HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-10-1, Page 7WITH THE SCOTCHSETTLERS home and have Eden& in these dietant
parts should remembea that no greater
kiednese can be shown them than by send-
iog out good weekla newspapers and ma,gas
zioes, perhaps a picture now and again to
larighten up the walls of the woedeu house,
perhaps f301115 flower seeds from the garde
aa home,which will bring tender thoughts
to the minds of those now so far away, and
who will teach their chilchen to tend the
little plantssent by "grannie" or "auntie,'
aid to make them thbak of doing their best to
make their homes beautiful and home -like.
Frugality, mad self-denial, and strength of
character are developed by the stern life
which must be led by the eettlar in Man-
itoba who means to prosper. It is our part
to do our best to prevent the possibility of
their sterner virtues from becoming too
stern, and from becoming a mere passion to
get on and to rneke money. And if you
have no friends in Canada yourselves, may
I ask those who aro willing to do so to save
up their papers and pictures, and maga-
zines, and to send them to -Madame Gau-
tier, Ladies' Union for Distributing Litera-
ture to Settlers, Winnipeg, Manitoba'per
Dominion Line and C. P. Railway. And
add to this address-" Carried free by
special permission of the Directors of Dom-
inion Steamship Line and 0. P. R." For
we have special permission to send parcels
of literature free of expense of carriage, and
SO 1 hope that the readers of "Onward and
Upward" will send meny contributions,
helpful for mind and heart and soul, and
tending to give thoughts which will uplift
the common daily work which would other -
Wise) be drudgery.
Now let me tell you of.a visit we paid. to
some new settlers from Scotland who are
amongst those who need help and sympathy
to be shown in this way. * * *
Mr. Scarth, Dominion member of Parlia-
ment for Winnipeg, took great pereoual
trouble in the settling of these Highland
crofters, and he and Mrs. South lived
amongst them for the 'first few weeks, when
they arrived as strangers, without friends,
and had to be camped out in tents. He
now kindly made all arrangements for us
.to visit the settlement, and I will give you
a few extracts from my journal about our
-visit, written at the time, along with some
pictures which tell their own tale.
• T17116110.Y, Oct. 7th, 1890. -Went to little
hotel for breakfast, and, by 9 were ready
for our start. Killarney rather a respect-
able little place for four years old. Mr.
Later, the local merchant, who has taken
• greatcharge of theHighland crof terswhoinwe
had come to see, had arranged to drive ue
at Mr. Scarth's request. So, off we went,
A. Coutts, Mr. Lalor and myself, in what
they call a •" democrat," a sort of long,
four -wheeled cart, with two seats, one
behind the other. It was a perfect day for
our forty miles drive aoross the prairie, not
muck sun, but a bright shining always in the
long fleecy clouds, which stretch themselves
• in long, long stretches of manifold shapes in
the way which we have come to look upon
as especially Canadian. No wind, but an
indescribably fresh bracing air, which we
want to inhale in long breaths all the while.
And, as we thought while we were driving
on a previous occasion in Texas andDakota,
driviug on the prairie and on the tails
running through the prairies is unlike any
other driving. The soft elasticity of the
ground carries ove over all the bumps'and
jars, and ruts; and roots and hillocks are
all passed over as the most natural things
in the world. But with all this, I am not
going to rave about Manitoba. Oh, the
inexpressible dreariness of these everlasting
prairies with their serpentine black trails
winding through them!
Of course, to -day, we have been going
through land but newly taken up, and there
has not yet been time for the desire of
beauty or comfort in any F3raal1- way to
grow, The struggle to live has swallowed
up all the energy, and it has been quite the
exception to see even any attempt after the
commonest sort of tidiness, much less any
attempt to nurture -a few flowers, a plant, a
tree. But the Manitobans have shown that
they value education, for little schools are
planted down everywhere where there are
15 children to attend, and the teachers are
not badly paid. We went into one of these
schools to -clay, there were about 20 child-
ren'and a pleasant -looking young man, an
M. A., who has also a farm in the neigh-
borhood, was teaching them. H' e
said the great difficulty was the irregu-
larity of attendance, which made his work
resemble that of Sisyphus and
become real drudgery. Such country schools
are shutaip during the winter, and in the
aistumn the children are kept away for har-
vest work, so that it is only thethree spring
months that can be depended on.
