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BLENHEIM'S OOWBOY. The Story of Hii OturUhi* tad A3 las McN.lll., a For Uuilllu Ulrl The following additional particular* in reference to Bieaheim e cowooy are taken from ihe Woodstock Standard : Having purcbased seven farm* Kline itil farther leoiritled the neighborhood bj itaiio^ that he had 2tiO bead of tnoro<h bred oallle un the way from England asu that he expected a fine te.m of bloo< horses in a few days. To hjose these caitle, horaee, etc,, he told the crowd tha wailed on him Ibai he would bojld a barn 450 feel long and 170 feet wide, the found lion to be of brick and stone. He ipoke to Jacob skcklr, of PlattivUle, for the brick bat Mr. Bteckle wanted half the money down and the btrgain Wag not oioeed. " hired C. C Frye to take tbe management of hii estate ai a salary of 15 000 per >ear ndttipeo.se*. U* hired Daitoo M.Meiiie Tom Darao, George Cnoroh anil Jo Bawlman aa faro hands at 9880, 9260 900, 1175 respectively, nd find them in chewing tobauoo. He we an the lounont for a good blacksmith to take charge ot the hop whion ha intended to build on hi* aataie. Ha wai in I'latisvUie on Thursday of last week and gave order to Robert Deaton for twenty seta ol harness Socially, it iems, ha wai a favorite with aha young people of the neighborhood, whom be amused in the evening by ecu and reciting hu txploiti aa oowboy in Texas. He showed them how to nse tha two-edged diik which he al*a>* carried. Lasl wesk he djoned hi* oowboy suit and invited the neinhoor* to wilnee* an tiliioi tion ot hii horsemanehip at the home ol hi* father in law. Al soon a* be waa seated in tha saddle the horaa became unmanageable and ran away. Yunng Whilterivk, who wai on the road. Hupped the animal in us mad career by oatutiint the bridle a* il wai raising a hill, and in* oowboy, pale and trembling, dismounted quicker than lightning, averring thai " dot horse vas beat eberyiing dot vai in Tixn.' Evdry lime thai he d'eased in bts intended brother in law's be*t suit au 1 paradsd tha roe J wilh bin intended moiber-m-law on one arm and bis uoming bride oa the other he WM envied by ibe young men of tha neigbbornood. Uiaailal under the name ot Charles Kiine and wai a lover of lai(er beer aod havauas. Having learned Ibe above from responsi bla parties in ibe neighborhood, y mi oorrespondent called at the home ot Mr MoNsllie, Kline's father-iu Uw. Mr. McNsilie wae not at home, but 1 wasiiuuly noMved by Mis. McNoliir. Before 1 got through slating my bussiness the brido appeared, and the mother being somewhat dull of hearing told the daughter th* object of my call. Tbe bride ie a bloude of mediom height, light auburn hair, large bine e>e*, KO jU form and wean ipeolaoie*. Bne wa* areeeed neatly and fell duposed to talk, in faot she laid the trnth might a* well ba told at once. In aniwar to my qosstione he slated she wa* born in Suffolk, Eng- land, on the l'2ih of March, 1870. " When I wa* a year old my father and mother emigrated to this country and Milled in tba city of Hamilton. We lived in Hamilton nine year*. Then wa moved to Bomb Dumfries, about four miles bom Ayr. We lived there till moved to thii oar present home. We moved here lait ipriug. No, my father ha* not bought Ib* farm. He has only n led it. 1 am in the 2lt year ot iny sg. rw ii .to Mr. Kline on the 14 ih inst , at 5 p.m., by the Rev. Kd ward Col borne, of I'aris, at tha rev. gentleman'* home. Thirteen da\s after I WM tirsl introduced to Mr. Kline 1 WM married to him. My brother went to Drumho on the lit instaut, to hire a man to help to pull tumps, and he brought Mr. Kline home wilh m m and introduced him to me. No, my brother never law Kline before that day. No, I did not marry him lor hi* money. Il wai a love match. A* soou ai I btoami aoqui tiled wilh him 1 told my mother he wai jusl tha man for me. ll told my brother that 1 WM jail th* girl for him. He proposed marriage abont Mven dayi af.er our