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THE EXETER ADVOCATE.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1894.
Week's Commercial &Unman,.
There is a steady advance in the rates
of sterling exchange at New York, and
the probability is that gold, exports will
be made before long.
The total number of failures in the
Dominion for the three mouths ending
October 3rd, 1894, were 472 —the total
assets amounting to $2,731,750, and lia-
bilities to $3,634,308.
Money continues cheap at all the lead-
ing finanoial centres. A more active de -
mend would result in better rates, and
this is to be desired, as it would mean a
revival of the industries.
Some improvement is noted in the
prices of Manitobawheat. It is stated.
that there are large exports via New
York. This is a superior kind of wheat,
and will always be required by millers
for mixing with the soft qualities.
There are few features of importance
to note in. the wholesale trade at Toronto
this week. Dealers in dry goods, hard-
ware and metals report a good business.
.A. considerable number of orders are in
for shipment of heavy goods before the
close of lake navigation. Remittances
are fair, although the movement of grain
is slow owing chiefly to low prices. Tho
retail trade is fair, being stimulated in
a measure by the cold weather.
The grape crop this year is enormous,
and far exeeeds other seasons. On Pelee
Island the growers cannot get rid of
them, and 'what few are sold only bring
half a cent a pound. It is said that Mr.
J. S. Hamilton, the well-knovm wine
manufacturer of Brantford, is not going
to make wine this seasan, in consequence
of being already overstocked, and the
Pelee Islanders are puzzled to know what
they are to do with their grapes.
Wheat is weak and the movement com-
paratively restricted. There is little en-
couragement for holders, and the news
generally is bearish. The average price
of English wheat is down to 19s. a
auarter, and no such record of cheapness,
says the London Economist, has been
made since the sixteenth century. The
lowest weekly average recorded from
1816 to 1893, inclusive, 24s. Sd. for the
week ended March 18, 1893, previous to
which, within the period named, it was
only -ander 28s., and that by a single
penny. Damp and discolored wheat has
sold as low as 14s. a quarter, but even
dry foreign wheat is low beyond prece-
dent. Argentine cargoes being offered
at 19s., while a good standard wheat,
such, as American red winter, may be
bought at 21s. by the cargo.
large and representative meeting of
tanners of the Province of Ontario was
held on the 9th inst. at the Board of
Trade, Toronto. From the views ex-
pressed by those present, and from others
who could. not come, it appears that the
leather trade is in a deplorably unsatis-
factory condition. Hides have advanced
in the American market from 40 to GO
per cent., and the better grades of leather
can only be made from these hides ; the
local hides as a general thing being poor
in quality. At the same time many tan-
ners are selling at about old prices based
uponthe low price of hides. Leather now
being sold cannot be replaced atthe same
figure and the tanners naturally are
compelled to raise their prices. They
are unanimous in their determination to
do this or hold their stock. Leather has
been so low that even at the very low
price of hides tanners have lost money
the past year, and many of them have
left the business. It will be disastrous
for them to keep on selling cheap leather
and buying clear hides, and they have de-
cid.ed to take immediate action to remedy
this state of affairs by advancing the
prices in accordance with the increased
cost of production.
Here and There.
China is out of money with which to
prosecute the war. The Emperor and
Empress will have to take in washing if
the present state of affairs continues,
xxx
The Emperor of Germany has added to
his list of accomplishments that of writ-
ing poetry. He has written the words
and music of a "Song to Aegir," an in-
vocation to an old Norse god of the sea
by an invading army on. the point of
landing and meeting the enemy.
xxx
The Journal of Commerce states that
the fire loss in the United States and
Canada for September was $10,149,000,
as compared with 810,508.700 for Septem-
ber, 1893. The total loss for the first
nine months of 1894 was $97,000,000, and
for the corresponding period of 1893 it
was $121,000,000.
xxx
The Spectator says : With grapes so
plentiful and cheap in the Niagara dis-
trict that it hardly pays to fetch them to
market, the feasibility of establishing a
market in England for Canadian fruits
seems plain. Grapes now sell in England
at a shilling a pound, and Niagara grapes
could be put fresh into the English mar-
ket if transported under a proper cold
storage service.
xxx
The Col. Cook, which thirty-four years
ago sent the Lady Elgin to the bottom of
Lake Mieigan, has gone to pieces. After
that awful tragedy of the lakes her old
name, the Augusta, was painted off, and
when she was re-itted she was named
the Col, Cook. Her luck b.owever, did
not change. She was a bill of expense
to her owners, and her record has been a
series of disasters, and the other day she
went to pieces near Lorain, and the frag-
ments are scattered along the shore of
Lake Erie.