Our first visit was to the old Irishman,
O'Bden, who had constituted himself the
good father of the place, and had insisted
on it being called Killarney. I am afraid
that my smothered exclamation of amuse-
ment on first sight of the lake, remember-
ing our first sight of the real Killarney, was
taken as disrespectful by our cicerone, but,
in truth, it is the prettiest thine we have
seen in Manitoba.
• After seven or eight miles we came to the
first crofter, one John Macleod, who had
been one of the grumblers about small
things, but he made no grumble to us, and
eaid he thought he should get along well
now. Then came John Nicholson's section.
He is one of the most successful, but unfor-
tunately he and his wife were away from
home. He had his 10 acres cultivated ac-
cording to stipulation the first year (1889),
this year he had 55 ; next year
he is preparing for 75. His wheat
had been threshed end we saw it
all in his new little wooden barn -900
bushels, representing somewhere about
a150. His first barn was still standing,
made of sods. Other four crofters to the
west are relations, and all on one section,
and are doing well. We saw two more of
the Lewis families, John Campbell and his
wife and children, in whose cottage also was
old Mrs. Macleod, whose husband holds
ii
meetings while the missionary s away n
the winter, Mrs. Macdonald, Peter
Graham and his wife, a tidy, capable -
looking woman with five bonny bairns. We
photographed some of the people and
their places, though some were rather
unwilling, being in their working
clothes. One requires to think of whet
these people were before they came out, to
appreciate their present poeition and pros -
p0025. • Some who came knew nothing
about agricultural work, one had never
used a hey -fork in hie life. And that they
should have got on so well as they have
done is very creditable, both to themselves
and their noigabora After leaving the
crofters we came in sight of Pelican Lake,
mid then, descending a sleep brae, the sight
of which rejoiced our hearts, we Caine upon
prosperoutalookiog farm of 640 pares
owned by a inan whom we passed, plough-
ing. We stopped to ask our way, but, after
all, got rather astray, and went a geed bit
out of our way up a rough hilasvhich landed
te on the edge of a ravine, on the other side
of which was the house where WC were to
have hincheon. A yetis:1g English farmer of
cheery • and hopeful aspect, and rawly
married, put es right again, and we Wore
then ready for our 4 o'clock luneheon at,
Mrs, Daroug,h's, at the farmhouse of
Glertfern. The threshing was going on
theta, and they had had 0. bus y day, with
18 ot 17 men in to dinner. The yield had
not been so good as was expected, and one
field, from which they had expected twenty-
, Lord and. Lady Aberdeen Amon• g
the Northwest Farmers.
The 00uutr,y and the people Graphically
Deecribed by the &molten,
s (From " Onward and. Upward" for September.)
Now in with you, if you do not want to
be left behind ! And please remember that
, you have to keep your wits about you
during this journey whoia you get out at
railway stations. We have left the whistles
behind us in the old country, and in their
stead you hear a bell, which at first
• reminds you more than anything'else of the
bell of a couutry church or school, and when
you hear that bell, throarible in as best you
• can, for there will be no slamming of car-
riage doors, no crying of "Take your
'seats," no guard's whistle as a last warning.