first acquaintance. Mo, I did not think he WM in a hurry. He asked my falber and mother for my hand in ma r riage. They gave their ouna ui. The couiiable came in and arrested him in this room. lie put handcuff* on bim. The constable demanded the oowboy .un and it WM given to him. He demanded a sealskin overooat wbioh he said my husband had eloleu. My husbaud bai no lealtkin overooat. Yea, my husband ba* bought some thiog*. He bought a banging lamp at Drumba, but it i* not paid for. My husband brought a keg ot lager beer Io the hones and bought cigar* by tb* box. No, ha had no money. I did not tbink it strange that ha had no money abont bios. Ue saw ha would draw 9260.000 ai th* Bank of Commerce, Part*, on tb* let of November, and I believe that amount is coming to him. It wai left to bim by bis grandfather, uncle and father. His father died about four mouths ago at 81. Thomas. He bequeathed bim 75,000. Wben arrested, my husband taid be waa in- nooent. No, I hav* uot heard be wa* wanted at Preston. Since hi* arrest I bav* beard tbal he hae I wife in Brantford. I do not believe that. Hi* arreet ha* not shaken my confidence in him. I am not down hearted, and unless be has a wile in Branlford I will iliok to bim to Ihe IMI. The HioumiD/ Cockaey. Ottawa Free Prtu : There wu a bloomin' sparrow, lived up a bloomin spout, And a bluouiia' rain itorni oam* and wished the bloowln' i|jrraw one. But when tbe bluouilu' euuabln* dried up tbe bloomin' ram Up weel tba bloemin' (narrow to tbe bloomin' spout agam." Customer Your lately | matobM are) abominable thing*. I oan'l ever net them to light. S.orakeeper Well, what greater proof ot safety ooold you desire ? The light seen through the new eye-piece of the Lick teleaoops will be 2,000 timsi a* bright M Ibat seen by tbe naked eye. Moutnal ie to have a new jail wbioh when computed will ooit a million dollar f. OAIADA'8 EAKLT DAYS. Ii Chatham DwiBC UM MMOD and Blidall Excitement- SHERIFF M-KELLAB AS A SOLDIER. u Aejloat For MtefA Slave*. (K. liatbeaon, In Chicago CanadUn-Amerleaal. In " looking backward" over my lite'* career, I and I bave nome remintaoanoe* of ihe town ot Chatham, the county a*at of Kant, in Ontario, and pleaaantly iitnated on the) bank* of tha Tnaine* river, which And* iti meaadering and gentle course ihroogh Uiiord, Middlvacx and Kant, emptying at lait in a low and maritay mouth into Lake St. Glair. Il waa along ill bank* that General Proctor, in 1813, made r-ii ill judgrd retreat, and at Mjra viantown the Battle of the Thamee" rtwulwd unfavoraoiy to the allied white ana Indian foroai, and the brave Tecnmieh WM elain. From January, 1860, until July, 1862. I WM a ci linen of Chatham, and discharged tbe auliei uf headmaatur of tha Caanly High School, or Grammar Sobool. theae inaliintioni were then oalled. 1'hii WM ap evenlfol period, not merely in tbe butory ot ihe town, bat of Canada and Ihe United titalei, as tbe latter WM tha aoene if fratrio dal atrifr, and any deeire thai may have exintexi in the breMi* ot Cana- diaui tut closer union wilh the U ailed Stale* received a Mt-bauk wbioh year* bave not yet removed. The United, or rather, M Punch had it. the " Uutied Slate*," did not present a very inviting apeoiaole juet Iben. Great armioe roabiog ai each other over a widely extended field of operation*, an immn*e debt being daily piled np at an appealing rate, the currency falling to abont one- third ill value in gold, and a feeling of bitternei* and intolerance ipreading over aooiety in general, and axaioit Great Britain and her dependen- cies, including of oonrn Canada, all tbe*e tonded to eitrange two people*, who el*e, like kindred drupi, had mingled into one. I remember that at the time of tha Trent diffioulty, when the two Southern emi*- anus, Melon and Slidell, were taken from on board a British veuel. the feeling ran particularly high, and war teemed immi- nent. All over Canada tha jonth sprang to arm*, militia oompaniaa