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the gate, and M wither moment Hawley
and his posse were in the house itself iatentine isolsen Plugged at the Central
The Story of a Deteetive'e Seareli and His
Love Episode,
It wee in the winter a '53 or '54 that I
first ran across Tom Trevitt, as I shall call
him. Though I had been detective long
enough to know him by hearsay as one ox
the best and cleverest men that ever hunted
a criminal, still we had not met, and at last
it was by the mesest acoident that 1 was
introduced to him,
From the first we seemed to take to each
Other, from the very oppositeness of our
.dispositions,1 believe now, and we were
, just as contrary in appearance and leeks,
for Tom was a wonderfully handsome chap.
Everything was in keeping.; dark hair, dark
eyes and whiskers, and just enough eecl in
his dark-eltinned cheeks to give him life and
. animation. Tom had the girls on his side,
. and though they often called him heartless
. and made a great fuss over his slighting
•ways, Yet they took his part when the ohl
;people aseallecl. him.
Tom and I were together, on and off, for
.a little over three years, and then I lost
.sight of him, never seeing him .gain until
,after I had married and settled down a
little, and then one day we met in the
street, and I found him jut as jollyand
.handmi
some as ever. I took him ho
e, ntro-
duced him to my wife, and before an hour
was over stood pledged to join him in a hunt
for a gang of counterfeiters.
Tom and another man had been given the
case, each working separately until the
clues came together, showing them a little
village as the probable place whore the
counterfeiting work was carried on. Tom
proposed that he ancl I should go down to
the village together, as surveyors, and stop
at the first house near the supposed place
of counterfeiting that would take as in,
while Hawley, the other detective, was to
put up at another place, and have no
oatensible connection or even intercourse
with either of us ; so that if one failed, the
other would be sure to succeed—for Trevitt
had recognized the hand of an old bird in
some of the work on the notes—a man
known as Big Bill Fury, who had, given me
one or two fruitless hunts, and one of the
sharpest cracksinen in the profession. "
He was caught at last, though, and got a
sentence of twenty years, but in a few years
he was out again, and Tom Trevitt be-
lieved that he had taken to counterfeiting
as he had clone once before when he was
hard up.
Well, we started, and took the first train
that left for Bamford, both sure that we'd
never return empty-handed.
The car we were in was pretty well filled,
and among the rest of the passengers was a
pretty, little fresh -faced country girl, with a
pair of innocent, beautiful blue eyes.
How it happened I never quite under-
stood, but the first I knew Tom Trevitt
was sitting beside her, answering all her
questions by giving all the information he
could glean from the time.table, and then I
heard her telling him her ,tory, and where
should she be going but to Bamford, the
very place that we were bound for.
She was going to keep house for an uncle,
I heard her say, and it struckme at the time
that some how or other Tom would manage
to make the same house hold us. And I was
not far wrong; within an hour after we left
the train he had driven a pretty hard bargain
with the girl's uncle—a tall, shrewd fellow,
who Called himself Jonas Tuttle, but he
managed to settle it all right. We stayed
at Tuttle'S nearly a week before Hawley
managed to come down, and both Tom and
myself had contrived at odd times to dis-
cover the situation of the counterfeiters'
den, though most of the real work fell on
my shoulders, for TiunTrevitt's usually clear
head was completely turned, and by that
little country girl we met in the train.
while the two tresty °Imps he had left Prison.
outside aided me in felling Big Bill to the WA.beut 4 o'clock, Valentine nelson,. a
ground and slipping the irons on hiin. fSttort, thick -set young fellow, accompanied
Ilewley's friend saw that Torn came to no byDepatar
y-Wden Logan and a negro
harm, for he was waiting for them, at the prisoner, passed down the main con idol. to
railway stotion ; and when Tom drove up the southern wing. A few momentafter-
he arrested the bride off -hand as one of Bill wards Warden Massey and the jail surgeon,
Fury's accomplices, and at the trial it came Dr. Aikins, followed. When they reached
out that she was his wife. 1, never dis- the extreme end poison took off his coat
covered how it leaked out but it scenes the and midst and Ives strapped to the triangle.
