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THE EXETER ADYOCATE.
THURSDAY, ACCUST 9. 1894.
Week's Commercial Summary.
The stock market bath at Montreal and
Toronto has been drill and featureless,
the movement, such as it was, being con-
fined to choice hauls, and industrial stocks.
There has been no special decline in quo-
tations during the week, as both sellers
and buyers have been holding aloof.
The rice market on account of the
rumors td war between China and japan
is getting interesting. The latest statis-
tics (to July 11) show- that the visible
supply, including shipments to Europe
from Burmah, Calcutta, Siam, Saigon
and Japan, and quantities afloat from all
ports, is 236 000 tons leas than in the
same period of 1893. 263,000 tons less
than 1892 and 251,000 tons less than
1891, when the total was 640,000 toes
compared with 389,000 tons now.
R. J. Grosse has just registered a trade-
mark in Germany for a new thermome
ter, in which tuluol is substituted for the
mercury and alcohol that have been
employed up to the ere.ent. The advan-
tages of such substitution are claimed to
be many. In the first place tuluol is a
liquid of a deep black color which ren-
ders the column very visible ; in the
second place. the freezing point of this
liquid is very remote from its boiling
point, and finally it costs less than mer-
cury, and the manipulation of it is
attended with no danger to the health of
the workmen.
It is estimated that the sugar consump-
tion of the United States for the first half
of 1894, as compared with the three pre-
ceding years, was 902,116 tons for 1894,
against 907,725 tons in 1898, and 821,892
tons in 1892. The decrease this year is
5,600 tons. which follows an increase of
86,883 tons in 1898. Under normal con-
ditions there is always an increase in
consumption from year to year, but the
general depression throughout the coun-
try has caused the decrease this year,
and the influx to the World's Fair caused
the increase last year. The sugar con-
sumed in the six months consists of 108,-
400 tons of domestic production, and
798,016 tons of foreign production,
Statistics illustrating the growth of
trade relatirns between the United States
and Canada have been recently transmit-
ted
ransmitted to the Senate by the Secretary of the
Treasury. The statistics cover a period
of seventy-three years from 1821 to 1898.
The figures given show that the exports
of merchandisefrom the United States to
Canada amounted in 1821 to $2,014 529,
and the imports to the United States
from Canada to 8414,500. In 1893, on
the other hand, the exports amounted to
$24,138,482, and the imports to 822,108,-
916. The total exports for the period
named aggregated 81.468,159.324, while
the imports amounted to 81.299.957,798.
so that the balance of trade is still in
favor of the United States.
The Bank of Japan has a capital of
20,000,000 yens, and the intrinsic value
of the yen is only slightly less than our
dollar, which has 28.21 grains of pure
gold, and the yen contains 23,15 troy
grains of pure gold. This would make
the capital of the ban
, measured by
our
gold standard 819,905,218. The gold yen
in Japan is worth about 99.7 cents of our
money. The nure silver in the coin,
however, weighs more than that in the
American dollar, the yen being 374.4
grains as eompared with 371.5 in the
dollar. At present the market value of
the silver in the yen is only 46 8 cents,
which reduces the intrintie value of the
bank's capital in silver to 89,434,825.
Although in number there were fewer
failures last week than the week before,
the aggregate of liabilities was consider-
ably more, and there were several fail-
ures of more than usual importance. The
total was 89 contrasted with 49 the week
before and 25 in the same week of 1898.
From a liability standpoint, the failure
of James Eaton & Co., dry goods, Toron-
to, is the most important. The liabili-
ties are estimated at 8132,640, of which
about 870,000 is owing British creditors,
and the balance to Montreal. and Toron•
to creditors. Very careful handling will
be necessary to get more than a nominal
dividend out of the estate, unless favor-
able arrangements are made abroad.
Another important failure is that of
Williams, Greene & Rome Co.. Ltd.,
wholesale shirt manufacturers at Berlin,
Ont., with direct liabilities of about
898 000.
