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he windows of the room curt uins. A iowâ€"sested Ln-! motionless uwafiiting }.-fr lullabies. The glase aned for ward rc-flecting ;\ e.a bit of veil,a piece "‘he presence of a womâ€" i Beside the couch cover d with a white all round. .A pillow rested at the head. her stepped about the pared to waken someâ€" he little couch. Coming i over ard smoothed and tucked the cover l»mt over the couch i upon the little pilâ€" yes fhlled with tears. he littie bed had been cicus form that once nly one the great God ut a mother‘s love atily u gavest her to me * time, andâ€"thou will care for ber uoul I IN\#/ LLER: eps should I take to Iocio-(_v » erâ€"well waltzing I be the best. 1‘d like to buy that but I can‘t afford to he little couch. She ittle face that once the little hand so en had rested outside r the pillow fell again ir. The ft light of of twilight, seemed to her sorrow ; and as calw, pe@ceful, but full resixnation, silently ok thee,oh, Heavenly s Lasting Love dly) â€"*‘My boy is a e,but he is humping na Well, madame, T‘ll 99. Jbh, how good of you, yEA tae Crand Army, thy man,has gone bise ground Lo egâ€" 1 -"n!'”l"‘ HH to c«t fruit and * raw state, live ind wear as little In the colony hlt'll P. 0. Box 26. W oin What , bicycle bi nf [h.., ime field Ts &X at an carâ€" val :,rficeraim * of the smart ‘ l‘:"glishmen issure in call. idlâ€"out fnud r‘tune ut en 18 it the ut there; es in ig k (hamh 14 " the ight. !n‘ented a ) It is said, ‘PpFearance wife, have Ca t st ar9y in Live se "nglish never Duke fal every night.‘ t ‘My ! My ! I envy you.‘ s ‘Yâ€"es, b{u we hadn‘t the blankets. DANIEL RITZ, New Hambarg Dec. 15 /93, sayes I was -fivl-e from Dyspepsia, and othar troubles. I took a few hottles of Shilobs Vitabzor and it cured me. I sincerely recommend it. Sold by Simon Snyder, Waterloo. Ayer‘< Hair Vigor, which has outlived and ~uperseded hundreds of similar preparations, is undoubtedly the most fashionable as we.] as economical hairâ€"dressing in the market. By Stayhomeâ€"‘How was the weather where you were this summer ! Outerâ€"Cool enough for blankets Bears in South Easthope. A biz brown bear was seen in South kasthope on Thursday last by John Wettlanfer, who lives in the township atbout three miles from Stratford. The animal came out of the swamp to the north of Mr. Wettlaufer‘s place, and walked lazily across the fields towards what is known as McEwen‘s awamp in West Zorra. It is said that other bears have been seen in McEwen‘s swamp recently. The swamp out of which he seen to come has been afire this sumâ€" and it is supposed he was driven out by the fire. No effort was made to kill the animal, its use, the poorest head of hair soen bocomes luxuriant and beautiful. We have the support of eminent medical autbority in s@ying that tha tmnost healthful way to cook apples is to pare and core them, and bake in a moderate oven. If the apple is of a qaite sour variety it may be necessary to wld a little sugar, putting about a sx‘t«poonfal in the hollow whence the core was extracted. The next best way to cook them is them is stewing. Conâ€" trary to common belief, apples hbaked ; m their skins are the least healthfal ofI moked apples. . ' LVE ples may alw tru {er y H W tds of the appie are £ persons of sedentat Ts are apt ts l« to ves6 wet cmd the liy minating from the I itters, which, if rets e brain heavy and a THE REMEDIAL USES OF APPLES The sun‘s bright glare, Cleams through the air, ath his vaze their plumes are bendi Their fragrant breath, An aftermath e incense skyward ascending. ly [[s tt in even the hottest weather ; en the apple is safest when temperate climates the apple: _ ‘Outer sight !