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HENDERSON, Comer* *nc.r, *c , also Asent Canauft 't an Llf* AMarsneo Co Deed*. Horlc*R?, ' COPYING & ENLARGING *e^prrrsti rrtatU,promnt\y correctly In i\\ It-, branches, In tho hot stjlo of f^J"^**^?^18 vpral*v *on} t0 tho art. done ou tho shortest notico and fceea ou Hortp&ce security, omoo , u __* . OlMttT Uoa*?. icloa. ltrewiv\liH rates. -^----------------------------------------.------_| JKi a oplotiihil stock of MouWiDgB 0. VA.TDESOX, Attorney.' nJ r'1 tur frAluC3 k,rt on 1"nJ and .ti cill i-i --elicited and you will be con\inc.d thit this is the ptaio to get photographs Youra rcipectfullv, C \V. HILL, JlcU^a, Deo 5, 1676 J a it-btT, t*oliollor In thanesry, A* Offlce Corner of Malj and ChurcU Hr9U,aor*etovrn, ^C. W. COOPER, ProTinciaJ Land Surveyor and Civil Sngineer, Guelpb. Ordrm y caall pramptly attended to, .----------------- --------------i--------------------- YXT5I. IiA.IDtl'ir, Barrister. Y .VttO'no\-at-Liw s >llcllor In Cbancorv, Ac Otlcca Hamilton. 10 K.ti| street, Milton, Main Mroot. The Million Oihcc* will to ucdor lUc minnEr^- ment o' U %V CampV-.il, and Mr l~iid- la-sr Will attend at t( "MUton OfflCt" ib Friday o'ta-h wtit. H EXR1 L. DS\S.E, issi;eiv<e tcfST. crtipn, ASai for tbe Mt-j-i* 'encil W .terloo JU! boJt30v ntr i-'ed to hl= c ' o will bo Calfcllfaliy auelJtd to OTice nt I)fiv'8 BoOk"tare, Gtitlph. O-der? by mall *i4TffSi!ed to GjdpU 0" LVvin PosiUfllce Trill recfllve prornp; a'wntion K.L. DRAKE. rriRAYELEBS Life and Accident INSURANCE COMPANY Of Hartford. Conn. ATEVTS for INDENTIONS j^ eiMllilo.i. j aad propo-lj" -ecured tc C*aad-v the Unit-ei Suites auil Europe. Fat4Qt g-a*aiiteed or no ctiarge- -end Paun Ced ' = 5Lructlon'u| Acn In "per- HBVR1 iitllsl. I , lOtt iwt, Ca.mai, lfech.nlca. Ea;lneerft sjo'lcltor of Pa ;ntsinJ Draughtsman. rrui up Ca-h Ca;>^i S rji"> jor pretttttcn TTTILLIAH WJlTILINS, JUaf r 9xrriaC Ilu ^ Crtlilc(a By KoyalAppolctmecU) B-sln-ss p-*vato aod conildeEit^aJ "lEiaceat .no fo". Oi Ttouat^ iia ton. ($00,000 , 4,014,0JO r-<'enh UUrt ... Z.M.SSS Dcjh it t-i'1! Donjnton Gof- tran( . ... UO.000 The Travelers la a STOCK COM PANY and writes Life Policies upon th Low Kj.te flll-c-ash plan No un- oert"1!! promises of impossible Md\vi. JenQ-,"' but a reduction of the pro- mium ^t ihe outset, equivalent to a "dividend " in advance. The TrlV- eUta writes L'fe and Accident ro'i- cies combiueiJ Cbetip ' ci"(,ious' inilio ciicioub look lure und goo, I'A Dcut--cHi.r to h ibhj ,ia liibhy can bo, ptDo botplca all dink dat no plains I hif jot, ^ a3 gi 1 v nut trmkiUH, or bomtdiug like dot ; Id s.wil poctuso I trniKs lager und "\ nit, Id -\ aa all on nggount off dot baby ofi ramo Pot selim ill lcodlo vcllow I doll^ ) ou %aa <iucer, Not much pigger rouudt as a f;001! S^"158 of btcr, Mit a bare footed head, und uoao but a nchpeck, A mout dot jjocs most to dor pack oCf lpa neck, Und liia lectio piuk toes nut darrestall combine, To gife i-ooch a charm to dot baby off mine I di.lla jou dot baby vae \ou of dor poys, Und boata leLilla Yavt-cob for making a noise ; Ho ehust has pecun tofhpeskgoot Eng. huh, too, , cia)B " mama," nnd " bapt," und somo- dimoa " ah goo V You don d find a baby den dinies out off inno, Dot vaa quite so Bchmart as dot baby off nuno. Ho krawls der \loor ofer, und drows dings aboudt, XJnd poot3 efrjdm^ he can find in his mout ; lie dumhUs der falitsira do^Ti, und falls from hid chiir, I nd gifts mmo Katrina ^ondcrrlblo bchare ; Mmo hiir Bhtands liko ehquilla on a mad borcubuK, Vcn I dink oil tK>sc j^ranks off dot babj oft mine HlensrllUam, [companies wnU> ll*6 pollCie hiving written M BS S. CASTES. Teacitr f Husle, DraTrtns aadFwatirj Church street, Actoi. OLtTES LOZIEit, Plasterer, ^.