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Exeter Times, 1896-11-5, Page 6LEGAL. H. DICKSON, Barrister, Soli - money to oli- oneyto Loaa: (Meet ET anson'sBloolt. lEAotar, R a. COLLINS, Barrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer, Etc. EXETER, - ONT. DB'FLOB1 : Over O'Neirs. Banat'. IIILLIOT d: ELLIOT, Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries Public, Conveyancers &o, &o. isetroney to Loan at Lowest Rates of Interest. OFFICE, . MAIN - STREET, EXETER. Hensal eyery Thursday. $. P. =mar. TREDERICIC I.LLIOT. DiaM mews." MEDICAL • W. BROWNING M. D., 11. O tir • P. S. Graduate Victoria 17aivero ty office. and residence. Dominion Lebo a tory .Eire ter . DR. HYNDMAN, coroner for b.ie ()aunty of Huron. OHloo, opposite Carling Bros, stere, fleeter. • ilS. ROLLINS & AMOS. •Separate Ounces. Residence same as former. iy_. Andrew st. Offices: Spackman's building. Main at; De Rollins' sante as formerly, north nor; Dr. Amos" same building, south door, J.A. ROLLINS. M. D.. T. A. AMOS. M. D Exeter, Oat AUCTIONEERS. ° 141. BOSSENBERRY, General Li. + caused Auctioneer Sales oenanoted in allparts. Satisfactionquarauteed. Charges moderate. Hansell P 0, Ont: HENRY EILBER Licensed Auc. tioneer for the Counties of Huron and Middlesex • Sales canduotod at mod- erate rarer. O:Hoe, at Post-olfles ()red. Ion Out. ion sleilmmiuminimiliMilimpSi VETERINARY.. Tennent & Tennent E.E1i)TER, owl'. radeetetofthe Ontario veveriusiey 031 s (meet f One door South of'Cown Ball. THE WATERLOO MUTUAL FIRE INSL'RANCEC0. iEatabllahedln 1803. HEAD OFFICE . WATERLOO, ONT. This Cempany has been over Twenty-eis•h rears in sneressful (mention in western ntario, and continues to insureagainst loss or maga lltrs"rItasto[Aliu nctieand aiohedesopio Insurable property, Intendinginsurers have the option of Insurineon the Premium Note or Cashisystem, During the past ten years this company has issued 57,096 Policies, covering property to the *mount of $40,$72,958; and paid in losses alone S7011,75100. A.ssets, tiF110,100.00, consisting of Cash inB ekaovernment Depositand the unasses- sed Premium Notes on hand and in force J.N•Wsnuen M.D.. President; O 3I. Tames Secretary ; J. B. Ii cases, Inspector . 011AS 1 j,l,. Agent for Exeter and vicinity au■car • NERVE E NERVE FsEA:ib Fru ss ss; . LwaHt : OTCrCbllrQ v.anda rr BEANS Failing Manhood• restorer the weakness of body 'or mind caused by overwork, or the errors (met. ceases of youth. This Remedy ab. selutely aeras the most obstinate cases when all other riti ,.TntsrgTs have failed even to relieve. Sold by drug. gists at $i per package, or six for $5, or sent by mail on receipt of price by aadresring nil:JAMES S 3IEDICINI' 1.. Torenro. Ont. Writ.. if r•^.a,r:3ct. Fd,t ;n•-• Sold at Browninr''e Drug Store .Exeter, .EXT. OF J HAS A 'RECORt i 4YEARS CiOf SUCCESS iris A SURE CURE 0. DIARR1IC£A 0 DVSENT,E0Y OOLfe, ,. CRAMPS . CHOLERA 1NFANTE,IM Lind ejI' Siamese G_ OMPLA-ief'rS fsL'ehiidrit or; Adults. z READ -MAKER'S 9 -sr 3E11411.0E6W NW WS 10 GM SATt9MOTIOII eon `d UJ cess e1-1 :Sleet- •Tees THE EXETER TIMES Is published every Thursday morning at Tines Stearal. Printing House Main street, nearly i 3 wet oa opposite to Ffti:on's e r tore, Eoxeter, Ont., by y JOHN WHITE & SONS, Proprietors. xiAT}Ts9' OF ADVEIRTrSIO 0,: .t+'irst insertion, Per line..:...,, ........IO cents, Each subsequent Insertion, per line.. 3 cents, To insure insertion, "advertisements should he sent in not later than We dnesday morning. Our JOB PRINTING DEPARTMENT is one of the largest and best equipped in the County of Buren. All work entrusted to us wilire- ceive our prompt attention. Decisions 1tegardistg,Newvs a ers I>' P . enemy person who takes a paver re iah from the post office, whether dirsatod in his name or another's, or whether he has sub. scribed or net, is responsible for payment. nelf a person orders his paper discontinued he muet pay all arrears or the publisher may ,iontinue to send it until the payuientis made, and thou collect,•the whole amount, whether the paper is Laken from the office or not. 8 -Ta suits for subscriptions, tl.eaitit may be instituted in the, place !,here the paper lentil). - „fished, although the subscriber may reside hundreds ofraiiles away, A --The conrte have decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the post eflico, or removing and leaving them uncalled for, is prima feels evidence of intentional 'gaud. THE EXETER