The conductor calls " All aboard," but if
the train is a long one, you are as likely as
not to miss hearing him. .And at every
astation where we stop you will see after the
train has actually started a rush of strag-
,glers scrambling up on the "platforms" at
esither end of the long cars. Of course you
a know that trains in America are not at all
•or like those in this country. * * * *
We thought we had chosen quite the best
time of year for our trip although it might
sbe considered a little late by some, for
when we woke up the first morning after
leaving Ottawa we found ourselves passing
-through roads, all flaming with the
gorgeous euturnmil tints of the maple and
sother trees, and underneath the trailing
leaves of various berry-bearieg plants made
.a carpet of rich yellows, and reds, • and
browns. I think, if I 0./11 to be truthful, I
must admit that this scenery would have
borne rather a forbidding aspect if it had
„not been for these rich colorings,
and we can scarcely wonder if newly -
arrived emigrants bound westward
feel tether depressed at pissing through
a 'stretch of such apparently sterile
country of the outset of their journey. The
trees are stunted, the vegetation allows us
:to see the stony character of the soil
below ; some of the telegraph -poles even
have to be upheld by heaps of stones around
them, and the desolation is often rendered
greater by many of the trees having been
the prey of forest fires, the result either of
the carelessness of settlers or Indians, or
-arising from sparks from the engine, falling
on the dry inflammable substances all
•around. And yet this region has charms of
its own -the fishermen can tell of the
• wealth to be found in t,he rivers and lakes,
the geologist and the miner will tell you of
the yet comparatively unexplored riches
of silver and copper and other metals
which are • stood up for Canada's
children beneath the unpromising look-
ing surface, and the artist, will revel in
the wild grandeur of the mountain and lake
scenery all along the coast of Lake Superior.
succession of magnificent ,promontories,
frowning rocks and crags, surrounding the
lovely bay of that vast expanse of water call-
ing itself a lake, meet your eye as the train
bears you along, and you lay down your
pencil and brush in bewilderment as to
which point to seize, amidst so much beauty,
and instead you revert to the faithful rapid
Kodak to record your memories of Thunder
Bay, and Jackfish Bay, and the Lake of the
Woods, ancl many another spot of beauty.
And then one day as you wake up and peep
• out benind the blind of • your
car the mountain and the lake,
and •the torrent have disappeared,
and instead you behold a vast stretch of
grassy country and you realize that you see
before you the far-famed wheat lands of
Manitoba and that Winnipeg, the City of
Prairies lies hard by.
At Winnipeg we felt almost as if we had
O home awaiting us for our friend, Sir
Donald Smith, aboa whose generosity to
his native country I, have told you before,
had written to us even before we left Eng-
land, and had bidden as to come to his
house at Silver Heights and to make our-
selves at home. And so, on the steps of
:Silver Heights you now see Lord Aber-
eleen and my brother (who met us here), and
Mr. Traill, Sir Donald's manager. Here, too,
see Sir Donald's buffaloes, the last remain -
sing in Canada of the millions who used
to inhabit the prairies, and whose bones
• you will see in dismal heaps as you pass
,
And now what am I to say about. Winni-
• peg ? It is 700 feet above the sea level,
it has a population of 28,000 (twenty
, years ago there were only 215 inhabi-
tants), it has • some fine buildings, wide
streets itis lighted with electric light, it is
40 great railwayt
re, and is destined to
Cen
•
become a great capital. You still, however,
aeon see how recent is its birth, for side by
• side with a' fine house stands an old Red
'Raver settler's log hut, the wide streets are
mostly unpaved, and on a wet day
• servo as admirable illstrations of the rich-
ness and the blackness of Manitoba soil, and
you still see passing through the city by the
side of a carriage and pair, the old Red
-*River carts made entirely of wood, creaking
•,as they go. The rate of progress amazes
the inhabitants themselves, and it is very
•:pleasant to hear stories of things as they
were and as they are. For instance'look
at this clogearriage ; that is the vehicle in
• which the Governor and his wife used to be
transported' to Ottawa not SO many years
4ago. Rather a different business now -a -
days is it not? We must not linger long
•, here, much as I should like to
tell ' you of the many impressions
left on our minds by Winnipeg,
its inhabitants and its surround-
ings and of all the truly Scotch hospitality
with which we were entertained whilst
there, and again on our return journey, not
only by Sir Denald Smith, and the Lieut. -
Governor, Mr. Schultz and hie wife, but by
many other friends of whose kindness we
• cherish grateful memories.
