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‘it will not; be dinied that the influence o oe exerted by the public press has greatly diminished, and if a. reaction dens not soon occur, w.11 heco he a. thing of the pist. Why this is 'rue, is plain to all who have given the subject a thought. It is an utter dieregnrd for the truth. not only in dealing with advsr users, the rust supporters of the press, but With renders as well. Partisan journals let nothing pass tl’a: they can turn to account gains a, rival, no matter how nnzxue or unjust. S 1113 Hi] my this is to be expected. It ought, not to be. But a short time ago we saw published in several newspapeis laying chim to high standing in journalistic circles. the s‘atement that the editor of a. rival journal was born at a. time and place he hs'l said over his own signature be “8.1 not, the object being not only to cloud hi word but rob him of his birthright, and all this for demagogy. Many newnpaptrs proceed on the assump- tion that their readers are fools, while the only lesson for such an opinion can be bnsed upon the feet that they are the readers of such charscterlesn newer npere. We might any American politics hal much to do with ch 5 sad state of sfl.irs.nnd perhaps they have but as will be men by the following extract from n Londrn dis- gatch, this decline of the press is not con- ned alone to the Aimr cm press : “ It is not a long time since the Times occupiud a. position of so grtat authority that a. publi- cation by it of such as it prin’ed this morn- ing would have thrown the city of London into a tumult bnl the financial markets of Europe into sfever. Today’s occurrenne may ks plainly how for the influence of the Times has waned." As stated, the newspaper that has maile thisfigraat decline is none other than the Londrn daily Times, and the matter it pub- lished on this occasion was a sensational dis- patch about the operations of the French eat bombardirg Cninese pcrts. The only object apparent that the Times had in view was an increase in the sale of that single edition by a few thousand copies. To ace oomplish this fiend, throwmg the “ msrkeis of Europe into a fevtr " and unsettling busi- nessof all kindsâ€"perhaps bankrupting ma! y personsâ€"was of Email ecciunc. Such a p r I {Cashmere Gloves in all the newest fall colors, 20 and 25c. pair. Josephine Kid Gloves, 2 buttons, 50c. pair, worth $1. Black Cashmere Gloves, 20 and 250. pair, extra value. Mes’ Gauntlet Gloves in black and colors, $1.25 pairs. Dressed and Undressed Kid Mosque- taire Gloves, 85c., $1, and $1.25 pair. VLadies’ and Gentlemen’s Castor Gloves, the latent novelty. Domestiqand Imported Goods in every varxety, at unusually low prices. Ladies’ Black and Colored Cashmere Hose, 35c. ‘ and 40a. pr. up. Ladiea’ Colored Meri- no Hose, 15c. pr., worth 25c. Ladiea' Pure Wool Stockings, all colors, at man- ufacturera’ prices. BALANDE OF SUMMER HUSH AT LESS THAN HALF PRIGE. FANCY DEPARTMENT. Extra inducements offered in Hosiery, Gloves, Laces, Ribbons, Handkerchiefs, Ladies’ Jerseys, Ladies' and Children’s Underwear, etc. - Four Button Kid Gloves, white and opera shades, 50, 750., and $1. Special lines in Ladies’ and Gent’s ths and Lined Kid Gloves. Black and Colored Spanish Laces, 10, 12§,15, 20 and 25c. yard. All-wool Knickerbocker Hose, 40c. pr. up. Ladies' Black and Colored Worsted Home at 400. Worth 600. Ladies’ Shetland Lamba’ Wool Vents $1, worth $1.50. Children’s Wool Shirts and Drawers, 36, 4b and 500, the best value in the market. See our Ladiea’ Shetland Vesta at $1.10 and $1.25. Ladies’ Cardinal Lambs’ Wool Veatl, all sizes, $1.50. Ladien' Merino Vests for 60c. and 650., worth 800. and 900. LADIES’ JERSEYS. GLOVES. LABES. Beautiful Oriental Laces, 8, 10, 13, 15, 18 and 20c. per yard. T. “EATON 81 00., HOSIERY. NEW FALL GODS [ecline Special Line of Extra Fine Jerseys at $2 and $2.25. Braided Jerseys, $3.50, $4 and $4.25. Ladies’ Leather Hand Satchels in black and tan, 450., 500., 650. and 7 50. up. LETTER ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION All am'InvIted to Inspect our Mock of the Influence of the Press. 