The Exeter Advocate, 1891-12-31, Page 7Tipt rolttician.
(Prom Het° Field's Washinetone
Ile has' a taleiug way; he has
A smile that's most engaging
Have Yoe wee Well, &Oa your grief
He's boat tipou Amassing.
• He graspe your liana ut both a his,
• Tbough humble your emalieion ;
,
Two aro the eveys a all his kind.—
He's but a politielan.
Ho loyes year children, oh, so muelia-
,
, The duties' the better ;
01 promises he is proeuse,
• 13tit seldom writes a Setter.
Ho say e a thousand pleasant things,
.A.nd. makes a hundred 'pledges ;
Itemied him a thou when lie' e won,
thea sea iiaw he hedges 1
'Will he oblige you? Yee, he will—
That is, beeore electioa ,•
Recall his word§ to him .sono (lea,
He'll went time f or reflection.
The place he Said he'd get eor Toe
He'e got, but tor another—
ono relative of his, perchance
Soine uncle's cousin's brother.
Tc po]iticiaa's like a flea --
He islet whore you thought him ;
And like the mg within tho poke
When you eogret you bought him.
• His weight is not the weight it seemed,
And semahing in the flavor
Makeyou suspeet his porkship may
Of trichinosis savor.
I often wonder if there is
In Heaven a.politician?
But, if one be there—merey knows
How 'twas he gained admissionl
Instead of harping with the blest,
He's scheming all alone
To vase a mutiny above
And seize the great white throne.
Hark to the politician—hark !
What is the statesman snap -1g
That for the country he it is
Who's laboring and praying.
Yet wateh him well anchyou'll conclude
His highest, holiest mission
Is not to sieve the country, but
To save—the politician !
SOMETHING TO .THINVARQUI.
A Voice from the Rural District of
Tilsonburg,
Tito Tug ()ewer.
FHB WEST ZORRA TEAM.
The following description of the Canadian
team that won $200 in the big Chicago
tug -of -ever, from the Chicago Daily Press,
will be interesting :
The Canadian team—or, as they are
called, the " Zorra team "—are a study.
They are not dudes, Clot is sure, and if
proof of this assertion were needed it
would be only necessary to say that the
third man frozn the end looks like Uncle
Sam in Pack. They are all Canadian
Scotch—Highland Scotch -- farmers of
means, inured to hard labor, and in love
with their national s;aines of sport.
From the fact that they all come from
Zona township, in Oxford county, near
Ingersoll, Ontario, they have derived the
appellation mentioned. Strong, stout,
muscular, hale and hearty fellows they
all are, without frills or theatrical trap-
pings, but, oh, how they do pull ! Last
night they were pitted against the
Irish team. The Zorras appeared
n about the same costumes which
they wear when they go out into
their yards at home to chop wood,
l000king brawny and weather-beaten.
The Irish came adorned in the drees of
performing professional athletes, un-
mistakably announcing their nationality.
As they marched in single file headed by
their big captain, with whose features the
Daily Press has made its readers familiar,
a storm of applause, evidently on national
lines, greeted them, while the " Zorras "
could not complain of lack of enthusiasm
either. At the firing of the pistol in the
hands of the referee down went both teams
to business. At first the advantages were
measured either way only by half inches,
and after the first six or eight minutes of
that sort of thing the audience grew wild in
its demonstrations. The Irish team seemed
nervous and using its full strength. The
Zorras appeared to take things coolly and
phlegmatically. "Heave 1" yelled Captain.
Sutherland ; but the rope remained station-
ary. "Heave 1" yelled both captains, and
nary a motion it made. The spectators grew
wild.
"Look out for his hand," yelled. a
sympathizer of the Irish when "Heave"
Sutherland signalled his men with his hand
on his hip and moving his fingers like beat-
ing an imaginary tattoo, to take things
easy.