-.oa, Out- E-^s-j- de-orlp I n of . - K. Pl#rfctnf and Rough-csstlns; done on Decent the nias*, reisonibls wrnis, ana saU-'fao tlon guaranteed. most It 15 toe largeat Accident fnsurince Com any >n the world, hiving writter S36.000pol.cte. and p.jd m actual cash benehts to QcCld^.lt 1)""VJ holders alone over 82 565,0of|- An accident policy cosU but a inf.c medical examination required, a po'icy and share in the genera No Get A? CXON FLOrR MILLS. B 4 E. SICKX.IK, Proprtetors Pte^r and T-e*~i ai^raye on nand, wljole- ' ar.1 recall GrlsMng tnd Cnopplus HOISE. Acton. -T3SSIN ___Clos*- to tbe G T UsSi*. ^"5" station. .0M1NI0N HOTEL, icton. \gneif Qt'ed Ribert \gneu-, >ropneior,TlilB Aew Hn- 1 1 nt'ed up in flr^.-cias:. _ Ho. 1 U Qt'ed up .. f'yle with oi- fnrni'u'e. Comot'C1*! Travellers vl iflnd eoo<3 accommo-lat'on Hicomniollou-. Sample Boonm, spec'al attention pal i to tho wants of the tra\ el- littgpujllc, Bar supplied with me Seat Llqaoraand C gars. Uooi S_ihllDg and Htpitlve Hostlers. C P RUSSELL, District Agent, 3S Adealde Street 12ast, oronto W|LS3N IRW IN, Special AgCDt Der \os sorneding, jou pet, I don't likca pootj \cll J To hear in der uinht dimo9 dot joung Duutcher j til, Vnd dri\ cl der ped rooni inidont mau} does, Vile dor chills down der fihpino off mj hack quicklj gov* ; Doae leedlo-oh-mnasdic dricks Asn't bo tine, Dot I cuts up at nmhdt nut dot babj off nime 2 Veil, dese Itcdlo Bchafj^rs \ as goin' to po men, L nd all off debo droubleapill been ofer d<_n - I D..} Mfl \ ear a \hite shirt \ronl ln- fchtcid ofl a l)lb, Vud \ouldn t got tucked oop at nighdt in der crib Veil ' -itll \n l'n, iceplu und in hfo'a -dtchue, May mine oldt igo po cheered by dot '-ab^ off mine \CTOX -O^r-M. HEMSTBEET, Lieensed Auctioneer For the Counties of Wol log.oa and 'Hal- ton orders lert at the Fbee Ps-j -Offl'-e, \.cton. or at my res d&pce, ITi Rog_k WO.-K1. will bpr.omptt> attended to termi reasoaab'e "P TROLLOPE CUAPMAX. Practical Bookbinder. All Descriptions or Binding Jfeatlj Executed. A,ttM*X JSooU of all ftiiid Madr to Ord*.r. ^uliag Promptly Atteadsd to. "jBliMBi 6fc Georg^'a S^uaw, Gnepi. i ^Orders left at ^he Fbeb FxzlB (Offie* -h-iII receive prompt attontioiL LIVERY & SALE STABLE J. V. ALLAN TakeH pleasure In announcing to the public generally that liq lb ] rwpared to fur^.sa * ?lr8t-cl&3s Sorscs anfi.- Carriagos A.t Reaeonablo Hates Hie Rl^RHtid Horsesare the beht Uiat , can b< had, and ho ! * determined not to ,.t>t-iurpaf-^ed by any Olty liable Acton Jul\ Ist.IbTo. DAY SHOWS THj: LAEGE&T STOCK OF WULL PAPER u in _ The undersigned bega leave to aifbrna the people of Acton and sur- *nnding netghbcriiood that he his .procured a magnificent HEAllSE And is prepared to attend and con- duct Funerals on the shortest notice -*nd moat moderate terms. QuicU, Cojjiiw, Banal R'ibt', And all kinds of Funeral Furnish- ings kept in siock, and supplied on the shortest notice. Hat Bands and Gloves supplied when required-. TOHN SPEIGHT Acton, Feb 10, 1&T7 Eyer shown in Ouelph, all Iff&W and. Choice and prices lower thaa aver, CMldren's Carriages To be sold off cheap, at Day's New Bookstore Nearly opposite the old stand. Ouelph, April 21,1877, JOB PRINTING of allkinds q_tly <nd promptly executed at ' he J-I'.EE PRESS OFFICE, > i tbt Po* Ofllce, MIU Src?t. BfLL km THE WIDOW. " Wife," sail.1 Ed "Wilbur one morning ae he sat htining his coffee ni'k one hai'd, hoiili^g a plum- cake on }ii3 kn&e uit'i the other, and looking across the table into the buglit ^es of his little wife, wouldn't it be a good joke to get; bithclor Bill Smiley to take -jvidow Watson to Laiuuu 's show n tt week 1" " You can't do it, Ed ; ho won't ask her, he's bo awful shy. "Why, he came heie the othei morning when I was hanging out clothed, and he looked o\ er the fence and spoke, but when I 'shook out a night gown be blushed like a girl and went away." " I think I can manage it," said Ed , " but I'll haso to' he just a little Eut then, it wouldn't do much hairu, under the cireum- atauces, foi I know