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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-1, Page 8?o.Subseribera who do not receiveltlieir paper pro netly win please notify us at once, Advertising rates ou application. J,H..i, EXETER ADVOCATE. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1894. Week's Commercial Summary. The amountof wheatoat on passage ix) Europe is 24,912,000 bushels, a decrease of 852,000 for the week. A year ago the amount was 29,84.0,000 bushels, New postofliees have been opened in Ontario as follows: Gertrude, Simcoe Comity; Inglis Falls, Grey County; Kintyre, Elgin County, and Rock Hill, Muskoka. The number of failures in the Domin- ion during the past week is as follows : Ontario, 15 ; Quebec, 20 ; Nova Scotia, 3 ;. Manitoba, 8; Britisk Columbia: 2 ; total, 43. The same as previous week. The New York Herald. of Monday had the following significant article on the drain of gold from the United States : "For the next week or two the course of speculation must hinge on the foreign ex- change. If we are going to export gold we shall certainly see lower prices, for there is nothing in sight on the bull side sufficiently important to offset such a dis- couraging incident. Shippers, of course, will obtain their supplies in the usual way by presenting legal tenders for re- demption at the Sub -Treasury, and as the Government's stock of the precious metal is:only $60,000,000, it is clear that we are in no condition to withstand a drain. Next to the course of the exchanges and the chances of gold exports the two fac- tors that will have most influence in the speculative situation are earnings of the railways and the probable results of the approaching elections. As to the former, it may be noted that the time is near at hand when the weekly traffio returns of the road' will no longer compare with a period of last year when earnings were swollen by World's Fair travel, and hence the comparisons will be more favor- able. This is always an important spec- ulative inciden+. In regard to the elec- tions, the rank and file of traders have made up their minds that a Republican success will stimulate speculation, and the result of this is already seen in a dis- position to close out short contracts and get on the long side of the market." It is satisfactory to know that O, tober interest on farm mortgages is being met fairly well. Some loan companies report payments better than usual this autumn, and the demand for farms in this pro- vince is more active. This is a good omen and an encouraging feature. It reflects a better condition of things, and enunciates the fact that there is a good living to be made by farmingin Ontario. The cultivation of grain, especially of wheat, is being given up. and other arti- cles of produce, which pay better, are commanding attention. This has been a most satisfactory week for wheat specu- lators. For some time past prices have been so low that operators could not be induced to go short of the market, and those who had wheat were inclined to hold. on to it. Prices have gone lower than ever, the quotation for the Decem- ber option in. Chicago on Wednesday have fallen to 51-, the lowest on record. Stock of this cereal continue to increase, and the outlook is as gloomy as ever. The average price of Englishwheat last week was down to 52*. Under such a condi- eion of affairs it would seem that Ontario wheat is 48 to 49c., which are the our rent quotations here, is yet too high. It is little wonder, then, that our exporters are doing nothing. The dealings record- ed from 'day to day are for car lots only bought by colliers to supply localrequire- ments. OUR MARKET' REVIEW, Never since the first man drove a load of wheat to market in England have prices been so low as they have during the last month. The London Economist, the greatest financial and commercial paper in the world, has at last been awakened to the situation, and after a ponderous fashion seeks to account for it. There can be no doubt as to the soundness of the deductions which The Economist makes from the fact that the average surplus over all requirements for three years was 200,000,000 bushels. This upon an average crop would mean about 10 per cent. per annum, or for the three years 80 per cent. of the quantity which we might reasonably expect would be produced this year. Then we have to take into account the shortage in the corn crop which the same authority places at 400,000,000 bushels, and if we take the probable results of this shortage into the calculation we will find that the actual surplus is by no means so large nor so alarming as the Economist would lead us to believe. The actual existing surplus of to -day is