At last McIntosh, the anchor -man, said
just one little word, hardly loud enough to
be heard by the audience' but there was
magic in it. All he said.was, " Zorra 1"
And the big Canadian!? muscles swelled up
like ropes, their limbs straightened slowly
out from the cleats, and over came the rope
an inch or so from the Irish boys. Large
beads of perspiration stood on their fore-
heads, and Ireland fought bravely. An
interval of two minutes, 'with the audi-
ence so quiet you might have heard
a pin drop and the captains eye-
ing each other like gladiators ready
to spring at each other, and there
came another " Zorra," a little louder this
time from the big and benevolent -looking
anchorman of the Canadians. Obedient to
the command the boys pulled for their lives
and the rope slid over a couple of inches.
Another Zona," and still another, each
louder and quicker than the former, and
then a yell and a howl from the audience
that shook the building to its dome. The
rope came a foot at a time. At last a
"Zona" that was a yell, and the anchor-
man looking like a western farmer let go
the anchor, and turned sailor, hauling in
the slack hand over hand by the foot.
The Irish were lost. They held on to
that rope as if their salvation depended on
it; they pulled like politicians in a cam-
paign. The perspiration was fairly stream-
ing eff their faces --all in vain.
The audience rose en masse. The scene
was pandemonium let loose, and. the Cana-
dians had won, and " Zorra " muscle and
coolness had done it.
ON " T1IE OTHER SIDE."
" The Other Side " is the no of a new
monthly journal published at Tilsonburg,
Ontario. It proiniees to give Canacliens
something in the newspaper line different
from what they have been accustomed to.
The following is its declaration of polioy
All political papers fiave a policy,and so
have we. You know what the • policy of
each of the others is; ours is as f011OWS
We believe in a Royal Family and an
aristocracy for the British, and we believe
in confining it to Great Britain. It origin-
ated there and is well suited to the climate,
the sell and the people, ancl there let us
leave it. ' All British colonies should be
Democratic, we know from experience ;
they have practically the three
acres and a cow the Briton at home
,hankers so much altor ; they have a
school house, with a school • in- it, in
about every two miles square, and are sup-
posed to be educated. ; and if they are they
are capable of governing themselves, with-
out haeing a governing class specially
cieeted for their nee. Colonial aristocracy
we know to be Venturesome, that is, we
know it to be made up of adventurers, for
if they had not been venturesome they
never would have accepted an aristoevatie
position in a country an Itesh aentlemau
thought more democratic than a democracy.
It was a venturesome thing to do' but they
took the risk and. we understandthey have
been pretty euccessful in carrying it oub ;
quite as much so as people can be who have
not the proper blood or breeding in them.
We hear that they do the real aristocracy
just as near as it can be done under the
circemstances.
We believe every office in Canada, from
Governor-General down, should he elective.
Officers are the property of the people, and
they should be filled by the people and
emptied by them, too, when it comes to
that, and not by death, as has been the
custom heretofore. We do not believe that
there is an office in Canada that we are una-
ble to fill if we could get it, and there is
none that we would refuse to run for should
such a thing be possible, and we got the
nomination. All Canadians should feel the
same. It is a purely British feeling, as you
have probably noticed as you saw a Briton
filling an office here in Canada.
We believe in a National Policy, but we
don't believe in the National Policy we
have been enjoying the past few years. It
is not exactly what ehe doctor ordered for
the health and growth of the country, be-
muse it is not a national policy at all, to
our way of thinking. We think it is a
mistake to borrow when we cam make. We
think the country can make its own money;
and, we think it would be a real national
policy for it to do so. We know what
national policy has been without a national
currency.; we can see what it is with a
national, currency by just stepping across
the line into the "United States. We think
a hunclred,or so million of national currency
would be so much better for Canadians than
a, dozen such harvests as they have just
gathered. "
We favor a local banking act with a
head. office in the Berne building the bank
is in. We have had a big lot of experience
with the present banking system, with a
head office in a city, and an elastic cur-
rency that is continually flying back to that
city, and it leads us to believe the present
banking system is detrimental to the
commercial and. industrial interests of the
country, and to the city as well, for a
city without a country to support it is built
on a sandy foundation, and must, sooner or
later, fall.