X X X
Cardinal Gibbons preached a sermon
last Sunday in which he said: "It is true
woman does not to -day exereise the right
of suffrage. She cannot vote and. I ant
heartily glad of it. I hope +he day will
never come when she can, vote, and if the
right is granted her I hope she will re-
gret it, even though there are some mis-
guided women who think they -want it.
Rest assured, if woman entered politics
she would be sure to carry' away with her
some of the rand and dirt of political
contaet, She, too, would lose some of
the influence whieh she now exerts. The
proper sphere for Woman is home, the
proper place for her to reign is in the
home oirele,
xxx
Life becomes daily more Uncertain. A
few days ago, says The RemiAori Times,
a 14= who happened to lay his luaad on
an iron fence in New York was instantly
killed, by a "wild" electric eurrent. IL
policeman who leaned against a trolley
pole got an instant disehatge from his
earthly beat, Tbe other day in New
York a span of horses were killed by. a
"mild" eurrent from a wire from which
the insulation had been rubbed against
an eavetrough, permitting -the eleetriaity
to reach an underground pipe, The pipe
passed through wet soil, and the instant
the horses stepped on it both were killed.
If this thing is eoing to continue the in-
sulated man w& become a necessity.
N: x x , •
aL contemporary gives an interview
with a western lumberman whosays that
the loss from the recent fires is not so
heavy as has been suppcisea, "Fire," be
says, 'does not burn the' body of a pine
tree; it Only burns Off the bark and
foliage. The trunk of the burned tree is
as good as ever it was, with this Gawp -
tiara The tree, after it is burned,. must
be cut the succeeding winter, else Mawill
become storm -eaten and, worthless." He
even maintains that the fire is a blessing
to labor. "Every owner of burned pine
stumpage must go to work this coning
winter and. cut every foot of it, and
many of these owners are forced to out
perhaps hundreds of inillioas of feet of
stumpage they would net otherwise have
cut for years to come. They are forced
to employ immense Crews of men they
would not otherwise have haduse for."
xxx
In a note to Mts. A. O. Rutherford Miss
Willard says: "Will you please Centre -
diet the two latest misstatements, whets
are that I have left the prohibition party
and that 1 recently drank wine at Chau-
tauqua. Both axe as false as a gambler's
word or a drunkard's joy. 'While it is
true that I warmly sympathize with the
labor movement, and have done so from
the beginning, my efforts have always
been to aid in bringing about a better
understanding between the two new pea
ideal movements, which have so much
in common that I hope yet to see there
more closely united in their work. As
to the second -witless invention, namely,
about Chautauqua, these are the facts:
A teetotal doctor of divinity gave Lady
Henry Somerset and me each a specimen
bottle of grape juice—unfermented wine,
as strictly non-alcoholic as so much lem-
onade would :have been—Whichava5 tested
at a table where we were seated with
other White Ribbon. friends. That is all
there is in it and I feel size that my
comrades will procure the insertion of
this brief statement in the heal papers of
the various coranntaities."
xat x
A—naan, who IS probably a greater lover
of the mosquito than mostpeople are, has
discovered some interesting facts about
that Insect He says that the mosquito's
bill contains six separate surgical instru-
ments. Two of these instruments are
said to be exact counterparts of a sur-
geon's lance; one is a spear with a
double -barbed. head ; another is a needle
of exquisiteness fineness. A saw and a
pump go to make up this wonderful
complement of tools. The spear is the
largest of the six and is used in making
the initial puncture • next the lances are
brought into play, work causing
the blood to flow more frely. In case
this last operation fails of having the de-
sired effect, the saw and. the needle are carefullyinserted. in a lateral direction.
in the aicthn's flesh. The pimp, the
most delicate instrument of the entire
set, is used in transferring the laood to
the insect. It might be a good idea for
people to remember these facts when
mosquitos again put in an appearance,
though the fact that the biting is done
on a scientific basis probably wouldn't
Damen the pain.
