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the teibune is published every friday at the tribune printing house main street stouffville subscription 100 per annul frrst insertion per lice solid nonpareil s 08 fach sobsequent 1 user ion per line 004 professional cards per year 401 rates under contract one column per year 5004 xaf column one year y quarter colomn ore year i3 00 ijmh column one tear 10 00 zot x month or uurce moaih in the tame ratio hoidge bros publishers and proprietors fire as life ikslilmkce jy g proavinu tou fir v 1 1 i i all nt for oxi london liverpool globe ontario mutual ok london and manufacturers life and accidvau insurance companies lowest rules monky uo ioan j am prepared to lend money nt lowest rate- on real estate tiy a o brow voentenial shaving parlor 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 ladies please do not call on saturday after 5 p m wm a bovair burkholders block stouffvule- men and their clothes- alady signing herself kate true has taken it up f or the women in the columns of the detroit free press kate says i attended a womans meeting the other day where some of the representative women of boston were assembled the subject under discussion was dress after the ethical side of dress had been duly considered and the decollette gowns frowned upon one sweet- voiced sister arose and said why oonld not we be sensibe like the men they are never bothered about their clothes a dress suit was always a dress suit 1 look ed at the speaker curiously she was in earnest and then i remembered that she belonged to that estimable class called spin sters and did not know any better in all the ups and downs and ins and outs of this kaleidoscopic world i recall certain scenes in a household of men when dressing for a party i remember with certain nervous twinges the demands for needle and thread the utterances not sweet but strong con cerning a delinquent tailor the angry twitohings given an innocent necktie and the fearful denunciations of some faraway laundress men never bother about their clothes 1 saints and angels defend us 1 it takes a woman with a man attachment and a quar tette of brothers to understand the true in wardness of the masculine toilet when tom debutant has a suit fresh from he tailors he is more finicky and fussy about it that any woman if there is a faint sug gestion of a wrinkle across the shoulders back ib goes and is considered a misfit as to the pantaloons have i not twisted my neok even worse than any photographer ever did to eo8 if they were not a trifle too long or to short and didnt i consider them a lit tle flash in the rear or a little snug at the knees or a trifta too springy at the bottom if men do not bother about clothes why were crazy quilts ever made to use up the superfluous neckties abandoned as out of style as to cosmetics tom debutant has ten to every one of his sisters and per fumes are the delight of the masculine nos trils ask your druggist who buys them and then ask every wife wh uses them up for her only the other day a bright wo man remarked concerning a popular physi cian that he was tho otto of roses in the morning german cologne at noon and horso at night go on in the innocence of your spinsterial heart most learned maiden but believe me when i tell you from the mountain top ex perience that for unadulterated fussiness from the end of a waxed mustache to the too of apumpor the fractional section of a white cuff below a coat sleeve the sex that swears bothers more about clothes than we poor sinners in this respeot they are super ior gills writing east end grocery best value in teas sugars spices fruit crockery and glassware garden seeds wo0db0x stove polish sunset dyes all colors of these celebrated yes kept constantly in stock price only five cents n j armstrong sjcunmlhv april 25 1888 lumber yard w p haetney keep constantly in stock a full supply of lumber lath shingles salt plaster coal water lime- plaster of paris coal tar tar paper eire brick 1tire clxv cft rtc cash paid for hides woolsheep skins and all kinds of grain- warehouse opposite railwayslationslouffville girls should look to their handwriting for it may serve them at some future crisis better than the shorthand or the type writer there is a lady clerk in the department of the interior mrs avery by name who has a snug and easy place of sixteen hun dred dollars a year chiesy on aocount of the extroardinary excellence of her penmanship it is she who is selected to copy the letters of the department which are regarded as of the greatest consequence such for example as are to receive the attention of the presi dent who frequently compliments mrs averys admirable penmanship considering the advantage it is to many girls to write a good hand it is strange that more of them do not try to acquire this ac complishment of late years our school boys do a great deal more writing than they did formerly much is dono in school now by the way of dictation and in many sohools the pupils have pencil or pen in hand almost half the time but it would not be true to say that jbe girls of today write more legibly and neat ly than their mothers did it would be well if thoy paid far more attention to this matter than they do but thay should make a berious study of it acquire the hab it of taking the best posture learn to use the muscles to advantage so that they may not easily become tired and then praotice as one who intends to become a professional musician practices when a piece of writing pets worse and worse page after page it is beoause the writer did the work with only one end of the musoular of the arm instead of employ ing the whole