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Spfe: cre . wee" $4058 Was B9%s, My fingers became "I chose a moonlight night, and an hour before the edifice was closed to visitors I secroted myself within the walls, determined to pass the night on the top. All went as I could wish it. The night proved cloudy, but it was only a variable drift of broken clouds which obscured the moon. I had a walking cane rod with me, which would reach to the margin of the water and several feet beyond if necessary. ‘‘I tried the nearest spot. The inclinaâ€" tion of the wall was so vertical that it did not even rest me to lean against it. I felt with my hands and with my feet. Burely, I thought, thereâ€"must be some fissure like those in which that ill omened weed had found a place for its goot. _ ® "I prowled along the parapet for a considerable time, but not a single fish could I see. The clouds made a flickerâ€" ing light and shade that wholly foiled my steadfast gaze. Iwas convinced that should they come up thicker my whole night‘s adventure would be thrown away. ‘Why shall I not descend the gloping wall and get nearer on a level with the fish, for thus alone can I hope to see one?‘ The question had hardly shaped itself in my mind before I had one leg over the iron railing. "If you look around, you will gee pow that there are some half dozen weeds growing here and there amid the fissures of the solid masonry. In one of the fissures from whence these spring I planted a foot and began my descent. The reservoir was fuller than it is now, and a few strides would have carried me to the margin of the water. Holding pn to the cleft above, I felt around with one foot for a place to plant it below ‘‘That ladder?‘ said the young man, brightening at the question. ‘‘Why, the position, perhaps the very existence, of that ladder resulted from my meditaâ€" tions in the reservoir, at which you smiled just now. Sball I tell you all mabout them?‘‘ ‘*Pray do." **Well, you have seen the notice forâ€" bidding any one to fish in the reservoir. Now, when I read that warning, the spirit of the thing struck me at once as inferring nothing more than that one should not sully the temperance potaâ€" tions of our citizens by steeping bait in it of any kind; but you probably know the common way of taking pike with a slip noose of delicate wire. I was deâ€" termined to have a touch at the fellows with this kind of tackle. ‘‘In that moment the flap of a pound pike made me look round, and the roots of the weed upon which I partly deâ€" pended gave way as I was in the act of turning. Sir, one‘s senses are sharpened in deadly peril. As I live now I disâ€" tinctly heard the bells of Trinity chimâ€" ing midnight as I rose to the surface the next instant, immersed in the stone caldron, where I must swim for my life heaven only could tell how long. "I am a capital swimmer, and this haturally gave me a degree of self posâ€" @ssion. Falling as I had, I, of course, bad pitched out some distance from the sloping parapet. A few strokes brought me to the edge. I really was not yet certain but that I could clamber up the face of the wall anywhere. I hoped that I could. I felt certain that at least there was some spot where I might get hold with my bhands, even if I did not rltimately ascend it. To this was attached the wire about 15 inches in length. ‘‘Not atall. But you seem so familiar with the spot that I wish you could tell me why that ladder leading down to the water is lashed against the stonework in yonder corner.‘"‘ ‘‘You look incredulous, sir, but it‘s a fact. A fellow can never tell until he is tried in what situation his most earnest meditations may be concentrated. I am boring you though.*" "A singular place for meditationâ€" the middle of the reservoir."‘ ‘"It is, indeed, for I have done up a good deal of anxious thinking within a circle of a few yards where that fish broke just now." ‘‘They may talk of Alpheus and Arethusa,‘‘ murmured an idling sophoâ€" more who had found his way thither during recitation hours, ‘"but the Croâ€" ton, in passing over an arm of the sea at Spuyten Duyvil and bursting to sight again in this truncated pyramid, beats it all hollow. By George, too, the bay yonder looks as blue as ever the Egean sea to Byron‘s cye gazing from the Acropolis. But the painted foliage on these cragsâ€"the Greeks must have dreamed of such a vegetable phenomenon in the midst of their grayish olive groves or they never would have supâ€" plied the want of it in their landscape by embroidering their marble temples with gay colors. Did you see that pike break, sir?