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_ it ;z%A';' S ane ol l o After seeing her boy off, Mrs. Cow: ell had put Maud‘s breakfast where it would be warm when she should come down. â€" Her mother washed the dishes, and heated some water for some flanâ€" nels that must be. washed â€" too. _ Mrs. Crowell swept and dusted, and made beds, and hurried through the most of the usual household work in order that /Ab@Mghh have time that forenoon for 2 the extra outâ€"door toil. Her boy was in the storeday and evening, and had no tims to help about gardening. Neithâ€" er. could Mrs. Crowell afford to hire some one every time there was someâ€" thing in the garden that ought to be done. And Maud never seemed to think she could kelp. . Some way, ever since she came home it had been so. When she had heen attending the semiâ€" . nary she could not have done much but study, and her mother toiled bravely, ready to work beyond her strength if Maud might bave an education. But now, that Maud had graduated and .. come home, was she ungrateful for all her mother‘s patient days of toil ? "She used to help me when she was a little girl," murmured Mrs. Cowell to herself as she hoed at the periwinkle. "When she was a little thing, she‘d always want to hand me the clothesâ€" pins washâ€"days, to ‘help mamma.‘ Mrs. Crowell‘s lips trembled. Some way the recollection of the time when it had been baby Maud‘s highest ambition to "help mamma" overcame her mothâ€" er just now. A tear dropped on the periwinkle. Mrs. Cowell brushed her eyes. It was not the work, so much as it was Maud‘s seeming lack of syimâ€" pathy and. appreciation of <the work, that burt her mother. "Maud means all right," Mrs. Cowell thought now as e»«~~ she worked, "she cares just as much for mother, I guess, as she used to, on ly she does‘nt think. And I can‘t bear to say anything to her. (Oh! It must be time I went and got the potatoes ready." and she went in to attend to the work,. Outside in the warm sun her mother worked. She had hurried through her indoor tasks in order to have some time to spend in the garden, for she had been afraid that the ever advancing periâ€" winkle would root out some plants that she did not want to lose. Bat she was tired, and the periwinkle‘s inâ€" terlacing rootlets seemed like . shoeâ€" strings, the knots of which she never could get rid of. â€" She pulled and hoed, and still more weeds and periwinkle confronted her. "I‘im so tired she said to herself. No wonder she was tived. She had worked enough. She had hurâ€" ried downstairs before six that mornâ€" ing to be sure to get breakfast ready for her son had to catch the tr:in to the city. / It would never do for him to be late at the store. And as for Maud‘s doing such a thing as running downstairs, and Jighting the fire, and getting her brother‘s coffee and graham gems, and eggs ready, Maud‘s mother would have been‘ astonished . if such a thing had occurred.. Maud was strong anrd well, but she was not much belp to her mother. _ And yet Maud accounted herself a Christian. ners threatened to occupy to the excluâ€" sion of the rightful plunts. _ "I‘d soonâ€" er let that old flower bed go than work out there," thought Maud. _ "I wonder if its necessary for wme to go help her? I don‘t want to one bit ! Gardening is such a bother," She turned away from the window. "I don‘s believe I will, she concluded. I want to read that paper Uncls Franz sent, with all those pictures in it of the fireworks at the soldiers‘ reunion. _ There‘s ever so much historical information in that paper, too. One ought to know about the history of one‘s country."© And Maud settled berself on the lounge and read the paper. "Oh," exclaimed Maud impatiently, "T wish mother wouldn‘t ! Why can‘t she let things alone T" Out of the winâ€" dow she had caught sight of her mothâ€" er working in a flower bed which an inâ€" truding mass of periâ€"winkle with its multitude of rooting, progressing runâ€" That afternoon Maud went out to make some calls, and on her way she met a woman, a friend who had recentâ€" ly lost her mother, a very aged lady. Maud stopped to speak to her friend, and all the woman could talk of was her bereavement. She went over again to Maud the story of how the old lady bad ‘died. "But, oh, I haven‘t any mother any more !" exclaimed the womâ€" an, her face quivering. Maud looked at the gray haired woman, and almost realized a little of what she felt. "I baven‘t any mother any more !" repeatâ€" ed the grieved woman, "I thought if T did all I could to make mother‘s last years comfortable and happy, and didn‘t let her do a bit of work morethan: she wanted to, maybe I‘d have her a good many years yet. But she‘s gone, aud it seems so lonesome, it seems as if T couldn‘t bear to go into our house," and the woman wiped her eyes, in unâ€" affected grief, _ "It‘s too bad," responded Maud, hardâ€" ly knowing how to express her sympaâ€" thy. "I‘m real sorry."