Listowel Standard, 4 Dec 1896, p. 7

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The upland plover's wary, The quall-on-toast:Is shy; The frenzied poet's quarry Ix principally pte. _ = the painted rekskins Thooping fn i night For Dianke 'tx nnd for bedskins » keep them waa at night. * York Journal, Same y's lctnetiitigs LLAS. | Story of a * Forgettat Man | The Movinz o When at Home. } | "Another umbrella gone, growled | Eumpy "That's zen within a! year and nearly two stormy months | yet to run I sup pose thut you give . Just as you «4 and coats. | tiem away, Mrs. }'umy . ais ' ma | tabie organiza- | every business j tae. «ihe ith Char When man is making a life-u:.d-death strug- | Xeep his head make it a puint," Bumpy, "aet ote give anything away until you have ca-i it rou discover that any sariments are gone you at once im- i - that you wanted them for ing. fishing or working about house But sometimes I «bove water." } replied the good | It is * to suggest, madam, that are dodging the main issue. Can } 'ven your broad th elastic charity re- OURCHY: you te cing one of these iry Willies whe has become an és- tablish: "dl Z cosmopolitan Sahovs clothes flying inhumerable signals of distress, whilst se Sports a xold-headed silk umbrella? Is not his make-up as incongruous as that of the African ruler who dresses | th MNatere's garb and wears a_ bell- | coown ples shat as the emblem of his : rt PoNatetn iim [nei ned to | Ff) rgiven ene of your : oiiereites a Yo have left them scattered ai? ah nis the route of your daily travel. | : : been a bonanza to the ubi- | umbretla thief, and I happen | telephoning to the office two of your expensive | there. | dnt you say so? What do , Keeping me in this state ¢? IT am too hus Sy a man to ® taken up in furnishing Luching | Ve Ss once for all, 'fever 1 learn of your Siving away j i of my umbrellas, I will deduct . from ~~ allowance. o be a free umbrel- | re Cholly "} am in an awful box." Tweddie- "Yas Choliv--"Yus, 'indeed. don't marry Miss Jump she will sue me faw bweach of promise, and if | do marry her she will sue me faw non-support." Sticking to Mir Mission. *Now let 'em give us prosperity. 'eng on your prosperity! "My friend. what are you com- pi. ining eft' don't see any of your prosperity. Any of you gentiemen see it anywhere? atom: Am [I the impersonation of prosperity? "I should say not." "Well, then, what's all this shouting abeut pre mer ' If you got pros- berity tre: 'er out "My fri- pore! Ive 'got a job up at my house a yo I've heard A h, ; I remember now. No, sir, 1 -- I indignantly decline your offer. I've still got my mission to perferm m. 'An I was saying--if any ge ademan Sees any prosperity trotting arcund- Vietimized. "Yes, ' drown my serrow in drink i't"-- ranted the stage hero, who had rejected by the capricious jut the stage carpenter had put up 'job" on him and the stage brandy conta.ned ingredients that would have prosirated a lumberm Where's the property man that fur- nished this brandy?" he red. And the audience eines "his sor- rows had driven _him n SUED Grerewl © vthe ¢ Boy--"*What lor, if | come to Vages ondition, wages will I get, work for you?" You wiil get my What more would you doc- lioy--"But, doctor, I am never ill." Docto'--"Oh, but you will be: I'll see to that" More Te "I've quit selling tiewains on the in- stallment plan, sald the dealer to an applicant "Why 's that?" "Our machine is of such a superwr quality that are never able to cutch the fellows that owe us." Atwnvs Easy. t is always easy to find where to e caught tres- rassing here. will be prosecutel to the think se. Butsr} ™ | short time. | they have ful extent of the law.""--Atchison Tobe. ia et tw i STs GARD PAL a" 3 a se 'THE SARAGOS SSA. SA SBA. OLD OCEAN'S DEATH red THE ATLANTIC OCEAN." | A Veritable Graverard of Forgotten Hulka Imprisoned in'a Seawped Con- tinent-Some Stranze, Weird Yarns 0: Sailors Havea Reasonably Foundation. Far out In the Atiantic Ocean, Say3 ij avoided with superstitious dread sailors of all A iniaiae is a veritable ocean grave (ed for mhuca uuccess in fhe own couns There, ante a silence never broker save by the scream of the sea gull or ! the wild shriek of the Prcetia 'rides the Death Fleet, desolate by hot, semi-tropical sun; grim and spec- tral in the silvery light of the moon. Fleets may go, and fleets mrry come in the world of men, but this men | Fleet moves silently and ghostlike its es ss Journey toward the natin able Howe ever madly the Storm King o%.