‘‘ *"I did rot.‘"‘ ‘"*Zounds! His silver fin flashed upon the black Acheron like a restless soul that hoped yet to mount from the pool.‘"‘ ‘‘The place seems suggestive of fan« cies to you?"‘ we observed in reply to the rattlepate. Some 30 years ago you might have seen some of the best society of New York on the top of the distributing resâ€" ervoir any fine October morning. There were two or three carriages in waiting, and half a dozen senatorial looking mothers with young children pacing the parapet, as we ourselves, one day in the past generation. basked there in the sunshineâ€"now watching the pickâ€" erel that glided along the lucid edges of the black pool within, and now lookâ€" ing off upon the scere of rich and wonâ€" drous variety that spreads along the two rivers on each side. IN THE RESERVOIR. Naught of reproach or of blame, dear, Only a.play and a part; Living our lives just the same, dear, Bave for a crack in the heart ! â€"Post Wheeler in New York Press. Little I knew how I loved you, dear, Little how you loved me; Bummer and winter and spring o‘ the year, And a grief@hat must always be! Out of the future it came to me, Silent and sad and slow, That under it all, though we could not see, We had loved each other so. Never a word of the after years, Woven with mists of pain; Never a thought of the Litter tears To fall like the winter rain. Little I knew how I loved you, dear, Little how you loved me; Bummer and winter and svring of the year And blossoms on every tree! Bummer and winter and spring once i Or6 And then it was time to part. Never a hint of a hurt we bore Hidden away in the heart ; GONE BY. *‘I turned upon my breast and struck but almost frantically once more. The stare were forgotten, The moonr, the very world of which I as_vet formed a "I felt chilly as this. last reflection wossed my mind, partly at thought of the coroner, partly at the idea of Mary being unwillingly compelled to wear mourning for me, in case of such a disâ€" closure of our engagement. It is a proâ€" vyoking thing for a girl of 19 to have to go into mourning for a deceased lover at the beginning of her second winter in the metropolis. ‘‘The water, though, with my mo tionless position, must have had someâ€" thing to do with my chilliness.. I see, sir, you think that I tell my story with great levity, but indeed, indeed I should grow delirious did I venture to hold steadily to the awfuluess of my feelings the gréater part of that night. I think, iwdeed, I must have been most of the time hystfrical with horror, for the vibrating emotions I have recapitulated 1lid pass through my brain even as I riave detailed them. ‘‘The sides of the place seemed tc grow higher as I now kept my watery course beneath them. It was not altoâ€" gether a dead pull. I had soms variety of emotion in making my circuit. When I swam in the shadow, it looked to me more cheerful beyond in the moonlight. When I swam in the moonlight, I had the hope of making some discovery when I should again reach the shadow. I turned several times on my back to rest just where those wavy lines would meet. The stars looked viciously bright to me from the bottom of that well; there was such a company of them ; they were so glad in their lustrous revâ€" elry, and they had such space to move in. I was alone, sad to despair in a strange element, prisoned, and & soliâ€" tary gazer upon their mocking chorus. And yet there was nothing else with which I could hold communion. ‘‘*Alas, companionless forever, save in the exciting stages of some brisk fiirtation. She will live hereafter by feeding other hearts with love‘s lore she has learned from me, and then, Pygmalionlike, grow fond of the images she has herself endowed with semblance of divinity, until they seem to breathe back the mystery the soul can truly catch from only one. How anxious she will be lest the coroner shall have disâ€" covered any of her notes in my pocket. *But as I now became calm in thought I sammoned up again some resâ€" olution of action. ‘"I will begin at that corner, said I, and swim around the whole inclosure. I will swim slowly and again feel the sides of the tank with my feet. If die I must, let me perish at least from well directed though exhausting effort, not sink from mere bootless weariness in sustaining myself till the morning shall bring relief. *‘*And how often we have talked, too, of that Carian shepherd who spent his damp nights upon the hills, gazing as I do on the lustrous planet. Who will revel with her amid those old superstiâ€" tions? Who from our own unlegended