TIKES THE TWO JOHNS. We could never remember the time when the two Johns were not friends— and rivals. Ever since they had grown old enough to toddle across the fields to the fence whioh divided the farms of their respective families, and com- pare their separate abilities, there bad grown up the strongest spirit of emu- lation. When they grew older and went to school at Wandaweewee Corners, eaoh one was possessed with the lofty ambi- tion of beating the other; not in school lessons, however, the talents of the two Johns did not lie in that direction ; as the frequent application of old MoAl- pine's tawse plainly told. But if John Robinson made a very long jump in the play -ground and was commended for hie prowess by the population around, John Campbell would jump at least half an inch farther, or ” bust somethin" as he said. The "bustin' generally took place in any case, the " sometb.in' " generally being suspender buttons, etc„ to the great sorrow of his aged aunt. If John Campbell ap- peared in the school -yard with a crow's- nest, taken from the highest tree on Chestnut hill, the other John burst up- on our sight the neat day with a hor- net's nest, taken in single combat, and thus eclipsed his rival's glory. This little peculiarity of the two young men furniseed ample entertain- ment for the neighbourhood when they grew up and went courting. If a young lady received any special attention from one John, she was quite certain of an equally special attention from the oth- er; and as they were by no means. faithful to any one young lady, their conduct became quite remarkable. They never by any chance fell in love with different girls, and they were extreme- ly partial to girls from a distance. Any young lady who came to vest in Wandanteewee was sure of a good. time. John Campbell would probably call the first evening. and John Rob- inson would take her for a drive on the next. They earned this to such an extent one tuna that they nearly came to blows over ared-haired girl with a pug -nose, who was visiting at Polly Burton's. John Campbell had pinked the girls up on his way home from the town, and was driving in at Burton's gate when John Robinson passed with a load of hay. That was the signal for war. John arrived. rrived. at Burtons' very }ser two early the next evening, and John num- ber one took Miss Flinn to a picnic the day after. The two Johns ran such a race after that girl that Mrs. Burton told Mrs. Fraser that " it was shame- ful, and Minnie Flinn's bead was get- ting turned with their foolish goin's on and it was a good thing, goodness knaves, that she had to go home in a week or so!" We often speculated as to what would happen if either of the two Johns was to get married, yet we never e quite site conceive of such a thing. We were all sure that if one of the Jahns was to marry any girl the other would certainly be there and marry her also. And it was strange they did not marry, too, for John Robinson's mother was quite old and feeble, and told the neighbors Many times that "she did wish her Johnnie would give up his flighty ways and get married I" And there was not one of her neighbors, possessing a grown-up daughter who did not echo the wish. And John Campbell was liable to be left with, only old Mandy for house- keeper at any time, for his sister Lib- bie who presided over the affairs of his house was the prettiest girl in all the country round, having more beaux than she knew what to do with. She might get married any day, if she could only decide upon the one she wanted, but that was just what Libbie never seemed able to do. Most of the matrons round Wandaweewee called Libbie a flirt and shook their heads over her. Mrs. Fraser said Libbie was spoiled because there was no one to °beck her, her parents having died when she was so young. But Libbie had ane constant affection and that was fax her brother John. In spite of their mutual opposition in love, and all other affairs, the two Johns were tolerable good friends. Their farms joined and they were always giv- ing each other a helping hand; while the spirit of emulation kept those two farms on Chestnut Hill the best in the country. There was a tradition that John Robinson, like every other young mean in Wandaweewee, had paid court to Libbie Campbell, in the early days of his lave -making; but it had not been for long. Some said Libbie had sent him off, as she eventually did all the others; more, however, were