probably not more than from 10 to 15 per cent. of an aver- age crop when we come to think that almost every feeder of stook upon this continent and presumably on others is feeding wheat,we may expect to find the surplus reduced to a shortage, especially when we take into account the fact that much smaller areas are now being sown in wheat. Throughout the province of Ontario every mill that can chop is mash- ing up its daily quota of wheat for feed, and hundreds of thousands of bushels of the finest quality of white and red wheat are in this way going for feed. There is no doubt but that this will give speedy relief to the market here, and we may look for slowly increasing prices for home consumption probably sooner than some think. Recent tests in Chicago are said to show that a bushel of wheat is the equiv- alent of a bushel and a half of corn for feed, and there can be no reasonable doubt that a widespread knowledge of this will be a great factor in makingthe future prices of this cereal. At the be ginning of the week English markets opened strong but the pressure of heavy deliveries and heavier stocks weakened them until they very nearly reached low water mark. Chicago has been gradual- ly weakening under the pressure of a much larger supply than has been re- ported for many years, and the "bears" have not been slow to take advantage of the situation. Notwithstanding the fact that vast quanbities are going for feed, the visible supply, which naturally must increase at this time of tho year, in- creased 1,400,000 bushels, . or nearly double what was expected. This was no doubt caused by the necessity for the farmers in the Northwest to realize on. their wheat at any price to meet their most pressing obligations, such as rent, interest on mortgages, and their notes for farm machinery. These causes be., ing gradually removed and the deliveries falling off, the prices will undoubtedly improve. The Toronto Globe is respons- ible for the statement that the fanners in England are selling their wheat at an average price of 523/4 cents per bushel,. From all we can gather from all avail- able sources it would seem as if there would be nothing to lose and a very prob- able gain to the fanners if they do not now force wheat upon the market. Eggs when fresh are always in demand and at fairly good prices, but the fact is there is always on offer a large amount a• s of very poor quality, and until the farm- ers in- exs and country dealers learn that hen fruit will not keep for an unlimited space of time this will undoubtedly prove ad- verse to better prices. HERE AND THERE. Some people would rather find fault than money. X X x No one likes a Kiri who shakes her girl friend for the sake of being alone with a man, X x x A man is a aood.deal like a boy; when he gets a whistle he plays with it too much. XX x A woman is an. enthusiast over being married, not over the man she is to marry, xxx There are so many mean people in the world that the good ones ought to be ap- preciated. xxx Swindells is the name of the new editor of the Philadelphia Methodist. Evi- dently his name belies him. xxx -� After a young man has called on a girl three times, she begins to see reason why he would not be a bad match: after all. xxx There is a frightful lot of love wasted •, people are extravagant with it in their youth, and suffer for the lack of it in old. age. xxx It should be the aim of every generous man to leave enough money with which to set up his wife's second husband in business. xxx It was a grammatical old lady who was overheard to declare that there weren't many men in this country as rich as the Rothschildren. xxx The chief contagious disease contracted by handling bank bills is greed. As for the rest, most people will gladly take their chances. xxx What is the use of trying to remember who is the fastest horse or the fastest bicyclist, if we are to have a new fastest one every morning. xxx Recent disclosure almost justify the be- lief that the New York police force was constituted on the theory that it takes a thief to catch a thief. xxx That great grave, the Panama canal ditch, is being dug again. If it were sure to be completed it might, perhaps, be worth so many human lives. xxx A Syracuse minister preached Sunday on "My Summer in Europe." That's a mean way to treat a congregation that thought, no doubt, to do a kindly act. xxx A correspondent asks a Chicago paper what lotteries are fakes. The paper re- sponds with a long list. Space might have been savedby simply saying "All.' XXX A cat overturned a lamp in a New York house the other night, and before the flames were extinguished a large amount of damage was done. The cat was unin- jured. X x x Binghampton is