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The Huron News-Record, 1895-01-09, Page 60 r. r• A. Centleman4 o formerly resided In Connecticut, but he AWN realties In Honolulu, writes: "For 20 years past, my • v1:o and 1 have used Aycr's Hair Vigor. and leo attribute to It the alarlc hair which she and I now have, while'hun- dreds of our acquaint.. anew ten or a dozen years younger than wo, are either gray -headed, white; or bald. When asked how our hair has retained Its color and fullness, wo reply, ' By . the use of Ayer's Ilair Vigor nothing "In lass, my affianced was nearly bald, and the hair kept full- ing out every tp day. I Pf r",•i"f induced her to use Ayer's Hair Vigor, and very soon. it not only checked any further loss '• of Bair, but produced an entirely new growth, which has remained luxuriant and glossy to this day. elan recommend this preparation to all In ,..:ed of a genuine hair -restorer. It is all •'•at it is claimed to be."—Antonio Alarrun, loastr,) Tex. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR rhe Huron News -Record $1.25 a Year—$1.00 in Advance WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 9TH, 1895. THE EIRE WORSHIPPERS THEIR DESCENDANTS, KNOWN AS THE PARSEE8, LIVE IN INDIA. . Dr. Talmage Delivers Another or Hue Around -tire -world Borley—"Thera Came wise Mph From the East to Jerusa- lem." • A Battle With A Burglar. A WOMAN'S PLUCKY FIGHT WITH A MIDNIGHT VISITOR. A few days ago the papers published a dispatch from Stokes Bay, North Bruce, briefly describing an encounter which Mrs. Shute, wife of the post- master, had had with a burglar, who entered the premises at midnight on the 18th, ult., during the absence of the woman's husband: The Owen Sound Sun gives the following additional par- ticulars of the affair. It seetirs that on coining downstairs the plucky woman ordered the fellow out. Instead of going he picked up a stove -lid and threw it either at her or the lamp she held in her hand. The lamp was struck and the lightut out, and the onlylook she had ofthein- truder was fr the instant that inter- vened. Mrs. Shute describes him as a small man, with a very red face and red moustache. When the lamb was broken he rush- ed out and clinched, and threatened to murder her, and commenced kicking her, catching her by the throat. Then :t desperate struggle ensued. With a knife she slashed the backs the. -hands that grasped her throat. This infuriated the villain, and he at - erupted to throw her to the floor, kick- i►lg her all the while. Finally she was thrown against a pile of boxes, and, fortunately for her, her hand fell upon a hatchet. So tight was she in the embrace of her as- feebletblows on she the back of the able tobit The scuffle for like—for it mine to be a life is death struggle—kept on, he %brow her down and at the ne geoid the blows of the h;tt- d the knife in her hands. BROOKLYN, Dec. 80. — Rev, Dr. Tal- mage, continuing his series of "Round - the -World Sermons," through the press, chose to day for his subject, "The Fire Worshippers," the text selected being : Matt. 2, 1; "There came wise men from the East to Jerusalem." These wise men were the Parsecs, or the so-called Fire worshippers, and I found their descendants in India last October. Their heathenism is more tolerable than any of the other false re- ligious, and has more alleviations, and while in this "Round -the -World" series I have already shown you tee worst forms of heathenism, today I show you the least offensive. The prophet of the Paraees was Zoro- aster of Persia. He was poet and phil- osopher, and reformer, as well as re- ligionist. His disciples thrived at first in Persia, but'under Mohammedan per- secution they retreated to India, where I met them, and in addition to what I saw of them at their headquarters in Bombay, India, I had two weeks of asso- ciation with one of the most learned and genial of their people on ship -board from Bombay to Brindisi. The Bible of the Parsees or fire -wor- shippers, as they are inaccurately call- ed, is the Zend-Avesta, a collection of the strangest books that ever came into my hands. There were originally twenty-onevolumes, but Alexander the Great, in a drunken fit, set fire to a palace which contained sumo of them, and they went into ashes and forgetful- ness. But there are more of their sacred volumes left than most people would have, patience to read. There are many things in the religion of the Par- aees that suggest