sho likes him, and he don't dislike hoi but just as you eay, he's so shy. I'll just go o\er to Lis place to boirow some bagB of him, and'lf I don't bag hiro before I come back, don't kiaa me for a week, Nellie " So Baying, Ed. started, and while he is mowing the fielda we wijll take a look at Bill Smiley. He was cather a good- looking fellow, though his hair and whiskers showed some grey lutira, and ho had a good set of false teeth. But everyone said be was a good soul, and so he was. He had as good e. hundred acie farm as any in Nor wich, with a new house and every thing comfoi table, and if he want ed a wife, many a gnl would have jumped at the chance like a roostet at a grasshopper But Bill was 10 bashful and when Susan Sherrybottle, whom ho wab bo sweet on, though he never said T" boo" to her, got mained to old Watson, he just drew his head in like a mud-tuitle into his shell, and thete was no getting him out again . though it had been noticed that since Susan had become a widow, he paid more attention to his clothes, and had bean veiy regular in his attendance at the church the fair widow attended. But here comeB Ed. Wilbur. " Good morning, Mr. Smiley." Good mouiing, Mr. Wilbur; what's the news your w.ay V " Ob, nothing paiticular that I know of," said Ed , " only Bar- nutn's bbow that1 everybody and his gii 1 are going "to. I was over deal of late, but I'd just liko to cut him out, I would. Susan is a nice little woman, and dosorves a better man than that little pup of a fel low though I would not blame her wiuch eithor if sho takca him, for alio must be dieadful lonesome, and then bIio has to Jot hop farm out on shafeB, nnd it isn't half worked, and no one elso seems to have the spunk to'speak up to her. By jingo I if I weie a single man I'd show you a trick or two." So saying, Ed. borrowed some baga and Btarted around tho corner of the barn, where he left Bill sweeping, and put his oar to the knot-holo aud listonod, knowing the bachelor had a habit of talking to himself whou anything woiried him, " Confound that young Sock- ridor 1" said Bill; i' what hag he thoro, I'd hk to know 1 Got a new buggy, has be 1 Well, to bars I, and a harness, too; I've half a mind to yes, I will J I'll go this very! -night and nalc her to go to thffehow with me. I'll ihow Ed. Wilbur that I ain't uch a calf aa ho thiuka I am, if I did let old Watson get tho start of me in the; first place 1" Edt could' scarce help laughing out-right, but he hastily hitched the bags on"hiB shoulder, and with a low chuckle of his success, start ed home to tell the news to Nelly , and at Qve o'clock that ovening thoy saw Bill go by with his horse and, buggy, on his way to the widow's. Ho jogged along quietly, thinking of the old singing-school da)s, and what a pretty gitl SiiBan was then, and w ondering inwardly J 1( _ 1 if he,.would have more courage now 1 -they to talk up to her, until, at a. dis tance of about a mile from her' house, ho came to a bridge, he gave a tremendous sneeze, and blew his teeth out of his mouth, and clear over the aide of tho bridge, and they dropped in to four feot of w utor. , Words cannot do justice to poor Bill, or paint the expression of his face as he sat there, completely dumbfounded at his startling piece of ill luck. After a while he step ped out of the buggy, and getting down on his hands and knees, looked om into the water. Yes, theie they were at the bottom, w l^h a ci owd of littlo fishes rubbing then noses agaiust them, and Bill wished to goodness that bis nose wA's us close for one second. His beautiful teeth that had cost him so mncb, and the show coming onJ ancf i^o time to get unothei set and Jtho widow and \oung Sock- rider. Well, ho must try and get them Bomohow and no time to be lost, for some one might icome a- long and ask him what he was fooling around there for. He had r>o notion of spoiling his clothes