woods will evoke their yet undetected, haunting spirits? Who peer with her in prying scrutiny into nature‘s laws and challenge the whispers of poetry from the voiceless throat of matter? Who laugh merrily over the stupid guesswork of pedants that never mingled with the infinitude of nature, through love exâ€" hausting and all embracing, as we have? Poor girl, she will be companionless! ‘""And yet, dear, wild, wayward Maryâ€"I thought of her now. You have probably outlived this sort of thing, sir, but I, looking at the moon, as I floated there upturned to her yellow light, thought of the loved being whose tears I knew would flow when she heard of my singular fate, at once so grotesque, yet melancholy to awfulness. ‘‘*A tear sprang to her eye, and then searching her pocket for ber cardcase she remembered an engagement to be present at Miss Lawson‘s opening of fall bonnets at 2 o‘clock. ‘‘There was a rich golden baze upon the landscape, and as my own spirits rose amid the voluptuous atmosphere she pointed to the waning planet, disâ€" cernible like a faint gash in the welkin, and wondered how long it would be beâ€" fore the leaves would fall. Strange girl! Did she mean to rebuke my joyous mood, as if we had no right to be happy while nature withering in her pomp and the sickly moon wasting in the blaze of noontide were there to remind us of ‘the gone forever? ‘**‘They will all renew themselves, dear Mary,‘ said I encouragingly, ‘and there is one that will ever keep tryst alike with thee and nature through all seasons if thou wilt be true to one of us, and remain as now a child of naâ€" ture.‘ "I thought of the miserable vermin, thought of him as I had often watched thus his dying agonies, when a cruel urchin of 8 or 10. Boys are horribly cruel, sir; boys, women and savages, All childlike things are cruelâ€"cruel from a want of thought and from perâ€" verse ingenuity, although by instinct each of theso is so tender,. You may not have observed it, but a savage is as tender to its own yourg as a boy is to a favorite puppyâ€"the same boy that will torture a kitten out of existence. I thought then, I say, of a rat drowning in a half filled cask of water and lifting his gaze out of the vessel as he grow more and more desperate, and I flung myself on my back, and floating thus fixed my eyes upon the face of the moon. ‘"‘The moon is well enough in her way, however you may look at her, but her appearance is, to say the least of it, peculiar to a man floating on his back in the center of a stone tank, with a dead wall of some 15 or 20 feet rising squarely on every side of him!‘"‘ The young man smiled bitterly as he said this and shuddered once or twice before he went on musingly : ‘‘The last time I had noted the planet with any emotion she was on the wane. Mary was with me. I had brought her out here one morning to look at the view from the top of the reservoir. She said little of the scene, but as we talked of our old childish loves I saw that its fresh features were incorporating themâ€" selves with tender memories of the past, and I was content. sore in busying themselves with the harsh and inhospitable stones. My feet alipped from the smooth and slimy maâ€" sonry beneath the water, and several times my face came in rude contact with the wall, when my foothold gave way on the instant that I seemed to have found some diminutive rocky cleat upon which I could stay myself'; 3 *‘Gir, did you ever sco aTas CTON DC In a balf filled hogshead, bhow he swims round and round and round, and after vainly trying the sides again and again with his paws fixes his eyes upon the upper rim as if he would look himself out of his watary prison? ver see a rat drowned rshead, how he swims and round, and after Sheâ€"Yes. Isn‘t she@ perfect sight}â€"= New York Press, «omeemiy abimmcun on Apoemss nnce cmeqnconn o+ The unity of the Slays is bardly more than an ethnographical abstraction, For political purposes it is nonexistent. Thus, the Poles are not Czechs, although both are Slayvs; they speak different tongues, the former possessing a rich literature, the latter a very poor one; their political history has little in comâ€" mon and as lately as four years ago the Poles were allied with the Germans against their brothers, the Ozechs. The Ruthenians, who are also Slavs, have no great love for the Ozechs, while they utterly loathe the Poles, and their lanâ€" guago is vermflifferent indeed from that of either of the other two people, as are also their alphabet (they use Russian characters) and their religion. The Czech idiom is to the Ruthenian