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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-1-31, Page 2itISCELIANEOUS, 11,EAMNG ORM AND OTHERWISE. Leisure Moinents Oita Be PrOlitable Employed In Carefully Howling 'Flamm Interesting Se!factions. Consul at St. Bones. "Han wants but little here below," and that lust what he gels And lie collare ;nighty littie of that unless he watches his nets, So I'm vino to ask he Preaident Mat will be by -and -bye - For a little Civil Services% that I've gindeted with my eye. Z wasat to serve my country in lands beyond the sea,. For a place ha the diplomatic oorpe will just about ilt nae • I know I'm toe rola-and to say it I do not hesi- tate, Juist ealeulated to adorn a first-class consulate. X don't care where you send me -Italy, France or soda -- I only make one eondition, au& this one ILI ex- plain; To Greenland's icy mountains, or Afric's golden stones - Only just give me a eonsnlate Mat corners a heap of bones. I ain't particular whose boneo-most any bones will del I can label 'eat coming over, and advertise ism through. tiara of the great Napoleon; slain of good Wil- liam Pena ; Backbone of old John Calvin, ulna. of Thomaa Wren. All sorts of " human warriors," perfect or c'enplete All of Stint .h.ves' skeleton, and part of Saint Sinner's feet; Phalanges of poet and peasant; tarsi of eoldier and arlest- I ought to e b.ome with a shipload, to say tee very least. Why, with anything like good management for three and six nights stands, We ought to exelax the Yankee seeds with bones frora foreign lands, And see the aeonomy of it -why, after a season or two. I could pay b tek my eonsular salary-eay, give me a bane place; do! Cam's Wife. Where di d he get her? Who was her brother? Had she a sister? Sad she a mother? Was she pre.Adamic-- Bern before history With tier identity Shrouded in mystery? Maid of Pheniela Africa .ndia, F.gypt. Arabia. Or sun -kissed Suable? Who was her fattier? Wag he a yi Idng, Cruising abut Just to hierldeng; Out of the O.Thenaeaess, Over the water, Into the Where, Briughag his daughter7 Native of Norway, .0 Denmark or Sweden? Loren by the charms Of the Garden of Eden? Blonde or brunette? Rounded or slender? Fiery ur frigid ? Haughty or tender ? Why are her gra.res Unknown to fame? Where did Cain meet her? What a as ner name? Whisper it softly - Say, eau t be The'ladv we seek . Was R. Haggard's "She?" Tell me, ye sages, Students of Life, gnawer my query, Who was Cain's wife? band. Such a, f wily is hen OLeerth.It was the son of seals a household who said in the simplest and most matter-of-faet way whoa lie heard aa wedding: other We life quarrel commenced." Whet a, eorament on his parents 1-Proin Con- cerning" Nagging Women," by Cyrus Edson, M.D., at North American Review for January, JIM LIEE .A. MAN." One Application of that Sort of Treat- ment Cured Her. Miss Banks, the young A-tusricau jeer- nalig•gereo, in Ler "Camp igns of Curi- o ity," has w Aced as a hunseemid, a flowe, girl and a ea $Sitig SW^ °per, de- clares tints not one of her campeigus has "t ke i cat of Jur" like addressing. the Pioneer Club. "They woul 1 lae.ve me speak up the ervant qu stion and when I got onto ray ‘ee • I was so we k that I should hey dropped if the president had not support - e me. I am no an advaneed woman,' you know." "Why are you not ?" ‘93ecata.e: 1 cau nevereforget that I am a worn:tie and thee spoils the b-usin. s4. I think that women are a great deal clev- erer an quicker than m n, but I like a man to take off his hat while I tell him. so. Som how they object to that." "You do not want equality and no ch iva•lry ?" 'No- I tried that once and I didn't like it. I was the only woman reporter on a p tper, and was accustomed to lenient treatment from th editor, an old s oath - ern. colonel; you know hew chivalrous t le men of the South rn Statel ar . If I a anted to s e my dressmaker or t e to an entertainment nothing was said about keeping office hours. But one day I overheard one of the staff complaining to the editor that I ought to las treated bk.