gang heard of our being on their track, and He is 23 years of age ; lus crime was inde-
sent the men and money to the cellar as cent assault on Ettie Cooper iu the town of
decoys, the real work being done in the Elora on the Oth of lest .August. He was
house itself. To save her husband, Polly pale, but wore a determined expression, and
formed the plan of meeting us in the train, for the parporie of assisting him to endure
getting us in the house ---which was owned the trying ordeal had his teeth firmly set in
by her uncle, who was another accomplice a piece of lead.
of Bill's—and then enlisting the sympathies The deputy -warden when all was ready
of one or both of us, when Tom's unlucky called out, "One !" The cat was whirled
love nonsense gave her a new idea. around the guard's head two or three times,
Bill's escape from his hiding -place was to whizzed in the air and fell across the
have been effected ou the night we made the prisoner's shoulders, making a sickening
raid if possible • but Hawley, who was a sound. The victimwinced slightly. "Two !"
fresh man, and a stranger to the gang, and another blow was dealt. At the third
though they were known to him, checked blow blue streaks crept across Dolson's
that part of the programme by having his back and he sank clown until his weight
friend and another man guard the house. was supported by his arms. As each addi-
They expected to have captured Fury then, tiereal stroke fell the marks became more
but Polly's sharp eyes spied the watchers pronounced until the back for a width of
and put her on her guard. Perhaps the six inches was a mass of bluish -purple flesh,
shrewdest part of her whole plan was having bruised but not bleeding. tWhen the
a decoy Bill; that took me in completely, twenty-fifth stroke was dealt Dolson gave a
for I thought I had already tracked the alight sigh of relief, the first sound he ut-
man to his lair, and of course never looked tered. He bore his punishment bravely,
for him anywhere else. The first suspicion and when being unstrapped from the
I had was aroused by finding one of the triangl said : "I'm awfully glad this is
bows I had seen on Polly's head in among over, b I didn't deserve it. All I hope
the coins, and then I understood Ilawley's is that the punishment will come back on
coolness. her," ;,„,,y3lm
She worked the whole affair, decoys and The description given of nelson was :
all; but believing only two detectives were Sentenced September 4th, 1891 ; residence,
in the place, she never thought to guard Hespeler ; place of birth, Canada; ()coupe. -
against him, and he readily discovered her tion, laborer ; habits, temperate ;
identity. She was a good wife, was Polly, Baptist ; single ; can read and write ; no
and a talented, clever woman, too '• only, previous eonviction.
unfortunately, she turned her talent e to bad
account.
.Poor Torn was hit hard, but it curedhim
of flirting, and a little while afterwards he
married a pretty lassie and settled down as
a good, steady husband.
I felt sorry for her, for the old uncle and
his two sons made her life a perfect hell on
earth. Mind us" Not a bit of it ; they
bullied her just as they bullied and treated
their horses and cattle, and the first I knew
Tom took to abusing them and consoling
the girl, until she began to watch for his
coming, and then I spoke to Trevitt and
told him it wasn't right.
We came about as near to a downright
row that night as Torn and I ever were, and
then I saw he was in :lead earnest. I was
glad for the girl s sake that it happened so,
for she was one of the nicest, handiest little
things that ever set her feet in shoes, though
the last ono I should have picked out to
suit Tom Trevitt's fancy. But her innocent
ways and pretty, childish face contrasted
strongly with the city women, and even in
that week Tom developed into the spooniest
of lovers.
But when Hawley came at last Tom
turned his attention to business. We had
more than once shadowed the.game on the
way to and from the cellar in which the
coining was being carried on, and as Hawley
had brought a friend too, we decided on a
raid. We all met just outside the house, and
then it came out that Hawley had left his
friend behind, though he would give no ex-
planation of his action, only saying that
There would be enough.