by nadiug in with them on; and be sides, if he did he could not go to the iwdow's that night; bo ho took a look up and down the road then quickly undressed himBelf, laying his clothes in tho buggy to keep them clean Then he ran around the bank and waded in to the al most ice-cold water ; but his teeth did not chatter Li his head he only wished they could. Quietly he waded along so as not to stir the mud up, and -when he got to the right spot he droppej under the water, and placed them an his month. But hark ! Wbatnoieeis that 1 A wagon, and a dogbarkicig with all his might and his horse it statting. "Whoa! whoa! stop, I you biute, you, stop 1" But stop he would not, and went off at a spank ing pace, with the unfottunate bachelor after him. Bill waB cer tainly in capital running costume, but though he strained every nerve, he could not touch the buggy or reach the lines that weie dragging on the giouud. After a while his plug hat shook off the seat, and the hind wheel went over it, making it flat as a pancake. Bill snatched it as ha lan, and, after jamming bis fiBt into it, all dusty und dimpled, put it on his head. And now he saw the widow's house on the top of the hill, and what, oh, what will he do ! JCben his coat fell out, and ho slipped it on, and then, making a despeiafa spurt, be clutched the back of the seat and scrambled in, and pulling the buffalo lobe over his legs, stuffed the other things beneath. Now the hoi-se happen ed to be one he got of Squiro Moore, -and he got it fiom the Wl low, and be took it ip. his head to stop at her gate, which .Bill had no power1 to pi event, as he was too busy buttoning his coat up to bis chin to think of doing much'else The widow heard the rattling of wheels and looked out, and seeing it was Smiley, and that he didn't offer to get out, she went to see what he wanted , and there she ed to make Botno nice little atf-eams tt8. 1877. {91.00 per ahnnm In Advance down bad to go ou to Green's of mud that came trickling his face. Sho asked him to come in. No, he was in a hurry, ho said , still he did not offer to go. He didn't like to ask her to pick up hit reins for him, because he did not know what excuse to make for not doing it himself. Then he < ooked down the road behind hla and saw a white-faced horse cDming and at once surmised it was that Gus 3ockrider. He resolved to do or die, and hurridly told his < rrand. The widow would be pleased to go, of course sho would. But wouldn't he come hi; No, he was in a hurry, j he eaid jne ' place. " Oh," said the widow, "(you're going to Green's aro you 1 Why, I am t^oing there myself to get one of the- girls to help me emilt to morrow. Just wait a seconi while I get my bonnet and shawl, and' I'll ride with you." And away she skipped. " Tbuuder and lightning J" said Bill ; " what & scrape 1" and he hastily clutched his pants f-om be tween his feet and was ptsparing] to wriggle into them, when a littlo wagon drawn by a white-faced horse, driven by a boy, came along and stopped beside him. The boy held up a pair of boots in one hand and a pair of sorkt in th { other, and just as the "wido w reach- ed the gate again, he said : " Hore's your boots an Mr. Smiley, that you lefi bridge when you were ming." " You're, mistaken," said _" are nqt mine." "Why," said the boy, "ain't you the young man that had the race after the horse just naw." " No, sir, I am not 1 yeu had botter go about your busi less." Bill sighed at the loss of his Sunday boots, and turning to the widow, said : " Just pick up tiie li nes, will you, please ; this brute o 1 a borse is always switching them out of my handB." The widow complied; then pul led one corner of the robo cautious ly down as she got in. " Whjit a lovely evening," said she, " and so warm I don t think we want the lobe ovei ui', do wel" (Yon see, sho had on it nice new dress and a pair of new alters, and she