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The Huron Expositor, 1893-08-18, Page 7893. mment travt thers, RS gTARIO. '4:fw York ; w. n Piano Coal. AUGUST 18, 1893 Co., Guelph ; Bowmanville ctk. hartd, also a few gani for eale aa sae on the instal. itomors. m. hand aleoeheet BROS. ! arm Machin.- epairs, would .areroom Bank, rhere, as he Cassey-Itarris, y, Masou and implements, or the Bain binder and the Coleman f Plows con. - Seaforth. rter S d Furni% ium, ONTARIO. EINATION. .shortest notice A large assort - Shrouds, &c., elity. The best of charge and• &sae. Director. Real- IaT, directly 013- h in the house t. tablished. OTS oor Factory, ateblishasent le stilt haw better fatiete good article for a re of all patterns att- . Lumber dressed on desired. AU kinds of erms. Sbingles kept er for the furniehing* given on application. tried and workman - elicited. ADrooT, Seafertla, ON IO ENJOYS Both the method and results when Byrup of Figs is taken. it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on theKidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys. tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and tic= .ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most tealthy and agreeable substances its maany excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 750 bottles by all leading druggist& Any reliable druggist who may not lave it on hand will procure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Manufactured only by the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP COLI SAN FRANCISCP, CAL. LOMEMILLE. NEW YORK, N.Y EAST SIDE 0 i;tER 55 vEr4,cr11:1) 5TRAWBERRII CURE COLIC 11' CHO E CHOLERA— MOREWS DIARRHOEA DYSENTERY COILAINTS CHILDREN°Y7s ADULTS Price 35cT BEWARE of IMITATION S Usborne Council.. —"fhe Culccir 'Piet eiiliir Sirliist., pursu- ant to adjournment. All members present. The bridge tenders being opened, that et E. Hewitt for $195 was accepted on motion of T. Cameron, seconded by J. Shier. The contractor to remove the old bridge for the timber of the same, except the flooring. The bridge to be completed by the 15th Oc- tober next. The following rites were or- dered to be levied for the current year, namely : For county.rate, $a,925.38; town- ship, 0,351.13 ; special school rate $940.45 ind various trustee rates. The Reeve, J. hier and T. Cameron were on motion of . Halls, Beclouded by W. Kydd, app.:anted a committee to superintend the building of the Kirkton bridge. On motion of J. Halle, seconded by T. Cameron, the clerk was inetructed to prepare a by-law legalizing the levyiug of the various rates. The fol. lowhig orders were granted, viz.: W. Miners, equalizing Union School Section, $4; A. McDonald, repairing bridge, $12.85; J. Allison, repairing Thames Road and Lum- ley bridge, $54; M. Samwell, -keep of J. -Hewitt and wife, $13; It, Herdman, on gravel account, $20; J. Bellantyne, repair- ing culvert, etc., $1.50; R. Bell, jr., elm lumber, $7244; 11. Redd, culvert, 86; F. Morley, hammer, 81; James Stewart, tile drain, $3. Council adjourned to meet on September 2nd, at 2 p. m. Pathmastere ..not returning their lists before September lst are liable to a fine of $1 each. NEW BOOKS Just Arrived —AT— Morris Council Meeting. Ike Council met on the 7th inst. Mem- bersiall present,the Reeve in the chair. On motion of Mr. Proctor, seconded by Mr. Kirkby,the following accounte were ordered to be paid, namely : for gravel; R. Bloom- field, 8470; John Mooney, $2 90.; W. Innes, $2.85; John Barr, $4; E. Littlefair, $7.70; J. H. Sellare, $9.65; Wm. Sholdice, $5.14; T. Henderson, 82.45; A. W. Sloan, 82.45; Jennie McArter, $7.40 ; F. Wright, $8.5S; George Pierce, $3 61 ; Corporation of East Wawanosh, $2.80; George Peacock, $5.10; Wm. McKelvy, $2.20; E. Bosnian, $3.08; D. Herrington, 88.80; T. Russell, $6.; C. Campbell, $2.21; Wm. Hopper, $3.25; George Taylor, $l.20; John Som- merville', $8.20; James Watson, $9.13; J. Golley, $14; C. McClelland, $2.10 ; James Patch, building culvert, $l3,50; Wm. Phelan, plank, $l,15; George Smith, re- pairing culverts, $4; James Jackson, gre.vel- ling on South boundary, $39.18; James Jackson, .repairing culverts, $10; J. Mc- Caughey, repairing culverts, $5.75; John Maines, contraot on West gravel road, $200; Wm. Scott, inspecting and spreading gravel, $11,25 • James Timmins, spikes and gravel, $13.; lint. Messer, spikes, 21 cents ; J. Smith, cutting hill on eideline, $10; George Goodfellow, ditch on 5th line, $2.00 ; E. Marshall, contract on McCrea's hill, $20; A. Brooks gravelling on 4th line, $26.60 ; Wm. Findlater, gravelling on 2ad line, $4; E. Littlefair, cedar, $3.75; T. Miller. tim- ber for Clarke's bridge, $2.50; W. Hanna, contract for 6th line, $21.O0; C. MoCitaa, inspecting and spreading gravel, $2; E. Livingston, lumber, $5,75; John Cloakey, ditch and gravel, $1ite40 ; J. Golley, ditch on Weed gravel rodd, $25; Wm, Carter, contract on East gravel yoad, $53.1O; W.H. Kerr, printing, $27 ; R. McLeod, gravel on East boundery, '$10.50; R. McLeod, cul- vert on South boundary, $2; Geo. Kirkby, to pay contract between lots 20 and 21, con- cession 7, $40 ; John Currie, repairing Clark's bridge, $9; John Robb, building culverts on 6th line, 89; Wm. Denbow, gravel'o'n East boundary, $49.60 • R. Burns, inspecting and spreading gravel, $5.62it ; Misses Exford, charity; $9 ; E. L. Dicken- son, fees re arbitration suit, $100. Moved by C. A. Howe, seconded by George Kirkby and cerried, that S. Caldbick and James Proctor be instructed to examine sideline j between 20 and 21, concession 3, and have the road opened for travel, provided the cost does not exceed $75. Moved by Geo. Kirkby, seconded by C. A. Howe and car- ried, that the Clerk be instructed to notify Alex. Eakett to have his contract with the Council completed before the 1st of October next or the same will be relet. Moved by C.A. Howe, seconded by James Proctor and carried, that the Reeve and Treasurer be: authorized to borrow four hundred dollen for four months to pay current expenses. The Council then adjourned to meet again on the 15th of September next.—W.Ceeita, Clerk. C. W. PAPST'S BOOKSTORE, By all the leading authors, at POPULAR PRICES. CALL AND SEE THEM AT C. W. PAPST'S, SEAFORTH, • ONT. Women as Glovers., Although glovetmaking is not so univer- sal an occupation as teaching or dress -mak- ing, nevertheless it eupporte thousands of women,and is in most respects an exceptima- ally pleasant employment. The stronghold of the business in America is in New York State, on the edge of the Adirondack wilderness, and it is to a woman that tradition gives the credit of its origin. The early settlers, some of whom were tin - 'peddlers, were puzzled to find a uee for all the deer -skins which they took in exchange for their goods, until it occurred to "Aunt Itluldy " to transform them into gloves and mittens. These proved very durable, and sold so rapidly that soon the tin -carts were converted into mitten -wagons. At first the men did little -beyond dressing the leather and selling the finished gloves, the laborious task of making being monopo- lized by the women. A wooden pattern was laid on the leather, marked with a pencil, cut with sheers and sewed by hand. The seams were then pounded and the gloves laid between two boards, upon which the maker eat while constructing another pair. The invention of heavy dies took the cutting away from the women, and gave it to the men; but •that women have never lacked employment is evident from the fact that of the thousands of gross of gloves and mittens manufactured annually, every one bears wo- men's work in some form or other. The most noticeable peculiarity of the glove industry to -day is the great number of small shops in place of the two or three im- mense factories seen in other manufactur- ing centres. It is,perhaps largely on this account that the girls and women employed are of so high a type. Pretty, refined,lady- like, are adjectives frecinently used to de- scribe theee workersewho suffer little loss in Rocha standing from their devotion to the sewing machine. Indeedethe wives of ,sev- eral of the wealthy manufacturers are form- er shop girls. Since theinew laws have gone into effect and a woman is employed as factory inepec- tor, gilds are not admitted to the shops under fourteen years of age. Their first work is usually "pulling ends. This coneists in drawing through from the right to the wrong side of the 'glove the ends of the silk or thread left by he machine workers and tying them to prevent raveling. Seventy- five cents a day is the meet that can be made at this work, and a bright girl soon leaves it to run a machine. The various styles of machines used are placed close together in a large room, and, except in the smallest shops, are all run by steam power or elec- tricity. Fifty cents a week is paid by each worker for the "power," which is more than made good by the dozen, the prices varying somewhat with the quality of the work. The foreman always speaks of the great difference in individual workers. Two girls may sit side by side, doing the same kind of work, and yet one will finish twice as many dozen as the other. The ordinary ma- chine -workers make a dollar and a half a day. " Silkers," those who put fancy silk stitching ten the wrists and backs of the gloves, average two dollars a day. The "over -stitch 'workers, those who sew the parts together with an over -stitch seam on the outside, can make three dollars a day— the highest wages paid to women. These seem great wages for k hop- girlF ,but -eee. THE HURON rxPrisrrort IRREGULARITY: Is that hat troub- les you Then it's easily ni d promptly remedie by Doctor Pierce' 'Pleasant. Pellets. They regu- late the system per- fectly. Take One for a g.entle laxa- tive olt corrective; three f r a cathartic. If yo 1 suffer front Coustii talon, ludl- gestiot , Bilious At- tacks, Sick or Bilious Heat aches, or any derangement of the liver stomach, or bowels, try these little ellets. They bring a permanent cure. Instead of shocking and wpakenin the systeni with violence, like the rdinary pills, they act in a perfectly en,y and natural way. . They're the smallest, the easiest to take the .citeapot, for they're guaranteed to- give satisfi ction, or .your money is returned. 