-, the men, and not favored because I was a oman. I rushed into the office in a fury, and told the old colonel to treat me like a men in the future. Next day r was summoned to the editorial office, and there sat the : ditor on the ouly chair i the room, h s hat on the ba. k of his head, his feet on the table and a cigar in his mouth. I want you to go out at once and report a meeting,' he said. But it is pouring with ram. Why don't you seed one of the men?' Because I tell you to go.' I got quite angry at last be- cause he still sat with hat on and puffing lie cigar. At last it struck lee that the dear old valet' el was joking.Well.' he said, how do you like being treated' like a man?' I don't like it at, an." Would y u like to be treated like a woman?' Yes if you eise, she' I replied quite meekly. W y.. My oeinion is that if we women want to do any good for ourselves we zaust not fight the men, but make them love us." A tineet -Wedding. "Did you attend the Bircher-Jacklong wedding Mit at Billy -bee Dam last night, Peel?" asked the able editor of the Haw - villa Clarion. "Ave yes !" answered Alkali Ike, 'weari- ly; "I was thar." "Of coulee there was a lively tires, and all that ?" "Ac,cordin' to how you looked at it. I called it mighty slow. Outside of the re- gular routine and the eatin.' nuthin' hap- pen.ed worth mentioninh To be sure, the preacher and the groom got into a row because the divine wanted his pay in advance but that is a corconon occur- rence. The Rev. Mr. Harps is too old a bird to take any chances. Of course Jack Howeome, the fiddler, had had too much, as usual, and this time he fell off from the table and. broke Inc bow arm; Jack always was more trouble than he was worth. The bride's mother, -who didn't like the groom anyhow, jumped on the poor feller's sleek jestbeiore the ceremony with a -rollin'-pin, and it took half a dozen. of us ten minutes' hard work to tie the old lady fast in a rookin'-chair and carry her a few lnutdred yards out on the prairie. Darin' t le rumpus somebody stole the feed. aria we never saw hide nor hair of it all the rest of the evennth They accused me of it, but I arn as irtnereent as a larab. I hain't that kind of a man; and, besides, I had a. private snack of ray own. That was every blaraed thing that happened, except that a deputy sheriff slid in and arrested Coyete Pete forhorse- stealin' or a little suthin' that a -way, and some feller had a fit. Shucks I Wed - din's ain't noways -what they used to be a few years ago. Lord! Them was the times ! But now everything is gittin' to be too much like it is in tiae From the 'Editor's Drawer" in Ha.rper's • Magazine for ;Tannery.. A CION'EXIBT PLANT, Quite Out of the Oral:navy, hut Sone the Less eaterestinge An Iucliana e itor who used to know the gentleman wheu he lived in that very Hoosier looality oalled ou Mr, Robert Un- derwood. Johnson, of the Centery Maga- zine, at his New Ytrk °filo. The visitor was much more inter:304 ioi the needle ioal thou in the. literary department, Ana after Mr johnson had expatiated for sorra time on the literary- excelleace of the magazine he interrupted. hint. "By the way," be said," "I'd like to see the Century plant." "Ha, ha," lantehed Mr. Johnson, "Why b.a ?' " asked the puzzled visitor. "That's a good one," said Mr. jolinson. "What is ?" asked the innocent Indi- anian. "That joke of yours," still laughed Mr. Johnson, to the discorafiture of his vis- itor. "I didn't see any joke," persisted the visitor, "Well, my dear boy," said Mr. John- son kindly, "don't worry about it, I'll take you to see ours and you will discover that it is not of the ordinary kind," and this time Mr. ,Tob.nson actually chuckled. "Not of the ordinary kind ?" queried the bewildered Hoosier, "What do you mean?" "Re, ha," u.nroariously laughed. Mr. Johnson, "the ordinary kind blossoms every hundred year and ours blossoms every month," and then Mr. Johnson held his quivering sides and the poor Hoosier sat there utterly dazed, looking at him.. Queer Finn Name. Dr. Holmes was usually very prompt at the Harvard Medical School, but he was missed one morning. Finally he entered the roora, hurriedly, ,glanced around with a smile and said, "Gentlemen, I know I am late; but there is a little stranger at my house." And then with an expres- sion such as only Homes' face could as- sume, he oontiaued, "Now, can any. one of you tell me what well •Ilown busmess filen in Boston he is like?" There was no an wer. "He is Little & Brown," said the doctor, with a twinkle in his eye. That was a good advertisement for Little & Brown, but it is probable that that pioneer of American humorists, John Phcenix„ gave another Boston firra a bet- ter one. Entering a large store in. that city one day, he said to one of the pro- prietors, "I think I would. like to tattle a little:" "To tuttle! What do you mean by that ?" "I don't know," gravely re- plied the humorist; "but I read an invi- tation over the door, 'Call & Tuttle,' and I thought I would like to know how to do Flotsam of Antiquity. Roman women had safety pins closely resembling the modern article. The British museum has coins or med- als of every Roman Emperor. The Masse claim to have specimens of writ, utr dating from. B.0. 