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Then let me place your property on my list. No charge if no sale. I have sold a great deal of land lately and have just now but little left thought I al- ways have inquiries from per- sons wishing to buy. It will pay you to deal through me. Con. Knapp advertised his I arm a long time in several papers but couldn’t sell it. He placed it with me and I sold it at oncw I have had many similar ex- periences. vaen Steel Bod Track; A SPECIALTY. g. Buggies. - WABEROOMS: } Opp. Middaugh Houée Stables. ‘ also a few We Have very NICE seCond-hand buggies which we are prepared to sell‘ cheap. Give usacall. BARCLAY 81 BELL S (the best in the world) THOS. NOBLE SPRING has come and the roads are nicely dried up. This is the time to secure your buggy. We have al- supply. Call and see ’em. They are what- they Call the “Tudhope.” - ONTARIO. body are r body with 7Ii$' 571$? ”S w Spain Tbey Wei-e almost ready to start. and. like a good husband, Mr. Smoker wait- ed patiently for his wife to put the fin- “I think it’s a shame!” “Yes. my dear.” nervously assented Mr. Smoker. “I mean the way these writers say that women sharpen lead pencils and Open cans with their husbands’ razors.” “Yes, my dear.” “Yes. Now, I never do such things with your razor, and I don’t believe any woman does as the writers allege. I looked at your razor once when I had a box of sardines to open. but it was so sharp and so wabbly in the handle that I was afraid to use it. Besides, when I want to sharpen a pencil and have no knife I nibble a point on it.” “Yes, my dear." “But it the writers wish to put some- thing true in the papers why don’t they u go for the men who use their wives’ hat pins for pipe cleaners? Ugh, you nasty brutes!” Mr. Smoker forgot to say dear.” John Wesley’s Shrewinh Wife. One of his biographers declares that if he had searched the whole kingdom the evangelist John Wesley would hardly have found a woman more un- suitable than she whom he married. She did not even confine herself to her tongue in her attacks. More than once she laid violent hands on him. “J ack,” said John Hampson to his son, “I was once on the point of committing murder. It was when I was in the north of Ireland and I went into a room and found Mrs. Wesley foaming with fury. Her husband was on the floor, Where she had been trailing him by the hair of his head, and she her- self was still holding in her hand ven- erable locks which she had plucked out by the roots. I felt,’_’ continued Hamp son, vgvhoâ€" Was a giaht of a man, though not one of Wesley’s warmest friendsâ€" “I felt as though I could have knocked Moorish Baths. In Spain, while the Moors were in the ascendency, luxurious hot baths were established. They were used in com nection with the religious rites] of Is- lam. The Islamites were required to bathe frequently. The manner of bathing was as follows: After undressing, the bather is wrap ped in a woolen coat, sandals are put on and he walks to the hot bath. After a thorough hot bath all! parts of the ‘- vâ€"vâ€"vâ€"g body are rubbed. The soles of the feet are rubbed with pumice stone, then the body is anointed with oil and sprinkled with perfumed powders. - n ,7; _‘ When the Moors were driven out of Spain the first thing the people did was to destroy the Moorish bath houses. This was done because of religious prejudice against the Moors. Three Curious Epitaphl. In a cemetery near Dublin the fol- lowing words appear on a tombstone: “Here lies John Hurley, whose father and mother died While on their way home from America. If they had lived they would have been buried here.” 1.1... UHVJ The vfeltowing epitaph adorns the tomb of a gravedigger in the Taibach cemetery in the south of Wales: 'I ,5. “Hurrah; comrades, parson is dead! If he had lived he would have buried all of us.” Here is another curious epitaph which was recently discovered; it marks the grave of an indefatigable smoker