1O4 pay only for the (rood you get. their expenees reduce the a Eech new -comer must pur on the instalment plan) svexage cost of sixty-five d to get through as many the girls run their machine their speed, and break -do Then they must pay for r always expensive, while ne so often that a girl's needl or twelve dollars a year. A few women are kept pastiog and mending. come from the cutting - pieces which forni a pair packages of a dozen or mo the stamp of the vario must all be looked over, in cutting or defects in and corrected, Aestiff the wrist -piece of some s need an entire lining of fiaished gloves sometime Itasome, ripe must be ee sewiug done over; in ot which have been put in be changed. These h,an by the day and though much as those who run work is *Alder, and t more please,na—Harpe pi ount somewhea. base (generally a machine at an Hare. Anxioue ozen as possible, at the top of ne are frequent. pairs, which are dies are broken bill is often ten • usy in sorting, ben the gloves oom, the various re hid together in e, marked with s putters. These nd any mietakes eather discovered lining is pasted to ylee, while others anton flannel. The show poor work. ed up, or careless ere, thumb pieces he wrong way must -workers are paid hey cannot earn as the machines, the e room quieter and Is Weekly. Memo es. Among the numbe less _stories told of General Butler since ils death is this, ex- tracted from the Bostoi Globe, The narra- tor had an importan la* case on, and be- lieved that Ben Butler was the man to win it. Butler was in W shington, so he went to the capital, and aft4r twe'days succeeded in obtaining an interview with the' general, who declared that he as overwhelmed with work. He would not take the case for a thousand dollars a day. "General," I said, tie he turned abruptly to his work, "1 was born in the same town with you." He grunted, but wean% otherwiee affected, so far as I could see. " Do you remembee little Mies —9 And the boy who used to Bend notes to her, and the boy who used to take them? I am the boy who took the notes." "And I am the boy that sent them," said the general. He held outibis hand. "1. guess I'll take your case after all," he said, and he did and won it. Children Cry for Unable to resist the temptation he snatched a kiss and found himself in the arms Of the policeman, and, next morning, demure and sober, he was brought up before the judge. The court was in a genial mood, and, doubt- less having once been a student himoelf, he played the part of counsel for defendant and addressed the young lady, concilietingly, thus: Judge—" The defendant was jovial and ex- cited, and he now minas he was ,at Won't you forgive him for having kissed you ?" Plsintiff—" I'm not vindictive but I want ten guldens damages (about 4)." Judge—" Ten guldens for a kiss ?" Plaintiff*" Yes. I must now leave my lodgings on account of the scandal, snd ten guldens is not too much," Judge—" But the defendent is only a etudent, and therefore not a man of means. The sum you demand would be a great loss to a person in his position." Here the imfortunate student, who was the picture of misery, put in a word for him - felt. " Do think it over, miss. You must feel that if I had been in my sober senses noth- ing in the world would have ever indtwed me to kiss you. No, not if I lived for a hundred years !" Plaintiff—" Why, this is a fresh insult, almost as bad as the first." Defendent (disconcerted)—" Oh, I—didn't mean that; indeed, I would—I mean I wouldn't, that is, I—I—haven't the audac- ity to kiss any young lady. Otherwise, I would willingly—that is in fact---" Plaintiff -4 Oh, of course, that is differ- ent. Well, take five guldens. The judge seemed to think five guldens too high a price to pay for a kise ; but the money was at once paid down, the nate dismissed, and plaintiff and defendent smilingly approached each other, and left the court chattinggaily together. . Sensible Prayers. Frederick W. Robertsou, one of England's moat distinguished and most beloved clergy- men, tells this story of his boyhood. , He had been taught to pray on all occasions, which he conscientiously did. One day, at school, he was taken up with nine other boys to be urjustly flogged. " What shall I do?' he said to himself. "1 don't deserve thie ; but I cannot escape the disgrace, Perhe.ps God will help me out of it." Then he began to pray that he might escape the shame. What was his bewilder- ment when his turn came to be whipped, to hear the teacher say : "Robertson, I exouse you. I have par- ticular reasons for it." Robertson says: "That incident settled my mind for a long time; only it did not do me any good, for prayer became a charm. I 'fancied myself the favoriteiof the In- visible. I felt that I carried about a talis- man unknown to others, which would save me from all harm. It did not make me any better." There are thousands of young people at this time undergoing what is called the " Cbrie- tian experience." In the freshness of un- tainted imaginations and unjaded ambitions, they are giving themselves to the service of the great spiritual Master. Such questions as that involved in this anecdote interest them deeply. We have all been taught to pray, and in the main we try to do it. 'Prayer is as real a power as electricity or steam. Now, the question is : What kind of a power is it? And how should we use it? Many of us, like the boy Robertson, use prayer indiscreetly. Weare apt unconscious- ly to think it a charm, and trust to it super- stitiously. Many of.us, on the other hand, do not pray enough, ' and consider prayer a failure. 