‘ replied Bobby, euthusâ€" ceely, and wight be obtained in iastically. ‘Say, mamma, why can‘t l‘y unlimited quantities, That we have things like that ? t more used than it is is due.to‘ _ ‘What did you have? said Mrs Norâ€" ihat, being so plenty, it is unâ€" ris, quick‘y, to avoid discussion. «1. Yet everyone likes the| ‘Oh, we had soup and soft shell some fishion, and it shoulid crabs and spring chicken and sparrowâ€" part of at least two meils ont grass and puddin‘‘â€" c during the year roun l ; for: _ ‘What sort of pudding " on the fresh fiuit is not in seaâ€"~ _ ‘I don‘t know. It was kinder fluffy incd, dried, or Sevaporated‘" anâ€" with wine sauce to it. It was outer y always be had. sight " nically," says a writer in the _ ‘How did you know it was wine \ uerican Practitioner, "the ap. sauce ? uinposed of vegetable fibre, al: ‘Easy ‘nough.‘ susar, gum, chlorophyl, mwlic: _ ‘Did they say so * lc anid. lime and water. 0 Farâ€" ‘Nop" â€" But I could taste it, cried We will not weep, ‘Tis but a sleep, ight resurrection morn ; Ayain they‘ll wake, . And fresh bloom take, nd of the spring‘s rousing ~oon there‘ll be stains, + Wrought by rains, nâ€"angels shake from their wings, The hectic flush, (On bud and bush, () Lliue flowerâ€"bells, \V hose honeyed cells, || to the hee their sweets, Over glade and glen, Moorland and fen, Sweet scented flow‘rs, In Flora‘s bhow‘rs, s softly are wooing ; Whose murmurs bland, Float o‘er the land, s ruthlessly strewing, FADING FLOWERS®. leath which Autumn brines 1 Harper‘s Bazar their dulcet hum grects OETRY. Ai horn Bympathetic friendâ€"‘I bear [ your partner has skipped with £4, ‘Never,‘ she replied. | The messenger who flew up to bm\: en‘s chancery with the forgoing di logue giggled 3 h‘;mn it h,ht";:o recording ange!, when he looked it over shook his head and sighed. _ | | *A ou are,‘ he replied, with unpbof- Then he asked : | _ ‘Were you ever kissed by a man ‘be ‘Am I the first girl you ever kissed? shsasked,as she reartange i her rumpled collar. T | Simple Optical Aid. The introduction of the simple photo meter,brought forward by a Russian inventor recently, is claimed to meet an impurtant desideratum as aFmeans for testing the powers of the eye. It is descrited as consisting of a pawphlet of twentyâ€"four pages, the first page beâ€" ing of m clear gray tint, the next of a double intensity, and so on to the twentyâ€"fourth, the tint of which |is neaftly biack, being twentyâ€"four times intenser than that of page 1. On each page are printed a few phrases in black of many different sizes, With such arâ€" rangement, it is stated the degree (of ease or facility with which the words are read on different pages, when held at a certain distance from the eyes, will indicate the precise illuminating power of Tight prevailing in the room, or, on the other hand, the power of the eyes theqauselves «] 1t is needless to say the questions ceased at once. | The negro was one of the| old fashâ€" ioned kind, and did not mekn to be inâ€" solent or impudent, but had just decided in his own mind that the lawyer agkâ€" ing the question was not a firstâ€"class lawyer. | | _ In Greece, when one peasant borâ€" | rows fire from another‘s hearth to kinâ€" \dle his own, the owner of the fire must accompany the borrower to his home ""to see the fire blaze," otherwise the one making the loan will have his house and goods destroyed by the deâ€" vouring element. â€" ‘Boss,I deciar‘l dunno how ter ‘splain any mo‘ except to say hit am jes de same diffuace between you an‘ er firstâ€" class lawyer.‘ } A lawyer was crossâ€"questioning &1 negro witness in one of tha justid courts the other day and was getting »long fairly well until he asked the witness what his occupation was. ‘I‘se er carpenter, sir.‘ ‘What kind of a carpenter ? f ‘They call me a jackâ€"leg carpenter, ‘What is a jackâ€"leg carpenarer? ‘He is a carpenter who am not a first clas sarpenter, sab.