were formed and drill iheda were erected, evidencing that tha ipiril of 18U etill smoldered in tbe beam of many young Canadian!. la Chatham, M a border town, end from m vicinity to the Detroit river eipoaed to the firet brant of war, the moet intenae feeling of patriotism prevailed, and even 1, <|iaker like M 1 am on general principlee, wa* affeotad by tha mill- tarj ephare. Under Capl. Archie McKellar, now tha venerable and raapacaed eherifl ot Hamilton, but at that lima the moat popu- lar man in Kent county, a company WM formed, and I went into tha awkward eqaad and learned Ihe myileriea of hay foot and Ira* fool. However, lika Pliable, I eoon tired uf tbe good work, and with tba K> V1D K op of Maeon and Siideil, the danger of hoe tilitiea WM averted. During tbii time I bave lean whole rrgimente of Federal boy* in blna iweeping aoroii Canada with their arm* and accoutrement!, oarried by the Urat Wantern Railway from the weet to ike eaet acroei the peniniola between Detroit and Niagara Fall*, and had they oboarn to attack Canada at that time, we would have bean oomparatively at their mercy. There wa* and i* quite an Atrioan popu- lation in and near Cnalbam. Al Buxioo. in Kalaigh townahip, there wai atetllemenl lonaded by the Rov. Wm. King, a Praeby- lenan miuiitor and teacher, wbo menu- in i ited tbe ilevee that oama into hii poee* lion by hi* marriage with a Southern planter'* daughter, Mr*. King entering into hi* pbilanthropio project*, and the reenlt wai quite a * tile-mnut. In 1860 Bnxton pre*>ntd qaim unique appear- ance, i- >u*i*ting of row* of itraggling hall, giving the *peoiator the feeling lhal he bad mrldenly landed in darken Africa. Many of the** people were fugitive elavea, M Chatham WM one of tbe beadqaariaricf the underground railway, and wi.il>> it oou- ed many negrophobiiti, iheie vtere ' tbe lower order of white*, and were more than counterbalanced by tbe numerous 'rieodi of their race, etpeciellv among the Reform party, haaded by McKellar, David ililln, MjSweea and olberi. John Brown tbe one with the ever- marching eonl WM in Chatham jnit before the raid, and aid hi* plan* before hi* follower* , and daring the war hi* heronleau ion, John Brown, jnn., and hii widow came on a recruiting train, and I went to a public meeting th*y held. They were the typei of the poor and deepiaed in their day, bat their nobility of eoal ii now amply vindi- cated before the world. Tba colored people tad loma clever orator* in tbote day*, ncluding ihe Shaddi, leaao Hoi den and other*. Chatham in 1860 prewnte i a mo*l woe- x-goue and dilapidated appearance, it laving been before thi oriau ot 1857 a won town, bat it WM then a " bual*d " boom, and about half tbe butiniu place* re oloaad op. The building*, wilb the exception ot the Ebarti and a few other block*, were tumbledown wooden rtrno- nrti, built up after the numeron* Are*. The town hall wa* an old affair, and near I itood a row of one itory ihanliM oalled Pork Row," whioh has been long einoe replaced with impoiiog brick itruc- ;nrei, And I inppoaa, from the 'avorabla report! I bave heard, thai . would not now recognize the old place, after an abeeooe of twenty-eight year*, ahoald I, Rip Van Winkle-like, suddenly Irop into the town. Time work* wonder*, especially for a town to wall located tor commerce M Chatham. With oommoni- oation by water and itearn, wilb grand agricultnral turronndinge, and no rival towoi in iti vicinity, why ihould it not be iroeperoai, and n cover from any number if " bnitad " boome ? In my next I iball continue thi* topic, whioh i* by no mea>n* exbanited. Prof. Shaler say* that a diitingaiahed ihysioian of forty years' praotio* told him that be had never Men a mulatto who had attained the age ot fifty years. She - Ue talk! like a book. He- Wh at a pity be doaan't ibat ap M easily. A IIOBT OV TBB O4T. ri.ut rehal Kaltb, ih. Favorite aaaaral of Viodorit k ihe Oraaa, Frederick tha Great had Ihe happy faculty of