â€""Good bye," said the woman, sorrowfully, as she turned away, drawing her biack shawl aloser about her shoulders. Maud‘s face grew more and more sober as she walkâ€" ed on alone. She was thinking ahout the words she had just heard, and her thoughts turned to her own mother ; how much that mother was to her ! MAUD‘S REMINDER. The words the old woman had just said about not letting ber own mother do "a bit of work more than she wantâ€" ed to," gave Maud‘s conscience an unâ€" comfortable feeling. She had not meant to be so careless. $he did many chariâ€" table things, and belonged to several societies, and she did not like houseâ€" work. _ Had she neglected her mother? "I haven‘t any mother any more." A quivering feelingcamein Maud‘s throat. Supposing she should ever have to say that ! Maude‘s memory awoke. "When I was going to school," she thought, "mother worked and worked at home, sweeping, and cooking, and washing paint and windows, and ironing, and doing everything, and she was so tired at night, and yet I couldn‘t spare time for my lessons to belp get supper, and she‘d tell me to keep at my books, and she‘d wash disbes, and everything. Some mothers would have thought they needed me too much at home to let me keep on going‘to the sewmnary, but mother wasn‘t that way. She had too hard a time getting her own education to stint me on mine. And how she used to spend time hearing my lessons when I was little and wasn‘t strong enough to go to school all the time ! Some mothers wouldn‘t have thought they could spare a couple of hours a day to hear a child recite, out she did. And here I am, letting her do anything now ! _ What sort of a Christian have I been ? A person who didn‘t even profess to be a church member _ might have done better." % The next morning Mrs Cowell awoke with a kind of indistinct feeling that she had heard someone go softly down stairs a while betore. But she thought she must have been mistaken. "It.can‘t be time for Harry to be up yet," she thought as she hurriedly made ready to go down to her usual work. It seem:â€" ed to her she was tired to begin with, She was always tired. There was so much to be done. But when sho reachâ€" ed the kitchen, she was hbalf startled. Maud stood there, turning hot water into the coffee pot, There was a fire. The table in the next room was set for the almost cooked breakfast. ‘"Why, Maud !" exclaimed her rother. _ "I‘m up early for once," returned Maud quietly. > _ But it was not till after two or three days of such belping that Mrs. Cowell realized what bad happened. . One morning Maud took the broom and the carpet sweeper out of her mother‘s hand‘s and insisted on doing the day‘s sweeping upstairs. Mrs. Cowell went away by herself into the parlor, and listened to Maud‘s steps as the girl went upstairs. Her mother‘s eyes fillâ€" ed with tears. 1t seemed so good to have a helper. "Ob," almost sobbed the mother to herselt, "I knew Maud cared ! I do believe she has thought, at last !‘â€"â€"The Standard. Shot Dead By a Burglar. Napanee, Ont., Sept. 14â€"This mornâ€" ing about 2 o‘clock Angus McLeod, merchant and tinsmith, was awakened by burglars in his house. ssm To in esn Cl He arose and advanced towards the burglar in the parlor, who told him not to take another step or he would shoot him. At the same time he fired a warnâ€" ing‘shot in the opposite direction. McLeod, reached for the water pitâ€" cher and threw it at the burglar, who fired, the shot taking effect just above the heart and severing the main artery. He died almost instantly. The murderer escaped with about $20 the proceeds of a social held in the Presbyterian Church last night. "Whatever you do," said Granny Sara to young Mrs.. Martin as she sat with her first baby on her knee, "don‘t take to drinking ale or porter or any strong drink ou the: notion that. it is going to do you good. If there is one thing more than another which makes a mother cruel, wicked, unnatural, it is drunkenness, and many are the mothers who become drunken from these small