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tiie tribxtjste is pubixsiikd every friday at the tribune printin house main street stouffville subscription 100 per flnum first insertion per line solid nonpareil s s each subsequent insertion per tine proitiional cards er year 4 c3 rates under contract oneconmn per year 5 half column one year 30 0 guartcr column one year oo ighth column oc year xo oo for six months cr tliree monhs in the same rato hoidge bros publishers and proprietors harness geo- minns has constantly on hand light heavy harness collars saddles c stationery fmcyjdods when you require stationery confectionery biscuits or canned goods caia a hamiltons next door east of station stouffville also dealer in oysters fruit toys and fancy goods smokers supplies a specialty the vwst select stock of mouth organs in town boys give hamilton a call jsddion iirueri main st stouffville firstclass horses and rigs cartage of all kinds of freight and express from the station promptly attended to charges moderate bus to and from all trains commercial travellers supplied at reasonable rates j e addison proprietor stouffviua march 18ss filte asi life rsurmce g- beoln bxox7x oisrr agent for london liverpool globe ontario mutual ok london j and manufacturers life and accident insurance companies lowest rates juonxrs to toan j am prepare to lend money at lowest rates on real estate a g brown iiy centenial shaving parlok first class shaving parlor fitted up in neatest styles hair cutting and shaving equal to any city barber shop indies and childrens hair dressed in the latest fashion iadies please do not call on saturday after 5 p m vm a bovair liurkholdevs block stouffville a onesided discussion in a literary society composed entirely ol young women they proposed to discuss the vltel conundrum is life worth living without ft bean but aa it was impossible to find ft member willing to speak on the affirmative aide of the question the snbject bad to be dropped all orders promptly attended to repairing done cheap main street stouffville east end grooery best vaxtjte in teas sugars spices fruit crockery and glassware garden seeds woodbox stove polish sunset dyes all colors of these celebrated dyes kept constantly in stock price only five cents k j armstrong scilfmui april 25 18s8 ixumbef yard w p hajrt2stey keeps constantly in stock a full supply of lumber lath shingles salt plaster coal water limej plaster of paris coaltar tar paper eire brick fire clay iac a die cash paid for hides wbolsueepskms and all kinds of grain warehouse opposite railivayslalionslouffville harness the undersigned keeps on hand an excellent assortment of harness collars whips etc also a stock tjf splendid yack robes all cheap for cash a von buseck main street stouffville pfairms for sale township of catjedon co ovpkel lot 27 con 1 coo acres t well fenced frame barns brick house orchard clajr loam 2 miles from the town of orangeville price eight thousand dollars also lot si j con s 100 acres 75 acres cleared well fenced frame stable rough cist dwelling young orchard sail good clay loam convenient to school a mitts from a market price three thous and eight hundred dollars also 200 acres 165 acres cleared good brick house bank barn frame stable arid driving house well fenced 6 miles from town of orangeville must be sold price six thousand two hundred dollars towxshir of mono co iuffkhin is6 acres all cleared frame stable log dwelling this is said to be one of the best grain farms in mono raised 2000 bushels last year 3 miles from town of orangeville price five thousand six hundred dollars also ioo acres 80 cleared frame barn frame sta ble log house well fenced good clay loam price fivelhousand two hundred dollars township of amaranth- lao acres 95 acres cleared frame house bank barn well fenced flag station on tbe farn p o 8 miles from the town of orangerille clay loam must be sold price four thousand dollars also 120 acres 70 acres cleared frame house bank barn well fenced well watered price two hous- and eight hundred dollars all the above farms are level and very cheap also a number of other farms for sale cheap money to loan ofllco days monday and saturday apply to thos parsons real estate agent p o box 133 orangeville oung folks the eeatless bot in church how be tarns and twists and how he persists in rattling his heels how uneasy he feels onr wide- awake boy in church then earnest and still he attends with a will while the story is told o some hero bold oar dear thoughtful boy in church but our glad surprise at his thoughtful eyes is turned to despair as he twitches the hair of his little sister in church still each naughty trick flies at a look from the eyes of his mother so dear who thinks best to sit near her mischievou3 boy in church 1 another trick comes yea his fingers he drums or his kerchief is spread al over his head and still we take him to church hes troublesome yea that im bound to confess but god uade the boys with then- fun and their noise and he surely wants them in church 1 such children you know lonq loog years ago did not trouble the lard though his disciples were bored so well keep them near him in