¥ insh the waves into fury or the summer hurr icane sweep up and down the waste of waters, the Death Fleet heeds it not. The ships do not head to the wind, nor run before the tempest. 8i- lentiy and weirdly they move in their way More weird and ghostly than any con- ception of sea romancer {3 this océan Sraveyard with its Fleet of Death, cnewn to geographers and seamen a3 : this midst of death and silen that nine-tenths of the derelicts which are abandoned in all parts of the At antic eventually find an end to thet: wanda and, joining the Death Fleet cruise about the seaweed sea un- Lil, waterlogged and weakened, they :ik to the bettom of the ocean. That peculiar portion of the ocean known as the Saragossa Sea lies ig the Auantic, west of the Azores approximately in latitude jongitude 40 west, and is in appe 'arnne> unlike anything else on earth or sea. lt lies Just at that point in the ocean where the castward currents turn southward and Sara- Se lass of seaweed, so dense in places as to support the weight of a man for a It is here that the majority of derelicts, caught by ocean currents, which seem to centre at its eastern edge, finally drift. and, once within the confines of the sea, it Is rare that a ship #ver escapes without the ald of steam oor sail. This mass of seaw miles in extent, is so solid that even the heaviest seas have little effect uo- wr or anything thet may be within s contines. Isolated, so far away from the ordinary track of ships, it is seldom j visited except by occasional scientitic and some of the reports which brought back read more lik: fiction than fact. There are ships in all stages of wreck; some lying on their bearg ends, others turned bottom up, while otfers mairtics, launched. tled, Some ar partially disman- v whe the rising of all the > -- find a "resting peng c about the oeesaee craft. ~ scamper over the ce of this range sea, and there. 'are ungainly che and shellfish, unlike anything in any other part of the globe. Several attempts have been made by venturesome salvage seekers p some of the craft of the Death but owing to the density of ths nations the attempt has ended tn failure. In the majority of cases the wreckers con- sidered themselves luckyt o get away with their lives and to reach thelr homes in safety. Then they told wild tales of hideous monsters, with hun- dreds of arms that reached out 4 a grip of death the men who had the hardihood to invade their lairs They told of strange, uncanny sounds at night, when through the darknes? the raging of the storm and the fash- ing of the lightning could be seen and heard outside the limits of the myster- lous sea, wHile within its confines all Was silent as the grave. Not even a sail would flap against the masts, ant the adventurers would stand in speech- less fear upon the decks of their own ships and gaze in horror as they saw pale, freenish-blue lights flit about the decks of the Death Fleet. Under such circumstances it is hardly to be won- dered at that the average sailor re- fused to continue the work of salvage secking. and was only too glad to abandon the enterprise. And yet there is more than fancy in these strange sailor yarns of the Sara- sossa Sea and its Fleet of Death. The hundred-armed monster which entwin- ed men and gradually killed them was only one of the huge cuttle or devil fish which abound in that sea, while ane Weird, greenish-blue light, tock to be the forms of a ghostly crew moving about, was only the phosphor- escent gleams well known to every schoolboy to be caused by atmospheri" ction on decayed wood, and made vis- ible by the darkness of the night. A record of some known derelicts and their driftings have been kept by th? Government. The longest one on re- eeord is that of three- mavried schvoner E. beget lumber laden, -- Oct. 15, off Cape Hattera In all she w" stzhted thirty-four times, Isv2, she was reported ag bein: in about latitude 31 north, Jongitues 2 west, having drifted more than haf way across the ocean and crosse | her ruary 20, 1894, after having been ¢ han- doned 850 days, and having drifte) 7025 miles, was within a few miles of the place where she was Fraenmongen 'sa Was iast'seen in the rent, and is erage. to have Joined the Death Fi in the Saragossa Sea. THE MARATHU.