wanted to show then.) " Oh my 1" said Bill "you'll find it chilly lid wouldnjt have you catcli cold foi the world." She seemed pleased at this tender care of her healtl, and con tented herself with sticking ono of her little feet out with c. long silk neck-tie over the end of it. "W bat is that, Mr. Smiley, -e. necktie 1" " Yess," said he ; " ] bought it the other day, and I h*ve left it in the b lggy. Nevei n ind it." " But," said she, "I it was bo Ed. Wilbur catch him in such acrape; but there was no help for it now, eo he called Ed. to him and whispered in his ear. Ed', was like to burst with suppressed laughter, but he beckoned to his wife to draw up, Rnd afte: thing to her he helped the widow ouj; of Bill's buggy and into his, nd the two women went on, leav ing tho men behind. Bill lost no time in arranging his toilet as well as he could, and then, with great persuasion, Ed. got him to go home with him, and hunting up slippers and socks nnd getting him washed and combed, had him quite present able when the ladies arrived. I need not tell you how ike J story was all wormed out of bash ful Bill, and how they all laughed as they sat around the tea-table that night, but will conclude by saying that they went to the show together, and Bill has no fear u>f Gus Sockrider now. This is the story about Bill and the widow juBt as I heard it from Ed. Wilbur, and if there is any thing unsatisfactory about it, ask him. Cheap Printf^if. Our attention has several times recsrjtly been called to ceriain varieties and jobs of worki which have' been done and are being done by gome printers at pncea proving ^^Ii?8 ra.t" i bynd a doubt that *he7 dP not "" ""* understand their business,, unless they are carrying it on just for the fuu of the thing. Good printers, men of experience who ^^^ earno stly, ng, and I A Tramn'fi Maxims. In the hip pocket of an old vag rant, pulled in by the police the other night, was a -memorandum book full of his own writing with pencil, and some of his philosophy is good enough to be preserved. His first paragraph reads : " Drinking bad whiskey because, it is offered free is getting in the way of bullets purchased by an enemy." A second reads : " Honesty is the best policy ; but some folks are satisfied with second best. It ia hard to he honest on an empty stomach." A third runs : " A dry plank under a rainproof shed is better than a feather | bed in jail, and one. isn't annoyed by the jailer bringing in a square breakfast." ^ I A fourth says: ~ | " Pay as you go. If you havn't anything to pay witb, don't goJ If you are forced to go, record every indebtedness and let your heirs Eettle the feilhi." The fifth explains-: 4' We should have charity for all. When the winter winds blow cold and drear we vags should pity^ the poor fellow in Indias who are having red hot weather." A sixth is recorded : " Politeness costs nothing,! but it ib not expected that you will wake a man up at midnight to ask to old Soekudci's last ni^bt, and I ------ ! bcq his 8011 Gus has got a new stood chuttirg with her white arms t buggy, and was Eciubblllg up his on the top ot hei gate, and her face | harness, and he's got that white- towards him, while the chills ran faced colt of bis as slick as a BeaL down bis shittless back dear to his I undeistand he thinks of taking bare feet beneath the buffalo iobe, widow Watson to the show. He's and the water from his hair and ' been banging round theie a gQpd the dust fiom his hat had combiu- careless, and stooping over, she picked it tip and made a motion to stuff it in between thenj. Bill felt her hand going down, and making a dive afte:- it, clutch ed it in his apd held hi id and fast. Then tbewwent on c lute a dis tance, ha Btfll holding b er hand in bis and wondering what pe should do when they gat to Green's; und she wondering why he did not say something nice lo her na well as squeeze her