beginnings, ordered by the doctor." "A great many women take such thiogs, said Mrs. Martin. ‘Yes, and a great many perish by it body and soul. I have a nieco who is one of the matrons in a woman‘s prisâ€" on, She tells me that 90 in 100 of the prisoners get there because of strong drink, and of these 90 in 100 who drink 60 have begun by taking liquor as a medicine or a tonic." "Well, I wouldn‘t wish to be a drunken mother," said. Mrs. Martin, kissing her baby, ie "Truly you might saf that if you know how bitterly cruel drunken mothâ€" ers are. Once I was hired to help in a soup kitchen. A big, red faced womâ€" an, mother of four starving â€" children came for bread and soup and regularly carried both to sell for liquor at the dramshop, leaving her poor babes eryâ€" ing with hunger. I found. it out and daily took the soup and bread to feed the children myself. She was so enâ€" raged at that she began to maltreat the poor wretched little ones and threatened to kill me. To save the limbs and lives of the children I had to call in police aid, and the woman was put in prison, and the children were sert to an asylum."â€"National Temperance Advocate. Statistics are said to show that the introduction of machinery into manuâ€" facturies has decreased the number of the unemployed, Drunken Methers. A Train Robbery That Bents The Record of Such Daring Decds. Chicago, Sept. 12.â€"Twenty masked men beld up a Lake Shore tratn 140 miles from Chicago near midnight, and after wounding the engineer blew open the safe in the express car and stole its contents. THEY USED DYNAMITE. The robbers stopped the train by means of a red Jight. The engineer would not giye in and was shot by them. Tney exploded dynamite under the exâ€" press car which made a huge gash in its side. The express messenger, who had refused to surrender, poured shot after shot into the rotbers but was finâ€" ally overcome and beaten iuto unconâ€" sciousness. â€" Half a dozen of the twenâ€" ty men then looted the express car. BLEWY OPEN THE SAFE. Dynamite was again used in opening the safe and the thieves used their own time in taking everything they thought worth carrying away. The guards at the doors of the passenger conches were wa‘led off, _A few parting shots were fired and the band of rohbers disap: peared in the wooded stretch of _ land that skirts the railroad. MASKED MEN GET $25,000 IN GoLD. The sheriff of the county, aroused from bed, called up all near him for belp, and soon a posse of residents of Kendallville were speeding along. the highway to the scene of the holdâ€"up. They scoured the vicinity, beat through the bush and travelled miles through the woods, but could find nothing. IT wAS THE | NEW YORK BXPRESS. The train held up was the New York express on the Lake Shore railâ€" way, which reaches Kendallville about midnight.~ It was made up last night of ten coaches, two express cars and baggage car. (The dynamite having wrecked only one express car, the robâ€" bers contented themselves with looting this alone and made no effort to force an entrance to the second. Lieut. Shepard at once sent balf a dozen officers to intercept the bandits if they came towards Chicago. cor $250,000 in @orp. Chizago, Sept 12.â€"Later details of the train robbery near Kerdallville, Ind., say the robbers secured $250,000 in gold which was being shipped east by a Chicago bank. The engineer struck down one of the robbers with a coal pick and he fell from the engine. The fireman jumped through the cab window and ran for bis life. London, Sept. 4. â€"Another patient, the daughter of the previqus victim, died of cholera in Hull yesterday. These cases have been pronounced Asiatic cholera. It is reported there were two ‘deaths from cholera in Grimsby yesterday. General Manager Wygant, of the United States Express Co., is taking active steps to capture the robbers. A number of the Express Company‘s deâ€" tectives, several Pinkerton men and a squad of city police have gone to the scene of the robbery on a special train. One fresh case\ of cholera was found in Hull toâ€"day. _ Mss Sir Walter Foster, Parliamentary Secretary of the Local Government Board, when questioned in the House of Commons this afternoon, said that seven deaths from cholera had occurred in Hull and Grimsby. . He added that every precaution was being. taken against the epidemic. Love is the only thing that has a perennial root, and that death cannot touch. "Shorter" Pastry â€"â€" and "Shorter" Bills. fl;:urcst,_ healthiest _ and . cleanest ‘ingredierts go to make up Cotâ€" tolene, . Lard isn‘t healthy, and is motatways clean, Those who use ‘Cottoléne will be bealshier and wealthier then those who use latdâ€"Mealtbicr because they will get @shorter‘" bread; wealthier Because they will got "shorter" grocery billsâ€"for Cottolene costs mo more than lard and goes twice e# Yazâ€"so is but half as expensive, @yspeptics delight in It! Phzsiclarms endorse It! CHbTs praise it ! Cooks extol it! Roasewives wolcome Itd lt Hve Grocers seHâ€"It! * Atado only by K. K. FABRBANEL & CO# We eretalking about a " shortern« Mng"‘ Wwhich will not cause indiâ€" {gestion, Those who "know a thing cor twd" about Cooking (Marion )Harland among a host of others) »are using Anstead of lard. None but the The Cholera in England, MONTRE Waterloo County Chronicle Philip Hohmeter, Gas Fitter, Plumber, &c. Has contractedl for this space REDUCTIONS ! REDUCTIONS! â€" Reductions Every where. Our stock must be reduced to make the changes which are necesâ€" sary in our large and : increasing business. To reduce the stock we have reduced the prices to rock bottom,«and many lines will be sold this month at much below cost o manufacture. Note the following quotations ; 40 in. Dress, new shades, 16¢ worth 4oc; 38 to 40 in: tweed efâ€" fects 16¢, worth 4oc; 32 in. Satin Stripe Lawns toc, worth 20¢; 3/4 Wool Dress Goods, 12. 1/2¢, worth goc; 18 yds good Shirting for $1; zo yds good Towelling for $1; Heavy all wool Tweeds, 30c¢, worth zoc per yd; Children‘s black cotton hose, 5c per pair; 20 yds printed Muslins for $1; A special linc of black and coloured. Henriettas, 44 in. wide, all wool, 30¢ per yard; All wool Serges, black and coloured, 25c per yard. We are determined to reduce the stock if selling cheap will do it. "MAGNETIC CORSETS" are the best, price $1.25. We carry a large variety of Corsets of different makes: Feaâ€" therbone, Coraline, Yatisi, Watch Spting,. B: & C.. B..B. and C. & C all the best the trade can produce; prices: 25¢, $0¢, 750 $1. and $1.25. 6. (Be reareful that you get to Smyth Bros, Cheap Cash Store make no mistake. Terms (Cash and One Price. 11 persons having claims against the estate A_ of Michael Stricker, late of the village of Linwood, in the Count{ of Waterloo, who deâ€" parted this life on or about the 25th day of De cember, A. D., 1890., are hereby notifled to file their claims with the undersigned on or before the 1st day of October, otherwise they wiil be debarred from participating in the same. Lwora STRICKER, a TE ko afrenat Administratrix, Linweod, Aug. Xind, 1803, SMYTH BROS. GREAT SALE. Notice to Creditors. â€"â€"theâ€"â€" KING ST, BERLIN We have something to interâ€" est all who appreciate beautiful goods at a reasonable price. No store in the county has the variety that you find displayed here. Come when you will there is alway someâ€" thing new to interest and please This week‘s opening,disclosebeautiâ€" ful Flower Epergns in Ruby and Pale Green Colors, the Prettiest shown here, at $2.25, $4.25 and $5.00. § AS USU AL! 97§icce painted and gilt set only 10.65. 97 piece royal suire porcelain and gilt set $12.135. z37 piece decorated and gilt set onâ€" ly, $11.65. 97 piece enameled and gilt set onâ€" y $t173. o and a Big Snap in Dinner ware a 98 piece painted set for $6.50 â€"Toilet ware in abundance. . It will pay you to call on us. Goods delivered to any address in Waterâ€" loo. DOMINION DEPOSIT, Assurances in force, Jan. 1st, 1893.. .. $16,122,195 Increase over previous year ...... 1,187,388 New Assurances written in 1892 ...... 2,651,000 Increase over 1801.................. . 222,050 Cash Income for 1892................... _ 614,951 Incrense over 189L u/. ../2. (..0.l.s 67,331 Assets, December 31st, 1892............ 2,253.984 Irérease over 1891........ ........... . 204,058 Reserve for security of Policyâ€"Holdâ€" @TH c ie e i ratoae i beve e cor rae|â€"2,000,008 Fucrease of I891.......â€"...........2. | 280,807 Surplus over all Liabilities, December digt} 1807..0â€" .20 0. oarvavnn d e toer e AT0,30L Increase over 1891.................. 20,742 The 20â€"YÂ¥ear SUpERVISORSEIP DISTRIBUTION Por1cy now offered embraces all the newest features, and is the best form of PROTECTION and INYVESTMENT money:can buy. It has no equal. Guaranteed values, attractive options, and liberal conditions. 1. Cash and Paidâ€"up Values guaranteed on each policy, 2. All dividends belong to and are paid only to policyâ€"holders. 