of the opinion that John Robinson could not be interested in love -making that had not the 'stimulus of John Campbell's opposition. As it was, however, John Robinson's attentions to Libbie Campbell ceased very suddenly, and the two young men want off on their joint stook love -mak- ing once more, here, there and every- where. And when the whole country- side was getting tired of their flirt- ing, and the mothers were in despair, things took a very sudden and most unexpected change, and all because Nel- lie Palmer came to visit at Polly Bux- ton's. The two young men had been very nearlya quiet and well-behaved- fax outh when this event happened. Tey had both just come off most ignom- iniously defeated in one of -their com- mon love affairs. They had been pay- . ng most frantic court. to Miss Basker- ville, the school teacher, all winter. She had received their attentions with great warmth, but strict impartiality,' and we were all once more iu a state •o f anxiety as to how it . vonld end, see 'wen off in the summer holi- days acid "marrieda lawyer in Toronto, w'itbont so much as sending in her re- signation to the trustees. She mere- ly them. hea a with a ` an - argent maft ' weddi p his. aper was displayed to all Weedaweewee, includ- ing the two Johns, who after that were quite well-behaved, until. Nellie Palm - ex came to visit, Polly Burton in the fall. Polly's visitors always kept the two Johns busy. Mr. Burton met , her at the station in town and brought her up on Sat- urday evening, and she was at church with the Burton's the next day. It was a warm day, and she was dressed all in white with pink ribbons here and there. We decided that she was not quite so good-looking as Libbie Camp- bell, but she was certainly very pret- ty, ineleed, with dark brown hair and soft blue eyes. Mrs. Fraser noticed all this, and whispered to Mrs. Burton as we came out, " You'll have the two Johns over now, right and left t" And Mrs. Burton sniffed, to show her disgust. She bad no patience with the two Johns, "always gallavanting after their visitors, when there was her Pol- ly who would Inake a better farmer's wife than any other girl north of To- ronto l" But Mrs. Fraser was right. John Robinson had evidently been planning the campaign during the sermon, fax he whispered to Polly in the aisle, and when we all came out his splendid team of bays were prancing at the platform ready to convey the girls home. He flew triumphantly past his rival who was driving his sister Home, and Lib- bie laughed aloud at her brother's face, He gave a low whistle, "Jimmi- ny 1" he exolanmeil half -admiringly. "He is a hustler 1 I'm going over to Burton's to -morrow, Lib," "All right, John, and keep Bob at home, will you?" " Bob bothering you again, I thought you gave him the mitten." "So I thought, too, But he's baok again, mitten and all." " Oh, well, you can settle him, I guess," said her brother, easily. Lib- bte's lovers gave him little concern. "But, say, 'wasn't she pretty, Lib?" " O—yes, I guess so—" " Well she was. By ginger ! Won't there be a time maw!" And John Campbell's handsome eyes flashed with pleasure at the thought of the tom- ing campaign. He dressed with care the next even- ing and drove off down the hill to- wards 'Buxton's, with many warnings from Libbie that if he met Bob Bur- ton he was to tell him she was &Way, ill, anything to stop him. fie met the young man just at the foot of the hill, and so far from obeying his sis- ter's injunction he stopped his horse to have a friendlychat with Bob, re- marking that " Lib tuns alone and would be glad to see him." In view of the future race after Miss Palmer, John thought it would be just as well to be " on. the good side of the Bur- tan.s," as he termed it.. So tale old feud which had termin- ated so suddenly with the disappearance of the school -teacher ems renewed on the old terms, and Nellie Palmer had a good time. It was a drive one night, a tea meeting the next, a concert in the town six miles away, parties, taffy pulls, buskings, everything the coun- try -side could procure in the way of amusement, until the young lady was quite dizzy, Polly took pains to explain to her friend that it was only ' a way " the young men had of treating every new girl; but Nellie kept her ow'aa thoughts about the matter and received the very marked attentions of the two Johns without the sli test partiality. gh par is ty. " You'll have