as Gerâ€" man is to English or as French is to Roumanian. Then come the Croatians, who are not ouly Slays, but the very purest specimens of the race, and they would feel mortally offended if they were confounded with any of the foreâ€" going. The Slovenians, whose very name proclaims them to be Slavs, would be less wrathful at such a mistake, probâ€" ably because their very backward state of civilization would lead them to reâ€" gard it as a compliment. But they differ in many respects from Czechs, Poles, Ruthenians and Croatians. Nothing, however, could characterize the situaâ€" tion more satisfactorily than the cirâ€" cumstance that whenever a panâ€"Slavonic conference is convoked the chosen repâ€" resentatives of the various Slavic secâ€" tions are forced to converse with each other in German! Thus, the Slays of Austriaâ€"Hungary are not united by the bond of religion, history, language, litâ€" erature or identical political aspirations. â€"Contemporary Review. Ho (in ecstasy)â€"What a heavenly vision l * ‘There are thoso within hearing of my voice who will live to see the day when the people of this vast country will by means of eléctricity instantly communicate with their friends in all parts of the world. There are those lisâ€" tening to me tonight who will live to see the time when the iron horse will plow its way from the rock ribbed shores of the Atlantic to the golden aéds of the Pacific.‘ ‘‘â€"Exchange. ‘"‘The ladder which attracted your notice is, as you see, lashed to the iron railing in the identical spot where I thus made my escape, and for fear of similar accidents they have placed anâ€" other one in the corresponding corner of the other compartment of the tank ever since my remarkable night‘s adâ€" venture in the reservoir.‘""â€"COharles Fenno Hoffman. Benton‘s Great Prophecy. ‘"In the campaign of 1856,‘‘ related Charles H. Whitaker of Clinton, Mo., "‘I beard Senator Benton speak in what I believe was then known as Lafayetts park in St. Louis, a small square near the old Union depot and near the then city limits. It was anight meeting, and as the carriage containing Colonel Benâ€" ton rapidly approached the speakers‘ stand his name flamed forth from its full length in capiyal letters of scintilâ€" lating fire and the cheers were deafenâ€" ing. In this speech Senator Benton inâ€" dulged in prophetic utterances which afforded St. Louis a great sensation. He sÂ¥id : ‘‘The water is low now, and tolerably clear. You may see the very ledge there, sir, in yonder corner, on which the small end of my rod rested when I seâ€" cured that pike with my hands. I did not take him from the slip noose, howâ€" ever, but standing upon the ledge hanâ€" dled the rod in a workmanlike manner, as I flung that pound pickerel over the iron railing upon the top of the parapet. The rod, as I have told you, barely reached from the railing to the water. It was a heavy, strong bass rod, and when I discovered that the fish at the end of the wire made a strong enough knot to prevent me from drawing my tackle away from the railing around which it twined itself as I threw, why, as you can at once see, I had but little difficulty in making my way up the face of the wall with such assistance. ‘‘Was the calmness that I now felt torpidity, the torpidity that precedes dissolution, to the strong swimmer who, sinking from exbaustion, must at last add a bubble to the wave as he suffoâ€" cates beneath the element which now denied his mastery? If it were so, how fortunate was it that my floating rod at that moment attracted my attention as it dashed through the water by me! I saw on the instant that a fish had onâ€" tangled himself in the wire noose. The rod quivered, plunged, came again to the surface and rippled the water as it shot in arrowy flight from side to side of the tank. At last, driven toward the southeast corner of the reservoir, the small end seemed to have got foul someâ€" where. The brazen butt, which every time the fish sounded was thrown up to the moon, now sank by its own weight, showing that the other end must be fast. But the cornered fish, evidently anchored somewhere by that short wire, floundered several times to the surface before I thought of striking out to the spot. ‘‘Then came an emotion of pity for myselfâ€"of wild, wild regret; of sorâ€" row, ob, infinite, for a fate so desolate, & doom so dreary, so heart sickening. You may laugh at the contradiction if you will, sir, but I felt that I could sacrifice my own life on the instant to redeem another fellow creature from such a place of borror, from an end