In the first half of the year Canada ex-
ported 175,742 ewt. of cheese to Great
Britain, as compared with 120.070 cwt,
in the corresponding half of 1893, and
85,806 in 1892. This shows a steady and
gratifying increase, but in the same
period the United States, which certainly
cannot compete with us in the quality of
cheese, exported 349,592 cwt„ and 312,-
7777 cwt, in the first half of 1893. The
United Kingdom imported altogether
744,350 cwt-, against 629,958 in the cor-
responding half of 1893. Holland is the
next largest exporter to Great Britain,
with a total for the half year of 180,253
e vt. The London Grocer reports the
market for Canadian and American
cheese firm in tone as receipts and de-
liveries become more closely adjusted to
each other, and larger parcels are going
into consumption at full previous value,
which has been regarded as at a very
moderate level, and is actually 108. per
cwt, below that in July, 1898.
M. I34aestraeci, of the French navy,
has devised a method of solidifying pe-
troleum and forming it into briquettes.
His plan is to mix with each liter of
petroleum 150 grammes of triturated
soap, 10 per cent, of resin and 888 gram-
mes of 'cans'ia Thio mixture is
heated ar:ci kept NY '11 stirred while it is
being heated. At the end of about forty
minutes solidification commences, and if
any tendency to overflow is shown some
drops of soda are thrown in, When the
masa is nearly solid it is poured into
moulds so as to make briquettes, whieh,
after being placed in an oven for from
ten to fifteen minutes, are allowed to
cool. With the addition of 20 per cent.
of wood. shavings and 20 per cent, of
clay or sand, firmer and more lasting
briquettes result. Trials have been made
with this fuel on tugboats at Marseilles,
with the result that an equal weight of
briquettes produced three times the heat
of ordinary, coal ; while in one instance,
with a specially constructed furnace, one
kilog. of solidified petroleum was found
to equal four kilog. of coal.
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Trade Sitiliition In United States.
On the trade situation in the United
States Dun's Review says : The heavy
outgo of gold, fall of the Treasury
reserve and the price of whe It to the
lowest peiet on record, and the iuereas-.
inguncertainty about the tar ff, have
entirely overshadowed other influences,
Business delayed for mouths by two
great strikes now crowds railroads and
swells returns, and gives the impression
of revival in business. But it is not yet
clear bow far there is au increase in new
traffic, distinguished from that which has
been merely blockaded or deferred. In
some branches there has been more
activity, but in others less, because
events early this week led many to infer
that no change of tariff would be made.
Customs receipts this mouth are loss than
88,000,000, against $16.000,000 last year.
Freight which was delayed by the block-
ade now crowds the railroads, and doubt-
less accounts in large degree for heavy
'western receipts of wheat. But earniugs
show little again, though comparison is
now with a time of great depression last
year. The decrease on all roads yet re-
porting for July has been 26,5 per cent.,
though the roads as yet reporting for the
third week show a loss of 12,6 per cent.
Earnings in July, on such roads as have
reported., are 88.9 per oent. less on Pacific,
37.8 on Granger and 32.7 on South-
western roads, but much of the business
was only deferred, The payments
through clearing houses are 15,2 per
sent, less than a year ago, and for the
month thus far 15.8 per cent. less, being
28.4 per eent below those of 1892. Wheat
has found in the lowest depths a deeper
still, and has sold blow 55 cents,
making! the monthly average at New
York the lowest ever known. Corn was
stronger, with accounts of injury to part
of the crop, and the exports are trifling.
Cotton declined a sixteenth to 7 cents,
though receipts from plantations were
small.
Official reports count for nothing in
comparison with enormous visible stocks.
