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The Huron Expositor, 1898-08-26, Page 79 aart....a•- „ is a bar:. hoe, be eed ped -• AFORTH. e moon stood stilt if the earth where Would rise in ouer nosite side of the !mailer bulk. The sides of the earth - ipeare tibia would" t many. portions of 1(1 belooded, and a but the shape of 1, outside obaervere 'don would remain. ntour would apphar- greater end being eon and the point e I.:ester:14 relieved by • rRILLTsu HEADACHE ti ree for 103, ten for ragraphs. Met believe in hick. he always a place of 'iding sometimea draw better houses, What, to say - sup - look like animated le plot frequently energy, but short ilia in a mirror he- ero. hardeat to obtain. lent. er so happy as when- ilments. heroine is found be rer marry.= netimes aceidentally they are silk, rde first wife nearly oubles htt has with era bad as they are :s are not as bail some people's mad - hod never yet saved: ost awkward things, n throwing a atone a baby. ihat all women are perience with one a to him. e always grumbling' d consider it an in - offer them 'a. jobe every woman thinks weee aong, but •later,. to a noisy pair of :renttune. • bowels ie necessary ta ,L8 are the beat °cease generatuse. Price 2.5o. nyitation. en' said Miss Cutting, s about to depart, 1 one- more evening neve into our ntlit r you, M iss Cutting,' s-waye when doeYoll to the exact date,' a worleraen begari ex- yesteeday and papa fiaished in about IS. • ainat affaira should bat .as :well as hie, ess has no possible • aince she is not tia. Yet some have iyinan as a guest it. to ask e blessing' oil are an unbeliever; Inucheon or dinner es Before the time at a moment late. calls upon -a family ier of ladies will not leave his card for arriesto any per - gift -great or trifl- e) you are self -con - les of etiquette. aiict erves wine da not a are a white rib- enereeptibfe motion yen refuse it, and for your golden eepeat hie visit de whene he has once im to come again an `e a successful hostess, med upon the prize- ey. Reed t the best. tetaturee 1. Fast ill never understand' of the American,. telt (vacations its that ein as having beem in the British Mae- ihited an Egyptian- llong upon the an- igyptian process Of ; and at last the- e dead ?" according to a letter - 'at. Paul's Cathedral • thus to an Amerie nb -of the greatest e whole world ever rib of Lord Nelson: ne weighs forty-two, a steel 'receptacle erd hillside that is a illy sealed, weighing is a zrudogany coffin great 'wad' akee, after reflecting nenie got him. he- 3legraph me At MY -r- AUGUST 264-1898, _ • nee- - "'dittedittinitieensitteres .....siettersee < rtt • PUL UiT txposiToit. „ •S=" Leav Wiwil 01 WIRICP So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of ege and declining power. No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless it may seem, you confidently expect leaves again. And why? Because there is life at the roots. So you need not worry about the falling of your hair, the threatened departure of youth and beauty. And why? Because if there is a spark Of life remaining in the rOots the hair • AVER'! NAIR VIGO will arouse it into healthy activ- ity. The hair, ceases to come out: it begins to grow. and the glory of your youth is restored to you. • We have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. The Beat Adele* Free, If you do -not nbtain all the beeefits you. expected. frora the use of the Vigor, write the doctor about it. Probably there is some, difficulty with Your Ile.* +nal system which may be easuy removed. Address. DR. J. 0. AYER, Lowell, ilealre. _ te e • -„,TATICAZI iitolr41 r 01-4; 1-41P1 m41 Our dict connections will save you time and money for all points. Canadian North- West . Vier Toronto oi Chicago, British Columbia and -California points. Our rates are the lowest. We have them to suit ever/hi:lay and PULLMAN TOUR- ' IST CARS for your accommodation. Call for further information. Grand Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and. Cliaton stations aa follow& : Gorse Wear- SEAPORTEL 12.40 P. M. Passenzer.... Mixed Train ... - Mixed Train...a. Gorso EAST - Passenger.. .. 7.65A. er.• Passenger.. .. -a 3.1! P. M. Mixed Traia_. .. 6.20 P. M. 10.12 e. M. 9.70 A. M. 6.1&P. M. Cauerox. . 12.55 P. re 10.27 P. M. 10.15 A. M. 7.05 P. 51 • 7,40 A.M. 2.55 P. M. 4.85 P.51. • Wellington, Grey ,and Bruce. Gone° Mane- . Ethel. , Brussels,. - Bluevale.. tea Wingham • -00E01 BOUTE(- 1Vinghara ....... Bluevale • Brussels .-. Ethel........... - Passenger. 10.04 r. a. 10.16 ' 10.28 10,43 Passenger. ..... 6.50 A. ea 7.00 7.16 ..... 7.28 London, -Goma Morn - London, depart Centralia...-. Exeter.. . • .. .. Hensall- ...• Kippen. . ...... r Brumfield .. - . Clinton - Mixed. - 1.40 P M. 2.10 2.45 3.05 Mixed. 8.66 A. M. 917 9.46 10.02 Huron and Bruce. Londeebora .... Winghain arrive...-. .. -Some fileuen- • Witigham, depart......... Blyth . Londesboro.............. Brueefield ....... RSnsaIL.. Exeter . . Centralia., London, The 014 FA:enianis Story. i_ria a garbargivhelari.now, but 1111 never. forget Twenty years ago, so lanes's, me 1 how swift time's flight 1 • raver thought I'd be living -aye, I often think of it Yet. When a man has searsike these, tad, le he likely to forget 'Twits midnight, aye, and stormy -ye gods, how hard it blew ! And the snow it almost blieded as through the streets we flew. The bright, rd eky to the eastward toll ue the fieni had hold : And I thought of the hom.less mortals oat this night In the cold. Passenger. 