We believe in unrestricted reciprocity
with the United States, and no other kind
—if we are to have any. We know what
sugar is worth there and we know what
it is worth here. If our manufacturers who
are British are not able to compete with
others who are Yankees they are deficient
in 'business ability, and should step down
and out of the way, so as to make room for
those fitted for business by having that im-
portant thing in their composition—ability.
That's another British trait of ours. " A
fair field and no favor."
We believe in education and in free
schools, but are opposed to " the best
school system in the world," the one we
have now in Ontario from University
commencement in B. A. down to Itinder-
garten entrancepeu slips. We are op-
posed to a sol system that makes
servant girls, dock -wallopers and navvies
out of farmers' and villagers' children
while it makes teachers operator§ and
clerks out of city and townspeople's
children. 'We know what the old system
was when a school teacher could be made
in any schoolhouse in the country, and we
know of one country school that made six
of. them at one examination, and one of that
six passed first-class. The requirements for
a teacher's certificate were greater when
those six were granted their certificates than
they are to -day. it would please us to see
another system like the one we used to
have, and we shall use our utmost endeavors
to bring about the change.
We are opposed to intemperance. We
are opposed to it in anything. • We thiuk it
intemperate on the part of temperance peo-
ple to make a special mark of hotel -keepers
and others who deal in liquors, for squirting
their slang and untruthful' stories against.
We believe a hotel quite as necessary as a
cherch in our civilization. We visit both
and find comfort in both; we could aet
more than comfort out of either, but wee'do
not inthilge in excess in anything. We don't
even eat till we hurt ourselves. We are of
the opinion that the vast majority of our
acquaintances are the same as we are and
we dou't wish to $ee that great majoriey de-
prived of their right to eat mid drink
what they want simply because one or
two abuse the right. We enjoy our beer
of a Saturday night in secret'we should
enjoy it more in public, and therefore
we are opposed to prohibition ; we think
it folly for Canadians to prohibit beer -
drinking at home and ond away to beer -
drinking countries to get a market for their
barley. Sui
Stich work s paradoxical to stty
the lea,et.
We believe in the Patrons of Industry.
Our author is one, our artist is one, our
editor is ono. We belong to different lodges,
but are fully agreed on what is good for a
Patron. We ehafl do all we can to help the
order along, but it will not be by destroying
our neighbor—the storekeeper—by making
him sell his goods for a less profit than he
can live on.
We are opposed to the single tax theory.
We think that land is taxed altogether
too much already. We believe in
taxing everything that is valuable ;
anything that money is made out
of, with the poeeible exception of inerchan-
dise—sstorekeepetee geode. A merchant
in a bank instead a paying his debts with,
Merchants are the only people WO War ex-
empting front taxetion.
We have more policy, but will put no
snore of it here. ' Too much ef one thing
is good for nothing," once said a printer,
meanieg literary efforts as well ea other
thing's. He was right, and acting on his
words wo will leave the xest of our policy
for another time.
• A. 1,011netee ileineENCE.
Affection. was Iturequited, hut He Cot
There Just the Same.
Ol lalfrIllt. 1.
" Is it true, Marie ?" he asked with
blanched face and trembling vice, accord-
ing to the Chicago l'ribtole, 5` lIas Henry
Fite -Dougherty, my bosom friend, he whom
I trusted as my own brother—hes he sup -
pleated rne in your affections ?"
" It is true) Leonidas," said the young
lady, turning away coldly.
False and perfidious friend 1 Fickle
and heartless girl 1" howled Leonidas Grim-
shaw, as he rushed forth from the house
and wandered through the deserted streets
till the dull, inurlsy tinge of approaching
day begau to sumer iteelf on the dingy sky.
Then he went to his lonely, cheerless
room, threw himself on his couch and tried
to sleep:
But his feetwero very, very cold.
