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THE EXETER ADVOCATE,
THURSDAY, NOV, 8, 1894.
Week's Oomnlorcial Summary.
The Grand Trunk earnings for the
Wvek ended October 14 is 8108,102, a de-
orease of $67,245.
The traffic returns of the Canadian
Pacific for the week ended October 14 is
very encouraging. Gross earnings were
$492,000, an increase of 812,000 as com-
pared with the corresponding week of
last year.
Nee.eleotrie road is doing quite a
freight business between Galt and Pres-
ton, and from Preston. to the C, P, R.
station. At the and of last week a car
was loaded at the C. P. R. station for the
Stahlschrnidt furniture works, and since
considerable freight for manufacturing
establishments there have been hauled
The freight car travels back and forward
'with its two or three tons of a load as if
its weight was scarcely felt by the motor
car.
We have to report an increase in the
number of failures last week in the Do-
minion, when 52 were recorded, -as
against 48 the week previous , and 44 the
corresponding week a year ago. Que-
bec again leads. with 24, an increase of
four over the previous week. Ontario
had 17, as against 15 the week before, of
whom only two had a rating as high as
$8,000, two were rated up to 8500, and
18 had our lowest credit or blank rating.
British Columbia and Nova Scotia had
four each. Manitoba three. No failures
in New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island last week.
The following remarks, which we copy
from the Monetary Times of the 16th
in.st., are short and to the point : "It is
pretty evident, from the number of ex-
tensions or compromises asked and the
number of downright disasters among re-
tailers in Canada, that the past year has
been a hard one for traders with slender
capital. While one does not feel like
sympathizing with the fools who leave
farms or trades to join the overcrowded
ranks of storekeepers, one cannot help
feeling sorry for established merchant s,
who feel the pinch of competition and
the increasingly difficult conditions of
business.
The feature of the greatest importance
in the September statement of Canadian
banks is the increase of over three mil-
lions in cireulatlon. The total is $83,-
855,156. This increased circulation of
notes is due to the more liberal move-
ment of grain and general produce, and
is not unexpected. The deposits of the
banks show a slight increase, the aggre-
gate being $177,668,000, of which 866,-
584,000 is on demand, and 8111,084,000 is
on time. The total discounts to the pub-
lic are $199,778,927, as compared with
8199,908,840 at the end of August. Call
loans, on the other hand, have increased
to 816,Q07,333, or about $2,000,000 for the
month, reflecting the increased specula-
tion in stocks. The balance due Can-
adian banks in the United States in-
creased 81,500,000 during September, and
the amount now due is 821,410,000.
There is a. slight decrease in specie, the
amount now held by banks being $7,884,-
650,and Dominion notes amount to 815,-
682,840, also a slight decrease. The paid
up capital of chartered banks is 862,198.-
670.
62,198:670; and the reserve fund aggregates
$27.260,885. The total liabilities are
$224,062,249, while the assets are placed
at $811,691,002.
A report has recently been circulated
through the public press in reference to
the proposed canal connecting Lakes
Erie and St, Clair, that as the canal
would represent one side of an equilateral
triangle, and could only be travelled at a
rate of eight miles an. hour, whilst the
other two sides (which represent the
present route for vessels) is travelled at a
rate of fourteen miles an hour, a saving
on the round. trip of only two and a half
hours would be made. This looks very
plausible on the face of it, but it is not a
correct view of the ease, and will create
an erroneous notion as to what the sav-
ing of time really would be. We do not
predict as to the financial success of the
undertaking, nor are we in any way
championing a scheme, the financialout-
come of which may be considered in
doubt, but we object to ' such misrepre-
ser:tations as this going unchallenged,
especially as the enterprise, if carried
into effect, must materially benefit that
part of the Province, but we would point
out the fact that the canal as proposed
is to he only some twelve or thirteen
miles long, commencing at the southeast
corner of hake St. Clair, whilst the apex
of the afore -mentioned triangle is to-
wards the north of the lake, and from
that point to the opening of the canal
there will be no impediment to the
fenirteen mile rate. It will be readily
seen, therefore, that the slow rate would
be merely for the twelve or thirteen
miles and not for the whole distance of
the east side of the triangle, as the re-
port in question would lead to suppose,
so that as a matter of fact there would
be but the loss of say of an hour in each
trip.