Dominion Franchise.
To be entitled to vote inDominion elec-
tions a voter must be :
1 British subject twelve months in
Canada.
2 Twenty-one years of age, and
3 Have one of the following qualifica-
tions:
(a) Have been an occupant in the con-
stituency for twelve months.
(b) Have owned for twelve months real
estate value -
8300 in cities.
8200 in towns.
8150 elsewhere.
(e) Earn 8300 a year.
(d) Be a farmer,s or owner's son.
There are some other qualifications for
uncommon cases.
No time limit of residence is required
for an "income voter."
An -occupant or owner for less than
twelve months can, if so entitled, claim
under the income qualification.
The "1 Will" Girl.
I do not like the young woman who
stands as the emblem of Chicago's push
and, enterprise. I do not like coarse wo-
men, and the "I Will" girl is coarse—
there is no denying that. What would I
have? Well, it is hard to say. I fancy
clinging, gentle, nestling women, my-
self; but, of coursei one of that sort
wouldn't be emblematic of anything but
a fashionable and exclusive residence
suburb. But the "I Will" girl! Shades
of the postal Fancy, if you can, the "I
Will" girl nestling or being petted! No,
she'd hardly do for that 1Vlaybe, all
things considered, she's the right girl in
the right place, but—well, she makes me
feel humble and henpecked, as those cap-
able -looking Amazons will, and I feel
certain she must have a sharp tongue
and a villainous temper. Moreover, isn't
she, with a declaration on her breast-
plate, violating the traditions ? it is
claimed that a woman's "won't" means
"will," and the reverse case should hold
good, should it not? Therefore, the "I
Will" girl is altogether unfeminine, and
so disqtalified to pose in her present
capaeity.
New Proverbs.
Soft soap helps to make hard. times.
In diplomacy lying becomes a fine art,
Value depends upon quality not price.
Truth and falsehood, often seem twins.
Study does not necessarily imply obser-
vation.
Theory without practice is always left
handed.
It is easier to make a congregation
yawn. than yearn.
Men will abandon a titineiple to die for
a sentiment
The biggest fools do not commit the
greatest blunders.
The most easily digested meals are cold
mutton, mutton chops, venison tender-
loins, sirloins, steak, lamb chops, roast
beef, rabbit and chicken.
NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS
11111WEEKS' MAJVIIEgINCA.
Sate resting Items and n ',Monts, Import-
anq and Instructive, tGathered from
the VaramealProvinees.
Athens' rate of taxation is 20
Fire bugs are prevalent in Kingsville.
Vasey youths go coon hunting &Ought
Scarlet fever is epidemic around Caul -
son,
Typhoid fever is ineroasing in North
Bay.,
Typhoid has been vcry bad in Chat-
ham.
Kingston is to have a Rugby football
elub.
Cookstown may soon have a local
paper.
Ottawa's principal streets aro to be
paved.
Fruit is plentiful and very cheap at
Barrie.
The Barrie tannery is enlarging its
building.
A.'new planing factory has been built
at Sutton.
Prescott realised $4a000 from its fait
just closed..
Kingston is soon to have a gold cute
institution.
.A. $7,000 children's home is to be built
at Windsor.
Counterfeit five and ten cent pieces are
in circulation.
Barrie is bothered with skunks and
Orillia with bears.
The Kingston cheese board ends the
season 830 in debt.
An American will operate -the Seymour
iron mine at Madoe.
It is proposed to establish a cold storage
creamery at Calgary.
Galt's population has increased 2021ast
year and Berlin's 213.
Fifteen cottages at Thousand Island
Park are still. occupied.
Cranberries are a heavy crop in the
swamps of 1VIatchedash.
Customs collections at Woodstock in
September were 86,491.45.
Belleville will have 250 pupils in its
deaf and dumb institution.
In London, Ont., coal has been put up
from $5.25 to 85.80 per ton.
Haliburt are said to be very scarce off
the Vancouver Island coast.
The Kingston engineers' association
starts with twenty members.
Inland. revenue collections at Sarnia
for September were $2,974.29.
Twenty-seven Orillia youths will at-
tend night school this winter.
Pembroke stores all close early the
year round, and. it works well.
Grand Trunk freeeipts for September
are in excess of those last year.
Thessalon has squirrel hunts and the
losing side furnishes the supper.