011.9 ?TER II.
The ceremony that united Henry Fitz -
Dougherty and Marie Penjarvis Kershock
ia marriage was over. The guests had de-
parted and the happy bride and exalting
groom were looking •over the glittering
array of presents that had been sent to
them. have a little surprise for you, Henry,
dear," Wel Marie a smile of radiant beauty
bisecting her lovely face.
" What is it, love ? ' inquired Henry.
"Leonides Grimshaw, has sent me a costly
and elegant gift."
" That is kind of him."
"Indeed it is. The poor fellow has got
over his broken heart. He cherishes only
the kindest feelings for us now. See 1"
She drew forth from its hiding place a
lady's gold watch. It was a small, delicate,
richly chased and ornamental affair, with
her name engraved on the back, and had
cost not less than $27.50 in cash.
CHAPTER III.
With a heavy listless, uncertain step
Blatt Stayed at 1110111C.
Chicago Poll: Johnny—Ma, where'm I
going to stay when you and pa are gone
Ma—Yoar pa isn't going away.
• Johnny —Yes be is. He's going to Rome.
Ma—What put that foolish notion into
your bead?
Johnny—I heard him tell a man that as
soon as you went away he was doing to
ma,ke Rome howl, and how can he do it
without going there?
, The cottage in which Milton wrote
" Paradise Lost" is Mall standing in an
ancient little lenglieh village within eaey
reach of 'London. It is a small gabled house
of four rooms, the outside plastered, but
with the blackened beams showing through.
In the rear the garden through vvhieh the
poet walked, Within the houee everything
has been arranged just as he left it—the
tables on which he wrote, the stool on which
he sat and the hearth before which he felt
the genial glow of the fire, even though he
cotild not see it.
There are 72 splaces called St. Etienne in
France, and 30 towns called Washington in
America.
The Archduke Henry, of Austria, left
behind' hiin about 1 000 000 franes half of
which consists in a life insurance policy,
This fortune will be inherited by his only
daughter, the youthful Baroness Waldeck.
ArtIOTIg the effects of a womem who died
suddenly in Boeton a few days ago were
found quiet a sum of money, a deed for a pays name enough in the trouble he has
burial lot, and roceipted bills for a tomb- lighting off the wholesaler and hanging
wring te/Z. t glee's nee. lelervelloes cures. Treatise and e2.00
stone, casket and funeral expenses froin a VS his customer and trying to trial bottle free to telt eases. Seed to Dr. Kline
neighboring undertaker. money out Of him which he wants to deposit en Arch se, philasideeta,
TOYS FOR SANTA CLAUS.
He Will Have Some New Ones
This Year.
Ills FactorloS In All Parts of tIte World
'lave Koren. ItItsY Since the Old Fellow
WitS Last Around Filling Stockings.
If a child could see the varied assortments
of toys in the stores of the manufacturers
and wholesale dealers, says the New Yorle.
Sun, its dreams would he an amazing mix.
ture of objects in astonishing complications
—whole trains of cars loaded with dolls,
fire engines running to dolls' houses, queer
figuremounted on life eize animals, pro-
ducing unearthly noises with various
instruments, or acting in the most
wonderful manner, tin war ships and pew-
ter soldiers in battle with wooden forts,
pony carts being chased by the life -like
shapes of paper reptiles'grinning imps
building cathedrals for the pleaeure of
knocking them clown again, or trying to rola
the dime and nickel savings banks, me-
ohanical figures in a wild revel or deeply
interested in the puzzles and games and
other combinations that occur ordinarily in
dreams. Every year new toys are made for
the amusement or entertainment of chil-
dren, and the ingenuity spent in the con-
sideration of something novel and attracs
tire is hardly appreciated. Not only here,
bat in France, Germany, Switzerland, and
even in Japan, the ehildren of America are
thoughe of for many months before the holi-
day season. Many of the toys that par-
ticularly appeal to American children are
made in Germany, not because we have not
th,e ingenuity to produce them but because
Henry Fitz -Dougherty entered his pala-
tial home on Prairie avenue and sought his
wife's boudoir.