ety to sell that they were. The amount
on passage to. England and the Continent
for this week was less than for the same
week in three years, being 25,240,000
bushels, as compared with 29,568,000 a
year ago, 26,784,000 two years ago, and
83,992,000 three years ago, A year ago
the average price paid to English farm -
ere was $2i cents per bushel. With these
facts before us we do not sae at the pres-
ent writing any good reason for receding
from the position which we took a week
ago on the side of better prices for wheat
in the future, American wheat markets
have been weak under the pressure of
heavy deliveries and a desire on the part
of the "bear" element to maintain their
control aver the cereal, but the general
feeling is that they will not long be able
to hold it down, and there is already a
marked disposition on the part of some
of the shrewdest of them to get out from,
under. Manitoba hard wheat is en good
demand for export at Buffalo and at
slightly better prices than a week ago.
Very little of this grain is finding its
way to market thzongh Canadianchan-
nobs on account of the lack of proper or
cheap transportation facilities to the
seaboard. No. 1 hard Manitoba sold
down to 55 cents at Fort William last
week, but it is quite certain that the
purchaser could not repeat his bargain
and yesterday 56 was refused for a
cargo. Liverpool has been reporting
a gradual strengthening all along
the line for the, past seven
days and at the cloe is a penny
higher with the prospect of more to fol-
low. Probably the factor whieh has had
most to do with the advance in the prices
of high grade wheat upon. the Liverpool
market is the demand on the part of Eng-
lish millers for these grades to work off
their middling and poor stock. When
bread is cheap the British want none but,
the best.
In Canada there has beenlittle of change
worthy of note in the wheat situation.
Prices in Toronto declined in the early
part of the week to 52 for white and 50
for red, but have again taken on the other
cent, and diose at 58 and 51 respectively
on the street. The deliveries there have
been very small and not nearly enough
to meet local requirements.
There does not seem to have been much
falling off in the quantity which is being
converted into feed and the local mills
are busy chopping wheat into hog fod-
der. Viewing the whole situation from
a farmer's point of view we are inclined
to think that there are several other pro-
ducts of the farm which can be sold to
better advantage just now.
Barley still holds its place in the mar-
ket, and the demand is steadily increas-
ing.,
ncreasing, both at home and abroad. Quite a
number of sales are reported this week at
increased values, and, although there is
a strong disposition on the part of hand-
lers to suppress reports of transactions,
from what we have been able to learn the
inclination of buyers is not to let the deal
go for the matter of a cent.
Oats are slightly firmer than last week,
but not to extent to benefit the seller even
a half cent per bushel.
The high price of corn and the cer-
tainty of a short crop of that cereal will
no doubt cause a stronger tendency, and
we would not advise heavy selling on pre-
sent prices. Toronto prices, 81 to 81•i
cents. Outside quotations range from 24
to 26 cents.
Peas were Iower on the English mar-
kets during the past week. being a penny
cheaper on the Liverpool market than
last week.
Potatoes are still in good demand, and
at good prices, bringing from 85 to 45
cents, and 50 cents bid for car lots. There
is no question that in view of the pries of
other provisions potatoes are a good mark
to sell.
Butter is still dull. There is a great
accumulation of the poorer grades upon
the market, and untilthat is moved there
cannot be a change for the better. Moral :
Stop making poor butter and get a better
market for the whole output.
American cheese markets are slow and
a trifle lower.
Eggs are in better demand, and the
supply is beginning tofall off a trifle.
The amount of eggs of poor quality is
still much too large to allow of a material
change, and stale eggs only serve to keep
the market in bad shape.
Hogs are the only things which travel
on legs that are worth the taking to mar-
ket, and it seems to be only a matter of
time until theytoo will have got down to
a price when they will not pay to feed.
The manwho is holding pork for a higher
market is either a fool or a prophet—is
either running up against all sense or
knows something of the future not vouch-
safed to ordinary mortals.
OUR MARKET REVIEW.