In the stock market there were some wide
fluctuations, mainly in trusts affected by
rending legislation, or in bankrupt rail-
roads, which are discredited by the dis-
closures in Atchison. Naturally gold
exports and the condition of the treasury
check any upward effort. Textile indus-
tries have been perceptibly stimulated,
according to dealers, by disagreements
which many suppose may prevent change
of the tariff, and there has been more
buying of cotton goods, with slightly
higher prices for a few, notwithstanding
the closing of some important mills. The
stock of such goods is, on the whole,
quite large. In woolens, the goods fam-
ine which clothiers prepared for them-
selves by deferring orders is such that
imperative necessities now keep most of
the mills at work, and purchases of wool
for immediate use are large. But there
is no change for the better as respects
orders running into the future, and in-
deed
ndeed some concerns have withdrawn
piing samples on which very low prices
have been fixed, and will make no effort
for trade at present. Sales of wool have
been greatly swelled by speculation, in
the belief that wool is not likely to de
cline in any event, but may advance
sharply if tariff changes fail. Sales for
the week were 9,034,100, against 2,164,-
500 last year, and 9,118,500 in 1892. In
four weeks of July sales have been 22,-
359,285 pounds against 10, 696,900 in 1893,
and 29,250.,350 in 1592. Business in shoes
continues good, and shipments for four
weeks of July have been 11.000 oases, or
4 per cent. less than in. 1892 or 1891, but
orders for women's light goods appear to
be slackening. Failures for three weeks
of July compare well, of course, with the
panic period last year, commercial liabil-
ities being 86,817,690, of which 83,588,-
93S were of manufacturing, and $2,488.-
011 of trading concerns. Commericial
loans are expanding but little, and great
caution salla ra.inreies ',au, lness. For
the week the failures have been 249 in
the United States against 386 last year,
He Needed Their Prayers.
An aged man in a town adjoining
Lewiston tells a story of the old days
when every minister was not a college
educated man and when churches and
parishes often had no other meeting
house than school -houses at the three
corners. The congregation of the town
where the story teller lived had been
much shocked upon learning that their
preacher had departed under most dis-
creditable circumstances. On the follow-
ing it seemed to be the aim of nearly
everyone to hush up the scandal, and,
under great restraint, many interesting
conversations were held, merely to show
that the members of the church could
rise above sensational gossip. Just be-
fore the services were closed one elder
brother arose and said : "Brethren and
sisters, since we last met in this house
something which seems to have cast a
gloom over this congregation has oe-
curred. We were all much attached to
our minister ; in fact, we loved him, and
I now propose that we offer up a prayer
for the wanderer." A sensational wave
went over the audience, and another
brother, the senior even, of the other,
arose and said : "I'm astonished that
you should desire the congregation to
pray for our erring minister—you, above
all others." "Why ?" "Because he ran
away with your yuang \tide." "Yes,I
know ; and that is the reason why I think
he will need our prayers."
To Cure Drink -Graving.
It is now universally acknowledged by
competent authorities that inebriety is a
disease, physical as well as mental and
moral, and to give the pledge of total ab-
stinence to the inveterate drunkard with-
out specific instruction's what to do next,
and expect him to keep it, is to look for a
stupendous effort which only the man of
sound mental energy and bodily vigor
can perform. An expert, writing on the
subject, says that the first step in the
progress of true temperance reform must
be the recognition of the fact that irresis-
tible craving for strong drink lathe effect
of causes which must be gob rid of before
the drunkard can be regarded as safe from
temptation, The various patent remedies
can in no sense bo regarded as a cure, for
the only cure in the real sense of the
word is to get the whole man in better
condition, his body purified and his will
strengthened. Diet is of extreme import
anee, and if skilfully directed will wean
away the craving naturally and without
danger to the individual. A11 salted and
heavy food stuffs should be avoided. To
cultivate a distastefor alcohol, oranges are
more effective than almost anything else
known. They should be taken one at a
time, before breakfast, at 11 aim, at 1 p.
m., at 8 p.m. at 6 ,m. and last
p the e
thing on retiring. Apples and lemon
juice are also excellent.
Mrs. Plainface—My husband has t,
great dislike for all show, no matter how
beautiful . it is. He wants everything
about him plain and commonplace. tr
Friendly--Isn't it fortunateou met him
dear y r
NEWSY CANADIAN ZAITEMS.
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'TEE W E11cS' H .>l'PENINGrS..