and contains only the following four words: Grant’s Estimate of His Generals. In Grant’s estimate of the abilities of the generals of the armies, says an of- ficer of Giant’s stalif in the National Mag11zine,1 think it is safe to say that “(11 111.111 stood first. For John A. Loâ€" gan he pe1haps entertained the warm- est personal feeling-ms His friendship 1‘01 this brilliant soldier was very pro- nounced. General Thomas be consid- ered a safe man and an indomitable fighter. Sheridan was one of his espe- cial favorites. He considered this dash- ing soldier almost invincible. Good Sense. Good sense is a. fund slowly and painfully accumulated by the labor of centuiies. It is a icuol of the first water. whnw vain-g he alone under- stands: who has lm~t it. or who obr crves the liu-s of others who have lost it. For my part. 1 thin"; no price too great to pay for gaining it and keeping it, for {1:9 possession of eyes that see and a jue‘mxwut that discems. “ ‘a‘ “My pipe is out.” Making Allowances. Bronsonâ€"I don’t see “by you should be so an; 22? at um: son for marryino. “9 Law t’nmke aliawances tor the yoan ,5. you know. U Munsonâ€"Uunl'ound it. that’s what I’m kicking about. I not only have to make an allowance for'him, but now I’ll have to make one for his wife too. :Slg cushion. Suddenly she ex- Where Financial Plan Falls. “What we need is not a larger sup- ply of money, but more highly devel- oped forms of credit.” - Q _-._ L_-_ vr'._ _-v “That’s just it. But do you know that sort of thing wouldn’t go with my tailor.”- Ail Anomaly. . The average young woman doesn’t wish to see her thirtieth birthday. Yet when she has seen it she would like to see it again. Don’t work so hard that when there 18 a funeral in the family your grief is tempered by the thought that it means â€"_â€"‘ v a day om-Atchison 61M 5.. “,7: out- of her.”â€"-Everybody’s “Yes, my “Now, then, young man,” yawned Uncle Bill as he got slowly out of his easy chair and surveyed his oldest nephew, who had begun to show marked signs of unrest over his occu- pation of building block churches, “what shall we do to put in the rest of this rainy Sunday afternoon?” "“iiâ€"eâ€"t’s pla:y pingpong,” Bobby sug- gested. “You’re not big enough yet. Guess again, or I’ll pingpong you.” “Let’s tell stories,” ventured Bobby. “All right, old sport. You begin.” “We-ell,” drawled the youngster in the singsong of rote, climbing into Uncle Bill’s lap, “once on a time, w’y, they wasn’t an-ny little boys ’n’ little girls, ’n’ pretty soon they was Cain ’n’ Abel. ’N’ they didn’t have an-ny sisters or brothers or nothiu’ ’cept just a papa ’n’ mamma. nor no Uncle Bills or nothin’. ’N’ their papa ’n’ mamma were cross one time ’n’ told their little “UNCLE BILL, mm mm YOUR EYES so BIG ’N’ am?” boys to go ’n’ play, ’n’ Cain he played too rough, ’n’ he killed his little broth- er with a jawbone of a jackass!” “No!” ejaculated Uncle Bill in hor- ror. “Did he now, really?” “Yes, sir. ’N’ that’s all of that story. Now you tell one, Igncle Bill.” “Well," began Uncle Bill, “once there was a lazy old uncle, and he had a nephew whom he loved very much.” “I know somebody else you love,” remarked Bobby, wriggling. “Don’t you, Uncle Bill?” “Oh, lots of people,” the young man agreed boldly. “Whom in particular, Bobby?” “Miss Josephine,” said Bobby in acâ€" cents of firm conviction. Uncle Bill shifted uneasily, but gave his nephew a hug. “WHat made wyou think so?” he asked, with :1 studied air of indiffer- ence. Bohby was silent, but his little mind busied itself wondering what caused Uncle Bill's chest to rise so high when he breathed the long breath he had just taken. It was intoxicating to feel oneself lifted up and let down exactly like being on a seesaw. “Do it {gun}, [TDCIG “It's lot of fun." vâ€"v â€" Uncle Bill did not seem to hear. He was looking wistfully out of the win- dow, and Bobby looked, too, but saw nothing. â€""â€" I) “Do you love her, Bobby?” Uncle