much worked up over the question whether barbers shall be allowed to pursue their business on Sun- days. There are some barbers who should be barred at all times. xxx The attempt to revive the whipping post even if there are some men who de- serve a whipping still left will probably not succeed. "Let determined things to destiny hold unopposed their way." xxx The wreck of a seven -story building in New York and consequent loss of life suggest once more that it would be well to have Tammany's building bureau, as well as its police system investigated. xxx The dispiriting rumor that white stock- ings are "coming in" generally was evi- dently a campaign lie. It would hardly be too much to say that the - supporters of the prediction haven't a leg to stand on, xxx A patient and forbearing people will not be filled with woe when they hear that a newsboy was blown off a train near Montreal. Probably his light litera- ture saved him from death, but retribu- tion lurks and waits. xxx A company has been incorporated to build an electrie railroad from Chicago to Milwaukee. What has become of the electric road on which trains were to be run from St. Louis to Chicago at a speed of 100 miles an hour ? xxx If the Rhode Island murderer had not taken such unusual precautions to cover up his tracks he might never have been apprehended. It is usually the case that the more a murderer tries to conceal his crime the more he advertises it. xX5C Under the advice of Dr. Parkhurst the women of New York are taking an active part in the political campaign. They have declared against Tammany, and there can be no doubt that their influence ,will prove an important factor in the November elections, xxx A "living picture by the name of Annie Strathmore was posing as "The Birth of the Pearl" in Boston, when the fountain commenced to play hot water with the. most serious results. It was necessary for the girl's comfort that the water fall- ing on her body, which was only pro- tected by silk tights, should be lukewarm. Through some blunder it was turned on tailing, This fountain has given a timely suggestion to the nearest minis- torial, association., and the ladies of Miss Strathmoy e's calling may now eXpect a scalding of another kind, NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS. TUE WLEER'S HAPPENONOS.. Interesting Items and Ineldenta, Import- ant and instructive. Gathered from the Various Provinces.. Rev, J, Allister Murray, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, London, Out,, died Sunday, y• An experimental shipment of lumber has been made aANew Westminster, B.C., to San Francisco., An Ottawa despatch says that Lady Thompson accidentally fell and broke her arm the other day, The .Hamilton, Grimsby. and Beams ville Electric Railway Company, will, it is said, run oars on Sunday. John Warnock was found guilty of manslaughter at the Chatham Assizes for the killing of John Radcliffe. A clergyman in Cardinal Gibbons' household conormed the report that Mgr, Satolli is to be made a cardinal. While hunting in Muskoka Friday Jesse Coleman, an undertaker from Aki• n N.Y.,S.accidentally .shot and kill- ed himself, The Department of Justice has taken action in the Exchequer Court against contractor St. Louis in connection with the Curran bridge. An English lad of eighteen, while work- ing for Mr. Thomas Nancekivell at a gravel pit in Dereham Township on Sat- turday, was killed by a bank caving in on him. The roundhouse of the Intercolonial Railway at Riviera du Loup, Quebec, was burned on Saturday, and eight loco- motives were destroyed. Loss, $200,000. The sword and bayonet contest at Montreal on Saturday night between Sergt.-Major Morgans, of Kingston, and Sergt. Hawker, of Montreal, for the championship of Canada, resulted in a tie. SOLEMN LESSON. There is a solemn lesson for boys and their parents in the staten_ent made by Inspector Stark before the Child Saving Conference at Toronto, to the effect that nearly all noted criminals commenced their career before reaching twenty-one. If youths can only be kept in the right path up to twenty, or even fifteen, there is little fear they will go astray after- wards. Nothing could make clearer the tremendous responsibility resting upon parents during the period within which the characters of their children are in course of formation. INTERESTING CANADIAN STATISTICS. Kent County produced 486,000 bushels of beans last year, considerably over half the yield of the entire Province. Simcoe raised 2997.000 bushels of pota- toes last year. This is about 80,000 bushels in advance of any other county in the Province. Simcoe is the leading pea county of the Province, its yield in 1893 having aggre- gated 528,000 bushels. Bruce