church sometimes men become crooked in order to help themselves out of straightened posi tions the little spabtan pklnoess the place a grim gloomylooking room in a royal palice rude weapons of war gleam ing upon the walls the windows drapad with hangings of coarse tapostry the floor a solid pavement the time a summer day in the year before christ 593 it i3 afternoon the two bronzed soldiers who stand on guard at thedcor armed with spear aud shield stand alternately on one leg and yawn luzily a great wolfhound gaunt and tawny lies fast asleep on a coarse woven mat in the center of the room out of doors the sun shines brightly and it is still in the pilaee there are shade and coolness but there is stillness there too standing at the further end of the room is a tall longhaired darkbearded man ho has justeome in from eating his usual dinner of black porridge and garlic for though of the highest rank in sparta he has to sit at the public table and eat the same kind of food the common laborers do his features are heavy and his dark brow is frowning he mutters and gesticulates with his hands as ho gazes at the suit3 of armor and tho weap ons on the walls what do you suppose he is thinking about same enemy perhaps tint he is going to war against for fighting was tho chief employment of kings in those days you would hardly judge by his dress for he wears no better clothes than the two guardsmen at the door that this man is a king and yet he is kingcleomenes of sparta while he stands there talking to himself and stamping his feef a little gul enters the room she is a slight weo thing and ehe looks just a little frightened as she sees the soldiers and all those fierce glittering weapons on the wall her eyes are very black and dancing but her hair is like gold aud falls all over her face and shoulders she is pretty but gravelooking despite those wideawake eyes and she is dressed soberly with not a particle of color about her her long darian chiton or dress ber short oloak and even her sandalstraps are all of a solemn black this girl is our prin cess little gorgo by and by when she is older she will wear a cap over her golden hair and will go out to run and leap and even wrestle and box with the boys for this was a girls hard lot in ancient sparta they were trained to be strong and brave and enduring and not to look well and to dress handsome ly a spartan girl did not go to school she did not even learn to play on the flate or the harp but she had to bear burdens to make her strong and dance and run to make her graceful and then was whipped severely on occasions so as to toughen her all this gorgo will have to endure when she grows a little older as she is still young only about eight she can run about and play all she chooses so she has come into that gloomy old hall to see what she can find to do perhaps it was to romp with alto trie hound but he is cross and sleepy so she goes straying up and down the room peering at the savage- looking weapons and the horsehair crests and gleaming breastplates and shining shields after a timo her father sees her and calls her to his side though a grim and moody man cleomenes lovos his daugh ter for she is his only child ho is talking plcantlv to the little girl when all at or ce there is a great commotion outside in ai other moment the guards throw open the door and a mobt gorgeouslooking atraiigsr is ushered in clomenos bade gorgo leave him and in stantly becamo grave again but gorgo does not go out of tho room she is so interest ed in the mans magnificent appearance that she forgets her fathers command sho has never seen anything so fine in all her life be fore he wears a scarlot cloak with a great deal of rioh trimming the straps of his sandals sparkle with jewels and on his head is a helmet so lofty and with so many gayly- colored fearhers on it that gorgos eyes are quite dazzled no one takes any notice of her and so she stands and listens sho hears the stranger say that his name is aristasrorus and that he is from miletus a city of ionia across the sea and that he is trying to get np a war in his own land and wants cleomenes to help him it seems that ariatagorus and his people had an enemy in darins tho great king of persia and they had made up their minds to fight him but they did not have quite soldiers enough to carry on a war with any prospect of success with so mighty a foe as darius of persia and as cleomenes and the spartans wero the bravest and best warriors alive arlstag- orous had come all that distance to get them to help him he showed the king a brand now brazen chart of the world and on it he pointed ont the capital of the persian empire which he said was a very great city and fall of silver and gold that would eako any one very rich if he could conquer it and he traced a line sbowiog the way to get thsre telling the king in a flittering way that hi spartans beiis scch goii soldiers would have no difficulties in overcoming the obstacles on tho route cleomenes listened with a great deal of interest bat being a cautions man he told aristagorus that he would think the muter over and ia three days would let him know his answer aristagorus probably feeling