Maxie," he said, as he threw his hat on
the soft, velvety carpet, sat down on a
costly work -basket and looked at her with
bloodshot eves "the blow has fallen !"
"What is the matter, Henry ?" exclaimed
Mrs. Fitz•Doughtery in alarm.
"I have tried to weather the storm,
Marie," he answered hopelessly, "thinking
that a turn in the tide must come, but in
vain ! We must give up this home. My
colossal fortune is gone. I could not stand
the draM. The last bill of repairs on this,
madam wipes me completely out. We are
beggars 1"
And he placed in her lap a small, delicate,
richly chased gold watch.
Leonidas Grimshaw was avenged.
Graduates and students of Alms Ladies'
College, St. Thomas, Ont., may now be found
in honorable and lucrative employment in
shop, store and office, in School and College
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in Canada
and the United States. Scores are teaching
successfully and others earning large
salaries as Stenographers or Bookkeepers.
A 6O -pp. Calendar sent on application to
PRINCIPAL AUSTIN, B. D.
He Had Been Burned Once.,
New York Weekly : Maude—George, I
don't think I ought to marry you, for I
don't believe you love me one bit.
George (ardently)—Why, my darling, I
am passionately, desperately, madly in love
with you. I worship the very—
Maude—You talk well enough, George,
but those letters you wrote to me when you
were away were so cold and distant they
froze my heart. One would think you
were writing to your washerwoman about
her bill.
George (slowly)-- Maude, I—was—en-
gaged—to—a — earl — once --before, and
when she sued nie for breach of promise
all my letters to her were—read.—in—open
—court.
we ca,n not make them, so cheaeily.
Among the new toys are registering :and
grotesques banks. Of the former one has
the tall shaft of a lighbhouse that will hold
100 nickels, and Call not be opened until it
is full. The keeper's house is an ordinary
bank for pennies. Another is in the shape
of a clock with a time lock register. The
wizard bank for the pocket registers dimes.
One grotesque bank has the figure of a frog
mounted on a bicycle. When a coin is
placed in its mouth it turns a somersault
and throws the coin into a receptacle that is
'guarded. by another, frog. The dancing
clarkey bank will held any coin. The most
natural of the unbreakable iron toys are
railroad trains, fire engines, hook and ladder
trucks and hose carriages, with running
horses, flying artillery, express waggons and
carts. The retail prices of railroad trains
range from 25 cents to $5. A fire engine
house is eo constructed that at a signal the
doors fly open and the horses gallop out
with the engine. It is particularly attrac-
tive for boys. The engines retail for $1 and
upward.
Anaong the wooden toys are waggons and
vessels on wheels carrying sailors and
freight. The cathedral has extracts from
the scriptures on each block. The wooden
forts can be attacked and be defended by
cannons throwing wooden balls. The figures
of 30 soldiers, called the Famous Guards,
can, by an extension frame, be moved from
a column of sixes to a company front. Fire
engines, hook and ladder trucks and hose
carriages of wood, mounted on wheels, are
sold at retail for fifty cents and upward. A
tally -ho coach and Santa Claus, with sled
and reindeers, are new. Of the tin toys the
domestic Stores and kitchen utensils are
superior to the imported goods'and they
range in prices from 25 cents to $2. The
cast-iron stoves are complete in details.
Several new parlor games havebeen intro-
duced. One has five figures suspended on a
staff. A marble placed in the hat of the
top figure falls from one to the other and
runs on to a board that has holes marked
by numbers. In the broncho game a dart
thrown up from the back of a horse by a
.spring falls near numbers on a board. The
emck Now has mallets, wickets and balls as
in table croquet, but the playing is toward
the centre'where a ball is guarded by a
fortress. Tiddledy-winks has a large sale,
but its new rivals are Pharaoh's Frogs and
Cuckoo. The former game is played with
metal frogs, with spring wire legs, that
can be made to jump toward a peel in the
center of a table. In Cuckoo, colored cerds,
counters and dice are used, the object being
to throw the dice so that the spaces of
similar colors on the cards may be coveted
by the counters. The Four Hundred and
In the Soup are new and suggestive parlor
games. The new picture puzzles and in-
structive ''dames on pictured boards are
unique but few in variety. The Ordpa board
is similar to plamchette, and it affords con-
siderable amusement on account of its mys-
teriousness. .