Christianity, and some of its doctrines are in accord with our own religion. Zoroaster, who lived about 1,400 years before Chribt, was a good man, suffered persecution for his faith, and was assassinated while wor- shipping at an altar. He announced the theory "Ho is best who is pure of heart !" and that there are two great spirits in the world, Ormuzd, the good Spirit, and Ahriman; the bad spirit, and that all who do right are tinder the influence of Ormuzd, and all who do wrong are under Ahriman; that the Parsee must he born on the ground floor of the house, and must be buried from the ground floor; that the dying man must have prayers said over him and a sacred Juice given him to drink ; that the good at their decease go into eternal light, and the bad into eternal darkness ; that having passed out of this life the soul lingers near the corpse three days in a a Paradisaic state, enjoying more than all the nations of the earth put together could enjoy, or in a Pandemoniac state suffer- ing more than all the nations put to- gether could possibly suffer, but at the end of three days departing for its final destiny ; and that there will be a resur- rection of the body. They are more careful than any other people about their ablutions, and they wash and wash and wash. They pay great attention to physical health, and it is a rare thing to see a sick Parsee. They do not smoke tobacco, for they consider that a misuse of fire. At the close of mortal life the soul appears at the Bridge Chin - vat, where an angel presides, and ques- tions the soul about the thoughts, and words, and deeds of its earthly state. Nothing, however, is more intense in the Parsee faith than the theory that the dead body is impure. A devil is supposed to take possession of the dead body. -All who touch it are unclean and hence the strange style of obse- quies. But here I must give three or four questions and answers from one of the Parsee catechisms : Que tion—Who is the most man blithe world? Answer—He who cent. Question—Who is man in the world? Answer—He who walks in the path of God and shuns that of the devil. Question—Which is the path of God, and which that of the devil? Answer --Virtue is the path of God, and vice that ot'the devil. Question—What constitutes virtue, and what vice ? Answer—Good thoughts, good words, and good deeds constitute virtllh, and evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds constitute vice. Question — What constitute good thoughts, good words. and good deeds and evil thoughts, evil words, and evil deeds? Answer—Honesty, charity, and truth- fulness constitute the former ; and dis- honesty, want of charity, and falsehood constitute the latter. And now the better to show you these Parsecs, I tell you of two things I saw within a short time in Bombay, India. It was an afternoon of contrast. We started for Malabar Hill; on which the wealthy classes have their embow- ered homes, and the Parsees their strange Temple of the Dead. Ab we rode along the water's edge the sun was descending the sky, and a Disciple of Zoroaster, a Parsee, was in lowly pos- ture and with reverential gaze looking into the sky. He would have been saldd to have been worshipping the sun, as all Parsecs are said to worship the fire. But the intelligent Parsee does not wor- ship the fire. He looks upon the sun as the emblem of the warmth and light of the Creator. Looking at a blaze of light. whether on hearth, on mountain height, or in the sky, he can more easily bring to mind the glory of God ; at least, so the Parsecs tell me. Indeed, they are the pleasantest heathen I have met. They treat their wives as equals, while the Hindoos and Buddhists treat them as cattle, although the cattle and sheep and swine are better off than most of the women of India. This Parsee on the roadside on our way to Malabar Hill was the only one of that religion I had over seen en- gaged in worship. Who knows but that beyond the light of the sun on• which he gazes ho may catch a glimpse of the God who is Light, and in Whom there is no darkness at.all?" We passed on up through gates into the garden that surrounds the place where the Parsees dispose of their dead. This garden was given by Jamehidji trying same ehb ally", when thrown against the t"' &niter, Mrs. Shute got her opportun- ity, and with one blow on the forehead the burglar dropped stunned at her feet. Then she sprang out of the house and across the road to a boarding