Paying the interest on the mortgage
and meeting the notes due for machinery
have been the compulsory factors which
have forced many hundreds of thousands
of bushels of wheat on an overloaded
market. The sooner the farmers of this
continent learn that even as the load of
wheat is made up of single grains so also
is the millions of bushels of the visible
supply made up of single loads from the
farm. The visible supply on this Conti-
nent is now 76,659,000 bushels as com-
pared with 66,979,000 bushels a year ago,
and when we consider the feet that the
season opened with a, much larger visible
supply than was carried over from last
year and was followed up by a merciless
pounding of markets both by the farmers
who were forced to se11 and by the wheat
sharks who were gambling on lower mar-
kets, we cannot find a great deal in the
present condition to make us lose hope
for the future, English farmers have
been delivering their wheat this week to
the amount of 853,856 bushels at 524 ets.
there, or a half tentless than the farmers
have been realizing upon their white
wheat on Toronto market. English ad-
vices go to show, however, that the qual-
ity of wheat delivered en the country
markets there is very poor, and that it is
damp and in bed condition, The British
market for Canadian grain has improved
materially during the past week, Offer-
ings have been refused in volume and
herders are not evincing the same maxi -
HERE AND THERE.
Half truths are the most dangerous
lies.
xxx
A boom in weddings is one result of bet-
ter times.
xxx
China appears to have accepted a fight
out of her class.
x X x
No one can broaden his own views by
spreading himself.
xxx
The man who rides a hobby pays well
for his transportation.
xxx
"Love makes the world go round,"
and hard sense makes it go square,
xxx
When one finds the truth in his way he
must know he is in the wrong road.
xxx
The bicycle record is broken as often
nowadays as the Ten Commandments.
xxx
The emperor of China wishes it under-
stood that he was for peace from the
start.
5t x x
It. is astonishing how fast possession
will decrease the mental value of the
thing,
xxx
When an heiress marries an extrava-
gant man she husbands her resources in
the wrong way.
xxx
There ain't much gained in Calling a
man al' r ' -
ia ., cuz if he is one he mus'know
it better'n yeou dew yeourself."
xxx
Every cloud hers a silver lining,but the
knowledge makes it only the more gloomy
to the fellow who is on the wrong side
of it,
X' X X
Sometimes it costs a man more just to
express his opinion thanit would to
express a quarter of re ton of gold across
theeaannd
s baek,
A London, Eng., sausage was found to
be seven -tenths bread, two-tenths fat,
one-tenth flesh meat with a little, season-
ing and vegetablecoloring matter,.
xxx
Foolish, persons who are in the habit of
pointing empty gums at others shouldre-
member that the law authorizes a fine of
from 810 to $100 for this sort of foolish-
ness.
x. x x
Albert Messerly, of Wheeling, was
thrown off a train and down an embank-
ment. A doctor certified that he was
dead from the shock and the undertaker
began to get the body ready for burial,
when Messerly opened his eyes and asked
where he was.
xxx
Did any one say Boston women were
slow? If so, it is time to retract. Here
is a Boston woman who is suing the es-
tate of her lover for damages for breach
of promise because he died before marry-
ing her., That is an idea which would
have done credit even to Chicago.
x. x x
A man has started to travel from the
Gulf of Mexico to Jerusalem in a covered
waggon drawn by two burros and a
bronco. Probably he expects the Atlan-
tic Ocean to open and let him pass, as the
Red Sea 'once did for a party of travellers
who were heading towards the same place.
XXX
A sharp advertiser who offered for a
small sum to supply women with cheap
substitutes for hat pins has been arrested
in Boston for misusing the mails. He
sent two rubber bands to each inquirer
with the advice : "Sew one enclto the hat
and fasten the other behind one of your
ears."
xxx
Harriet Monroe, the poet who wrote
the World's Fair dedicatory ode, is suing
the New' York World for $50,000 damages
for publishing it prematurely and dam-
aging her reputation by garbling it. If
she gets a tenth of what she claims, she
will have shown poets the mostprofitable
way of selling their produetions.
X x x
One foolish clause in the Criminal Code
is that which authorizes the infliction of
a fine of $100 or 3 months' imprisonment
on any person who ventures, with a gun
in his hand, within one mile of any place
in which a meeting is announced for the
same day. How is a hunter to now he
is within the prohibited distance, say in
the morning, of a place in which a meet-
ing is to be held at night ?
xxx
The five-year-old son of a family the
other day stood watching the baby broth-
er, who was making a great noise over
having his faced washed. The little fel-
low said to the baby : "You think you
have lots of trouble, but you don't know
anything about it. Wait till you're big
enough to get a lickin', and then you'll
see; won't he, mamma?"
x x
It has been observed that lynching in
the United. States is by no means confined
to the South nor to the places where civ-
ilization is new. One of the worst cases
took place in Michigan. And the Detroit
Free Press points out that the attempt
which ended in the military firing on the
mob was made in Fayette County, sup-,
posed to contain one of the most intelli-
gent communities in Ohio.
xxx
Probably the largest potato grown this
season was raised on the farm of Henry
Shannon, of Little Current, Ont. It is
of the enormous weight of six pounds.
