him to
Another case.
Mr. James Wright, No. 129/ Bay street
north, is another of the great army of wit-
nesses. For a year he suffered from diabetes,
but was restored to health unde ,the atten-
tion of Dr. Anderson. The disease how-
ever, left behind it a fearful stilts of
nervousness, debility, lack of appetite,
sleeplessness and ringing "noises in the ears
and head, which at times almost drove Mr.
Wright frantic. From weighing 180 pounds
he came down to 118. He was well ac-
quainted with Mr. John Marshall and knew
of his trouble. Hearing of his cure
he decided to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
and did so in June last. After taking one
box, all these troubles began to vanish and
eleven boxes completely cured him, appe-
tite returned and sweet sleep was no longer
a stranger to him. In two months he re-
coveredeighteen pounds of his lost fleshand
is still gaining. Mr. Wright is confident
that the remedy will have the same effect
upon any one who is afflicted as he was, if
given a fair trial.
In connection with the wonderful cures
resulting trom the use of Dr. Williams' Pint:
Pills, it must be gratifying to Canadian t to
know that they are the discovery of a Cana-
dian doctor, a graduate of McGill College
and post -graduate of Edinburgh University.
Hitherto the great discoveries in medicine
have come to us from abroad, but Dr. Wil-
liams' Pink Pills have conquered diseases
hitherto declared by the works of specialists
incurable, and have shed a new lustre on
Canadian medical science. What is claimed
for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills is that they are
an unfailing blood builder and nerve tonic,
supplying the wants incident to over -work,
mental worry,or excesses of whatever nature.
They stimulate the system build anew
the blood, and restore sheltered nerves,
removing the fruitful causes of • premature
decay and insanity. They are also a specific
for the ills peculiar to women, such as sup-
pression, bearing down pains, displacements,
ulceration etc. They are a certain remedy
for headaches, dimness of vision, palpitation,
shortness of breath and by restoring the
blood to a healthy coiidi4on, bring back
strength and the glow of health, where had
been pale and sallow cheeks and broken
down constitution. That these claims are
not exaggerated is borne out by the remark-
able cures investigated by the TIBIES, as
well as by hundreds of testimonials from all
parts of Canada in the possession of the
proprietor.
One thing in connection with the use of
Dr. Williams' Pink Ping is the compote-
tively light cost of treatment. They arc
sold in boxes (never in bulk or by the
hundred) at 50 cents a box, and may be had
of all dealers or direct by mail, postpaid, by
addressing the Dr. Williams Med. Co.,
Brockville, Ont., and Morristown, N. Y.
More than $1,000,000 was received in
London during the last year in dog beam
The shoes worn by Luther at the diet of
Wornis are preserved with reverent care in
the Historicist Museum at 'Dresden.
s Major John Williams, of Energy, Miss.,
was immersed Sunday, before last. The
Major is in his 95th year He sat in achair
and two Baptist minister% put hina under
tlie water.
TEA° TABLE GOSSIP.
"met ovetteoAes.
Now wintry clouds do sweep the sky,
And damp, raw breezes blow,
The pawn -shoe man's cold, steely eye.
Deth now with business glow;
For lo! upon his groaning shelves
Lie many a coat and cloak
Whose owners now must lininP themselves
To get them out of soak,
--F.ngland has a Waterloo survivor.
—Austrelia boasts i2 -in caterpillar.
--Sidviei has 8100,000 in art treasures,
--111Ingararelligi 4000,000 acres of forest.
—An old bachelor is always reedy to tell
you how you ought to bring up your chil-
dren.
—Queen Victoria has prohibited the use
of tobacco within the precincts of Windsor
Castle.
TIM REPORTER.
Little night assignments,
Little scoops by clay,
Make the sad reporterj
Prematurely gray,
Chicago Tribune.
—Empress Eugenie was just 26 years of
age when Napoleon III. fell in love with her
at a ball.
--" I shall depend on your support dur-
ing this campaign," said the trousers to the
suspenders.
--The deetist who announces that he
will spare no pains to pull teeth well is the
man to keep away from.
Her father tolled the bell
And her mother dusted out.
Her brother hlowed the organ
And her sister helped about.
But she was dressed inlacos,
And no work might her defile;
So they utilized her gown en-traan
For sweeping up the aisle.
---Rosalie—Do you keep a diary? Grace
--Y-e-s. I've kept one for the first week in
January for the past seven years.