house and summoned help. The keeper eanae, but he was afraid to go in alone, and went to a hotel to secure further assist- ance. In the meantime the burglar staggered to his feet and made his way out through a back windo;w and es- • caped. His constant derraind in the j, struggle was for the medley, and he was told to go to the t' 1 and get it. He had been through a ery corner of the store, post and • egraph offices In the three hours )Ne is supposed to have been there Precaustlons had the rnoney hid. A ai ides, including part of legraph instruments, was put p, but wet a found on the counter when the fellow left. A man answering to the description Mrs. Shute gave was seen next day in an old lumber shanty, with his hands tied up, but the ratan who saw hint did not know of the occurrence. Nothing further was heard of him, although three constables searched the whole country over until Saturday last, when it was reported that he was seen near Southampton. Jl rlliam Stoddart, who came down the peninsula on Saturday, was kes' Bay on Friday and says the Sin,J"'rences of the struggle leave no rbtas to its desperateness, the floor ng covered with blood. The night re which Mrs. Shute wore was torn ribbons and saturated with her as- ilaint's blood. dredlfcet above the lev 1 of the sea. Not far from the entry ce lea building where the mourners of (he funeral go in to pray, A light is dere kept burn- ing year in and year out. \. We ascend the garden by some eight stone steps: The body of a deceased aged woman was being carried in toward the chief "Tower of Silence," There are five of these towers. Several of them have not been used for a long while. Four per- sons, whose business it is to do chis, carry in the corpse. They are followed by two men with long beards. The Tower of Silence to which they come, cost $150,000, and is 25 feet high and 276 feet around, and without a roof. The four carriers of the dead and the two bearded men come to the door of the Tower, enter and leave the dead. There are three rows of places for the dead—the outer row for the men, the middle row •' for the women, the insldarow for the children. The lifeless bodies are heft exposed as far down as the waist. As soon as the employes retire from the Tower of Silence the vultures, now one, now two, now many, swoop upon the lifeless form. These vultures fill the air with their discordant voices. We saw them in long rows on the top of the whitewashed wall of the Tower ot Silence. In a few minutes they have taken the last particle of 'flesh from the bones. There had evidently been other opportunities for thein that day, and some flew away as though surfeited. They sometimes carry away with them parts of a body, and it is no unusual thing for the gentlemen in their coun- try seats to have dropped into their dooryards a bone from the Tower of Silence. In the centre of this tower is a well. into which the bones are thrown after they are bleached. The liot sun, and the rainy season, and charcoal do their work of disintegration and disinfecticn, and then there are sluices that carry into the sea what remains of the dead. The wealthy people of Malabar Hill have made strenuous efforts to have these strange towers removed as a nuis- ance, but they remain, and will no doubt for ages remain. I talked with a learned Parsee about these mortuary customs. He said, "I suppose you consider them very pecu- liar, but the fact is we Parsecs rever- ence the elements ot nature, and cannot consent to defile thein. We reverence the fire. and therefore will not ask it to burn our dead. We reverence the water, and do not ask it to submerge our dead. We reverence the earth, and will not ask it to bury our dead. And so we let the vultures take them away." He confirmed me in the theory that the Parsees act on the principle that the dead are unclean. No one must touch such a body. The carriers of this "Tomb of Silence" must not put their hands on the torn of the departed. They wear gloves, lest somehow they should be contaminated. When the bones are to be removed from the sides of the tower and put in the well at the center, they are touched carefully by tongs. Then these people beside have very decided theories about the demo- cracy of the tomb. No such thing as caste among the dead. Philosopher an 1 boor, the affluent and the destitute must go through the same 'Tower of Si- lence," lie down side by side with other occupants, have their bodies dropped into