Bil} inquired presently, smoothing the child’s yellow hair. “Bobby, do you low: Miss Josephine?” “Yes,” Bobby answered. “Why? What makes youâ€"do you know ‘3 “W’y, Uncle Bill, the other day I fell ’n’ hurted my knee, ’n’ sheâ€"w’y, she kissed me ’n’ made my knee all well.” “H’m!” muttered Uncle Bill. “Should think it might.” “Uncle Bill,” asked Bobby, “did Miss Josephine ever kiss you?” “Little boys shouldn’t ask ques- tions,” was the quick reply, and a soft check was drawn close to a rougher one. she, Uncle Bill?” “Yes, little boy, she did.” “Well, but didn’t it make you all well?” “No.” “Did you hurt yourself?” “Yes.” “'Whereâ€"in your. knee?” ‘6N0.” “In your stomach '2” “There or thereabout.” “Did it hurt much?” ‘1 say, Bobby,” exclaimed Uncle Bill, with more or less feeling, “let you and me talk of something else. You are a very little boy, and you ask ques- tions that are painful. I don’t”â€" “Does it hurt you yet?” queried Bob- by, thinking of stomachs. “Yes. Now, Bobby, it 1”â€" “Why don’t you go Hn see Miss Jo- sephine? She’ll try again. Maybeâ€"â€" lw’y, she’ll have better luck.” “I can’t.” “Why?” _ “Oh. because. What a lot of ques- tions 3.011 can ask and how little you know. Bobby!" -“I know the ‘twos’ in multiplication table anyway-so now. Miss Josephine taught;- me ristiday. See? I wrote won’t,” Bobby agreed. “But did Bill!” he cried. YOUR Bobby put a chubby hand inside his small jacket. where was a pocket, and proudly drew forth an assortment of documents. “There it is,” he announced after a careful search, spreading a paper on Uncle Bill’s knee. “It’s the ‘twos,’ ” he remarked, indicating a tipsy col- umn or hieroglyphics, the only legible character in which was the letter X. “A very interesting exhibit." ob- served Uncle Bill. “What is that let- ter you have with theâ€"the bunch, Bobby? No, not the picture card, the letterâ€"the one in the blue envelope. Let me see it. What don’t boys have in their pockets? Why, bless me, it’s for LVL mc é “W’y, w’y, Uncle Bill,” stammered Bobby in a sudden spasm. “w’y, I for- got! Miss Josephine gived me that for you. She said to bring it right straight to you. Iâ€"Iâ€"forgot, Uncle Bill. W’yâ€" --_ A-Afl $3 5’, Uncle Bill, what makes your eyes so big ’n’ shiny? Oh, Uncle Bill! Don’t-don’t hug me so! You’ re hurtin’ me awful!” “Am 1, old man?” Uncle Bill said in a queer voice. “Tell me ,Bobby, when Miss Josephine kissed you, how did you feel ‘2” - n _._‘__ mun JV“ 55555 “All nice,” answered Bobby, with self satisfaction. Uncle Bill hugged his nephew again. “Did that hug hurt you, Bobby?” he asked. “Some,” the child replied. “Then you get an umbrella, Bobby. just as quickly as ever you can,- and I’ll take you on my back, and we’ll run over and see it 'Miss Josephine can make us feel all nice again, as you call it.” _ “Are you going, too. Uncle 15111:" “Yes.” “Right now '2” “The sooner the better.” “Yes,” said childish philosophy sage- ly, “when you hurt anywhere. it‘s best to get it cured right away.” of a young bride on her wedding day 1 playing the game of hide and seek and 3 concealing herself in one of those an- cient carved chests of large size. After she had got in the lid closed and she found herself unable to raise it again. for it fastened with a spring and she was shut in. Search was made for her in every quarter but the right one, and great perplexity and dismay were caused by her disappearance. It was not till years after when chance led to the opening of the chest that the body of the young bride was discovered and the mystery of her disappearance solved. DUI v V“. The story is found in so many places that it may be questioned whether it is true of any one of them. Rogers tells it of a palace in Modena. The chest in which the poor bride was found is shown at Bramshill, in Hampshire. the residence of Sir John Cope. Another similar chest with precisely the same story attached to it was long shown at Marwell Old Hall, between Winchester and Bishop's Waltham. “ The folk tale of Catski d'xAne ropmsents the girl 1101' bxidle (hesses from a m: is Iomzunuut to her. and: is found :11} over Europe i1 motnmorphosod itself into bride who got into :1 Che: thel‘e.