— Queen Victoria is said to rule a realm
embracing 367,000,000 subjects. This is a
greater number of people than ever before
sat under the shadow of one throne.
— The Duchess' of • Portland has 950
women pledged to her Society for the Pro-
tection of Birds. None of them will wear
or encourege the wearing of any song -bird's
plumage.
—Among the exhibits at the Fryeburg
(afe.)•fair, last week, were a plow that has
been in use for 115 years, and & picture
framed in a board cut from a pine log 120
years ago.
SEVERAL WISHES.
• I wish I had a thousand tongues
To sing my lady's praise;
I wish I had a thousand eyes
To see her winning ways;
I wish I had a thousand banks,
With all their legal tender—
A thousand banks that I might buy
Rich presents for to send her •
I wish I hada thousand hearts
To squander love upon her.
And I wish I had a thousand swords
To kill the man who won her.
—In Turkey, saloons are called Christian
drinking places, because it is only foreigners,
from nations called Christian, wbo keep
them, and they are not allowed within two
hundred and fifty feet of a Mcihammedan
place of worship.
--New York World: When Edwin
Arnold appears in full dresa his coat glistens
with the orders conferred on him by kings
and potentates, which would indicate to it
certain kind of intelligence that "literary
fellers" are looking up.
His arms with strong and firm embrace
• Her dainty form enfold;
And she had blushed her sweet consent,:
When he his story told.
" And do you swear to keep the troth i"
She aSkacl.with.loving air ; -
11p, gazed into her upturned ace,
• Yes, by yen elm i swear.'
A year passed by, his love grew cold,
Of his heart she'd lost the helm •
She blamed his fault, but the fact this,
The tree was slippery elm.
The Genial Candle in the Stove.
Imagination 'tis said, will work wonders.
This fact was well illustrated in a Church
street store last evening and victims were
nusny. While the proprietor was out his
clerk carefully placed m the stove a lighted
candle, which shed a goodly volume: of
light, but gave no heat. The first customer
to arrive wore an overcoat. He sat near
the stove, but soon left the stove with the
remark : "It's too warm here for me.'
Victim No. 2 draw his chair up to the stove
with the remark : "Feels good these even-
ings." The came a portly and dignified
gentleman, who took a seat near the stove.
bid he "One. sensible man in town,
anyhow." Just then thkproprietor •of the
store and alriend entered and took a seat.
Presently it evidently becaine too 'Warm for
the proprietor himself. He partly opened a
window-, requested his clerk to close the
draughtof the stove and then sat down
again. When the stove door was opened
they all adjourned to the street to get
warm.— West Chester Local News.
Conversational Foibles.
Lives there a girl with soul so dead
Who never to a man bath said:
I don't like flattery.
Other girls may do that; but Thu dif-
ferent.
HOW many other girls haveryou said
that to?
He was an old flame of mine.
No one can make Vie jealous.
I never believe what a man says.
I know I'm not pretty; but
• Please tie my shoe.
I hate a saint.
I should say it of her, perhaps ; but
she —•
-
Very Gracefully Turned.
New York World: The marriage of
young Lord Dudley, the son of the well-
known English beauty, Lady Dudley, brings
to light a pretty little incident.
Wishing to inform his mother of his in-
tention, he kissed her and said, as a gallant
son should :
"My dear mother, as I cannot marry the
most beautiful and charining woman in all
England, it being forbid:len lo marry one's
parent, I have decided o offer my hand and
heart to Miss Gurney. '
Didn't Brum hier Place.
New Bork Press: Hired girl—And what
do you give me notice for nia'am ?
Mistress—You evidently don't know your
place. ,
H. G.—Ain't I always been respectful,
ma'am?
• M.—Yes, but you don't seem to know
your place, for every time you go out at
eight it takes you Ulf after 12 o'clock to
find it.
• One of the Stringy Min& • ,
New York Sunday News : She --When
she said "Yes," I suppose you kiEsed her?
She—Arid I suppose your kise was sweet.,
flees long drawn out?
"Yes; it got entangled with her chewing
gum."
A aeglectecl case of cold in the head may
emit you your life. Why run the riek when
Miami 13a1m offers you it speedy relief and
certain cure, •So" ld. by all •deakrs. Try it.
l'IIIII0TY YEARS,
Pi Johnston, N. B., March Ix, 1889.