the same abyss, and be carried out through the same canal, and float away on the same sea. No splendor of Necro- polis. No sculpturing of mausoleum. No pomp of dome or obelisk. Zoroaster's teaching resulted in these "Towers of Silence." He wrote, "Naked you came into the world, and naked you must go out." As I stood at the close of the day in this garden on Malabar Hill and heard the flap of the vultures' wings coming from their repast, the funeral custom of the Parsee seemed hohrible beyond compare, and yet the dissolution of the human body by any mode is awful, and the beaks of these Cowl are probably no more repulsive than the worms of the bodyled vouring the sacred human form '. cem t•ies. Nothing but the Re.ur- re y can undo the awful work of death, whether it now be put out of sight by cutting spade or flying wing. Starting homeward, we soon were in the heart of the city. and saw a buitd- ingtll a -flash with lights and resound- ing with merry voices. It was • a Par- see wedding, in a building erected especially for the marriage ceremony. We came to the door and proposed to go in, but at first were not permitted. They saw we were not Parsecs, and that wo were not even natives. So very politely they halted us on the door steps. This teinple of nuptials was chiefly occupied by women, their ears and necks and hands a flame of jewels or imitation of jewels. By pantomime and gesture, as we had no use of their vocabulary, we told them we were strangers and were curious to see by what process Parsees were married. Gradually we worked our way inside the door. Tlie building and the sur- roundings were illumined by hundreds of candles in glasses and lanterns, in unique and grotesque holdings. Con- versation ran high, and laughter bubbled over, and all was gay. Then there was a sound of an advancing band of music, but the instruments for the most part were strange to our ears aid eyes. Louder and louder were the outside voices, and the wind and stringed instruments, until the pro- cession halted at the door of the temple and the bridegroom mounted the steps. Then the music ceased and all the voices were still. The mother of the bridegroom, with a platter loaded with aromatics and articles of food, confront- ed her son and began to address him. Then she took from the platter a bottle of porfume and sprinkled his face with the redolence. All the while speaking in a droning tone she took from the platter a handful of rice, throwing some of it on Ms shoulder, pouring some of it on his hands. She took from the platter a cocoanut and waved it about his head. She lifted a garland of flowers and threw it over his nock, and a bouquet of flowers and put it in his hand. Her part of the ceremony completed, the band resumed its music, and through another door the bridegroom was conducted into the centre of the building. The bride was in the room, but there was nothing to designate her. "Where is the bride?" I said "where is the bride?" After awhile she lovas made evident. The bride and groom wore seated- on chairs opposite each other. A white curtain was drop- ' ped between them so that they could not see each other. Then the attendants put their arms under this curtain, took a long rope of linen and wound it round the !leek of the bride and the groom, in been taken a bunds the .e A PRETTY FACE is the result of a healthy physicial con- dition. "Beauty is but skin deep" yet it greatly depends oh a clear complex- ion, free from wrinkles and hollow cheeks. Health always brings wealth of beauty. A healthy state of the system -comes with Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It's a medicine prepared for woman's ailments—it cures those derangements and weaknesses which snake woman's life miserable'.' A woman who neglects to take prop- er exercise is particularly prone to excessive congestion, debility and a sluggish circulation. This is the time we advise the "Prescription." In all derangements and displacements of the special orgi ns which result in "signs of infiamation," in cat- arrhal discharges frotns the lining membranes, and in distressing irre- gularities—this medicine is guaran- teed to cure, or the money will be returned. The Brazilian Government has or- dered a million dollars' worth of war material from the Armstrongs, of England fortunate is the most inno- the most innocent the curtain on. the headof the bride, PA the bride responded by throwing a handful of rice aeross the curtain on the head of thegreom. Thereupon the cur- tain dropped and the bride's chair was rerliovc'd and put beside that of the groom. Then a priest of the Parsee re- ligion arose and faced the couple. Be- fore the priest was placed a platter of rice. He began to address .the young man and woman. We could not hear a word, but we understood Eest as well as if we had heard. ver end • anon he punctuated his ceremony by a handful of rice, which he picked up from the platter and flung now toward the groom and now toward the bride. 