8.15 A M. 4.45 P.M. 9.18 6.55 9 30 6.07 9.44 6 18 9.60 6.26 9.58 6.33 10.15 6.65 10 33 7.14 10.41' 7.28 10 66 • 7 57 11.10 e 8 00 Paseenger. 6.63 A.M. 3.30 P. M. 7.04 8.45 . 400 7.16 7.24 4./0 747 30 806 4.50 8.17 4.69 8.24 6.04 8.88 6.16 8.50 5.25 9.60 s. u 620 „ - IT ' S We soon were there and fighting with all our might and main. But it seemed that our utmost efforts would only prove in vain. How the mighsy coeffsgration roared in (Wog , might, And the filmes leaped notching round us as if ivith mai delight ! Then a ory arose -a woman at the window was seen . to atand In wild detester, and stir:eking at the creed ehe waved her hanci, Beane said 'twee only faney, but we coon had/ t- lad- der raided, , And a thousend terroastrieken eyes on that windorf I was helt way tie the Mier when the cry of teespti rang clear ; et, I looked Molt at the window, euro that be 4ould appear; There, white es snow an arm was harming .over sill, Ar d tt . sight of it so fretless rent to mt heart a ohUl. My God, how slow I'm going ! Will I ever get there !" I thought The smoke and the heat sera out stifling wave after wsve go hot I pulled her out to the ladder -too lute ! eh, tro 14e, ehe is dead ! But her lips moved in a wIdtp3r, "My babe" was 411 ehe said. My comrade gently bere her down to the street below ; I looked at the setokine window, and sernethiner whispered " Go. Oa my bands and knees I started, and I soon vies at the door ; Aid near the filmes were coming up through the Watt's and floor. Groping arouod I Lund the mother's preelats child; For nue ory of snarls rang out on the air so wild, The fire Ives all :mune me ; I Wes losing my senses fast; Singed and biuised and blistered I reached the wire dow at hutt. I get on th ladder somehew ; I theeght would surely tall; The only thing that roused me was my contherlee oheering call. eet down unsupported, with the babe in my arms held tight I gwe it a Bran:Ian's shelter, and it elm through the much all right-. I saw it shortie tfter ; it a snowy wee oot it ley ; First it looked m my face in wonder, then miles be- gan topia). Oh, how try heart went to it ; I had suffered its life to save, nd the motherless mite repaid me with the inno- cent stales it gave. Ale yes I see her often; such a beautiful lass she grew; I don't think there another living eo gentle and good and true; As she lay in, the cot there smiling, she got into toy heart someway ; I curled her home to mother ; she is living and well , to -day. Her rcother, a bonny creature, never epeke in life Wein They tried every means to revive her, but all was in Now I vnaeinvel r leek at her child, but that whaper, " my tsetse," I hear. And light and love coming Betiding my aged heart to cheer. • -Aerator BTRON DAVIDRON. • • Peaceful Brown. • Farmer &own was a firm believer in ar- bitration, a soft answer, and the. other con- comitants of peace. For a long time Brown was sorely tried by one Peters, • who was • wont to pasture his cows in Brown's fields. The idea of providing a pasture of his own seemed never to enter the head of the guile- less Peters. His stock was of what may be described as the battering-ram breed, and the fence which they could not bunt down tohveeyr.ieieher crawled through or jumped For several years Brown made only the mildest of protests to Peters as he drove the marauding beasts back to their home. Other neighbors advised various things, ranging from a suit at law to A -sound thrasbing,to all of which Shown turned the ear of deafness. Bat his hour came at 1a34. He was one day driving home the Peters herd of predatory -bovines when he; met a wayfaring man who asked, for wiirle. Ae idea struck Farmer Beown. " Yes," he " can give you a job. I'm just starting to drive these ca.ttle •to market at Dawningville. You go on with them while I sad nide up and follow on horseback. Got some little chores to do,and may not catch you for a while but you get right along. Boundeto overtake you some time. If I shouldn't just round them up at the station and wait." • The, man trudged off,driving the cows before him, whilieBrown returned to his potatoes. It was sixteen miles to Downingville aid when, three -days after, Peters gathered to- gether his cows about the purlieus of Down- ingvillen and drove them sadly home, he resolved then and there to testablish'a pas- ture. The Canada Business College CHATHAM, ONTARIO, -Still leads its contemporaries in placing ,pupils. • 134 of our pupils were placed. in choice positions in the 10 months ending July 1st, an average of- nearly 4 per week. What -do you think of it? It Pays to Attend the Best. College re -ens for the fan term on 'Tuesday, September 6th. . Write for catalogue of either department -to D. MeLACHLAN & Co. Chatham, Oot • Ws N. Watson, SEAFORTH, 'Fire and Life Insurance Agent, Houses to Rent, Real Estate Agent Dealer in the 'RAYMOND and WHITE family and manu- facturing Sewing Machines. All kind of Sewing Machines• repaired. Chargeg moderate. Agent for the .. WHITE AND GODERICH BICYCLES. • First -Class Wheels in Every Respect. .P.EZTOMS - TRaG-11`±`• 1580-52 Money to Loan. Any amount of money to lean on good farm pro- perty, at 6 per cent. per annum Straight Imre, payments made to suit borrower, tatitfaction guar- anteed, chargeslow. At oilier thiday afternoon and all day Saturday. ABNER CO3EINTS, McDonald Block, Wingham. 