2200. M. ny Roman bracelets had the form of serpents coiled about the arm. Plates for table use are among the art- icles deg from the soil of Rome. Ancient needles were el of brass, and in size approximated our darning needles. Several dozens of wooden and metal spoons have been found in Roman graves. Breastpins inlaid. with solid gold were found in an armorer's shop in Hercula- neum. An onyx seal ring, belonging to an an- cient Atheaian, was lately dug up near Athens. ' Needles of bone, very delicately made, have beeu found in the Swiss lake dwell- ings. A drum of wood, with one drumstick, was not long ago found in a royal tomb near Thebes. Blecksmith's tongs and, pinchers, to- gether with hammers, have been un- earthed at Pompeii. 'Many pairs of sandals have been re- covered. at Ponapeii. The soles are fast- ened, with nails. Schliemaon found at Troy three silver vases, each six inches high and beauta fully engraved. Over 600 breastpins in the shape of shields have been dug up in various parts of Rome. The Fool Killer. -Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child," says the wise man. He might have added that in this respect men and women are only &Raven of a larger growth. And if he had fully understood that ancient maxira, "Know thyself," this same King Soloraon, who has for thousands of years been held up as the wise ran par excellence; -would have re- alized that he was, in some respects, a very great fool. When Thomas Carlyle, a good many years ago, said, "The American nation consists of 40,000,000 people, mostly fools, he did not stop to consider that the same thing might be said of his own na- tion' and that he himself would have helda conspicuous place among the fools for having said, many foolish things. In classifying a whole people as fools, this distinction mu.4 be made: The natural born fools are few •' the fools of their own making eon. titatethe vast majority. "The man who would shun the sight of fools must lock himself up in his cham- ber and break his looking glass," says a wise author. Of the more than a th.ous- and, million people on earth, there is not a single one devoid of some foolish idio- sytecrasy or weakness. "No man is a hero to his.valet," and the man who, outside among his fellow man passes as a personification of all wisdom, may in the intiraete circle of his friends and rela- tives betray divers little vanities' petty prejudices and eecentriaities. "Ibegin every year by think ng what a fool I Was last year," remarks a certain man who stands high in the esteem of his fellow citizens, and i3 generally credited with more thaxt the usual amount of sterling good seam. ".1.1 a general slayer of fools were sent abroad, who would eseape ?" is a question worthy of profound consideration. "Though he should slay from morning untilithe break of next morn, Tet for each fool that he slayeth, there shall be another born. piece of business, let it be origlitel lie de- sign and of geed quality. Wondrous is the strength Of cheerful, nese; altogether past calculation its pow- er of es:durance. Efforts to be perma- nently useful must be uniformly joyous, a spirit of sunstrineegracefut from very gladness, beautiful bemuse bright. Duty ulirdobnEe nisdhciolffl etUhelmwSohrstt. About the time Et, boy begins to find out there isn't any.Sante Claus, he begins to line out there is a Cupid. When two hearts beat as one they hit hard. Two soulwith but a single thought feel the need of more before they are throegh with eanh. other. Sweet are the uses of adversity, per- haps, but it becomes a wearying smt; nese after long continuance. The real beauty of a woman never fades. .A. doctor's bill seldom reminds us of the comfort he brought when we needed him. The Horrors of Nagging. It is the peculiarity of the nagger to • exaggerate everything, even if she do not invent her grievances. Forgetfulness on the part of a husband is annoying, as it is in any one, but it is not a crime. A continual stream of scolding lasting three or four • hours over the failure to post a letter will cause any man to con- sider the effect aispeoportionate to the ranee. If the husband be healthy, if he is not cursed with a highly nervous or- ganization., what happens? The fast thing is, that any love he may have ever haa for his wife dies, drowned in the flood of words. Having mindere& his love for her, the -wife keeps up the nagging;. he speedily