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VV. GrXX47-a1M.X.X.,. riectoccarrotcr $3,500 IN REWARDS The Canadian Agriculturist's GreatWintee Literary Competition. The Fifth Half Yearly Literary Competition for the winter of 1892, of THE CANADIAN AG HICULTURIST, America's old and reliable Diustrated Family Magazine, is now open, The following. splendid prizes will be given free to persons sending in the greatest number of words made out of lettere contained in the words. "THE ILLUSTRATED AGRICTILTUR/ST.' frarEVeryelle send- ing in a list of not less than 100 words will receive a valuable present of silverware. 1st Grand Reward e500 in Gold 2nd Grand Thano, valued at,1500 $250 in Gold Organ valued at 0300 5th 0 • .$100 it Gold Oth " " .. . . —Gent s Gold Watch full Jewelled Eth Ladies' Gold Watch full .fewelled 7th " " ,4",• in Gold 555 " " eee in Gold 10 Rewards of $10 each $100 Next 20 prizes, -20 Silver Tea Sets, quadruple plate, war ranted. 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Letters Cannotbe used Oftener than they appear in the words "THE ILLUSTRATED A.GRICULTUSIST: P01 Instance, the word "egg ' cannot be used as there is but one "g" in the three words. 4. The list containing the largest number of svords svili be awarded fret prize, nudge on In order of merit. Each list as 15 10 received will be narabered, and if two 00 1100 tie, the finst received will be awarded first prize, and s: bo, therefore the benefit of sending in early will readily be seen. 5. Ifia0/1 list must be mecenpanied by 31 for six:zeta:. subscription to Tan AGRIOUtailn1sr, The following gentleman have kindly consented to ac. BS judges; .1. (4. .ItaCDONALI), City Clerk, Peterborough Canada, and CON XODOItE CASUUTT, Pcierbot ough. 0011. 'UST ConPrriTIow.-"Gut $1,100 pike all ,fight," --IL 51 Brandon, Vancouver. 11.0. "Troinks fot $ 500 prize." -O. W. Cunningham, Donalci, B, "Prize received 0. D, Baptie, Vest Severna% Wis. "3300 prize received. Thanks."—G. V. Robert, Ion, 'Toronto; and 300 others, in United States ant. 'qrsnarla. This is NO LOTTERY—merit. only will count. The Piltation for fairness gained by Tan AunintlrirtinISI fr thu past is ample guarantee that this CornOetition wit: to conducted :0 liler,4 matter. Send go stamp for fall tit:Gaiters, IIIE1334,0114CfnaIntleT, Peterborough. 3rd ith 0 GEOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY. A New Part of Anstealia Revealed. — EXeleoliteNIONS TIT WEttil BEGUN EARLY IN TINE CENTURY COMPLETED. It WAS believed early in this century that the wholly unknown interior of Australia was wa.tered by a great river system reach- ing the sea in the deep b. ys of the north- west part of the continent, It wee to es. tahlish this supposed fact that Capt. air Philip King, sailed along the coast in 1820, entering all the deep inlets to find some great river mouth. One day he sailed ttventy-five miles up Hanover Bay, discover- ing a large river which he named the Prince Regent. The next year he ascended the river for fifty miles. Nearly seventeen years elapsed before another expedie tion, under the command of Sir George Gray, was sent to Hanover Bay to complete the exploration of the river. The natives fell upon the parey and wounded its leader so badly that he hastened back to civilize tion. From thee day until last year no effore was made to solve the problem of the Prince Regent River. The latest Peter/names Mittailungen con- tains a report of the, expedition led a year ago by Mr. Joseph Bradshaw of Melbourne through this wholly unknown pare of Aus- tralia. Landing at Wyndham, on Cam- bridge Gulf, with four white companions and two natives and a supply of provisions caaried on pack horses, the little party plunged southwest into THE CERNOWN 'WILDERNESS toward Prince Regent River. They had not gone far before they metnatives as wild as any that were ever dismayed by the ap- parittion of white men, The savages living along one river plunged into the water and Want across the =earn upon the approach of the expedition, Nearly all he weir to the Prince Regent River the party !ravelled through ball grass. One speciee known as the bleak oat grass was from nine to twelve feet high, and it was difficult for the little caravan to force their way through it. At one place, where many enoemoes sandstone blocks were scattered over the plain, they found numerous large holes excavated in the boulders in which the natives had stored the bones of their dead. The skeletons were not preserved intact, but the bones were packed closely together, and large stones covered them, apparently to prevent wild dingoes from