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"I kept books for the Blank Woolen Company for six years, and there was never a cent unaccounted for. Never was I asked what amount of stock or goods we had on hand, or about my. transaction when I was not ready with a statement at once.. I kept books single and double entry, and got as high in the work as any man could. Now I run a farm, and have . for five years, and am better pleased. I keep books for everything pertaining to my own business, and get all the fun there is in it out of this, What made me change? A number of things. The work was severe. It began to tell on my health. . I had a headache two or three times per week, which would hold on for hours. Again, I knew I could not rise any higher in pay. But city life with all its attractions cannot compare with what I now enjoy," and the robust young man raised a stenâ€" torian voice and spoke to a hired hand across the fields. I was startled as if by a speaking trumpet. The story was told me only three days ago, and I can give many more like it. T have known man after man who spent his time and money to learn telegraphy and ‘then could not get a position, or getting one slaved for years at starvation wages, and perhaps. left the work at last in disgust, or be cause of telegraphers‘ paralysis. ‘Why,‘ said a friend to me some time ago, "I have to spend my entire time, nights, Sundays, holidays and all, at this little station, and not only manipulate the keys, but sell tickets, flag trains, be out in all weather to place signals, and am held. responsible for everything, including human life." "But," I said, you probably get great pay." Yes, T do," he retorted savagely, "great pay; that is why I dress like this," and he showed me threadbare sleeves and gapâ€" ing elbows and patched trousers. He was a trusted, able employee, and had held his position for years. He had been raised as a country boy, and had a country boy‘s destestation of confineâ€" ment. Although at first he thought his position just the thing, he got his eyes open at last,â€" and was only too glad to give it up. Much if not all the farming we have seen, has not abounded with any deâ€" cided success. What oters have failâ€" ed in, is likely also to bring us to grief. We notice the.comments of the press on successful financiers, and we wonder what shall be our steppingâ€"stone for a beginning in a career of greatness. We forget all about the thousands and thousands who never achieve more than a mere living, doomed to a neverâ€" ending treadâ€"mill of drudgery from 7 in\the morning to 6 at nightâ€"in many cases till 9, 10 or 11 o‘clock, with poor air, poor food, poor clothes, and a meagre allowance even of sunshine. We forget that where one of these unâ€" fortunates becomes worth as our next neighbor (who owns a $5,000 farm), and can take an occasional holiday outâ€" side the city‘s smoke and racket, a horde of them never see a view such as any of us can get from a homeâ€"window, or in a fiveminutes‘ walk. We think stenography, telegraphy or something else promises great things. But do they really 1 Let me give you a few incidents : Stenography is little better, I numâ€" ber among my acquaintances a dozen young shorthand writers, fully compeâ€" tent, and rapid. and correct with the typeâ€"writer, who seeks in vain for poâ€" sitions, or are working for little above their board, _ There are so many bookâ€" keepers, telegraphers, stenographers and others in exeess of the places for them, that can hardly be classed among Probably there is no young person on the farm who does not occasionally inquire, mentally at least, whether some other vocation is not more remuâ€" merative than farming. As young persons, we do not make the inquiry merely for the sake of finding other employment than that offered at home on the farm, but if any class of beings detests occupation which does not bring profitable returns, we do. We want our strokes to tell. . This is the reason many of us are lookinzx h»{yoad the farm. It is not beca iss wo consider farm life monotons is i id wauttractive, nor because we rass i. as beneath our notice and of tuo m«crow scope for our qualifications, nor yet for the reason that we are desirous of getting rid of ‘ its labor and backaches, and believe there is a "soft" job awaiting us someâ€" where at which we can "ust roll in the money." _ We are too sensible for any of these ideas. We enjoy life on the farm,. We know it offers more freedom and less monotony than anything in the trade or professional line that man has ever invented ; and we can realize fully that it has departments of greatâ€" est variety, in which one can gratify his taste. They abound in unlimited parallels, from stockfarming in the "boundless West," or dairying on:500 cow farms in Wisconsin or New