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rear horses examined as to soundness and certificates given all calls mgut or dav pmmptlv attend ed to terms easy ce eiggs lx s of the firm of a bigosivoar toaaxro will be at campbell s hotel on the first monday of every month in the practice of his profession ah wcrk executed in the latest and most improved style of the dental art no charge for consultation i mfamaihtiam terms 8 1 00 a idrance the newspaper- a map of basy life its fluotuationi and ita vast concerns 8150 if not so paid volume x no 5 aoton ontfsuesday july 30 1884 whole no 474 i ft acton banking coy storey christie it oo bankers teton ontario a general bankwg busl ness transacted h0ot7 waited ok approved k0tss notes discounted and interest allowed on deposits acton fruit depot business change j m fernley has purchased the stock and business of a e matthews and wik here after keep constantly oa hand in season a full line of choice confectionery fruit canned goods choice cigars 4c m owat mrlealt barristers solicitors notaries convey accers ac rjioxzv to loii omci town hall acton j ajibirit w amclxis g s goodwuxie bamsterj sohator notary public georgetown acton asr acton office in sirs secord s block tohx dat aechitect guelph ontario orna quean s hotel block market- square j livingston llb bikbetek o soejotok coxtetjkces ic orac next door to hymns jewellery store mill street acton bain laidlaw co bahhistee8 solicitors orrces over imperial bank 24 wei hngton street east entrance exchange alley toronto toinc bux- q c c amiiixv wnxtax liiiiat gloegl kappeix rvf b bragg peactk vl millwright ee arranging 01 flour mills a fapecialn p o address box 103 kocctoob patents secured i for im estions he key grist oxn cxvaua id tear pracnce no patent no paj tflbancis konan successor to t i chapman bookbddeb at george s fvjuare gneiph icoount books of all kinds made to order periodicals of every description carefully bound ruling neatly and promptly done rjrtk hehstbeet ldoansed auctioneer- for the counties of wellington andhaltou orders left it the fexx paras office aftou or at my residence in acton vrill be- promptly attended to terms reasonable hester taa also monev to loan on the most favorable twins and at the lowest rates of interest n sums of 500 and upvwrds t isiefok sale lime can be had at the canada lime works in small or large quantities at any time appl at the ksn near tolt mill or to n c s smith may 1st 168 box 172 acios anlan babbbb shop p wobdek h has opened a barbw shop m the premtos lately occupied by dytm o office and soudu the patromge of una roanity kveryoerrttreotofitobniines wfflbawuetedmfiiatouvarrtyl give os a call june 2th 1 tj pwobdes and ecrvthing kept in a firstclass estab lishment of tl is kind ice cireaim ail cool saasx briaia always feesh and pure kindlv soliciting a conuinance of the patronage heretofore given the acton fruit depot i am resptjctftilu j m fernley post office bttildiiie acton hand bags a beautiful tot of samples bought and sold at ballprice choice new window shades all colors at days bookstore glelpb day sells cheap 2000 gords hemlock bark wanted the stibcnbcrs will psy 550 per cord for all prime qmllty hemock birk de uvered at their cannery lu acum before noremberlst 1884 bark mut be brrht on flesh bst uid fall four feet lung larled or damaged bark only recenel at a proporti iusle n- ductlon we wlsn it distinctly under stood no bark will be received after the ftrst or vorember trtth- ontspeclal contract any other information wt 1 be n furniihed upon application it ihe tannery to mk c r- wilson beardmore co acton apnl 1884 established 848 savages watch clock jewelry spectacle house urge stock prices right special attention to fine watch kepalrlms b savace hear petrtes hew drug store ctanjneffrt88 tbtibi it moavco jctr 30 18m f oetey set your foot with mini johk bet your foot with mme john let as step together if tiieroad le good or bad fine or stonn weather pnt your hand in mme john clasp it strongly brother strangeri cannot be to ua what were to each other il we d the same good father john no bo had a better to his wisdom and his lc c both of as are debtor wed the mine aweet mother too no boys had a sweeter we mast love each other well or how could we neet her 9 ul when we were bat httlchajs driving home the cattle then we shared each other e talis fooght each others battle then we had the self same gnef and the self same pleasures held in common bats and balls and oar boyish treasures koff thoagh we are bearded men still yoa know we re brothers i ts more to each other john than we are to others i for yoa and voa for me in life s changing battle vs it was in bygone days iinnng home the cattle so pat your foot with mine jahn w e will step together if the way be good or bad fine or stormy weather let the world go well or ill j put your hand m mine brother strangers cannot be to as what we re to each other r restored high up among the hills on the wagon road that runs through the casata pass is a small tavern much frequented by com mercial travellers and which bears the odd tztlaof the long facfc does that mean a long pack of cards r inquired a traveller glancing at the swing ing signboard which also represented the weather worn picture of something faintly resembling s soldier s aver grown knap sack so replied