begins to look on her as being nuisance; from this to dislike and then to positive hatred is not a long journey. Xf there be children, .the husband may outline to live with her for their sake, but it is an awful home in whieh to bring up children. The man quickly learns that he has in bis physical strength some- thing in -which he eon elaim eanctaary. He may not aotually beat her, because the restraining inftuences of his training have not lost their holden him. Perhaps it watild be better for her if Inc did, for phyeical fear of a whipping might be sufficient to make her control herself. While he may not lift his finger to her, he will invariably bedew° brutal, except in meta eases as I than hereafter rrientione sub a contest the woman hes no ehance. Be mity not bet he probably is not, elate to give the repier-like thrast of sarcasm Whieh comes so easily to her, but he can use the bludgeon of abuse and profanity, with terrible effect. The nerv- ous eotelition the VionlaU has (treated in • herself by her nagging, itself renders bet powerless before thie weapon of her hue - , THAT 03.000 LOOKET. Fontaine WAS a yellng Man a Ann ad- dress, with, a knack of apt apparel, and he quiekly became the leadiag jeweller. His credit wan excellent from the start. One September morning a stranger asked for Mn Fontaine at the shoP. He Was traveling for a French manufactur- ing firm. - His prices seemed high, 'although his wares were original in paeteret and the stone e of superior purity and lustre. In- deed, they were a class of jewels more costly than Fontaine had yet kept in stock, and it appeared doubtful if his quiet town would justify such expensive investments. Accordingly, he declined to buy. The stranger retired, but in half an hour returned again. Ha had made in- quiries at the banks and satisfied himself of the jeweller's responsibility. He now offered to leave a few articles on commis- sion for the purpose of introducing his styles. Great Roads or Auticsaitn- Perhaps the earliest road on record is that mentioned by Hematites as having been constructed. by Cheops, the Egyptian King, in order that stones might be drag - ed along it for a pyramid. In the opinion of the Greek traveller, the work of mak- ing the road was as great as that of building the pyramid, for it took ten years to coustract, and it was composed of polished stones, with figures carved on them. But this does not compare in mag- nittide with the highways constructed by the Peruvians, while meal:oval Europe was still in, a state of semi -barbarous dis- organization. The t wo pniuoipal roads in Peru ran from Quito in the north to Ouzo, the capital, the one along the sandy and level strip of coast, the other along the plateau of Andes, a region of unparallel- ed engineering difficulty, The length of the second has been estimated at from 1,500 to 2,900 miles. It crossed sierras buried in snow; bridged ravines with walls of solid masonry; mounted and de- scended precipices by staircases hewn in the solid rock, and ran in interminable galleries along the sides ef intractable m.ountains. Where rivers had to be crossed, bridges were made with ropes of stout, pliant osier, twisted. to the thickness of a man's body, and stretched. over the streara, sometimes for a distance of two hundred feet. Those cables swung side by side, and., fastened with planks so as to forra a footway, were drawn. through 'holes in enormous butresses of stone specially con- structed on each bank, and were secured firmly at each end by• heavy beams of timber. A railing of similar osier ma- terial gave the passenger confidence as he crossed the oscillating. bridge, that sank dangerously in the noddle and mounted rapidly at the sides. The great highway was twenty feet wide, and was built of flags of freestone wavered with biturainous cement. It was measured out by posts set up at every league; cara-vanserars and. magazines were stationed at convenient distances for the Peruvian soldiers on their military expeditions; and a regular postal service had been organized by which highly trained ruemers, relieved every five miles, could convey messages a distance of two hundred miles in the twenty-four hours. The roads were kept in beautiful order, the: inhabitants of a district being responsible for that portion of the highway traversing their land. At the same time it should be remembered that -there was no wheel traffic to cut up the level surface of the hard pavement. There is considerable irony in the fact that it was not till the Spaniards forcibly introduced their so-called