came next with 509,000. Of the 2,729,000 bushels of husking corn raised in Ontario last year nearly one-half was raised in the three counties of Essex, Kent and Elgin. There were 10,480 churches in Canada when the last census was taken. This is one building for each 450 people. Of the total number of`church edifices one-third are controlled by the Methodists. The fifty-four principal loan companies doing business in Ontario have borrowed money on debentures to the extent of $47,000,000, and are indebted to deposi- tors to the extent of $17,000,000 more. On this sum the interest paid by the companies last year was $2,800,000, or a trifle over 4i per cent. Between this rate and that at which they lend, about 2 per cent. higher, there should be room for a fairly good profit. The eight Ontario counties in which the largest amount is registered in the form of chattel mortgages are : York, $1,553,000 ; Grey, $518,000 ; Simcce, $415,- 000 ; Carleton, $387,000 ; Algoma, $353.- 000; Kent, $333,000; Prescott and Rus- sell, $320,000; Wentworth, the same. The county with the lowest indebtedness in this form is Haliburton with but $13,- 000, Thunder Bay and Haldimand com- ing next with $26,000 and $55,000 re- spectively. surcrosD ON HIS MOTHER'S GRAVE. Carson Howell committed suicide on Saturday at Jerseyville, fifteen miles west of Hamilton. Howell, who was forty years of age, had been residing in Detroit of late. His family relations are said to have been of a very unpleasant character, and he had on various occas- ion threatened to kill himself. On Fri- day he went to Jerseyville, where his mother was buried, and at 7 p.m. he left the hotel, saying that he was going to the cemetery. He did not return, and next morning his body was found lying across his mother's grave. He had shot himself through the head with a revolver 'which was found lying beside him with one chamber discharged. ;The Vondoo Dance. A New Orleans travelling man had oc- casion to take a trip along the Gulf coast a short time ago, and, hearing that a voudoo dance was going to 'take place a few miles from the little village at which he stopped, he determined to see it. Se- curing a guide, he made off through the swamp, and alittle after dark the beat- ing of drums and the light of torches warned him that he was nearing the place where the dance was in progress. The old guide toldhim there was nothing to fear if they approached gradually that the negroes would make no opposi- tion ; and so, little by little, they drew nearer until they were within the crowd. The .dance was at its height and the negroes seemed wild with excitement. In the centre of the ring, which was lit up by the fitful glare of a half-dozen torches stuck on poles, a naked woman danced, swinging arms, legs, feet and body in a grotesque fashion and now and then uttering unintelligible sounds, A half-dozen men beat upon rudely fash- ioned drums. The rest of the crowd muttered to themselves, their bodies swinging from side to side as if under some spell. At intervals they would ut- ter screams as if in great terror. All the time the naked. woman danced in a per- fect frenzy. Foam fell from her mouth, flecked her dark skin, and, at length as if oevrcome she fell to the floor and is like one dead. A hideous -looking old hag, bent with age, came creeping from the throng and began a sort of incanta- tion. over the body, at the same timo pouring in the woman's face some liquid from a clip rho held. iii her hand The old crone, bent double as she was, hob- bled around the woman while the drums beat again, afterwhich the body, stiff and rigid, was carried out by four xnen. Immediately the drums began to beat and the negroes to chant as if waiting one.This continued forpro- bablyfor somehi ed u ten minutes, the excitement get- ting higher and higher. At length a shout was heard from the swamp, and a few minutes later a negro girl, apparent- ly about nineteen years old, danced into the ring, She was stripped, with the ex copfion of a bright cloth which was tied about her waist and reached half way to her knees. She danced about the circle, uttering screams and shouts and moans. When the frenzy was at its height the old hag appeared again, and this time she had a live chicken in each hand. The minute she was in the ring the erowd made for her, grabbing the chick- ens, tearing them to pieces and fighting each other like demons. They ate the bloody morsels with seeming relish, and when the scramble was over there wasn't a vestige of the fowls loft except a few feathers scattered over the ground. All this time the negro girl was dancing as violently as ever. It would have been impossible for one not under some power- ful spell to