so piteous. My soul and my vital spirit seemed in that desperate moment to be separating, while one in parting grieved over the deplorable fate of the other. ‘‘And then I prayed. I prayed, why or wherefore I know not. It was not from fear. It could not have been in hope. The days of miracles are passed, and there was no natural law by whose providential interposition I could be saved. I did not pray. It prayed of itself, my soul within me. part, my poor Miary herself, was forgotâ€" ten. I thought only of the strong man there perishing; of me in my lusty manhood, in the sharp vigor of my dawning prime, with faculties illimitaâ€" ble, with senses all alert, battling there with physical obstacles which men like myself had brought together for my unâ€" doing. The Eternal could never have willed this thing. I could not and I would not perish thus. And I grew strong in insolence of self trust, and I laughed aloud as I dashed the sluggish water from side to side. aterloo County Chronicle, Thursday, May Slavs, Czechs, Ruthenians. The Point of View. Those who are always good humored are very useful persons in this world, by diffusing a generous cheerfulness among all who approach them. Habitâ€" ual vivacity has the recommendation of not only its pleasurable feelings, but it has a sanitary benefit, for it keeps the blood in proper circulation, quickâ€" ens the understanding, and even helps digestion. Indeed it conduces to long life, while on the other hand the habit of yielding to and fostering saddness of beart embitters and shortens the days of the young. Ib is well said by Soloâ€" man that "a merry heart doth good like medieine; but & broken spirit drieth the bones."â€" In latter times Bolingâ€" brake gave it as his experience that, ‘"in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirtb, whilst fools only are serious." "Even when ill, she is so bright and hopeful that a friend once exclaimed : " ‘Grandma, I do believe you would laugh if you were dying !‘ * ‘"Well,‘ she said, ‘#o many folks go to the Lord with a long face,I guess He will be glad to see me come to him smiling ‘ " "©‘Well, John, I want to know beâ€" fore you go jast what you have lefo me in your will.‘ "This little joke turned a tear into a smile. "She is invariably cheerfal,and when sbe is parting with ber son for the winter, she says : «* ‘Never mind if that did go down the wrong way. A great many good things have gone down the right way this winter.‘ ©One day when she was choked by a bread crumb at the table, she said to the frightened waiter, as soon as she could regain ber breath : "I have known several inberesting octogenarians, but never ons that surpassed her in loveliness, wit and positive jollity. She still has her ardent admirers among men as well as women and now and then receives an earnest proposal from some lonely old fellow. The last of these aged lovers, when refused and relegated to the position of w brother, urged her to reconsider the matter, and make it a sulject of prayer, _ Bat she quietly said : From Kidney Diseaseâ€"Gravel and Strictureâ€"An Absolute Cure Found in South ‘American Kidney Cureâ€" A Remedy that Never Fails in the Most Distressing Cases. The solid evidence of experience is behind South American Kidney Oure. Mr. Wilbur Goff of Chippews, Ont., is simply one of hundreds who have spokâ€" en in equally strong terms. He says : "After taking six bottles of South American Kidney Cure I am completeâ€" ly cured of stricture and gravel, having euffered from these complaints for over ten years. I found great relief after taking one bottle but continued the remedy until I was perfectly cured and I am now enjoying the best of health." _ * ‘I‘m not going to bother the Lord with questions I can answer myselt.‘ That ink itains can be removed by dipping the spot in buttermilk and rinsâ€" ing in clean water ? A dear old lady of 83 is she who is described by Kate Sanborn, in "A Truthful woman in Southern Califorâ€" nis," as "Grandma Wade." She says : Do you know that bread crumbs cleanse s Ik gown:? & § That salb as a tooth powder is better than almost any dentifrice? That a heated bag of salt will relieve neura‘gia ? lig See: 2 That two or three geranium leaves added to a crab apple jolly will give it a delicious flavor ? ‘That coffse stains are removed by borling hot. water ? Toat salt will kill weeds if applied in quantities ! S t § That the pin‘e apple is a valuable aid to digestion ? _ That nothing made with sugar, egas acd milk should reech the boiling point? That oilcloths last much longer if a thin coat of varnish be