Interesting Itonis and Incidents, Import-
ant and Instructive, Gathered from
the,Vari'ous Provinces.
Whitecaps are at work near- Kingston.
Dr. Smythe, of Kingston, has been pro-
tested.
Ozillia's big regatta 'will take place on
August 7. g
Wheat cutting has been commenced in
Manitoba:
Brockvillewill not permit Sunday
boats to run.
Manitoba wheat'. will yield twenty-five
bushels to the acre.
Hamilton will out off twenty tavern
and ten shop licenses.
Sir John Thompson has left Ottawa for
a fortnight in Muskoka,
Lindsay had a slight shock of earth-
quake on Thursday night,
Five miracles are reported from the
shrine of Ste. Anne near Quebec.
The Scott Act was repealed in Chicou-
timi and Saguenay, Quo„ Thursday.
Benjamin Snell, who kicked Joseph
Landry so that he died, is in Chatham
jail.
Martha Johnston, aged eighteen, a do-
mestic, was drowned in Humber Bay. Sat-
urday afternoon.
Ottawa's three electric lighting com-
panies were on Saturday amalgamated
into one company,
The Standard Oil Company now has
eentrol of the Canadian gas wells in the
Niagara peninsula,
North Perth (Conservative), Welland
(Liberal) and East Peterborough (Liberal)
were protested Saturday.
Patrick Purcell's body, stolen from the
grave on May 14, 1891, was found in the
St. Lawrence river Friday.
The Winnipeg strikers on the Northern
Pacific have formally declared.the strike
off and applied for reinstatement.
The English bondholders of the Mani-
toba and Northwestern railway have no
power to foreclose the mortgage.
The Roman Catholics of Winnipeg will
comply with the Manitoba Act and hand
over their schools if given a grant.
James Bertram, of Hamilton, killed
himself Monday. He had been out of
work and hard become despondent.
Mr. J. H. Booth, of Ottawa, was sand-
bagged on Wednesday morning in his
store and 81,600 taken fromhis pocket.
John Barn, an English boy, became en-
tangled in a feed -chopping machine near
Portage la Prairie Saturday and was kill-
ed.
A letter carrier in Montreal named
Proulx has been caught stealing money
from letters and is now in jail. A decoy
letter trapped him.
The schooner Katie M. was seized at
Halifax Saturday, a customs officer hav-
ing found fourteen quarter casks of rum
concealed in the hold.
The Dominion Letter Carriers' Associa-
tion, which concluded its annual meet-
ing at St. John, N.B., on Saturday, will
meet next year in London.
Because he has a summer cottage on
the Canadian side, Detroit will notgiv e
any paving contracts to T. J. Kennedy.
He is an American citizen.
Mr. J. Murray Smith, manager of the
Montreal branch of the Bank of Toronto,
died suddenly in his summer residence,
Beaurepaire, Wednesday morning.
The Canadian - Australian line has
passed the experimental stage. The
Warrimoo could not take all the freight
offered on her last voyage from Van-
couver.
Since the dog -trappers set out on their
summer's work in Toronto three weeks
ago 150 dogs have been destroyed. The
owners of 160 have secured their return
on paying the fees.
A young man named Charles Murray,
of Tuckersn:ith, received a kick on the
abdomen from a colt on Friday. Drs.
Scott and MacKay, of Seaforth, were in
constant attendance, but he died Satur-
day night.
Sidney Lobb, formerly of Toronto,
whose wife was found shot to death at
Nanaimo, B.C., on June 8 last, and who
was arrested next day, has been released
on 85,000 bail. This is thought to be the
end of the proceedings agair st Lobb.
A motion was made in Osgoode Hall,
Toronto, Tuesday. for bail for Mrs. Hart-
ley, who is in jail at Brantford, charged
with the murder of _ her husband. The
motion was opposed by the Deputy At-
torney -General, and refused by the learn-
ed judge.
There is some clanger that the men
charged with the duty of tearing dawn
the old small -pox hospital, Toronto, may
contract the disease, and it is probable
that the building will be burned instead
of pulled clown. The stone could then
be removed without danger.