Thursday he came across another that
weighed 44 pounds. Three pound pota-
toes ars common, and anything under
this would be considered small. Is there
any other part of Oatario can beat this ?
xxx
There is nothing like advertising for
greasing the wheels of trade. The Unit-
ed States Government had a left -over
supply of World's Fair souvenir half -dol-
lars of which it wanted to be rid. The
fact was made known through the news-
papers, and in a few days the demand
exceeded the supply. If you have any-
thing to sell or exchange, advertise.
A Revolution In Farming.
The pages devoted to extracts from far-
mers' letters, in the last report of the
Bureau of Industries, fairly bristle with
statements which show the extent of the
revolution now going on in agricultural
methods.
Farmers are sowing nnore coarse grain
to be used for feed, writes one from Sent
county. Wheat is being ground for the
purpose of providing feed for cattle and
pigs and we find it neve, says a voice
from Huron. Anuth,.l• from the same
county announces that more cows are
being. kept and the milk sent to cheese
factories. Creameries are in favor here,
is the report from Sullivan in Grey.
More stock is being fattened and better
winter quarters provided for the same,
says a farmer in Sunnidale, Simooe coun-
ty. More corn is being grown for win-
ter feeding; is the statement of a Wel-
lington man. The silo is coming in
slowly but surely, adds another from
Nelson, in Halton. The use of corn fod-
der stlg more rareports
Peel county agriculturist. jBefin
cattle is slowlyn
the increase here, is
what a Markham township farmer re-
ports. Most of our farmers are keeping
more cows for dairy purposes, says a eor-
The amount of crops grown in 1893
was : Fall wheat, 17,500,000 bushels ;
spring, 4,186,000; barley, 9,806,000 ;; oats,
58,584,000 ; rye,994,000 ; peas, 14,168,000 ;
corn, 15,000,000; buckwheat, 1,s80,000;
beans, 664,000 ; potatoes, 13,000,000 ;
mongol wurtzeis, 8.500,000; carrots, .3,-
0000,000 ;
,0000,000; turnips, 57,000,000; hay, 5,-
000,000 tons,
The amount of stock sold was ; Poultry,
2,017,000; hogs, 975,000; sheep, 616,000;
cattle, 461,000 ; horses, 48,000,
The total value of the crop produced
was about. 8140,000,000, the value of stock
sold was 833,000,000, and of dairy pro-
ducts 810,000,000. Thisgives, roughly,
a total of $188,000,000 as the value of the
output of the farms of Ontario in 1893.
NEWSY
CANADIAN ITEMS
THE ',VEERS' HAPPENINGS.:
Interesting Items and Indents, Import•
ant and Instructive. Gathered from
the parione Provinces.
Guelph refuses to pass a curfew by-law.
Rev. Dr. Ohiniquy's health is improv-
ing.
Durham has decided to buy a fire en-
gine.
Building operations at Smith's Falls
are lively.
The Maccabees of Wyoming will build
a new hall.
Simooe bakers sell a two pound loaf of
bread for 4 cents.
Over 1,900 cattle and 400 sheep was ex-
ported this week.'
Almonte is now a flag station for Sault
Ste. Marie trains.
This year Guelph has spent 8150,000 in
building improvements.
There are over 950 students in attend-
ance at Queen's College.
The new Oddfellows' hall in Harrow
will be dedicated Nov. 21.
Oollingwood grain market is a great
attraction for the farmers.
The Delhi Canning Co. paid out 81,400
in wages one day last week.
A fourteen -inch lizard was found to a
Barrie cistern the other day.
Thousands of bushels of oats are shipped
each week to North Shore ports.
The average attendance of pupils at
Richmond Hill public school is 188.
A number of deer have been seen in the
vicinity of Ravenshoe this autumn.
"Spotters" are said to be still at work
on the western branch of the G.T.R.
Prof. Robertson, Dominion Dairy Com-
missioner, has returned from Moose Jaw.
The city of London has collected $200,-
000 in taxes out of the $290,000 collect-
able.