to decide which one you're going to take, I suppose," said Polly on a later day, when this had been going on for a month. Jim lkzms, who owned a fine farm on the next concession, had been visiting Pol- ly two nights in the week for over a fortnight, so she could afford to take an interest ' nr visitor's he romance. " Which one do you like best, Nell?" " Oh, neither," said Nellie, with a start and a flush. " That is—well—I like them both just the same. Which one du you like best?" " Oh, I don't know, either," return- ed Polly, slowly, eyeing her friend close- ly. "John Campbell's good compaaay, and full of fun, just like Lib. He's far the best loakin'. too, but John Robin- sonts the richest, Nellie. He's got lots of money in the bank in Orillia, pa says ; but he's pretty quiet, you're too much alike. They'll both be askin' you to marry them," she continued, "now, so which one '11 you take." "Neither, or perhaps the first one that asks me." " Oh, goodness, Nell, you needn't tell me that," said the candid Polly. "You're dead in lave with: one of them, I know." "I'm not," exclaimed Nellie, with; a scarlet flush that belied her words. "What on earth makes you think so?" " Oh', because you blush like fury every time the boys tease you about the two Johns, and last night you talk- ed about ' John;' in your sleep, but for the life of me I couldn't make out which one you meant e Nellie gave a relieved lawgle and re - sunned her crocheting. " Oh, if that's all, you don't know very mach." Well, don't you think John Camp- bell's good looking ?" "Yes—rather, I guess." "Don't you think Lib's handsome?" pursued the ounning Polly. "Why, of course .[ do." "Well, they look just alike." "Do they ?" without a show of in- terest. "Why, yes," answered Polly impati- ently. And they're just alike in their ways, too; both the biggist flirts alive, only John's the worst of the two!" "I don't believe it, Polly. He wouldn't,"— but Nellie stopped sud- denly. Well, you just wait and see. John Robinson means what he. says, but John Campbell just says anything that Comes into his head. Lib's just like li that. She's a perfect terror. The way she's used our Bab is a fright.—Well there's Pa callin' I guess he thinks I'm. never goin' to milk." And Polly skip- ped away chnrkling• "I'm mast os certain its JohnCam . bell, the way she fiped up when I saide that about him. She blushes too easy to hide anything from me. Well, T'm sural don't envy her her °hoice, though there's not much of a pick between them," and Polly went off, comparing the two Jahns unfavorably with her Jim. Libbie Campbell had taken very lit- tle ixtterest. in her brother's new love -making, She had of course in- vited Polly and Nellie up to teat and had taken her crocheting and visited them an afternoon; bet beyondthat'her attention had net been balled to "John's hew girl," partioularly. It was the, old story, she told herself. Nellie Palmer' would go home in about a month, and the two Jahns would settle down again until some other new girl appeared. But one night her eyes were opened to the real condition of . affairs; and when Libble's eyes were open there wee very 'little escaped them. John was "going out" as usual and Libbie was arranging his nevi,' neck -tie: Her brother was seated on the organ stool, to bring himself to' the proper level. "Off .to Burtons?" asked rhe, stand- ing been to survey him with critical eyes, in which static a certain amount of admiration for her handsome broth- . eT, "Yep," was the laconic reply. "Are you going to take her to the tea meeting to -morrow night ?"-severe- ly. . "Weill, bother, I wish you wasn't, I haven't a single, solitary soul to go tvi.th,." c "You!" exclaimed her brother in amazement, "It's a fact," said Libbie, dolefully. "There's something the matter with every one of them, Bill Tucker's in a huff about ;nothing; and Tom Blair said he'd never set foot in this house again, and Bob's suoh a stick I" John gave an admiring laugh, "Oh. Lib,_ you're a 'Jim dandy t"" 'Well, you're just as bad. By -the - way, what are you going to do about Nellie Palmer, is it all flirting, like it was before?" John Jerked himself to and fro on the organ stool. "That's just what I'd give a good bit to know, Lib," he confessed, looking very hard into the fire. (To be Continued,) BRITISH INDIA. Tile Fanzine Outlook—The,urea or Distress lnereasiug--f;overnment Meller Works. The famine outlook in India is ins