"But you know the man we expect to
find—Big Bili" Tom whispered.
Hawley laughed.
' I wondered a little at his coolness, for
Tom and I had both shadowed Bill himself
only the night before. However, there was
no time for argument then, and Tom sud-
denly burst in the door, leaving us to fol
An Illusory Cheque.
A Brooklyn bride, whose wedding last
month was made "dynamic and affluent"
(as the rhetorical Fitssett might say) by the
flourish of a $500 cheque, presented by her
mother, has since called upon a lawyer to
ascertain what measures would be necessary
in order to realize upon the donation, pay-
ment having been stopped by the prudent
(tenor. The attorney has informed her that
as it was only a " dummy " cheque
she could do nothing. ft is to
be regretted that the inordinate
tendency of a few heads of families to
lend lustre to their offsprings' nuptials by
the issue of flat money inthis fashion should
have the effect of bringing more or less dis-
credit on a bridal monetary system which
in other ways has so much to commend it.
Confidence is manifestly the arch on which
rests the system in question, and when that
crumbles the whole fabric must come down.
It is hard to think that there could' be such
a thing as sham in connection with such a
solemn function as the union of two human
hearts; or that it could be deliberately
planned by any creature in the guise
of humanity to utilize the blissful
event as a means of throwing; duet
in the eyes of the relatives and friends of
the family. But there is at length legal
ground for the suspicion that such things
can be ; and the moral of the painful revela-
tion that the bridal cheque may in certain
cases be no more than "an outrageous
fake" (as Mrs. Gouger would say)—a ba
of domestic tinplate, so to speak, with no
more substantial foundation than that which
the President terms "faith "—is too clear
to be evaded. The only alternative for the
prudent bride in future will be to insist
either on a certified clearing -house cheque
or a promissory note with gilt-edged names
�n it.
One or two harmless shots were fired, and
we found ourselves with two prisoners, a
writing table and a number of half-finisneci
"bank notes and coins scattered on the
ground, but that was alt; no tools or any-
thing that could prove the work had really
, been done by the captured men, and in the
,struggle which followed Tom's arrival a
wig and false beard were torn off, showing
the supposed Big Bill to be an entire
.stranger. .
Tom swore roundly when he discovered
'his mistake, for he would rather have had
. Big Bill than all the counterfeiters put
ztogether. Hawley laughed at him and then
I laughed, too, when I picked up a certain
dittie trophy which I happened to light
.upon, half hidden among the coin ; but still
./ didn't say anything, for I was mad, too,
:for thinking that the fact that we has"
, spotted Fury and could lay our hands on
him had blinded me as well as Tom.
Hawley and his friend took the prisoners
to the county jail the next morning,but
not before the former had eaid a few private
'words with me. Tom declared he had some
business to settle before he could leave, and
. at last I got it out of him that he was going
..,.to marry his little country frieud.
" When ?" I asked.
" To -morrow, if we can get away. Those
brutes would work her to death if they got
the chance ; but she likes me and I like her,
, so we've arranged it between us."
I suggested that it was rather quick
work, and that upset him ; he knew it was
, quick himself, but hated to hear anybody
elae say it.
That same afternoon, to all intents and
purposes, I left, never minding 1 oin's re-
, quest that I should stay and leave With
lum mad his bride. But the next night f
watched him help the girl over the stile to
where old Tuttle's fleetest horse stood bar -
need to the trap a little way up tho road,
and just as the distant sound of the wheela
, The Steady Refuser.
Owen Sound Adve t'ser • Newspapers at
this season overflow with advice to the
ratepayers as to the kind of men they
ought to elect to the conduct of civic
affairs, and aspirants as a class are oc-
casionally treated to a word of warning or
encouragement regarding the Herculean
burden they seek to assume; but there is
a class who it seems to us need talking to
very much the worst, and yet get off scot
free every year. We refer to the non -
aspirants who ought to be in our Town
Councils. Every town has scores of men,
shrewd, experienced and business -like, and
reckoned among the best citizens, who
would be invaluable at the Council Board,
but are too selfish to take their turn at the
oar. Year after year they are requested to
come out, and year after year they refuse.