1 But a crisis in life comes. An unknown disgrace threatens. 1 We try to pray out of it. A dear one sickens. We try to pray him well. The disgrace strikee. The dear one die's. To our horror and aetonishrnent our prayers are unanswered. What is the matter? On whom is the failure to be laid? We have prayed and done our part. Shall we then distrust Gnd and think that the re- ligious life and intimate relations with God are unreal? , There is a better way than that. Above all things we must pray sensibly. A man cannot be unreasonable in religion any more than in business, and expect success, There are two ways of looking at this question. There are certain thing e which it is evident we ought to have. 'There are certain other things whioh we do not known whether we ought to have or not. We known that we ought to have purity, veracity, honour, trust, unselfishness, and faith in God. There is no dispute in heaven or on earth about tt ese things. We do not knowwhether we ought to be warm or cold, hungry or fed, sick or well, rioh or poor, happy' or miserable. God does. . Innhese doubtful matters we can only sug- gest, and not dictelte to the Almighty. To Him belongs the decision. Our businees is to pray, even if *e do not get what we want. His part id to answer in the way i His love and wied im dictate. But as concernslthe things that we know we ought to have, because we are sure that they must be what He wishes us to have, our duty is to pray and not only expect to get, but seek to get, what we sok for. Some such simple explanation as this of a very old and very perplexing question may keep young Chrietians from misunderstand- ing God, and frotn despairing of His tender- ness and of His help—Youth's Compaion. "Jest Like Hanner." "Hey ! hey :" he called in front of a Grand River avenue grocery, the other day, as he stopped his team. A clerk went out to the edge of the walk to see what was wanted. " What'a alga worth ?" "How many have you got ?" "'Leven dozen," " Bring 'em in and I'll see." The farmer turned mewed on his seat and looke,d the wagon box over, but there was nothing to be seen but a bridle, which needed mending. " Bring 'em in," continued the clerk.' " Jerushy to Jackson ! but 1 hain't got a blamed one !" exclaimed the farmer. " B.ere I've driv nine miles to sell 'leven dozen aigs and the aigs is to home !" Forgot 'em, eh ?" " That's what I did 1 Banner brought 'em out to the barn and sot 'em down on the fanning -mill, and hitched up and never looked to pee if they was in the wagon ! Jest like Hamner a She never knowed nuthin' to begin with, and she'a knowed less every day since. Wall, if they hain't here they hain't, and Pil take a plug of tobaoker and git my bridle fixed and jog back," From the Sails go out and sails come in , Close by the headland gray, And looking down from the stately height In the full broad shimmer of summer light, I watch them on their way - Sailing; sailing away ! Out in thp morning one by ono; Home as the day grows late ; With a "Yo, heave -yo !" and " Heave yo -ho !" A sound in each word of the ocean's flow, And a heart that is strong to wait 'Gainst wind and tide ana fate ! So you in your busy life go by ' With a heart that is strong to win, With a song of cheer when stornewinds roll, Or a ready hand for a weaker nub Steady to conquer sin - As the tides go out and,in! -JEAN KATE I.AUDIA:M. No Safety for Nippers. Mr. Frederick Troves, the well-known surgeon of the London Hospital, in hie "Manual of Operative Surgery," has some striking remarks on the risks attending operations on the bodies of drunkatds. He says "A scarcely worse subject for an operation can be found than is provided by the habitual drunkard. The mortslity of these operations among alcoholics is, it is needless to say, enormous. Many individu- als who state that they 'do not drink,' and who, although perhaps never drunk, are yet always taking a little stimulant in the from of 'nips' and an 'occasioned glass,' are often as bad subjects for surgical treatment as are the acknowledged drunkards." "Of secret drinkers," continues Mr. Trey - es, "the surgeon has to be indeed aware." In his account of 'Calamities of Surgery,' Sir James Paget mentions the Case of a per- son who was a drunkard on the sly; and yet not so much on the sly but that it was well known to his more intimate friends. His habits were not asked after, and one of hie fingers was removed becausejoint disease had spoiled it. He died in a week or ten daye with spreading cellular inflanematiou. Even abstinence from alcohal for a week or two before an operation does not seem to greatly modify the result." The Story of a Kiss. The following story goes far to prove that the Austrian capital has learned judges who are as expedient as a Cadi of Bagdad in solving the difficult problems that come up before them, It was a young student named Bierogger, who, returninty home at six otolock in the morning, after a night of it, felt " all the poetry of his na- ture called into play by the enchanting ap- parition of a tblooming maiden of 19 sum- mers walking toward him on the street." Pitcher's Castoriag Why he Quit, poor things were orying ail day, and after coming home from the burial, I thought to get 'em tucked away in bed before I went oute Drunk or sober, I never struck one of them a blow, and they never ran from me when I staggered home. There's four of 'ern in there and the youngest isn't quite four years yet. I got the older ones in bed all right, and then elem.