scattering them. These curious mausoleums were found along a ereek which Mr. Bradshaw named Sepal- chre Creek. Here also he found is hitherto • unknown fish of fine flavor which he was not able to find in any of the other rivers. He proved that the great desert of inner Australia does not extend thus far to the northwest, for the region through which he passed was watered by scores of creeks and rivers, while tropical vegetation luxuriant- ly flourished. One day the party came to an unexpected impedtment. A wall ofhitt.possible to lead 1-1Wilirl'ose so precipitously that iteeersee im t up tile slope. After hours of imarch a narrow valley was discovered be- tween whose steep, high sides they travelled for about a mile until they reached the sum- mit of a comparatively level, well -grassed plain. On this plateau they travelled for eeveral days before they descended at the other edge. They found. it very difficult to got through THE TANGLE OF HILLS bordering this little plateau on the western side, and for four days they were busy with axes under the glowing heat ot the tropical sun cutting a road for the horses. A little beyond they ascended a mountain about 1,500 feet high, from which a very fine pro- speot extended in all directions. On all sides stretched away the hills ot lesser elevation, covered to their tops with thick growing grass, while as fix as the eye could reach could be seen a greatabuudance of lago6ns and watercourses fringed with papyrus and palms. It was a fine tropical prospect and very different from the semi- arid region which must begin not a great distance to the southeast. Mr. Bradshaw was particularly struck with the work of white ants in the western part of the region he traversed. In one place, for instance, he discovered a. perpen- dicular pillar with a diameter of about three feet and nearly ten feet in height. It stood in the middle of an enormous rock, at least forty feet from the nearest bit of soil. All the material for this structure must have been carried by these little insects forty to fifty feet, involving enormous labor. As the party neared the Prince Regent River the country became more difficult to traverse on account of the steep hills, the great blocks of porphyry and sandstone in their way, and. the tall grass. Sometimes they travelled for hours up a N -alley to find that it was a cul de sac, and all their labor was lost. At last they struck the PRINCE REGENT RIVER and here they found many natives, doubtless the children of ems° that had attacked Sir Geurge Gray. They were very shy, and were painted with red and white stripes in a wonderful manner. Many of them wore a curious headdress made of papyrus. As weapons they carried spears and null's, as well as bows and arrows, but no boomerangs • were seen. The Prince Regent River was reached just a little above the point attained by Sir Phiiip King. In a straight line they were aeout 150 miles from their starting point, but they had travelled nearly double that distance. It is a beautiful river, about 200 feet wide at the place where Bradshaw struck it, and its waters coming from the Leopold Mountain chain, which is marked on the maps, are cold and refreshing. The party ascended the river, only to find that about a clay'a journey above the place at- tained by SitePhilip King a splendid water- fall puts an end to navigation. This water- fall extends from bank to bank and the en- tire volume of water has a perpendicular fall of thirty feet. They travelled for five days along the river bank above the water- fall to is mountain through which the river flows and along the rocky walls that hem in theitnarrove river they found many cav- erns on whose walls the natives had. made paintings in red, black, white brown, yel- low, and light blue. There were figures of men with profiles well drawn, and kanga- roos, wallabies'crocodiles, and other ani- mals were graphioally portrayed. The noteworthy discovery was made that for a distance of fifty miles the Prince Regent River flows between two entirely different rock formations. nix RIGHT SHORE is composed of basaltic rocks and the left is sandstone. The territory on the right bank is well wooded and grassed, while on the west there is found mostly only prickly spinifex and black oat grass with boulders strewn over the country. Mr. Bradshaw was well satisfied with the resulti of his journey. His purpose was to ascertain if this region • was adapted for cattle raising. He has satisfied hin self fully that ranches can be established to good ed- vantageeareany places between thy naethern • ig coast and. Prince Regent River. South