'The "ceremony went on hlterplivably. We wanted to hear the conclusion, but were told the ceremony would ;;o on for a long while ; indeed, that it would not conclude until two o'e'oek in the morning, and (tilts was only v v u and eight between seven o'clock in the evening. There would be a recess after a while in the ceremony, but it would be taken up again in ear- nest at half -past twelve. We enjoyed what we had seen, but felt incapaci- tated for six more hours of wedding ceremony. Silently wishing the couple a happy life in each other's companion- ship, we pressed our wary through the throng of congratulatory Parsecs. All of them seemed bright and apprecia- tive of the occasion. The streets out- side joyously sympathized with the transactions inside. We rode 011 toward our hotel wishing that marriage in all India alight be as much honored as in the ceremony we had that evening witnessed at the Par- see wedding. The Hindoo women are not so married. They are simply curs- ed into the conjugal relation. Many of the girls aro married at seven and ten years of age, and some of them are grandmothers at thirty. They can never go forth into the sunlight with their faces uncovered. They Must stay at home. All styles of maltreatment are theirs, It' they become Christians they become outcasts. A missionary told me in India of a Hindoo woman who became a Christian. She had nine children. Her husband was over seventy years of age. And yet at her Christian baptism he told her to go, and she went out, homeless. As long as wotnau is down, Indilt will be down. No nation. was ever elevated except through the elevation of woman. Parsee marriage is an improvement on Hindoo marriage; but Christian mar- riage is an improvement on Parsee mar- riage. • A fellow -traveler in India told me he had been writing to his home in Eng- land trying to get a law passed that no white woman could be legally married in Redia until site had bean there six months. Admirable law would that be ! If a white woman saw what married lite with a Hindoo is she would never undertake it. Off with the thick and ugly veil from woman's face ! Off with the crushing burdens from her shoulder ! Nothing but the Gospel of Jesus Christ will ever make life in India what it ought to be. But what an afternoon of contrast in Bombay five experienced ! Froin the Temple of Silence to the Temple of Hilarity ! From the vultures to the doves! From mourning to laughter ! From gathering shadows to gleaming lights! From obsequies to wedding ! But how much of all our lives is made up of such opposites. I have carried in the same pocket, and read front them in the same hour, the liturgy of the dead and the ceremony of espousals. And so the tear meets the smile, and the dove meets the vulture. Titus I have set before you the best of all the religions of the heathen world, and I have done so in order that you might come to higher appreciation ot the glorious religion which has put its benediction over us and over Christen• dom. Compare the absurdities and mum- meries of heathen marriage with the. plain, "I will," of Christian marriage, , the hands joined in. pledge "till death de you part." Compare the doctrine that the dead may not be touched, with as sacred, and tender, and loving a kiss as is ever given, the last kiss of lips that never again will speak to us. Compare the narrow Bridge Chinvat, over which the departing Parsee soul must trem- blingly cross, to the wide open gate of heaven through which the departing Christian soul may triumphantly enter. Compare the twenty-one books of the Zend-Avesta of the Parsee, which even the scholars of the earth despair of un- derstanding, with our Bible, so much of it as is necessary for our salvation in language so plain that "a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein." Compare the "Tower of Silence" with its vultures at Bombay with the "Greenwood of Brooklyn" with its sculptured