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counties of wellington and bulton orders left t the fsra ps office acton or at my residence in acton wffl be promptly attended to terms reasonable untt f also money to loan on tns most fivorshe terms juid at the lowert rates of interest in rams of 1500 and upwards guelph cloth hall our 8prtngstck is now fully assorted comprising all the newest shades in main and fancy worsteds west of england trouser ings and scotch and canadian suitings jwe can assart oar curtirers sad the eenerd utlic that re bier tins season the clioieest selection of goods ve have erer been alile lo place before ibem and in con- sequence or the low prices prerailmr in tne wholesale markets we are able lo sell clolhinu at very low figure- shaw crundy meechast tailors guefpb t i1e foe sale- lime can be had at the canada lime works in smae or large auaotita at nt trmevlpplr at the kiln near tolton maylstl82 bi72acio hanlak babbeb shop it woawek has openl a barber rbop in the premtoa latelt wcapiad by dr forater aa a medical d licit jto patron ohiayiclnity krerr epml bfiiiiaai be eononcted in brclaaa k jpviordek an atd18tt f a e matthews offers choick- orange leuions kcdbauanns fiuepples cocoaoats htrwbenicf dates firs pur haplp syrnp ixll ijxe or fresh canned coods avd cholcn lot or confectionery jse earl- vegetables choice u o use plants ice cream i uif mkiag toe cream this gcuoq by i now redpe- which eery one prouoance eqaal to any to be had in the city having refitted my ice cream parlor i am in a position to rive good satisfaction to parties wanting cool drinks or ice cream by tbe dih or quart picnic panics supplied nt reason- able rates pieaae givfl me a call everything freah everything cheap a e matthews acton fruit depot lardine machine oil t akdike ii as bees awarded cold and silver medals wiieixvea exhtarro fanners threshers mill men save moxev by csixfi lardine s3win ontwear lord or seal oil and warranted not to gtnr manufactured only bv mccoll bros toronto tjfot sale in actou al j e mcqarvins drug store ion4 rss tanaastt moumu j bus it u84 poetry thz 1cu8is wi laxbt with the dear little uisaes we meet with in life what hopes and what ears they awaken for when a man chooses a miss for a wife he may be miss- led or misetaken when i courted miss kid and secured the first kiss i thought in the warmth of my passion that id made a great hit in thos gaining a miss bat twas only a misacalcolation for so mauy misses surrounded miss kid with me and my love interfering a jealous misstrnst pat it into her head that she ought not to give me shearing then a certain miaschance that i met with one day almost sent all my hopes lo destruction for she felt a suspicion of what 1 would jv all owing to oue misacoastrucliou deceived by ode jflssinformatiou 1 wrote the oaose of her danger demanding missdirection prevented her getting the note and introduced miss- understanding when lo mako her my wife iexultingly swore missbelief made her doubt my inten- tion and i nearly got wed to missfortune be fore 1 coald wean her from miss-apprehen- sion bat when she no longer would yield to misadoabt korbe led by uiesrepreeentation she had with misslike a most serious fall out and to wed felt ne more hesitation but when to the church to be married we went misatake made the parson to linger and i got so annoyed by an awkward miss- fit that i put the ring on the wrong finger having been so miss- used i kept a strict watch for i still felt a feax of missleading and i found when too late an unlucky miss- match interfered with the joys of oar wedding hisarule in oor dwelling put everything wrong missmanagement there took her atation till my caah like tha time taken reading this song wu all wasted by hisaapplicatiou the oldest drug store in oueuph established 848 savages watch clock jewelry spectacle house large stock prices right special atteittlmi hue ltatch keairlbrv b savage sear petrtes wew vrajc sur ensura duf stoiy best canadian goal oil only 20c a gallon now ia the time to bay your joal oil- hicinbothams condition powders bare gic universal satisfsctiod and all who have used tuein for horses and cattle testify to their ei- celleuoe prepared onlytjy wg smith co whiter fluid- an elegant prepara tion for boaghpcss of the 8kin chapped hands sore lips frost bites c- pre pared only by w c smith 4 co thorlej horse and cattle food sold in any quanaity lo suit purchaser diamond byes the best and cheapest id tbe markel w c smith st co eispennng ohemisu gnelpb 10th dec 88 thz missing deed any newa from the case this morning mr hutchinson this question wss asked by mr john holbrook senior member of the law firm of holbrook hutchinaon one certain morning in the latter part of september aa he enteredthe office his partner tom hutchinaon without looking up from the papers he was reading answered in the negative well continued the senior member of the firm we most exhaust every effor to find the missing deed there is a letter iu the mornings mail from mr arnold au thorizing us to increase the reward to five thousand dollars that ought