applied once a year ! iss 3 That if vaseline or butter be applied to the skin immediately after a blow ot any kind there will be no discolora tion ? j That berry stains ondamask will disâ€" +ppoar if soaked in milk before sending to the laundry ? j â€"That ammonia will clean and brightâ€" en carpeta ? R That flawers keep longer if cut with a knife and scissors than they do if picked ? â€" That a pinch of cream of tartar putb in with the whites of eggs when being beaten will make them stiffen 1 That common dry salt cleans marble thoroughly withoup injuring the surâ€" face 1 That the white of egg will remove a fishbone from the throat if beaten and civen at once ? That a piece of tallow wrapped in tissue paper and laid with fars or other garments will prevent the ravages of moths ? That two thirds lemon juide to one chird Jamacia rum will remove freckles? That the best way to polish window glass is with a piece of chamois ? That articles of plate not in daily ase should be put away in greon baize 1 _ That the best dishcloths are those made from glass towelling ? That a fow pieces of beeswax put up with silk of woollen goods prevent them turning yellow ? * That the berb tarsy is a surs preâ€" ventive of moths % Goâ€":d Humored People. 10 Years a Sufferer. Do You Know ? Beauty in Age. This is the plain, direct and simple question that the Liberal Government proposes to submit to the people of Canads. We have previously urge1d our friends to communicate with thkeir representatives in Parliament supportâ€" ing this simple form of ballot. It is bow in order, and will be doubly effective, to express your views to members of Parliament, and especially to members of the Government, strengthening the gocd prospects with which the bill is introduced, and showâ€" ing your gratitude and support. The debate on the second reading cof the bill will be most interesting and imâ€" portant. Whatever irfluence you have, use it now, in this worthy cause. "Are you in favor of the passing of an Act Prohibiting the Importation, Manufacture, or Sale of Spirits, Wine, Ale, Beer, Cider and all other Alcoholic Liquors for use as Beverages }" The Plebiscite Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on the 21st ult. by the Hon. Sydney Fisher. Mr. Fisher is & staunch friend of thoroughâ€"going Probibition, and it must have been a pleasure to him, as it is a satisfaction to all friends of Temâ€" perance Reform, to have & simple, single issue to be answered with "Yes" or "No" :â€" Apparently a Hopeless Case. A Kincardine Banker who Suffered Distressingly from Indigestionâ€" Apparently a Hopeless Case of Stomach Trouble Until _ South American Norvine was Usedâ€"His Words are : "It Cured Me Absoluteâ€" ]y-” What this wonderful rewedy for all forms of stomach trouble can do is best told in the words of John Boyer, bankâ€" er, Kincardine, {Ont. "About a year ago, as a result of heavy work no doubt I became very much troubled with indigestion; essociated with ib were those terribly distressing _ feelings that can hardly be described in any language. I had tried various methâ€" ods of ridding myself of the trouble, but without success, until I was influâ€" enced to use South American Nervine. The result, and I gladly say it for the benefit of othersâ€"this remedy cured me and I never besitate to recommend ib to any person affected with any form of stomach trouble." Westville, Conn., is excited over the strange case of Rev.O.Raymond Howe and the alleged mysterious powers ofhis eyes. It is the most remarkable event in the legal history of Connecticut, and Justice Tyner is known to be greatly worried over the problem he has to solve. In conversation with a friend the other day he declared that Solomon‘s famous sase wasn‘t balf as bad. Nellie Lansing is the complainant. She declares that the Rev. Mr. Howe possesses a mysterious power and was able by his will to make her do anytbhing he desired Evidence to corroborate this is given by a number of staid citizens, all of whom have beea regarded as disâ€" tressingly commonplace and matter of fact. They siy the minister‘s peculiar power was common talk in the village long before Nellie Lansing made her own case public. Strange Power of a Mysterious Conâ€" necticut Minister. Rev. 0. Raymond Howe was the pastor cf the Westville Congregational cburch, Hsis not any longer, as he was forced out cf office by his parishâ€" ioners. At the very start a number of them were opposed to him because of this mysterious power, which, they say, be was always trying to exercise, and their numbers grew and grew