angels of resurrection. Attd bow yourselves in thanksgiving and prayer as you realize that if at the battles of Marathon and Salamis Persia had triumphed over Greece, instead of Greece triumphing over Persia, Par- seeiem, which was the national religion of Persia, might have covered the earth, and you and I, instead of sitting in the noonday light of our glorious Christianity, might Rave been groping in the depressing shadows of Parseeism, a religion as inferior to that which is our inspiration in life, and our hope in death, as Zoroaster of Persiaas in- ferior to our radiant and superhuman Christ, to whom be honor, and glory, and dominion. and victory, and song, world without end. Amen. The Deg Wanted His Old Friend. f The Deer of SCOtlattd. Of the four -footed game the largest are the deer, The roebuck is the only member of the family in a truly wild condition. His small size, nimbleness, and ungregarious habits enable him to wander from one place to another with a measure of impunity. In wood- ed valleys and within roach of the hills he seems to be well able to look after himself. He abounds in the northern counties—in Perthshire, the highland districts of Aberdeenshire and -Pods, - shire, and is thinly scattered over the central valley. The red deer, or stag, has by no means the same claim to be regarded as a wild animal as in the days when the Commons King made his memor- able excursion through the Trossachs. He is now cooped up in savage fast- nesses, with mountain fences 3,000 feet high, behind which he only wanders in an exceptionally hard winter. The "forests" with which I am acquainted, would neither maintain it crofter nor even reimburse a sheep farmer, and are simply incapable of being put to any other use. In the middle of the day the deei are seldom to be seen, except by a practiced eye, as they are then at rest and lying .quietly among the rough heath, or it may he in the shadow of some birch copse. In the early morn- ing or on the approach of evening they feed downward toward the grassy sides of the rivers and burns. Their scent is sharper than their sight. They detect the intruding botanist or gedlogist long before they see him, and, by their actions, apprise the keeper that a trespasser is at hand. The fallow deer is still further from the true feral condition, and can only he regardedas an ornamental domestic animal, kept to give picturesqueness to the park arouud the mansion. His grass is provided and his water is sure. Ha aIMAM t.IIp: ., >• MEM 7 wbero all otiai1: Cough, Crotor.. Throat, Hosnherssnesa, Wboopisgaa Cougupjr. and Asthma. For Consurnptioa it nail , strati has cured thonirinds, and will Cn Ton It taken in time. Bold by Drugglsta o guar. SHILOH S BELLADONNA PLCheat, TB ER25e.. IL®H' , ,CATARR H/ rn Tbie remod ie nrt you i;utar 7 rats. $111 ve,o y 7 food to ours you. ,prloo, facto. Tnf eotoriree, Sold by J. H. COMBE. "Old, yet ever new, and simple and beautiful ever," sings the poet, in words which might well apply to Ayer's Sars- aparilla—the hnost efficient and scien- tific blood-purifler ever offered to suff- ering humanity. Nothing but superior merit keeps it so long at the (feet., Citizens of Vancouver are terrorized by the visit of a gang of highwaymen, burglars and firebugs, who have found their way to the city by way of the Sound. People are robbed at all hours of the night. Poultry Notes. The most profitable breed of ducks is the Pekin, both as market fowls and egg producers. They are hardy, quick growers, and are just the sort uited for an early market. The best use to make of waste cab- bage is to chop it up, mix it with.a little meal and give it to the hens. It supplies the green food which the hens crave in winter. Loose, unmarketable heads may be hung up somewhere where the hens can pick at them. 1t is the best way to dispose of thenal. The Oregon Farmer says : One bushel of wheat, where chickens are given the run of the farm will produce ten dozen eggs. In many sections of the Northwest late sowed grain did not produce over ten bushels to the acre. In those sections ten dozen eggs are now worth as much as ten bushels of wheat. That is to say, one acre of wheat and ten hens are worth ten acres of wheat, with the care of the extra nine acres added, or at present a good hen Is worth more than an acre of wheat. George Z. Dow, in the Country Gentleman, sums up the poultry bust- ness, in its relation to the average farmer, about right in this paragraph : Hens kept in comparatively small num- hers can he made to pay, and do pay,. as a rule, a fairly good profit, but not enough to excite any one. Neither is it as large as one can obtain from many other occupations, such as berry growing or keeping sheep. 