to fetch it if it is iu exist- ence said tom hutchinson and he threw down his papers and he wheeled his office chair to face mr charles wihon aged tweutytwo with legal aspir ations who was reading in the office of this celebrated firm wilson he said write ont another advertisement in the arnold case and take it around to the ledger yes sir answered the youug man and he took a sheet of paperand began lo write after awhile he read the following and the firm agreed that it was the proper thing ixrohtfinox waxtzij information wanted of a certain parchment deed given by andrew sharp to archibald arnold con veying to the said arnold a certain parcel of land containing one hundred and thirty five thousand acres more or leaa situated in the state of iowa said deed having been given at burlington iowa in the year 1845 this deed was tost or stolen aome fifteen years ago and any one furnishing informa tion which will lead to its recovery will re ceive a reward of five thousand dollars by applying to holbbook ey hutcbtxsox at- torneysatlaw philadelphia pa youd better take it around at once said the head of the firm and the young man left the office to perform the errand messrs holbrook 4 hutchinsons stu dent was a poor young man very poor but he had a stout heart and great ambi tion and although he found it a serious matter to make both ends moet he was studying very hard to perfect himself for ike bar after which auspicious event he felt that all would be plain bailing he had roay daydreams sometimes of a future after fame and weajth should have fallen to his share and the central figure of these dreams wsi pretty madge bevan who wu nearly aa poor as himself and whom he bad loved ever since he wu a boy at school if i oould find the missing deed he thought as he hurried to the newspaper office 11 would be well fire t dollars would give me agood etrt in life and i oonk make dmadga happy and lift the burden of t her mother fe54- from her frail shoulders i shall be ad- mitted to the bar tbe next term and it will be pretty bud workjit flert nnleas i hare a reserve capital by the way he mattered aloud i promiasd madge to take tea with them thii evening charlie wilson bad expended a great deal of thought on the most important fac tor in the great land oua of arnold u sharp the missing deed to the immense tract of western land and tor the put month he had spent his idle moment visiting junkstores in tbe hope of some where running scross tbe parchment in the course of his search be had over hauled tons of old paper but so far be could discover not tbe slightest trace of tbe missing document and hundreds of others who had been tempted by the large reward offered for its discovery were equal ly unsuccessful today he thought more abont the deed than he did of coke and blaokatone and was so restless and preoocopied that when tha clock struck three he laid uide his books and left the office mrs bevan and her pretty daughter lived in an old farm4iouae in tho suburbs madge was employed u a oopyist in a big market street publishing boose and she usually finished her days work at four oclock until that hour charlie paced slowly up and down the sidewalk in front of tbe tall building where she worked they walked borne together and charlie of course spoke of tbe missing deed they amused themselves with iming what they would do with the reward sup posing they should find tbe important document and wen talking in this ridicul ous strain when they reached madges borne tea ia ready said mrs bevan greet ing charlie kindly and ive opened a jar of my homemade strayberry jelly for your denefit while mrs bevan poured out tbe tea he removed the cover of the jellyjar sud denly be turned pale his lower jaw drop ped and be sat gazing fixedly at tbe jelly- jar like one spellbound an yon ill charlie cried madge springing to her leet ton havent come upon one of those nasty black beetleaf ejaculated mrs bev an suspending the teapot in midair ko uo i gasped charlie after a time its nothing i shall be all right directly its its the five thousand dollars he seised the part of parchment that had covered tbe jellyjar and banding over it began to decipher the written characters upon it witness this my hand andrew sharp witness 1 he mattered and then raised his head and turned to madge who was bending over his chair with a glad light in his blue eyes pre found it dear 1 he cried whatr apartof the missing deed and now if we can trace the rest he criedvexcited- ly our fortune a made mercy on us l gasped madge begin ning to cry in her bewilderment did you ever 1 ejaculated mrs bevan and in her excitement she dropped the tea pot to the floor amazing jt into bits madge she finally managed to say the rest of the jars are in the cellar on the swingingshelf charlie dashed down the cellar stairs and there on a shelf in the middle of the cellar were twodozen jellyjars lacking ou each with a piece of parchment tied over it for a cover take them up 6tairs he ordered to mrs bevan and madge who had followed him and he gathered up as many of the jssn as he coald carry when they were placed