the gray haired landlord it means a peddler a pack now adays they call them sample cases i believe pointing to the baggage of several commer cial drummers that stood in a corner yoa fee i have a good deal of that sort of cu torn i try to make the road boys as comfortable u poasible for i was a httle too hard on their fraternity onoe how was that well said the mountain boniface who had waited until his daughter a box om matron bad left the room it aint a very pleasant story but i like to tell it sometimes just to remind myself that the worst thing that a man can hare m this world is a hot obstinate temper yoa sec i came to this coast soon after the gold fever broke out and settled down in the santa barbara alley below here ranch ing i was a widower even then and had brought with me from the states my only child a daughter past seventeen she was a pretty girl if i do saj it and beng as good as pretty oa can imagine i was quite wrapped np m her of coarse i was anxious to keep her with me and if no that at least i looked for her to do some thing better than to fall in love with a peddler and did she yes voa see in those days the coun try was full of joung fellows who had struck out for themselves and were trying to get a start by carrying kmck knacks around from one mining camp to another some of them were lively chaps enough and well educated lut i was fresh from the states with all the eastern prejudices and it almost drove me wild when kellie told me she wanted to marry a yoong fel low who brought his pack through our district a good deal aftener than the trade seemed to require i was a hottempered fool m those days so i stormed threatened locked nellie up for a week and sent word to her lover that i had loaded mj gun for wildcats and peddlers what did nellie dtf yoa might have guessed it stranger one day when i came back from a cattle sale she was missing i chased her a couple of days but they had taken to the tall timber and it was no use after a while i got a letter from fnsco and i wrote back saying that i disowned her and that he had better keep out of the range of my deer rifle what did yoa do then suffered mister just suffered i knew i was wrong bat id have died rattier than give in for four years i lived like a toad ui a rocx hating the whole world all the pleasure i had waain watching for peddlers the number i ohaaed off the ranch during that time would astonish yotf mg after a terrible rainstorm one of the tribe came to my house and asked for shelter for the night he was a thin weak looking jellow with his face covered with a huge ragged beard re carried on his back kn enormously long and heavy pack and teemed so exhausted with bis tramp through the jmire that i hadnt the heart to do more than order mm off the place that was pretty hard said the listen er i suppose it was the peddle seemed all broke up when he found i wouldn t gie bun even a bunch of straw m the stable and no other house within twelve miles instead of complaining however he mere ly begged that i would let him leave his pack which he said contained goods of value under shelter from the rain i fin ally consented to this so as i had sworn one of his trade should never cross mj threshold i earned his pack inside while its owner limped off to crawl under some bush or other didnt you feel mean yes mean and h tter at the same time for something about the man reminded me of nellies husband a httle however i locked and barred all the doors and win dowa as usual for some road agents had been around those parts about that time and had stood ap and robbed several ranch era and as i told you i was all alone somehow i couldn t go to bleep when after that i went to bed after tossing around for awhile i got up and sat bj the fire brooding over mv trouble and trying not to think of the poor devil shivering out there m the cold and ram somewhere i looked at his pack sifting np in the corner and wondered what made it so long as i watched it i fancied i saw it move saw it move exactly i woaldu t believe m eyes at first but after watching in tently for a while i distinctly saw the front of a hand pressed against the canvas from the inside like a flash then i understood the whole thing the peddler was one of the road agent s gang and knowing i had considerable money about the house they had adopted that plan for smuggling one of their crew inside the hoase after i had gone to sleep the fellow inside could let m the rest and finish the jo b i walked quietly across the room took mj gun from the antlers knelt down a few feet from the pack aim ed square in the centre and palled the trigger go on murmured the listener with a shudder but the gun didn t go off continued the landlord clearing his throat the nipple was rusty and wouldnt work so i laid down the nfie and got an axe from the kitchen it had been newly ground that day and when i lifted it over my head i counted upon cleaving that pack robber and all clear to tiie floor 3 ust as i raised the axe and braced myself for the blow i i saw a ghost a ghost v yes sir the pack opened and i saw sticking out of its top the curl yellow head bine eyes and rosy cheeks of my nellie when she was a httle tot of four the shock staggered me so that i sank on my knees i wiped my eyes and wonder ed if i had not gone crazy i was almost certain of it when the ghost stretched