of the river vegetation changes it character and doubtless merges at no great distance into the almost verdureless expanses of the great thirst region of inner Auetralia. His party was very short of provisicins before they got back to Cambridge Gulf, where they arrived on May 14. They, however, eked out their rations with wild turkeys, kangaroos, iguanas, and fish, and at Cam- bridge Gulf they were glad „to find again some of the comforts of civilization in the hospitable Chinese who occupy the most ad- vanced post of civilization in that region. Bradshaw's journey has revealed the Cha,r- eater of one of the large unexplored regions of Australia. About the same time David - Lindsay was crossing the greatest unknown expanse in southwest Australia. He has now gone north to traverse an unexplored district in the west central part of the con- tinent, end when he completes this journey there will be no large region in Australia that is not fairly well known in its general aspeete. The Reign of the Brunette. "Blonde women are 1-ecoming scarcer every year," said an eminent anthropologist. 'You have not lived long enough to remark the fact, but women • with blue eyes and light hair are gradually, though surely, pas- sing away as a type. In each successive generation there are fewer of them than in the last. •Already such a thing as a real blonde, purely such, is so rarely seen in this country as to excite remark. Golden tresses are so very infrequent that real ones are usually suspected. of beiug bleached. .In short, it has besome evident that before very long there will be no blonde women any more. The same thing is true of men. Among their sex light hoar and blue eyes are fast disappearing. You may judge how rapidly they are going when you consider the fact that whenever a dark man marries a blonde woman, or vice versa, 66 .per cent of the children born have dark ham and eyes. At that rate not very many centuries will be required to wipe out the blonde type alto- gether. You wonder how this matter has been determined with such accuracy? Simply by including such statistical obser- vation in the census of nations, In Germany and France the very school children are examined and have their characters record- ed from an anthropological standpoint. "Observations made in this way so as to cover millions of persons of both sexes have resulted in the discovery that the dark peo- ple bring more children into the world than do the light people. Furthermore, they have greater muscular vigor and they live longer, Thus in every point that has to do with the perpetuation of a species they are superior. The rule in nature seems to be that pigment, which produces the color of the hair and eyes, is an indication of force. Albinos among animals and pallid plartie are always weak. "After all, there. aes" Comparatively few light neepl- Inthe world. All thestraight- hmred races are dark. All the aboriginal Americans are dark, from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn. All the Asiatics are dark. All the Oceanic people are dark, All the Africans are dark, except a few blonde tribes in the Barbary states. Likewise, all the southern Europeans are dark, The dark people have the great advantage of being able to stand any climate, while the light-complexioued races cannot endure the heat of the tropics. " An apparent Pontradietion to all this is afforded by the fact that wherever the light - haired and blue•eyed peoples have come into conflict with races of dark complexion the latter have always been defeated. The light people. govern the world to -day. Queen Victoria has blue eyes, and the sun never sets on her dominions. Descendants of the Anglo-Saxons dominate the INTew World. Even South America, Africk' rad the civil- ized part of Asia are fairly run by the Eng- lish and Germany leads allthe nations of the earth in science and learning, and three- fourths of her population are blue-eyed. The yellow -haired Swedes, Danes and Norwe- gians furnish the sailors of the world. Eng- lish is the language of the globe. French has often been called the 'universal lan- guage,' but it is in fact merely a court lan- guage outside of France. The Chinesehave a 'pidgin' English, but not a 'pidgin' French. All the modern jargons of the world, for trade purposes are modifications of English. "The blue-eyed and light -haired people are by far the most brave of the moderns. By their superior intelligence and baiery they have conquered the world, but their task in accomplishing this has implied an enormous strain upon their powers. So great a strain has not been conducive to the