hand, why bis coat was buttoned up so tightly on such a warm evening, and what madia his face and hat so duty, until they weie going lown u little hill and ono of the tia:es came un hitched and they had io stop. "Oh, murder I" exclaimed Bill;' " what next t" "What is the natter, Mr. Smiley?" said the wit low, with- a start which came near jerking the robe off his~knee8. "One of the tra:es is <L off," answered he. " Well, why don't you get out and put it on 1" "J can't," said Bill ; " I've got that ia, 1 harn't gst-r-oh dear, I'm so Bickt What shall I do J" " Why, Willis," said she tender ly, what is the niat^rJ do tell me" She gave his kand a little squeeze, and lodked into his pule face. She thought he was going to ftiint, bo she got cut her smel ling-bottle with her lift band, and pulling the stopper with her teeth, she stuck it to his noi e. Bill was just taking in breath [.for almighty aigb,_aril thepungen-t odor made him thrjw back his head so far that he li at his balance and went over the lo Rr-back buggy. The Jittlo woman gave a low scream as his bare feet flew past her head ; and covering her face with her hands, gavo way to teaia or smiles it is haid to tell which. Bill was " right-Mide-up" in a mo ment, and leaning ovei the back of the seat humbly apologizing and explaining, when Ed. Wilbur and permission to go through his hen bouso. It is more courteous to let him enjoy bis needed repoke. The seventh and last was noted down as follows "When you pick up an apple^ core;do not find fault beeauge it is not the apple itself, but be satisfied with the grade of decent. Do not be ashamed of your occupation. We cannot all be lords, nor can we be a know what a job must bring to pay a modest profit, have their estimates brought into competition witb those of printers whose figures are in many cases below actual Tjost. And this 'is not done so much through a spirit of rivalry as from ignorance. Especially is this j noticeable on colored Work, or that | caHing particular composition or: presswork. Many printers seem to think that the bare cost of paper and pnia composition are the only items necessary to be calculated with any exactness, and guess at the expense of the rest of the performance. But when it comes to colored work, with its frequent washing of rollers and waste of expansive inks, and the time spent in making up the seve ral forms, there is m-och more to J be /considered, as 'they find by] coBtJy experience, The great misfortune to the trade is, that although such inex perienced printers as w have- allujded to, may in time loam by bitter lessons to demand a fail priceifor their woiJc, the customer, naturally averse to paying more than usual for the same fob, goes: shopping about armed with the bill of the self-victimized printer, and is generally successful in fincL, ing some other new-beginner 'ig-^ norant enough to take the work at theJ rates therein specified, or, per-] haps, even lower, for the sake of securing it; the usual argument of Sanguine Victim Number Two being that if Number One could do it at those rates he also can. Another custom of the Sanguine Prmter is to take a >job at a 'non- paying price, in the hope of secur ing more profitable work from the game customer. This plan is bad in every way. It rarely has the \ desired result, and forevor prevents, that particular job from fetching a| fair price. ^ne only system on whiclu the printing business -can be remunera tively carried on is to -rigidly- make every job pay a fair profit, whether it pe an order for fifty cardi or fifty thousand Bibles. If a printer wikhes to conciliate or obhge a customer, it is better to give him the -work gratis at once than, to charge a price which will not pay, butt will have the effect of spoiling his or any other printer's chance of ever making anything out of it ln{ the future. Exchange. Bits of George Eliot's W|sdom> The tale of divine pity was never yet believed from lips that wei not felt to be moved by humat pity. Theie is an unspeakable blend ing of sad ties* and sweetness in thr smile of j a face sharpened and paled by Blow-consumption. Worldly faces never look so woildly as at a funeral. Thoy have the tame effect of grating incongru ity as the sound of a "coarso voice breaking the solemn silence of the night. 