Show aaa a aa POOR ADVISEES ADVISER some men in public life have estal dished their rulo rule of a I 1 a action ile that they m will ill give no heed hee t to 0 criticisms I 1 by their opponents and will mill only regard the verdict of their antl inti mate friends the individual who governs ov erns his conduct by such a guide is ie courting present error and future dimster we do not mean to infer that a man should tako take his ills enemies in ino 0 hift secret 1 and abide by iv their selfish advice nor that he he tild reject all the of hia his tried and true amoc irtes but put we do that the nun mail is a narrow soul who considers all who differ from front him to b absolute abao lute and I 1 invariable fools and deems all wit who 0 pro profess fesH brendline friendliness rend line for him to b be il unerring nerring and unprejudiced statesmen n such a nun man in public life Is asfur fur rounded by people whoso interest it is to flatter him to endorse his views and to applaud hia ills course when any question is raised concerning his policy he rushes rustics to his sycophants for comfort they raise a wall around him and prevent the stronger and better voice of the public from front reaching him and so lie is made to believe eve that hia course lias has been perfection I 1 I 1 on that thal it is upheld by all honest aid and sensible men and that it is only criticised criticized by a few gibbering idiots if perchance a newspaper contains adverse comment upon life his official acts lib ills flatterers flat terera persuade him to believe that the thet journal neither knows nor creates public sentiment that its utterance is but the opinion of one selfia lit malcontent and that his proper course is to declaim in public and in private against the paper and its senseless interference with ith matters beyond its it purview every man is liable as an official or as an individual to commit mistakes As an individual where his error n h to his own mabil manit cst st disadvantage lie lic is glad to be able to confess it to him and to correct it As an official he should lie m willing illing to make the same acano acknowledgement A led gement and the same reparation to the public he lie would not thank a flatterer to pay say to him in private business where ho he himself knows that he has made mado an error your course has lias been above all quest question ion do not listen to any whis whig par of criticism do not attempt any correction and yet in public matters too often the velm of a sycophant expressing just such A a senseless sentiment is welcomed and encouraged the worst adviser of ali all is the man who ho consciously or unconsciously flatters A public olli cial who mho bases hia hi estimate of himself and his conduct upon the utterance of those who curry his favor by fawning is le leing olathe out the essential part pirt of tile calculation xo no man in public life can call afford to believe that lie is acquainted mith public opinion alien lie only knows tho the views of a few persons who are ills hi individual admirers or creatures 0 HERR ie is another brief sermon on advertising taken from an exchange not to be represented in your home paper is not bending sending an invitation to the people ot the vicinity to come to your place to trade and not to assist the only enterprise that reflects hie file pretty picture of your city into it lie homes of your neighboring people the enterprising man would as soon nail up tip his front window tako take down liis signs and front his store into the back alley as to think of removing his advertisement from his to town toan an IN Ls THE midst of our heated a agony ony we e may well pauso pause for a moment to contemplate tho the suffering of other com communities for instance in it is u liot hot that the leaden gutters on the churches hurches melt and run down like seething rain A fanner farmer in that plate state planted a field of popcorn pop corn late in the season after tiler conr mait w ait ing and seeing peeing that the crop did not sprout above ground he be uncovered a number of hills and found all the peed seed popped out into a white flaky mass which havo hire in their ma makal o up stings ot of loisb ck hide bide their faces ili inflame r lin me from rom tile progressive glory of wt this ancient city which was pr proud ud carso and populous two thousand y years before christ delivered the sermon on lie the mount ie is now eying 1 railroad lines through its strato etre te and is preparing to adopt all the tile moral adjuncts of modern civilization TUE till HERALD announced rome months since that the subject of the annexation of ca nada would mould bo be forced very rapidly by tile cann acks upon lie the attention of the veiled states and just now comes to hand thie this opinion of a toronto banker 1 I want to eee see this imaginary line awe abet t away let ui ni bo be one people with A ith one country america 11 A conductor of a street car kicked cd a new york newsboy because tha latter wae was w ae little and poor and ageel ed before york herald gets through idi with that conductor he lie will mill wish that plo lous to the kicking his ills toe lud had been abed the lie ile old aid salvery sa 9 very svery that newsboys arc are a necessity 11 Aff ifiLL BOY zoy in received 0 5 from his father with mith instructions to buy shoes and bat and the tile balari bi Unc cs of cash ifancy if any ho be might spend for fire works the young american purchased a pair vair of shoes for 35 3 cents a bat hat for 15 cents and brought home worth WILDE ie is now associate editor di of ft a marmine in england Ln nobody will bo be surprised to learn that the mentally emasculated fool lus found his ills proper vocation in the dishion fis hion department IN GEORGIA recently a preacher saw two snakes seize hold of each others tails and begin to swallow the horrified minister sa swears ears that ho he watched matched them until they both anti entirely rely van ih dach one gorging tho the other J |