"I was troubled for thirty years with
; pains in my side, which izscreased and
i became very bad. I used
sar, 4TZLGOBS OXLE
and it completely cured. I give 'it all praise."
MRS. WM. RYDER.
"ALL R101177 ST, JACODS OIL DID IT." •
sassas sreOstasalssOa'.
THE BIGGEST FOOL.
Matter of' Fact Reply of the Postollice
• Stamp Clerk.
"'Tis sweet to be remembered," as every-
one knows. But to be remembered for au
act of foolishness? Well, even that is
sometimes money in a man's pocket. Said
a New York gentleman to is .Herald re-
porter :
I went to the postoffice the other day to
buy a dollar's worth of one cent stamps,
and when I got home, some six miles away,
it flashed upon me that I had given the
clerk a $5 bill and hurried off without my
change.
The next morning I went the first thing
to the postoffice. • The stamp clerk was
serving a long fine of customers, and I took
my place at the foot of the string. liow un-
likely it seemed that he should remember
me among the crowds that had been at his
window the day before !
• As I got near him, however, and began to
speak, he took up from the counter before
him four $1 bills and silently passed them
through the window.
"Thank you," said L "1 didn't know
but among so many fools you might have
forgotten me."
Yes, I might have," said he, as he
reached out toward the man behind me,
"but you were the most conspicuous one
yesterday. Twos, did you say, sir ? "
Prohibited! Newspapers.
The postmaster has received notice that
the following papers are non-transmissable
by snail in Canada, and if any come into his
hands they are to be sent to the dead -letter
office at Ottawa: Sporting World, Police
Gazette, Household Companion, Illustrated
Companion, Welcome Friend, or New York;
Sunday World, Detroit; Our Home and
Fireside Magazine'Peoples Illustrated
Journal, Practical Housekeeper, Portland,
Maine; American.Oottage Home, American
Fireside and Farm, American Itomesteacl,
American Household Journal, Jersey City;
The Ho2ne, Boston.—St. Thomas Times.
The RumanNoice.
An interesting incident showing at how
great a distance a conversation canbecanied
on is related by Lieut. Foster, of the third
Parry Arctic Expedition, in which he says
that he conversed with a man across the
harbor of Port Bowers, a mile and a quarter
away, and it has also been asserted on good
authority that at Gibraltar the humanvoiee
has been distictly heard at a distance of ten
miles.--Harper's Young People.
TUE Progressive Benefit Order is organ
izing lodges in Ontario. One, we believe,
was organized in Stratford on Tuesday
evening last. The New York Herald, in it
recent issue, said : George S. Duryea,
State Commissioner of Banking and Insur-
ance of New Jersey, yesterday caused the
arrestof Charles J. Aroma, of Newark, for
violation of the insurance laws. The pris-
oner is the Newark agent of the Progressive
Benefit Order, and has been doing business
at No. 729 Broad street. This is thesfirst
attack on the short-term benefit orders in
Newark, and it is expected that it is but
the beginning of an onslaught on the whole
system. Nine charges are made against
Brown. They are tor soliciting business for
a life insurance and health insurance com-
pany, for receiving money in that com-
pany's name and for doing a general insur-
ance business contrary to the insurance law
of 1879, which provides that all insurance
companies operating in New Jersey must be
incorporated under the laws of that State.
The Progressive Benefit Order, it is alleged,
failed to comply with this law. For each
of the nine offences the law prescribes a
penalty of $500. Brown's bail was fixed at
$1,000 and his trial set down for October
26th. Is this the same Order that is oper
ating here?
A great naval exhibition is to be held at
Liverpool next year.
The new Lord Justice General of Scotland
is a preacher's son, and his name is James
Patrick Bannerman Robertson. Only that
and nothing more.
A family living near Augusta, Me., have
as a pet a tame crow, which accompanies
them whenever the3r.go to the city on Sun-
days or market days.
On an average about 800 messages are
sent daily from New York to London be-
tween the hours of 10 and 12 in the morning.
Ram's Horn: The man who plays the
bass drum in a band always thinks the
music would be better if he had more to do.
" Willie " Wilde, who was lucky enough
to become Mrs. Frank Leslie's husband, did
the deectiptive work for the London Tele-
graph during the sitting of the Parnell com-
mission, and has other good newspaper work
to his credit. It is said that Marquis de
Leuville fled from London last Friday, to
escape the importainings of his many credi-
tors.