§ little Ned. He had cried himself to liege,. and he called for mother as soon as I woke him, Until that night I never had that boy upon my knee, to say nothing of putting him to bed, and you can guess these big fingers made slow work with the hooks and buttons. Every minute he kept saying mother didn't do that way, and.mother done this way, and the big children were hiding their heads under the quilts to drown their sobs. Wher. I had his clothes off and his nightgown on, I was ashamed and put down; and when the old- est saw tears in my eyes, and jumped out of bed to put her arms around my neck, I dropped the name of 'Whisky Bill' right. there and forever." "And little Ned ?" " Mebbe I'd have weakened but for him," replied the man, as he wiped his eyes. "After I had got the child's nightgown on, what did he do but kneel right down beside me, and wait for me to say the Lord's Prayer to him! Why, air, you might have knock- ed me down with a feather ! There I wet, mother and father to him, and couldn't say four words of that prayer to save my lift! He waited and waited for me to beiiiiinak his mother always had, and the big children were waiting, and when I took him in my arms and kissed him, I called'heaven to wit- ness that my life should ohttnge froirathat hour. And to it did, sir, and I've been try- ing hard to lead a sober, honeet life. God helping me, no one shall call me 'Whisky Bill' agein." The four children, little Ned in his night- gown, came out for a good -night kiss, and the boy cuddled in his father's arms and said: "Good -night, pa—good-night everybody In the world —good -night, ma, up in heaven —and don't put out the light till we get to sleep !" A Norwegian Wedding. Gordon Cumming,while travelling in Nor- way, BaW a village wedding, which he thus describes : "About fifty persona were assembled, all in holiday costume—the women in bright - colored petticoats and bodices with beauti- fully white chemisette. They were a very pleasant -looking group—the men strong, well -knit fellows, but all alike fair -skinned, with flaxen hair and kind blue eyes. The bride was a demure young woman, some- what overweighted with necklaces and bracelets, which we understand. to be heir- looms, but more especially by an immense gilt crown running up in tall points to a heightof about eight inches, and studded with many colored crystals. It is a most gorgeous head-dress, and belouge to the vil- lage. Every village is supposed to have one, which is hired for the occasion by the par- ents of the bride. All the men sat on one side and the women on the other, according to the usual customs. The parson — whose garb is a black gown, with a very large, white fluted collar encircling his throat like a Queen Elizabeth ruff—performed the simple ser- vice, in which a wedding -ring, shaped like a double heart, did duty in place of our plain circlet. There was cne feature in the ceremony which we noted with especial interest, therein recognizing a lingering trace of pre- Christmaa days. The pulpit standin the centre of a large chancel, and, at a pause in the service, all the weddiog party walked eoleinnly thrice around it in side -wise pro- cession—a pretty survival of old Norse paganism, MISS AGNES WESTON, ENGLAND. "Is that 'Whisky Bill,' the chap who used to drive the old white horse in front of an express wagon ?" asked the men, in tones of surprise. " " Well, now, itnea curious case," he slow- ly continued. " We all thought he'd gone to the dogs, for sure, for he was drinking a pint of whisky a day; but a few months ago he braced right up, stopped drinking, and now I hear he's in good business and saving money, It beats all, for the hat time I saw him be seemed half underground," When you go home at night and find that all is well with your own flesh and blood, do you go to sleep reasoning that the rest of the world must care for itself? Do you ever shut your eyes and call up the hundreds of faces you have met during the day, and won- der if the paleness of death will cover any of them before the morrow? When you have once been attracted to a face, even if it be a stranger's, do you let it drop from memory with your dreams, or do you call it up again and again as night comes dowo,and hope ,it may lose none of its brigntness in the whirling mists of time? So it Whisky Bill" wee hunted down. An inquiry here and there finally traced him to a little brown cottage on a by street. He eat on the step in the twilight, a burly, broad -shouldered man of fifty, and in the house three or four children gathered around the lamp to look over a picture -book. "Yes, they used to call ne 'Whisky Bill,' down toven,' he replied, as he moved along and made room, but it's weeks since I beard the name. No wonden they thiult me dead, for I've not set eyes on the old crowd for months, and I don't want to for months to come." "They tell