Japanese toy makers have sent us many
novelties in paper figures of birds, animals
and reptiles. The new mechanical figures
and toys for show pieces and parlor enter.
tainments are ingenious and novel, and the
musical toys are as varied as the notes, the
figures being comical and pretty, and
ranging from $1 to $10 in price. Among the
cheap musical toys are the cathedral
chimes and the calliope waggon, with rather
heath notes to be sure, but children seldom
kuow the difference. Of the small musical
toys the cow horn is described as the most
noisy horn made, and if all the sounds of a
barnyard can be imitated, as suggested, the
inventor will not be blessed. The musical
top, .with accordion notes, and a revolving
musical hand toy, are more pleasing. Toys
that are moved by means of rubber bulbs
and tubes are jampiug dogs, bugs, birds,
frogs and wrestlers.
Of the mechanical toys that go by steam
the imitations of the vessels of the white
squadron are the latest, and that they
come from. Germany is to be regretted.
The designs very from that of the Dolphin
to that of the Chicago, although the Ger-
man'artiste have mixed the names. Imita-
tions of river steamboats and latinchee are
imported also. Other .toys in that line
ate force pmnps and pile drivers. Boys
will be pleased by the pewter figures of
cowboys, Indians, ponies and buffaloes that
are to be used in scenes representing the
wild west, and the figures of soldiers in
mimic scales of battle.
Toys for girls are more numerous and
varied in prices than those for boys, and
dolls lead. the list, the highest price being
$30 at wholesale for a single doll. The
latest novelties are dolls thEttaticanbypeMnouvinged
in cradles and made to kb
strings. The dressing of dolls ha8 improved
each year, and houses for dolls are larger
and more completely furnished than ever
before, ranging in pricee from $1 to $25.
Markets for meat and game, groceiies and
fish have completeetocks'end the theatres
have varied sceeee and figures. In these
days girls can have all the utensils, furni-
ture and essentials of housekeeping on a
miniature scale. The new decorations,for
Christmas trees are numerous and attrac-
tive, but most of them are of foreign manu-
facture, Books of fanny shapes and books
with outline pictures for painting are more
elaborate than ever, and the designs of
paper patteens for dolls and furniture am
exten8ive.
The miniature figures of horse, cows,
cloiekeys, sheep, goats aud rebbits, covered
with natural skin, range M prices from $1
to $5, and the most costly are imported.
c Pair Ophelia.
I thought thy bride -bed to have decked, sweet
maid,
And not have strewed thy grave."
The Danish Queen was not an exemplary
wife, but was doubtless sincere in her grief
at Opheliaes death. In every land we see
the purest and sweetest of Eve's daughters
gathered to early graves. A perfectly re-
liable cure for female complaints, is br.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription, a medicine
beyond all praise, which has saved many a
young life threatened by the insidious ap-
proach of disease. For chronic female de-
rahgemeats, weak back, lassitude, nervous-
ness and poor appetite, it is without an
equal; a generous tonic, a safe nervine
purely vegetable, and 'warranted to give
satisfaction, or the price ($1.00) refunded.
This guarantee is always adhered to. Of
druggists.
A New blong Phrase.
New York ,Tudge : Stranger—So you're
one of these rain -makers, ah?
Experimenter—Yes ; Pm experhnenting
somewhat.
• Stranger—Do you have pretty good luck?
Experimenter—Well, I should put up an
umbsella, !
irbe Poet's Soliloquy.