prolongation of their existence and to the perpetuation of their kind. Races of people are like breeds of horses and cattle, or like stocks in plants. They last for awhile, but not forever, disappearing sooner or later. If a severe strain is put upon them in one way or another, they will pass awat so much the more quickly. The high eulture we are giving our children, stimulatine their ment- al activities to the utmost, hastheeffect of reducing the number and physical strength of their offspring, thus shortening the life of their race. "So, owing to such causes as these, we find that the blue-eyed and ight-haired peo- ple are dimishing in numbers at a very rapid rate. We take notice of it in the women particularly. Soon must we say. "Fare. well, ye golden tresses and violet orbs 1" During centuries to come the dark people are destined to achieve and hold domina- tion in the world, until, as is very likely, the cycle of complexion has one around and the blonde shall rule again." Let the Girls Romp. Most mothers have a dread of romps, so they lecture the girls daily on the properties and exhort them to be little ladies. They like to see them very quiet and gentle and as prim as possible. The lot or such children is rather pitiable for they are de- prived of the fun and frolic which they are entitled to. Children -boys and girls -must have exercise to keep them healthy. De- prive them of it and they will fade away like flowers without sunshine. Running, racing, skipping, climbing - these are the things that strengthen the inuscles, expanding the chest and build up the nerves. The mild dose of exeicise taken in the nursery, with calesthenics or gymnastics, will not invigorate the system like a good romp ..ii the open air. Mothers, therefore, who counsel their little g rl to play very quietly, make a mistake. Better the laughing, rosy-cheeked, romping girl than the pale, lily -faced one who is called every inch a lady. • The latter rarely breaks things or tears her dresses, or tries her mother's patience as the former does, but, after all, what do the tearing and breaking amount to? is not a wise policy to put an old head on young shoulders. Childhood is the time for childish pranks and plays. The girls grow into womanhood soon enough. Let them he children as long as possible, and also give them plenty of fresh air and sun- • THEN AND NOW. Mow CeltIlltio/tR crave Changed Within Sixty Tears or Se. We clipp the following from one of our exchanges. The conttast is striking between the present and few decades agone : How funny the rishig generation of young men would feel if they should be dropped back into the early thirties and do what their fellows of that day did, In 1830 there were oily two kinds of coal practical use. That is, charcoal and sea coal, the latter imported; very littlo of it comparatively was used, wood being the eommon fuel. Get- ting in the winter s wood in the fall was no srnall matter. Lags four feet long, sawed once and piled up, filled the woodshed and were spilt into sizable sticks, when used. Wood fires were the order, and with their baek-logs, fore -sticks and brands, blazing up finely, made the sitting very cheerful. All the stores in that day had stoves of var- ious patterns and kinds. I remember a few years before 1830, when &little boy, my uncle took me with him down street to see them burn what he called stones. It NI as pot of anthracite coal; it was burning brisk- ly not far froth where the old pump was sit- uated. I can see it now in my memory, and the crowd of lookers on to witness the experiment. Who supposed then it would ever come into general use -hundreds of millions of tons prodaced annually -and completely take the place of wood as a fuel? In 1880 friction matchee were unknown or just coming into notice ; at the homes and in the stores the fires were all lighted by sparks in a timber box, which were common everywhere. It was a small round tin box, three or four inches in diamdter ; some rags burned to a tinder was kept in that box, with a smothering plate on top of it ; a flint and a small bar of steel were kept in the box; when a light was wanted the flint was struck against the steel and the spark ignited tinder and then a match was lighted by it. Not the friction matches of to -day, they are a latter institution, the matches of those days were round bundle of small sticks, each bundle about four inches long and one and one half inches in diameter, with each end clipped into ,brim- stone ; poor old women used to make and sell these matches ; the price was generally two cents a bunch. Oil la.mps of various