me you have quit drinking. One (mold see that by your face." "1 hope so; I haven't touched a drop since February. Before that 1 wae half drunk day in and day out, and more of a brute than a man. I don't mind saying that my wife's death set me to thinking, but I did't stop my liquor. God forgive me, but I was drunk when she died, half drunk at the grave, and I meant to go on a regular spree that night. I was low down, sir, but I was no better than a brute in theme days." Aod so you left your motherless child- ren at home, and went out and got drunk ?" "No, I said I meant to, but I didn't. The i'LMIldren Cry for News Notes. —The paid admissions to the World's Fair on Tuesday were nearly one hundred and three thousand. —The steamer Majestic made ber last, voyage from Queenstown to New York in five days, twenty-one hours ancl five rniuutes. • - —Among the passengers on board the Majesticon her arrival at New York were the Thakore Sahib and hie son, Prince Lukdhirjaa —On Saturday there was a cloudburst in the vicinity of Gratz, the capital of Styria, by which property was destroyed and many lives lost. —Earthquakes were felt inseveral dis- tricts in .North Styria on Tuesday, by which several buildings were damaged, but there was no loss of life. — The Italian warship Etna has been obliged to anchor in the St. Lawreece, near Vercheres, owing to her steering apperatus refusing to work, —Mr. John R. Arnott, a prominent business man of Montreal, on Wednesday, while in a fit of deepondenoy, committed suicide by blowing his brains out. "—The New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company has decided to discontinue four of its trains each way be- tween New York and Chicago. —A fernier in Essex county has threshed 480 bushels of wheat from twelve acres. —Mr. Gladstone has announced that there will be an autumn se talon of Perlis.- ment. —Charles G. Otis, of passenger elevator fame, died at his residence in Brooklyn on Monday. —On Wedpesday £747,000 in fgold was withdrawn from the Bank of England for shipment to the United States. — It is reported that there are 100,000 men out of work in New York Gity, in- cluding both union and non-union men. —The Grand Lodge of the Oddfellows of Ontario wai opened Wednesday in Niagara Falls, Ontario. Over 400 delegates were present. The town is gaily decorated, —A. D. Baker, proprietor of the South Bend, Indiana, wagon works at Mishe.wa- kee, has assigned, Liabilities, $120,000; assets, $55,000. —Cookstown Orange lodge has passed a resolution condemning and protesting against the decision of the Supreme Grand Lodge at Sault Ste. Marie, which permits the Grand Master to euspend the warrants of subordinate lodges pausing and publishing "hasty and ill-considered ' resolutions re- flecting on officers and brethren of the asso- ciation. —Allen Trainer, a lad residing near the Grand Trunk station at Port Hope, Wednee- day undertook to hammer a cap on an old gun. The weapon was discharged, and sev- eral buckshot entered the boy's arm, splin- tering the bone. BY SPECIAL APPOrNTACIIINT, 130.A.P MASEIRS If you wish Linen to be White as Snow, Wight Soap will do it. TO AMR MAJZ0TY THIS QUEEN • • • • • • • Why, Because SUNLIGHT SOAP is perfectly pure, and contains no Injuri- ous Chemicals to injure either your clothes or your hands. Greateet care is exercised in its manufacture, and its quality's so appreciated by the public that it has the Largest Sale 2f any Soap in the World. How Can you test this? 11 you have never tried SUNLIGHT SOAP, ask those who use it what they think of it, then try itfor yourself. The re- sult will please you, and y 011 r clothes will be washed in far less time, with Less Labour, Greater Comfort, and will be whiter than they have ever been before, when you used ordinary soap. Is That not the best way to de- cide the matter? First by enquiring what the experience is of those who already US& It. Secondly, by a fair trial yourself. You are not conimitted in any way to use the soap; all we ask is: Don't Delay, try it the next washy/. g day. - time when it is necessary for her to husband het strength and resources. We do this by presenting the food to the stomach in such a form that it can be easily acted upon by the idigestive organs. It muet be digeetedeand assimilated before it can nourish the body, so it is useless to give more than cell easily ;be disposed of. From a quarter to a half ip int of liquid fool once in every tvvo hours 1i8 ordinarily sufficient. Proper Food for Invalids. i When a sick person has a temperature of 101 ° or over, he should be fed upon liquids only, writes Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in the first of her valuable papers on " Life in the Invalid'e Room" in the Ladies' Home Journal. The power of the stomach to di- gest food is impaired, and there is no use in filling it with a mass cif solid food which, in its weakened state, it is not able to take care of properly. Besides this, or because of this, there is usually little appetite, and the sufferer turna away in disgust from deli- cacies thet would seemeirresistible in days of health. It its elcommon idea that a person who lir being fed upon fluids is receiving very little nourishment, and, in fact, is in some danger