oat a pair of chubby white arms and said deevnm dranpa ah said the guest with a relieved sigh i begin to see and what did j ou do then i dont- exactly know said the laud lord softlv bat if there is auvthm that will bend a stiff stubborn neck quicker than the arms of a little ekild i d like to kaow what it i i pat the tired uttle prisoner dawn by the fire opened the door and held oat my arms and the mother yes nodded the landlord thev were both there and mister i guess that s the end of mv story and the old man wiped his eyes yoa must excuse me stranger bat that was a wet evening and somehow i havent got quite dry siuce horrors of tightlacing a girl who has just returned from lon don tells me says clara belle that in the health exhibition there one of the exhibits was meant to depict the horrors of tight- lacing a waxen figure was subjected for the purpose of divulging the secrets of the ladies torturechamber to a compression of the girth which a woman may with proper self respect measure around the waist the sufferings of the dummy in audible save for the creaking of the ma chinery which in the forcible compression of the waist might well be mistaken for groans were quite terrible in their realism bat the female spectators laughed instead of being instructed the fact is that the old curmudgeons who take corsets as a text for sermons against us are left ver far be hind injuriously tight squeezing of the waist is rare indeed now adays the coming man and woman says dio lewisr will be just as large at the waist as at any other part of the body what an old fool did he ever see a fiji island woman i have she had never been compressed by so much as a calico wrapper and yet her waist had a goodly taper to it pretty soon lewis will be demanding legs as big at the ankles as at the calves where the money goes a medical gentleman was taking a walk m regent s park london when he observ ed an old man seated upon one of the benchetbv the roadside whom by his dress he recognized as a pauper belonging to the marylebone foorhouse the gentleman stopped and spoke to him it s a pity said he to see a man of your years reduced to spend thertunainuer of yoor life in a poorhouse how old are vol close upon eighty air what was jour trade 1 carpenter sir well thats a good trade to get a living by surel now let me ask you plainly were you in the habit of taking intoxicat ing liquors jvo sir that is i onlv took my beer three times a day like all the rest i was never a drunkard sir if thats what you mean io i dont mean that but i should like to know how much on the average your beer cost you per day well sir no more i should think than bixpence a dav and how long did jou speaking rough- 1 continue that expenditure t i can hardly say sir but it would be about sixty years the gentleman taking out his pencil be gan to make a calculation while the old man kept on rambling about his temperate habits and the misfortunes that had over taken him when the sum had been work ed out the gentleman very much to the astonishment of his listener said to him temperate as oa say joar habits have been my friend let me tell yoa that your sixpence a day for sixty years at compound interest has cost you three thousand two hundred and 4went five pounds sterling and if instead of spending it on your beer on had put it aside for your old age you would now have been in receipt of one hun dred and sixt pounds a year without teaching the principal or in other words of three pounds a week in place of living in a poorhouse and being dressed as a paaper that was an eyeopener to he old man and if he had opened his eyes about it sixty years before it would have been a good job for him every base occupant makes one sharp in patience and dull in every other as ceremony is the invention of wise men one even- to keep fools at a distance so good breeding u an expedient to make fools and wise meth equals john b vs uncle s there is no end of stories of the contests between john and jonathan as to the re spective merits of their countrymen ra which exaggeration plays an important part we doubt if any reader of the facz faxas has heard the following excelled an englishman and- an american in making a voyage together after diacuasing various other points came to bragging of swimming featsj and in response to a whopper from the yankee about having towed a flat boat down the mississippi from cairo to new orleans by swimming ahead of it with a hue in his teeth the englishman thought to put an extinguisher on him thus why that s nothing you know it a 3700 miles froni new york to liverpool well the last tame i crossed jast after the pilot left us at sandy hook one of the passengers fell overboard it was ratner foggy and our steamer stopped and sailed round and round trying to find him and we lost a whole hour supposing he had sunk we went on just as we were completing the voyage on looking out we saw that same man swimming ap the liverpool harbor he climbed on the deck and waved his hand to us before we came to anchor to which jonathan coolly re plied yes that s so and i am glad you saw it and can testify to the fact as it might not be behevtd from a leas truthful witness i know it was so for i was that 1 man the above reminds us of two clerks who were boasting of the extent of the business of their respective establishments