‘ ‘Well, explain more fully what you unserstand a jackâ€"legged carpenter to be,‘ insisted the lawyer. ‘Outer sight !‘ replied Bobby, euthusâ€" lastically. ‘Say, mamma, why can‘t we have things like that P ‘What did you have? said Mrs Norâ€" Did you have a nice dinuer " asked Mrs. Norris of her little son, who had been spending tke day with a friend. In Wa‘es and in Cornwall miners burn their hats upon the birth of a male child ; if a girl be born his neighâ€" bors burn it for him. nnufsineiinnt in nslb t ind | The Sicilians say that fire will not burn a man born on St. Paul‘s| day, January 25, but that if a woman burn herself on that day the sore willl never heal and will eventually causs her death. When a Russian family moves from one house to another they always take all the fire from the bearth of the old domicile and carry it in a c‘osed pot to their new residence. | In Devonshire if a fire buros blue and dead it is thought to be a forerunâ€" ner of disaster in that house. the Germans say lightning â€"uever strikes. | In Cambridgeâ€"hire, England, there is a curious belief to the ep'ect that a fire started by & lish ning| struke can onlp he quenicked with‘_milk CGood Reason For Sighing a fire burnl_p;_»{t the hearth The EREeal Thing eigse did be do T lightning â€" uever rgoing dia in, but the kgd it o?or | | |â€" ol i+ h edor to is gaining in fiesh as well as strength, and does not look pale. Our doctor says he is glad she took Hood‘s Sarsaparilia as it has done se much Said She Was Past All Help and wanted me to send her to the ‘Home for Incurables.‘ But I said as long as I could hold my hand up she w not go, &nd about this time a kind neighbor ‘came in and asked me to get a bottle of Hood‘s Sarsaparilia and try it, We did so and she has taker the medicine regularly, Sho is getting strong, walks around, is out doors every day ; has no trouble with her throat and no cough, and her heart seems to be alllright again. She has a firstclass appotite, HOOD‘S Lost the Use of Her Limbs and lower part of body, and if she sat up in bed had to be propped up with pillows, She would go ten days without a movement of the bowels. ‘All medicine seemed to do her no geod. She would have spells when her heart would pain her, and then, with the outside door open in midâ€"winter, would faint away. Physicians, after holding aconsultation, "Four years ago while in the old country (England), my daughter Hannah was sent away from the hospital, as the doctors there could do nothing to help her, and said she would never be any better. She was in a very low condition with consumption of the lungs and bowels, and weak &etion of the heart. The trip across the water to this country seemed to make her feel better for a while. Then she began to ‘get worse, and for 14 weeks she was unable to get off the bed. She grew worse for five months and Gildersleeveâ€"‘Yes,she‘s on the reâ€" tired list.‘ ning.‘ ‘Well, that‘s fist enough,. What do you call him ? ‘ ‘What Ma Says T‘ ‘What Ma Siys ! That‘s a atrange name. Why do you call him that ? ‘Besause what ma says goes,‘ Tillinghastâ€"‘Wbhat a bashful girl Miss Eider is / + ~ Wonderful Results From Taking Mood‘s Sarsaparilia. ‘Well,‘ she remarked frankly as she began to catch on, ‘I guess you‘ll be dog struck in about a minute,‘ and as she whispered for the canine, the tramp forgot his business and m«de a grand rush for the far side of the fence. ‘No ; he‘s off in some other part of the town, houseâ€"hunting. _ Hesuys this neighborhood is so fall of bad emells it isn‘t fit to live in.‘ ‘A fast horse, is he T ‘Trots like a stresk of greased light: ‘Something to driuk, he gurgled, graspin4 at his throat. ‘I guess I‘m sunstruck.‘ 4 Domesticâ€"‘Yes, sir, but he isn‘t at home.