quite 3ure that cleomenee would help him took his leave and departed gorgo followed him out and had a chance to look up into his dark hvidsome face somehow ehe did not just fancy bin and in spite of his gold trim mings and gorgeous headdress almost hoped that he would not come again but on the third day ho did com looking handsomer thio ever in his gay trippings uorgo was piling ia the outer court and as the servants ushered him into the room where the king sat she tl pped in too i suppose it was just a little bis naughty ia her but the rich dress and tosains plumes of aristagorus were a rare treat to her who never before had teen any thing but the dull colors of her spartan homo besides i have a fancy that sh feared aristagorus might harm her father for shs had quite made up her little mind that he was a wick ed man cleomenes very calmly told ariatagorus that before he gave him his answer he would like to ask him a question how far is it he askod from the great kings capital to the sea a threemonths journey replied the ionian without stopping to think tho king was very angry he had not supposed it wa3 more than three days dis tance to march a three months journey into an enemys country was another thine you are no friend to the spartans said cleomenes quit my capital before sun set but ariatagorus meant to get cleomenesa help if he could so he began to offer him money now the spartans though tbey were suoh excellent soldiers were very poor and cleomenes though a king was poor too the bribes that his visitor held forth were a great temptation to him aristago- rns offered him first five talents then ten then twenty then forty cleomene3 began to consider and to look at the money aid us with six thousand of your bravest spartans said the cunning ionian at last and you shall have fifty talents for a three- months service it was a large sum more than fifty thousand dollars cleomenes hesitated no longer he reached forth his hands to take the fifty talents father father and a little hand clutched at his arm fly i beseech you or this stranger will corrupt you it was gorgo siie had heard tho whole conversation and felt that her father was being tempted to do wrong it was very brave in her but she was tcrrioly frighten ed when aristagorus flashed his adgry black eyes upon her and she thought 3he should sink through the floor cleomenes however very kindly took her hand gave aristagorus back his money and told him to leave sparta at once as it happened gorgo saved her f athor from a great mistake ariatagorus was miserably defeated in his great revolt and those that had helped him fared as badly as he so her eight innocent little years served quite as good a purpose as many older ones do you want to know what was tho alter career of this young girl who began life so bravely and thoughtfully we called her the princers gorgo but she became a queen at last marrying her cousin leonidas who led the throe hundred spartans at thermopylae and died with glory in that historic fight a lesson in grammar ono night an owl was prowling round looking for mice when on the ground he spied a cat and straightway flew quite close to it tu whit tu whoo i quoth he may i again neer stir it here dressed in a coat of fur i do not see a fourlegged owl 0 what a very funny fowl it makes me laugh so droll ha 1 ha 1 ha ha 1 it arc ha 1 ha 1 ha 1 ha i it are it are it really aro the drollest thing ive seen by far i oure muoh mistaken scornful sir tne eat said as she ceased to purr for though like one i often prowl about at nipht i am no owl and if i wore why still would you be queerer creature of the two for yon look thoresno doubt of that extremely like a twolegged cat as for your grammar pon my word excuse this giggle he hehebe it be it be it really be the very worst i ever hearv st nioholas he wasnt making the noise what was all the racket in the yard a moment aga bobby demanded the old gentleman it was enough to set one crazy i was playicg with the cat ja explain ed bobby well if you cant mike lees noise when im trying to read ill have your mcther tie yon to the bedpost i wasnt making any noise p said babby with aa injured air the noise was- all mads by tho cat ingenious beetles some species of beetles are sextons ia that they bury dead animals very mash larger than themselves in which to lay their j eggs and thus provide for their young whev hatched in making these burials th6y oftia resort to expedients as when gle- ditsch a naturalist wishing to dry a dead toad fixed it to the top of a stick which ha stuck in the round thinking the beetles could not get at it there attracted by his sceut tho beetles were yet unable to ascend the stick bat to gain their end the in genious little creatures burrowed beneath the base of the stick until it fell then they buried both stick and toad now it may happen to you by and by dear youth to be in pursuit of some needed employment you may meet with rebuffs and trying dis appointments what then must you say that it ia useless to try again not so rather lot those ingenious beetles toach you when one effort faih to keep trying until you are able to build a tower of triumph over the eravo of your