-‘ Silence Often Best Rebuke. 1016;111:41 11 fault exists is 1111 1'9 that it 5111111111 be 1101111911 0111' 1'32. 113411111 111 111110 or [11119.11 111i;.. 1111 111111011“ 10 p1"1)\11 that 1111‘1'11 1.4 110111 in 11111)\\111;: p1:1':~1:111s to 111111; takes unrcbuked 1111' the time. 11111 wisdom can only 1101111511 111 :1 511011;; 0110111511 not to accent 1111‘ 1~ the 11:13' :18 1111111. me!” No mother, for instance, renllv thinks that her little daughter of wear: u. fourteen is going to be a lifelon;-; Sglu‘ term because she keeps her harem: drawers in :1 tumble and is often sum without proper buttons, nor does :1:)' mother believe that a lie‘on the 1232s of her little son condemns him to a life of shame. vr--..‘â€"â€"_ _ . ' ‘he faults must be met. but if they are not met by instant fault finding. but rather by the incul ‘ation of higher standards and better habits. the actual offense needs little comment. Indeed absolute silence after a misdemeanor is often a more severe rebuke than a storm of protest and correction. To make this silence judicious we must first of all cultivz. te in ourselves a just perception of values and propor- tions. We must t'ain ourselves when to see and when not to see, what to leave out and what to keep in our lives. , Charles Level-'3 Characters. Vx'hence did Charles Lever get his rol- licking Irishman? Professor Oman in his preface to the reissue of William G ‘a tnn's “Adventures With the Con- naught Ringers" discloses the secret. 111LU51$L J-Iuttllawsv \-.~v..-..-_ It was clearly. he avows, from the do- mestic annals of the old Eighty-eighth foot in peninsular days that Lever drew the greater part of the good sto- ries which made the fortune of “Charles O’Malley.” Many of the char- VO-“vâ€" â€"â€" _ acters in that xomance appear in the flesh in Grattan’ s reminiscences. \‘ota- bly . - .u- , , J,___. A _--__AA_ “The fame of the eccentric surgeon. Maurice Quill, was so great through- out the British army that the novel- ist did not even take the trouble to change his name. His colleague, Dr. O’Reilly, was almost as great an origi- nal. Many of the humors of Micky Free seem to be drawn from the doings of Grattan’s servant. Dan Carsons.” “Comparing the ‘real thing,’ ” Mr. Oman goes on, ‘.‘with the work of fic- tion, one is driven to conclude that much of what was regarded as rollick- ing invention on Lover’s part was only a photographic reproduction of anec- dotes that he had hegrd from old sol- diers ot the Connaught rangers.”â€" London Outlook. _ h.~---....- Gnu-n. folk tale of Catskin or Pmm represents the girl flying with in] dresses from a marriage that gaunt to her. and as this tale d :11} over Europe it may have )rphosod itself into that of the vho got into :1 chest and dim! Cornhill Magazine. 'Q ’\ v- h'n The Antiquity of Hospitals. . Many centuries before the Christian 1 l era there existed in India and Ceylon l institutions which performed the func- tions or hospitals (Real-Encyclopadie. Enlenbnrg). They were built and main- tained by the Buddhists. In the Scrip- ture there is a mention of what the Hebrews called Bethesda, but this was nothing more than a few rude hats in the neighborhood of a mineral spring supposed to have healing properties. According to Lecky (“History of Euro- pean Morals”). the- first hospital was founded by a Roman lady named Fa- biola. about the fourth century, at Rome. Soon after another hospital was founded by St. Pammachus. and an- other by St. Basil at Caesar-ea. During the crusades numerous hospitals arose in all parts of Europe. San Spiritu. built by Innocent 111., was erected in 1204 at Rome. The first hospital in England was built by Lanfranc. arch- bishop of Canterbury, in 1080. The first hospital of any size erected in ‘ America was the Pennsylvania hospi- tal in Philadelphia. begun in 1751 by Dr. Bond and Benjamin Franklin. Q'O The Emperor and the Mandarin. The favorite horse of the Chinese om- peror Tsi having died through neg}?