Five cases of typhod fever are reported
in the London General Hospital.
Bracebridge is to have a new 82,500
bridge over the river this spring.
The population. of Windsor this year
is 14,452 against 10,970 last year.
Winnipeg's conservatory of music has
an attendance of seventy students.
Severn Bridge Sunday schools are
closed on account of scarlet fever.
Mayor Smith, of Chatham, will not be
a candidate for the mayoralty again.
Last Saturday a Bradford man shot
twenty-five snipe on. the Holland river.
Newmarket has a grey -red squirrel and
Petetborough a cream -colored black one.
There are present 482 men and 35
women imprisoned in. Kingston harbor.
An eel weighing twelve pounds was
caught the other day in Kingston har-
bor.
Peterborough wants the Tudhope Car-
riage Company, of Orillia, to locate
there.
A. man supposed to be Gebrge Arnold,
the Whitby jail -breaker, was arrested at
Siracoe.
At Coldwater last week apple trees
were in bloom and wild strawberries in
blossom.
The old Green. &Ellis mill, at the south-
ern entrance of Fenlon river, was burned
last week.
Windsor's real estate assessment is
$5,221,263, personal $57,050, with 3,026
ratepayers.
Mr. William Robinson, ex -city engi-
neey of London, Ont., died Friday, aged
eighty-two.
.A. great storm caused damage and loss
of life and -vessels on the lakes and on the
Atlantic coast.
Penetang's mammoth skating rink is
completed. It took 275,000 shingles to
cover the roof.
The Hamilton, Grimsby and Beams-
ville electric railway was formally open-
ed on Wednesday.
Captain. Thomas Harbottle died sud-
denly of heart disease at the Toronto
custom house Friday.
Natural gas will not be piped to Sand-
wich by the *Ontario Natural Gas Com-
pany until next spring.
.A. local company has been formed at
St. Thomas to manufacture Portland
cement on a large scale.
Two tramps were arrested at Three
Rivers, Que., on a charge of setting fire
to buildings and robbery.
There have been more deaths at Ux-
bridge within the last two weeks than
ever before in so short a time.
The Bishop of Huron has appointed
Rev. S. R. Ashbury to the charge of
Christ's Church, Port Stanley.
For the first time in the history of the
Kingston penitentiary prisoners were
admitted last week on Sunday.
Contracts have been let for most of the
construction work on the T. R. & B. be-
tween Brantford and Hamilton.
Turnkey Brace of Whitby jail, was
beaten almost to death Friday by a cone
vict named Arnold, who escaped.
Tho twelfth regular meeting of the
County of Sinteoe Medical Association
was held in Oollingwood last week.
The residence and barns of John Con-
sineau, in Sandwich Wet, have been
destroyed by fire, at a boss of 88,000.
Petitions are being circulatedthrough-
out the County of Essex asking the Gott-
erximent to give Truskey a new triaL
Ib is said that New Westminster, 13,0.,
loges $8,000 a year on its electric light-
ing, and, that it pays 00e a night instead
of 25e.
During blas quarter just ended the value
of shipments from ,Canada, repotted
through the United States, was $21.2a
975.07, •
The Kingston and Montreal Forwara-
hag Company has been offered a bonus to
transfer its plant from Portsmouth to
Preseott.
John Kehoe'a life cOn.vict at St. Vin-
cent de Paul. Penitentiary, swallowed a
sufaeent quantity of tobacco juice to kill
himself.
The Weddell Dredging Company, of
Trenton., has been awarded a contract at
the Lachine Canal, =punting to .some
$250,000.
Georgetown had forty-seven applica-
tions for the principalship of its public
school, Mr. T. B. Earngrey, of Bolton,
was chosen.
Mr. F. W. Hodson,of London, has
been appointed Superintendent of Far-
mers' hastitutes under the Provincial
Government.
Rev. James R. Adams, B. D., associate
pastor of First Congregational Churoh,
London, was formally ordained on
Moxi-
day evening,
David Porter, of Wiarton. has the con-
tract for continuing the harbor works at
Owen Sound, for which the sum of $10,-
000 was voted.
The inquest on Mr. W. R. Illmenhorst
at Montreal resulted in a verdict of death
by his own hand while in • a state of tem-
porary aberration.