- E The Wid Excitement of the Greeka {¥hen Their Cenutryman We. He. ireeks are novices i' the mat- ter of athletic sports, and ha: not look- nature --the long distance run from Marathen, © prize for which he 23 been ne vy feund- in c¢ ammen ca- s.idier of gntuitity 3 wne "an all the way te Athens to tel! his iclow citizens of the happy issue of the battle. The distance from arathon i" Athens ts forty-two kilometers, 'Tne oad is rough and stony, The Greeks had trained for this rum fog a year past. Even in the remote districts of Thessaly young peasants prepared to enter as contestants. three cries it that the enthuslasm and ihe inexperience of these fellcws cost them their lives. so exaggerated were their preparatory efforts. Ag the freat day approached, women o"ered up prayers and votive tapers {: the churches, that the victor might be Greek, writes Baron Pierre de Coude: tin in the November Century. Tp 'larousi, was the winner in two hours and fifty-five minutes. He reached the foal fresh and in fine form. He was followed by two other Greeks. Tne arpely Australian sprinter, F'ack fve kilometers, had fallen out by the way. When Loues came into the Stadium, the crowd, which numbered 60,000 persons, rose to its feet like one raordinary excite- The King of Servia, who was probably not forge: the A flight of earry him mph. He would have been suffocated +» the Crown Prinee and Prince Gecrre | had not bodily led him away. A, iady ! who stood next to me unfastened he- | Watch. a gold one, set with pearls, anu | sent it to him; an innkeeper pres«r.ted | him with an order good for 33 free meals, and a wealthy citizen had tr be | Clssuaded from signing a check for 10,- | °0 france to his credit. Loues himeeltt, however, when he was toid of this gen- | The sense of | strong in the | . thus saved the non-pro- | ens pair from a very great dan- "ly ! Sen | The Trials of John Ditto. His name was John Ditte, and fr :cet a~im into all Ss his name was written or saad ry a list of other names it was often inrer- Prete] as meaning "the same as" the name immediately before it. The first | time he went to St. Louis he signe: his name on the hotel register "John Dit- te," under the name of a man name! Hinklesehneider, and euming that he had prominent citizen of as announced in ng the arrivals News Texas, and afterward he was as often » Hinkleschneid+: as ne was by his right nazne. His name got him a wife, they raid. a country fair he was invits:; to join a friend and some young la?'es in tent, When was asl John said he would take lemonade, and the strange young lady next, to him eald she would take "ditto." This mild _-- was cultivated, as oon jokes are rural neighborhoods, until the yeuns hah Was talked into fae taking D:t- t d, name as that of the ma nreceded his, The Grave of a thee It is a touching coincidence that th Nttle English churchyard in which Wiliam Morris was laid to rest is the very spot which, in his beautifur ro- From Nowhere he e scene of the ending cf the dream-life depicted in that wonderful series of pictures of the all Thames. Dream-life and real life hav» met at ibe end. The poet thus describes his own place of burial: "Presently we came to a Mttle avenue of lime tes: which led us straight to the chureh porch. The church was a simple little huilding with one little aisle dividel from the nave by three round arches, a chancel and a rather roomy transept for so small a building, the windows 'nostly of the graceful Oxfordshire fourteenth century type. There was modern gg decoration in {t; it looked, indeed, as if none hai een attempted since the whitewashed the medieval! saints «nd histories on the . Though it Is a Httle thing, it is beautiful in its way." Henceforth it will have a ew beauty--the beauty of association witn ts p 7 Du Maurier and « Practical American, "The death of Du Maurier brings to mind," writes a correspondent, "a com- ical story he once told. One of his fa vorite views was from his study win- ac his own lewn, to the landscape surrounding Harrow. On asion an America) and the latter wa showing his guest about the lace "There, on arriving at the study window, 'that is the prettfest thing of all. That is Harrow.' The vis- cor looked out of the window for a few seconds, but his gaze rested no' en the view but on a mowing macnine which happened to on the la n. arrow!" he echoed, inquiringly. 