1587 -- slaveholding elesses•As well known; its W. Chase 5 effeets1 are deemeemble throughout the is - l• and and cannot be eradicated until at leart one generatiou after- the abolition- of the intment... Endorsed by Dr. C. A. . Harlan of the Aman Journal of Health t system haiepassed away. For many, years Cubs, in common, with other Webb t India Wands, enjoyeda monopoly of supplying a large part ofthe world with eugr,= and the profits, accruing were , enormous. By the sugar industry families of great wealth- and influence were built up. For a time the civilizstion ef Cuba was in many respects far in advance" of the United Stater. The dwellings 'both in the cities and on the sugar estates' were in many in- stahees palatial, the fnillishings and-fittinga gorgeous in the extreme, and the use of sil- ver for all domestic utensils was •quite com- mon. Thus there existed in the island what might, be termed a barbsrio civiliz- ation; at compared with what is known as a mdee domestics cizilization in this country. The line between the rich end, the poor was sharply drawn. . The disaffected and restless citizens of the bland to -day are, to a great extent, the descendants of those rich famil- ies who, by reation of their profligacy, in- dolence, and neglect, have become almost extinct as a power in the land. There are, • however,- a few noteble exceptions. The palatial resideecee end large estates remain; but the families, if in possession at all, ex- ist only in name. Their fortunes. were dis- sipated in Havana, New York, Saratoga, Paris, and Madrid. The present generation of those families are profligate, idle, and more or less vicious, and, in consequence, a dieturbing element in the island. . New Note's. -A petition is being circulated in Wood- stock asking for a Government inspection of the town books. -It is announced that Lieut. -Col. Mani.' lum, Governor of Lagros, West Africa, Will succeed Sir Herbert Murree as Governor of Newfoundland. -Mount Vesuvius is now in a state- of eruption from a new crater. The eruption is ,euppoised to be connected with the seis- mic -disturbances felt at Mesainit and Southern Italy. -The cholera is epidemic in Madras. Between Monday morning and Friday night there were 55 deaths from the disease, the fatalities prior to the day first mentioned Laving beeu 117. -Vigorous measures have been taken to place the sea forts of Copenhagen in a state of military efficiency. It is supposed that thitc measures are due to fears of a conflict between Great Britain and Russia,. -Police Magistrate Parke, of London, has ordered that 3,500 copies of an allegcd medicinal wail, seized by the police as ob- scene literature, should be burned. The books are valued at between $2,000 ands $3,000. -The oity of Kam', capital of, the Gov- ernment of the same name, on the river Kazanski, was threated with destruction by fire. The flames were fanned by a strong • wind. Several large factories, the arsenal, barratiks, and a hundred other buildings -are in ashes. t -Mr. T., L. Pardo, M.P.P., of Kent, has soiid his year's crop of wheat -some 3,000 Wallas -0 the big mill at Blenheim. So - far as delivered it has tested on an average 63 pounds to the bushel. The yield from one field of nine acres -averaged 46li bushels rer acre. • -A most dieastreus fire visited Madoc abut one o'clock Sunday morning. The "fire started in the Windsor hotel stabli which were consumed, together .with the ' hotel, several business blocks, residences and the Methodist church. The total loss by the fire amounts to about 5O,000. . • -George McDermott, a life-long resident - of Brockville', was taken suddenly ill while at -work. He sat down on the kerb to re- vive, and in ten minutes was dead, h: -art disease being the cause. McDermott was 5ft years of age,- and leaves a widow and two, NOT A PATENT MEDICINE . • • . ASIA He says :-Among 'the proprietary medicines re- cognized is Dr. Chase's Ointment, compounded by Dr. A, W. Chase Medicine Co., Buffalo, N.Y., and, Edmansone Bates & Co, • Toronto, as a remedy for Piles, Eruptions and Eczematic Skin Diseases, for which it has been used Witheriarked success and has effected remarkable cures. It is not the practice„of the Medical -Profession indiscriminately to use pro- prietary medicines, but there are hundreds of phash clans throughout this country who are using Dr. Chase's Ointment in their practice. We handed out during the last month 2,700 boxes of free samples of Dr. Chase's Ointment, and the thankful results have been something astonishing. Here is what oneof the cures says: • Mn. O. P. Sr. knee 246 Shaw St., Toronto, in his Piles, at ernes being unable to sleep for the annoy- ance caused "lar them. After trying almost every remedy known, T. was induced to try Dr. Chase's Ointment, and can say one box entirely cured me, I cannot speak too highly of it, and have recommended Ir to several of my friends, all whom have Wee cured by its use. 111,41.94.6411•N exist in large quantities. A great, merged ous swamp, rarely visited, is located in an almost inaccessible region, inhabited, ac- cording to native accoutits, by enormous crocodiles, serpents and venomous reptiles. Theinhabitants are described as a gentle, kindly, lazy race, who know absolutely nothing of the outside world. But all its advantages and natural wonders are offset by the presenee ef enormous swarms of in- sects and vermin, whose attention to strangers makes life '' -intolerable. Nothing yet invented can keep them off. These countless biting, stinging, blistering pests abotind everywhere, but at night they reign supreme, and may possibly account for the treasures of the island remaining undevelop- ed, 'It is said that if