The Gloucester fisheries this season
have been very unprofitable to the men
employed, scarcely a firm having paid
the expenses of the outfits.
'' The council of the Toronto Board of
Trade have passed a resolution urging
thP immediate construction of the Nip:
issing and James Bay railway.
Wm. Huff, a young Indian lad, con-
victed of indecent assault at Chatham,
was sentenced to one month in jail, with
fifteen lashes at the end of two weeks.
Mr. George H. Fielding, who succeeds
Mr. Motion as stipendiary magistrate in
Halifax, is a barrister of eighteen years'
standing and a brother of Premier Field-
ing..
Robert Lottridge, a veteran of the U.
E. Loyalist stock, and George Taylor,
formerly manager of the Bank of British
North America in Hamilton, died there
recently.
The population of Stratford shows an
increase of 138 over last year's assess-
ment, when it was 10,277. Taxable pro-
perty has also risen from 83,880,275 to
$8,964,060.
A, despatch from Whitby says that
Turnkey Bruce, who was so badly beaten
by the convict Arnold, is in a serious
condition, not yet having regained con-
sciousness.
William Atwater, an Englishman, who
had only been in this country a few
weeks, received a letter Monday, at
Montreal, announcing that he had fallen
heir kr £200,000.
Mrs. Eliza Guinness, of 37e Rushaline
road, Toronto, while on the way to
church Sundaymorning, suddenly ex-
pired. The malady whioh carried her
off was heart disease.
Near Blenheim, Ont., Joseph Laird, an
old resident, who lived alone, hanged
himself in his barn. He :male a rope of
binding twine, formed a noose at one
end, • fastened the other end above, stood
upon a chair, placed his head through
the noose and jumped. off. He is said to
have been a heavy drinker.
Mrs. H. A. Johnson, of Wellsville, de:
scribed as the representative lady apple-
growor of Nova Scotia, made a public
speech at the close of the Provincial Ex-
hibition in Halifax on Friday night She
recommended fault culture as the most
honorable and profitable occupation now
open to the women of Nova Scotia.
The monument erected in Queen's Park
to the memory of Sir John Macdonald
was unveiled on Saturday afternoon with
appropriate ceremonies before an enor-
mous gathering of people. Speeches were
delivered by Sir John Thompson and
several Dominion Ministers, and by Hon.
George W. Ross on behalf of the Ontario
Government.
BEEKEEPERS ELEOPTiOPPOERS.
The North American Beekeepers' As-
sociation has elected G. H. Holterman,
of Bantford, Ott, president; L. D. Stil-
son, *York, Neb., vice-president; W. Z.
Hutchinson, Flint, Mich., secretary; and
J. T. Calvert, of MedinasOhio, treasurer..
Lincoln, Neb., is the •next place of meet-
ing.
IT IS NOT TRUE.
Friends of Truskey, the man Condemn-
ed to death for the murder of Constable
Lindsay, of Comber, state that the report
sent out as to his having confessed was
untrue in every particular. .A. gentleman
in a position to know, says the alleged
confession. was concocted for a Detroit
paper and from that telegraphed all
over. The condemned num's friends
claim that the reports do him an injus-
tice, and they think he should have a
chance for his lie.
The Professor's Chickens.
This may not be new, but it was new
to the reporter who overheard it on Sun-
day, so it is ,likely that there are others
who have never heard it. The young
man who told it wasevidently a collegian,
as was his companion.
"I heard. a good one on Prof. --, of
Andover," he said.
"What was it?" queried the other.
"Well, you know he was married dur-
ing the winter and went to housekeeping
just outside the village. This spring he
thought he would add. a few hens to his
stook; he already had a dog. He set a
couple of the hens and in time had two
large broods of chickens. He was very
proud of them, hut in a week or so the
clicks began to die. He called in a neigh-
bor to look at the chickens and offer ad-
vice. They were certainly,a pietty scaly
lot of chickens that the neighbor viewed.
They were skinny looking and apparently
without ambition.
What do you feed them?' asked the
neighbor, after a brief survey.
'Aiwa them;?' responded the professor,
as though he didn't hear aright. 'Why,
I don't feed. them anything. I thought
the old hens had milk enough for them,' "
An exchange says: "The royal insti-
tute for fruit and vine eulture at Gelsett-
heim, Gormally, has experimented suc-
cessfully in the use of copperas as a
stimulant for plants that lack green color
in their leaves. The copperas should be
dissolved in water and applied near the
roots in early spring."