John Dineen, of 144 Centre avenue,
Toronto, brother of the well-known hat-
ters, at ging and Yonge streets, was
struck by a trolley car while going to
work at an early hour Thursday morn-
ing. and died from his injuries a few
hours after the accident.
Mr. and Mrs. D. Carling, of the Steel
Bros. Seed Company, Toronto, was
drowned at Sturgeon Point, :Ont., Tues-
day evening, while returning ' from a
fishing excursion. They were out in a
canoe with which Mr. Carling was not
accustomed. When found Mr. Carling
had his coat half off and his legs were
slightly entangled with a trolling line.
Dr. Coventry, medical health officer at
Windsor, had a colored man brought
into his office at one o'clock Monday.
He was twenty-three years old, and his
face and hands were badly broken out
with rash. The doctor diagnosed it as a
well-developed case of smallpox. When
the darky heard this he made a dash to
get out of the office, and succeeded in get-
ting out and. away. Dr. Coventry after-
wards learned that the roan had crossed
on a ferry to Detroit. He then notified
the health officer on the other side.
The Port Credit pool -room was opened
on Saturday afternoon, about 150 Toronto
people going out by the free special train
to speculate on the Brighton Beach races.
The pool -room is a. big tent that has been
set upin alot near the t-
station and Mr.
Giles, Toronto, who was the last pro-
prietor of the Jordan street room, was in
charge. Business was not very lively,
but it is expected that the game will be
well patronized from this time on.
The establishment lists of the perman-
ent force and active militia, for the year
1894-,95 have been issued. The establish-
ments as revised in these lists do not
come into force before the beginning of
the financial period to which they apply,
Those units, therefore, which have com-
pleted their training, for 1894-95 prior to
the let of July, 1894, will only be entitled
to
vizdra94w pay in accordance with the es-
tablishment in force up to that date,
1899-., the establishment approved for
,
It is stated that a railway line is to be
built this summer between Batavia, N.
Y., and Oak Orchard, N.Y., to connect
by means of steamers with the Grand
Trunk Railway at Port Hope. Oak
Orchard is directly opposite to Port Hope
on Lake Ontario, and the new line is said
to be for the purpose of transporting coal
frons the Pennsylvania mines into Can-
ada,
Mr. James "Richardson, a 'well-known
Montreal business man and member of
the former wholesale leather firm of 11.
Richardson & Co., was killed outright
shortly before six o'clock Thursday even-
ing by the Sorel train on the Montreal
and Sorel railway at Longeuil. Mr,
Richardson, who was hard of hearing,
was walking along the track when the
train caught un to him, and before it
could be stopped he was struck. The
unfortunate gentleman had his neck and
both of his arms broken and was no
doubt killed instantly.
A distressing and fatal accident hap-
pened at Little York Monday morning
when Brakeman. Thomas Kiely fell from
the top of one of the freight cars of a
moving train and lost his life. Kiely had
been carrying the boll rope over the cars
to the engine shortly after the train start-
ed. When four ears from the locomotive
he slipped and fell to the track below.
The rest of the train, some twelve cars,
passed over his body, which was terribly
mangled. Kiely leaves a widow and two
children. He was a resident of East To-
ronto, his home being on Edward street.
Recently the local press of Galt noticed
the death of Mrs, James Leatherdale, of
that place, who died at Oshawa on the
morning of July 12. In this connection
there is a, curious coincidence in Mr.
Leatherdale's family, this being the
fourth member that has died on July 12,
all of whom are buried in the Galt ceme-
tery. Tho first was Elizabeth Broad
(grandmother), died July 12, 1859 ; then
James Leatherdale (father), died July 12,
1872; next James Leatherdale (grand-
father), died July 12, 1876, aged ninety-
three years, and now Elizabeth Leather -
dale (stepmother), who died July 12,1894.
The eightieth anniversary of the battle
of Lundy's Lane was duly observed Wed-
nesday on the historic battle ground by
the Lundy's Lane Historical Society.