patterns and sizes were used for lights. Gas and kerosene were unknown; whale oil was generally used winter -strained and summer -strained. The filling and cleaning of those in the stores was the -work of the youngest appren- tice. The boy in the retail store opened the store early every morning, made his wood. fire in the stove, starting it with his tinder box and matches, as mentioned above, and then swept out his store and dusted every- where, and many an old and retired mar - chant now living ae his ease will remember whereelee begin his mercantile life in this way. There were no railroads then ; traveling was done by stages. About 183a old things began to pass away, railroads be- gan to be constructed, 15as began to do the lighting, and has come into generaltise. FISH CHARRED EY A SNAKE. Fascination, ovalateeurRtzeenone. siofa Pool for is Approaching a pool as lar‘ge as a big din- ing-roem we found ' millions in it," and the fright that our moving bodies gave them sent them scurrying in every direction with such energy that the mere contact of one with another killed them by dozens. Then we laid ourselves quietly down upon the gropnd by the pool, one on each side.andre. maned motionless for is few minutes, and we were rewarded by a sight entirely new to us. The water was perfectly clear and not above two fest deep, the day calm and bright and the proceedings below the surface easily observed. In the deepest part of the pool a school of little fish was swiming around in a ring of about two feet in diameter, the school being about six inches wide and ap- paretly two or three layers deep. ' Around and around they went,at theleast motion on our part breaking ranks, to re- sume their circus at once when we were quiet again. We were interested, of course, and puzzled, and we tried for half an hour or mc.re to learn the cause of such unusual movements. Our talk, for we did talk, did not disturb them, from which we inferred that they could nos hear us ; our slightest movement did, from which we inferred they could see THE STAKED PLAIN OF TEXAS. AS 'Smooth as an Inland %ea and a Xlyster Y to Geolaglats. The geological mystery of Texas is the Llano Estacado of Staked Plain. rt lies south of the Canadian River and east of the Pecos,and west of the 101st medidian.. " In surface features,I,l, Prof. Hill ,says, tho northwestern half of this plain is similar to the plains of Colorado, Kansas, and northward. But there is this difference. Instead of exteecling to the Rocky Moun- tains on the west or imperceptibly grading into the level of the eastern areas, it is stir- roended on every side, except is few miles at its southeast comer, by a more or less precipitate escarpment of erosion resembl- ing palisades. Teis isolates it from the sur- rounding region except the Edwards plateau, which is its southeastern conneetion already mentioned." The Staked Plain is there, a great, steep - sided island in an ocean of land, Thie ele- vated surface embraces 50,000 square miles. The geographical tradition is that the Spaniards gave the name because they had to drive stakes to mark their way accross: This accords pretty well with Prof. Hill's description. He says this vast surface is perfectly smooth, with the exception ot an oocasional depression -so much im as to resemble the level of the ocean at dead calm. It is unbroken by trees or bushes or deep drained channels. It is carpeted with a rich growth of granuna grasses. The new railroads of Texas aud New Mexico have made accessible to the geologists this large - est of all Texas plains and perhaps the greatest and least studied plateau of our country. The small arnount of surface water which is not drunk up by the soil is found in a few widely distributed ponds. Two streams flow around the plain, They are the Canadian and -the Pecos. Both have cut nearly 1,000 feet below the level. Neither of them receives any surface drin- age from the plain. Yet the rainfidl on the Staked Plain, from June to September is from 20 to 25 inches. The soil is rich and from 6 to 30 feet deep. It seems like a lake deposit, and it differs from all other parts of Texas. Notwithstanding the rainfall, the plain is covered with nutritious grass. As one ap- proaches, the edge of the Staked Phan rises like a precipice. This wall can be seen at a distance of fifty miles. The edge is serrated and cut into by the ram washes to such a de- gree it is evident the wearing -away process is going on rapidly. This extensive wash- ing is the same kind as that to be seen in the edges of the Bad Lands of the Dakotas. The geologist easily estimates that the