'There are moments when bj novae strange impulse we contradict our past selves fatal moruonts, when a fit of passion, like a lava atreqm, lays low tbe work of halt our lives, Always there is geed being sown silently and unseen, and every where there come sweet flowers without our foresight or labor. We reap what we sow, but nature has love orer *nd above that jus tice, and gives us shadow and blos som and fruit that spring from no ]_planting of ours. ^ Io. those distant day*, as in all other times and places where th mental atmosphere is changing, and men are inhaling the stimulus of new ideas, folly oftentimes mis took itself for wisdom, ignorance |rgirre'kself airs of knowledge, and selfishness, turning its eyes upward, .called itself religion. Our habitual life i like a wall hung with pictures, which has been shone on by the sun of many years ;_ take one of the pictures awj, and it leaves a definite blank space, to which our eyes can ever turn without a sensation of discomfort. Nay, the involuntary loss of anr familiar object almost always brinj^T a 6hill' as -from an evil omen ; it seems to be the first .finger-shadow of advancing death. all be vagrants. If I cannot lord I should not iament at being a vagrant. Be truthful and out spoken. This is, tell 'em you are a Chicago fire sufferer Bleep reason able hours or scmoother vag will got your plank first. Be hopeful, cheerful and good natuied. Growl ing won't cure a sore heel. | De troit JFi-eo .P'^eee. AftfrT duda choco- Faniily Slattern. To stop the flow of bloodJ fiom a severe wound, bind on the wound the fine dust of tea the flow h is been bt.rUnched num may be applied with advan tage. Take two ounces of grated late, one of brown sugar, three tea spoonfuls of milk, one teaspponful prepared gum arable, boil briskly for ten minutes, and there is delici ous chocolate icing. To cure weak eyes, tako rose leaves and put them into & little water, then boil; after this, strain it into a bottle, and coik rfctigbt. You will find this- liquid very benefi ;ial in removing ledness and weakness from the eyes. To preseve the teeth, dissolve two ounces of borax in threa pints of boiling water, and bafora it is cold add one tableapoonful of spirits of camphor, and bottle for u le. A tableapoonful of this, mixed with an equal quantity of tepid water and applied daily with, a soft bru ih, will preserve the teeth, extirpt.te all t&rtarous adhesion, arrest decay, and make the teeth pearly white. Xever wash mirrors with a cloth; but after removing all dust from the mirror and frame with |an old silk handkepehief or feather duster, dampen an old newspaper and rub the 8urfunce of the mirror till per fectly clear and -free from spots, then wipe off all the moisture with a dry jpaper, and the minor will bo aa clear as glaes can be without How to be Handsome. Most people like to be handsome. Npbody denies the greater power which any person may have who has a good face, and who attracts you by his good looks, even before a word has,been spoken. And we see all sorts of devices in men and women to improve their good looks {-paints and washes, and all kinds of cosmetics, including a plentiful anointing with dirty hair-oil. Now, not everyone can have good features. They are as God made'them; but almost anyone can look well, especially with good health. It is haid to give tules in ai very short space, but xn bilef those will do K.eep clean wash fieely and. universally with cpld water. All the