Pneumatic tires have been found very
serviceable on hospital ambulances, donees that rural life is growing more te-
THE FARM ANP GARDEN,
AMATEURS IN TUE GARDEN,
Notes of Interest to the Flower, Fruit
and Vegetable Grower. and Talks on
Trees and Shrubs..
am STOOK NOTES.:
No matter what the blood, no animal
will thrive without care.
Farmers aro more interested in the
breeding of horses that can walk a fast
mile than in a horse that can trot a fast
11 possible go to the pasture once a day
to see if the horse and colt are all right.
Many an injury is received in the pasture
that, unless treated at once, destroys the
usefulness of the animal.
A good poultryman never needs any
medicine for his poultry. He knows
that prevention. is better than cure, be-
cause a sick fowl is very troublesome. Ho
keeps disease from his chickens by feed-
ing sound, wholesome food. Keeping the
pens and roosts clean and free from ver-
min, giving the chicks sunlight and
plenty of fresh air.
One of the facts proved at the dairy
tests made at the Cohmbus Exposition
was that the cows were very susceptible
to sudden changes of temperature from
warm to cold, On such a change, es-
pecially if windy, there would be a great
falling off in the amount of butter made,
and even when there was but little,. if
any, shrinkage in the amount of milk
produced. The fat was burned up in the
body to keep up the heat of the system.
Most of us have been sure of this long
ago, although we might mkt have been
able to prove it by exact figures.
FATTENING DUCKS.
A poultry expert says that he has found
that ducks should be made fat enough to
kill and market at eight weeks old. It
is cheaper to make flesh at that age than
to make it more slowly. They are vor-
acious eaters under any conditions, but,
like other stock, the profit is on what
they can be induced to eat more than
they need for keeping alive and making
a slow growth. Push them along as fast
as possible, and feed several times a day
until a month old, when three or four
times should be enough, but do not give
more than they will eat with a good ap-
petite and allow no sour food to lie about
or to be loft to mix with the next feed-
ing. Another reason for placing the
birds in the market at eight weeks old is
that S0011 after that they begin to shed
their feathers, when the new feathers
begin to strike through and the birds
not only look ragged when dressed but
fail to make a growth as they have done.
A few birds may not shed until ten or
twelve weeks old, but to be on the safe
side kill now and dress before the tenth
week. The birds intended for breeding
stock should not be fed so heavily, and
the food sho"ld be more calculated to
make growth of frame than put on flesh,
and. they should, if convenient, be allow-
ed to forage in the grass, and even in the
pond where the market ducklings should
never go.. Always keep the houses well
supplied with clean beddmg. The extra
value of the feathers will pay for that
once, and. the better health of the fowl
will pay for it several times over. Ducks
need clean gravel to keep their digestive
organs in good order as much as other
fowl.
FARM NOTES.
Most so-called farming is simply rob-
bing the soil.
The farmer has heretofore scattered
his energies over too large a surface.
• A. moment's work at the latch or catch
will make the slamming of a door un-
necessary, without turning the knob or
lifting the latch.
We observe that those who sneer at in-
tensive cultivation, extra heavy manur-
ing, etc., are the men who have never at-
tempted to practice them. A trial of
these methods is very apt to give some
respect for them. Suppose you make
an experiment in. this direction next sea-
son. .A. man should not condemn a thing
until he has at least given it a trial.
Many farmers have learned. that the
superiority of peas to corn for feeding
hogs make them a profitable grain to
grow. They talcs little labor, as the
hogs will, if need be, do the harvesting.
They enrich the soil, and if the stubble
can be cleared so as not to be plowed
under, they make an excellent prepara-
tion for winter wheat; but if weeds and
pea tops are plowed. under they make the
land too light, causing it to fall with
water in. winter and thus kill the grain.