one supposed he had reached the climax in saying that it cost his principals 5000 a year for eteel pens alone whereupon the otfier promptly replied in our place the correspondence is so lar that we save 20 000 a year in cost of ink by omitting dotting the ls and crossing the ts vacation visitors this ia the time of year when your un welcome city halfcousins begin to think of paying you a visit in order to brace up their childrens health give themselves a rest eat fresh bemes drink new milk save doctors bills sit under the trees pick all your best fruit ask all sorts of foolish questions give you a great deal of infonnv boa about which you know more than they dot patronize you with a most condescend ing and urban air wonder why you do not have chickens every day for dinner tell you more aoont politica in onemmute than conkhng or tilden ever knew in a year wonder why you dont stop in the middle of your work and take hem riding and ait on a fence wondering bow stoptd yon are anyway they will leave word with their oityfriends that they have gone to newport or the mountains and then they will make you pay for their pride the day titer they come tairthem that 700 pcopose to send your son r dwightertachoolia the city during theiafl awinj jrffl let themttfao ormjsteittf agraph upon the bistof aju roomdoor r what a vote may do haia joaa rote if bo who gart it to yon and to whom are yoa responsible for the use on make of it taegreatertqnes turn before oar country tcday u u 8hall the liquor traffic be protected and perpeta atedor destroyed fbe quertion of the ettleraent of the boundary awtrd or the disallowance of the streamab ill was of small importance compared with the momentous issues involved in the liquor traffic what is year position towards this ques tion for orjagamst which why do i sak jouldo you say because you are the proper bne to ask you are a voter so am i by our votes this hquor curse lives and spibads iteelf everywhere it could not exist one hour but for these they give it a legal right to be here and clothe it with ill the respectibflity it pos sesses by oar votes we have put it upon the throne where it now sita and havegiv en that throne ita stability by our votes it reigns and conquers do you know we are parents in the business and sharers in the responsibility for its crimes there is not a hquor dealer in the dominion but can point to oar votes and influence u the reason for the existence of his dreadful trade in deathdealing drink we are re sponsible for tile opening or shutting of the dnnk shops how is that doyou say 7 because the hi nor traffic is protected by law and our votes bay who shall make our laws and apprhve or disapprove of them after they are nade jfwt vote for license we vote to male it morally certain that at least 7000 per ear of our fellow atuens will die drunki rds we vote for s traffic that makes is criminals out of every 100 that are sent t our jails and prisons that produces threatfourths of all the crime in our land wei vote to make thousands of wives widows and tens of thousands of children orplans and paupers why should we do this do we hate our kind that we should seek to perpetuate a business that ruins multitudes of them with hoense we axe helnlesato protect the weak against the strong vith prohibition you can punish the mac who sells another hquor you make the hquor traffic an outlaw and all who sell aw violators of the law and criminals paohibition will dethrone the liquor traffic from its place of power as a party weapon pi politics and brand its use as thrice accursed in social ufe are we not our brothers keeper let us then shut the door of this great temptation that lies open at his feet thereby lessen the proba- hties of his utter ruin and protect ins wife and family frsm cruelty and hunger it is tune as electors that we spoke out on this subject that jwe freed ourselves from com plicity in this traffic by saying no license shall be givniwith our consent shall we do it let reason judgment and con science answer and so far as your vote and mine will go she wrong of license shall be righted and the right shall be submitted vote as you prat selected how old love bead letters a lady of the north side says a reporter was looking over a bundle of old love letters recently and chanced upon this one from her husband m his halcyon days and she read it to him sweet idol of my lonely heart if thou wilt place uy hand in mme and say dear love 111 be thy bride well fly to sunny italy and neath soft cerulean sties well bask and sing and dream of naught but love bioh and costly pri by old masters shall adorn the walls of the castle ill give thee thy bath shall be of milt a boi at the opera shall be at thy command and royalty shall be y daily visitor sweet btrains of music shall still thee at eventide and warbling birds shall wake thee from thy morning slumber dost thou accept bay yes and fly oh fly with me and i flew said the wife but if i had been as fly as i am now i wouldn t have flown humorous the dearest girl on earth is the one that eats the most ice cream it seems odd that a flying debtor should cross the ocean to avoid the milowes a shoemaker may not be able to breathe his last although he often eats his awl an ohio newspaper speaks of a man being bruibed by the emphatic gesture of a mule people learn wisdom by experience