creasing in gloominess. It is not pro-' babie now that rain will fall, and the prospects are serious in the north-west' and central provinces and in the Pun- jaub. The scarcity is extending to Be- har, and at Bombay prices have risen heavily, Large improts of foreign grain are expected, About thirty ]a1;slis of rupees have already been given from the Imperial revenues for advances of seeds, etc., and relief works in the north-west and central provinces, the Punjaub, Central India, and Rajput- ants are being started in addition to the irrigation works which are project- ed in the Punjaub. The Government will issue a detailed and final forecast of the distress in December, The London Times' despatch from Simla, India, says :—"During the fam- ine the Punjaub will benefit enor- mously from irrigation in the tract supplied by the Chenab canal, the ex- tensions of which are being vigorously' pushed. The Gujrarwala and Jung sections of the canal have just been opened, watering 200,000 acres which f will mostly be sown with wheat. The 1 soil is rich, and is certain to yield splendidly. The whole project is an enormous one, bringing vast tracts of waste land into cultivation. The crops from other lands about the Chenab canal are abundant, and, besides, only one-tenth of the last wheat crop was exported. It is known that the grain supply of the Punjaub is very large, but the dealers are holding up their stocks and raising prices for large profits." LORD DUFFERIN. Ilaagtiotted in Belfast on Ria Retirement From Public Lire. The Marquis of Dufferin newly re- tired from the post of British Ambas- sador at Paris, was accorded a ban- quet at Belfast an Wednesday night, at which he matte a speech.: He de- clared tent owing to his age and deaf- ness be had definitely retired from ram of- ficial life. Although England was not loved, the Marquis continued, she had no dispute with any nation of Europe except Turkey. The salvation of the Armenians, be asserted, cannot be found in any sc heane applied to the Axmncnians alone, but in reforms giving protection to all Turkish subjects. The Marquis area expressed the hope that the United States and Englpnd would be the first to practically apply the 1 principle of arbitration to the settle- ment of international disputes. Lord s Dufferin said that every Englishman's soul, would revolt in horror at the thought of any fratricidal collision with the United States, which could only result in involving the United States and them in a common ruins THE WICKEDEST CONVICT IRA MARLATT, OHIO'S DEMONIAC LIFE PRISONER. " The Ho of the Prison "—The Moa Dsnigetous Man Ever Confined In th Penitentiary—Che Gnarls, are Afraid of liim. Caged Iike a wild beast in the depths of the Ohio Pen'itel4tl.ary, in a cell that ao ray of sunlight ever penetrates, sur- rounded by madmen, yet sane himself, Ira Marlatt,° who is proud of Yds title, "The Demean of the Prison," has been confined two years because of his hat- red of mankind. In that time .he has attempted to take the lives of eight men, made am attaok on Warden Coffin, and even planned an assault on Gov. Bushnell, In that time, the guards say, he has been un- dergoing an unoanny physical change and is losing his semblance to a man. and becoming demoniac. Four years ago Marlatt was brought to the Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus a prisoner for life for murder committ- ed in a northern country. He had been a hermit, and weird stories were told of him by the deputy sheriffs who brought him, in, ,heavilbr manacled. "He is not insane, but the devil is in him," they said. He was only thirty-five then,but he bore the marks of the degenerate. His eyes were like a tiger's and burned like teals. His Long, square jaws were rigid, and his ears were strangely point- ed and inclined fortva'rd. His look gave the prison officials a very uncomfort- able feeling, and they scented trouble ahead, especially when they learned that h,e had shot the sheriff who had at- tempted to arrest him for murder and that it had taken a posse to capture him in his hermitage., Marlatt had murdered a man for trying to cheat him in the sale of a piece of land. HIS GUARDS FEAR HIM. In his cell in the penitentiary asy- lum he outraves the convict maniacs and silences them when he engages in a combat with his guards. For two years he has never left his cell, but has manufactured innumerable knives and other weapons displaying such