• One of the impressions most strongly left
on our minds by our stay in Winnipeg was
the strongly marked religious tone of the
community. This is not only shown by the
• number of churches and religious institu-
tions, but in the evident earnestness of put,
pose, which causes people who have bet
• little time in this young city to devote
themselvee to active works of religion
and benevolence. The great scarcity of
..servante throws a great part of the house-
Ileold work on the ladies themselves, and
• yet they contrive to throw themselves into
'Christian work, and to take charge person-
ally of the orphans en'd the aged poor, and
to befriend the stranger in a way which may
'well push us to shame. One of their latest
orgatilzatione uhdertakes to send out monthly
:parcels of literature to settlers in Manitoba
and the Northweet. It iedifficelt for those at
home to realize the isolation of such settlers ;
-everything has to be begun and carried on
by the work of their own hends, and their
whole thoughts ate absorbed by the deeper"
,ately hard work whieh is an essential for
,enccese. Church is faraway, there are no
• librariee or reading -thorns or ineans of
.eelf improverrieht at haled, and the tempta-
tion must be great in • sah livee
to fotget mind and wail in the struggle for
anatetial prosperity. Those Who etay at
e‘t,
;
five bushels per acre, aad only fifteen, They
were doiug better to-dey. That earn° field
in 1887 yielded 40 bushels per acre (sold at
48 cents), in 1888 it wee down to five
bushels per acre (sold at 84 C01143), in 1887 I
forgot what she told me the number of
busliele were, but the price was 64 cents.
The Daroughs came from Ontario.
and are of Scotch extraction. There are
tive sons, three working, the eldest just
married to one of the crofter girls living on
a section of his own, and two daughters,
who gave us proofs of thole prowess in the
home-made bread and jam and pumpkin
pie. But Mrs. Darough said that eugar
had been too dear ies make much jarn. All
the email kind's of fruit do well, and wild
berries abound. Potatoes, cabbages, cauli-
flower and other vegetables grow magnifi-
cently. Apples are not yet a success.
Coutts left us here, and we drove on to
Glenboro, about twenty-one miles further,
calling in at two of the Harris crofters en
route, Morrison andDonald Stewart. Only
saw the wife of the latter, who worked for
Lord Dunmore mita he sold the island.
Many messages sent to Dunmore.
And the last part of the drive which
passes through rich wheat land and past a
prosperous Scandinavian settlement was
lost Oil us, for it had become quite dark,
and our attention was concentrated on our
driver avoiding the many vehicles returning
from Glenboro Fair, waggoos, and carts,
and buggies, and gigs, and droves of cattle
and horses. He managed very creditably,
and the demeanor of the home -going folk
contrasted favorably with what it might
have boon on a similar occasion at home.
USE OF THE 5A1111100.
It Serves More Purposes Than Any Other
Cultivated Plant.
it is hoped by the Department of Agri-
culture that the bamboo may yet be culti-
vated in this country as it is in China
where it supplies a large part of the wants
of the people, being applied to more than
•500 different purposes. • In the flowery
kingdom it takes the 'shoe of both iron and
steel. The farmer builds his house and
fences out of it, his farming utensils as well
as his household furniture are manufactured
from it, while the tender shoots furnish
him with a most delicious vegetable for his
table. ,
The roots are carved into fantastic im-
ages, shaped into divining blocks to guess
the will of the gods, or cut into lantern
handles and canes. The tapering cubits are
used for the props of houses, the framework
of awnings,
the ribs of sails and shafts of
rakes; for fences and every sort of frames,
coops and cages; ancl. the handles 8,nd ribs
of umbrellas and fans. The leaves are sewed.
into rain coats and thatches. The shavings
and curled threads furnish materials for
stuffing pillows, while parts supply the beci
for sleeping, the chopsticks for eating, the
pipe for smoking, the broom for sweep-
ing,the mattress to lie upon, the
chair to sit upon, the table to eat on, the
food to oat and the fuel to cook it with, etc.,
etc. In fact, its uses are almost without
number.-Piasburga Despatch.