inrronnoiog bimwlf with able men. Lika Napoleon, be wa* a good judge of human nature, and he wa* rarely de- ceived. One ef hi* moil valued a*ei*<ani* WM an Englishman, Jamei Edward Keith. rt>i young man engaged in a revolution m Kugland. and barely euapmi with hie life. Then be eerved under the Czar in hi* war* upon Poland and Turkey, bnt considering bimielf the victim of ii juttice, be resigned and aoo-pted the poeiliou of field marshal io the Proasian army. Frederick the Ore l mad* him hii favorite companion, and they travelled together incognito through Ger- many, Poland and Hungary. K^uh in vented a game rewmbling aheu, whiahsodelixhted the king that be had iomu thoucandi of men oait in metal, by whioh he oould arrange battle* and liegei. The Britiih field marahal managed the admirable retreat of the army from Olmotz in the presence of a superior force, without the ion of a single gun, and be look part in all the great battle* of tbe period. He lost hi* lit* m tba de*prata fl<ht at Hoobkerohen on Ool. 14th, 1758. K.nh WM of middle height, dark complexion and strongly marked feature!. Hi* presence of mind WM remarkable, and his knowledge deep and varied, while hi* military talent* and etriol eenaa of honor mads him lake rank among tha ant commander* of the dey. Hi* brother, the Lard Marshal of Scotland, My brother has left after having overran onoe wrote of him IB a nobla heritage Bohemia at the heed of a large army, I have found only |70 in hit purae." Fred- erick honored Kciih'* memory by having erected a monument to him in Berlin by the tide of hii other generali. A Brvad-oalreed View. The Xort/Htatrm Miller, a strictly busi- ness journal, in diaoussing tha tffaot of Ibe naw Uoited Slate* tariff on ibe flour trade, givt-e expraeeion to the following humanitarian seniimenli : " Tbe growth of oar commerce is ocrlainly cf more im- portance than tha fate of the Republican or Democrat io partie*. What we want is more trade and Itaa legislation, larger mar i>ts for oar product! end lee* raslriotion on our commercial relation!. Wo do not wish to enter into an argument on the tariff M a political mtaiors, bat we see no >Ob*ible obj -atian to our discussing it a* a lasinee* proposition. There ii one point advanced by some supporter* of tbs MoKin- jr Bill which is. we think, utterly at vari- ance wilh all accepted idea* of Amerioan 'airaees and honor ; a point which we are ashamed to aes brought forward and whioh wa hope will be forever dropped when it* real significant)* ii comprehended. The point is this : That the passage uf tba Mo- K. nlejr Bill has already brought distress upon certain manufacturers in Europe, ami caused them to oloee np their work! and discharge their help- In thie age and in thu country of all countries on the globe a man should bs ashamed to bring forward snob an argument. America, in order to be prosperous, doe* not need to pan lawi which will bring distress upon people in other and 1M favored land*. An xprea eion ol satisfaction at snob a . unit ii narrow minded, unchristian and un Ameri oan. It in thi* country a lack of work i* a hardship, in certain parts of Europe it il more ; it i* starvation ; and the man who oan gloat over tbe hanger ot men, women and children wbo have heretofore been able to exist by the orumba which fell frtm this table, mast be made of a very different kmc of stuff from what wa are aoonstomed to consider tba average Amerioan to be." B COMTBBCAT1O*. at HssMt Mainly for Ike easily managed. It* somewhat as follow! : As Am A new amusement particularly adapted to the traditional talent of fair woman ii the Progressive Conversation Party," which had us birth in tb* Kant. It* popularity is established by iti pcH.ibih- tiee to entertain any number of goeits, though more than twenty cannot be mudut operamii 11 many chairs as required by the number of guests invited are arranged in pair* in a continuous line, one behind the other, ind are yoked