They do not care to run the gauntlet of
public abuse to reach the alderman's
chair. They do not want the faults or mis-
takes of bygone years recalled from obliv-
ion and hurled at them from the rostruni ;
and even if elected by acclamation they do
not hanker to give up a third or more of
their time to the service of a thankless
public. We have all heard people who, if
they knew it, were bent to be aldermen,
talk that way, on our own streets for that
matter. They say "Let the people who
like that sort of thing enjoy it," and then
they go with easy consciences and vote for
men whose places they know theycould fill
better by ability, training and general
fitness. /f they have occasion to attend a
council meeting they smile at any vaporing
and hair-splitting done, but it never strikes
them that if they possess the faculty of
business -like expedition or the grasp of a
subject which makes hair-splitting impos-
sible their fellow -townsmen have a right to
the benefit accruingfrom the exercise of
those qualities in civic affairs. It might
help to eradicate this kind of laziness if the
ethics of man's duty to the state under our
system of social government were taught to
a greater extent in our schoolii
An Inappropriate Gfft.
Is Mr. Carnegie, the protectionist mil
Bemire, an enemy of President Harrison?
If not, the President will probably pray to
be delivered from his friends. Mr. Carnegie,
whether as a friend or an enemy, sent the
President an eighteen gallon cask of whiskey,
from Scotland. This is not only in defiance
of temperance principles, but even of the
feelings of a good many people who are not
abstainers, but who do not like to think of
a President of the United States receving as
a gift from a supporter tu keg of whiskey for
his own consumption. Moreover, as pro-
tectionists, both Mr. Harrison and Mr. Car-
negie hold that Americon products are good
enough for Americans, and that to consume
foreign articles is a disgrace to an enterpris-
ing people. If Mr. Carnegie intended to help
the boom of Mr. Blaine he, perhaps, could
not have chosen a more effeetive method
than that of sending lots of whiskey for
home consumption to Mr. Blaine's nval.
Mr. Carnegie will have to put himself over
the fire and fry out " bar'l " of " fat,"
such as politicians use at election times, if
. . .
he wants to offset the effects of this most
untimely gift upon Mr. Harrison's election
chances. --Montreal Witness.
THE PITITHE OF CANADA.
$r. inaehonald's Views Itegarablu
Hestia or the Dominion.
Dr. 3. D, Macdonald, a leading citizen of
Hamilton, Ont., was asked by a London
dv ertiser correspoudent as to his opinion
for or against the political union of Canada
with the United States Republic. He said,:
" It is a difficult matter to discuss. It may
be said that, to a patriotic man, there
should be no difficulty, but under the condi-
tions which surround Canada we may be
allowed to hesitate before discussing even
such a question as annexatiou to the United
States. Undoubtedly it is a question pre-
sent to mealy minds at the present moment.
The greater number, I believe'are loath to
look at political union, net from any
aversion to the Republic or to republicanism,
but from a desire to put from themselves,
as far as possible, the confession of pilaw.'
failure which would be implied in their
seeking for Canada incorporation with her
strong neighbor. Whether as a stepping
stone to annexation, or as affording an op-
portunity for development in a more honor-
able way, many would like the experiment
of national independence. Attaining to
national independence, Canadians would
have conditions much simplified for any
future arrangements. The advantage or
disadvantage of such arrangements the
satisfaction or disappointment from them,
the honor or the reproach would be all
their own, no friends across the sea would
be coinpromised. In the meantime the
colonial condition is a source of great politi-
cal weakness and uncertainty. It affects
the very manhood of the country un-
favorabli.. It prevents the dwellers in
Canada from seeing with singleness of eye
the interests of their own country. It
makes thorn uncertain as to whether the
laud in which they live is theirs at all.