akin w>ants lsleave to act freely, and it will take oare of itself. Its thousands of airholes must not bo plugged up. - ~r- Eat regularly and simply. The B omach can no more woi-k all tbe t me, night and day than a horse ; i. must have .regular work and ragular rest. i Good teeth are a help to good hoka. Bruah them with a soft truab, especially at- night. Go to led with the-teeth ^an. OP, course to have White teeHi, it is needful to let tobacco alonot Every woman known that. And any powder or wash for the teeth should be very simple. Acids may^whiten the teeth, but they take off itUe' enamel or injure them. Sleep in a cold .room, in pure air. No one can bave clean skia who breathes bad air. But, move than all, in order to look well, {vake up the mind nnd soul. JdVhen the mind is awake, ih* dull, ileepy look passes away from the eyes. I do not know that the brain exjianda, but it seems to. JThink, read uot_ trashy novels, put books that, have something in phem. Tulk with people that know something; hear lectures and leare SacrednSess of a Promise. An eminent "British statesman is said to have traced his own sense of tbe sacredness of a promise to 8 curious lesson he^got from his father when he was a -boy. When home for hw holidays' and walking with his father in tbe garden, bis; father pointed.to a-vall 'which he intended to have,pulled down. " Ob," said tho'bqy, "I should so like to seeVa wall pulled down." " Well my|boy you -shall," said his father. The thing however escaped his memory and during the boy's ab sence a number of improvements, and among them this wall was torn down and a new one built in its place. When the boy came home and saw it, he said^ " Oh father you promised to let me see that pulled down." Instintly the father remembered his promise, "and was deeply pained to think that he had seemed care less about his plighted word. " My hoy," he said, " you are right. I did promise, and I ought not to have forgotten. It is too late now to do just what I said I would, but you wanted ta see" a wall pulled 'down, and so .you shall." And he actually oidered the- masons up and made them pull down and rebuild tbs new wall, that aa nearly as possible hi,prom ise might be good. "It cost me twentylpounds," he said to a friend who was-iianteiing him about it, " but/' he said, " if it hud cost a bundled, I should have thought it a cheap way of impressing on my boy's mind aa long as he lives the impoitance that a man of honor should attach; to his plighted word." by them. "Train up a child in too way he , B________ mould go," ays the proverb; hut it it streaks, as is the case | u well, if you want to do the thing " G6urlng.3j*vic. Advic<hi8 a first-rate thing whea the person giving it knows what ha or she is talking about. But there are volumes of advice and counsel which are utterly useless, because it is stssply the result of an uncon trollable desire -to -say something what makes ne dt&seace. Advice, to be worth anything, aeeds to be matured in the mind before it is uttered. It is altogether (ratter, however, as a rule, to attend to your business and let otfjerrpeyiple^s .alone., 'unless yeu aro invited to interfere. Public men are especi ally the victims of the advice given. AH men and^women in'vthe world thick theniBeU-es called upon to give a man who happens to tbe in publfcihfo u sort of advice, seeoiing entirely to Jose -sight of the very important .fact that any who Las mind-enough to attract any con siderable share of public attention Lprobably lia3 enough to manage his own aSHirs. (Get your own afiutin in good shape and .keep them in it and do not waste so much of l.Sf ta looking after other people The begianing of mx acqixtin ance, vaethrr jwttl r .' . . J . ., ,.___ __:,l. rtl#-l, t^v ^Knf train vourself. I-IU1 SU rearms s U i ilt lather Jkave been unot than Jutve'mih a.clotb. by that tram yourself. jgBOUia.'t