together with broad ribbon* of different colors. The topic! of conversation for the even- ing are announced on tbe invitation ctrd* A card on wbioh is written a topiu of conversation ii tied with a narrow ribbon to tbe connecting ribbooi on the chairs, and tally oardi, aa in progressive euchre, with a tiny ribbon bow, which matches tha oolori on ill* ohairr, an arranged for both ladie* and gentlemen, as in tha game when played with cards. When all tha gneste have drawn a card they take their seats according to the color designated by Ihe tally oard, tbe ladie* on Ibe left aod tbe gentlemen on the right, tbe hostess tapi a bell, and tbe bnzz of conversation begin*. Ten minutes are allowed to each topic, and tbe topic on each set of chairs differs from all the other*. The judge* chosen pas* down tba line and criticise, and at tbe end of the time specified affix a gold star on Ihe oard of the beet conversationalist, a silver star on tha oard of tha vai <{ni*bed. The entire company onaoge seats, the gen- tleman retreating ona seal, tbe lady ad- vancing one, aod the buzz begin* again. When ten changes have been made, ten Icpio* dished up and discussed, the person having the greataat number of gold liars i* the winner. The Wows of Uoeesjs. Tbe queen of Bonmania ha* two terioni roubles, which prey* sadly on her excit able, smol ional nature. Her only daughter died, and bar son aud heir never arrived. Ling Cbarla*, ber hneband, has adopted a irown-np nephew to fill the state vacancy, int everybody knows this is not thi lame hmg to tha poor queen consort, whoas tosiuon is never tba earns M when her own ihild acme* ntxt in inooesion. The dispen lation* whioh bave fallen on other exalted edits should remind her majesty of KJU- mauia Ibat she has partners enough in die . Tha ax Kinprees Eugenie for ona, -nose heir WM greeted with a whole oalion'i enthusiasm and afterwards per- ished by Iba spesrs of a few dusky savage*. Tba Austrian Emprei* i* in a still worse plight 11. -r only son met with a diigraoe- fill end aud barely received Christian bur- ial. Bave for a legacy of mischief and heartburning hs is aa though ha had never bean. Tbe queen of the Belgian* lost her only ion some yearn ago. A grand review of Queen Victoria's descendants would very hk, ly give "Carman Bylva " a lonesome feeling, but the should reflect that f jrty children and grandchildren not only come expensive bat can seldom be managed aa dove* in a oage woen once eoni-in-law and .laughters in-law and junior parlneri iwell the lilt. - Undent Society. Uarswles for tMstall Towau. Oat wait people have been saootisfnlly trying a naw plan for the placing of librariei in email town* where no public library exiita. Each one of several hun- dred people inbeoribt* $1 a year and selects any book at that prioa whioh ha deiire* to own. All tha book* isleoted are then placed in a temporary library, and every subscriber has tb* privilege of reading each ona. At ihe and ot the year the subscriber* draw oat the books they originally selected, io that the cost for the year's reaxling is practically nothing. Jack tba Klaser. There ii one of those public noieanoe* called " Jaok, Ihe Kisaer," loose in Lincoln, Illinois. Tha other evening some young men disgniaad themselves ai girls ot sweet 16 and attempted to trap tbe bagger, who baa bean creating intense exoitemenl in, that town. Jaok got an elevated aod secluded position and damped a pail of water on them. An bonr later ha oaight, kissed and bugged tha prettiest girl in Ibe town. *> Fried pepperi are a MW mod* of indi- gestion. Moil people teen to think a rumor i* like a lubeoripticin list. Every MOM it oomei to them they aid eomelhirjg to it and pa* it along to tb* next. Marking- tb Forth Brldgn's Movements- Sir John Fowler ha* bad fitted to Ihe >nd of the sooth mam span of tbe great Forth Bridge an ingeniou* little indicator to record the number of train* paasing and ibe daily contraction and