The Tragic Fate of Whitaker and Co.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4593, 24 September 1883, Page 2

The Tragic Fate of Whitaker and Co.

" Dear me, how vexing, affcer all my toil,*' Cried Janet, " 'tis too cruel my cakes to spoil j " What can the reason be, pray, Susan, tell ' me ? •, " The secret of your lovely sponges, dearie ?" ," Dear sister mine, I've found the fairy spell, " Most gladly I'll to you its working tell/ "It will Bave you many a weary troubled hour, " If you'll but use Mcnnie's Self Raising Mour. " Its virtues are beyond my power to tell, "If you once try it/it will please so well, "That you heuceforth will never troubled be, "By having heavy cakoa or soonea for tea. ) . "In Menuie and De/e establishment you'll find ' i " All daintieß which the sugar cane produces, t •«• In every shape and form of sweetmeat fine, " With bread and biscuits for domestic uses* "No pains are spared the public taste-to please, . . • " In charges moderate, and best attention, " Your orders or requests are met with ease, '" Varieties are here too great to mention. " I've heard it «ud that Mennie is a brick, fc " And Dey, as partner, true, doth blend his will ; " I doubt not, were the order, given quick. " They'd grind old Wnifcaker to powjer i» tbeir Patent Sugar Mill."

Says the Denver later-Ocean:—Mat-thew Webb, Blondin, Sam Patch, Sergeant Bates, the Jeanette crew, Professor Donaldson aad all the other foolhardy creatures who tempted fate, belong to a list which has grown alarmingly this oealury. The men who dare, with the hope of accomplishing good, are benefactors; but the men who simply desire to show what fools men can be, deserve no pity in death. There is much difference between Christopher Columbus and the Jeanette mariners as there is between Bacons philosophy and the fifteen puzzle. Professor Mahaffy, in his book " The. Decay of Modern Preaching," says of" safe men".—''They may appear safe at the moment;, in the long run they contribute to the ruin of the church they represent. For they are essentially oold, and they represa in their aurrouudingg all the glow and fervour of enthusiasm. I repeat it again on account of its importance—the so-called safe men in a church are among the surest causes of ita decay."

Flies and Bugs, Beetles, insects, roaches, ants, • bed-bugs, rats, mice, gopher*, jackrabbits, cleared out by " Rough on Rata —• Moses, Moss <&; Co., Sydney, General Agenta. Cast IroQ.—Flat-irons used for missiles^