‘ ‘He is not at his office,for I just came from there.‘ * Physicians Said She Was Inâ€" curable ds In Very Low Condition With Consumption :‘:2'.'-::{ .;.dd’:;'u”n druggists.: : Citizenâ€"‘Does Mr. Blank, <f the Board of Health, live here ? He was som+time in getting bis wits together, aid uen h4 look d at her leerily, ‘Where am I ? he growne 1. ‘On this doorstep. Wuat‘s the matâ€" ter ? chenâ€"door and when the culinary godâ€" dess opgeued it she found a sorry look ing tramp lying on theJower step. . It frighteged her for a moment, but she soon wa&s herself again, and she adâ€" dressed ‘herself to the visitor. \ ‘*Herg, she said, shaking him as if be were a dusty doormat, ‘what‘s th« matâ€" ter with you T . Oue Woe Epon, Another‘s 'Nl+ The e was a faint knock at the kit Like a Miracle Miss Hannah Wyatt € _ Toronto, Ont. w d *& ~. arilia 31 EXCuRsSIONISTS! * _ w LA erect a fitting tribute of affection to th memory :t the !eptmd one. ; Kindly fayor us with a call and we -I;g be &louedl{o show MMW and des in onuments, H etc.. and quote you &cmutclnmy.uhotwck gither in Grapite marble, THE WATERLO Granite and Marble Works, SIMON SNYDER, Druggist, Equality between policyâ€"holders is secured by insuring in three classesâ€" abstainers, general and womenâ€"giving each in profits the true benefit of its own longevity. The RATES compare favorably with any in the world. Your choice of all sound plans o assurance »Fered, no other. THE Dominion Life Assurance Co‘y, Head Office, _ â€" _ Waterloo, Ont. When two or three years in force it is nonâ€"forfeitable, even for failure to pay renewal premiums, remaining in /Aldd * P »PFEAIS, Tremeanin JAMESINNES, M. P., CHR. KUMPF Esq., PRESIDENT VicEFâ€"PRE&8IDEN THOS. HILLIARD, Maxaarnoe Dirrcror. The Policy of the Dominion Life i§ a straight; promisse to payâ€"like a bank draft, almost unconditional. _ No reâ€" striction on travel or occupation. It provides a legacy certain instead of a law suit possible. AGENTS WANTED: Apply now for choice of territory to THOS. HILLIARTD Managing Director Authorized Capital $1,000,000, Lov‘t Deposit at Ottawa #50, +0 Rumbserrbed Orpoir) wll foree TILL THE VALUE IS EXHAUSTED. SHAEFER BROS. Erb Street, opposite Market. First class!work guaranteed, © Â¥F you have lost aloved one and desire"t o |Eotror®®® o C uc l‘= x M 4 a 4 ul at ¢ call on me for mngmguyo 23 \the most pure and perâ€"|38 y |feet and popular cookâ€"| 2, i meunaeditoas EEI , q % PROGRESSIVE ) Advertise E‘ N. K. FAIRBANK & CoO., § Wellington and Ann Sts., 2F MONTREAL. Blood Purifier psrams ’Chronlcle You can buy. Sorp By aurt Drvaooists. Sole Agent. WATERLOO ONT. in the Spring and Fall it‘s the best Paid up Capital $64,400 OTTOLBNE o |Corrou®®it| q OTrOLEN CoTrous: USE WATERLOO PAN | )$ outcome ,000 Are You a Subseriber ?l WANTED \â€"~~~>~>~~ 11000 Cords Advertise Productive . Advertising is to _be "foud ONLY in a metivn ~~of wie cireulation, character "__And influence among those whom! advertisers desize to reach, All}these requisites are found in the _ County Waterloo If not, send fifty cents for a Trial Trip for six mos. which has more readeps in Waterloo County than any other paper. â€"â€"BUTâ€"â€" Waterloo,‘ Ont. | laberally Right. ces (owong PRQS, Devitts City [Mr Storg Cheap Cash Store, Farmers‘ attention is directed to the fact that we are prepared to exchange brick and tile for all kinds of wood. ; â€": PURE :â€" CAUSTICG SODA "NTE are now prepared to fill orde« for th best Scranton Coal in Key, Stove or Nu 8ize. We would advise all to order now befor an ad vance in price Lakes place. .‘The y)rolmbl lities are that money will be uved by bookin orders at once . We respecifully solicit you patronage. _ Ordersleft at Our ottice at the co yard or at J. W. Fbar & Co.