civilization. into Peru that the famous roe& began. to fall into disrepair. The Author's Compliments. The late Prof. Aytoun was uncommon- ly diffident when making proposals of marriage to Miss Jane Emily Wilson, who afterwards became his wife. The lady reminded him that before she should gige her absolute consent it would be nec- essary that he obtain her father's ap- proval. "You must speak for me." said the suitor, "for I could not summon cour- age to speak to the professor on the, sub- ject." "Papa is in the library," said the lady. "Then you had better go to b.im," said. the suitor, "and, ru. wait till you re- turn." The lady proceeded to the library and taking her father affectionately by the hand mentioned that the professor had asked her hand in marriage. She added, "Shall I accept his offer, papa? He is so diffident that he won't speak to you about it himself." "Then we must deal tenderly with his feelings," said the hearty old Christopher, "I'll write ray re- ply on a slip of paper and pin it to your back." "Papa's answer is on the back of my dress," said Miss Jane,as she entered the clrawmg room. Turing around the delighted suitor read these words, "With the author's compliments." "And were this not so, thy murmurs still unrea- soiling be; Let him clean out all fools, and cotild'at thou ex. peat to go free?" 'When Ones Are Broken. A broken bone neecl not be set immedi- ately. This knowledge saves much un- neeessary anxiety when the doctor cannot be procured at once. The parts ratiet be put in, as eornforte able a position aslioseible and mostnear- ly surrounded to the nat!urel one. It is necessary to give support above and be- low the break. Handle the injeted part very tathfully, not to force the rough ends of bone through the skin, Improvise splints of some kind -two stripe of wood, & couple of stoutbook cov- ers, or pieces of pasteboard. Piece one On each siae, when it is a limb that is in- jurodeand bind them in plass with hand- kerchiefs. A. long pillow firmly tied will answer ths pilrpOSe, or in ease of injeres to et lee; it may be fastened to its fellow ci nothing better can be done, remembering to tie it above and below the halttry, The Attorney. 1852 -An izaperihl decree abolished trial by jury within the bounds of the Austiian. empire. 1853 -Students for the English bar re- quired to pass a regular public examina- tion, said to be very rigid and of wide scope. 1856 -An international code agreed on by Great Britain, France, Austria, Rus- sia, Turkey and Sardinia. 1859 -The John Brown trial in Virgi- nia for murder and insurrection. 1861 -The United States gave its adhe- sion. to the international code of 1856. 1863 -The publication of the English Year Books, or volumes of legal reports, beginning about 1292, began to be print- ed at the expense of the British Govern- ment. 1864-Salm9n I'. Chase, of 'Ohio, ap- pointed chief justice of the United. States Supreme Cetera 1865-A reproduction by photograph of the finest extant copy of Magna Charta printed by the British Government. The original manuscript is lost. 1866 -Trial of Harold, Mary E. Surratt, Payne, Atzerodt, Spangler, Mudd, Ar- nold and O'Loughlin for conspiraey to assassinate President Lincoln, The four first named were hanged, the others sentencecl to hard labor in the Dry Tor- tugas. 1866 -The London Law Journal was es- tablished in London. 1866 -Trial by jury begun in Russia, it is gated, "as an experiment." 1867-A. professorship of international law was established at Cambridge by a bequest of Dr. Whewell. 1868--Plaarmaey aet passed by.Parlia- raent to regulath the sale of all persons. Fontaine welcomed this proposal, and gave the required receipts, obtaining a dozen very handsome gold breastpins, bearing rabies, sapphires and emeralds in unique settings and a costly locket. The locket especially was a notable ac- cession, and he gave it a conspicuous place on the plate -glass shelf of his corner show window. It was oval in form, of solid gold, adorned with delicate bas-relief work and dainty enamel. lb was stud- ded with a cluster of diamonds on each side. "We ought to give that locket a name," said John Fontaine, as he stood by the windew admiring it. John was'Regmald's brother andsehief clerk, a skilful and competent assistant. "I will have a little placard printed naming it the Versailles Locket,' and announcing myself as importer." Accordingly, next day appeared a deli- cate advertisement in black and white: Josh Billings' Philosophy. There is no proffit in relating our sor- rows; everybody we tell them to has got one that