aso Vt ra SR so . RRR FA . - mismo wn wa EPRI WII AAT UU A LOST OPPORTUNITY. ful celings, and went into the house. way, aod never had she seemed more W.C T. U. 00LY Md, and lear, i leuifubmuiyht cedar was 1S359 1837 Y “Why, mother, dear, what is the Jovely in Richard Blake's eyes, while sup W. 0.7. U. MERIS BYERY THURSDAY waar at hand and pleutiful, go that the PY matter? Cry'ng, and I out enjoying" poor John, who had thought of 1886 | 45 o'000ck 1x THE ¥. M.C A. MALL myselt? Tell me, what is it, dear? | that he had driven her image from | =———temm— ST Let me share yous trouble.” his mind, felt the old charm creeping THE FARMER AND TUF BALOOX. Mrs. Lawrence lifted a face, smiling | over bim again stronger than ever be- GR through her tears. fore ; but he hid his pain manfully “Yes, crying, Lily, darling, bat 00 | and kept up his part in the lively from grief. Sit down here beside n.e. | conversation, and let me tell you what a load bas | Time crept on, and just as they de- been lifted from my mind this morn- | termined to returne, to their sudden ing. Lily, I aid not tell you, but | dismay the heavens suddenly clouded some time ago Mr. Burton, the law- | over, and peel of thunder suddedly yer, came to me, and informed me | brought them to their feet in alarm, that the holder of the mortgage on Squalls were not common upon the ing Timely Talks 80 well shown the winter-peeled bark is preferable for our home was in need of movey and | bay, but one was evidently now upon fallacy of thinclaim. wespsnd no a} canoes because it is tougher, and he. intended to foreclose, unless the mort- | ,hem, and John saw the great dan- on it now. There is re hase | cause, also of the opportunity for ur gage was paid iu full when be should | ger. A moment and they were dash- | the « Sent bt ul : + a 4 ne y | namentation of the craft afforded by demand it. Now, child, you koow | ing over the waves, while overhead | 1 40 WHIED We Wish Wn eal) | its brown coat, on which various de’ dO the special attention of our farmer | . what a trouble has been weighing up- | the awtul darkness g thered more a ATWET | ons, such us deers’ heads, arrows, ere’ . It is this: license money | on me, for I knew that it would be | ominously all the whil, and every | 4,aq not decrease your taxes one er] may by easily traced. impossible for me to raise he 84m | now aud then flushes of flames seem | 4, the saloons do increase your taxe ]: Toe'cavoe. builder fells ‘2 white . . H ’) o " is - . necessary, aud that we must leave the | Lo envelope them on all side. Sud- | evormoutly. You sre not taxed i“ birch woich is at least one foot in | » ( @ Oi . : dear old home we bad loved #0 well. denly there was blindiog glare, then | build sidewalks light the streets. © | diameter at a distance of eighteen feet y morning, Mr. iM A .. 8 rg s allowing i p : Aud now, this very Ky a terrific crash, and half the mast | do any of the things it is claimed the) from the base allowing it to fall across Burton came and told me that a kind dropped over the bows, while the sails | license money does for the town. Bu | some small logs 10 keep it from the A URES An I materials for a cavoe wore easily ob- tal ed. Nowndnys the biiches sre from 20 to 100 miles distant irom the The great argument sed for licens apriver jowhs, hack uthe dae | for: . y * | este, aud (wo suitable trees are seldom ing the saloons is that a revenue is) iit thus secured vo lessen taxation; lic nee | found wine ii vi wach wihery money will build sidewalks, vupport | while the cedar Is also more remote schools and do many other things | and scarce, All bark for canoes which otherwise would have to be puid | comes from the white birch trees outer for directly out of the pockets of the | . tax-payers. | bas a reddish brown coat, bat is sam- Professor Foster and | citi | | . mer it 8 smooth ans The Dr. Herrick Johnson bave in preced- | 8 wih: and: yelly ... Tb A solitary figure, with few lines of comeliness or grace, Joho Holloway sat upou the meadow gate, looking off into the distance, He was whispering softly yet he seemed to be in a deep reverie, for his great, tender eyes had a far-away expression in their brown debts as he gozed over the suniit meadows, where the blood-red clover and the golden butter-cups swayed under the soft, caressing breeze. Sad- denly an imperious voice broke the silence. “Mr. Holloway, please let me take down the bars, I'm in a hurry, and came the shortest wuy.” The young man started; he bad not heard her approach, and there be. side him stood the object of his thoughts. Ab, clover blosoms and buttercaps, paled were your charms Dow ? A little, graceful figure in the daintiest of cambric dresses, and underneath the wide hat a sweet, girlish face with velvety, peach-tinted cheeks and eyes Great Reduction thickness. lu winter is iuner side PRICES!!! friend, hearivg of the intended fore-- were dragging in the seething waters. | you are taxed, aud that ight heavily | ground, and