on the table he removed the covers ic was an anxioos moment and his hand trembled aj he fitted the bits to gether at last the thing took definite shape not a line was wanting a few of tbe and whereases and provided alsoa were a trifle sticky and a few of the words bad lost a letter or two but the main points were all there and charlie wilson fairly idanced with glee vrihere did you get it f he asked turn ing to mrs bevan i had no idea the paper wu of any value answered that good lady and i selected it from a number that i found in the attic because it wu parchment they were there when we moved into tbe bouse and i expected they were left by mr- ar nold the owner of the property when he moved out arnold began charlie yes mr archibald arnold he owns this bouse and land but the property is managed by an agent that explains it said the young man mr archibald arnold is the plaintiff in the snit well im glad its found although they were excellent covers for jellyjars git down and eat your sapper i cant stop cried charlie reaching for his hat he pot the precious jar covers into his pocket and proceeded with all possible speed to the office of holbrook hutchin son one glance oonvinoed them that their student bad aeenred tbe longlost deed and the good news wu telegraphed to their olleot who lived in mew york he oame on the next day and the fold him the story 1 v at it dosehe drew a cheque for fit thousand dollars payable to charlies order and tbe following week charlie and madge were married mr arnold won hit suit and one day paid a visit to the old homestead where mr and mrs wilson and hri bevan still lived they received tbe rich man very gracious ly and be helped to eat some of the straw berry jelly that paper be said at parting wu worth a hundred times five thousand dol lars to me a few days afterward a letter wu re ceived addressed to mr charles wilson inclosing a very kind note and a deed to the old farmhouse and the plot of ground in the centre of which it stood given u tbe letter road in token of my appreci ation of the great service you have render ed me charlie is quite a distinguished lawyer now and every year his wife sends a jar of strawberry jelly to mr archibald arnold wlloont earth draw w winter wlthlntbeertodiunb witheare and up through tbe leitllsmi boas softly tbe babys prayer bleu all whom i tot dee father and help me to be food ah aaldi then stirred by a sumenfanoy 6b liftodw bmiogeasr did she ctm on the froi aap v some hint of the april m or the breath of to wesuia tb drift of tb noirbrwnf the beautiful trees ah whispered where the oriole used to thejtii tired of tb cold whit winter oh help them to grow to spring and tb flowers that lor to gather lord bring them again to hat tb dear utile violets alseping down deep in the ground today r ah earth may be chill with sun lakes and heart may be eold with cask bat watt of a babys silence are croesed by tbe babys prayer and up they an dnmb with sorrow in juhflant hope may ting r for when earth is wrapped m wintery in tbe heart of tb lard tf spring living too fast men ere living too fast idleness and in dulgence have begotten pride and discon tent the sge is thirsty for luxury fee very paupers of our cities scorn the patch garments and simple fare which once satis fied the welltodo tbe young cleric must live in a bouse about u luxuriously fur nished u his employers though he steal to support his nstahlishmet the servants rival their mi in tbe costliness and elaborateness of their attire by thus do ing they waste the savings they need to keep them from want and ruin the young couple who begin a home must have it as richly decorated u that of those who have labored for years and there is an utter unwillingness on the part of too many to be content with simple suxroundlngs we must change our standard of living and learn to rate people at what they are and what they hate this is a money- worshiping age men of variouprinoipleb through the clink of gold summon hosts of admirers others are tolerated for tbe baubles the mob scrambled for and still others are permitted to o posts of honor in the church and state which they only obtain by their wealth men lite in tbe fear of gold and not of god and aak the hanor ot man and hot tbe honor thatoometh from above there should be a return to more simple more honest way of living it should he deem ed dishonorable to live beyond ones means no man should he encouraged to spend a fervent yearin juxnry at tberislrof break ing down and mhiring a dtahonorable end the sle of the temperance ques tion the new york tviosaie in an article en titled sise of the temperance question says it cannot be laughed down it ia useless to sheer at it it is more important in its effect upon natural prosperity and wealth than any other that can be named liquor costs- every year more than our whole civil service our army our navy oor congress including the biver and harbor and the pension bill our wasteful local governments and all our state coun ty and local debts besides all tbe schools in tbe country in faot this nation pays more for liquor than for every