.A. New Zealand farmer tried sowing
brimstone on a patch of Canada thistles,
and he reports that it oompletely destroy-
ed them. He sowed it thickly enough to
destroy all vegetable life for two years,
but after that the soil was as productive
as ever 'and he had rid the land of the
thistles. There are other much less ex-'
pensive ways to destroy Canada thistles
than this. Letting them get into blos-
som and then plowing them under deep-
ly, so as to cover the growth of tops,
with little breaking of the roots, will de-
stroy them. If any appear from roots
that are not attached to the stalks, culti-
vation during the summer, so that none
are allowed above the surface, will make
a finish of them. •
It is often the complaint that ordinary
farming does not pay. It is probably
always true. The ordinary kindof farm-
ing is that which the farmer attempts to
grow crops with the least labor. He does
not usually succeed in saving a great deal
of work, for weeds and insects have to be
fought first or last to save the crop. What
he does is usually to delay the work until
nearly all the injury possible has been
done. Then, with the crop half or more
ruined, the work that has to be done does
little good, and of course it does not pay.
Thorough work from the first costs some-
what more, but it pays when the crop
comes to be harvested. The mistake of
the poor farmer is most often seen in his
attempts to grow the -crops that cost least
labor. It is such crops that never pay
very largely, because there are too many
farmers in that kind of competition. It
is true in farming as it is in every other
kind of business, that the (Mtrxi work,
which is more than most will attempt,
pays the best.
We are told on the highest authority
that life "is more than, meat and the body
is more than raiment." The terrestrial
end of all effort must be the cultivated
man and. •wonkaa. This end comes not by
a fiat of the wall; it is rather a growth,
and is successful in ratio to the stimulus
given either to our ancestors of to our-
selves. The eolulitions that environ one
are bias stimuli that awaken growth that
ends in cultivated inanhootl. and woman-
hood. We hail with pleasure any evi-
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and tell her that I am composed
of clarified cottonseed oil and, re-
fined beef suet; that I am the
purest of all cooking fats; that
my name is
lt9lene
that I am better than lard, and
more useful .than butter; that I
am equal in shortening to twice
the quantity of either, and make
food much easier of digestion.
I am to be found everywhere in
3 and 5 pound pails, but am
Made only by
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IIIONTRE&L.
fined and welcome all agencies that tend to
elevate its tastes. It is not to elaborate
that the subject has been introda ced , but to
turn over to hoped-for eorrespondenti the
fb.ouglrb to -which Galen Wilson gives ex-
pression in the Country Gentleman. He
says : "Ask any person why he enjoys a
ride through a farming section of coun-
try in the summer time, and his reply
would be, gaits likely, 'Because of green
fields, beautiful landsca,pes. varied -crops
of. growing grain, araziag herds.' ctn.;
but seldom a word about neat residences
pretty lawns, tiny fenees, and ern de4
clean roadsides, simply because they are
generally so ram one cannot find them
in conjunction oftener than once in a
day's ride, perhaps. There are msthetie
premises in cities and villages ; why nolu
in the country?"
The Power of Children.
One man was making unkind. remarks
aboub his mother-in-law, and the other
man was taking it all in. After awhile
he put an his oar.
"You haven't any children, have you?" '
he inquired.
"No," was the reply, "what's that got
to do with it ?"
"More than you'll ever know until you
have some."
"I fail to see it."
"Yes, so did 1 at first, and I talked just.
as you do. Then when the youngstera
came and began to grow up and to learn
who grandma was, and to look to her as
their best friend; the one to shield them
when they needed the parental spanking;
the one to give them pennies when their
parents thought they should not have
them; the one who came and watched by
them when they were sick ; the one who
was always good to them; the one grand-
ma of all the world to the innocent,
mischievious, all-pervading kids, blamed
if I didn't forget utterly that she was my
mother-in-law, and I aot to calling her
'grandma' just as the little ones did, and.
finally, when the gray-haired old angel
went to her rest, I grieved with the chil-
ren and as sincerely as any of them."
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Oastoria.
When she became Kiss, she clung to Oastoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
One of the numerous bridegrooms of*
Iroquois last week was making a trip
over the rail the day before his wedding.
The conductor, who was aware of his im-
pending fate, took his ticket and stuck in
his hatband instead of the usual label: a.
card bearing in bold letters the inscrip-
tion, "I Get Married To -morrow," the
victim left the train with the label still
in his hat
It is usually poor economy in setting
out the strawberry .bed to economize by
getting
plants from a neighbor's bed
wherethe varieties are all mixed up. It
is far better to know what you plant,
even if it costs a little more.
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FOR MAN OR BEAST.
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