skill and cunning that he has been able to make a stiletto out of a wire or a, deadly dag- ger out of the handle of a. tin bucket. Though living mainly on bread and wa- ter prescribed by the prison officials to reduce his strength, he fights likes a demon and rages like a tiger. His strength, ferocity and rage are appal- Marlatt has always refused to work. Punishment has been in vain. The most severe prison torture had no effect on him. He sullenly endured punish- ment for days, never changing a. muscle of his face. He was flagged, shocked with the electric battery, spanked with a huge wooden paddle on the bare flesh, ,handcuffed by the wrists to a well for twelve days, but to no purpose.% He was as defiant. e cant as ever. The prison doctors declared that he was not crazy. The guards then tried to make him work on the stone -pile. He submitted for a moment, but when the guard's back was turned he took off one of bis socks, but a stone in it, and with the novel slungshot whacked the guard on the head almost fracturing his skull,. Ile afterwards got hold of a knife and stabbed a guard. They put him in irons. He broke them and it required five guards to subdue him. They locked )vim up in a solitary cell for weeks. Thinking he was tamed at last, they let him out, but as soon as released he whipped out an ugly knife that he had made from the "shank" of his shoe and attempted to kiln a guard. Then they said he was a demon and put him in a cell in the prison asylum. He cunningly made friends with the unatics, who passed into his cell bite of iron and steed, from which he made harp knives and daggers of wonderful workmanship, With one of these in bis hand he wound lay in want for weeks till a guard ham. occasion to unlock and enter his cell. Then a terrific combat would take place, the guard, sometimes emerging bleeding from HALF A DOZEN WOUNDS. After one or two each desperate en- counters the officials -had a strong cell Built for the demon immediately back of his own cell., It is barely three feet wide and six feet long, and is made of sheet iron, pierced with holes. It is covered on the outside with a wire sdreen to prevent anything being passed in to him. The cell's only furniture is a bare bunk asnd a bucketa Into this cage guards drove Marlatt from his own cell. They looked and double -lock- ed the strong iron eeltu, and there in the gloom Marlatt, "the demon," has lived and pltanned murder for two years. "Ile begins to look like the devil," said Guard O'Brien a few • days ago in all seriousness, "and I wouldn't be sur- prised any day after a tussle with him to find he has grown horns and a tail. He'll kill me or somebody else yet," At intervals this strange being writes threatening letters to the Warden, the Governor and the State Board of Pard- ons, demanding his immediate release or a rehearing of his case., He wrote several letters to Gov. McKinley before the Governor retired from office. How he writes them, where he gets pencil and paper or who "delivers "the de - man's" communications, . none knows. The Warden finds them on his desk; they are left at the Governor's office or are left with some member of the Board of Par'dans, all' by the same mys- terious agency. Perhaps the criminal lunatics could talk,. but they only jibe and jibber and point to Makd'att's cell muttering "Devil." Devvl. In answer to a pau'ticule,rly fierce let- ter recently, Warden E.G., Coffin talk- ed with; Marlatt and endeavored to sub- due him by kindness. Marlatt broke a long silence and said he wanted. liberty and a chance to, work. The Warden directed a :guard to openv Mari:att's cell door. Marlatt seemed ;tranquil enough. The door was no sooner open than with a yell • of triumph,. Marlatt sprang.at t,he;'Warden, knife m hand. The guard )mocked. him down and after, a fierce struggle he was again forced Into his cell,- cursing and raging hideously.) "He is certainly possessed of the"dev- il," said the Wardensleeking his head as Jae walked away, "Leave hem ague." A man w'h'o :.hats tried it Says that two or three dandelion' leaves,; chewed before going to bed, will always. induce sleep no matter how nervous or wor; tied a man may be, A ,habitation giddy'and unsure hath he :that buildeth bu ld on the vulgar heart. Shakspeare. THE MAKING OF BICYCLES. Wonderful Strides Made by the Industry in the United States. In a , special article entitled "The Cycle Industry in the United States," t