Cuba and Porto Rico would have employed the insects and. vermin of the Ids of Pines they would have easily bidden defiance to the invading arm- ies of the United States. • • ANXIOUS MOTHERS find DR. LOWtt WORM SYRUP the best medieinato expel worms. Children like it -wore don't. • • Willie's Plan. It was in the house of a Dissenting fam- ily. "This pie is excellent, Sister' Smith," said little Willie atahe supper table, ad- dressing his mother with unctuous solemn- ity ; and then, after a pantie, he repeated the statement-" This pie is excellent, Sister Smith !" " Whet trick are you up to now, Willie?" asked the mother in sur- prise. "No trick- at all," answered the boy. "That's what the minister says, and he always gets another piece." • Two Ways. Mrs. Honeymoon-" Here is an item in the pa,per saying that in some parts of Aus- tralia, when a man marries, each one of the bride's relatives strikes him with a stout stick, by way of welcome into the family.. Queer sort of an idea, isn't it ?" Honeymoon (feeling an extra lump on' his head)-" Huh I don't see that it 'is any queerer than slinging all their old shoes at him as they do in this country." • letter states: I su tered for some years from Itching . - HAGYARD'S YELLOW OIL cures all pain in man or beast ; for epraine, outl, bruises, callous 1u pe, swellinge, infiatinnatione .theumstism aid neuralgia . Itis a specific. Fun. I -It was an afternoon tea and the crush was simply horrid. It seemed nothing would save the few men preaent, when one quick-witted womau exclaimed, "Ladies, please remember there are gentlemen in the crowd ! it was all that preserved. the poor things from a horrible fate, -A Scottiah minister, who was indefatig- able in looking up his flock, one day waited upon a parishioner and said to him : "Rich- ard, 1 hae na seen ye at the kirk for some time and wad like to know the reason." " Weel, sir," answered Richard, "1 hae three decided abjectiens to goin'. Firstly, dinna believe in being whaur yin does a' the talkin' ; secondly, I dinna believe in sae muckle eingin' ; an' thirdly, an' in conclus- ion, 'MN there I got my wile." The min- ister was dumb. A Beautiful Spot, But One of the most .remarkable possessions that will fall to the United States among the spoils of war is the Isle of Pines, off the southern shore of Caba. Bat for one draw- back, this little island would be the -mese delightful sanitarium on earth, at it is one of the most beautiful and wonderful in many respects. Unlike Cuba, it possesses a dry, salubrious climate, the soil is exceedingly fertile, though little cultivated. Owing to its protected position it is surrounded by a generally placid sea. Its hills are clothed with forests of pine, the resin from which • loads the air with perfume. Ths- southern coast line is bold and rugged, bat the val- leys within are of surpassing beauty. But what has made it most fan -Roue are the medi- cinal springs which abound everywhere, and bath's of whose curative qualities wonderful stories are told. There is a little trade in huh and crude products, but silver, quick- • silver, sulphur awls, fine quality of marble UNABLE TO WALK. • A Distressing Malady Cured by the Use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. his term of enliatment expired ; he was ex- pected home. ' But about this time the war with Spain broke out, and he re-enlisted for service in Cuba, without kequainting his parents with hie intention. He wrote,how- • ever, from Tampa just before the transport sailed for Cebae 4 • -A fang accident occurred on the Grand - Trunk track about four miles below Corn- wall, Saturday morning. •Mri Michael Purcell, a wealthy farmer, brother of the late Mr. Patrick • Purcell, ex -M. P., the Glengarry millionaire, had been Visiting a farm which he owns near. the railway, and was retutiling to his residence on the river front with some cattle. Mr. Purcell and oac of his men were driving in a light wag- gon with a team, and another man Was in front driving the 'cattle. They waited at the railway crossing for a train to pals, but failed -to see a train coming in the opposite direction, which struck the waggon carry- ing Mr, Purcell a considerable distance, where he was picked up frightfully mangled. The other mau esoaped by jumpiug. -A remarkable episode causing much in - Wrest in Kingston was the birth of four children to Mrs. W. Bowman, of that cit=y. The event, occurred about noon. The last to enter the world was still -born ; two are boys, and two girls. The boys are lusty, Bald the attending physician says they will live. Mrs. Bowman has had five children within a year. She is a small woman. The father of the quadruplets is a fireman on the steamer Columbian of the Richelieu and Ontario Company. He is a poor man, and the increate in his family on Sunday will, • indeed, be a surprise to hirn, as he was on • the vessel at Montreal. Rev. Father O'Brien christened the babies, calliog one Jemes Vincent, after the Lite archbishop, another Michael James, after Father Mag - her, and the gill Mary, after the baptising priest's mothetd, A guard had to be kept on the door keep away °Udine persone. The little people are active and have • dark hair and eyes, and the whole collection weighed 17 pounds. The family live in two roome. The wife is thrifty and clean. The infants werecertainly very pretty, and Mrs. Bowman will have some beautiful children if they are spared. From the Hartland, N. B., Advertner. Right in our own village is reported another of the