President James Lowell, M.P., of the so-
ciety, occupied the chair, who opened the
doings with a few well chosen remarks.
Patriotic speeches were made by Canon
Bull, Capt. Cruickshank and others. Ap-
propriate papers were read by Miss Car-
nochan, of Niagara ;. Mrs. Curzon and
Miss Fitzgibbon, of Toronto. All the
graves of the Canadian and American
soldiers that fell during the contest, as
well as that of Laura Sword, were deco-
rated with Canadian and American flags.
Secretary Rankine, of the Cataract
Construction Company, Niagara Falls,
N.Y., has received official notice from
President Langmuir, of the Queen Vic-
toria Park Commission, that the pre-
liminary plans of the .power development
on the Canada side have been approved
bythe i
Commission and, by the Ontario
Government. This leaves the way open
for continuing the work of preparation
for constructing the power tunnel wheel,
pits, etc., on the Canadian side. There
is no little interest felt in the matter, and
many are wondering when actual opera-
tion will begin. Mr. Rankine is reticent
on the subject, and will give no idea when
the important step will be taken. This
is following out the policy announced by
Dr. Coleman Sellers before the American
Society of Civil Engineers as that adapted
by the Cataract Construction Company
from the State to keep from publicity its.
plans in detail except so far as they have
been accomplished.
A terrible accident occurred to three
children at a mountainous place near
Pembroke on Saturday. Two girls and a
boy, aged six, four and eight respective-
ly, children of Owen Jennings, went to a
mountain near by to pick berries. It
was very precipitous. The children got
astray, and some hours after saw their
home tnthe valley. ~ They made for it,
and in so doing got close to a precipice
and tumbled over. About noon the
mother heard shrieks, and the father hur-
ried off in the direction of the sound,
when, to his horror, he discovered his
three little children lying at the foot of
precipice. The boy was dead, while the
other two were terribly injured. Medical
aid was promptly summoned and all that
skill and affection can do is being done
for the two little girls, whose condition
is extremely critical. The precipice over
which the children fell is fully 100 feet
in height.
Alfred Theackston, alias Thackary,
who married a Miss Renaud, of Detroit,
a few months ago in Windsor, and got
8900 and some jewelry from her, was
brought into the Police Court for sen-
tence Wednesday morning. Theackston
plead for mercy, claiming he was under
the influence of liquor when he married
the girl, and that ho was formerly a re-
spectable and responsible business man
in Toronto, but drink ruined him, and it
was impossible for him to restore any-
thing, as he had not got it to restore.
Magistrate Bartlett said: "The crime is
one of the meanest and most contempt-
ible that have ever been brought to my
notice. I am strongly of the opinion
that your marriage with this woman was
only a scheme to get her money, and you
must have part of it somewhere now, as
it was impossible for you to have spent it
all since that time." He then sentenced
Theakston to serve six years in the
Kingston penitentiary, His words wore
followed by expressions of surprise from
all over the room.
About a week ago The Montreal Star
published a sensational and exaggerated
report of' several columns to the effect
that several deaths had been caused
through vaccination. In view of the
prejudice against vaccination, and the
troubles it caused in 1885, this unfounded
sensation was nothing short of criminal,
and has been freely condemned by lead-
ing physicians. The authorities took
action in the matter, and as a result an
inquest was held Thursday night on the
body of a child named Upton, who was
said to have died of vaccine virus, twelve
English and French doctors forming the
jury., The evidence was conclusive that
the child died from pyaemia, accidentally
contracted months subsequent to the Vac-
cination, which was performed according
to approved methods. The vaccine was
pronounced to be of a
p
erf
e
ct
quality, ua
lity
,
and considering the feet that pyaemia
will result fnom the slightestwoundr the
jury recommended that parents keep the
woundfrom vaceination well protected
until thoroughly healed. Dr.Gauverau,
who keeps the vaccine farm on Ste. Foyer
road, Quehee, threatens to sue the paper
for libel for its injurious statements. It
was shown that many American States
purchased vaccine points there on ac-
count of its purity.