‘s Hardware Sto: will have our careful altention. TheReady Made Clothing Business has made wonderful progâ€" ress the last few years and it is a matter of fact, we have a wonderfu; output for these goods, and what is doing it, is our Extra Values,which our close buyers are observing daily. We buying for spot cash is a TT "yop TA /9 bie * â€" great advantage to ourselves, as deavor to benefit indirectly. "Tis not the clothes that make the man," but they helpy SUITINGS, TROUSERINGS and | Barred Plymouth Rocks, White Plymouth 0VERCOATIHG§ |_ Rocks, Black and Brown Leghorns, The latest invoices include the finest | _ Indian cames, Partridge Ccchins, Buff A ; + & of American and Foreign Fabrics. |. Cochins. Pekin Bantams The pricpa are consistent with quality | Send orders (‘:l"]y and secure the best. of material and work manship. | Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction | 1 Guaranteed. Call and See the wonderful barg‘dins at the Inspection is invited to the New Lines of in all our previous efforts. We were never as we have for the Spring Trade. Waterloo Coal Yarts. COAL ! Scranton Coal! Readyâ€"Made Clothing ISAAG BECBHTEL & SON, Soap â€" Making qMYTH BRQS. We have the Largost and bast assorts1 sto:k of GREAT MONTREAL BANKRUPT CLOTHING STIRZ WATERLOO, ONT. John Ritzer. HOGG & HABEICK. WOOD. Merchant Tailor. King St. Waterloo â€"â€" AT _â€" A WORD TO THE PUSLIC. FORâ€" E{fi Sign: Red, White and Blue Flag, King St., Berlin a| Cheap Cash Store. â€"| M o ETCOE "~2°CB °~° SpOL Cdsi well as to our customers, who we 5» L. G. Pequegnai | q!.\'(‘}? the introduction of D. High‘s i [J)J_ theria Cure that territle maulady has tb "anccessfully checked and cured hy all th 1 who have used i. It lims snduct many Hvex | will save yours if taken before bland poison has set in. The testimanials of whout T5 patie { that bave bein ured are now roagy for dis i bution. Not a single ease lost up to the w1 ent date, where it was the (ret medicine tak | Write for tectimanial=. The medicine ix | up in two bottles No. 1 rnd No %, in two siz | 8 oz, and 12 oz. bottles. T‘wo 12 o%, botTlos. | anfticient for anv case. Price $ az. bottle €1 The styles are the very newest the goods are of the best quality and we fshall guarantee to make the prices the cheapestâ€"quality style and workmanship being conâ€" sidered. If you are in want of a mantle or jacket for Fail or Winter we would advise an early inspecâ€" tion of our stock and prices. Come early, no trouble to show goods. Smyth Bros. have just received direct from Germany a large conâ€" signment of Mantles and Jackets, for fall aud winter. These goods were purchased from one of the most celebrated manufacturers in Germany tor Spot Cash. KING ST, BERLIN. Mantles A SURE CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA who lhave used it, t las will save yours if taken b has set in. The testiman‘s that have been cured are bution. Not a mingle ens ent date, where it was the Write for testimonia}s. up in two bottes No. 1 rr 8 0z, and 12 oz. bottles. 1 eufticient for anv case. ]‘; 12 oz. bottle, $1.50. Addrc» to Fine Cockerels and Pullets for Fall Exhibition, of the following v«rieties : WnnR & CO. fINCE the " theria( â€"ly A. Wonderful Discovery. Kéw Hawmburg, Breeder of Fancy Fowls able to + secure such values, mm P memcomup roduction of D. High‘s Riphâ€" that territle malady has been ecked and cured hy all those t, lt Lias sived mang lfves; dt If takenbefore bland poisoning estimon ‘als of mhout 75 pationk® cured are now ready for distriâ€" ningle exse lost up to the brer it was the (Or«t medicine taken. monials. The medicine is put s No. 1 and No Â¥, in two sizes. ‘ottles. Two 12 oz, bottles wre v case. Price 8 oz, bottle,.$1.00 0. Addrc»s all communications JACORB H. KIK3FEY, Bule agent. Doon, Ont. AN TD Jackets S day 4 46