The Clinton News-Record, 1910-09-22, Page 3grr
September 22nd 1916
Clint )n Nem -Record
eltu People Are the Real Rubes.
Their Qeestione and epannents Ott
Live Stock and Vann Prothice
at the Exhibition are
Enough to make
Horee
Laugb.
For a long time it has been the
fashion for city people to poke fun
at the farmer when the latter fa iLl.
a big city, but to an unpreludieed
observer, t.he city man when out of
Jus element is just as impossible,
makes as many silly commente and
asks as many "fool questione" as the
most farmerish farmer. The Cana-
dian loam found that to be true at
the Canadian National Exhibition at
Toronto.
"A city man about sixty years old,
came through here," said one of the
men looking after the Jerseys of 13.
13.. Hull a: Son, of Brampton, "and,
pointing to our cattle, said, 'Are
those Guernseys or Dairy Short-
horns ?' "
That's just a sample of the city peo-
ple's remarks in the cattle barna. One
woman doing the barns had no trouble
picking out the bulls from the cows,
because she was :rare that any with-
out horns were what scmebody else
called "genteemen cows." ' Jersey
cattle were given the name of practic-
ally every other breed. Meetly people
asked questions that showed that they
hadn't the faintest idea how milking
was done. It'was only natural that
.thet young fellows in eharge of the cat-
tle should do a Itttle "kidding," and
one of them had no difficulty in
getting a city chap to beiteve thal
"we milk that one with a washtub,
and elle usually fills
"Do you polish their horns to Make
them shine ?" was what might be call-
ed foolish question 1111, and the at-
tendant would be pardoned if by had
answered, "No, to make them milk
better." A man who was paring a
eow's hoofs was asked in all serious-
mby a woman, "Are you paring her
nails, sir ?" And some people , who
saw a man milking by hand were quite
taken with the way the "milking ma-
chine," worked. It seems hard to be-
lieve the man who •state.' tbat4 he
heard two women discussing whether
a cow was milked by pumping her tail,
but he swears that it's the truth.
Look for Size, not Quality.
"Anything big and fat takes their
eye," said a man who, like all the
other attendants, found that • it was
.imply size and not quality that • at-
tracte city people. "They don't see
1 he good pointe of a calf, although
-they call it a 'pretty little "
Horses being seen in the city., the
city folk don't ask so many silly quese
tions about themas about. cattle, but
it was a surprise to some city people
to tind that horses are cleaned: And,
as with the cattle, the attractionwee
size. one herseman summed up the
city people's viewpoint by saying, if
he's a big horse, he's a goo•ct ova."
It's size also that takes the city
people's eye whtn they're w.andering
through the tog pen, although the
women folk rave over the "baby
pip." The Pigs 01 the betiveen sizes
may have all the good periats possible
for a pig, but to the city folk in gen-
eral he's just a pig. And, as in the
hose and cattle stables, the men look-
ing after the pigs have hard work tO
keep from laughing at some remarks
the etty people enake. All kinds of
guesses are made as to the breed ot
the "grunters," and when the ues-
ing contest gets too hot, the at•tene
dant settles everything with same
such remark as, "Oh, the ones in that
pen are razor backs."
A "Short -horn" Sheep.
The attitude of the attendants was
well stated by a man who was look-
ing after Ids own sheep exhibit. "We
deal mind giving all the informatgon
we can to the people who don't pre-
tend to know," he said, "but we bave
no use for the know-it-all from the
city, You hear a youngster sax,
'What kind of sheep is that, daddy?'
and the father answers, 'That's a
Short -horn,' and proceeds to tell
where the 'Short -horn' came from.
The man is the head of the house. He'e
the main gay, and he has to keepup
hie reputation." City folk go look,.
ing through the sheep pens for •Berke
shires as well as Short -horns ; indeed
they get the breeds of animals beautie
fully mixed. Seeihg the metal tap .ois
which sheep are registered, one wome
an said, "Oh, look ! They put ear-
rings on the sheep to make themloOk
pretty." 'It happened that a small
breed of sheep were riglit next 'IV a
breed of large size, • and the usual .re-
mark concerning the two kind was,
"These are the lambs andthose* are
the shecp.'' , •
"They think we're shearing the,
sheep when we're merely doing a little
•clipping," said a man Nilo looks, after
some el the elieep. "Yes, the city
people rave over the very' big sheep
or the Telly little Ones. They make
remarks that are toe funny for any-
thing, and they ask questions that you
wouldn't .believe possibk. But the
children . are getting better. The
youngsters are getting to know more,
and 'I suppose it's because they soak
:n a little nature study at school," -
Badly mixed on Vitgetables.