Pecos and the Canadian, flowing around the west and north sides, and the Red, Brazos and Colorado, heading near the eastern border, have already worn away great slices of the Staked Plain. The top of a book resting on a -flat table gives a good idea of the Staked Plain. This plain, taking it from the top 1 downward, consists of, first, porous sediment of soil, sand, gravel, and salt in horizontal layers to is depth of 200 feet. Then comes a great floor of sands, clays, and granites. Part of the floor is composed of the Trinity sands. Part of it, where the sands have been worn away by the convulsions of na- tine, is of the red beds. The conditions are very curious to the scientist, but the main question -with a practical generation is about the water con- dition of this great plain. Running watei in Dickens county is the only stream on tiit vast plain. 1± 18 is bright, sparkling stream that suddenly breaks out of the ground, ripples over pebbly bottoms for is distanct of ten miles, and then mysteriously disap- pears. How is this absence of running water to be accounted for on 50,000 miles of country possessing a fair rainfall? The answer is, the great capping strata of the Staked Plain are as porous as a sponge. Every drop of water either evaporates or sinks downward through the soil. Until recent years the Staked. Plain was consider- ed utterly waterless. But there have now been dug into these porous strata inore than 1,000 wells. These wells do mot flow, but the water from them is pumped freely by windmills, and the Staked Plain is thereby made a pasture for countless herds of cattle. These walls have been obtained in aU parts of the Plain. Digging is no longer regarded as an experiment. The water soaks into the ground and is stored in the meter beds and grists. It is kept from going further down by the underlying rod beds. It con- stitutes one of the most remarkable sheets of underground water in this country. us. Carefully crawling a little nearer, we dis- covered the center of the moving circle was a large water snake, coiled, (inlet and watch- ful. Ornithologists have told us, in unre- liable school books, that- snakes can and often do, charm birds, and some have, in their more elaborate works, tried to sub- stantiate that theory. I never believed it, and I certainly never heard of snakes charm- ing fish, but what were these shad doing? Were they charmed? If they were afraid of his snakeship, why didn't they swim away, as they did when we stirred? Why, when our disturbance ceased, did they persistently return and take up their ceaseless round inso danger- ous a neighborhood? These are conun- drums that I can't answer. Callousness of the Kaiser. An _English correspondent writes: On what reads like good information, Edmund Yates' World tells the tale of dire unpleas- antness existing between the Kaiser of all Kaisers and our Royal Family. Certain omissions were perpetrated by the grandson of our Queen at the time of the latelamented death of Prince Victor. It seems the Emeeror received an intimation that the Duke of Clarence was in a practically hope- less state while he was shooting at "Bache - burg. His Majesty, however, proceeded with his sport, and even on the following morning, when he received a telegram from Berlin conveying the news of the Duke's death, he did not return to his capital, but had another day's shooting, and he did not reach Berlin until the afternoon of Friday, the 15th. Then, instead of driving direct to the Palitee of the Empress Frederick, the Emperor went home, and twenty-four hours elapsed before he visited Ms mother, while he did not present himself at the British Embassy until Sunday after- noon. Then a Court mourning of only ten days was commanded by the Emperor, in- stead of three weeks, as had been expected. It was observed, moreover, that the flag at the Schloss was not lowered to half-mast, and when his cousin was being buried the Emperor, instead of attending the memorial service at Berlin, in accordance with his mother's earnest request, was holding an inspection of recruits at Kiel, a function which could perfectly well have been post- poned, Lastly, the Emperor, apparently out of pure ' cussedness,' would not allow his brother, Prince Henry, to come to Eng- land to attend the funeral,although his pre- sence at the ceremony was particularly de- sired by the Empress Frederick and by the Queen and Royal Family, and his Royal Highness himself was anxious to attend." Children Cr' for Pitcher's Castona. An Anment Inhabitant. The inundation at Johnstown, Pa., is re- membered and alluded to by the inhabitants of