3. No restriction on travel, residence, or occupation. 4. Death claime paid at once on completion of claim papers. OFFICERS : ALEX. MILLAR, Q. C., Solicitor.........Berlin J. H. WEBB, M. D., Medical Referee. Waterloo W. S. HODGINS, Supt. of Agencies. . Waterlco Ontario Mutual Life. Houseâ€"painting . Paper Hanging MILLER & REUTER. w H.RIDDELL, WM. HENDRY, _ _SHOP above George Poppler‘s ltola,lcksmith shop, King St., Waâ€" eri00. Ate prepaeed to do Housepainting and Paper Hanging in the best style of the art. Remember : None but first class maâ€" terial used. $ t s THE WATERLOO MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. Capitalin Premium Notes andCash Assets over $260,000. Empire Tea Store., Economy, Equity, Stability, Progress. Phone 124. Sign of The Big Tea Pot. TRY USFOR YOUR Teas, Coffees, Baking Powders and Spices. HEAD OFFICE, â€" WATERLOO, ONT Established 1870. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chas. Hendry, Esq., Waterloo. Geo. Randall, Esq., n John Shuh, Esq., ut Geo. Diebel,Esq., William Snyder, Esq., " T. D. Bowman, Esq., Borlin. J. L. Wideman, Esq., St. Jacobs. John Allchin, Esq., New Hamburg. T. E. Bowman, Esq., M. P., Waterloo Allan Bowman, Esq., Preston. P. E. Shantz, Preston, Thomas Gowdy, Esq., Guelph. James Livingstone, Esq., M. P., Baden. Thomas Cowan, Esq., Galt. 8. Snyder Esq., Waterloo.{ OFFICERS: Charles Hendry, President. ] George Randall, Viceâ€"President, J C. M. Taylor, Secretary. John Killer Inspector. Messrs. Bowlby & Cement, Soliciters Borlim Also pulty Dinner ware a Liberal Conditions of Policies : Secretary Querin‘s Block, BERLIN $100,000. M anage Sole Agent BOOT AND SHOE STORE Fall stock in the latest New York, j English and Canadian styles arriving daily. Better Assortment than ever. Bring your watches and clocks wantâ€" ing repairs to C. J. Alteman, who will undertake to put them in good running order and guarantee satisfaction. Waterloo, We have everything in the line of footwear CALL AND SEE. & "A pleasure to show Goods. Eeadguarters for Trunks and Valises. New Willians Sewing: Machines. patterns can always be had at Stoves ! â€" Stoves ! o You Intend Buying a Stove ? Ranges we have the best assortment in the County, fand at prices that will surprise you. Philip Gies & Co., N otice is hereby given thatthestream known as the "Canaquagigue" has been leased ? the umdersigned and ethers from and includâ€" lnlgl the farm of Geor%e Holtzworth (about 5 miles north of Elmirs) to the farm of John Burkbardt, including all the intermediate prowdrbles over which it flows. om the reserve as above is prohibited wall trospassors will be prosecuted. GEO. WEGENAST Alteman‘s, the Jeweller. Wedding Presents. Every Instrument Warranted Apply at Factory, or to Suitable articles in great variety of The Copner Jewellery Store, PIANOS iTHE â€" POPULAR {opposite the ZimmermanHouse.) is NOW COMPLETE. CANADIAN BLOCK. BERLIN. Cook Stoves, QUR STOCKZ OF} J . S. ROOS, NOTICE ON EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT And Heaters . G. GARDINER, L3 The Popular Root & Shoe Store. Seo‘y Borlin Organ & Piano Co., L‘t‘d Ont hand. You will note that they are evenetr in color. freer from Limestone, and about oneâ€" twelfthlarger, than the ordinary article, _____ _ Gumtion is the faculty which . enables you: to note these advantages aad profit by them. _ BECHTEL‘S BRICK. Bechtel‘s Brick and Tile The Star Laundry, This is a new business for our town and we have every reason to believe that our efforts will be appreciated and that we will be favored with your work. A trial solicited. Office: Boehmer‘s Block, ‘Waterloo, A DESIRABLE farm of 160 aores, the N. E 1 situated in seoc. 36, Townsh1 37, N.5, W., Centre Township, Emmet Co. Mich, for salo Or exchange on good property ‘n the County 0 Waterloo, Twenty acres clear, balance wel wooded with basswood, elm and maple, A. good dwelling on property Saw mill only one quarter. _mLfle dist,antA.. a‘ndkrai]rca.d 3 miles. A qUeAzaC POCE O AT CE tli.lutnr. sptendidichance _ Apply to Youhave not got it if you don‘t build with Go down to the yard and see the stock om ISAAC BEOHTEL & SON. Cheap Harness FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. J. STREBEL‘S, does all kinds of Laundry work in first class style. Building and Draining, Hello â€" There GUMPTION ERB STREET WATERLOO. Now is the time for WILL LEAD YOU TO USE WATERLOO, IN THE MATTER OF JUST A LITTLE Five Years. J. ECHART, RProprietoxn Apply to 8 gALLMAN. 202 King street wesk y 1 | |