they think weighs more. The Verseilles Locket. Our Own Importation. Direct from France. German diamonds. Fine gold. Hand graven. Priee, $3,000. Time passed. The ladies of the town came, examined and admired the locket. Christmas went by and still the jewel lay in its satin bed upon the plate -glass shelf unsold. Two thousand dollars was the sum he stood accountable for to the French manufaotuter in payment for this locket should he make sale'and al- though in confidential moments he offer- ed it to special customers at $2,150. no one profited by this liberal discount from the set price. Every night the locket was carefully put away M the burglar- proof compartment of the huge steel vault. One day a gentleman came in and left his gold watch for repairs. Be was atoll, majestie person, whom Fontaine had of- ten seen of late about the streets, wear- ing a heavy ulster, with collars and cuffs and pocket laps of seal fur, and clad throughout with deference to fashion. He was particular to take a receipt in the name of F. F. Bart ea At the time appointed Mr, Barton re- turned for his wateh. Fontaine in per- son waited on him, and noticed the mass- ive signet ring worn by his customer, the onyx monogram of which seemed crack- ed- Mr. Barton threw down $100 with an indifferent air, and gathered up the change without appearing to take count of it, hooped the golden loop of his heavy chain into his buttonhole, restored the watch to his pocket with an air of satis- faction and turned away. Fontaine drew from a drawer a ring tray. "elf you are interested, in rings, exam- ine these. I have some old forms here. I don't expect you to buy, sir, but I am • an enthusiast in my trade, and if any- one likes to look I like to show my goods," "Pve seen acres of rings." "Is there anything I can show you that you are interested in ?" continued Fontaine, politely, replacing the tray. "Family plate, table ware, children's or ladies' ornaments—" Mr. Barton had faced toward the door. He turned a.bout with feeble euriosity to ask: •'What have you in the way of ladies' ornaments?" Fontaine led his customer to a show- case glittering with bracelets, coinbs, pins and so on. "There is nothing here thee I care for." With some warmth Fontaine flew to the show window and caught up the locket. He put this before his scornful visitor. "Here is something you have never seen excelled in Paris or elsewhere." "What is the price ?" "Three thousand dollars." Mr. Barton inspected it closely, and laid it clown at last with manifest change of bearing. He looked. at Fontaine more cordially, and said, in an insinuating bone: ." Well, I'll see; I'll send my wife round to look at it. She likes such toys, but whether she will bunor not is quite un- certain. Luckily for me she -has money of her own. For ney part $B4O00 is too =oh to put into a jewel." Three days later a messenger came to Reginald Fontaine with this note: "Sir -Please bring the locket to the Castle hotel at 2 o'clock this afternoon. My wife wishes to see it, and is rumble to leave the hotel. 1 can't promise you that she will buy, but as you like to show your wares, I should.be pleased for you to sub- mit your locket to her. Yours, F. F. Beams. Fontaine called his trusty brother and showed him the note. "John, I'll let you wait on these people. Sell the locket if you can. Get $2,150 if you can't do any better. Take good care of the lockets" John went in. A lovely young woman, with a/pale face and languid air, reclined in an easy chair. Before her on the table was a tray of wine glasses; , Mr. Barton stood opposite, and still up- held a newly opened bottle, from which he had just poured a tiny glass of dark wine. The porter went out and closed the door. Jahn handed forth the locket, which Mr. Barton passed to hie wife. "Had you not better take this now ?" saia Mr. .Barton, proffering her the glass of wine. She took it arid looked toward Sohn. "Perhaps this gentleman.----" she said sitgersestively. "Certainly," replied Mr. Barton. He poured out two more glasses and pushed one toward John. John was very temperate and unused to liquors. 