remarkable cures that make Di. Wil- liams! Pink Pills so popular throughout the land. The casein that of Mrs.. E. W. Mil- lar. The Advertiser interviewed her hus- liana, who was glad to relate the circum- stances foe publication, that others might read and have a remedy put into their hands as it were. "For five yeans," said Mr. 1i11ar, "my wife was unable to walk without aid. Oae physician diagnosed her case at coming from a spinal affection. Other doctons called the malady nervous prostration. -Whatever the trouble was she was weak and nervous, Her limbs had no strength and could not support her body.. There aleewas a terrible weakness in her back. Three months age she could- not walk, but, as a last report, after trying many medicines, she began to use De. Wil- liams Pink Pill.. Improvement was noted in a few days, and a few weeks has done wonders in restoring her health. To -day she eau walk without assistance. You can imagine her delight as well as my own. We owe her recovery to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and I recommendethent for any case of nervous weakness or general debility." 'Mr. Millar is part owner and manager of one of our lumber mills, and is well known throughout the county. .Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves'thus driving disease intim the sys- tem. Avoid imitations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed in a wrapper bearing the full trade mark, Dr. Pink Pills for Pile People. LIQUORS DRUG HABITS PERMANENTLY CURED 'Without publicity or loss of time from business, by a purely vegetable, harmless home treatment. Immediate results. Normal appetite. Calm sleep • and clear brain. No injections orbad after effects. Indisputable testimony sent sealed. Address et HE DIXON CURE CO., 40 Park Ave., Montreal • Has Spain a Future. Probably the greatest blessing that can befall Spain will be the loss of all her colon- ies. TheY, 'have been the source of her troubles, the cause of her national decline. They have brought - the curse of gold upon her. They have diverted the energies and expenditures of her people from her own needs at home. Spain has magnificent in- ternal resources as yet undeveloped. Let the energies of her people once be , directed within, and they will. -understand 'what ob- stacles have blocked theway so long. Re- forms will- follow. Abuses will be swept away. Popular- enlightenment will come. With the passingiof Spain's colonial might will dawn the renaiscence of Spain. 11 -F. A. Leach, superintendent of the United States mint in San Francisco, esti- mates that the gold output of the Klondike this year has been only about $5,000,000. The receipts at the Sen Francisco miut have amounted to about $1,750,000 sine the first arrival of Yukon gold a few weeks ago. -Wm. Wye, a laborer, was killed at Lynden, Ontario, the other evening. lie was werking at threshing with a farmer named Wm. Coverdale, and went into the mow to continue work. In wine manner he slipped and fell right into the cylinder of the thresher • being instantly killed and hor- ribly mangled. -Secretary Long has - tabled Admiral Sampson and Admiral Dewey and other naval commarders that the peace protocol has been signed and to cease hostilities. Secretary Alger bas cabled orders to all military commanders that the protocol of peace has been signed= and to cease hostili- ties. -Serious trouble in the interior of Al- aska is apprehended by' the .United States Government. Food riots are feared at Fort Yukon and other up -river points, growing out of the failure of the transpori tation companies to get supplies in there on the prevailing low water. A military Gov-. ernment will be established at Fort Yukon las soon as. possible. -Eliakim Huff, one of the oldest and best-known residents of Napaneee died very suddenly Sunday morning of last week. Deceased was in his usual health on Satur- day, and although in the neighborhood of 80 years, he walked a few miles in the coun- try on Saturday. Shortly after returning home in the evening he was stricken with paralysis, passing away without regaining consciousnees. -Lord Mayor Davies, of London,, who is accompanied by Miss Davies, Bourke Roche, M. P., and W. J. Soulelby, C. B.' on his arrival on this continent will proceedto the Pacific coast by way. of Canada. . The pai‘ty will visit San Francisco and return by way ot Chicago. On their ' way they will investigate the charities of several cities, on which subject Miss- Devies is com- piling a volume. -Mrs. Bugle • Fiddle, • of North Gower - township, near Kemptville, cominitted suicide on Friday evening about 8 o'clock. She made an attempt once before within the peat year. She effected the job by hanging herself to the knob of the door in the house with a "cheese -cloth while all the other menibers of the family were out milk- ipg. She was about, 65 years Of age, and leaves a husband and a large family of children. -e-A writer of many books, and a regular contributor to the relignens press,has passed away in the person of Mr. James Ewing Ritchie better known by his pen -name '1 Christopher Crayon." Mr. Ritchie tet -as 78 years of age. His writiogs were for the most part biographies and travel books. Onaof-hie biographies had nativist distince tion conferred upon it. It was "The Life and Times of -Mr. Gladstone , " and the Sui- ten of Turkey ordered it tohe burned. = In 1885 Mr. Ritchie aspired to Parliamentary -honors. He stoodas Liberal Unicnist can- didate for Henson], but was not successful. • As to