1f it were so profitable as these hen -cranks would have us believe, would it not stand to reason that farmers all over the coun- try, with their usual perspicuity, would have long since discovered the fact, and one and all have become largely engaged in the business? Jijibhai. and is beautiful with flowers token that they were to be bound to - of all hue, and foliage of all styles of gather for life. Then some silk strings vein and notch and stature. There is were wound around the couple now this on all ssides great opulence of fern and one, and now that one. 'Thenn the cypress. Tho garden is not one bun - groom throw a handful of rice across • William Winpenny, of Queen Lake, was, until a few days ago, the owner of a pet parrot, which be had purchased in New Orleans several years ago. The bird was a veritable household- pet, being allowed liberties that no other parrot ever enjoyed. Its constant chatter amused the members of the fancily, especially at meal time, when Polly was regularly placed at the table, receiving the choicest tidbits for her meals. A few days ago Polly died, and was reverently buried in the yard, with a little headstone to mark the 'grave. Tho next day's dinner was a mournful one for the family, Polly being sadly missed. The old house dog, Pomp, looked on with a wistful eye, surmising that something was wrong. The in- stinct of the brute solved the problem, and without more ado, he went into the garden, dug up the parrot, and carry- ing it in to the dining -room, deposited it in its accustomed place.—Philadelphia Record. Evidence of Lavish Expenditure. Tom—The management seem to have spared no expense in the production of this play. Kitty—No, indeed ; they have given each chorus girl at least three coats of paint.—Tit-Bits. There are many ways of providin the hens wtth cheap foods that wil prove serviceable in promoting egg production. For a dozen hens a sheep liver or refuse pieces of beef. may be cooked to a broth, thick- ened with ground oats and cornmeal, equal parts,, to a stiff dough, and fed every other day. Cut hone is also a cheap food, and a mixture of equal parts of bran, middlings, ground oats, corn meal and linseed meal, twice a week, is 'an agreeable change. Clover is one of the cheapest and hest foods in winter, when cut fine and scalded, while sunflour seed, millet seed, sorghum seed and cooked turnips are excellent. All of these foods are cheap for two reasons. First, they cost but little, and provide the hens with a variety ; and next he - cause when the hens are so fed, they give a larger number of eggs. No food is cheap if it does not induce or pro- mote egg production ; and if the liens can he made to give a profit by provid- ing thenal with suitable food, they will return all the cost with interest. THE NEW YEAR Finds Hood's Sarsaparilla leading everything in the way of medicines in three important particulars, namely Hood's Sarsaparilla has 1. The largest sale in the world. accomplishes cures in the world. It 2. The greatest It has 3. The largest world. What more can he said ? Hood's Sarsaparilla has merit ; is peculiar to itself, and most of all, Hoods Sarsapar- illa cures. If yore are sick, it is the medicine for you to take. Laboratory in the James A. Bailey. Nat. A. Salisbury and W. F. Cody have formed a part- nership to consolidate the Wild West and Forepaugh shows next season, with a capital of $1,000,000. Sir John Thofnpson's Change of Iltelip,ioli • St. Thoma.+ Journal. George Johnson, the Dominion sta- tistician, who was a schoolmate of Sir John Thompson, says that when Sir John was about to become it Catholic, there was a severe struggle in his mind between his conviction of duty and his worldly interest. He saw before hila, if he took one course, the possible lack of the comforts of life for himself, his wife and the babe. "Never mind," said he, "I know stenography and can scratch a living for them even though it is a poor one," and he took the step. Years after Sir John Thomp- son in speaking to Mr. Johnston of his experiences during this critical period of his life, said : " You don't know how much I love my old Methodist friends. Do you know, not one of them left me. I