Over 1,000,000, feet of lumber is to be
shipped to South Africa from Victoria,
B. C.
The Massey -Harris works at Brantford
will probably resume operations next
month.
Much sickness prevails in Mitchell,
owing to the filthy condition of the river
Thames.
A number of vessels are tied up at
Prescott owing to low water in the St.
Lawrence.
It is said the C.P.R. has purchased
Lord Brassey's 40,000 -acre farm. at In-
dian Head.
The new Lake Erie & Detroit River
railway depot at St. Thomas has been
completed.
A heavy influx of settlers into the
Northwest from the United States has
taken place.
Buildings to the amount of 871,500
have been erected at Portage la Prairie
this season.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company
are reducing the number of men in their
Belleville shops.
Mrs. A. M. Crombie, wife of the man-
ager of the Bank of Commerce at Mont-
real, died Friday.
A farmer and two tramps were burned
to death in an incendiary fire at Ayles-
ford, N.S., Friday.
Malachi Coghlan, of Arthur, Ont., is
one of the reported heirs to a $4,000,000
estate in England.
Winnipeg hotel men have been fined.
$25 each for having nickel -in -the -slot
machines in their bars.
Not guilty was the verdict in the case
of Mrs. Hartley, tried at Brantford for
poisoning her husband.
Chesley has no tax collector. The con-
stable serves the notice and the citizens
must step up and settle.
The C. P. R. land department have
been presentedwith two pumpkins weigh-
ing 173 and 192 pounds.
It is probable that a new steamboat
line will be established, having its head-
quarters at Owen Sound.
The Grand Trunk and Chicago & Grand
Trunk railway companies have placed
gates on passenger coaches.
It is said Mr. Justice Tait will be ap-
pointed acting Chief Justice of the Pro-
vince of Quebec at Montreal.
Incorporation is asked for the Went-
worth Navigation Co. to operate between
Quebec, Chicago and Duluth.
Montreal drain men advocate action by
the authorities to remedy the evil of mix-
ing inferior wheat with good.
Seven vessels which were tied up at
Prescott owing to low water have passed
down, the water having risen.
The Best in the World.
The oil of the Norwegian Cod Liver is
nature's grand restorative, and is only
found in its entirety and purity in Mil-
ler's Emulsion. It is the most palatable
and wholesome preparation of Cod Liver
Oil in the world, andis now being taken
by invalids, particularly those afflicted
with consumption, with themost aston-
ishing' success. It is the greatest blood
and flesh maker in existence, and is a life
saver to consumptives. In big bottles,
50e, and 81, at all Drug Stores,
A few additional dollars give printed
importance to any foals movements.
Uxbridge has an agitation to put two
ladies on the Board of Directors of the
Agricultural Society next year.
The engineers have completedthe sur-
vey of the St. Clair and Erie canal to
connect Lake Erie with Lake St. Clair.
The Queen's Hotel Company is being
sued. by the Star Insurance Company for
$108,000, alleged to have been advanced.
English capitalists are reported to have
purchased the Sultana and Ophir gold
mines in the Lake -of -the -Woods District.
The Sarnia Post wants the town to fix
up a room for the policemen to sit down
and warm themselves after the saloons
are closed.
The export of apples from Montreal
this season is very heavy. Last week
three steamers took away a cargo of 25,-
000 barrels.
Postoffioe Inspector Hopkirk, of Strat-
ford, fined some of Attwood's business
men $10 for enclosing money and a note
in a parcel.
Application has been made for a com-
mutation of the death sentence passed on
Joseph Trusky, the murderer, and will
be considered.
An Ottawa man while excavating for a
water service ran aeross a tin can which
contained 8488, all in half dollars of
ancient coinage.
The Montreal street railway annual
statement will show a net surplus of
nearly $50,000, after providing for divi-
dend and fixed charges.
Thomas Gallagher, tobacconist, of St.
Catharines, has been fined $40 for keeping
in his store a gambling
ing
device after the
inicks1-in-the-slot" order,
New ostoflioes
p e were opened in Ontario
on Oct, lst as follows : Greeley, Russel;
Cron' take, Addington t Haddo, Dundas;
Mitchellville South Leeds,
The Onttrio : a ner:1 0 ;, Company,
Windsor, and the Pennsylvania tube
works have a dispute on hand which in-
volves the payment of $30,000,.
Sherif Brady, of Woodstock, and Miss
Annie Shea, formerly teacher of the
separate school at St, Mary's, were mar-
ried n,t London last Wednesday.