" Kiss" rhymes to "bliss," in fact as well as
verse,
And "ill" with "pill," an ' so with
"hearse ;"
In fact and verse, WO find. contliceto redo vdrit
ithynies best with "Golden Medicel Discovery."
For driving mit scrofulous and all other
taints of the blood, fortifying the constitu-
tion against lung -scrofula or consmnption,
for strengthening the digestive organs and
invigorating the entire system by sending
streams of puee blood through all the veins
--there is nothing equal to Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. It is the only
ima,ranteet1 Blood, Liver and Lung remedy
sold.
indispensable.
Chieage.g'imes " Your assistant appears
to be practically useless."
" Yes, he's infected."
" With what ?"
With the idea that he is indispensable."
THIRTY YEARS,
johr.iston, N. 1l„ March xi, 1889.
"1 was troubled far thirty years with
pains in my side, which increased and
became very bad. 1 used
Sirs JACOBS OIL
and it completely elared. I give it all praise."
MRS. WM. RYDER.
'ALL -RIGHT! T. JACOBS OIL DLO IT"
ourfnmsfr 4-126dA? • M. e IFORESTWWW,M73r,
sounds. Complete stable, with hair cov-
eted horses, rauge in prices from $2 to $25.
A few of the goats are life-eize, and are
rather expensive. No boy could pas e by
the arrow.gune, air -guns and, military accou-
trements, several of which are new, and it
would be difficult to find, a boy who would
not be interested in improvemente of the
old toys that have been devised for his
amusement, Some of the home manufac-
turers have been devising toys for nearly 25
years, and they have seldom passed through
a season without offeriug soinetlaing new.
The limitations have not been reached, yet,
if the use of electricity be taken into con-
sideration.
All nervous disorders, all diseases pecu-
liar to women such as bearing down pains
suppressions Of the periods and weak nerves
can be thoroughly cured by the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills. Try them.
Advertieing nun Rampant.
Chicago Press : With an injured husband
bunting for him with a gun, Robert Mantell,
the emiuent actor, ought to be sittiefied. It
gives him a big advertisement fot nothing.
11 P.S.—A.11 Fits stopped free he Dr. Itline's
threat Nerve Restorer. No Pits after first
CUXSTIUS riatmc,
now lt ought to Re Dressed.
A lady send e the following hints for the
dressing of the Christmas tree:
Cedar is the tree most preferred, To
keep it in position and also serve as a, rest-
ing -place for parcels too weigthy to hang, a
packing box or barrel is required. Wood
braces nailed across the top hold it in place.
Bricks, irons and even logs of wood can be
laid in the box to secure firm standing.
Ground pine, wintergreen a,ud holly slicadd
be tastefully tacked on the sides of the box,
which are first covered with green cambric,
while over the top mosses and lichens carry
out the idea. All the old wood and un-
gainly branches should be carefullytrimmed
out. To trim the tree there are tinsels that
look like frost, and others like icicles and
little balls that suggest frozen bubbles blown
from a liquid rainbow. The old-fashioned
string. of white popcorn to represent snow
has given place in these modern times to a
closer imitation made from fine tissue paper,
which can be bought ready-made, packed
in boxes. This can be readily imitated by
folding a sheet of tissue lengthwise in strips
one and a quarter inches in width, repeating
until the entire sheet is in three folds. To
keep the paper from slipping apart when
cutting, it is well to press flat with an iron
or lay under a weight for a few hours. At
intervals of every three-fourths of an inch
make a straight cut reaching in a littlemore
than half the width of the strip ; turn the
other side of the fold toward you and cut
in the same manner, having the cuts of one
side come between those of the other. The
strips are then separated by cutting the
narrowest imaginable strip of paper off
each long side. Carefully pull apart the
folds, lightly pulling and shaking each one,
and the delicate garlands of snow -flakes will
be ready to twine in the green brancr.