York, to orcharding, or clean culture and intensive farming, smallfruit raising, gardening, trucking or: floriculture. And as for easy work that paysâ€"well, the papers have so often exploded this idea that everybody of common gumpâ€" tion knows it is a myth. Anything that brings steady and good returns demands hard work, and lots of it Most of us feel that we have the strength and are willing to use it vig orously, but we want to see the results. EMPLOYMENT FOR THE YOUNG. Early farm training is desirable, but alone is not sufficient to insure success in agricultureâ€"our most beautiful and iutricate of sciences. Careful and conâ€" tinued education from books, papers and observation, is essential to the highest results. A course in agriculâ€" tural colleges is a grand modern help. The chief benefit of such instruction is its after results on the graduate, in getting him interested and making him a voluntary seeker. after more and more knowledge in the same line. To the credit of agriculture as a business, be it said, the college life, though very advantageous, is not imperative, as many a success on the farm proves. Still further to its credit, and to the encouragement of thousands following it, with little time and no money for study from books, agriculture has givâ€" en the smile of prosperity to many an earnesp man of very moderate mental endowments and but a slightly develâ€" oped faculty for observation. . How is this ? Dame Nature is of very genial temperament. . She atones for many a man‘s errors, and millions who only partly recognize her laws she supports bountifully. If this were not so, many a man would be in the poorâ€"house toâ€" day who is grumbling at his hard lot inslife but still is a landed proprietor. ® And like myself, my dear young readers, you can pick out dozens of farmers who, having learned how . to do well along a certain plane, keep doing and repeating it to their profit and steady pecuniary advancement. Surely a calling in which even blundâ€" erers live and maxke fair life records, is just the one to which the studious and progressive should turn with more than a meagre expectation of success, especially if their early experience has been of the kind that will qualify them for life on the farm. â€"HoruistER Saicz In Country Gentleman. The loss of voluntary power in al The dirtiest and most unhealthy city person sinking quickly into sleep is in the world is Amoy, China. "But why has there been_so small a percentage of â€" successful farmers *‘ some one asks. It is because enough study has not been.combined with the work. _ Application without intelligent divrection only harvests losses, and it is true in every calling. However, a careâ€" ful investigation of honest facts does not prove the proportion of farmers who are successsul to be small when compared with men in other walks of life who acquire as much property. In reality, the comparison is an extremely favorable one for the farm. It shows also that a much larger per cent. of all who start out gain better homes and support on the farm than elsewhere, and live to be older and are happier in old age. Excellent examples of what study will produce when mixed with work in proper quantity on the farm are not wanting. . Any man of 30 can point them out. I recall a number instantly. A. B. Lyman of Hampden county, Mass., always drives into Springfield on Wednesday with a wagonâ€"load of good things for his eusâ€" tomers., He has been‘at it for years. Began on a farm without buildings and with a heavy mortgage besides. He knew people liked tender lamb and good butter, and he learned how to produce both and kept at it. Toâ€"day he has fine buildings, superb liveâ€"stock and everything paid for, besides a heavy bank account and an enviable reputation as a business man. Hale‘s Connecticut peach success is known to everybody. George S. Butler, a very young man in. the same State, is makâ€" iing the same kind of a record with smallâ€"fruits. Henry _ Hammond of Delaware county, N. Y., has made his mark in dairying. By careful breedâ€" ing and selection, his herd of 5o cows average over 300 pounds of fine butter per head, and his grass lands, large buildings and general prosperity. tell the tale of good returns from everyâ€" thing sold. The young man or woman who from the beginning of life has known the genial yet educative influence of the farm‘s system, and at 21 years old breaks loose from it all to devote time to learning some other employment, beginning with its A B C, as he must do, I cannot consider possessed of averâ€" age reason. Certainly there will| be exceptions, as where marked and deâ€" cided talent is unmistakably manifestâ€" ed for a definite field of outside labor. Taking a special interest in enterâ€" prise among young people, and being broadly acquainted in many