190, I92, 194 & I96 Yonge Street. SALES FOR CASH ONLY. 1 the sale of that single “ Do birds think?" asks a. writer. in open- thuusand copies. To ao~ ing an article. If they do, we shmfld like , t'mowang the “markets to know whats canary bird thinks ofa. :vu‘ ” and unsettling busi- women who stands up in a chair and talks .erhapa bankrupting m}! y haby talk through the brass wires of the mall aec ‘unc. Such a p :- mga. GREAT SALE OF A well known herd card player of the city fell up agmnst the well-developed faro game in Cmcego during the recent races in that city. and during an unusually fierce and san- guinary argument with the tiger quit: loser about $1,600, which amount re presented every cent he owned in the world. As he rose to leave the gilded arena, specuhting the whale on the condition of the walking between Chicago and Pltcsburg, the dealer remarked. in a. very cheerful manner, “ Hold on a minute ; we're gmng to have a little lunch of cold hem. etc., in a few m n- utes. \Von't you join us 1” "Join you, be â€"â€",” roared the victim of the combat. as he turned on his heel with an air of disdain and quit the place; "do you think I can eat $1,600 worth of ham 2"â€"P£mburg Dis patch. In this country many newspapers try to increase their sales by beastly obscenity. We have more tflfin one that are simply sewers through which all the vile and loath- some side of life as brought out in the police courts are filtered. Even stories of the vileet characterâ€"stories that only have an existence in the low and vile minds of the writers, are published. We wish it was possible to trace to the press all the wrong it has wmught. We wish we could hold up to the public gaze all the lies and deceptions it has practised, the homes it has wrecked, the young men and women it has led astray. If we conld, it would not be a question of its decline, for the outra ed public would not let it appear at all. e believe in the freedom of the prees as we do of the man until after he has commiLted crime, and then we believe that the same law that punishes him should be meted out to the presa.-Agents’ Herald. fidious course ahuuld bankrupt the Tiznes‘ management instead. Its waning power is deserved. Visitors from the country could not spend an hour better than by visiting Eaton’s. Every department is now fully represented in a fine display of all the new fall fashions, styles and novelties. It is doubtful if goods were ever so chaste and becoming as they are this season. There is an absence of the gaudy or showy goods which has characterised some of the past seasons, and being of the modest designs, it naturally brings prices down to s more economical basis, and this is very noticeable in the MANTLE AND MlLLINERY DEPARTMENT. The leading cloth for Jackets and D01- mana is a. heavy Ottoman cord, very serviceable and requires very little trim- MflNTLE DEPARTMENT. J acketa of Ottoman cord are to be had at $5, $6, $8, $9, $9.50, $10, $12 and $15. Inflhis department we excel ourselves, showing 16 different styles of patterns and shapes, 14 sizes, at prices ranging from $2 to $10.50. Our assortment of these goods must be seen to be appreci- shed. Extra. long close fitting Jackets, 3 most sensible garment, $12, $13.50, $15, $16, up to $30, Fine silk face brocade ditto, $18, $23, $25 and $35. Fine Jersey cloth ditto, $20 and $22. DDLMANS. A great many styles are now on exhib- tion. What has been said about the Mantles, as regards style, also applies to the Millinery of this season. Hats and Bonnets are now on exhibition. In this class of garment we nhowa ange of 40 styles, comprising some 0! the most beautiful garments made, at prices from $6 to $75. We will give a more particular description of these goods next issue. MILLINERY. CHILDREN'S MANTLES. The Ham was too Costly. T. EATON 81. CO. <->n1 The Method 01' Climbing a Church steeple. A man, said a. steeple climber to s repor- ter of the Boston 0 obe, cannot go up a steeple as he climbs a telegraph pole In the first place he cinnot reach ground the spire, and. secondly, if the spire ls shingled, a man in attempting to climb would un- doubtedly meet with an stident, for the shingles, beinz usually decayed, would no". hold the weight of his body. The way to reach the top af 8. ateep‘e without the aid of a. ladder or a staging would be to go inside the spire and climb to the highest point and thin make an apeture. Outlof this hole a piece of joist could be run, and a. tackle rig- ged for a. boatswain’s chair. The nun could then be hoisted on the outside up to the up erature : and from this point, by standing in the chair, he could place a trap around the spire, into which he could place the tackle, and by degrees reach the top. It is strange that in climbing a steeple there is an uncon- lrollahle desire to look down, and I do not believe that the mere looking down causes one to fall. The awful stillness which pre- vails. the strangeness of the situation, and the fact that one is so near danger over- powers the brain and the man falls. Dane ger acts s‘rangely upon a man. I remember in the war when the rebels were approach- ing and we were retreating, seeing wounded men arise from the ground and run as swilt- ly as an athlete. Sounds from the street comes very indistinct to a. man on a steeple. When I have 3 ate ple jobI go into training. 