- gence on the part of the inastnr of 11:0 horse, the emperor in his rage would have run that functionary through with his sword. Mandarin Yentsi. however, parried the blow. saying: “Sire, this man is not yet convicted of the crime for which he deserves to die.” “Well, then, tell him what it is.” “Listen, you scoundrel," said the min- ister, “to an enumeration of the crimes which you have committed. First, you have allowed a horse to perish which the emperor has intrusted to your safe keeping. Moreover, it is owing to you that our sovereign became so exasper- ated that he was on the point of killing you with his own hand. Lastly, it is your fault that he was about to dis- grace himself in the eyes of everybody by killing a man for a horse.” , V“Let Him go,” interrupted the em- peror. who understood the lesson. “I pardon him.” Horse: of Celebrated Men. It is generally known that Napo- leon’s white stallion, the horse he rode at Waterloo, was named Marengo and that Wellington’s charger in the same battle was Copenhagen. The latter lived to be twentyâ€"seven years old.i The remains of Marengo are preserved in the Museum of the United Services, London. Do you remember the names of any of George Washington’s horses? In nearly all of the Washington stat- ues the Father of His Country is rep- resented as on horseback, but what is the name of the animal he bestrides? iichard 111. owned White Surrey, and it was for that splendid animal that he cried when he shouted, “My king- dom for a horse!” William III.’s fa- vorite horse, Sorrel, had one eye. Sa- voy, the black horse of Charles VIII. of France, also had only one eye. When Carlyle Pinched His \Vlte. A volume by the late Anthony Froude, the historian. tells this story of Carlyle and his wife, who lived on notoriously bad terms, the latter dying first: “Carlyle found a remembrance in her diary of the blue marks which in a fit of passion he had once inflicted on her arms. As soon as he could collect himself he put toeether a memoir of her. in which with deliberate courage be inserted the incriminating passages of her diary. the note of the blue marks among them. and he added an injunc- tion of his own that. however stern and tragic that record might be. it was never to be tie;«"~.‘1°(.);.'cd." One Cause 01' Deafness. “Deafness is often caused by the violence with which people blow their noses,” said a New York specialist in eye and ear diseases. “There is an in- timate relation between the aural and nasal passages. You sometimes feel it when you are bathing and get your nose full of water. Then you will find more deafness in localities where the residents are subject to catarrh. In the straining attendant on blowing the nose persons stretch the eardrum. Sometimes they burst the membrane. I have handled many cases of this sort, Where deafness came suddenly after a heavy cold in the head.” “Miss Ethel is a long time coming down,” said the youth to the servant after waiting some time for,the young lady’s appearance. “Perhaps,” he added, with a langh, “perhaps she is making up her mind whether to see me or not.” v V- â€"vvv “No, ” said the servant, with an icy smile; “it is not her mind she is making up.” A Change of Name. ' Boothbyâ€"What are you thinking about, Ethel? Miss Warringfordâ€"About our wed- ding. I wanted tons}: a favor of you. Boothbyâ€"Anything, dearest. Miss Warringfordâ€"Well, I don’t want to change my name to Mrs. Henry Boothby. I want you to change yours to Mr. Ethel Warringford. Thinner Then. Barberâ€"Hair’s very thin, sir. Customerâ€"It was thinner than that thirty years ago. “Izidéed, sir, you surprise me! 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