did not lose a single client of thein that I had." This story is as creditable to the Halifax Methodists as to Sir John. His change of religion does not appear to have af- fected his fortunes orie way or the other. Nobody thinks for a moment that he been niept'enoNova Scotia, or judge.dge, minister of justice,or premier of the Dominion, or an imper- ial privy councilor, because he was a Catholic, but being a Catholic did not stand in his way when any of those positions were open before him. LOOK OUT FOR IT. If you are troubled with a cold or cough, however light the attack, look out for it, do not allow it to settle on the lungs , break up t • cough by loosening the tough legm with' Hagyard's Pectoral Balsa Another Morris pioneer has passed away in the person ofThomasFarquhar- son who departed this life on Sabbath week, at the advanced age of 79 years. Deceased was horn in Dundas, Scot- land, and was married twice. By the first marriage there were three sons, Alexander, of Kincardine; William, of Walkerton; and James, in Manitoba. He was married to his now bereft part- ner in 1846 and with her ca e,to Can- ada in 1852 and moved iIi o Morris about 42 years ago. Mr. Farquharson took up the farm on which he lived and died, His widow; who is in her 87th year, and son survive hint. WHOOPING COUGH. • For Whooping Cough and all throat affections, chest troubles, etc., Hag - yard's Yellow Oil is the hest embroca- tion ever discovered. It promptly rel Teves in fln.unnation,pain and soreness from whatever cause arising— RHEGMATIEM CURED in A DAT.—South American Rheumatic Cure, for Rheumatism. and Neuralgia, radically cures in 1 to a days. Ita action upon the system is remarkable and mysterious., It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately dis- appears. Tho first dose greatly benefits. 75 cents. bold by watts & Co. Druggists. On the occasion of his leaving school No. 2, Blddulph, to farther prosecute his studies,Mr. Elmore J. Hodgins was presented with at handsomely hound Oxford Bible, accompanied by en ad- dress. The recount in the Winnipeg mayor- alty case has resulted in the success of Mr. Gilroy, who was defeated by two votes by Mr. McMicken, according to the first count. The hest anodyne and expectoran for the cure of colds, coughs, and all throat, lung, and bronchial troubles, is - undoubtedly, Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, the only specific for colds and coughs admitted on exhibition at the Chicago World's Fair. A despatch frotn Rome announces that Rev. Father Langevin, of the, Congregation of St. Mary Immaculate, has been appointed archbishop of St. Boniface, Manitoba. - SKIN DISEASES. Skin Diseases are More or less occasioned by had blood. B. B. B. cures the following Skin Diseases: Shingles, Erysipelas, Itching Rashes, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Eruptions, Pimples, and Blotches, by removing alt impurities from the blood from a common Pimple to the worst Scroful- ous Sore. M. C. Cameron, Esq., Q.C., ex M.P., Mrs. Cameron, Miss Cameron and Miss Mabel Cameron,of Goedr ich,left on the M. C. R. train last week to spend the winter in Florida where Mr. Cameron has a large orange grove. THAT PALE FACE. For Nervous Prostration and Anae- mia, there is no medicine that will so promptly and infallibly restore vigor and strength as Scott's Emulsion. News Notes. The corporation of Hull has author- ized special work, so as to gives rploy- rnent to as many of the unempl red as possible. Christmas day in St. Louis, Mo., was rendered memorable by two murders, thirty cases of cutting, shooting and robbery and assaults innumerable. A young man named Hardman shot at Mr. Samuel Cameron, proprietor of thy' Albion Hotel, Stratford. Mr Cam- eron turned quickly and the bullet went through his coat. Rev. H. D. Steele, who has been pas- tor of the Episcopal congreii. tion of Kirkton for the past five year will res move to Wallacehurg in a fw weeks time. His successor is not yet ap- pointed. William D. Welter, who is in gaol on the charge of killing young Hender- shott at Middlemarch, was found with the deceased's watch in his possession, while Welter's timepiece had been given to Mr. David Hendershott for that of his son. Old John Kidd, of Orangeville, ie said to he dying, the result of the recent robbery by which he lost $56, His 16 year old wife who has been live ing in Toronto was sent for and she le now installed at his bedside as head nurse.