'It might give offence to re- casts and bargains often hatig on trifiee, uito respoetded courteously, and drank the sweet port te the bottom of his glass. "You are sare these are real daftmoride?" "Warranted genuine, madame," ie.' turned John. When john awoke twilight filled the room with fantastic shadows, and rays from the street lamps fell flieltering on the walls. Ten days later the Freecit traveler re- appeared. In vain Reginald Fontaine recounted the fads and urged delay until the swindlers could be captured and the locket recovered, The Frenchman only shrugged and netened, and at the end res peated : "I must have a settlement." Fontaine at last drew a check for the amount of his indebtedness, and the Frenchman disappeared. One day, in London, Reginald visited the rogues' gallery at Scotland Yard. He saw many faces ;and there, :arneng them, those of F. F, Barton, and the Frencb salesman who had left the locket. While he never placed hand or eyes again upon the French traveler, he had. the satisfaction of adding his testimony to the catalogue of evidence against Mn. Barton at a later day, and of seeing him consigned to prison. The Versailles locket 'never appeared, but Reginald Fontaine concluded that his experiene.e was worth the money it cost him. He deals no more with un- known foreign manufacturers, neither does he trust valuable jewels among strangers. One-tenth part uv the labor anclanxiety that Men display to acquire fame on earth would establish their reputashun in heaven forever. • If you would kno how rare a thing a true friend is, let me tell you that to he a true friend a man must be perfektly hon- est. Revenge is the koward's courage; for- giveness iz the brave man's revenge. Friendships kan be divided principally into two kinds, puppy alia old dog; and there is but very few uv the puppy kind that lasts to be old dog. I kart trace most £13.1 117/ mi bad luk to bad management, and guess mi neighbors kan too. Men Iry grate methods sold= make a blunder and az seldtun raake a hit. I don't kno az I kau toll now which will weaken a man the most, to flatter or to pitty him. • For Any Ray of Fourteen. If you can, always play a game in pre- ference to simply going through a lot of mechanical movements. A game ex•er- eises the head, rests your mind and helps you immensely. Whea.a,s, while pulley weights he p you., they only help you to about half the extent that a game does. If, finally, youhappn to be near a gym- nasium, and ca,nnor, got any exercise out of doors, then go to the gymnasium, Now to parti Adams a little on the spe- cial work of boys in special employment 3. Suppss 3 yoa are hot very strong, and you are so employed during the day that you have to sit downail the time. Of course you need exercise of the kind thet will keep your body moving. I should advise you, then, to take ten minutes off just at nightfall. eePut oa light garmeats, say a pair of low shoes, 13, pear of drawers cut off at ths knee ewe an undershirt; nothing more. Then int) bask streets, or into the country roads, and beginning slowly, run half a e Come in at °nee, run to a bath, and every soul on earth in civilized o )untries can have a bath if he really wants one. Then rub yourself down hard with a towel and dress yourself. I say half a mile. Do that first. Soon you will be ebb to do five lalileS if yoa have time, but a good half -mile ran each night, of your life will save men.y a had lit of the blues. Don't be afraid of going out in each light clothes-unlese you're afraid of the po- Emma a -for I have seen many a sickly boy run in just such Clothes on eola uda- wiat -r nights. with six i aches of snow on the grotmd e Ila a. bad snowstorm raging. You can soo the shown home out of your body when you come in, If yoa set down outd: ors five minutes . you would vory likely never go ottb again; but you will not do th st; you ill nna. all the time you aro out, and a them as yoa !lave had b ella and are dr $ ea you ale less likely to take cold that you were bef: re you went teat, to exereise. Business Aphorisms. Carlyle waeu.lt a Man of business, but he would. have made a, 8110004a of it if he had. tried it. In his evriting3 one finds these lines of eoLd bu3inesi truth; A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. Have a smile for all, a pleasant word for everybody. To suceeed, work hard., earnestly sad iteessantly, All 'honest men will bear watching. It is the reseals who eanno stand ih • Better have the window empty than fire./ wib unsaasoiutble and uneittraotive goods, When you hong a sign outdates your Man's Devoted Friend, The devotion of dogs of the novelist Ouida is well known. "The sympathy of your dog," she says, "is unfailing, 'unob- trusive. If you are sad, so is he ; and you are merry, none is so williug to leap. and laugh with yeti. For your dog you are never poor. The attachment of the dog to man outweighs and :Unmet obliter- ates attachment in him to hs own race. There is scmething shocking in our high opinion of him in the call usness with which he