of starving. Those who cherish this belief do not know that all food is converted into a liquid state before it can be absorbed into the system. In giving a sick person fluids we are only trying to save nature trouble, and to relieve her from extra exertion at a Pitcher's Castoria. Do You Know What He is Doing? Have you ever thought of what a man is doing who teaches children? You go into the workshop of the wheelwright ; he is making wheels and shafts, and you say, he is a useful man ;, or you visit the bleck• smith's shop, where you find him making pickaxes, hammers and plow -shares, end you say this men it essentiel-you raute these shilful labourers. You enter :the house of a school mester ; oblate him more profoundly. Do you know what he is ? He is manufec_.turing minds. A Good Stocking. Paper stockings are raid to be a new Ger- men invention. A Berlin shoe trade join. - nal observes that the stockings ere made of a specielly prepared impregnated paper stook, which has an extraordinary effect on perspiring feet. The Moisture is absorbed by the paper as rapidly as it is formed, and the feet remain dry and warm, while the constant temperature maintained in the shoes is said to be the greatest preventive of colds. Progress. It is very important in this age of vast material progress that a remedy be pleasing to the taste and to the eye, easily taken, ac- ceptable to the stomach arid healthy in its nature and effecte. Possesenig these quali- ties, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect laxa- tive and most gentle diuretic known. -Itch, Mange and Scratches of every kind, on hu man or animals, cured in 30 minutes by Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. Warranted by Lumsden & Wilson. --EngliAiSpavin Liniment removes all hard, of or calloused Lumps and Blemiehes from horses' Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints, Ring Bone, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save $50 by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Warrant- ed by Lumsden & Wilson. Lane's Medicine Moves the Bowels Each Day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Vigilant Care. VIGILANCE is necessary against unexpected at- tacks of summer complaints. NO remedy is so well-known or so successful in this clam of dis- eases as Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. Keep it in the house as a safe -guard. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kentp's Balsam stops the cough at once. -0-•-00---- Coughirm leads to coffin unless stopped by Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup. The best cure for Coughs, Colds and Lung Troubles, wit Messes. Dice & Co.: Your book and medicine were received some time ago but I did not use them on the horse I wrote you about, having bought another which was in much worse condition. He was a four-year-old with a "-horse all" of the worst kind and was thought in- curable ; so I thought I would try it on him. His appetite was poor, hair rough, his appearance stu- pid, in short he was all knocked out. I gave him Dick's Blood Purifier which worked like magic. Appetite is now good, hair glossy end whole appear- ance much improved. It also proved the best worm irradicator I ever used and I thank you very much. L. 0. G ALLAG HER, Trees Station, N. 13. When Baby Wail siek, we gave her Caeteria. When she was a Child, elle cried for Caeforiae When eheaberame Mims, she clung to Castorite When she bad Children, File gave them Cas torts _ A Cure for Dyspepsia. DYSPEPSIA is a prolific cause of such diseases as bad blood, constipation, headache and liver complaint. Burdock Blood Bitters is guaranteed to cure or relieve dyspepsia, if used according to di- rections. „ Thousands have tested it with best results. • You would not have had that throbbipg headache had you taken a Burdock Pill last night • History of 15 Years. • For fifteen years we have used Dr. Fowler's Ex- tract of Wild Strawberry as a family rnediOne for summer complaints and diarhoea, and we never had anything to equal it. We highly recommend it. SAMUEL WEBB, Corbett, Ontario. Rheumatism in in the Knees. SIRS, -About two years awe I took rheumatism in the knees, which became so bad that I could hardly go up and down stairs without help. All medicines failed until I was induced to try B. B. B By the time I had taken the second bottle I was greatly re- lieved, and the third bottle completely removed the pain and stiffness. • AMOS BECttATF,D, Merrisburg, Ontario. Fretful crying children should be given Dr. Low's Worm Syrup. It regulates the system and removes worms. A WONDERFUL new combinatien is R. Stark's Head- ache, Neuralgia and Liver Powders, nice to take; perfectly harmless. Mrs. Mary Keats. 88 Main street, Hamilton, says: "For years -in fact all my life -I have been troubled with severe headaches. I have tried all the remedies I could hear of, and have been treated by many doctors, but with very little filood results. ‘.A. friend recommended your Headache. Neuralgia and Liver Powders some time ago, and I have found them to be the greatest biasing to me - in faot, I can truly say are perfectly wonderful. 