have endured so much. And then againain the old oroone enteredthe circle with a gourd in her hand. She of- fered it to the dancer, but the girl did not appear to notice it, and then she went around the circle offering it to each one. All took a sip of it, and as she ap- proached the travelling man he started to back away, but the guide cautioned him to remain quiet. Until then the two white men had passed unnoticed, but now the eyes of all the nogroes were upon them. "Drink, drink," said the guide, and his companion took a swallow of the stuff, which had a strong, pungent taste. His guide did likewise, and then, seeing the negroes were becoming excited by their presence, they withdrew, followed by threatening words and gestures, The Robin and the Poet. There is a tradition that while our Lord was on his way to Calvary a robin picked a thorn out of His crown, and the blood which flowed from the wound falling on His breast dyed it with red ; and this has furnished a thence for many poets. It is told in this "Breton Legend" by Hoskyns Alvahall : Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn,. Rio god -like forehead by the mock crown torn, A little bird took from that crown one thorn. To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said, Down dropping, dyed His tender bosom red.. Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest; Weasel nor wildcat will her young molest; All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast, No bird is more safe by reason of super- stitious regard. In England the nest - robbing boys are deterred lay the supersti- tion, "if you take a robin's nest your legs will be broken," and it is considered un- lucky to kill a robin. But there is anoth- er legend which assigns a different origin to this red breast, and this Whittier puts simply in the story told by his "01d Welsh neighbor over the way," when she rebukes her grandson for tossing a stone at a robin as he hopped " From bough to bough in the apple tree," " Nay !" said the grandmother, "have you not heard. My poor, bad bo3r ! of the fiery pit; And how, drop by drop, this wonderful bird Carries the water that quenches it? " He brings cool dew MIAs little bill, And lets it fall on the souls of sin; You can see the mark on his red breast still Of fires that scorch as he drops it in. " My poor Bron rhuddyn ! My breast -burned bird, Singing so sweetly from limb to limb, Very dear to the heart of our Lord Is he who pities the lost like Him!" There is an Indian legend of the origin of the robin, which runs thus : 'I adilla, son of a great chief, is commanded by his father to undergo the twelve days' fast, so that he may become a famous warrior. His strength fails him on the ninth day, and he begs to return home, but the old chief sternly refuses to let him ; again on the eleventh day his prayers for relief are unheard. On the twelfth day his father goes to the lodge by the river bearing food, and calls again and again, but re- ceives no answer ; he enters and finds only a strange bright bird, sitting upon the summit of the ridge pole—the robin red- breast, which ever after haunted the homes of men," Whittier, in one of his later poems, versified a variant of this legend, and from it draws this lesson : Unto gentleness belong Gifts unknown to pride and wrong ; Happier far than hate is Praise— He who sings than he who slays. Edna Proctor joins in the general cho- rus of praise with these enthusiastic verses : Hark! a robin in the elm'. Warbling notes so glad and free Straighthe brought a summer realm Over thousand leagues of sea! High he sang: "A truce t0 fear! Frost and storm are but the portal We must pass ere June befall, And the Lord is love through all!" Lark and thrush,our lays are dear, But the robin's 19 immortal ! His English namesake is not so large as our American robin, resembling more our blue -bird, and his breast has a brighter hue, though Ruskin, who has touched him off in this picture, thinks his color is ex- aggerated. He says : "He has a curious fancy in his manner of travelling. Of all birds, you would think he was likely to do it in the cheerfulest way, and he does it in the saddest. Do you chance to have read in the ' Life of Charles Dick- ens how fond he was of long walks in the night, and alone ? The robin, en voyage] is the Charles Dickens of birds. He al- ways travels in the night and alone ; rests in the day wherever day chances to find him; sings a little, and pretends he hasn't been anywhere. . Whatever prettiness there may be in his red breast, at his brightest he can always be out- shone by a brickbat, But if he is ration- ally proud. of anything about him, I should think a robin must be proud of his legs. Hundreds