By his condition as a colonist the Canadian
in every public question finds himself placed
in a strait betwixt two. He is called upon
to serve two interests—of one of which,
that of Great Britain, he has not the most re-
mote 'conception, and td the other of which,
that of Canada, he has not given much
thought. If his country had the responsi-
bilities which attach to independence he
would give better attention to its concerns,
and wouid perhaps be less ready than he
too often proves to be, to step into the
snare "set in his sight" by the 13oodler to
whom his vote is to be of use,
ItbM
Thin or Woman, Ghost or Human..
We cannot say what will cure .ghosts, but
many men and many women who look like
ghosts rather than human beings through
sickness, would regain health and happiness,
if they would try the virtue of the world-
renowned remedy, Dr. Pierce's Golden
1Vledical Discovery. Torpid liver, or
"biliousness," impure blood, skin eruptions,
scrofulous sores and swellings, Consumption
(which is scrofula of the lungs), all yield to
this wonderful medicine. It is both tonic
and strength -restoring, awl alterative or
blood -cleansing.
Success in Honest Endeavor.
Rochester Herald: "1 never made a dol-
lar by speculation," said General Alger, of
Michigan, in a recent interview. A good
many inn, especially young men, who are
in a hurry to get rich, can safely accept that
rule for their guidance. Money has been
made in speculation, but where one man has
accumulated a fortune by that means a
thousand have been ruined—losing
their hard-earned savings, often
losing their health in the excite-
ment and worry, often finding
that with defeat their courage is broken,
their ambition deadened. Almost every
community has its sorrowful cases of men
who have been drawn into bucket shop bet-
ting, into the buying of stocks on the slender
margins, into buying land on credit for
speculative advance. Men who rushed in
without exercising their own judgment,
without analysing the situation, perhaps
without the capacity to analyse it, but
merely because some shrewd and capable
person who was acquainted with all the
bearings had made a profit.
It is the confession of a Burlington (Iowa)
widower, who has been thrice married, that
the first w fe cures a man of romance'the
second teaches him humility, and the third
makes him a philosopher.
The printing machines of the Tiroler Tag-
blcc,tt, at Innsbruck, are now driven by elec-
tric motors: It is said that this is the first
example where electricity has been so
applied in a. printing establishment in
Austria-Hungary or Germany.
The erstze for stage realism met a check
when "Held By the Enemy" was staged.
The women declined to wear the balloon
hoops of the period, and would not hear to
adopting the chignon.
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, Who is widdy
known for her accurate knowledge of Ameri-
can history, is a member of twenty-six
learned societies, to several of which no other
woman has been admitted.
Paul du Chailln, the noted traveler and
African explorer, is a little brown man with
flashing black eyes, smooth bronze face and
a head as bald as a baby's. He is a con-
firmed old bachelor, but has manners that
charm women.
The Orpheus Club of Philadelphia offers a
prize of $600 for Om best original compoeition
for male voices. 'The oonteet elutes on Jan.
15th, 1892. The successful composition wil
lie Sung by the ebb at the Academy of
Mneic, Philadelphia, in April, 186'2, at the
last Concert of the twentieth SUMz . of the
orgainzation.
Tall Glrls.
It is the fashion for girls to be tall. This
is much more than saying that tall girls are
the fashion. It means not only that the
tall girl has come in, but that girls are tall,
and are becoming tall, because it is the
fashion, and because there is a demand for
that sort of girl. There is no hint of stout-
ness, indeed the willowy pattern is pre -
Good Enough tor "Punch."
New York Herald, : Lord Doncheknow—
There is one thing I can't understandabout
this rain -making in America, derth boy.
Lord Lackland—What is that?
Lord Doncheknow—I caunt understand
why they should snake reigns wired they
have no king theah.