'Yes. repeated the artist, keeping his eves tiveted on the view, 'Harrow.' 'Is that to? questioned the practical Amer'yan: . now, do you know, I took § fn " lawn-mower.' And it was sald i seriousness, too."--Westminster sotte. i 'Ga bong of Britain's Navy. a's expenditure pér head --: Eng) her nuvy is mearly double vihat of ai other nation. BARGAINS, SLAUGHTERING - BARGAINS. SALE OF FURNI- TURE FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS. Everything marked below cost. All kinds of Furniture, Pictures, Picture Moulding, n fact everything in the furniture line. Come and secure BARGAINS at your own prices for CASH ONLY. UNDCtE Satistaction guarant teed, no » KING. extra charge for embalming, Come and see our prices before purchasing elsewhere. xx HERMIST IN' STREET BRIDGE, WALLACE OLD STAND, a Wo0d's Phosphodine--7%e creat English Remedy. Is the result of over £5 years treating drugs, until at last heh naspgeecnltige the true remedy and of cases with all known treatment--a Sexual Detility, Abuse or Before Taking. Phosphodine almost mrihoenantienes been satay tn oat talented physi- cians rompt and. permanent cure in all stagesof or Dacesses,, Nervous Weakness, iswk hundreds of cases that seemed 0 SUCH THING AS OLD AGE To those whe use South American: Nervine A Lady of 80 Years Permanently Cured by this Wonderful Medicine. Three Doctors said "Old Age was Her Complaint" and Gave Her Up--Tarea J pertles of Nervine -- Relief--Twelve es Curea Abso Mkr. f Wordsworth speaksof 'An old age 'serene and bright, and lovely ns a Lap- Hand night." And elsewhere this same pwriter talks of "An old age. beautifal end frea" These are conditions {that come to the man or woman, though jtheir years may border close on to a cen- tury, when in the enjoyment of good thealth, In fact it is difficult to think of some of the old men and' women on the stage of life to-day as old people, there seems to be such a perennial youthful- nessabout their every movement and act. Does someone tell us that cases like this must be the exception and not the rule with those who havo approacked to er gone beyond the allotted three score years and ten? Not so, if they have be- come acquainted with the virtues con- tained in South Americon Nervine. Be- fore usin this sketch is the picture of Mrs. John Dinwoody, of Flesherton, Ont., a resident of that town for f years No person in the town country side around 1 perhaps bet¥er known than this lady, and none m highly esteemed. ae Sears EE | it JOHN DINWCODY, was her sad lot to loose r thad been ali the works. _to- sper. [The shock sustained ty this event completely broke up the system of Mra Din iy. \She supposed herend had come. She doctored for ene year with three docters, nd they gave her case up, saying that it/ So'd by J Livingstone, lutely. Flesherton, Ont was one ofold age and no ene, por 4 medicine could do her Msde the kind' of staff that gives beanty toage atany time she did not despair. She} was influenced to try Nervine Shei took three bottles, «nd this was sufficient} to show her that her end was not yet; From these sho obtained relief. She per severed, and in all tok twelve buttle« od the wedicine. with, the result that sho is to-day con pletely cured of that break- ing-up of the system that threate'ed her three years ago There is nothing wonderfal in the fact that Mrs. Dinwoody would proclaim to the thousands of old people through- out this broad land, shat with old age oes not decrep~ itude nnd disease. Why shi uld we nog live into the eighties and nineties, andi "ross the border of the century ? : South Ameriean Nervine, whether the person be young or old, cots at the nerve! centers, and when ther are kept in pro. per condition the system is as well able to withstand disease at eighty ss nd thirty. With this prospect in view w! would not live to an old age and enjoy the pleasures of frmily, friends and so! ciety, and take part in wetching marvelous and developments these closing days of a wonderful com pei Bb which marks as mot the least of its ag fatirnnocn Me the discovery off peers American Nervina Jr., Druggist Listowel

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