An Ottawa man has tried a shipment
of green tomatoes to England. Each
was wrapped in paper, and the price
realized was a shilling a pound.
Squire Harry Edwards, John Edwards
and J, W. Gustin, of London, are claim-
ing heirshipp in the big Edwards estate in
New York city, worth 880,000,000..
The employes of the Dominion Cotton
Mills at Brantford will ask the Ontario
Government to appoint arbitrators to
settle the dispute with the company.
OUTBREAK OF SMALLPDX.
The report of the smallpox situation
says that six members of the Reaume
family, living on the Tecumsehroad, six
miles from Windsor, are down with the
disease. This makes a total of nine new
cases within the past week.
THE MOVEMENT OF WHEAT.
Up to the 23rd instant 4,415,009 bushels
of wheat had been brought to the differ-
ent stations west of Winnipeg, and the.
amount during the same period of 1893,
was 3,040,015 bushels. During the pre-
sent month 1 882,000 bushels have been
delivered, and the quantity for the same
period last year was abbut the same.
On BARRY AFTER DODDS.
Inspector De Barry has had a warrant
issued for the arrest of Vice -President
Metcalf of the piano manufacturing com-
pany of Brockport, N.Y., on the charge
of importing an alien laborer, George
Dodds, of Toronto, to work in the factory
at 818 a week. Dodds came, but left his
family in Toronto, where they yet re-
main.
A THREAT FROM BAY CITY..
A number of gentlemen interested in
lumber rafting met at Bay City to con-
sider the imposition of a 20 percent. duty
by the Canadian Government upon
boom sticks. A committe of Bay City,
Detroit and East Tawas lumbermen were
appointed to interview the Privy Council
at Ottawa, If no relief is granted, they
will try and secure a retaliatory Act
through the next Congress.
PUSHING. THE WORK.
Tho road now being built by the Cana-
dian Pacific from Mattawa station to
Lakes Temiscamingue and Kippers is
now ironed for a distance of forty-three
miles, and the company expects to com-
plete the undertaking by the•15th of De-
cember. Tourists as well as settlers are
going into this country in large numbers,
six car loads of agricultural implements
being sent in during the past summer,
while Mr. A. Lumsden was in Montreal
the other day making necessary arrange-
ments for the construction of a large
hotel at the foot of the lake, upon whieh
three steamers ply all the time.
CANADA'S MICA. MMES.
A distinguished party of wealthy
American, English and Toronto miners
and capitalists are at present upon a
tour of some of the principal mining dis-
tricts of the Province of Quebec, where
they have already acquired several valu-
able properties and are making prepara-
tions for the early development of a
number of mines. Prominent members
of the party are : L. Baumgarten and
friends, of Washington • H. Baumgarten,
of London, Eng. ; W. Spencer, London,
and E. Marsh Dudley. and John McAree,
of Toronto. The Baumgartens are the
largest operators in mica in Europe and
America, and have just succeeded, be-
tween purchase and bonding, in obtain-
ing control of all the best known mica
properties in that part of Canada. The
prices paid and to be paid have not tran-
spired, but are understood to be very
high. The speculators declare that be-
yond any doubt Canada hasthe finest
white mica in the world. The
most important of the mines acquired by
the syndicate are a series situated near
Murray Bay, the famous salt water re-
sort of so many American families.
These mines are situated some fifteen
miles inland from the St. Lawrence.
Others are at Beaver Lake, some fourteen
miles from Tadousac, at the mouth of the
Saguenay. At the former some forty
men are now employed and at the latter
over 150, and this number. will be largely
increased next year when electric plants
•have been introduced. The syndicate
profess to have demand for the entire
output of these mines, so much so that
the mineral is to be drawn on sleighs all
the way to. Quebec, over 100 miles, dur-
ing the winter season when the St. Law-
rence is frozen.
The Morning Greeting.
The first word or the first look in the
morning oft fixes the time for the music
of the day. It may not always be easy
to leave your room in the morning with
a pleasant face and a happy word of
greeting. You may not feel well, things
may be perplexing you, trials and trou-
bles may weigh you down, but if you
stop to think that the first word spoken
may turn the scale to tears or laughter
for those about you, the effort to forget
self would be more often made. In this
busy, bustling world only little thought
is given to cheerfulness. Men and wo-
men strive only for the goal of profess-
ional, political or social prominence,
crushing down the tender feelings till
their hearts become oold and hard. We
forget that—
"Our lives are tunes.