the new city as "the flood." On a re- cent occasion Adam Thompson was put into the witness -box at the county court Tho counsel, asking his name, received for ans- wer : "Adam, sir -Adam Thompson," "Where do you live ?" "At Paradise, sir." (Paradise is is village about a mile and a half west to Johnstown.) Ancl how long hleve yen dwelt in Par- adise ?" continued the barrister. • Ever since the flood," was the reply, made in all simplicity and with no intention to raise a laugh. Warding Oahe Infinenz a. Robinson-" I say, Chawley, you seem in wonderful spirits." Chawley-" Yes; Pm warding off the nfluenza, you know. Stiff eass every half our." liarAttasia.dirmlirecotnelmAdidit, if 1, Like Ilagial TEE elrect produced. by Ayer's Cherry, reetoral. Colds, Coughs, 0roup,1 and $ore Throat are, in most cases, mediately relieved by the use of this wonderful remedy, strengthens the* vocal organs, allays irritation, and pre- vents the inroads of Consumption ; in every stage of that dread. disease,' Ayer's Cherry: Pec- toral relieves cough- ing and induces refreshing rest. "I have used Ayer's Cherry Pectoral ID my family for thirty years and have always found it the best remedy for croup, to whieli complaint my_ children have been subject." --Capt. IL Carley, Brooklyn, N. Y. "From an experience or over thirty. years in the sale of proprietary medi- ein,es, I feel justified in recommending Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. One of the best recommendations of the Pectoral is the enduring quality of its popularity, it being more salable now than ,,it was twenty-five years ago, when -Os great success was considered marvelous." -- R. S. Drake, M. D., Beliot, Kans. "My little sister, four years of age, was So ill from bronchitis that we bacl almost given up_hope of her recovery. Our family physician, a skilful man and of large experience, pronounced it use,. less to give lier any more medicine ; saying that he had done all it was pos- sible to do, and we must prepare for tito worst, As a last resort, we determined to try Ayer's Cherry Peetoral, aria I can truly say,with the znost happy results, After taking a few doses she seemed to breathe easier, and, within a week, was out of danger. We C011 tinned. giving the Pectoral until satisfied she was entirely well. This has given me unbounded faith in the preparation, and I recommend it confidently tO my cusfoiners,H-0. Lepper, Druggist, Fort Wayne, Intly For Colds and Coughs, take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, PREPARED er Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co:, Lowell, Mass. /Price ; six bott1es...06. Worth $5 bottle. THE EY ETER TIMES. 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RAILWAY OF CANADA, The directroute betveen the 'West and all point' on the Lower St. Lawrence an d Bate aes ohalenr,Province of Quebec; Rite for NewBrunewick,Nova scale, Prince Edward CapelirotonIslands ,u,nd.Newfountllan dand St. Pierre, Express trains leave afontrealand Halifax eady (Surmays excepted) and run through without change between these pointsin 23 hours and 55 minutes. The through express train cars of the In- tereolonial Railway are brilliantlyi.ghtod bvelectricity andheated by steam from the locomotive, thus greatly increasing the Qom fort and safety of travellers. 80ow and elegant buffetsleeping ,and day cars exernu o u through express train s. Canadian -European Mail and Passer,ger Route. pus() gersfor Great Britain n neat by leaving:Monti ea I on Wridaymerning will join outward mailstearaer am Halifax on Saturday. Tho attoniion ofsshippers is direoted toblio superior facilit les offered by thin routefoe tbe transport °Mou r and genoroi merchan- dise intended for theRasteirn Provinces and Newfoundland ; ciao for shpments of grain and proanceintebded for the European mar ket. Tie kets may bo obtained an d nforme tion about the route; tuso freight and passenger razes 011 application to TRERSTON, WesternFreight Passeng o3itessinliousel3lock,Xork D POTTINGER, Chief S uperintendent. Railway Office,Monoton, 14,13 • Jan ist 91 'Agent t .Tor ant APPL9CATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES DANDRUFF T . IX. L. EAVER. 1 Toronto, Travelling Passenger Agent, 0 P It,. Says: AntiDandrugia aperfectromoverof Dan - dna -los action is marvellous -in my own Case a. few applications not only thoroughryremoved excessive dandruff accumuhttiOn bat, stopped OARANTEED :fall ill 52 51.8 iMr4,madwegit.acerearetenc, leo and P W44 Restores Fading hair to Its original COlOr. • Stops falling of hair. • Keeps the Scalp clean. Makes hair soft and Pablo Promotes tropr.,11..