Lord Lackland—Haw 1 Haw! That is
good enough for Punch, bah jove. Let ns
have something.
ferred ,but neither is eanness suggested
the women of the period have got hold of
the poet's idea, "tall and most divinely
fair," and are living up to it. Perhaps this
change of fasluon'is more noticeable in Eng-
land and on the dontinent than in America,
but that may be because there is less room
for change in America, our girls being always
of an aspiring turn. Very marked the phe-
nomenon is in Europe this year; on the street,
at any concert or reception, the number of
tall girls is so large as to occasion remark,
especially among the young girls just
coming into the conspicuousness of woman-
hood. The tendencyof the new generation
is toward unusual height and gracious slim-
ness. The situation would be embarassing
to thousands of men who have been too busy
to think about growing upward, were it not
for the fact that the tall girl, who must be
looked up to, is almost invariably benignant
and bears her height with a sweet timidity
that disarms fear. Besides, the tall girl has
now come on in such force that confidence is
infused into the growing army, and there is
a sense of support in this survival of the
tallest that is very encouraging to the
young. --Charles Dudley Warner, in the
Editor's Drawer, in Harper's Magazine for
November.
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TORONTO, ONT.
“rituicii SHORT."
The Advice She Would Give to Her Minis.
terial Husband.
" If I were a minister's wife," the lady in
the car was talking too loud not to be over-
heard, says the New York Tribune, "you
may rest assured I should take an interest
—an active interest—in my husband's work.
I should say to him : 'Richard, if you want
to make a hit next Sunday—preach short.
If you want to make your congregation
grow larger and larger, preach short? If
you want to draw them to this church, that
church, and the other—preach short :
always preach short I But, Richard, have
something to say, always ! Condense, con-
dense and condense, and then have an
air about you as if time were worth some-
thing, and you could not afford to lose a
minute of it.'
"11 on a Sunday morning he seemed to
be in an extra amiable mood I would venture
to say: 'Richard, dear, don't be all day in
giving out your notices! Don't blink over
them and clear your throat and go poking
along through them as if you had never seen.
them before and were pondering them in
your mind as you call attention to them!
Don't I beg of yon, Richard, read them
straightforward and then say them all
over again backwards. There is nothing
so tiresome!' I am not sure but
some Sunday I should say: Richard,
if you get the least bit tedious to -day I
shall fuss with my bonnet strings as a
warning: And when you say: "En con-
clusion,' don't, for pity's sake, go on until
you reach a: "Finally," and after chat "One
word more," or "Just another thought !"
I do think it is such a mistake to try to tell
all one knows in one sermon." Just then
the auditor was obliged to leave the car, but
he could not help exclaiming to himself
"What a sensible woman I" It is to be
hoped that some day this sensible one will
marry a minister. Multitudes of people
could attend divine worship if they could.be
assured that the services would be of a rea-
sonable length.
Nothing In It.
Clothier and Furnisher : Clubblerly—Look
here, I gave you 16 collars last week, and
you sent back but 12.
Laundryman—Do you count your
collars and cuffs before you send them out?
Clubberly—Of course.
Laundrymen—Then I guess we don't want
your trade any more. 0
Had Ilim Cold.
Harper's Baear "1 hear you fought a
duel with Parker."
'1 did."
" Werent't yeti afraid to stand up before
a loaded pistol ?"
" Not with Parker holding ib. I'm in-
. .
tarred in his company."
The Eight.flours' Movement.
Apropos of the eight hours' agitation in
Great Britain, Mr. John Rae has an inter-
esting article in the Contemporary Review,
in which he reminds us that, if the move-
ment is successful, it will only bring us
back to the custom of our geeat-grand-
fathers. Steam and the progress of the arts
have done much for us, but they have not,
as he shows, tended to shorten the hours of
labor. Adam Smith speaks of eight hours
as the usual time of work among colliers,
and William Marshall, the agriculturist,
little more than a century ago, spoke of
eight hours as the custom of team labor.
In many countries the hours were even
shorter. The very long day against which
there is now a sort of revolt throughout the
trades is, in Mr. Rao's opinion, the gradual
fruit of the factory system.
From His Point ot VICW.
Buffalo Vow : "Seo the effect of drink,"
said the temperance orator. " An empty
home, an empty pocket."