of birds have longer and Di ore imposing ones—but for real neat- ness, finish and precision of action, com- mend me to his fine little ankles and fine little feet, this long -stilted process, as you know, corresponding to our ankle bone. Commend me, I say, to the robin for use of his ankle—he is of all birds the pro eminent and characteristic hopper— none other so bright, so pert or so swift." When Baby wail ilek, We gave her Cii itoria. When she was a Child, the cried for Osetoris.. When she became Mise, she clung to Ca Coria, When she had Children, theatre them Cattoria. FROM THE UNITED STATES DOINGS ACROSS THE ]GYNE. I ao1e Sani's Broad Acres Furnish Quite a Few Small Iteins that are Worth a Careful Beading. Chicago's assessed valuation is $219,- 354,368, Tho Chinese legation is the largest in Washington. ut inre in this co int ry has. out- grown the consumption. The Lick Sehool in California will be opened for pupils July 7, 1895. • Duluth and Superior have a grain capacity of 27,000,000 bushels. Wyoming is covered with a network of 5,000 miles of irrigating canals. California raisin growers are in war over independent packers' prices, The army of commercial travellers of this country alone numbers 250,000. There is a scheme on foot to connect Pittsburg and Chicago by electric rail- way. _" There are trust, "farms" in New York City which are assessed at $100,000 an acre. In the year ending June 30, 1894, the railways of America carried 492,430.000 persons. The latest statistics show that the death rate in the City of New York is rapidly decreasing. An average of 3,000 umbrellas are con- stantly in the lost parcel office of the New York elevated. The silver dinner service which Mrs. J. W. Mackay has with her in Europe is worth $196,000. The State of Ohio spent 5200,000 in military protection during the recent strike of coal miners. A young woman calling herself Miss Eaton, of Toronto, has been victimizing many Buffalo people. Mr. Marvil, who is running for the Governorship of Delaware, is a manufac- turer of peach baskets. The national convention of the non- partisan W. C.T.U. will be held in Wash- ington, Pa., November 13 to 16. Nevada has sent out $550,000,000 in silver and gold, $200,000,000 of which came from the Comstock mines. The area of tillable land in South -East- ern Alaska is given as 1,500 square miles, a tract larger than Rhode Island. Speaking before Michigan bankers Comptroller Eckels said the recent panic was the result of vicious legislation. Mrs. Lease has wagered a $50 dress against a masuline suit that the Popu- lists will win the election in Kansas. Tho Americans are generally agreed to have surpassed all ogler nations in the invention and use of rapid fire guns. Last year the United States and Canada published 19.573 papers, with an aggre- gate circulation of 3,481,610,000 copies. At a recent union of the well-known Smith tribe in New Jersey, 5,000 mem- bers are reported to have put in appear- ance. Miss Mattie Copelandhas accepted the Populist nomination for superintendent of public schools in Preston county, Vir- ginia. The U.S. Department of Agriculture esti- mates that 15,506,000 acres of corn in the west have been abandoned or cut up for fodder. A Bible distributer died recently in New Hampshire at the age of seventy- six, who during his life distributed 120,- 000 Bibles. Chicago is the great cold storage depot for eggs. It is calculated that nearly half a million cases are packed away there every year. The engineer and,two of the crew of a runaway train near Asheville, N.C., were killed when the engine and fourteen cars piled up at a curve. Stuffed white doves, for funeral em- blems, are prepared in large numbers in Jersey City. Their bodies are sold to French restaurants. At a depth of 1,000 feet from the sur- face at Mica, N.Y, there is a solid stratum of rock salt of an excellent qual- ity nearly 300 feet thick. British Vice -Consul Burroughs has taken official notice of the supposed mur- der near Guthrie, Ok., of Frank Ledgers, of Buckingham, England. At a recent wedding in Mokane, Mo., the groom's name was Abraham Lincoln Strickland, . and that of the officiating clergyman was a efferson Davis Greer. A crank entered the Clinton Place Bank in New York, demanded $1,000, and failing to get it fired a't the teller, which missed. The crank was arrested. Members of the G. A. R, of Braddock, Pa., refused to march under an arch on which was a portrait of President Cleve- land, and it was pulled down by the crowd. Lawton Sherman, who died in Provi- dence recently, aged ninety-nine years, was married seventy-eight years ago. His wife, who is still living, is ninety- nine years old. The latest despatches received