difficulties try and never give up a matter of course caller is the lady of tho house in bridget be yez bloind that yez cant see me caller then you are the mistress of this place bridget divil a bit the mistress ia in the kitchen not encouraging- dolly aw willie i must have made a twemondous hit with that litttle brow- sen girl she asked me for my photo the other day willie did y give it to her dolly yaws of course dally ell that settles you at that house me deah fel she gives those photos to the servant girl with out when this one calls written on it her lost character an albany housemaid wishing to obtain a situation in now york prouurcd o refer ence from her former mistress and started by boat for her new home on her trip she unfortunately lost her testimonial and was in despair until a friend who had seen the precious document offered a substitute which when presented to tho new mistress read as follows this is to certify that maria katherine otlynn had a character which she lost on the boat coming from albany to new york wifely thoughtfulness young husband in tho theatre to his wife excnae me dear i wrnt to go out and seo a man wife sit down george ive got babys nursing bottle with me with some liquor in it aud you can see a man right here without disturbing all these people dog and cat story people who have much to do with animals are often puzzled to know where sonse be gins anl instinct loaves off says a writor in an exchange as an example of what i mean i must tell a little anecdote of u terrier be longing to a friend of mine this little animal always fetches tho lottors from the postman who arrives at a very eatly hour the dog sleeps on very good terms with a large cat the other morning it was bitter ly cold when the postman was due mid though reminded of his duties bob refused to turn out he was obsorved trying to make the cat do something that he evident ly did not or would not understand at last he jumpsd up seized puss by the collar and dragged him to the door where he left his companion hurrying back into his bed as fast as he conld but he was obliged to get up for puss walked back without tho letters after all ptjnhy little st0bies what they were called well dtvio did you onjoy your visit to the museum yes mamma do yon remember any of the nice things you saw j oh yes i remember lots of them and can you tell me what they were called yes most of them were called do not touch could cut the meat- little rndulph one day begged an invita tion to dinner at the house of a little friend with whom he had been playing daring the morning at the table his hostess anxiously inquired rudolph can you cut your own meat humph i said rudolph who was sawing away cant 1 1 ive cut up a great deal tougher meat than that at home sense as well as nonsense ninetenths of the unhappy marriages are the results ol green human calves being al lowed to run at large in society pastures without any yoke on them they marry and baveohildrenbefore they do moustaches they are fathers of twinb before they are proprietors of two pairs of pants and the little girls they marry are old women be fore they are twenty years old occasion ally one of these gosling marriages turns ont all right but it is a clear case of lack if there was a law against young galoots sparking and marrying before they have cut all their teeth we suppose tho little ousses would evade it in some way but there ought to bo a sentiment against it it is time enough for these bantams to think of findina a pullet when they have raised money enough to buy a bundle of lath to build a henhouse but they see a girl who looks cunning and they are afraid there are not going to be enough to go round and then they begin to spark real spry and be fore they are aware of the sanotity of the marriage relation they are hitched for life and before they own a cook stove or a bed stead they have got to get up in the night and go after the doctor so frightened that they run themselves out of breath and abuse the doctor becauso he does not run too and when the doctor gets thore there ia not linen enough in the house to wrap up the baby- peoria call cruel commendation cora i would wait ever so long for any man that coald love me for myself alone violet what patience and you have already waitod so many years preferred tame geese i went out shooting dont you know miss d lisle and i shot four wild geese pon my honor im very fond of wild geeae dont yon know yaas i am indeed are you fond of wild geese miss de lisle no mr tompkins answered miss de lisle serenely i mucu prefer tame geeae and she looked at him with such tender significance that he proposed on the spot a thoughtless murse mrs murrayhill celeste what ia master harold orying for celeste i happened to say madam that 1 lived with a little boy who had a hundred and four presents ono xmas mrs murrayhill well celesto why then he insisted upon counting his and he bos been kicking and and crying liko this ever since because he has only ninety- ight mrs murrayhill mothingly there harold ear you shall have soma more if you want them i should think celeste you conld get on peaceably with the little fellow today of all days