the London Times recently' drew atten- e tion to the wonderful strides made by the trade in that .country. The par- ticulars given are interesting, as being a remarkable instance of manufactur- ing development. Eleven years ago there were only six firms engaged in the business, with an output of a few thousand bicycles. There are now, it appears, 500 leading firms, with a pro- duct of a million "wheels," and prob- ably 200,000 more manufacturies en- gaged in, the business. It is further es- timated that three million bioyeles, of timated that three million bicycles, or thereabout, are in use in the United States, which shows t hat about one person out of twenty of the population has taken to the wheel as a matter of business, amusement, or health. One ofthe noteworthy features of the growth of the cycle business in the neighboring country has been the change that has come over importations. Even when THE HIGH -WHEEL BICYCLE had become very popular in Great Bri- tain ri tain it was scarcely noticed in the States, and even the iatroduotion of the "safety" wiheel failed to attract American buyers. It war not till pneu- matic tires were introduced that a de- mand began to be made upon the Brit- ish cycle manufacturers. Prior to 1885 nearly all the wheels used in tho States wore imported—mainly front inglaod. It was not till 1890 that the American manufacturers began to make any seri- ous impression on English exporta- tions, and even until two years ago large numbers continued to be sent from British manufactories. After 1894, however, the exportations mainly re- solved themselves into large quantities of steel tubes. A report made by the United States Consul in Birmingham, England, the centre of the cycle and steel tube trade, shows this very clear- ly. From tbig it is learned that in 1894 the amount of tubes exported was $86.- 000. In 1895 the shipments amounted to $507,041, while fax the first quarter of the present year the amount had risen to $231,200. As showing the de- cline of one industry while another was. rising, the exportations of finished bi- cycles fell from $470,890 during the first sir months of 1893, to $.90,998 during the last six months of 1895. There are indications, however, that the American rice n manufac LI t rata are mak- ing arrangements to produce their own tubes. THE AMOUNT OP TUBING necessary to make a bicycle is calculat- ed to be twenty feet, so that the total amount required fax a year's product of bi C cies will befrom rom 20 000 24,- 000,000 4 - ,00 to 000 0 00 feet It appears from the latest reports that seven great tube -making firms in different parts of the oountry have now—as the result of putting down fresh machinery—a productive capacity of 82,000,000 feet, so quickly has the demand created a supply. As re- gards finished . bicycles, the immense TO uCL d ton far beyond the - Ph home de- mand, has led the manufacturers to gress of this searoh for customers is in- ggr ess of this serch for customers is in- dicated e by the • roturns to have risen from $243,721 for the last six months of 1895 to $1,844,291 for the firs!; six months of 1896. Theyfurther show that nearly one-half of this export, both of completed machines P erne and parts, was P sent to England. Germany is the next largest customer, France next, while some shipments have been made to every European country and South America. In Canada, however, the na- tive manufacturers has held his own, and Australia and South Africa are still supplied by British manufacturers. CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS. It ;has been estimated that ninety per cent. of people in trade fail at some time in their career, and for a merchant to remain in business over thirty years without needing aid from his creditors is a remarkable incident. People of good memories have seen great fortunes tumble into nothingness, and families that have boasted of their wealth reduc- ed to penury, through sudden changes that visit the commercial world. Every year adds new instances of these sudden reverses, and while they should teach people to be considerate to one another they should also suggest to persons now rich that they cannot control the wheels of fortune, and they should not be too boastful and toe harsh in their estimate of others. POST OFFICE SAVINGS BAND. The statement of the business of the Post -office Savings Bank, which will ap- pear in the forthcoming annual report is a