will sniff at the stiff b dy of a brothendog, but he will follow hi; master to the grave and sometimes de upon it' Plenty of Chance at Home. "What do you hear from Hiram ?" &aid Mrs. Sunup. "How's he dein' at college ?" "I ain't bend nothin' direct," was the reply, "but it corms ter me in a round- about sort o' way thet he is sowin' a good deal of wild oats.' "What air ye goin' to da?" "Hey lirn come home. I -wrote 'im to- day thet ef he was so dead sot on agricul- ture he might as well sticketo the fame', A MILLER'S STORY. HE WAS GIVE MIT ONE MONTH TO LIVE. First Attacked With. Inflammatory Rheumatism., and Then Stricken With Paralysis -Hope Abandoned and He Longed for Death to Re- lease Him From Suffering -At Last He Found a Cure and Relates His Wonderful Discovery. Sherbrooke Gazette, The benefits arising from the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are well known to the Gazette. It is a frequent occurrence that people come into :the offiee and state that they have been restored to health by their use. It occasionally happens that extraordinary instannes of their curative powers coins to our notice, and one of these was related to us reoently, so astonishing in its nature that we felt the closest investigation was required in order to thoroughly test the accuracy of the statements made to us. We devoted the necessary time for that purpose and can vouch for the reliability of the following facts, wonderfully passing belief as they may appear. There are few men more widely known. in this section than Mr. A. T. Hopkins, of Johnville, Que. Previous to his re- moval to John.ville, Mr. Hopkins resided at Windsor Mills, and was for three years O member of the municipal council of that place. When a young man Mr. Hopkins was noted for his strength and his activity as a wrestler. His strength stands him in good stead ler he works hard at his business, carrying heavy sacks of flour in his mill for many hours during the day and frequently iar into the night. Active as he is, an.d strong as he is, there was a time not long distant when he was as helpless as an iniant and suffered intolerable agony. About three years ago while residing at Windsor Mills, he was at- tacked by inflammatory rheumatism. It grew worse and worse until, in spite of medical advice and prescriptions, after a year's illness he had a stroke of par- alysis. His right arra and leg became quite useless. Sores broke out on both legs. He suffered excruciating agony, and had rest neither day nor night. He sought the best medical advice that could be obtained, but no hopes were held oat to him by the physicians. "He will cer- tainly die within a mouth," one well known practitioner told his friends. "He will be a cripple for life," said two other doctors. It is no wonder that, as he says, We became a burden to him and he long- ed for death to relieve him from his suf- ferings. This was in August, 1892. About October of that year he heard of Dr. Wit - limns' Pink Pills and as a forlorn hope determined to try them. He did so, and before long was able to take outside exer- cise. He persevered with the treatment, closely following the directions, and is to- day nearlyas strong as wh.ea a young man, and is able to follow successfully and without difficulty- the laborious call- ing by which he gets e living. Such was the wonderful story told the Gazette by Mr. Hopkins, who attributes his recovery solely to the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Piuk Pills, and he is willing to satisfy any person who may eall on him as to their Wonderful effects, A depraved condition of the blood or a shattered nervous system is the secret of mast ills that affect mankind, and by restoring the blood and rebuilding the nerves, Dr. Williatas' Pink Pills strike at the root of the disease, driving it from the system and restoring the patient to he.alth and strength. In eases of para- lysis, spinal troubles, locomotor ataxia, sciatioa, rheumatism, erysipelas, scrofu- lous troubles, etc., these pills ate supe- rior to all other treatment. They are also a specific for the troubles which make the lives of so many women a bar - den, and speedily restore the rich glow of health to sallow cheeks. Men broken down by overwork, worry or excesses Will find in Pink Pills a certain care, Sold by all dealers or sent by mail, postpaid, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for 02.50, by addressing the Dr, Williams' Medi - eine Company, Brookville, Ontario, et Schenectady, N.7. Beware of imitations and substitutes alleged to be "just /113 geol."