States I have made the subject of employment a studyâ€"a hard study. After , ten years of close seeking, I have not found any employment_ or profession which offers the broad gauge of success to boys and girls brought up on the farm that farming presents in its variâ€" ous phases. I say this to "farm boys and girls," for those not fortunate enough to have been brought up on the farm have much less of a prospect. Farming is a profession in whose trainâ€" inc one needs to begin from the cradle. skilled laborers] The worst of it is that, work as hard as one chooses, â€" it is practically impossible to rise any higher, so far as pay is concerned, after reaching a certain limit. The limit is kept low by the numbers who are training to struggle upward in the vocation. Of course here and there is one eminent and well paid, but it is only the result of special adaptability and long years of patient, painstaking service. Nodding off to Sleep. The Most Remarkable Canal in the World. This is the underground canal beâ€" tween Worsley and St. Helens, in the north of England. _ It is sixteen miles in length, and underground from end to end. _ In Lancashire the coal mines are very extensive, half of the country being undermined. Many years ago the managers of the Duke of Bridgeâ€" water‘s estates thought money could be saved by transporting the coal underâ€" ground, instead of over the surface, and therefore this canal was constructâ€" ed, and drained at the same time. . Orâ€" dinary canal boats are used, the power being furnished by the men, The tunâ€" nel arch over the canal is provided with crossâ€"pieces, and the men, who do the work of propelling the boats, lie on their backs on the coals and push with their feet against the cross bar of the roof. Six or eight men will draw a train of four or five boats, and as there are two divisions in the tunnel boats pass each other without difficulty. It is worked in connection with the Bridgewater Canal. The Manchester Ship Canal which will connect Manchester with the Mersey Estuary, and is being rapâ€" idly pushed on to completion, is one of the most important canal works ever undertaken in this country. The Suez Canal, crossing the Isthmus of Suez, enabling vessels of all kinds to pass from the Mediterranean to the Red Sem, is the most important canal yet made, so far as the trade of the world is concerned. The longest canal in the world is 4,472 miles in length, and exâ€" tends from the frontier of China to St. Petersburg. _ The longest canal in this country (203 miles in length) is beâ€" tween Chester and Shrewsbury. It is not the man who is just like every other man that helps the world along the most but the man whose diffâ€" erent training and growth makes him individual and gives him a coign of vanâ€" tage that he would miss if he went slipâ€" ping along just like every one else. _ Give the "backward boy" his chance then at that which suits him best, and be sure no harm can. happen. It is probable that the great men of the past developed theriselves as their tastes and inclinations led ; they did not learn all they learned because some one else had learned it, even if certain branches were a foregone conclusion, and that which they did learn they learned because they felt the impulse and the need. There is many a mother who feels disturbed and anxious because her child either exhibits small interest or else is unable to shine ‘among the other children there, or perhaps even to keep pace with them. She is haunted by a horrid spectre of dunceship and backâ€" wardness, and of her darling outstripâ€" ped and (left behind in all the other struggles of life as well, says Harriet Prescott Spofford in the Philadelphia Inquirer. If her child has a rooted dislike for a certain thing, or a positive inability in the direction of another, the mother would be wiser to make an effort to have those studies set aside and let him give himself to those he does like, and where, if he cannot possibly disâ€" tinguish himself, he can at any rate exâ€" pand what he has. Surely if his strength and time are dissipated on those studies concerning which he is hopeless, there is no strength or time left for those where he might do much. very gradual. _ An object is grasped by the hand while yet awake : it is seen to be held less and . less firmly as Sleep comes on, till at last all power is gone and it falls away. The head of a person in a sitting posture gradually loses the support of the muscles which sustain it upright, it droops by degrees and in the end falls upon the chest. The head falls by the withdrawal of power from particular muscles, the slight shock thence ensuing partially awakens â€" and restores this power, which again raises the head, and vhis falling and raising, or, in other words, the nodding, continues as long as the