expansion of the jnd(je. The apparatus ooniiit* of a bran rod, with a pencil attached to tba end of the girder, aod a paper- covered oy Under driven by clockwork. Tbe point ot the penoil reiti upon the paper, which move* constantly a* the clockwork tarn*. Al the cantilever contracts the pencil ii pulled away, and wbt-n tbe bridge expands the pencil is pushed forward, thni producing a carve of contraction and expaniion upon tbe roll of paper. Tbe tame principle ii applied to register the behavior of tbe bridge while a train ii iog. When the train enter* on tbe end of tbe cantilever it throw* up tbe opposite end, and tbe penoil ratting npan tbe roll of paper record* tbi* movement by a mark at right angles to the oorva of coo traction and expansion. When tbe train pMsee to the other halt of the cantilever that end of the great span ii pulled down and another mark is made on tbe register- ing sheet at right angle! to tha contn n ms contraction and expaniion curve. Each mark indicate* the passage of a train, and tbe simple apparatus thai serves three purposes. An average of 140 train* croc* tbe bridge eaoh day. There i* no limit upon their speed exoept for freight train*, which am not allowed to run over twenty milee an hoar. Blrchall Wanted ae Wltoeae. The World says : Messrs. Meredith A Co. yeilardey set on foot a motion for leave to examine Reginald Biroball at the Wood- stock jail. On the 20th met a writ claiming damage* for libel wa served on behalf of Urosveuor Hood Graf me on tba Globe company. The plaintiff in tbii action now ask* for leave to examine Biroball M a neoeeeary and material wituees on hi* behalf. The plaintiff swears that be believe! Birohall did not say, is wai stated by Ihe defendants in the article complained of, tbal he wa* an accomplice with him in the murder of Ben well, or that be bad any- thing to do, directly or indirectly, with Ihe murder. The motion will likely be argued to-day or to morrow. Solicitor* representing some of the daily papere of ibis city were yesterday making anxious ecqiirie! around Osgoode Hall ai to whether any order for replevin had been :ssned on behalf of Birohall again*! them. It i* said that some letters which were entrusted by the prisoner to some one of ihose engaged to procure evidence on behalf of ibe prisoner bave not been retnrncd to bim, bal have been left with one or more of tbe Toronto editore, wbo i-fuse to give them np, and proceedings lave been threatened on behalf of tbe jnsooer. No order bad bean issued by any of Ibe judge* at the time tha offloei closed. sssd, A Truth fol Fisher. Mew York Hrrald : walked and dressed and bathed and d and drove and dresaod sums m <re, And theu I just began afain aud strolled alung tbe allure. ,'d (rooks for every kind of thing that any girl oould do ; 'm counted aomewbet brilliant an I in ratner pretty, too . boated aud plavsd tennis till I'm quite tbe pru|>er tan. And nhiMl and nehad and flabed and usbsd, but didn't catch a wan. A Ktciai man sunk a shaft on hii farm ihe other day, and in going down 100 feet, t ii laid, itrnok two five foot veins of min- eral paint, a ten- foot sir atom of brick olay, a twenty inch vein of cjal, and a five-foot stratum of marble. he Tauiosjht ghavaWlchl Walk It, " I nsver been on tha oar* before," |_ tba old lady. Milling henelf in tba seal Mail arranging bar skim. " My son got mar- ried fifteen yean ago and we went to live ial Bridgeport. He kept a-orgin' me to com* to Bridgeport, but I says to him : ' I ain't ever bean on the oan and I don't tbink I would like it.' Now, mothir,' savs he, 'you won't bava no trouble at all. You ji-il git on tba) oar* and yon bava nioe cushioned seat*. and yon sea lots of slrangen. Mother.' say! be. -you would like il, I know. 1 1 Well, John,' I said, 'it don't *eea right to me, an old woman, to go gaddin abont in new-fangled oar*.' " Bui every time ba come to oar houaa be kept a-nrgin' me. " ' John,' eayi I, I might go if I could do some knittin' on the oan. Bat I ain't willin' to let idle with my hand* and do notbin'.' " ' Why, mother,' savs he, 'I ain't n* see any women do much nwin' on he car*. bu 1 , bleu yon, lot* of 'em knit*. Yon kin j-st lit there and knit till yon git to Bridge- port " ' John,' MA* I I'll go to pleaae yota, but I don't think it'* right. " ' Now, mother,' says he, I'll come 09 and get you, or you kin have Henry down.' " ' No,' lay* I, ' Henry mast stay home and look after the farm, and I got I km get to Bridgeport if ihe car* will I me there. 