record of steady growth' in this branch of the public service. The num- ber of postoffice savings banks on Judy 1 was 755, an iiacrease of 24 in the year. Oin Jelly 1, 1886, the number was 392. The total amount deposited last year was 8,138 947 whine the withdrawa,ls , wi hdrawals amounted to $7,406,066. The total num- ber of accounts remaining open on Jule 1 was 1.26,442. ' The total amount stand- ing to the credit of depositors was $28,- 932,939, 28;932,939, the average of each account be- ing 8228. The cost of managing this b •anoh of the service was $58,340, the average cost of each transaction, ,that. is withdrawals or deposits, being' 24c. MAGNET AND SURGERY. A surgical ease is reported .in one of the French technical papers in 'which a broken end of a needle in t}h!e; hand of a woman vas withldrawn and with- out the lees of any blood. The hand was placed near; the pales of a .very powerful eleotra-magnet in. such. a posi- tion that the needle was drawn in . the direction of its point. After' nine treatments,lasting altogether 20 hours, 'the ,neediecame eat through the skin. Ithad been 1n the hand two months and; as its definite. location was net known, a s .urgical• operatione buil riot) Character is hi her than intellect;, A'reat soul b will'. e strB be erf ons to ;lied a en p orated well se to think,—Emerson. • WIVES BY LOT. In some parts of Russia a queer game is still played at Christmas time which has much to do with the future lives of the participants. Some prominent person in the village announces that the annual merrymaking will be held at his house. On the appointed day the young men and women hasten in huge excitement to the meeting place. There are songs and games and dances, but they are simply a prelude to the more important business of the day. When the time comes the hostess leads all the girls into one room, where they seat themselves an the benches. Laugh- ing and chattering, they are each promptly muffled in winding sheets by the hostess. The head and hair and figure are completely covered, awl when this is done the girls resemble mum- mies: The eating men draw lots, and . one by one they enter the room where the muffled girlie sit4 Helpless so far as sight or touch goes, the puzzled lover tries to find his favorite, Maybe she would hellp him if her eyes were not hidden, but she is as helpless as he. Finally he chooses one, and then he may unveil her, This is the critical mom- ent, and disappointment ar rapture will be the result of seeing her face. It is the law of custom that the man shall marry the girl he has picked out, and if either backs out e heavy forfeit must be paid. It issaid that this ma- trimonial lottery is productive of many happy marriages. TAF BEST THEY COULD DO. I found a fishworm in my hydrant this morning, said the wrathful citi- zen. itizen. Yes, said the official of the water company, that is the best we can do just at present. We can't afford to furnish fish -all we are able to fur- nish is bait. A terrier that ' wars only four i,nahes long, and therefore the smallest in the world, died xecesrt ' in London.. The. little animal was the property of Sir Archibald Maclaine. BUiousnss Ie oausodJay torpid)(yti wbtge feeattad! . emitted permte food sty,;foDna;3ikp sine menet Mt the stomach. Then foRave deitheatelitadaste,: , Our I's and.... ....Other Eyes. Our I's are just as strong as they were fifty years ago, when we have cause to use them. But we have less and less cause to praise ourselves, since others da the praising, and we are more than willing for you to see us through other eyes. This is haw we look to S.1...Boyce, wholesale and retail druggist, Duluth, Minn, who after a quarter of a century of obser- vation writes: • "I have sold Ayer's Sarsapa- rilla for more than 25"years, both at wholesale and retail, and have never heard anything but words of praise from my customers; not a single com- plaint has ever reached me. I believe Ayer's Sarsaparilla to be the best blood purifier, that has been introduced to the gen- eral public." This, from a man who has sold thousands of dozens of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, is strong testimony. But it only echoes popular sentiment the world over, which has, ""Nothing but words of praise for Ayer's Sarsaparilla." Any doubt about it? Send for"Ourebook" It kills doubts and cure. doubters. Address J, O. 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