Among theexhibits of vegetables flat
city people:. reve over the big mangs
els, big pumpkins, .big squash and big;
cabbage. .And the way they mix the
names of the various exhibits makes
ono- think of vegetable soup.
And so it goes all down the line of
things that are iron the farm. The
maw looking after the poultry said
that he sometimes has to "go` away
and laugh" at some of the thinga said
to him by the city folk. And thearian
who was talking bees to all who wish-
ed • to learn about the busy . „Stele
thinks, .was•soinewhei surprised to
•have a city man proudly give utter-
ance to this rieli bit of ;wikdome. "If
you hold your breath a bee can't king
you."-Canadien Farm.* •
Behind the Scenes in the B
Banks.
Four big banks in the Wall Street
district resemble the great gold mines
of the West in one striking feature.
They have three eight-hour shifts of•
toilers, and the work never stops. One
set takes up the routine where the
other leaves off. All night long, Sun-
days and holidays, astati of Inen
each of these banks is busy opening
thousands of letters, sorting and list-
ing innumerable checks and drafts that
represent fabulous SUMH of money and
getting them ready for theday force,
which is the only one the public:comes;
in contact with or ever hears about.
If this work was not .carried on inces-
santly the banks would be overwhelrn.
wit•h a mountainous accumulation
of detail.
Two shifts, Ow ''''outing force," as
they call themselves, work between
live in the afternoon and nine the next
morning, say' Harper's Weekly. Each
bank has a big drawer in the general
pcst office. Messengers dealt thin Of
letters every hour all night long.
Threethousand' letters a day is the
average mail of one of these big banks.
Two-thirds of it comes in during the
night. - These let ti rs, in the ease of
One of the. biggest of these banks', eon.-
tain from 35,000 to 10,000 checks and
draf Is. A t tint( s these inclose r•es
present as much is $30,000,000. Rare-
ly does the total fall below $20;000a
4100,
The letters areopeped es fast as
they are received, the cheek•s are ciente
ted and the totale verified with the
footings on th lists. Tile lettere are
then stamped, whieh shows -that they
have ;Urea "proven as the• nanks.
call it. After tnat thev. are. turned.
over to the clerks, who, send out the
formaiacknowledgmentfe of the re-
mittances they eontain The various
checks are •ageorted•accordipg to the
numbers pf the booke in which . they'
are to be entered .and otherwise, the
sight drafts are grouped according to
the routs of the hank's inesseagers
and all. is Made ready for turning the
night's accumulation •over ta the day
force, so it may be handled by it •as
expeditiously as possible. •
Each. of these shifts; of night work -
ere at the banks consists of frcla
tWelve to twenty men • Some banks
get 'along with onitoone eetee .set . of
clerks at night. .These come on duty
at midnight ,and leave at 8 am, This
plan of workiaia all night icing in order
to Peep up .with the tremendous am-
ount. of business .that comes- in by
mail wag ittatigurated about flee
years age. The first .bank that tried
it found that eo much valuable day
linIt! was saved; that one. inStitotion
after another Wok it up, until, now
there- are, fOur that havethese three
eight-hour shifts .of clerks and several
more who work 'only it part of .the
night,
Handling the Potato Crop.
Digging of late potatoes, which in
-most cases is the greater part of the
ceep,•should tea 'commence until the
vines have hem dead for fnint, time.
By allowing the potatoes to lie in the
ground for a short time in this • way,
any disease ahieh may he on the tub-
ers will be given a chance to develop.
All the disoased potaeoes. can be sort-
ed out in picking the (fret time and on-
ly the clean potateeo stored. With
ark; potatoes the case is different.
The potatoes are dug when the vines
are green and marketed immediately,
potato rot having no time: to develop
between digging and marl/citing.
In digging our potato crop, we first
ion an ordinary plow under the ridge
of potato, s, throwing them nut on to
one side. A potato fork is them used
to loesen out these furrows and throw
the tubers out on the Pittance. 15y ns.
in the plow to supplement' the hand
digging, the potatoes ma be harveated
with half the time and h•se• than half
the expense.
Sorting and Marketing.