1 " They will take yon right there, and will meet you,' *ayi he. " ' How will I know,' sayi I, whan wa> are to Bridgeport ?' " ' Why, mother,' say a be, the brake) man will put hii head in tbe door and *aw what station it is.' " Bo here I am, on tbe oars for tba On* time. It ain't much use for me to ba> waiitin' my time, and I guess I'U do *OBW knittin'." The hitle woman pnt on her glaaaee and. feeling around in her cloth bag wilh tremb- ling band, drew forlh her knitting. " Do . you know," the amid, turning around hw work and looking at it closely. " the can run quite smooth. I don'taaam to mind 'em at all, bnt it don't seem right for an old woman like me to be goiu* a boas on oan." She picked ap two or three ititohe* ~^ WM on the point of starting her slender needle* on their way when the brakemam opened Ibe door and cried : " Bridgeport Bridgeport I " 'What did ha *ay T " Mked tbe little) woman, with a surprised look in ber eye*. " Bridgeport. We are coming to it now ' " Bridgeport 7 " ihe said, folding bee knitting. ' Now aia't that aggravatin' ? I alwayi thought Bridgeport wa* forty mile* from us. It I bad known that it WM so near I would have walked il. Why, 1 ain't been on the train an boor yet." Nobody laughed at the little woman. " Wby, John, shs said to a big, strong. honest-faced man who otme in to meat her, " why did you fool me about Bridge- port ? I could have walked il in a ooupla) of boars." "It's forty mile*, mother," he said, kisw ing ber wrinkled face. It'i the oan, JOB know, thai make it seem abort." " Dear, dear," said lha mother. "Ain't it wonderful ? " - AVw York Tntmnt. Tracts vs. Track*. "May I leave a few tract* here T" in- quired the meek and clerical -looking itran- ger. " You may," replied Ibe house owner, on- tying the dog, " but don't leave them on thw flower-bed*. Biok him, Mike !" And M the stranger realised that the man meant " traoks," be d.-d. Feather* in profusion ii the latest fena- inine fashion. D O M U - WO. <" PISO'S CURE FOR | THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE. sou) :r ; CONSUMPTION SCOTT'S EMULSION Of Pure Cod Liver Oil and HYPOPHOSPHITES of Lime and i Soda Scott's Emulsion ,,,,^7, (* a uv<ii,lrr/>i/ /',, ,;, frW.i.-.-.-. It if Ut* it.* .,.,/ [,. r CONSUMPTION, , Scrofhl.i, Orondntis, Wasting DU- i case*, Chronic Cough* and Colds. I'M 1 I \lt. A Mil K Rrott'aKmuiMoni... y put op in nalmoaeolet ( rpper. Amid all i u, nlimiaor aubalnutiona. j Sold by allDruitml '',> and $1.00. Si or I IIOW.NK. Belleville. I CURE FITS! Or hUI T US GIVEN AWAY YEARLY. When I >ay Cure I do not _ merely to stop tin in fr a time, and! return .gun. I ME AN A M ADI CA L CURB. I have m.lc the disease ol U or Falling 8lcknae a life-long study. I wsirrant my r,,iedy to Curatbw CAM*. Because others rwve ailed is no reason for not now receiving a care SuvTn* .. : ! V U< f tlM * nd fr ** ** of m ' *''lblw lom<lx. Give Post Offic It cosu you nothing for a trial, and it will cure you Address -* Aft. aVemoh QfHo*. le) waT ADUUO STMICT. VoMON-o. . E, TO THK KI)ITOR:-Peajc Inform your rrd>n I'M- ! have a positive r above named diicua. By its rUaety use ttiou.-a.uli of ho..,- e<> iu<> " l>oe a Mrmjuir I ihill be glad to send two battles of my ictmedy FHtu io any o. voui umption if thy wil: te<t me Uwir Exproa, *nd PO.I Office A.1aio/ ItJauectiul iTr jTa . w.C- 'M wwat AdatleUds, Ct.. '-OOONro. ........... " A