commercial prosperity, that should continue upon truer lines under the new conditions. Spanish commercial interests in Mexico are now on a healthier basis than they have been in Cube for long years Past, for in the daughter state they are not pam- pered by favoritism and privilege. Inde- pendent intercourse with the severed colon- ies will continue, and: lines of trade will, shape themselves naturally and legitimately: Ancient rancor will gradually disappeir and' t‘paniale commercial energy may be depends ed upon to secure room for its exercise., Spain, regenerate, will be the mother coun- try for the nations of ultramar that speak her tongue, in the same regard that Eng-, land is mother to lands in the seven seas, and will stand second .only to England in the number of her children. -From " Span- ish Traits and the New World," by Sylves- ter Baxter, in the American Monthly Re- viewhif .Reviews for August. • Wealth in Cuba. • Oagood Welslean American sugar -grower, has an illuetrated article in the .August Century on-" '; ba as seen from the inside," Mr. Welsh says: Of late a great deal has been said- and 'written about Cuba, but in nearly all cases the accounts are colored and poorly digest- ed. It roust be remembered that slavery existed all through the island, and was totally abolished only in the year 1886. The STUMPY CELEBRITIES. Many Notable Characters Have Been Short In Stature. Socrates was stunapy, also St. Paul and Alex der the Great, great only as a, war- rior. In tature both he and his far more In- tellectual father, Philip of Macedon, scarce reached middle height. In this regard we. may rank them with the famous Spartan general, A.'gesilaus; with .0t11a, the. "scourge of God" -'---broad shouldered, thickset, sinewy, short; with Theodore II, king of the Goths,hof whom Cassiodorus, Writes, "He is rather short than tall, some- what stout, with shapely limbs alike lithe strong." Actins, too, commander ht chief of the Roman troops and prop of the tottering Roman empire in the days of Valentinian, was a man of love stature, therein resem- bling Thbour the Tartar, self described as • a "puny, lame, decrepit little wight, though lord of Asia and terror of the world;" also the great Conde and bis pyge rny contemporary, Marshal Luxembourg, nicknamed "The Little" by those who ad' mired him for making Louis XIV Louis the Great, who, by the bye, less his high heeled shoes and towering wig, idwindlea to about 5 feet 6 Indies. But even thus -pared down to the Wage nature gave him he was a giant con3paxed with Sir F-rancis Drake ancliwIth Admiral Keppel -"Little Koppel," as every sailor in the fleet fondly= dubbed him from pure love and admiration. . When Keppel -a commodore at 24 -was sent to demand an apology from the dey of Algiers for an insult to the British -flag, • he took so higfr a tone that the dey ex - (debited against the inselence •of the Brit- ish king for charging 'a "beardless boy" with such a message 40 him. Replr the heartless boy, "Were n3y master w nt to take length of beard for a test of wisdom he'd have sent your deyship a he goat." Oliver Cromwell, Claverhouse and Me- hemet Ali .ust be content take if mto out in brains, for they all lacked inches. Two of these great names naturally suggest that of another famous soldierand usurper, Napoleon Bonaparte, "Le Petit Caporal," - as his men lovingly called him, stood about 5 feet (French) in his stookingi, say 5 feet 6 inches (English). - In stature the Iron Duke beat him about. six inches, while the 5 feet 4 inclie,s of Nel- son place 'him midway or thereabouts be- tween tho victor and the victim of Water- loo. -Pittsburg Dispatch. _Dr, J. W. Slaven, of Toronto, last week received the sad news of the death of hia Eon, J. W. Maven, in the- battle of Santiago, which was fought on July 1st. His regiment, the 7th infantry of the United Staten army, it was seen through the papers, bore -the brunt of the battle. "Jack Steven," as his his friends knew him, was in his twenty-eighth year, educated in Orillia'and afterwards spending some time at SnMichaelis College, Toronto. About eleven years ago he engaged -in ranching ia Alberta district. He thea enlisted in the Northwest Mounted Police for five years, returning home to Orillia in 1895, °leaving again for Buffalo, and enlisting in the Americanarmy, spending about three years demoralizing influence of slavery neion the m Texas and New kexico. While there THE VALUE OF FRESH AIR. The admitted advantage of an outdoor life in many morbid conditions and nota- bly in consumption seems to point to the conclusion that there is something defi- nitely injurious in the indoor life which is now the common mode of existence ationg civilized people.It is a striking and star- tling thing that 'the mere removal of a pa- tient into the open air should lower hie fever, should remove his night sweats and :take away his hectic, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that if these symp- toms are removed by the purity of the air, outside they must have been largely caused" by the impurity of the air within the house. Nor have we any right to assume that it le the consumptive only Wlio suffers. ,Doubtless the healthy struggle ' against • and overcome evil influences before which • those whit are tuberculosis succumb, but that is not to say 'that in the struggle we do not suffer, and, indeed, the facts re- cently brought forward are sufficient to • show that the stuffy life of warmth and ,00mfort which civilized man now "en- joys" is bad for the health even of the healthiest. We make our windows fit, we pad our doors, we shiver at a draft, -we surround ourselves with woolen curtains, dusty carpets and fluffy, luxurious uphol- stery, we breathe the same air over and, Something Which Should Not Be Taken • In Little Daily DOCOI• George Noun North Antertdinelts- view. Ceen Alford t.