of its exquisite and harmoni ous machinery mrs avery it is said writes as easily as she does legibly she writes as well at the end of her days work as at the beginning and her fingers never aohe youths com panion young folks a childs mistake said a dear little girl and i heard her my self as she reached for a book on the very top shelf how i wish i might live like the birds and the flowers with nothing to do through the beautiful hours or else like the sun that has only to shine or dance with the shadows that hide in the vine i but no 1 1 must study from morning to night ling sums i must add there are copies to write to school i must 150 and for oh suoh a time 1 its just like a terrible mountain to climb dear i dear i and the child with a pitiful trown and a heartpiercing sigh to her grammar sat down then dished a fair sunbeam full into her face as if challenging frowns in so lovely a place why darling it laughed all aqniver with elee if you want to see tcori- you must travel with me i never am idle the swift rolling day but i go to my task in the spirit of play and wherever im ordered there straiehtway i by cheei np little maid said this voice from the sky there was heard a quick surry of wings over head from an army of birds and as southward they sped came clear as a bugle the leaderbirds bong you are wrong little lady 1 im sorry youre wrong and i cant stop to tell you he sang as he flew but no one is happy with nothing to do 1 a rose peeping in at the in sunlight and the flowers 1 pane breathed gently this message and rain wo children of earth dear to all who behold wear meekly our splendours of crimson or gold and born in the purple wo royally spend our fragrance in blessing until our lives end we seem to be idle i grant but you kno iv theres never a flower that has not to grow a growing near child means aspiring see as i when 1 whisper so softly to thee she picked up the book it had dropped from her hand at leisfc said our pet i can this under stand god gives all his creatures some duty each day and mine is perhaps just to trust and obey ill not think of the mountain before mo to climb but cheerfully mount it one step at a time margaret e sangater how they divided it harness i the undersigned keeps on hand an excellent assortment of harness collars whips sto also a stock of splendid tack robes all cheap for cash a von buseck main street stouffvillfi what art owes to commerce the pall mall gazette directs atten tion to the fsot that many of the most liberal patrons of modern british art hive belonged to the commercial class it says mr vernon who has spent 150000 on english pictures and whese collection is one of the glories of the national gallery was a horse dealer mr sheepshanks whose pictures were the making of the south kensington gallery was a partner in a cloth business at leeds mr horrocks millers- pictures wire bought out of the proceeds of long cloth mr jacob bell who was tha donor of many of the best known english pictures in the national gallery was a chemist s far as art goes culture would have been in a very bad way if it had not been for the phihstines harness geo minns has constantly on hand light k heavy harness collars saddles c alt orders promptly attended tog repairing done cheap main street stouffville by nellie helm it was a hot summer afternoon a gen tle breczi stirred among the treetops and occasionally came down into the garden and fanned the fliwers that drooped their heads under the suns fervent heat it was very hot out there where something seemed tc bo quivering in the air but under the wide ver anda where the snn could not penetrate it was cool and oomfortabl 1 a hush pervaded everything as though natuie were taking her afternoon nap and tho only sounds to bo heard were the distant buzz and hum of tho insect world and the click click of jack- stones on the hard floor of tho veranda then a voice wai heard to mingle with the click click it must be fine to make a will like that like what asked another voice why didnt you hear papa tell mamma about old mr smiths will yon know he died tho other day the mr smith the boys call stingy smith howard yes only he wasnt stingy laura cause ho gave away all his money in his will and he had loads of it but said laura he never gave any one a cent if he could holp it while he was alive i heard mamma say so one time he must have boen saving it said how ard to put it all in his will so it would be worth whilo to make a will i tell you it must be splendid to give so much money away but hes dead 1 howard said laura with her hands full of jacks i guess he thought ho might as well give it away cause he cant have it any more anyhow liura was a little girl but she sometimes spoke very plain truths in a very plain way why laura arent you ashamed to say suoh a thing said howard if he is dead his moneys going to do lots of good cause he gave it all to sooieties and things there was a pause in the conversation and the click click mingled again with the buzz and hum then laura looked up and said do you know howard it seems to me if 1 had lots of money like mr smith bad id rather give it away whille i was alive so as to see the good it would do than to just dio and not know anything abont it but what would you live on laura if you gave it away when you needed it your self oh said laura id keep enough for that anybody would laura was nearer right than she knew howard was silent for a few moments and the jacks began to fly again then he turned to laura and said anyhow laura i wish i had some money to give away dont you j what would you give it to asked lanra oh lots of things replied howard missionaries and hospitals