1 would not be without them for more than I OEM tell." Mr. Flook, station meter, Grand Trunk Railway, Hamilton says "They cured my most severe heed - aches, which I had for at least three years. Price, 26 cents a box. Sold by all medicine dealers. A Perfect Cook. A perfect cook never presents u with indigestible food. There are few perfect cooks, And consequent- ly indigestion id very prevalent. You can eat what you like and as much as you want after using Bur- dock Blood Bitten, the natural specific for indiges- tion or dyspepsia in any form. -- A sure and pleasant Tonic and invigorating tizer-Milburn's Aromatic quinine Wine. 1111. Mining News. Mining experts note that cholera never attacks the bowels of the earth, but humanity in general find it necessary to use Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw- berry for bowel complaints, dysentery, diarrhoea, etc. It is a sure cure. pPe- Good Crops and Big Sales. TORONTO, August 14. -Frank Brown, a prominent druggist of shelbourne, Ont., was in the city last week, and talked with your correspondent about the crops and buelness in tne vicinity of his home.. "Tho crops Are first-class," he said, so the farm- ers are busy In the fields and merchants consequent- ly find tbings a little dull. But there is one article on the market just now that sells more rapidly than any other preparation I ever handled, and I have put a good many through my bands. That one le Dodd 's kidney pills. Their sales never fall off.. I get them in five -gross lote, and It takes no time to get rid of that quantity. The beet of it is, every rine who has taken the pills has been benefitted by them. Nearly every man, woman and child in and around Shelbourne has used them, so I know what I am talking about. "1 Don't Want Any Dinner." Well, if you should miss a meal, all the better. Don't let anybody induce you to eat if you don't feel inclined Tell them to mind their own stomach and you'll mind yeure. The appetite will return after the digestion is made all right, and one of the safest and surest helps in that direction is & rourse ef Membray's Kidney and Liver Cure, now on sale by all druggists in Canada. 0-110— RIIEITAIATISM COTLICD IN A DAL—South American Rheumatic Cure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radi- cally cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the eye', - tem is remarkable and mysterious. It removes At once the cause and the disease immediately dieap pears. The first doge greatly benefits. 75 cents: Warranted by Lumsden & Wilson, druggists, Seaforth. How to get a " Sunlight " Picture. Send 25 "Stmlight" Soap wrappers (wrapper bearing the words "Why Does aWoman Look Old Sooner then a Man " ) to LEVER BROS., Ltd., 43 Seal St., Toronto, and you will receive by post a pretty picture, free from advertising, and well worth. framing. This is an easy way to decorate your home. The soap is the best in the niarket, and it will only cost lcpostage to send in the wrappers, if you leave the ends open. Write your address carefully. Rebecca Wilkinson, of Brownsvalley, Indiana, says: "I had been in a dietressed condition for three yeara from Nervousness, Weakness of the Stomach, Dyspepsia and Indigestion until my health was gone. I had been doctoring constantly with no relief. I bought one bottle of South American Nervias,which did me more good than any $50 worth of doctoring I ever did in n y life. I would advise) every weakly person to use this valuable and lovely remedy." A. trial bottle will convince you Warranted by Lumsden & Wilson, Druggists, Seaforth. 81\yr\r-rots\Nic••• tc"\JC)sl-LUID Indieestion, Dyspepela and Sour Stomach are calmed by the food fermenting. The result of ter- rnentation on all organtie matter must be acid. This decomposes the food (which ehould be digested) and from dcoomposition evolves gases that produce pressure on the nerves, disorganizing the system, and produc- ing various symptoms of disease. The "Curative Fluid" purifies the stomach, promotes digestion and assimilation of food, thereby creating a 'healthy: current of blood. For sale by all Druggists 50e and- , • 111. THIS PREPARATION Acts directly on the stomach And promotes the healthy acticn of the liver, WITHOUT PURGING. For Sale by All Druggists. And Wholesale by LONDON DRUG Company London, Ontario. Now's Your Chance. GREAT BARGAINS Going in the Boot and Shoe line at R KELLY'S Boot and Shoe Store, Main-st., Seaforth. DURING - THE - NEXT THIRTY DAYS Everything will be Fold at cost price, in order to make room for Fall and Winter stock. The stock on hand is all new, and congas of a complete assortment of Ladies', Gentlemen's and Children's footwear in tjhe very latest and most desirable styles. This is no catch -penny, but a reality. All are cordially invited to come and inspect the stock at 1=?,_ Boot and Sho6 Store, opposite Rich- ardson & McInnis', and next door to Constables bather shop. 1338 WE DYE All kinds of fabrics on our own prem- ises. We don't have to send them out of town. WE CLAN Faded and soiled clothing to look like new. Bring along your dresses and suits before the rush sets in. We always do a good job, and we do it CHEAP. All you have to do to get to our place is to Follow the Pointers On Market Street from the corner of Main Street. J. W. SNELL, HighStreek Seaforth,next door to T.Iiiddt r ditr ,R• A