until they became a majority of the congreâ€" gation and were able to force the selâ€" ection of a new pastor. A borticulturist who has for years given the making of lawos a study remarked that the general mistake made was was in cutting the grass with a lawn mower and raking the grass off. He cited the case of a fine lawn which was treated in this manner, and it soon became so straggly that it took $14 worth of sodding to putb the lawn in presentable shape again. He maintained that the small pieces of grass lefb on the lawn after it is cut serves not only to protect the tender roots from the sun, but protects them from frosts in the winter, and return to the ear th the substance which has been given up in vegetation. Columbus Dispatch. Neilie Lansing was employed by the minister in Suly 1896, "to help with the work." _ According to her story almost from the first day of her stay in the Howe household she noticed that the minister seemed to exercise a strange power over her. _ She felt helpless when his eyes were upon her. According to the girl‘s story she was never infatuated with the minister or even cared for him. She was simply in his power. Printed in blue and gold on creamy white paper, the cover of the beautiful little book just published by the North American Life Assurance Company, and its artistically illustrated letterâ€" press contents, comprising the annual report, as well as« other interesting matter in regard to this suzccessful Canadian financial institution, constiâ€" tute one of the most creditable proâ€" ductions of the press we have seen for some time. .The occasion of this fine piece of printing is the completion of improvements in the history building, erected by the United Empirs Club in Toronto, and afterwards occupied by the Canadian Pacific Railway, now the home office of the North American Life. It is said to be one of the most admirable for its purpose in this counâ€" try. An illustrated descriptive article about the building and ite appointâ€" ments, written by F. Howard Annes, is included in the book. Don‘t Rake the Grass. HYPNOTIC EYES. W.C.T.U. Corner. A Beautiful Book $â€"Page 7 Press SUPT You can‘t speculate on the markets, Prices change with the whirlwind, You can‘t get any satisfaction out of a lazy hen. You can‘t become & successful fanâ€" cier until you have become well versed in poultry culture. You can‘t keep fowls thrifty without green food of some kind. _ You can‘t make profit with a crowdâ€" ed yard. You can‘t keep fowls, in good conâ€" dition that are literally covered with lice You can‘t have a good growth by inâ€" breeding. You can‘t afford & big expense in this business; the less help you have the better, You can‘t put brains into an incubaâ€" bator and brooder. You can‘t succeed without hard work. You can‘t make eggs from food that produces fat. > For the painless Extraction of teeth The office will be closed every Friday afterâ€" noon from May 1st to November 1st, You can‘t keep chickens in health without grit, _ s Will visit Elmira Dunke‘s Block, the second Thursday andFriday and fourth Thursday and gridlay of t;aoh month (Thursday 1 p.m. to Friâ€" ay 1 p.m, ODONTUNDER. _ You can‘t make a hen set until she wants to. _ Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Con: veyancer, etc. Toronto and Waterloo : wW, M. Rx?.‘.u)mé B].('A. J. A. Fxx'lqusox, B. A Offices { Olvexfli\gt.sggggtr’: :%ortgr%m.orlo (MonxnEy To Loax,) N. B.â€"Mr. Reade will reside in] W aterloo and be in chatge of the office L5 BARRISTERS AT LAW Solicitors in all the courts, Notaries and Conveyancers. Money to lend on Mortfia.ges at lowes rates. Officeâ€"Court House Berli W. H. BowLBYy, M. A., LL.B., Q.C.,* a County Crawn Attorney ces and Clork of the Peso Office in the Oddfellow‘s Block. Waterloo, Ont. L.D.S., Toronto, ‘92. D.D.S., Philadelphia, 91. SPECIALTY: Preservation of natural teeth, including mounting artificial crowns on sound roots, and the insertion of gold bridges to supâ€" ply the place of missing teeth without a plate Diskasks or KYE anp EAR TREATED, Offlceâ€"New residence, Albert street, Water loo, & short distance north of the late Dr Walden‘s residence. DR. C. T. NCCKER, MEDALLIST OF TO RONTO University, Licentiate of the Col lege of Physicians, Surgeons and Aceoucheu of Ontario. Money to loan at lowest rates of interest. FREDIRICK COLQUKOUN. A. B. MoBRIDE Fred G. Hughes D.D.S Special attention paid to Catarrh, Asthma a.mf Chronic Diseases. Homeopathic Physician, W. R. WILKINSON, Dentist. PROFESSIONAL . . .CARDS. ALEX, MILLAR, Q.C. HaryEy J. Sims, B.C.L. Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries, etc. Office: Upstairs Economical Block, King St., Woest, Berlin. DRS. D. 8. £ G. H BOWLBY, PHYSICIAN®S, SURGEON®, ETo. Dr. D. 8. Bowlby, Coroner for the Count Dr G, H. Bowlby treats diseases of the nose, throat and ear. U _____â€" Barristers,Solicitors, Notarles, &c. . Officeâ€"Corner King and Erb Streets, Waterâ€" 00, over old Post Ofiice. (Money to loan.) Office‘ Killer‘s Block, Wateroo Ont. OFFICE: Canadian Block, Berlin. ‘Phone 61 Telephone communication E. P. CLEMENT. l H. WEBB M D., o Coroner County of Waterloo: Offlceâ€"At his residence on Erb street. Telephone communication. AMES C. HAIGHT ERGUSON & READE Barristers, éoliciwrs, Notaries a : ___ Conveyancers, otc. OLQUHOUN & McBRIDE, OWLBY & CLEMENT R. HETT,. ILLAR & SIMS. . W. L. HILLIARD . . 105 King Street West, Berlin, Ont. Licentiate of the College of Physicians, Surgeons and Accoucheurs of Ontario. Residence and office on King Strect, Opposite Woolen Mills _ > Phone 210 WELLS, L. D. 8. C. W WELLS, D. D. 8., EVANS, 1. R.C. P., Ireland ; M. D., C M. Trin Unviv.; M. C. P. S. 0. : Licentiate of Medical Council, Great Britain. Speciiltyâ€"Diseases of Woâ€" men and Surgery. Calls day or night promptly answered. _ _ DR. McLEAN, DENTIST._ Y ou Can‘t do It 109 King street east, Berlin, Schweitzer‘s Block, Conestog o. Offlce and Residenceâ€"John street MEDICAL,. DENTAL LEGAL. DENTISTS, WATERLOO, RICeSPUA _ Undertakers and Embalmers Calls answered day and night at the faclory. Klippert Undertaking Co. BEST EQRTABLE.DAIRYANQ FARM. Firstâ€"class rigs and good reliable horses. Tw and three seated carriages always in readiness. All_calls protgflxiptly attended to and oha.rgl moderate. Office and Livery in rear of the Zimmerman House. Entrance on King streeb, next to Fischer‘s butcher shop. HERBERT J. BOWMAN PROVINCIAL Land Surveyor, Civi Engineer and Draughtsman, Graduateo of the Ortarie Sehool of Practical Science, and late assistamt to the York T‘p EKngineer on the construction of Pubâ€" ic Works, and the subâ€"aivision of lauds in the uburbs of Toronto. X LIV ERY AND EXCHANGE STABLKS® Gxzo. SUGerTr, Proprietor,. All kinds of conveyances constantly on hand. Charges moderate, Stables in rear of the Com mercial Hotel. House and Sign Painter Waterloo, ID Fire, Accident and Life Insurance Agents, representing the best Stock and Mutual Com:â€" panies deing business in this Province. KNITTING . . POEHLMA.N ‘8 BAKRBER SHOP, Teacher of Piano and Organ go co Henry Maier. Prices as low as at any other place. _IMON SNYDER, PUPIL of A, S. Vogt of the Toronto Uonstrâ€" vatory of Music, late of Leigsic,;Gormmy Pupils prepared for the first!and second year‘s examinations in Piano at ,the Toronto Conâ€" servatory of Music. Residence, â€" â€" _ â€" _ Albert St. F‘O Remm== Trunks, Valises, Dusters, Sweatâ€"pads, MISS ANNA R. BEAN Such as Oil Painting, Paper H;nging, Kalsomining, Tint ng, etc., nea ly exeouted. Church _ Decorating a specialty. Address care of H. Niergarth, Wateri« â€" {{Fancy Bread, Buns, Rolls, and Faney Cakes always on hand. Hello There! Trapc Mar«e Desicns Coryrients &e. Aryone sending a sketch and dumgzmn may q-lckl.{ ascertain our opinion free whether am :v-n on is probably upumntnb)c. Com?unlc& one ltrlct(l)y confidential. Handbook on Patents sent free. Oldest zemay for securing C};.unu. Patents taken through Munn & Co. reestve _ Patents taken ':EFE-K‘H _Munn & Co. reest special notice, without eharge, in the Scientific American. ear ; four months, §1. Bold by aU newrdodere. MUNN & Co,2s s« Now Ygrk Branch OMeo, 63 F St., Washingtem, D. €. Officeâ€"Court House, Berlin. A handsomely {llustrated weekly. _ exlation of any sctentific ;oumfl. &A year ; four months, §1. Bold by all n EMIL F. SRAUN . House and Sign Painter. y OUpposite the Market square, An easy shave, a stylish hair cut, & fiood sem oam, an exhilirating shampoon. ‘ Ladies‘ and hildren s hair cut, Sanderson‘s Bakery [OHN L WIDEMAN, Issuer of Marriage Licenses, Officeâ€"Post Office, St Jrcobs. Ont. ) _ _ __.;. Issuero Marrlage Licenses, Officeâ€"At his Drug Store, Waterloo. John Strebel‘s, ASK YOUR DEALER FOR Charles N. Rockel UCKBERROUGH & CO Livery, Sale and Exchange Stables. BUCKBERROUGH, A full line of knitted goods such as Ladies‘, Gents‘ and Children‘s Hose, coarse and fine yarns, fancy goods eto, kept on hand. _A call is solicited. W. A. KUMPF, VETERINARY SURGEON Cheap Harness MISCELLANEOUS Now Is Txx Timx For King St. Waterloo. DECORATOR. Waterloo, Ont. LIVERIES. iH, WA RayO, GKo. A. BRU oK. , WATERLOO and Paper Hanger = Ontario MISS STRICKLAND.