and poor peo ple and oh lots of things but i havent and i suppose i never will have enough to do any good and a cloud passed over the bright faco but dont you know mr freeman said last sunday that sometimes the little things help the most and he read about the wid ows mite yes i know said howard but dont you remember that lesson wo had about giving a tithe a tithe is a tenth our teacher said and a tenth of such a little as i have isnt anything at all then you can give more than a tenth said practical laura but the bible says a tenth is enough replied howard who like a great mtny others was for following the bible rule to the letter in this particular at least with such authority laura could not argue she soon gathered up her jacks and walking to the farther end of the veranda threw her self into a deep chair and closed her eyes whie howard stretched himself out full length on the smooth hard flxr and soon they had joined nature in her afternoon nap and the insect world won the day with the buzz and hum howard and laura were the children of christian parents whose great sat desire for them was that they too should be followers of the blessed jesus but there was one subject upon which their father and mother did not talk much to them and that was the subject of giving not that they were not generous people for they were and always gave freely to every good cause they had their children give too and every sabbath merging handed them each a nicke or a dime whioh they dropped into the con- tribbution box without another thought like all othrr children laura and howard liked to earn a little money sometimes and laura would help mamma with the mending and howard would keep her favorite flower beds free from weeds for there is no employ er so genet dub as a mother but the thought never entered their minds that they should give the money for which they had worked to any object papa could provide such offerings and their own money was to be used for their own pleasure that is about the way it would have been expressed if it had been put into words but the subject was never discussed because it was so well understood a short time before that hot summer aft ernoon however they had received a new idea their minister had preached a ser mon to the children on giving and he made it all so plain to them now and why and what we should give to god that the clos ing hymn what hast thou done for me had a new meaning to them as they thought bow great wero gods gifts to them how small theirs to him after that they were more careful of their earnings and tommy pondered for a minute in silecca well said ho finally if the bible says so it must be so but ill bet the angel who does the counting feels mighty gladjwhen he comes tc a man with a head like uncle jim go to bed sir in the closet there said an enraged father to a son who had given him just cause of offense ware it not that these gentlemen were present i would give you a sound whipping but you shall have it before breakfast tomorrow certain the little rebel went to his crib with a heavy heart and the enjoyment ot the party con tinued until a late hour just when the party was about to break up the closet door was quietly pulled back and the young of fender put out his head requesting that the sentence might be put in execution fath er would ye just gte me my liks this nightj for i carina sleep without them 7 trifles what will ib matter in a little while that for a day we met and gave a word a touch a smile upon the way what will it matter whether hearts were brave and uvea were true that you gave me the sympathy i orave as i gave you these trifles 1 can it be they make or mar a human life are souls as lightly swayed as rushes are by love or strife yea yea a look the fainting heart may- break or make it whole and just one word if said for loves- sweet sake may save a soul i f womans work his was the real thinj they were discussing charity after the table had been cleared and the cigars brought on and one gentleman was inveighing with some sarcasm against benevolent folks who make donations and have their names nearly all chari- mamma laughing said she feared j published in tho papers they were getting miserly for she received l table acts said he have vanity as their so many offers of help that her ingenuity motive for my part i hate ostsntation i wab oftentimes taxed to keep them occu- remember once when i was traveling in the pied their business was strictly cash and as soon as a task was completed and paid for away they would rnn to deposit their earnings in their savingsbanks what was to be done with all this money they did not know but they did know that the more they put in them the more they would have to give away when the time to divide it came lor they were going to follow the plan of giving onetenth at last the time came one day at the dinnertable papa looked at mamma and said it is terrible the way those poor peo ple in the south are suffering what is the matter pipa asked laura my daughter he anawered hundreds upon hundreds are sick and dying with that terrible disease yellow fever we can have little idea of what a dreadful thing it is to feel that our dear ones all abont us and strangers as well aro siok and dying and wo are likely to be the same any hour cant anything be done for them pi- pa nothing to prevent the spread of the disease dear he replied but they are asking for money to help care for tho sick and contributions are being sent then from all over the land oh lanra exolaimed howard who had been listening intently to what his father said lets send them our money it might help a little yes indeed howard replied laura