dozing off to sleep while in a sitting posture continues. At the precise moâ€" ments when the mind loses its conâ€" sciousness there results a general relaxâ€" ation of all the muscles. _ If the body be at rest in a lying posture, there is no marked results, but, if the body be in an uneasy posture, such as sitting, then the relaxation of the muscles causes the falling of the head and nodâ€" But do not let her be too soon disâ€" couraged. . If her child has no aptitude for learning exactly what the others are learning, perhaps there is an aptiâ€" tude for something else quite different and apart, and of just as much value. Let her serutinize and discover and help the child along accordingly in the ways which nature directs, Our system of graded schools is, inâ€" deed, lifting all children to a broad taâ€" bleland of general information, but, however excellent its mental discipline, it allows no space for individual grow th in individual ways. Every child is beâ€" ing run in tha same mould ; therse is no place for idiosynerasy or for develâ€" opment upon original lines ; and there is an ever present danger of crystallizaâ€" tion, or becoming fixed at a given point, or ceasing all development. ding described The Backward Child Waterloo County Chonicle RuEumatisa CureD In a Day.â€"South American RheumaticCure for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its actoin upon the system is remarkable and mysterious. It removes at once the cause and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits. 75¢. War ranted by Ed. M. Devitt Druggist, Waterâ€" loo. Counry or WaTRRLOO, } NOTICE is hereby To Wir : given, that the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, and alâ€" so the County Court of the said County, will be holden at the COURT HOUSE, At Ten o‘clock a.m., of which all Justlces of the Peace, Coroners, Constables, Gaolers, and all others concerned, are required to take notice and attend. to do and perform all duties which appertain to them. Sherift‘s Office, Berlin May 1st. 1803 Tuesday 13th day of Junre next Houseâ€"painting Paper Hanging MILLER & REUTER. Are prepared to do Housepainting and Paper Hanging in the best style of the art. Remember : None but first class maâ€" terial used. > 2 _ SHOP above George Peppler‘s Ela.lcksmitn shop, King St., Waâ€" erloo. The DERBY CAPS will be found on all our goods, PLUG, CUT PLUGTOBACCO&CIGARETTES manufactured by us. GENERAL SESSIONS Cash Income for 1892................... _ 014,951 Increase over 1891.................. 67,331 Assets, December 3ist, 1892............ 2253,981 Increase over 1891....... ........... 204,953 Reserve for security of Policyâ€"Holdâ€" 98. . ouee enc ues siee ces . rale c reee se sns 008,008 Incrense of 1891... ... 022. ..2me us novs s o 280,097 Surplus over all Liabilities, December BHetby E021 P OA ons dhave ratenee es (A70,001 Increase over 1891........ .......... 20,742 The 20â€"YÂ¥ear SUpErvISORSHIP DISTRIBUTION Porrcy now offered embraces all the newest features, and is the best form of PrROTECTION and INYVESTMENT money can buy. It has no equal. Guaranteed values, attractive options, and liberal conditions. ; 1. Cash and Paidâ€"up Values guaranteed on each policy, 2. All dividends belong to and are paid only to policyâ€"holders. 3. No restriction on travel, residence, or occupation,. 4. Death claims paid atÂ¥once on completion of claim papers. OFFICERS : ALEX. MILLAR, Q. C., Solicitor.........Berlin J. H. WEBB, M. D., Medical Referee. Waterloo W. S. HODGINS, Supt. of Agencies.. Waterleo DOMINION DEPOSIT, County of ‘ Waterloo Assurances in force, Jan. 1st, 1893.. ..$16,122,195 Increase over previous year ...:.. 1,187,388 New Assurances written in 1892 ...... 2,651,000 Increase over 1891.................. 222,050 Cash Income for 1892................... _ 014,951 Increase over 1891.................. 67,331 Assets, December 3ist, 1892............ 2253,981 Increase over 1891....... .......... . 204,953 W H.RIDDELL, WM. HENDRY, Ontario Mutual Life. Derby Caps Special Notice to Consumers. 50 OF Economy, Equity, Stability, Progress. In any form, forward prepaid. one of our elegant Ripans Taballcs have come to staÂ¥, MEAD OFFICE, â€" WATERLOO, ONT. Established 1870. IN THBE TOWN OF BERLIN, OF THE PEACE AND COUNTY COURT. Chromoâ€"Photographs D. RITCHIE & (C0. Montreal, Can. & London, Eng. Liberal Conditions of Policies ART STUDIES FOR A LIMITED TIME wE WILL ON RFCRIPT O Secretary OoURr TRADE MARKS M. SPRINGER $100,000. Manage Sheriff. We do all kinds of laund work in first olsss style. . i_. e _ _ 3 Work regularly called for and promptly delivered. A trial solicited. Office : Foundry Street, near King. â€"Fresh Beoef, Pork and Lamb as well as all kinds of Sausages kept constantly on hand. P. 0. Box 44, Berlin, Ont. N. .B Mr. Leon Snyder is our agent in