function of every kind of government the liquor bill is more than 1800000000 all the func tions of the government together oost not more than t00000000 this is a formid able bill but the direct cost of liquor is not the worst of it the evils which it an- genders are incalculable the sorrow the degradation the crime of which it is the parent who can estimate old proverbs to make a virtue of necessity from chaucer the father of engiiah poetry and a man of infinite wit and to him can be traced the saying in at one ear out at the other though in the qnaint language of the day he said one ear it heard at the other out it went thepraverbman proposes but god disposes comes from piers ploughmans vision a blackletter poem and of two evils the lees is always to be chosen and when he is out of sight quickly also is he out of mind the original of out of sight out of mind and of two evil choose the least are from thomas a kempis thomas luster who died in 1580 gave us the stone that is rolling gathers nomoss bettor late than never it ia an ill wind that turns none to good phristmay wnt but once a year 8afe land safe find look ere yon leap tee ere thou go and such master buch man whitturijav- dont forget my fabmitu friend that you have got todl just thesameutbetest of os and you cannot bury yourself either next to a snowstorm for a decided nttis- ance comes a holiday in a great eity when a man doe drop out of sight in a great city you not only never hear from him again but you cannot even find the hole be fell through it is the strongest rswaime argument for our inmorulity that nine of every tan ha- msn beings believe in it politeness hu no creed about half we gnats at and tbe other half somebody hu guessed at for n a man of a great deal of character can not bide it he will betray it even when he sneezes c of the strongest evidences to me of a hereafter is that we eannot prove it every ladder has a top round to it our character we make our reputations are often made far us it is no disgrace to be bit by s dog the first time but the second it is very intelligent people earrj a large share of their brain in their faces vlcetiit tb tatter better ami i nerd isfc wfca cowboybegme bis ocmverssthjk m beware of drlbmgkxbe9 wisely but to the early fisherman beats lbs eariy bud in getting tbe worm tbe piano is tbe most morelof iaatru- ments being grand uprigbjlsqnajm this is a suggestion of sjriosji the rat when the trap closed upon him who killed tbe greatest number of euofc ens hamlets unofe did mibrderrnpat fool i what is it that you lib abootlm girl 7 asked onvyoung man of another my arm wu tbe brief reply what is laughter v asks a scientist it is tbe sound you bear when your hat blow oft it was a good sale did yon lose this strap mister he wu a small ragged boy with a clean new schoolstrap in his hand who asked the question behind mr p jjf aurora the other day r mr p glanced around to see if anybody was looking ahtbankyoumyboy heres a qnarter for your honesty and he tucked the school strap in his specious overcoat pocket its a cold day when i get left etjdmr p to himself u he walked away wonder ing who really bad lost tbe strap dot vu a goot sale said the street fakir when tbe boy came back to bay another schoolstrap for 5 c tiring him out mamma i met young mr n on the street today and told him that although he was welcome to see you he abonld remember tmft yoov young and needed plenty of slean therefore ought not to stay to lata nellie and what diddle say v mamma hn sisting that you kejpt him tram nellie o the great bjgj i tried my best to tirebim sotijrt go home mamma tried to tire him howr v nellie uy sitting on his upij i edisons faith in 111 the farm first and always the editor of the jfsrar nob- tarter says as we looked over tbe surging miases on wall street the other day and law the careworn haggard faces we thought how many of the anrjous- throng who bad been reared on the farm would be a thousand times more happy were they still the owners and wonpantt of the pater nal acres though they might not be owners ot a prinoely fortune and maybe might bate to eoonomise somewhat tre thought their sleep would b tweeter and iheir fanes more oontonted and happy than jjrow surety rocttej ind aimof roan jife there is tpxap- edison the inventor indulges in the lowing prediction as to v which wm be effected tyeleotricjtywfaihi fifty year in the sty ofrtwijtv would say that rbliettlbcwbi propel the cars of the stctst and ejasaw railroads light the city witbdnanojw its building- furnish power for j poees work tele aidhaiibr a deliver the opera oouv ijaroehv and sign4 fta opers4enwengiiies ajnd possibly displace animal tooomotion for tehiele t alwajt the immortal saying there room at tbe top wu invented clerk t r a bockland woman calls her husband a glacier because h mote o mortaby of- one of the bardesy tilings to aooosinlissf is to waken a man in a railroad w who fc oooupyhtg two seats ladsi bjma be cheaper thksppil- than last eaonbot tre- vifiat j oome higher than ever i t ifthe young man who wtl tratobureupmow ia wetrffl eee that he is a vws-sd-