What a pity it is that his face is all pimples,
He'd be very fine looking if %wasn't for that,
aid pretty Miss Vero, with a snail° at the
dimples
Reflected from under the nobby spring hat -
As she looked at heraelt in the glass, softly
sighing.
That she had for the young man a tender re-
gard,
There wasn't the least need of denying -
for everyone knew it. "His beauty is
marred by the frightful red blotches all over
his face. I wonder if he couldn't take some-
thing to cleanse his blood, and drive them
away ?"
He heard what she said about his looks.
11 hurt his feelings, but he couldn't deny
she told the truth. He remembered a
friend whose face used to be as bad as his.
It had become smooth and clear. He went
to him and asked how the change had been
brought about. "Simply by using Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery," was
the reply. "Take that, and I'll warrant
you to get rid of your pimples."
He did so.
His facto became healthy and clear,
And next week he'll be married to pretty Miss
Vero.
A Bit of Scripture.
There's a Presbyterian minister in Detroit
whose wife is very fond of this city as a
place of residence. Some time ago the
synod to which he belongs was discussing
the advisability of sending him away on
some important business, occupying it year
or so. It was suggested to him, and he went
to his wife, as all good husbands do.
"My dear," he said to her cautiously,
"what do you think of going away from
Detroit?"
"1 don't think of it at all," she answered
promptly. "Why do you ask?"
"Web!, the synod has asked me to go,
and—"
She went over to him softly, and putting
both hands on his head in a motherly way,
she said solemnly:
"My son, if synods entice thee, consent
thou not."
And he didn't. -Detroit Free Press.
Reviving a lirovnted Man.
A man while fishing suddenly fell into
the water. A fellow fisherman of benevo-
lent aspect promptly helped him out, laid
him on his back and then began to scratch
his head in a puzzled way. "What's the
matter ?" asked the bystanders. "Why
don't you revive him?" "There are six-
teen rules to revive drowned persons," said
the benevolent man, "and I know 'ena all;
but 1 can't call to mind what comes first."
At this point the rescued man opened his
eyes and said faintly "Is there anything
about giving brandy in the rules ?" "Yes."
"Then never mind the other fifteen." --
London Figaro.
The One.hoss Shay.
The peculiar feature of the " one-hoss
shay " was, that it was "built in such a
wonderful way" that it had no "weakest
part." The '7 weakest part" of a woman is
invariably her back, and "female weak-
nesses" are only too common. With the
use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription,
this may be avoided, and women may be
comparatively as strong as their brothers.
Prolapsus, inflammation, ulceration, period-
ical pains, letworthea, dragging -clown sense -
elms, debility, nervousness sleeplessnese,
despondency, arc onlya few of tlte symptoms
of weakness of the female organs wlaieh the
"Favorite Prescription" is warranted to
remove.
• An Expensive Diet,
.16,7)och: Mrs. Canby -Oh, Titus, the baby
has swallowed a hairpin!" „asseasa,sasa
Mr, Canby -That's it; just as I expected.
Now you'll want money to buy some more.
It's nothing but money, money, money in
tide hoilee the whole biased tfine. PA bet
that bahy has swallowed more than $50
worth of hairpins the last three months.
Now, madam, this thing has got to stop
right hero -either thet baby will stop eating
hairpins mid dome dowtt to common grub
like the test Of ue or I'll know' the reason
why -you undereta,nd ?
About 4,500 species of wild bees areknown,
and of wasps 1,100.
-A London idea it to insure hottees
againet burglary.
TME CARE OE THE 1/01111.