About three weeks ago a young man of
gentlemanly appearance arrived at
Brantford, and it was but a short time
before he made many friends. He re-
presented himself as the son of Mr. Stin-
son, formerly a .well-known banker of
Hamilton, and said that he intended
making a riding tour of this section of
the Province with young Mr. Hendrie, of
Hamilton. Several of the young man's
acquaintances, becoming suspicious, made
enquiries about him, which proved to be
anything but satisfactory. To satisfy a
young lady, to whom he was paying
marked attentions, that he was wheat he
represented himself to be, the young
man gave her a letter addressed to
"Harry Stinson." This document fell
into the hands of the police, and on the
advice of Mr. Stinson, of Hamilton, for
whom the letter was intended, the sup-
posed Stinson was arrested on Sunday
evening. It now transpires that the high -
rolling young man's name is Thorner,
and that his wife is at present in Buffalo
jail in connection with a blackmailing
case, out of which, it is said, the affair
arose in which a young lawyer named
Delaney was shot and killed. Thorner
is said to be the son of a Toronto druggist,
and to have embezzled ,money when in
his teens. A despatch received from
Buffalo says that he has a bad reputation
in that city as a confidence man. In the
Police Court he pleaded not guilty to
stealing a letter, and was remanded for a
week.
The seizure of a man's artificial lea-
after
eg
after being used for five years is the lat
est act in the customs comedy at Wind-
sor. Edward Jones, of Anderdon, resid-
ing at McGregor, nearly severed one of
his legs with an axe, and an amputation
was performed. Jones was compelled to
attend St. Mary's hospital, Detroit, and
later had to go to Ann Arbor for treat-
ment. An artificial leg was made in
Detroit five years ago, and forwarded to
Ann Arbor, from where Mr. Jones re-
turned to his Anderdon home. The arti-
ficial leg was so highly satisfactory that
Edward became a competent election-
eerer, and was a power among Anderdon
politicians. This, he claims, is why the
information was laid againsthim. Every-
body knew where he obtained the arti-
ficial member, and nothing was said
until election time. Officer 9.. Druillard,
of Windsor, and another officer went to
Mr. Jones' residence to collect, and as-
tonished that person by demanding
823.75. He could not pay, and said that
to accommodate them he would get along
on one leg, and gave them the other.
They were there for the money, and gave
him one week in which to settle. Yester-
day Mr. Jones arrived in Windsor, and
paid the amount, and claimed it was sev-
eral times what the member was worth
to him. However, as one of the officers
is alleged to have stated that a fine of
$100 would be imposed, he complied with
the demand.
She Wanted Time.
" Will you be my wife ?"
That was the conundrum he had asked
her.
It is a conundrum which has been ask-
ed many times, and many men have had
to give it up.
" I must have time to reply," she said.
" How much time will you require ?"
"• Really, I don't know. There are
seven ahead of you not yet disposed of
but I hope to clean up all my unfinished
business before the summer hotels open.
Suppose you come around about the mid-
dle of June."
" Sdeath," he hissed between his set, of
teeth, "that is what becomes of a girl
being worth a million in her own right,"
and the girl looked carelessly at a card
the butler presented on a silver salver
and told him to show the gentleman up.
Care of Canaries.
The following interesting story of how
a canary was cured of homesickness was
told by a St. Louis man : "Not long ago
my wife purchased a canary at a bird
store. It had been accustomed to com-
panions of its kind at the store, but at
our house it was entirely alone. The
pretty little songster was apparently
homesick. It would not sing, it would
not eat, but just drooped and seemed to
be pining away. We talked to it, and
tried by ev'ry means in our power to.
eheer the bird up, but all in vain.
"34y wife was on the point of carrying
the bird back to the store when one day
a friend said : 'Give him a piece of look-
ing glass.' Acting on this suggestion,
she tied a piece of broken mirror about
the size of a man's hand on the outside of
the cage. The little fellow hopped down
from his perch almost immediately, and,
going up close, looked in, seemingly de-
lighted. He chirped and hopped about,
sin
ging all the pretty airs he was master
"He never was homesick after that.