God writes the words,
And we set them to musicat pleasure
The tunes grow bright or gay or sad,
As we choose to fashion the measure,"
Absent -Minded.
The fact that women are not used to
latch -keys was noticeable in a Pennsyl-
vania street ear yesterday mornirg. A.
young lady entered the ear and took out
her purse, opened it and got out a nickel.
Then she reached in her pocket and me-
chanically took out a night key, opened
her purse and put back the nickel, and
sat holding the key in her hand. Tho
curiosity of the passengers was aroused
and they all smothered smiles when she
put her key into the conductor's hand
and asked for a transfer ticket to North
Illinois street.
Preparing for the Dentist.
":Professional advice is by no means
scant," remarked a man, holding his
hand to his face, "but 1 have learned
d a
thing or two about dentistry which,
a
layman, I believe to be mighty helpful.
When a man has an engagement to keep
ata dentist's he wants to go to bed an
hour or two earlier the night before, gat
a good sleep and abstain entirely from
stimulents or nerve disturbers, such as
coffee or fermented 'liquors, before get-
ting into the chair. IIn this condition a
man can stand considerable scraping,
fihng and pounding on his teeth."
must
If you
draw the line
at
and have, like thousands of
other people, to avoid all
food preparedwith it, this
is to remind you that there
is a clean, delicate and
healthful vgetable short-
ening,
hortening, which can be used
in its place. If you will
USE
COTTOLENE
instead of lard, you can eat
pie, pastry and the other
" good things" which other
folks enjoy, without fear of
dyspeptic consequences. De-
liverance from lard has come.
Buy a pail, try it in your
own kitchen, and be con-
vinced.
Cottolene is sold in 3 and
5 pound pails, by all grocers.
Made only by
The N. K. Falrbank
Company,
Wellington and Ann St ,j.
MONTREAL. J
FROM THE UNITED STA.TESh
DOINGS ACROSS TILE LINE.
*Uncle Sam's Broad Acres Furnish Quite
a Few Small Items that Aro Worth a
Careful Reading.
Next year there will be but one Ameri-
can cruiser on duty in the Behring Sea.
Twelve people were burned to de ath on
Saturday morning in a hotel fire at Seat-
tle, Wash.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes originated
the expression,, "Hub of the Universe;"
as applied to Boston.
The striking weavers at Fall River,
Mass., have voted by a narrow majority
to continue the fight.
The lumber dealers of Leslie County,
Ky., are said to have lost at least 850,000
owing to the Gorman tariff.
Official estimates of the wheat crop in.
Ohio place it at 50,952,483 bushels, the
largest in the state's history.
The Social Purity League of Chicago
has decided to establish several homes
for the rescue of fallen women.
General O. O. Howard agrees with
General Schofield that the size of the
regular army should be increased.
Eighteen refrigerator cars, filled with
5,700,000 pickles, recently left Pittsburg,
consigned to a Kansas City dealer.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, in a late
speech, said : "In all great questions of
morals a woman is worth two men."
Adolph Kraus, corporation counsel of
Chicago under Carter Harrison, has
secured control of the Chicago Times.
The inventor of the "missing word"
craze, Thomas Foster, has been s• nt to
jail for three months as a common fraud.
Several hotels in Baltimore refused to
entertain Swami Vivekanada, a priest
from India, because he was dark skinned.
An expcxt duty on cotter. is ' Ming
stoutly advocated by Southern, rswhoare
dismayed at the low price of their great
staple.
Among the newspaper men now in the.
United States Senate are Hawley, Chand-
ler, Walsh, Gallinger, Hansbrough and
Peffer.
Daisy Majors, a sixteen -year-old girl
who has acted as postmistress at Vane--•
qum, Pa., is found to have embezzled
$1,000.
Baptists in session at Jamesville, Wis.,
protested against the appropriation of
government money for sectarian Indian
schools
Father Grey, of St. Peter's church,
Chicago, caught a thief who attempted,
to rob a woman who was attending early
services.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crawley, of Crawford,
Ga., died from blood poisoning, caused
by handling tainted meat, when her hand
was bruised.
It is said 600,000,000 fish of various
kin ds have been he+tchrd. and.1oc se•d. under
the auspices of •the. United States fish
commission.
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