A Little 'Ina On )11reans for the Preseryalitas
°Meath
It is Oow generally admitted, eeys Youths,
Companion, that constipation is productive
of 'serious disorders, that it aggravates other
ailments, increases the susceptibility of the
system to infectious diseases, e,nd prodoces
a state of gene' al physical disturbance, The
nervoos system is especially affected, mod it
must be remembered that the nervous
centres are in the lain,
The deleterious effects of conthipation
were formerly explained by the prosaism
of the hardened mass on the blood ves-
sels and nerves o± the intestines. But v.
different view is now taken. It is believed
that they are due to powerful poisons,
which have proved to be developed in, the
process of incipient decomposition. s
There is reason to believe that extreme
cases of constipation may result in insanity.
The Alienist and Newrologist, a journal de-
voted to mental diseases, gives three marked
cases which them to confirm the view.
In the first case, a woman, without any
nervous tendencies hereditary or acquired,
and every way healthy, began to suffer
with constipation, with loss of appetite and
general debility. After a while she had
attacks of fainting and vomiting, At length
there were developed marked symptoms of
insanity-a-reetlessness, sleeplessness, inco-
herence, hallucinations and delusions of a
melancholy character. The skin was of a
dirty brown and covered with branny
Scales.
It took ten daily injections to bring away
the accumulated mass of hardened fmces.
After this was clone, the bowels began to
act regularly, the mind became clear, and
the patient entered on full convalescence.
The second case was that of a man with
suicidal tendencies, who had refused food
for months. He was restored to mental
soundness, after being relieved of an im-
mense quantity of accumulated fames.
• The third case was that of a young man
who had become morose, suspicious and
quarrelsome. He was similarly treated and
restored.
In some of the worst cases of constipa-
tion there is a free passage through the
compact mass, the latter adhering in thick
layers to the walls of the intestines, while
the patient has no suspicion of his real con-
dition.
That grave diseases do not oftener result
from constipation is due to the constant use
of cathartics on the part of those affected.
But
such use is itself injurious. The true
course is to establish habits that will
effectually remove the •tendency to consti-
pation. The muscular vigor of the intestines
needs to be increased by invigorating the
muscular system, generally with -proper oat -
door exercise.
Gladstone and. George.
Detroit News: Gladstone must have been
influenced. by Henry George's writings. He
is now advocating the imposition of a /and
value tax exempting improvements, and an
income tax including bondholders. The
latter tax, however, he does not press in
deference to the views of others, het h.e
insists upon the land value tax. How far
he goes in this direction we do not know;
but it is not probable that he would absorb
the total rental value of land, as Mr. George
woutd. Indeed, England is making haste
slowly.
And Then!
Buffalo News A Harlem boy came from
school very much excited andtold his father
that all human beings were descended from
the apes, which made the old man so mad
that he replied angrily:
"That may be the case with you, but it
iten'aeatteart tell you that now, my
soti: "
The boy didn't say anything, but when
his mother came home he told her about it.
Reeemial.
New York judge : "Yes, my brethren,"
continued the memorializer, "in a single
night was our dear friend torn from the arms
of his young wife. What mourning iiivolves
her at the most flourishing ago! Wicic,wed
at twenty-eight years 1"
"At.twenty-six," interrupted the
widowed, emerging for an instant front •her
tears and sobs.
liens Are Not Shod.
«51100, shoo r' said Mrs. Black to her
neighbor's hen.
"No, thanks ; I don't need any shwa "
was the reply, as the hen settled herselao
work in the garden again.
And She Was Angry.
Philadelphia Times: " I am angryat
Mr. Muffj
y. He met me on the states ust
now with both my hands full of dishes so
couldn't help myself."
"And he kissed you,. I suppose ? "
" No, he didn't."
Employer -Are you not going in the
country for a couple of weeks? Clerk -No,
sir; it will do more good to sit here and see
you work, and know you can't ask me to do
anything.
"What's all this fuss about the darning
needles that's in the papers now ?" asked
one wearied suburbanite of another in a
smoking -car the other mornine. "Why
does Lord Salisbury say BUSSidir, got DO
right to the darning needles ?" The other
suburbanite thereupon proceeded to pro-
pound his views of the Eastern. question.