He spends most of his time before the
glass, and when he goes to sleep at night
he will cuddle down as close to the glass
as he can, thinking, very likely, that he
is gettinnear to the pretty bird he sees
so often."
A New Hann.
A certain religious congregation in
England wanted to procure new hymn
books, but they were very poor and could
not afford to pay for them at the ordinary
prices. They understood, however, that
a certain great advertising house, a busi-
ness house that made patent medicines,
was willing to furnish them hymn books
at a penny each, if they would allow
some advertisements to be inserted in the
books. They thought that would be no
special harm, that they might have a few
special pages of advertisements hound up
with Watts and Doddridg•e. They agreed
to thee proposition. The books came
duly, and got clown to the church on De-
cember 24.
On Christmas morning the model
Christians, who had no thoughts of any-
thing but religion, got up to sing. Their
pastor gave out by the first line a very
familiar hymn. Immediately the congre-
gation arose to their feet, and in a few
seconds they were aghast to And them-
selves singing :
" Hoak r . the herald angels sing.
Searchem'e pills are just the thing,
Peace on earth and mercy mild ,
Two for man and one for child.';
" What is your name, little boy?" said
aa ldy. "Max, mum." "And is this
your little sister ? Vis, mum, "Arid
hat is your name, ?" "Minnie, mum.''
The updergrOund elecrr
c railroad hraad in
London is in
places 63 feet below the stir=
face.
Why Does She Always Do It?
"Did you ever notice a woman mailing.
letters?" asked a postman who was talk-
ing to an acquaintance on the street car.
"Well, 1 don't care who she is, whether'
she's your wife or another, she'll go up to
a mail -box just as if it was an infernal'
machine, look all around, and drop that,
letter in as if she wouldn't have anybody
see her for the world. That's why some
men will always step up and offer to help,
her; he thinks she wants assistance. It's,
the same if a woman hands a letter to a
postman—she acts as if she hates to have,
it go out of her hands."
"How do you account for it?"
"I don't try to account for it. It's like
the way most women pay their car fare
—as if they were most surprised to death,
at having to pay it at all, and then hang-
ing on to it, till the conductor drags it
away. I: guess it may be for the reason
that girls aren't raised like boys to do.
things off -hand in a business way. But
it's so, anyway."
Important Advice Wanted.
You newspapermen know most every-
thing, don't you. ?" asked the woman
with the square chin, as she planted her-
self in a chair alongside the editorial'
desk.
The editor dodged a direct answer by
asking her what was the trouble.
" It is jist thisaway," she said. "You,
see, I went to see a lawyer last week to,
see about gitt'u a divorce, and paid him
925 in advance, Yistidcly the old man
got run over with a coal cart an' got his.
neck broke, an' of course I don't need no -
divorce from a dead maxi, an' I want to.
know if the lawyer can keep that money,
or can I make '3m chip it in fer tire, funer-
al expenses?)
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria,
When she was a Child, she cried for Oastoria.,
When she became hiss, sho clung to Oastoria„
When she had.Children, she gave them Oastoria.
When our names- are blotted out, and'
our place knows us no more, the energy
of each social service will remain,
Ef ou must
draw the line
at evv
and have, like thousands of
other people, to avoid all.
food prepared with it, this.
is to remind you that there
is a clean, delicate and:
healthful vegetable short-
ening, which can be used.
in its place. If you will
USE
'NINEp , k
+r ^t 1 of lard, you can eat
pie, pastry and the other
" good things" which other
folks enjoy, without fear of
dyspeptic consequences. De-
liverance from larch has come.
Buy a pail, try it in your
own kitclreu, and be con-
vinced.
Cottolene is sold in 3 and.
5 popnclpails, by all grocers.
•`e .. Made only by
h ltd N. K. Fairbank•,
Company,
Wellington and Ann Stay.
1tiL�3TIMELY.
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