• The first setting of the potathee is
made as thev. are picked olf the
Around. The marketable gibers are
kept by themselves. The others, in-
cluding small ones and those pettily
totted, are colleeted and fed inemedi-
ntely to the cows and Ogg. The mar-
ketable tubers, not shipped iminediat-
ely, are stored in the hasement of the
house - where there fa. no danger . of.
freezing and sorted and bagged for
shipment later in ; the winter wben
. .
1 there is more time. . 4
Thia-•is a large Watt.) growing see -
tion. Most of our potatoes aro ehip-
mid by the carload to COMMISSIOn nu r -
chants in- Halifax, 'Very few' farmers
are able to ship a carload at •a A ime,
eo we combine forces to load a car for
one commiraion man, Shipping potat-
oes through the winter when there is
lote of thee for picking, °vett and prop-
erly grading then) is less expensive
than shipping them as soon as dug
when so many other farm operations
are proging. In ooler to ship co-op-
eratively as we do tp reduce freight
rates, it is necessary for every tanner
In the seel ion to grow the wane Vali'.
ety of potato, Weall grow the Dela-
wart' which is a nice, 'nutilium sized,
smooth potato and is not excelled for:
table use. ...
Whet% pickles over the potatoes in
the <Alai' aka, smooth,. medium sized
potatoes are eeleaed for seed next
spring. liy selecting ideal table tub-
ersfor sated Nob year, change of seed
Is not nee, ssary. In fact, the quality
yield of the potatoes will improve in-
stead of deteriorate aN m. Many claim
they do. -Fa h. Eaton, Volebeet.,.r
Cee, N. S.
Are the Americans Forsaking Our
Viifest?
'There seems to be a differenee of
.opinion expressed in rather acrituoni-
pus terms as to whether the thous-
ands of American. taunters who be-
came Canadian settlers in the past
few years are returning to the Unit-
ed States. hi Canada the idea is that
More and more Americans are coming
amass ; in the United States they
say the migration has almost (teased,
and that some 15,000 dis,illusioned
Americansare making for Uncle
Sam's side of the border. On the one'
hand is the official United Staten,
clahn that Ode number of tanners re-
turned in the last nine months; on the
other, Canada's official reports that
100,000 settlers with $100,000,000 in
coin and chattels have come over in a
year. .„
Why They Quit,
One would suppose the New Orleans
Times -Democrat to be far enough flora
the spot to give an impartial opinion,
and the reasons for it. Aeconding to
this authority "The American settlers
were dis•satisned with the character of
the land, tbe, crops from which, thtty
alleged, consisted chiefly of alfalfa and
such hardy grains as Mater wheat,
and even these were not sure. The
form of government did not appeal to
them, and they considered the railroad
freight rates exorbitant. The climate
was a source of dissatisfaction, ice and
snow in August and September of last
year adding to their discomfort."
this is true, we cannot blame the
Americana from returning to the
balmier climate • of Dakota, to the
more popular forms of government as.
exemplified in Pennsylvania, Ithode
Island and °thee antgent homes of
liberty, and to the richer soil of
Nevada and Wyoming.
Why Go Back ?
We wonder what the 15,000 "tired,'
disappointed, dieillusioncel" American
farmers are going; to do, now that
they are back bome. For leaving the
Western States in the first instance
they had, plenty of season, and while
Western Canada May .00t have proved
the earthly paradise scme expected,
the reasons for leaving the. Western
States reene4in strong as ever.
Those reasous are not disputed.. Tre-
;rnendoue prices were paid foe. farm
• land in the Weetern States, and the
farmers, to the. number of tens of
thousands, sOld • out at top prices.
Now that • some • ot them have re-
turned, is it to be expectedthat they
wilt. Mot back their Old !arms l It
so, will they paymore then they re-
ceived? • •
Laad Hunger Continues.
I, To buy for less would rndicatei that
: the land boom in the Western States
has collapsed, and to invest money in
a district- wbere prices are falling is
• not' a favorite diversion for 'farmers or
Iany other clase of the community. It
must be admitted that there is still
some good •Governmeut land left in
tile Weetern States, but it is getting
searcer every day, and is not to be
compared in point of quality with the
deep soils 0( Alberta and Sauleatehee
wan. When a new block is to be
thrown open for settlement men camp
for weeks before the registration of-
fices, and once the farms have been
located the price' shoots rapidly up to
a parity with, neighboring long set-
tled land. In other weeds, there is
more land than there are settlers in
Canada, wbile in United States the
ease is revered. Until the proper-
tioas become adjusted, irrespective of
the boundary line the demand for
Canadian farms by American farmers
is very likely to continue.