Waterloo, The undersigned begs to tender his tharss to his numerous cusâ€" tomersfor their liberal patronage during the past year, and trusts by close attention to business and moderate prices to merit a continâ€" uance of the same. s g JOHN FISCHER, Watscloo. March 2nd, 1891. Diamond Steam Laundry. Wall Paper, Books and Good workmanship and guaranteed. HARNESS EMPORIUM! In fact everything found in a first class shop, constantly on hand. PRICES RIGHT. WATERLOO MEAT MARKET. Next door to Bowman‘s Drug Store, Berlin. Grand Central "Block, Berlin Henry Maier. HATS AND CAPS, is within the reach of every person who learns to do well thosethings which are necâ€" essary to makelife a success. Go to a reliable well known business schoo that has an established _reputation for prac tual Business Training. The best place to obtain it is at the Galt Business College. _ _ _ General Dry Goods,] Men‘s and Boys‘ Ready Made Suits and Overcoats, Hats and Caps, Etce. H. A. SIPPEL, M. Hushnorgard, TEAS, COFFEES. RAISINS, SPICES, ETC. Crocker‘y and Glassware. Success in Business Kindly invite everybody to call on them when in Berlin, ard examine their stock of Cressman & Hallman BERLIN _ â€" Galt, Ont. Branch School of Shorthand, Berlin, Ont Call or write for circulars HARNESS, HORSE COLLARS, wWHIPS, COMBS AND BRUSHES, TRUNKS, VALISES, Formerly carried on by E. S. Halln GROCERIES. BARDON & WEBER, The City Tailor. Germann‘s Old Stand, WATERLOO (successor to Allemang Bros.) Everything new and choice KING STREET, * Call here for your First class line of Call and see ourâ€"â€" Hast of Market, Stationery, Proprietors BERLIN fit we have the best assortment in the County, land at prices that will _ _ surprise you.) We believe our Men‘s, Youths‘ and Boys‘ Suit Dept. to contain more isnd better lines, of new goods, in all grades, than any other house ahis side of Toronto, particularly in the sort that sell at popular prices. "An Item of importance to Keen Buyers." We carry a fine and well assorted stock of all the latest styles in Hats, Caps, Ties, etc. at prices that cannot fail to please each and every purchaser. $ opa t en A n e airee 3 Philp Gies & bo., Sole Agent of Spring have touched the popular fancy. They are in the front rank everthing that is good. . Best Cloth Best make Clothing Best Fitting Clothing Lowest Prices The single breasted, four button, round cornered, and the square cornerd suits, in Tweeds and Serges are got up very stylish. W aterloo, Ranges Bring your watches and clocks wantâ€" ing repairs to C. J. Alteman, who will undertake to put them in good running order and guarantee satisfaction. Stoves ! â€" Stoves ! lo You Intend Buying a Stove ? Red White and Blue Flag. patterns can always be had at mOVEMBER IN EACH YEAR. Spocial Attention glven to the Collection of Commercial Paper and Farmers‘ Sales Notes. D=Posits or $1.00 AND Upwarps RECEIVED, AND CURRENT RATES OF INTEREST ALLOW®ED, INTEREST ADDED TO THE PRINCIPAL AT THE END OF MAY AND CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Alteman‘s, the Jeweller. Wedding Presents. Suitable articles in great variety of The Corner Jewellery Store, A Generar Bankina Business TransActTeD. FarmEers Notes DiscountEp DrAFTs ISSUED PAYABLE AT ALL PoINTS IN CANADA, AND THE PRINCIPAL cities in THE UniteD States, GfeaT Britain, FRANCE, BERMUDA, &o, SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT Every Instrument Warranted Five Years. Apply at Factory, or to ESTABLISHED 1867 HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS Rest: : . esc c l m y CA o e PIANOS (opposite the Zimmerman House.) CANADIAN BLOCK, BERLIN. is NOW COMPLETH. Cook Stoves, 5 aDDLK & OO L. OUR STOCK OF And Heaters ON EASY TERMS OF PAYMENT F. G. GARDINER, DONT FORGET THE SIGN THE MARVELOUS ~s 5 s . i C B. E. WALKER, Generat Manacer WATERLOO BRANCH Sec‘y Borlin Organ &?Piano Co., L‘t‘d Ont AND THE The Star Laundry, This is a new business for our town and we have every reason to believe that our efforts will be appreciated and that we will be favored with your work. _A trial solicited. Office: Bochmer‘s Block, Waterloo, â€" Gumtion is the faculty which enables yo to_note these advantages and profit by them., . BECHTEL‘S BRICK hand. You will note that they are evener in color, freer from Limestone, and about oneâ€" twelfthlarger, than the ordinary article, Bechtel‘s Brick and Tile sn efi ie on nen ul se o cnaul o w e en c theet Youhave not got it if you don‘t build witb Cheap Harness J. STREBEL‘S, Go down to the yard and see the stock on ISAAG BECHTEL & SON. does all kinds of Laundry work in first class style. Building and Draining, Hello There! GUMPTION ORGANS. ERB SUREET WATERLO"D. Now is the time for WATERLOO, H. J. GRASETT, ManaceEr, WILL LEAD YOU TO USE IN THE MATTER OF JUST A LUEPLE OUR SUITS J. ECHART, $6,000,000. 00,000. Proprietor,