then strips «ff its outer | closure, had paid the amount io full” | For sa instaat Joha was almost stun- | pay the county's bills for courts. | €°8% l he bark must he warmed— wil 3 3 t : i F . : 4 - * Who is it that has helped you, | oq. then his first thought was Lily. | jails, poor-bouses, care for the insane | 1B 28 it were—befue it cun be| I am now Prepared to Give as blue as freshly gathered violets. o | ‘ Such was Lily EE the prettiest Mother 4 it Where was she? A second more and | and things like that. straightened out and rolled up in That's the strangest part of iti, ooo be the gleams of yellow curls|own pays the bulk of the county | P™P* shupe for trausporiation. The The land you | irl—so the popular verdict ran—in |. : : 0) the De round. A flush rose Lis. Mr Buzton id he ba strict” | the cruel waves amoung the tatter” | taxes; beside that, you sre often | bark and cedar are carried out of the toJohn's sunbrowned face as he quick- ly promil a me he Si ed sails; the ropes had twisted about taken from your work at the busiest | ods in boats r canoes when the ly rose and commenced taking Bown of my bevefactor,and as to WhO IL CAR | po. 1iyile finger and dragged her over | SeA80D of the year to sit on grand or sham ae Open, otherwise ou a “Lost the bare. the bow. petit juries, two, three or four weeks sled. Vhen the builder is ready BIG BARGAINS “Out for & walk, Miss Lily?” He spang to Blake's side. | at a time, when every day's absence for work he drives stukes into the | ’ : “If she is to be yours, it is you who | fools up a dead loss to you. ground, aud thus forms a frame the | “Yes,” very briefly. * t h Q . k 1 : ill be too | Wh d Then the bark : «3g vou are fond of a quiet stroll? is to save her.Quick ! or it wi at do these courts do? Ex- : sgt Yom Je » 5 way how sorry she was that she bad | 1.00 Your chance will be gone !” | amine the docket of any county where fine note lonslng, ls smvothed vut IN £7 Betaelt up; sod looked bott b0 rade ” bias, “ud then hed Bat Blake still cowered trembling- | liquor is sold sud see if whisky is vot aud fitted into the frame, after which : ’ ; him frankly whether he was not the || orl the gun-wales, strips of clear, stripp d | : ! y where he was, unheediag the peril | at the bottom of fully ove-balf the y SHH] » SLRIppe the presumpticas speaker. kind friend who had come so oppor” a8 pe [dsirdion . “Mr Hollaway, 1 don’t se = , Som : cular, are put in place, and the top J i" | tonely to her mother’s relief, his man- edges of the bark secured w them by what il is to you— Nest ths Then she stopped. Sbe did not Whole inside of 15¢ birch is toed with mean to be rude, but truly she thought to berself, it was high time she should show this young man that his openly expressed admiration was exceeding~ ly distasteful to her. It had been going on for some time, and every one, even Lily herself, had come to see that the sun rose aud set for John Hollaway where she was. “He must be intently stupid vot to know how utterly indifferent I am to he I have no idea.” Bat though she did not say so, Lily had: and when later, in her usual impulsive way, she wld Joha Holle- shape of his canoe. of the one he professed to love. criminal cases. A man goes into a licensed saloon, gets drunk, comes out | | er confirmed her suspicions Another iostant John was strug: menns of copper nl 1 her conhizmed ; ' : a raving looatic urde fuDs of Cop “ils. | gling amoung the sails, a few second k , murders another It is said that “gratitude is peigh- |® 78 bor to love,” and whether that be true {of awful suspenas while the waves or not, is is certain that from that | Were tugging savagely st him, theo time the manly young farmer was of- weak, almost fainting, he crept back | tT aba ie Ri he boat. with Lily's inseosible ten in Lily's thoughts, while Richard | 10% ¥ y ; : yr Blake was just pi steadily losing form clasped close to his brave heart. | county, which means maioly the far : y : | mers, footed the bill while the cit { course, did not He had saved bes. y y 4 : ; . fe, e ok Ba Jobe x ort to wear bie | Then, still in eminent danger, they | pocketed the thousand dollar fee for asred shape aud forming the ends of now it # Was not 0 4 ’ : : Line hain Bowe » Bou the canoe sre sowu up with cane, heart upon his sleeve, aod at length, remained clinging to the dismaotled | Re a - threads avd gummed yo with a after a hard struggle, had decided to boat, until, as suddenly as it hud Again wb. have just built a $40 pasie com posed of resin and oil. Ash : len, the squall lifted, and a wel-| a, % abandon his hopeless suit and leave fallen. ’ ARR: . thwarts, very : Yas | 000 jail, and it is pretty well filled with the field to that rival who evidently coma bail from the shore proclaimed froits of the saloon, You paid 8 DRY GOODS. man, aud you try, convict and baug | bim, or put him in prison ‘or life lengthwise strips of thin-shaved cedar Such a case in my own county lately cost in court expenses $30,000. The them, the timber heads being securcd under the guuwales. All cuts wade timbers are “sprung” oto plage over Dress Goods from 5c lo $2 in the bark in bringiog it oto the re. per yard, narrow, are put ip, sirips of canvas glued over the ends of the cane where the two sides of him,” she thought. that help was at hand. i: Lily came to herself at last’ to find | larger proportion of the $40,000 thaw that John was holding ber fast, with the city did; it afforde “sccommoda- | her {ace close to his own, | tions” to very few of your class, aud In so instant the memory of what you receive not a cent of the license was the favored one. L ly appeared | to notice the difference; but WOman- | like, she did not appear to care, and so the monibs went much the same Bat John was not stupid. He un- ihe bark sheet meet. aod the graceful craft is doué. derstood the unfinished sentence, and drew back without” ap- other word to let her pass, Lily saw that he did, sod a shame-faced, Paddles are shaved Ifthe canoe is weaot for deep water, where had passed came back to her. She | fee paid by the saloons that bad the | yy.re ig likely 10 be a sea, she is built | biggest share in filling it. The poor. i ao ; NC7 IONS, as he : : from poplar, maple aod ash. until at length the crisis came. i The village in which our hereine compunctious look et ile into her eyes. : . d lived was just on the shore of a little did not druw away,but raised her Jue t1ous eyes to his, as if to read his in | trout fishers reqaire, she is made very most thoughts ; the cold cheek press city limits and you feel flattered when | flat : rather deep; if for shoal water such as For, from bouse and farm are just outside the everyone ackoowledge d John Hollow: the richest to the poorest + | bay. and many were the pleasure par | & Wa ni ) Hose from 3c to $1 per p wr A good cance will hold four ties that enjoyed a brip over its limpid ed itself closer against bis own, while | the siate authorities report it the best | men and way's noble sterling character. Liiy walk d slowly along the road, | softly | kept institution of the Kind in the|ly handled. half determined to turn back and apol- | sround his neck. state. Well you may, for you are | taining Mrs. Lawrence's consent, fue “td y : : bhu—dear Jobo!” was all she | back of that iostitution, so ‘ walers carry them safely, it propers ’ ip . |her arms wound themselves Oue afiervoon Richard Blake, ob- | About ten years ago cinvas began | agize for ber rudeness, until a turn brought her fade to face with someone | vited Lily to take a sail. 84d. When they reached the beach, who rm far as | to be used in place of bark as a maler- | money goes ; for the taxes you pay, in | ial for canoes, and a great many of Juhi , ‘wi og 8. te . : un koew th .t withthe great | [gree Bmeasare, sustain it. Bot its | this description are now made in Ban- wt peril the greatest blessivg of his | physician, himself a drinkinguan, | gor. whose handsome eyes met her owb | with such a glad welcome that all | should be waiting in readiness to ma: - T | | I'bey are covered with a thick age the boat but John Hollaway. i 1 : fanatic, reports | coat of paint to make them watertight, | other thoughts were for the time driv- | “Hallo, Hollaway, are you turning eu completely away. Blake, looking on with pale, scowling | again sod agaia and again, to your It was Richard Blake, the most ad. | into boatman!" file € COM pI heuded clearly that John's | supervisors that at least three-fourths mired and courted young man in the astonishment. vords hut heen prophetic when be | of jis inmates come there through village. Lifting bis cap to Lily, John an- bad said, “Your chances will be gone.” | drinking habit, either in themselves canoe conta $0. 4nd i “Ah, good afternoon, Miss Lawrence | swered, “Not exactly ; but Joe came i. or others. As though % substantiate . seam bia the ey y Peguinek I was hoping I would meet you.” to me in great distress, saying he did | EIGU TEEN MILLIONS A WEEK | his opinion, counties where no liquor breath ria Toe gt , sing " And the wavy black rich locks | not feel welt smogh gO out bus Li S—— . i is obtainable show few inmates in & i dn were bared to the breeze as Richard | bad promised not to disappoint you, his concerns you and me and every | po; . ir Sai a . | courteously iifted his bat snd walked and knowing he could pot manage & | ane, Today there are millions of Sods povshamss and their jails often | Indian in making canoes are s kn fe | Low or Tan the Low: os beside. hier. boat, he asked me to take his place. | people in the United States who 80r-]| Poe onse in a nutshell is this: if with a curved blade, an awl, draw- | est. What a contrast to Jobn Hollawsy. Joe has done me many a good tern, ly need better clothing, food and sbel- | (hore is any good coming from Heese shave, and hammer. The Indian often And the contsast was great in many vod so I could not refuse him,” be | ter, while at least one-half the