1 abstain from nsiug any intoxxcunts and to- bacco, and I drink but little tea or coffee. I do \his. not so much for myself as Iur others who maybe at work for me in a danger- ous place. I always want to have steady nerves and a strong arm so as to be ready to work quickly. Here is the very chair in which Edwards often set; perhaps the very one in which he was seated when a young man called up- on him to ask his daughter's hand in mar- riage. “You can’t have her," said the preacher. “But I love her." “No matter, you can't have her.” “But she loves me. too.” "I say you can’t have her.” “But I am well 06 and can support her." "You can’t have her, I tell you.” “Why not, Mr. Edwards? What have you against me '3" “Nothing.” “W'ell, then, why can’t I have Emily 7" “Because I think you are a pretty decent sort of young in m ; too good for her. " “W'hat? Mr. Edwards. what in the world do you mean ?" ‘ She’s got a. wicked tam- par, and you wouldn‘t be happy with her.’l "But I thought she was a Christian ‘3" “So she is, young man ; so she is. But before you have lived as long as I have you’ll find out that there are some people in this world that the grace of God may get along with but you can’t.” Caustic Remarks by Divines. The fame ( f Stockbndge Mans” rests large- ly upon three great names, of which the first is that of Jonathan Eiwards. Here is the house in which that wonderful preacher and philosopher used to pray and read and wnte and fight hand to hand with thedevnl. Hare is the very table at which he sat. and on is are ink stains from the very ink-horn. into which he so often dipped his pen. In'a neighboring village in Eiwards’ time a similar grim divine, to whom, during a revwal aeasun, came a. notorious acamp and practised backsiidér, with sauctim nious snivel, saying : “Doctor, I realiza that I am indeed the chief of sinners.” “Glad to bear it; your neighboxa realized it long ago." "I feel that I want salvation." “Guess you need it as much as anyone." “And I feel,” continued the hypocritical patient, “that I am wiliiug to do anything God requires of me. I J'ould willmgly even be -damued for His glory.” "Well," said the preacher, “I don't think there is anvone that knows vou that would have the slightest objecuon to that l" The Cleanest People in the World. Holland is the cleanest country in the world, as everybody knows, but no one can understand how very clean cleanliness can be until he visits her little villages. Even The Hague is a wonder of usatness, and on every Friday and Saturday undergoes an in- decribable drenching and scouring. Water flies about everywheie on these two days fiom hose and garden-squirt in jets, and from tubs and pails in torrents; there is an immense cluttering about of wcmen in wooden shoes, and the whisking and scrap- ing of brooms and scrubbing brushes resound on all sides. Not only the windows, but also the iides of the houses are scoured; not only the sidewalk, but the roadway as Well, until one thinks that the dikes all over the country have given way at once, and the sen has again ctme into possession of its ancient' domain, But in the smaller towns the swash and gurgle of wath seems to go on all the time, and the people to be abso- lutely daft on the subject of neatness. But the etfects of so much washing and scrubbing is very agreeable, and one immediately feels delight in seeing the peso-sable fruits of the virtue which is universally held to be second only to godliness. sweetly. “you ain‘t so young as you uater be, an’ I kan’t see whatever you want with so many fixin’a ; so I jis emptied thejug, an’ think ye orter be satisfied with nothing but a. purhy little jug." Zeke caved. “Melindy,”s&id Zeke, as he and the‘ old woman were discussing some purchaseslto be made in the city, "I kan’t see whatcher want with so menny little trimmin’s and fixin’s ; you ain't no young gal now, an’ I think you orter be satisfied with one nice kalliker dress." "Yes, I a’pbse so," was all she said. The next morning Zeke rose at his u=ual hounand proceeded to his little brown jug to take his morning nip, when 10! it was empty. ‘ Melindy,” he yelled, “whar’s my likker gone to ‘2” “Ake,” she B’le smiling There is a stagnant pool in a. Florida. forest particularly lonesome and secluded. Thirty years ago a. lover was shot and thrown into it by the father of his sweetheart, who at once dened herself in the same water ; and the belief is held among the people of that region that no visitor to the spot can avoid an intense depression of spirits, oc- casioned by the brooding ghosts oi‘ the pair. The frenzied prediution by a woman on a Missouri railroad train that an awful acci- dent was impending might not have soared anybody had she not immediately afterward fallen from her seat dead. Most of the pas- sengers quit the cars at the next station, but uothmg happened to those who contin- ued their journey. An immense dog, a. cross between a. mas- tiE and a St. Bernard, savagely attacked a young man at Edmonton, England. and would have killed him lad not his sister come to his