pushing back her ohair eagerly lets get it and count it now it will be giving it to god wont it mamma yes dear she anawered with an ap proving smile whatever is done to re lieve the suffering of gods children is done for him so they ran for their banks and were soon poring over their contents it required all the arithmetic they wero able to master to divide it into piles ninetenths in one and onetenth in tho other at last it was ac complished but they were evidently not pleased with the division as they looked from the little pile to the big one and back to the little one it didnt seem right some how to keep so much for themselves and give so little to the one who gave them such rich gifts they bat in silence for a moment then laura said softly doesnt it look mean howard yes laura it does he replied i am goinp to divide mine differently and he commenced to take from the larger pile and add to the smaller one still lvura sat looking from one pile of herb to tho other and over and over in her mind rang tho words i biing i bring rich gifts to thee what hast tbou brought to me 1 at length she looked up ber face beam ing with happy decision as she said how ard im going to give them the large pile and keep the small one for myself and even that seems very little to do when i thick of all i have beside youre right laura howard answered and ill do as yon do so he divide his money as before and after returning the portion they were to keep to the banks with happy faces they carried the remaind er to papa who gladly took ib in charge and sent ib on its way chicago interior funny little folks- how did you get along at school today tom asked the old man at the supper table papa our physiology says that con versation at meals should be of a pleasant character replied tommy lets talk about the minstrels mamma said sweet mabel as she looked thro the pane at the beauties of venus and mars and the other bright jewels that garnished the night can you tell me just what are the stars before mother could answei a voice at her side called out in the tones clear and sllven ol her fouryearold frank dont you know ebon that the stars is the moonslittlo children littlo tommy who has a perfectly bald uncle was very much interested when his mother told him tho other day that tho hairs of his head were all numbered is that so with everybody asked he yes said his mother that is what the bible eays southern part of the state where nobody knew me i came upon a lonely little way station where in the waiticgroom there was fastened to the wall a contribution box for the benefit of sufferers through a recent flood there was not a soul there nobody saw me or knew my name and i went and dropped a fivedollar gold piece into the box and slipped away unaeen unknown now sir what i contend is that m v secret offering was a jaore meritorious no intrinsically considered than if ib had ben made on a public subscription list win a loud flourish of trumpets you are quire right oaid one of his hearers that was genuine modest charity and i dont wonder that you brag of it wasp they were qocd layers a young married lady who moved into the country from london considered the keeping of hens a pleasant and profitable undertaking as she grew more absorbed in the pursuit her enthusiasm increased and hens became a favorite subject of her thoughts and conversation during one of her animated descriptions of her success a friend enquired are your hens good laying hensl oh yea she replied in a delighted tone they havent laid a bad egg yetl a good article young mr guilderstein mr ibaacste- in i vas a suitor for your daughters hand mr isaacseeln veil mr guilderstein rebecca vas a fullvidth und allwool girl villshe vashl veil not lately she hasnt vashed she has been reading dot quvlck und dob dead baptist recorder card mrs genteels ruse mrs genteel you brought no marie marie no mum the gent said he had none he say s as how hes your uuole j ake from hayseed farm where you an the hull family spent the summer mum hes gob a big carpet bag with him mum mercy tell him 1 beg of him for the love he bears ub all to hurry to a dootor and get vaccinated and then get out of the city as soon as possible it wasnt her fault a mother finding it necessary to be away from homo for a few dayb one of her daugh ters thought she was competent to take charge of the cooking during her absence at the next breakfast the young lady made her debut with eggs for a bachelor brotner the attempt wai not a success for the brother required his eggs very soft whereas the ones plaoed before him were harder than comparatives could be found for then dur ing the meal he made somo remarks which disgusted and insulted his sister and she vowed he might do his own cooking lor ib was nob her fault but the eggs for she had kept them boiling for fifteen minutes and they were still bard 1 his life long job one two irishmen met on the street was pat the others name was dsnla top of the mornin says pat same to ye pat replied denis how are ycz getting along these days oh olm doin toinoly dime me by oive a lifolong job good for ye pat and phat is it yero doin breathin ye blockhead have ye no sense at all at all the pinal answer if that is your final answer miss robrt injon tho yountr man eaid with ifl-con- ceacd chagrin as he picked up his hat and turned to go i can do nothing but sub mit yet has it never occurred to you that when a lady passes tho age of thirtyseven she is not likely to find herself as much sought after by desirable younc men as she once was it occurred to me with sud den and painful distinctness when you offered yourself just now sho replied good night mr jones 1