" And worst of all," added an inebriate
in the back row, "an empty bottle."
Michigan raises twice as many peaches
as Delaware, and Illnoie produces much
more whiskey than Kentucky.
Miss Mary Redmond has modelled a bust
of Mr. Gladstone which is so successful that
Lady Aberdeen has ordered a large num r
of small copies to present as gifts to her
friends. Miss Redmond is an Irish woman
and resides in Dublin.
Is is proposed to move Dickens' Old
Curiosity Shop in London to the World's
Fair, Chicago.
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1899 IS BISSEXTILE.
One of the lessons of the British census is
that the eurplus of women over men is
larger than ever, and that in England to-
day there are, at a moderate estimate, some
three-quarters of a million girls growing up
to maturity for whom, unless polygamy
comes into fashion, husbands of their own
race and nation cannot be provided. The
several European States, which keep an
aggregate of three million men under arms,
must present even a worse picture in this
respect than England, and when the great
war that has been so long predicted shall
have come and gone the surplus of
women will he greater than ever. La one
portion of Germany, after the great Thirty
Years' War, there was such a scarcity of
population, and such a disproportion of the
sexes on account of the men being killed off
in battle, that a law was passed compelling
each man to take two wives, and even the
priests were ordered to marry. The strain
has never been so great in America, though
in some States efforts have been made to
popularize marriage by such devices as a tax
on bachelors. Though doubtless greatly to
blame, the men are not wholly responsible
for slackness in the marriage market. A
Jewish organ in New York city drops this
useful hint to its feminine readers:
Every Jewish young -woman should resolve
to dress plainly. and thus treble her chances of
getting married within the year.
There is a deal of worldly wisdom, and
insight into masculine mature, embraced in
this brief admonition, and Gentile no less
than Jewish maidens might well take to
heart the lesson it conveys. With women
in the matter of dress, it may be the rule te;
"please the eye, though the heart ache."
Men as a rule, are far more practical.
Whalever their taste may be respecting
feminine dress—and nine out of ten men do
not really know the difference between
foulards and chintzes—the financial con-
sideration is, and must be, their dominant
rule of conduct in the concerns of social life.
The bird of gay plumege may catch their
fancy for a moment; but when it comes to
counting the cost of such plumage, and of
providing a sufficiently handsome cage to
match it, their bump of prudence asserts
itself, and unless they be men of wealth the
instinct of self-preservation enjoins on them
the instant duty of flight.
The consideration of economy is by no
means the sole attraction that lurks in plain
attire. Artistically, the raiment that is
subdued in tone and simple in fabric or
fashion oftener has a higher charm than the
most extravagant costuming could impart;
while the influence which dress itself exerts
upon the wearer—upon her manners itt com-
pany, and on her character in general—is
apt to be largely in favor of plain dressing.
All in all, the Jewish journal's suggestion is
worth serious consideration; and all young
women whose chances of getting married
"within the year" are open to improve-
ment should certainly avail themselves of
this most promising agency for effecting that
desirable consummation.
"1 must give her up. I can never
marry a girl who stammers," "Why not?"
" Why not I Do you think its pleasant to
be made sheepish by being called Ba—Ba—
Bob? or to feel like a college cheer when
she calls me Rah--Rah—Robert ?"
The capital surplus of the banks of Cali
fornitt is nearly $85,000,000.
General Booth is arranging his affairs s_co
that at his death his daughter, Mrs. Booth
Clibborn, called " the Mareehal " in
France will become the controlling force in
the Safvation army.
A railroad depot atBirmilsgham England,
containing 11 acres, is said to be the largest
In the world.
A 51. Louis doctor has made the startling
discovery that a poisonous beetle nitrites its
home in he little cigarette mad attributes
much of the bronchial affections to its
presebce.
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Philadeldhia Record : "How is it you
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Nothing exasperates a woman who has
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When a man gets ahead of you in life it
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In twelve months 681,322 letters which
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