• Have Cow. ".T11116 after President MoltInhers fte. auguration he had his relatives who were In the city at a family dinner at the White House," says The Ladies' Home Journal. "It was a large company and a very good dinner'. Dear old Mother McKinley was there, but she was not very talkative. She was too happy for words. But she kept a sharp eye On the dinner, and no detail of It escaped her. She was impressed by the quantity of cream served with the fruit and ooffee, for she looked up at her son in her sweet way and said: " 'William you must keep a cow now.' • "Some of the younger men-ibers of the family party found it difficult to suppress a smile, but the president, with his usual ' tact and graciousness, replied: "'Yes, mother, we can afford to have a • cow now and have all tho cream we can possibly use/ " N'unny Blights. Elisha (inclined to be facetious) -I'm getting to be pretty. bald, aren't I? Ppm° you'll have to out my hair for about half price, hereafter, eh? Tonsorial ixtist-Oh, no, sirl We al- ways charge double when we have to hunt Lor the hair 1 -Boston Traveler. Some years ago W. H. Brown chief en- gineer of the Pennsylvania railroad, was introduced to a clergyman as the grea,teet bridge builder in the country. "Oan you build a bridge to eternity" asked the cler- gyman. "Yes, if you eau furnish the abutments." was the prompt reply. Lion tamers as a rule prefer lions to lionesses and dislike a troop of both sexes mixed.. In such cases the danger of enter- ing the den is quadruPled, and mischief is pretty sure to result sooner or later. . The v arious countries of the world now use 1g,400 different kinds of postage stain ps. ALWAYS READY FOR WAR. England's Rapidity In Preparing For Of- fensive or Defensive Action. It can no longer be said that Great Brit- ain is unprotected. Th,e coast defenses were- never more complete or efficient. Right around Our shores stretch these many defenses, not isolated and therefore of lit- tle account,- but forming a linked protec- tion, with the telegraph or telephone at hand to respond at naval headquarters in London to the slightest warning, and from Whitehall there branch off private wires to the great arsenals of Portsmouth, Dav- enport, Chatham and Sheerness. A few words from any point on the coast, be it -an isolated coastguard station or a lonely guardship, may in an hour or . two have led to orders of 'national import being flashed over sleeping towns and vil- lagos to the naval commainder-in-chief at the coast, and before the outside World knows of tinponding danger all the ma- chinery of defense )4 -ill be in readiness for lin emergency. That this is no exaggera- tion Mon) may .judge who - remember the imety commissioning of the particular service squadron in January, 1896, when the German emperor's ill judged telegram to President Kruger set England ablaze • with anger. I3efore even The Times announced., the decision of the government to form this new squadron, "to do anything_ and go anywhere," as Mr. Coschen explalued, the t' felon:le-1i instruments at Whitehall had rigorously ticking, and, unknown to tl:c ;mini°, the admirals at Chatham, Portsmouth and Devon pint had had their eiders. 1y the tin3e the world was awake the ireparations .,for commissioning the ships lied conimencod, and in a few dans a 'squadron of powerful Modern -vessels was fitted out _andi ready for any tisk: When.the necessity :Irises, no less prompt- ly will the matiduery of defense be again , put to the Jest', possibly on a more exten- si ve scale. -Chat a bers' .Journal. • • ClIttlle TB-43th • Is hsrd .on the betel. e. Thousands die tinnually from Di whoa& who might be saved by Dr. Fowlers Extract of Wild Strawberry. It cures all bowel eorn- • plants of children ore -adults. -85o at all dealers. •reel • ere HAGYARD'S PECTORAL BALSAM has no me polder for Couges, Colds, throat and lung trouble/rot young or old. Pleasant to take. Price 25e. hfILBURN'S \STERLING HEADACHE POWDERS cure headaches quick, and leave no depressing after effects. Prim lec, ani Mo., at all dealers. ' -4041 elk . A Clear Skin. No ane can have a skin clear and free from bleat' isle whose blood is impure. Burdock Wood 'Bitters purifies the blood and removes pimp!es and all kinds of eruptions, leaving the skin clear and smooth. over again, and then we wonder that wed are not Strong and vigorous. The fact is we are daily using up the ex- uberant vitality with which nature has provided tui ip struggling against artificial conditions. How powerful for evil, how deteriorating these conditions are, is shown by the fat that thbir mere reinoval gives • back to the consumptive- that vitality which enables hien -to .overcome the seeds ' of disease within hi,m. Fresh air is not a thing to be takenin. little doses once a , day, but a thing to'llveon.