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RE NOT a Pur-
gative Medi-
cine. They are it
Moon BUILDER,
Tomo and Bnoox-
ST1SUOT011, as they
supply in a condensed
form the substances
actually needed to en-
rich the Blood, curing
all diseases coming
from Poon and WAX-
= BLOOD, or from
VITIATED Humons in
the BLOOD, and also
Invigorate and Bump
Err the Bnoon and
SYSTEM, when broken
down by overwork,
mental worry, disease,
excesses and indiscre-
tions. They have a
Smarm Aomori on
the SSxUALSYSTEM of
both mon and women,
restoring LOST VIGOR
and correcting all
IMMOULARITIES and
SUPPRESSIONS.
EVERYu who nods hie mental fee.
An ulties dull or failing, or
his physical powers flagging, should take these
Pim& They will restore his lost energies, both
physical and inental,
EVERY 1211(1111AN t2 ;feu; de nraekeal thseump:
pressions and irtegularities, which inevitably
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YOUNG rzr„ Di should tele3 these Part.
sults of youthful bad habits, and strengthen the
a.1 They will cure the re -
YOUNG eilliEN f'11.1iocusti Vitt athNevin
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FM: Sale by all arligaiStS, or will be sent ripen
receipt of pike (::Se, per box), by addressing
fx7.7.71f :DE,. 172:LIM1IS, 1FtED, CO.
.73rOtkoille. Ont
IP. C. N. L. 45. 91
Hot Air Heating
gurney's : Standard : Furnaces
• .&re Powerful, Durable, ICcononaicaL
THOUSANDS IN USE, giving every satisfae
tion. For sale by all the leading dealers.
Write for catalogue and full particulars
The E. & C. Gurney Co.,
HAMILTON, ONT.
COPP'S WARRIOR HEATER
The most beautiful, economical, powerful
hot air wood heater ever invented; suitable
for dwellings, stores and churohes. Sold by
leading dealers. Write for descriptive oir
culars to the manufacturers, the COPP
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For WEAK and INFLAMED or CHRONIC GRANU-
ILI 4444. • merinos of the lids,
ulceration of the
glands, 111m, weak-
ness of sight, front
any Cause.
AS A LIP SALVE
it Is Unparalelled,
and should be kept
on every Lady's
Toilet and in gen
tlemen's pockets
for immediate use.
ti• es For chappedhands
cold sores, pimples.,
or roughness of the
skin, its healing and soothing powers are trulr
marvelous. For Piles it is worth its weight in.
gold. Golden Eye Salve is sold by all druggists.
AGENTS WANTED ON SALARY
or commissioa, to handle the Ilew I'atent
ical ink Erasing Pencil. Agents inaldng $50
per week. Monroe Eraser M'f'g Co., La Crosse,
Wis. Box 831.
SALESMEN WARTEDro:g by
sample to the wholesale
and retail trade. Liberal salary and expenses
paid, Permanent position. Money advandect
for wages, advertising, etc. For full particulars
and reference address CENTENNLAL MFG.
CO, CHICAGO, ILL.
THE 'CANADA BUSINESS COLLEGE,
Hamilton, Ontario. Established 30 years. The
finest equipped and most mimes- ful in Canada.
It has over it Thousand Graduates in business
positions. Send for hands -me catalogue to
Principal R. E. GALLAGHER, Hamiltou.
•
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and CIGAR LIGHTER. Post paid 60e. Agents
Wanted, Dealers supplied. Cironlar for stamp.
Novelty Introduction Co., Box 505 A, Galt, Ono.
t,\fki-N"Rseefr REMEDIES.
PIO. I POSITIVE HERBAL REMEOT
cuN
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rut or otherwise. In a k'w dam
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4 nimqrfirisetlettlarga,Efr.
Trite each Remedy Two ironer& Is
pill form. Sent In plain, sealed pack-
age with Unica. Enormous 01114
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out.0,..ing an ...hors J.Jr leme
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erdina;PeRugeSellini PeuTrinC)gNS"peIttinhaa't,oexrrtrahele hlgat
LOSEMP, Nervousness, Weak Parts. Tile restate or in-
discretion. It will invigorate and euro yeti. SI year*.
success a guarantee. AM druggists dell it. LOOVEnt
box. asuman it sealed. Wilt,, r soaled letter tor
tureka Chemical CO.. Detroit, ISSies,
Piso's Remedy for catarrh ta the
test, Easiest to Erse And Eteapesk
Sold by druggists or sent by moil,See.
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