wages| _y hich we deny— the city gets it; han uly the knife. The red man is | other ways than Lily thooght. Bat |sdded, wrongfuily interpreting the {earned goeb forthe purchase of liquor. | wile for al the mischief the saloons | the best of ail a birch: | the girl was but young to read charac- | tle flush that had risin in Lily's face | The weekly sales of liquor amount | ook the farmers foot the heaviest Canoes of both kinds and all shapes ter, and that Richard Blake was very | ** she listened ; “and he said, 00, that {to $18,346,346. This would give | o0rq of the bills. and sizes are the rage at the summer handsome and very elegant, mo one |i Was your sister who was to be your | $5.00 a week to 3,660,269 families. resorts being popular among the dudes : J oh Infinitely beyond any money con- | because it i could deny, a lover of whom anyone companion. Else I should not have | There being about 1,800,000 families | jeration is the danger pits oh the | to el thea ery ode sigh . . . | . might be justly proud. come; I would not for the world be a | the head of which has to earn their |. o oq sal f th : are also pretty to lock and are (x ( Il daily bread, it would give $10.00 a Ieee saloons of the town dig fot 4 a, an Ve lus a a " ; - fife bad some 10 him; while Richard |n5 a lem perance i and are lighter, fully f i exclaimed Blake, io ghier, fully ss cheap, but! pot s0 symmetrical as birch, The | duck for an ordinary eightee ‘oot | GROCERIES - required by either white wan or | When Lily's home was reached, marsport.” safe enough in care ul or experienced . th eet " 5 ¢ § and with another graceful bow Rich The bitterness in tune touched 8 | week to each more than they now get. hy oy _— rood he » J - hands. iy will never entirely ard had left her, she did not go direct. | like chord in Lily’s heart. Forsome| At$300 a pair, it would buy|. eo farmers’ boys are more eke reads iad hii ghog gm ly into the house, but lingered awhile little time back she had been slowly | 6,173,173 pairs of shoes every week. | 0 fall victims to the saloons when romantic material than duck. © which we sll have for thiogs pleasant among the flowers that filled their lit- tle garden. . Her thoughts were very busy. She thought she had behaved very unkind to her old friend, aud her memory went back to the first time she had met him: It was at a picnic, and she had fallen and sprain od her ankle, She remembered how the great fellow so much stronger than his mates, had persisted in carrying her all the jong distance back to her home. Binece theo he had shown in a hundred ways what she was to him, and, knowing bis noble nature, per- haps ber heart would have gone out to him before this if Richard Blake had not come bee Tom mollege. Due ho had, aad Lily reali fancied his guy, debonair manners, and his enter taining conversation, and, like many anothor young girl, had begun to take but surely learning: a lesson, the dif ference between real worth and mere glitter; and now her beart sank as she saw, or thoaght she saw, bow com” pletely her conduct had driven all affection towards her from John's mind, and that she had foolishly thrown away her own happiness. “Well, Hollaway, I'm sure I'm obliged. It's very kind of you,” was Blake's reply. " And the two young men soon had the little craft in readiness for its fair freight. Blake had seen John's liking fir Lily, but bis vanity bad not been aarmed ; be knew by experience the power of bis dark eyes and Lily Lawrence was like any other young | nually consumed ic New York city At 810.00 a suit, it would pay for 1,834,634 suits every week in the year. At 85.00 a barrel, it would buy 3,660,269 barrels of floor every week. At a cost of 81000 each, it would build 18,346, houses every week in the year, and in one year 944,000 peo- ple would own their own homes. The amount spent for liquor in one year would pay for 188,880 farms at $2000 a piece. Thus, by stopping the liquor traffic, we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and shelter the homeless. See you not the tariff question sinks into utter insignificanse when compared with this woful waste, this all-engrossing iaue / Selected. Be The wholesale cost of the beer y an- brought under their influence then city boys are. Where municipalities have power to grant dram-shop licenses you have no power to hinder the city's digging pitfalls for your boys. State and National probibition, enforced by a party pledged to sus: tain it, is the only thiog thet can re lieve the farmer from unjust taxation to sustain the fraits of the liquor traf fie, or make our country a sale place for his boys and girls to grow up in. CANOE BUILDING IN MAINE. A letter from Bangor Me., says. canoe hao become so popular a craft among sportsmen and tourists, even to the former claie, that the building of this light and graceful We Guarantee Satis- | faction. Countrv Prodvce On band, and Wanted at all times.
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