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Medicine. pin her faith to it as to
her Bible. It must
contain nothing violent, uncertain,
or dangerous. It must be standard
in material and manufacture. It
nutst be plain and simple to admin-
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The childimust like it. It mliSt be
prompt n action, givingimmedi-
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cotne quick, grow fast, and end
fatally or otherwise in a very short
time. It must not only relieve quick
but bring them around quick, as
children chafe and fret and spoil
their constitutions under long con-
finement. It must do its work in
moderate doses. A large quantity
of medicine in a child is not desira-
ble. It must not interfere with the
child's spirits, appetite or general
health. These things suit old as
well as young folks, mid make Bo-
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CASE OF A MAN wiio nAs, BECOME "ALL
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THAT REMA.RKAIILE FLESH PRODUCER,
OF PURE COO LIVER WL WITH
Hypophosphites of Lime & Soda
15 NoTHING 1,711USUAL. TIIIS FEAT
HAS BEEN PERFORMED OVER AND OVER.
AGAIN. PALATABLE AS MILK, EN-
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COLOR WRAPPERS. SOLD BY ALL DRUG-
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Casks Now Made Direct From the Tree.
Casks may now be made direct from the
tree. Those who are familiar with the lathe
will kn.ow that a very, long turning can be
taken from a piece of wood or metal. In
this way casks are now being produced from
the log --that is, without the wood having
te be cut up into numerous staves, the cask
being formed of a single stave. In this
system the tree stem is first sawn into
lengths to suit the length of cask to be
made, and these lengths are boiled for
about three hours in a closed vessel, which
renders the wood soft. A. current of
electricity is passed through the water
during the boiling process. The log is
taken from the boiler to the cutting
machine, in which ib is fixed as in a
lathe and brought up against a long,
broad cutting blade. The log is revolved.,
the knife automatically approaches it, and
•the sheet of wood passes out of the rear of I
the machine through an opening in the I
frame just at the edge of the blade, as in a
plane. The sheet of wood is drawn from
the machine on to a table by the attend.
ants, and is then cut into lengths suitable
for the diameter of barrel required. The
lengths are • then taken to a grooving
machine, where they are grooved near the
edges for receiving the head and bottom of
the cask. The wood is then put into
another machine which cuts long, narrow
V pieces or gussets out of the edges at in-
tervals, which gives the necessary double
taper to the cask. The sheets of wood are
then formed up into a cylinder, and the
• first two hoops are driven on by the
machine. • There is thus only one stave in
the cask and, consequently, only one joint.
wag VELVET COLLAR.
It is Not Put on Overcoats by Tailors Amr
afore.
The velvet collar on men's overcoats watt
as inevitable a feature, a few years ago, of
dress ae the buttons on the back of a cut-
away coat. But in the last two or three
years that fashion has gone out to aremark-
eble degree. The comparatively old-
fashioned velvet collar of a, decade is quite
extinct now, This was an entirely velvee
collar, and when the collar was turned up
nothing but the velvet touched the skin.
Now where the velvet has been used
meetly it has been in the form of a half -
collar, and the lower half of the turn was
ornamented in this. It was very rare a few
years ago to see a molten overcoat without
a velvet cellar, but last year the coats wore
made almost entirely of the one cloth, and
• the exceptional case was that of the use of
velvet. The reason of this change is au
much one of cleanlinees as anything else.
The turned -up collar came into contact
with the hair of the head, as everybody's
hair has SMUG natural oil, and nearly every-
body.uses some sort of prepared hair lulene
cant, the velvet became greasy and lost its
texture. And about the dirtiest thing in
the world is greasy velvet. -St. Louit
alobe-Donocrat.
Too Careless With the English language
A clothing dealer, in Boston, advertised
all -wool pantaloons for $2, advising the pub-
lic to make haste and secure the great bar-
gain, saying: "They will not last long."