Defaming Canada.
That something in the nature of a
national conspiracy to check the move-
ment northward exists in the United
States there can be littie doubt. The
railroads of the United States are very
much interested in luring back the
"dissatisfied farmers," anti they aeg
suspected of being responsible for the
unblushing slanders that. have eman-
ated front several sources. We recall
the gifted Winnipeg newspaper man
who volunteered to supplY matter de-
famatory of Canada for distribution in
different parts of the United States.
The effort' of the Canadian Government
to check the spread of glanders on the
frontier was exploited as a reason
I why no American should venture to
eross the border.
• • the American Settlers. .
Canada has responded to the "Don't
go north" campaign fly establishing a '
permanent hreas bureau at Washing-
ton, Whence, .bulletins will regularly
issue describing the opportunities. Of
the Canadian -West. Only these who
live on this side of the border know
how little disturbed. Canadians are at
the prospect or losing 'American. sete
tiers.' The immigraVon • may not cen-
t:hare, but if the movement froth the
Western States altogether ceases,
"merely because the thermometer
sometimes drops. out of eight in Win-
nipeg or Medicine Hat," the character
of the Amtvican farmen, as the -.Cin-
cinnati Star says, "must havechang-
ed a good deal in the past few. -de-
cades." •
Should Divorce Laws
be International ?
The 'final aim of international law-
yers must be toeestabiish one univer-
sal marriage law," said Dr, Mee
Hevesi or Budapest., at the Interna-
tional 'LAW Association', Congress itt
'Louden, a. nay days. ago. It is tq be
understood; of course, that marriage
as a relation that :is to persist does
not. interest Dr,' Heyeet end ether law,
yers ;. it • is marriage as a necessary
peon coaditicn to divorce that °e -
copies. 'their attetitimi, One erosion
of the conference was deeotied to 'a
discussion 'elf divorce in: different
countries, ; in the course of , which
'smile curious 'taste Were noted.
• Causes Fee Divorce.. .
Reviewing the chief teaturee of the
divorce laws of thirteen leadingecoeug
talcs. Mr. J. A, Barrett remarked
that 'nail than but three
tinction was made between husband
nail wife as • . fp ground. for divorce,
The exceptions were England, -Bel-
gium and Egypt...To enumerate -all
legal causes of divorce in different
perts of the world would he almost
impossible, for eew causes are pang
accepted almost daily by American
courts, Sucloreasons as a husband
snoring, or ae wife insisting :amen
keeping "a pet dog, have been suffi-
cient to induce American judges to
sever the marriage tie.
In Poland .abel Algeria. .
Nor are reasons that.Would seem to.
us trivial restrieted 10 the.: divorce
eourte of the United States, . -In PO -
land it was a eauste for divorce -of a
Jew that he was engaged in an occu-
pation• which gave him such a ' dis-
agreeable odor as to create hi hie wife
invincible aversion. In Formosa a
wife's "loquacity" wassa competent
reason for annulling a marriage. In.
Algeria a husband was discovered to
have wooed another woman before
his wife had aecepted him ; and proof
of thie fact enabled the wife to free
herself. In Sweden there are twelve
grounds of -divorce ; in England' there
is only . one. itt Norway habitual
rieunkentege and ' a
eater for divorce ; in Frew; Belgium-,
Norway, Hungary and Denmark, if
either Inishand or wife is condemned
to penal eervi'tale, the other party to
the marriage may escape from . it.
Desertion in Denmark, Holland and
Germany ; insanity in Germany and
Norway, And grievous injuries; or se-
riousviolations of matrimonial duty
in la igium, Germany and Norway are
all (guars of thyme.
Exist ing llardshipit.