a man never wakes up ms second baby to see it laugh a new york stock broker was bitten by a doga few days ago the dog hasnt got over it yet the easiest way to mark table linen- leave the baby and a blackberry pie alone at the table far three minutes when youf orm good resolutions use them the same as yoa would fainting ladies at ball carry jthem out amiss isjsa good as a mile and good for all the room she wants in a crowded street car if she isj finely dressed a young tnde claimed that her husband was a model man andhewa his oc cupation wis making dummies for clothing sliirose at e early aaytasaky with a sw and acting head and she said this cross little woman- i wonder why girls will wed they wouldnt lam bun if they reckoned the things that a wife must bear the neverdonework of a household the neverdone mother care six dpxen meoes to wash today and ihe cnildren must go to sohool and every one knows on washing days babisoroaasaniie and bridget is not to the work yet iriv now m bmi toe yet i shall have the dinner to cook and all the bads to make but as soon as the breakfast was ready father came in from the yard he kissed the sick litfle mother was sure that the work was hard he said to the noisy boys b still yoor mothers not well todsv and when he bid her good b e he oonld kiss the pain swh and the coffee or kiss which was it healed like a magical charm j the spirit of diligent gladness r was everywhere on the farm the father worked hard at the ploughing the mother forgot her pain bridget did well with her washing there wasnt a drop of rain the baking and cleaning was over when the boys came home from school baby forgot it was washing day and pleasantly broke his rule and at night the house was clean and bright there was not a thing amiss tis only a wife the father thought would do aa much for a has i and the wife sitting down in the firelight the baby asleep at her side her husband chartering and watching her with ahusbands lovmg pride thought much of her full and pleasant home of her children asleep in the bed and said with a sweet contented laugh no tcmdtr that girii aiumd the aociefiy of women ia the dement of lod manners yoa own 4 bring she best ont of a you lelietetbbesf isscossrsmm urn quiet moments i no nore dare fret than i dare curse and swear walq little things console us because httle things afflict us ptuau watch your own bpeeoh and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purpose george soutt a conscience void of offence before god and man is an inheritance for eternity dvwl webtitr hany men have just enough faith to make them miserable but not enough to make themjiopeful there is as much light in scripture ss will satisfy those who love the light and aa much darkness as will satisfy those who love the darkness pascal in our large cities there is a distance of 100 miles between the fashionable and on fashionable sides of a brick wall joteja coot young men do something in this busy bustling wideawake world move about for the benencbf mankind if not for your- selves qofh creditors have better memories than debtors and creditors are a superstitious sect great observers of set days and tunes jvanlsn it is a great act of love to god to trust like a son gods tremendous power there can be no confidence without the filial feel uig we always getback to the point god is our father f w fabcr what gunpowder did for war the print ing presshas done for the mind and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education bat every reading man is his judge waddl piiup4 dying words jeanne darc ended her eventful siormy life by uttering the sweet name of jesus boileau it is a great consolation to a poet about to die that he has never written anything injurious to virtue lord byron shall i sue for mercy come come no weakness lets be a man to the last queen elizabeth all my possessions for a moment of tune george iv to sir watkin waller who was assisting him to a seat when death came- watty what ia this 7 it u death my boy they have deceived me countess huntingdon i have no hope but that which inspired the dying male factor and now that my work is done i have nothing to do but to go to my father la fontaine it is notorious that i have published a book of infamous tales in composing it i had no idea the work would be so penuauoa as it has proved i wish it were in my power wholly to sup press it peter hill had i a thnnfa tongues they should all be employed m praising god and had i a thousand lives thev should all be devoted to hun hisabeau give me mere landanum that i may not think of eternity and of what is to come hannah hore joy paine i would give worlds if i had them that the age of season had never been published dr payson the battles fought and the victoy won for ever i am gang to bathe in an ocean of purity and henavol- enos and happiness to eternity holdout faith and patience altamonv my principles have poison ed my friend my exrsvagaboehaa beggar od my boy my nnkindnwss has murdered my wife and is then another heu oh thoa blaanheajed yet most indulgent lord god hdl itself is a refuge if is htdos me from thy frown 1 1 pearba of thought one always baa time enough if apply itwell will behaviour a a mirror m which every one shows his image tiiere axe nvsriu the world two efanlobs slrnnjore than two hairs or two grains nnitspjkdtsswstr i j i