state that the Czar was in an extremely criti- cal ritical condition, and his death might be ex- pected at any moment. St. Petersburg is already in sorrow and gloom. A despatch from Buffalo says a new electric road in opposition to the Niagara Falls Park and River Railway on the Canadian shore, will be opened between Niagara Falls and Lewiston in the spring. Lady Henry Somerset tells aBoston re- porter "I feel that ,worn en here are mak- ing great progress, and the outlook is most promising ; yet we shall have full suffrage in England before you do, as al- ready women have all votes except the parliamentary, and that is in the near future," Russian cactus has gained such head- way in Ransom county, in North Dakota, that on, one quarter section alone it will take fifteen men six days to pull up the weeds, and on the adjoiningquarter lou hin g cannot be done,as horses are ploughing too their . through g force r e .c w way g the cactus. Judge Lacombe, in the United States Clircuit Court at New York, rendered a decision in the case of John James Howard, Levi P. Morton's coachman. The judge dismissed the writ of habeas corpus and ordered Howard to be taken back to Ellis Island. He will be sent back to Europe. King Price,"'a convict in the Lansing, Midi., [penitentiary, has confessed that while a clerk in Wichita, Kan.,postoffiee Th Best -- • Food n e e. C hildr For is worthy every parent's study, ; not only what they can eat, but what gives the most nourishment. No children are better, and most for eating ed food. ever, food is withthe ful new shortening, are worse, lard -cook - If, how- their prepare health - vegetable E 0 Co. LEN instead of lard, they can eat free- ly of the best food without danger to the digestive organs. You can easily verify this by a fair trial of Cottolene. 8oldbny aur gr ce a Paul Made only by The N. K. Fairbank Company, Wellington and Ann Sts., MONTREAL twenty years ago, he robbed rrgi. t rod letters. J. T. Holmes, who was postmas- ter at the tune, was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. but was re'ease'i after eighteen months, his friends making good the shortage. R. W. Hutchinson, florist of the Penn- sylvania Company, has been doing some fine work at stations along the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. Most of his floral emblems are a keystone, the trade mark of theroad, 15x 20 feet, and a flag, 10x 16 feet, in plants of different colors. The plants used are all grown in the coin- pany's conservatory. The famous potato patch scheme of Mayor Pingree. of Detroit, by which several hundred acres of unimproved property in the suburbs were planted with potatoes, the crop from which, it was. hoped, would help feed the citizen poor and unemployed during the coining win ter, is already an assured success. A rough estimate of the total crop made from digging up a sm'a11 part of the land pl anted hows that it will aggregate fully 15,000 bushels. They Must Not Die. It is simply an outrage to let young - people die who are attacked with pul- monary troubles and incipient consump- tion, when Miller's Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil will save them. It should be shouted from the house tops that supposed incurable consumptives can be cured by the use of this extraordinary preparation, The rebuilding process commences in the system the moment the Enmision is taken. It is curious to watch the effects upon emaciated persons, who begin to fill out and make new blood as often as Miller's Emulsion is administered. In an incred- ibly short time, cadaverous looking pa- tients again look natural and healthy: In big bottles, 50 cents and $1, at all Drug Stores. Renan's Reply. Among the anecdotes of Renan, which his death has set afloat, there is a good one of what befel at a sort of literary din- ner at which M. Caro, the beloved of fine ladies, was also present. M. Caro had set himself to prove the existence of God, and his eloquent assertions did not. seem to interest the sage. In the middle of one of his most sonorous periods M. Renan attempted to make himself heard. But all the ladies were intensely absorb- ed; they would not have their pleasure spoiled. , "In a moment, M. Ronan ; we will listen to you in your turn." He bowed submissively. Toward the end of the dinner M. Caro, out of breath, stopped with a rhetoribal emphasis. At once every one turned toward the illus- trious scholar, hoping that he would enter the lists, and the hostess. with an encouraging smile, said "1\row, M. Renan-- " "I am afraid, dear lady, that I am now a little behindhand."' "Ne, no !" "I wanted to ask for a little- more ittlemore potato." The Old Story. 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