• What eitizons of one country re-
gard asa joke or a trifle ie held to be
grievous oin by eitizena of another
and suffivient tonleettoy the most
solemn of all earthly conveneents. The
difficulty, therdore, f imitteieg all
countries to agrei, upon the grouuds
of divorce would seem to be almost
insurmountable. International law-
yers are encouraged to pereetwere to-
ward this end only became of the
hard:gips and suffering that the ex -
Wing conditions entail. 4The folibw-
ing incident related by Dr. Gaston de
Leval, legal adviser to the British
tatiention itt Bruese4s, illustrates the
Point I
i• A person under the age of .21 ewes
could' not, according to Belgian law,'
Marry without his parents' consent. '
If -this consent .was• wanting, the. par-
ents ;had the right to have the. mar-
riage declared null and void, and un-
less the plaintiff'sparent Lad known
of the merviage tor more .than .one
-yeav, and had therefore implieity• con-
sented to the same, the Belgian whet
.was bound to declare such marriage
'void. A Belgian boy of. 20 .- years,
making a false statutory declaration
in pretending , that he was of age, or
had obtained his Pareets' • consent,
married iii London an English OH:.
On the day of the merviege..he•took
her to Belgium. After a few 'Weeks,
he wished to repudiate the girl, and
confessedthe whole story . to • his
father. ' The latter wanted. the 'mare
riage to .be declared • void: If he
brought the ease before' the English
court he would not succeed, but if
he brought the case before- the Bel-
gian wart or the Freneh court, or
any other Continental court, the Mar-
riage would be &dared void: R the
girl remarried,. the English • courts,
holding her first • mavriage ealgel,
would treat her as a bigamist.- It
she stied her husband for divorce
she would betinsaccessful, because
(a) in Belgium and other Continental
countries, the inartgage bating • been
declared. void, there could be no Owe -
Hon Of divorce ; (Ti) in England, the
husband being A Belgian domiciled in
Belgium,' the English .counts had ,no
jurisdiction. . .
By Mutual Consent.
In most Continental countries; .11i -
Tome may, be cbtained by mutual eon -
sent ;.in other words, it is as easy to
become divorced as to become . mar-
ried. Belgium,. however, . guards
against dadtte haste by &caging
that one year must elapse between
the joint applicatioh and the decree,.
The parties have to appear:
the judge at intervals of three months
and coelirtn'their will. Their parente
have also i•o appeat, and . on • the
fourth occasion two gentlemen ol
well known character, at least 50
years ogle have to join the parents
in the Plea for annulment. In the
event ot the partirs having children
they have immediately to abandom to
them one-half of all their assets.
Dates of Fall Fairs.
Ilayffeld, Sept. 21-22.
Wingbam, September 29th ahd .301.11
Myth, October 4th atid 5t1i.•
Itrueeels, October 6th and 7th.
Dungannon, October Oth and 7th.
Telemeter, October 511t and GM
Not a minute should be lost whet;
a ehild shows . 'symptoms of troupe
Chamberlain's; Cough Remedy gitea
ae moon as the child heeeetee hoarse,
or even after the troupy cough ap-
pears, will prevent the attack. Zold
by all dealers.
The Split Log Drag Does
Good Work.
By Prof. Dolve, Dakota Agricultur-
al College.
One of the best implements yet de-
vised for renairing road:, is the King
split log diag or some modification of
it whion may be made either of wood
or steel. (Aa illtuttration of a split
• log drag appeared in Canadian Farm
of July 22nd.) The roads should be
dragged with this implement as soon
after a rain as possible ; when 4. the
drag squeezes the water out of the
soil leaving a smooth layer of puddled
soil on the road surface whieh bakes
hard when dry. and •"sheds water
like a duck." The effect of the drag
is accumulative in a way vetty much
similar to the application of paint
oa a building -for, the thinner the
coats and the •gueater the number the
more lasting is the paint. Every time
the drag is used a new layer of pude
died soil is smeared on top of the•pre-
ylons one until after several years of
tho accumulation effect of dragging, a
road cruet, consisting of a 'elle nunie
ber of thin layers of puddled 6On is
formed that will supped the heaviest
traffic' without breaking up. The drag
not only;Iteeps the road smooth and
well crowned, but also keeps the diteh-
es clean so that, it outlets; are pro-
vided for them as there ehould ; be,
water will run away from the made
and the grade thus remains.
• There is a total of about seventy-,
• Iwo miles of road in a township, but
utetally lest than thirty -live are trav-
elled to any extent, In many town -
'ships one man and two horses could
'maintain the roads perfectly through-
out the summer mcoths with a road
drag. In others, two man and four
horses would be required to do the
work when it should be done. This
system of maintenanve would not be
at all prohibitive .and it would be,
found that in old townships where the
roads are already graded there would
be little use foe the road grader. A-
bout the . only repair that would have
to be attended to outside ogthis sys-
tem would be the building of bvidges
anti culvertsawl this ;could, in time, be
ahnost eliminated if tainforeed con-
crete were used in their construction
wnerever possible.