Probably, they would not. Neither will
your health last long if you don't take care
of it. Keep Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets in
your house. They are indispensible to every
family, as they positively cure biliousness,
with its endless train of distressing ailments
-sick headache, irritability, constipation,
dizziness and indigestion; a marvelous
specific for liver and kidney troubles, and a
pure vegetable compound. They are sugar-
coated, the smallest pills made, and the
best, because they do all they promise. All
druggists sell them, and the proprietors
guarantee them, and refund the price if they
fail.
Cause andiEftect.
4' Pa, why does water rim down hill ?"
"'Why, my son, it has to yield to the
force of gravitation."
"You're way off, Pop ! That isn't the
reason at ell
Indeed And what is the reason la"
"1 can't walk ?"
A ladies' regatta at Stockholm the other
• day comprised nine boats, all rowed by
young ladies in pretty dresses.
SOME time ago the Massachusetts Legis-
• lature found it necessary to take strong
measures to protect the public against the
numerous insurance and investment socie-
ties which had gained a footing in the State,
• and which threatened great loss to their
members because of the incompetence of
their managers or the unscientific methods
upon which they were conducted. Their
name was legion,' but they were roughly
classed as "short term orders." Since the
Massachusetts law regulating such societies
went into operation many of them have col-
lapsed or gone out of business. In Canada
concerns offering similar lines of investment
have within recent months obtained a foot-
hold, and one of these is the Progressive
Benefit Order, to which it was proposed to
transfer the membership of the suppressed
Septennial Benevolent Society. Regarding
the former order the Inspector of Insurance,
•Mr. J. Howard Hunter, writes the Mane
tary Times as follows :
In reply to your inquiry of yesterday, 1 beg to
state that, the Progressive Benefit Order has,'
in my opinion, no legal status under the law
of Ontario to Undertake contracts of assess-
ment endowment or any contract whatever
amounting to a contract of insurance; and
that any person undertaking or offering to un-
dertake such contracts in tho name of the
Order brings himself within the penalties
enacted by R. S. 0. 1887, chap. 167. sec. 56; also,
that any person acting as promoter or directing
officer, or lending his name in an official.
capacity to the Order, may become under the
Directors' Liability Act, 1891, personally liable
to the certificate -holders of Ontario for ail sums
that they have paid in, or for any claim arising
under the certificate. You are quite at liberty
to publish this latter.
The Emperor of Russia's new yacht, the
Polar Star, is certainly the most magnifi-
eently decorated and furnished vessel afloat.
She carries two priests, a physician and a
surgeon in addition to the suite. She has
maintained a peed of 191e knots.
The Sandwich Islands alphabet has 12
letters ; the Burmeee, 19Italian 20 ;
Bengalese, 21; Hebrew, Syrian, Clialdee
and Samaritan, 22 each; French, 23;
Greek, 24 ; Latin, 25 ; German, Dutch and
English, 20 each; Spanish and Selavonic,
27 each; Arabic, 28 ; Persien and Coptic,
; Georgian, 35 ; Armenian, 38 ; Rus-
sian, 41; Muscovite, 48; Sanscrit and
japariese, 50; Ethiopia andTartarian have
202 each,
Mmc. Dr. lierapin has been refused by
the autliorites of the University of Berne,
Switzerland, the office of private lecturer
of international and compartive law, solely
on the ground that she is a woman.
Lepers in, In(1ia.
Lepers in India were treated with shock-
ing inhumanity before Christianity entered
that country. Many of them were buried
Tee Euglish rulers have put a stop
to this custom, and for fourteen years there
has been a special Christian mission to the
135,000 lepers in India.
A large snake was discovered milking se
cow at Hagerstown, Md. The cow's owner
had been at a low for a long time to
account for the diminution be his milk
supply.
A woman in San Diego, Cal,, is said to
have succeeded in accumulating 970,000
postage stamps. She is after a million.
Wool -The Chicago World's Fair Com-
missioners raade arrangements for scene
mightyinteresting things during their re-
cent visit to New England. -Van Pelt -
What did they secure? Wool -The hand
of Providence and the foot of the BUThitAr
Hill monument.
-Rome has twenty-five Protestant
churches.
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