-London Hos- pital . • , The Eskimo's o'Huskie." The wild dog, uninfluenced at all by u - sedation with man, is typical of nothing but the wolf, and in the circumpolar ice -he is found in numbers roving over the fields of snow and tee, frequently in com- pany with the wolves. The Eskimos have taken their wildicreatures and by a rude process of selection and training they have developed the "huskie," a colloquial ab- breviation of the word Eskimo. These animals represent a type of dog but little iernoved from the wolf -hardy, vicious, swift of foot and keen of eye. = They have been trained to haul sledge loads of goods aoross the snow and ice, and this comes as natural thithem now as for a pointer to point. The* possess the blood of the wolf, however'in their veins -the taint of the jackal,- At the first opportunity they will run away and join the wild dogs and de-- terloeate =Win lee their commanv.-- a. Gananoque's Popular Baker. Mr. Lawrence O'Neill, the well known &sprinter of the "Staff of Lifer nancque have co nuenserdeeseld.im,l,burnti Heart and Netve Pilet, and can huG1.4._, Out., says: : mend them for heart troubles and •. A Kidney Blockade. Is a serieus thing for the whole body, ani calls de Backaohe, Worry, Ble- er for speedy relief. Doa4111ipKidney Pills break up any kidney blockade, and beteg, Bright's Dieease, U.inary treubles and -Bled- deemeaknete. , Toronto Firemen Testify. M. McCartney, Lembard street Eire Hall, Toronto, dated March 4th, 1897, states :--" Am subject to Very peinful conditions of cestivenersand other t•oulets resulting therefrom, but I am glad' to say that I have found a perfect remedy in • Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills. I trust this may be of benefit to othrrs." AND AUGHTER . Lydia A. Fowler Blectrie Street, Ariherst,N.S., testifies ‘o the good'effeets Of the new epecific for all heart and nerve troubles: • " For •some time past I have been troubled with a fluttering sensation in the region of my heart, followed by iii;, acn e pains which gave me greet distress and weakened me at times so that I could soa cely breathe. I was very much run e do and felt nervous and irritable. " had taken a great many remedies wit ont receiving any benefit, a friend ind ced me to try Mil urn'e Heart and NerVe Pills, I had Onlyheen taking them 8, short time wheiri felt that they were doing me great good; iso I continued their use and now feel all right. I can heis.rtily recornmend Milburn's 'Heart and Nerve Pills for nervous prostration." Mrs. Fowler adds: ii My daughter, now 'fifteen years of age, was pale, weak and tun down, and she also took Milburn'a Heart and Nerve Pills for some pinie, and is now strong, healthy and vigorous." Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills mire pal Idiot), smothering sensation, dizzy andpriaint spells, nervousness, weakness, temp. e_troubles, ete. Price 50e. a box or three boxes for $1,25. Sold by all drug- gist:in T. Milburn & Co, Toronto, Ont. MK Melville Miller, Bensfortp Ontario, says: "Laza-Liver Pills made a new man of me. I was troubled with Indigos. Wm Ind pains In the small et my bask and fter taking Laxa-Liver Pills for abolit three weeks they completely owe me." Price M., ail druggist*. HICH CRADE urniture • EMPORIUM LeatherAale Lan fisborough SEAFORTH, Deale s in first•class Furniture of all kinds in latest designs. Upholstering neatl done. We also do picture fram- mg, and a choice Eelection of pictures alway13 on. hand. Curtain poles at all prices and put up,- We ale also Agents for the New William's Sewing Machine, 'hest 211 the market for do- mPsti? use, no travelling agents, no high prices. 1:3-1\T M `11.A.ICI GE In the Undertaking Department, we buy our geode from the beat houses in Ontario, and guarantee satisfaction in every depart- ment of our work We have always made it a point to furnish chairs, and all other re- quisites for funerals, FREE or CHARGE. Prices better than heretofore. Arterial and cavity embalming done on scientific principles. P. S. Night and Sunday calls will 'he attended to at Mr. .Landeborough's resi- dence, direetly,in the rear of the Domini. n Bank, dODERICH Steam Boiler Work& (ESTABLISHED 1880.) 4111411=17,MIMMI=.1 A. CHRYST Sammy 40 Chryetal & Black, etantifacturers of all kinds -of Stationary Marine, Uptight & Tubular BOILERS ealt Fawamoke Stacks, Sheet Irot Works, etc., etc. Also dealers a Upright and Horizontal Slide viihe twines. Automatic Cut -Off Engines a specialey. Ali see of pipe and pipe -fitting constantly on hand tstimatee ftnalshed en ehort notice. worte-Oremite G. T. R. Station. Goderiele • The = McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company. FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN .PROPERTY ONLY INSURED oommrsom•••11 °Month • Leatherdale Landsborough, SEAFORTH. g - • i . 1GN -, f,,,, k • -.: ' - L ,4 0 THE '---` QIRCIJLAI SAW Geo. Watt, •Pregident, Harlook P. 0. ; J. B MoLean, Hippest P. 0.; W. J. Shannon, Seery-Treas. Seaforth P. . ; Thomas E.- Maya Inspector of [4;3ee, 7 .8eBafroad° war. erdpilmmorthm• John G. Grieve, et in- throp ; Geo e Dale, Seafortle; Thomas E. Hays, Seaforth • James Evans, Peeehwood ' • Thos.Gewbutt, Clinton; Thomas Fraser, Brumfield ; John 13. Me- EAar31:ELP11eitnh., Matlock ; Robe. eteMiti Roon, Briefer -los ; AGSMS. Jame Cumming, Egtuondville; 3. W. Yee, Holmes- ville P. 0.; 38bn Goyenlock end John C. Morrison, endears. Parties desirous to effete Insurances or trace *et other bustness will be promptly attended to oe pplioation to any of the above damn, addtemeed their respective peek demo. seilo 0 atz rn ct. t -i 0 )--4. _0 cc:4- rn t4. /t ett r•N ; I 1. r4r:SL: e 1:Trt 1 (n p•••=i t'd .50 (re lee het tear - cJ Fsr: CD 0 et- I....a • reer 4:1) Sn 0 fa' • rs gis g. taa cia (D • v 1-0 I 5 0 go C/2 .1.- 11:$ o L ri -CD 0 cr) 5: Ft se* tee - II 4 • .a...424.•44s -4,441.4,4:444 -