Maker and Patrons Should
Co-operate.
•
If the cheesernaker or buttennaket
and the patrons are to get the most
front the .dairy business, there should
.be a spirit .01 friendly co-operation
betweea them. Each should do his
best to help the other and take al
sympathetic interest in the other's
businosss Farm and Derry recently
wrote'to a cheesemaker in Ontario
asking him for some information con-
cerning the condition of the crops in
the neighborhood of his factory. He
replied as follows "I would he pleas-
ed to give you the informetioa you
desire but most excuse myself on the
plea of ignorance. .1 know nothing
about the .condition DE the crops In
One neighborhood and what is more,
it is none of niy bueiness. I am
a cheeeemaker, not a farnirr 1 at,
tend to my business and let them at-
tend to theirs."
Much an attitude an the part of
the maker does not tend to increase
the interes•t of the • patrons in the
success of the factory. If the maker.
takes absolutely no interest in the
patrone4 affairs how can he expect
the patrons to take an laterost in his
affairs? 'the patrons go to a lot of
trouble to take proper care of the
milk, delietr it in good condition
and so forth for their own profit, but
it .is at the same time to the profit
of the maker. The maker can en.
coterage . the farmers in this line if
he takes an interest in al"! the doings
of his patronsand is able to diecussi
their problems with them intelli-
gently. When lie doe' this, thee
will be •in the proper frame of mind
to take his suggestions ae to the pro-
per care pf milk. A maker bee large
opportuaities ' for educating his pat-
rons. '. His suggestions, however,
will only be taken when he shows a
.corresponding interest in' the work •of
his patroaS.-Faria and Dairy,
Mexicans 331Eake Love Openly
Etiquette Which Forbid:4 Tete-a-Lete.§
'Countenances. Many Queer Custonis
•
• The ?ovegneking of upper-class Mex-
ico is perforce done for all to seet says
wendolen Overton in The Delineator
for4October. It is practically • impos-
sible for lovers to have speech e. tante
alone,•and tees so if they erg • epgaged
than if their passitm is 'undeclared
An avowedly enamored couple mest
he Under constant supervision. A
grl•rhay not teceiee eallere of (heath-
er s.ex sieve in the presence of a euit-:
able Chaperon, and this does not tend
to make calling a favorite pastime
with the men -hard put to it though
they • are to fill their. days. '• Except
for the ofiences 'oceasionatly. 'offered,
the ceee, meat evil whaL -the. tongue
may riot '• • ,1
'And all this has giveu Hee to. cuete• •
oms,affording unmixed delight to the
Wenger who, for the firat tinie, ob-
serves theme Those which are known
ashaciendo deg oso (playing the beer)
end. pelando la pave (plucling the hal-
. .
cock) are respectively talking through
bareedwindews or strolling up and
down beneath an inaeceSsible balcony.
But it is flechabdo..whith iMakens
yet greater senSe of Amusement. Lit-
erally trenelated it. means, "darting'
arrows";-Cuaid's duets, by inference.
But it is nothing more deleee' than
staring one's lady -love out •.of count-
enance • with eves which exnrvss devo-
tion tn Inverse ratio to the • -number of
times they wink. This. form of
courtship es chiells restbeted, to in
the FSazit or in thotheater. „.
To the central' plaza the. Mexican
girl goes .upon those (wettings when
the hand playa. Here site locks her
arm in that of a friend or relative of
her -own seek and begins to 'Walk along •
the broad pavement which summate
the band -stand. Before long there is
a sbea.dy, unbroken stream of feminini-
ty moving -in One. (Recta -hen, a.nel one of
men,. 'equally steady and unbrokee,
tigovieig in the other. ' •
It is. extremely •' rare' forT a Mail • to:
join the women . for more than a MOM-
(,nt, •and eiPcin :this moment is not habi-
tually eeized. The whale' satisfaction
is derived from passeng the beloved
time and again,. exchanging with her a
meaning glance. While the band iQ
'playing, the women seat them:pelves
unon the benches which line the people
enade. Thereupon an aprient suitor
is expected , to station him:it-di oppo-
site, and at once. set about .fle.chando.