Clusters of stars hung here and theee in
the branches, adding their beauty to it all,
are made by cutting from pestebbard five
stars, have the regulation number of five
rays in each. These are to be graded. in
size, the largest measuring ten inches and
the smallest of the series four inches across.
Cover each one with gilt paper, and tip each
ray with a tiny gilt star found at any
stationer's, or made from pasteboard like
the larger ones. It Is surprising how much
these stars will add to the effect. High up
in the branches is hung the silver crescent,
where it will be seen to the best advantage.
Make it of pasteboard twelve inches from
tip to tip, and cover it with the prettiest
paper obtainable. Do not spoil it by using
silver paper anywhere else. Lavish the gilt
where brightness is most desired. Besides
these decorations are the oranges, beautiful,
rosy, polished apples, large nuts tied by
threads, bunches oi popcorn bright cornu-
copias of confections, and' many colored
candles fastened here and there by their
tiny hook -handled candlesticks.
SHOWING A GIJES1' 016T.
How to Soothe and platter a Departing
Can there be a perfect way in such an
ordinary performence as showing a g-uesb
out? Certainly tleere is. It is the way the
American servant knoweth not, She goes
to the door with an indecent haste that
smacks of glee. She doesn't even open it,
she only sets it ajar with a nice calculation
of space that gives just the crack you can
*lip through, no more. And she even
grudges you that. You have a !deemed
sense of being thrust out into the world;
and before you he,ve gathered up your self-
respect and your skirts, while your heel is
still upon the door sill, the snap of the
knob is heard behind you. Lucky you are
if you don't hear the sound of the bolt in
tbe eocket, as if you were a tramp or a book
agent.
The English maid knosys how to make
the act beautiful. There is an exquisite
air of deference and respect, as she opens the
door, even a touch of regret in her manner
that she should be opening the door for
your departure, instead of for your entrance.
And then comes the gentlest tact of all.
You never heer an English housemaid close
the door behind you. She holds it open
until you have descended thesteps, at least -
perhaps until you are quite upon the str
end she closes it so softly that th
of the latch never comes to your ea
are inexpressible, soothed and fiatte
you step off feeling that the gram°
the mistress is most charming w
revealed itself in the iustructio
taught the maid to be gracious.
• Dispatch.
Headaches dimness of vision, partia
deafness, hawking and spitting invariably
result from catarrh, which may be cured by
the use of Nasal Balm. It has cured others,
why not you?
Seine of the figures are mechanical and
erranged for the production of natural
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Oriental, A11311101V.
"What a lovely vase you have, leas.
Doubledollax. It's Satsuma,, isn't it ?"
" No • I think the shopkeeper told John
it was depanese."
The Prince of Naples, heir apparent, is to
become the husband of the eldest daughter
of the Duke of Edinburgh.
The Princess Louise and Mrs. Harrison
(wife of the President) are said to be the
only two women who have ever been per-
mitted to set foot within the cloisters of the
Monastery of Santa Barbara, in California.
And even after their visit the ground trod-
den by them was at once reconsecrated
with soleinn ceremonies and nnich fasting
and prayer.
Col. Gordon, of Missouri, has a beard siy
feet in length which sweeps the ground
when allowed to flow at full length.
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Sunday in St. Thoznas.
St. Thomas loarnal: The Sunday shaving
law is not being very vigorously enforced.
Yesterday morning a barber was busy shav-
ing a man in his shop with the window
blinds up, as citizens were wending their
way churchward.
The Russian treasury has voted 10,000,-
000 roubles f or relief works to afford assist-
ance to the peasantry in the famine -stricken
districts.
No man is so ignorant that you cannot
earn something from him.
D. C. N. L. 47.3. 91
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" cannot describe the admiration
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lease of life, which before was a
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10c. BARNARD BROS, 6011 Adelaide
street west, Toronto, Ont.
THE PEOPLE'S KNITTING MACHINE.
Retail Price only
Will knit Stockings, Mitts.
Scarfs, Leggings, Fancy -work,
and everything required in the
household from homespun or fac-
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