rescue. The girl fought the beast courageously and desperately, and was texnbly bitten, but she conquered him «0-»«1 It is amusing to note how ignorant many ordinary seamen and naarly all sea. travellers are of such matters as the distance of the sea. horizon, the way in which a ship's place at sea. is determined, and other such matters â€"-Wh1ch all seamen might be expected to understand. and most person: of decent aducs‘ion might be expected to have lelrned something about at school. Ask a sailor ho v far 06' a. ship may be, which is hull down. and he will give you an opinion based entirely on his kaowle’lge of the ship’s prob- able size, and an the distinctness with which he sees her. This opinion is often pretty near the truth ; but it may be prepozterous- ly wrong if his idea of the ship's real size is very incorrect, and is sometimes quite wrong even when he knows her size somewhat ac- curately. Any notion that the distance may be very precisely inferred from the relative position of the hull and the horizon line seems not to enter the average sailor‘s head. During my last journey across the Atlantic we had several curious ill‘lstrations of this. For instance, on one occasion a steamer was passing at such a distance as to be nearly hull down, From her character it was known that the portion of her hull conceal- ed was about 12 feet in height, while it was equally well known that the eye of an ob- server standing on the saloon passenger's deck on the City of Rome was about 30 feet above the water level. A sailor, asked (by way of (xperiment) how tar off the steamer was. answered, “ Six or seven miles.” " B it she is nearly hull down,” some one said to him. "I didn't say she wasn’t, as I knows on,” was the quaint but stupid re- ply. Now, it might be supposed to he a g- nerally known fact, that even as seen from me deck of one of the ordinary Atlantic steamers, the horizon is fully six miles away. the height of the eye being about 18 or 20 feet, and that for the concealed portion of the other ship‘s hull a distance of four or five miles more must be allowed ; so that the man’s mistake was a. gross one. And several other cases of a. similar kinl occurred dur- ing my seven days' Journey from Qsoenstown to New York. flow to Determine tho Distance of an Object on the Sea. INTERIOR PETLEY & PETLEY’S Great Dry-Goods â€"â€"-ANDâ€"â€" CLOTHNG HOUSE TORONTO. NOTE THIS jucter to let you . -' -‘ ’15. ’3 I28 to 332 King St. East. OF THE FIRST FLOOR 0F E? Six doors Em of St. Junea’ Cathedral. u â€"AII Street Cars pass our Stores, ask the Con- off at The rules for determining {the distance of objects at sea. when the height of the 0b- server's eye and the height or the concealed part of the remote object above the sea level are both known. are exceedingly simple, and should be well known to all. Geome- trically. the dip of the sea. surface is eight inches for a mile, four times this for two miles, nine times this 101- three miles. and so forth; the amount being obtsined by iqusring the number of miles and tekin so many times eight inches. But, in reality, we are concernei only with the optical de- pression, which is somewlnt less, because the line of sight to the horizon is sli htly curved (the concaVity of the curve sing turned nOanai-d). Instead of eight inches for a mile, the optical depression is about six inches at see. where the real horizon can be observed. But, substituting six inches for sight, the rule is as above given. Six inches being half a foot, we obtain the number of six inch lengths in the height of an observer’s eye by doubling the number of feet in that height; the square root of this number of six inch lengths gives the number of miles in the distance of the see. horizon. Thus, suppose the eye of the ob- server 18 flat above the sea. level ; then we double 18, qettin! 36. the square root of which is 6 ; hence the horizm lies at e dis- tence of six miles as seen from an elevation of 18 feet. For a height of 30 feet, which is about that of the eye of an observer on the best deck of the City of Rome, we double 30. getting 60, the square root of which is 7 7 : h! nee. as seen from that deCk the horiz in hes at a. distance of 7.1: miles. If the depth of the part of a. distant ship's hull below the horizon is known. the distance of that ship beyond (hr horizon is obtained in the same way. Thus, suppose the depth of the part concealed to be 12 feet, then we take the square root of twice 12, or 24. giv- ing 4 9, showing that that ship's distance beyond the horiznn is 49.10 miles. Hmee, if a ship is seen H) far hull dowri, from the hull of the City of Rome, we infer that its dis- tance is 4 3.5 miles beyond the distance of the horizm, which we have seen to be 7 9.10 miles waivingforthat ship’s distance 12 7 10 miles. And with like ease may all such cases be dealt with.