The Wedding • Ring.. • -
• In the Isle of Men the wedang ring
was fdamerle used as.an instrument of
torture. Cyril Davenport in his hook
csi 4Jewelery" remarks- that there once
existed a custom on that island, "ac-
cording to which an .unmarried giri.
who had been offended by a man coehl
bring him to trial, and if be were
fonnd» guilty ehe would be presented
with' a sword, a ropeand a ring, With.
the sword she might cut of his bead,
with the rope she might ;hens him, or
with the ring she might retiree him,
It is said that the hist named. punish-
ment.: was that imeiviebly inflioted."
The wedding ring.was anathema • :to
the; early Puritans, who regarded per -
:
millet adornment as one of the,. mane
snares - 514 Satan. Tu the old Cng-
iiell marriage tartlet, -it was the cust-
om for the bridegromn to mit t•he
• ring on the thumb of his &Vide, say-
ing, "In the name of file Father"
• then. Mt the nexi finger, saying, "and
the Son," and then' on the third fin-
ger, saying 'turd the Holy Gluing"
finally on the fourth finger with' the
word 'Amen.' .
Tjal ring was left there becatthe, at
the Sarum rubric' says, "a vein pro-
ceeds th6lce to , the heart," • le the
modern Marriage service the ring is
placed at 'OM oh the third anger, the
invocation of the Tektite being under-
stood .e -Tit -Bits,
te ga niKs oF 0,-1NrroN MAY
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W. A. McConnell, backed up by the
manufacturers of ,SALVI A, the Great
Hair Grower, guarantees it to grow
herr. •
SALVIA. destroys Dandrul: in ten
days.
Tin tot e of the hair are NO nour-
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springs up, to the amazement; atel thy -
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•
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- Met W.. R. Brock, Director . of. lite
Geological Survey, reports that the.
seesca Of navigation of .Iludspn Bay
can be extended by the use of 'proper '
aids to navigation,
William McIntosh and John Irving
had a,iiarrow• escape .from death at
Fonthill, when a gravel tag . on Which
they Were standing hrhke loose and
ran away down a grade. • . • •
The manufacturers Arthur it Win17
Ming:, and were driven about tbe' city
in automobiles and entertained at lun-
cheon. Tariff matters were (1151. u,' .The Boston e: Maine Railroad
ed. • . beep Merged; with the New liaven.
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Many readers do not read poenry
and know not what they mitts thereby.
The following poem, from. the -Pen .of
Robert 'IL Kernighan, who writes over
the penenamo of The Khan in the To -
Tonto Stay, IS one Of iris most pkaaing
efforts and' worth peeeerving itt any
album of poetry ia the Dominion.
3i'y brave -eyed., geave-eyed country
. girl,
To day I brought her to the fair ;
ID all that mightyt human whirl
No sweeter, fairer lass was thew.
Her drees was neat from . head to feet,
EIcr happy 1 ace was bright and
And as we Moved aethrougir the stir,
The people turned to look at her.
• .
5Iy blue-eyed, true-eyedcountry girl,
With wouId have thought those hands
so brown :
Had' made the' churn desk, bump, and
neers.virele;gked the •season's butter.. •
, • down ? • • ;.
Who would Imee thought' those fingers
r14..dsndloanitl
the haltieiga-pies and ail 9. .
Fast in that mighty heritae blur
Thehetvt.r.ple:ased people looked oa
51y brown-cheeked; roundeeheeked,
TooriguilittrYI ber to the fair ;
The rockets in a maddening. whirl
Were lashing ell the upper air
Sheave a ery as through, the sky
A boonling. metecierushed on high
And, even in the evening. blur,
The smiling• people guest on ;her.
lkly• brave -eyed, greVeceyed country .
• • 1 •
1 think that I can see her. now,
01: ke;wer11114; 'safe through lifeno
And alarm she clasped illy arm
For • in the crush a little curl
With tender; • ringers, ; b.rowie... and
witd
• • :die. .• ,
Athrjaingey-throitgh the World with
Went. straying o'er, her snowy boow,
My slzi
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voiced, low -voice. country
g
A golden -t.oice • without a sting,.
Were afar WhO:C• leagues unfurl,
Still I would hear thee whisiteting.
Across' ray fields in years to be,
Thettea ;voice will •call .m.e. Mime •
te
That voice shall cheer my soul When
Snail bid My love e last good-bye.
. -The Khane.
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