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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-12-6, Page 6BOK:et:era ;the o not reeetveeheer pipe 4:rot:aptlywUi pleese notiil us at once, 4idvertieing rates on applieation. TILE EXETER ADATOCATE‘ TIIIIRS1).4,3, DEO. 6, 1664. Bails y--TheSth upplyiu Duffel() at the eed of the week was S.51'.5.000 buslitle, whih eluases a decrease of 47$- (X'() bushe1s. dw!bg he week au a is. 000 lees thee was in eight a year ago at this that. Tbe &mend leas geed for small lt tie I oth of Canadian etai, "West - Weeks Calleinerelal SteeretarY, The preliminery official eetimate of the Baiesian wheat crop is 48,00 1,000 blnitels less and rye 40,060,000 more then in 1898. j. S. Playfair & 0o. Itave purchased the 'ergo sawinills at Midland, Onto and signed a eontract for ten years to supply to Arthur Hill, of Saginaw, Mi1I. 20,- 000,000 feet of lumber autruallv. The planing, and box factories, will, it is be- lieved, be opened almost immediately. Another slight deerease in the num- ber of failures in. the Dominion last week, when they nure.bered only 81, as evillest 83 the previous week and 85 the corresponding week of a. year ago. On- tario heads the lisb with 16, a decrease of 4, none of which were of Any import- ance, ante one having a rating of over 85,00G. In, Qatebec there were 8, an in- crease of 1, New Brunswick had 1, Manitoba 4 and British Columbia 2. Nova Bootie. ad .Prince Edward island had no bankrupte last week. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade in the United States for the past week says : There are some changes for the better. The gain is slow and in some directions not very distinct, bat the signs of it are a little more defimite than last week. The most important of them is larger em- ployment of labor, answering a better dernand on the whole for maemfactared products. Prices of farm produots in the aggregate do not improvel bat the prevailing hopefulness is felt in some- what larger transactions. The f: reign trade of Canada is al a most satisfactory condition. The re- turns for Ootober show that the exports inereased in value 89)0,000 as compared with the same month af Met year, the figures being 814,608,666, as against 818,- 706,0n3. The asereaeo for the four months cf the fiecal year is three and a half million); as compared with the cor- responding period of last year, but some allowance must be made for the lower prices of exportable prodnee this year. On the lo -at market it was quiet and the demand was not so good fts a week ago although as high as 45 eente eves paid for exeeptionally good lots which went Ax' ehipment. The range of prices was fruot 42 to an 45 cents d from 37 to 41 eenee oateide. Corn is not in. nearly so favorably a poeition as at our last writing and. has declined a trifle on all tho worldle mar. kets. Oats are almc sb featureless and are steady ar.a are selling at from 34 to St cert s on this market. In common with other feed grain there is almost nothing to note concerning them. . Peas are reported higher on the Eng. Ush markets and are trifle firmer heee. The feeling seems to be for firm or slight- ly better markets,. Qaotations for peas on Toronto market at the close were about 55 cents with very small offerings. Potatoes were a little better this week on amount of the comparatively small quantity which Game by rail from out- side points and the market closed at from 45 on traele to 55 cents out of store. There have been a number of reports about rot in the potatoes in store and we are inclined to think that with the pres- ent price so fair that there would. be little use in holding it they can be sold to advantage from the field. Butter is still borne down by the weighe of the poor and common stock which has overloaded this market for so long. The demand for these grades is very poor and the prices range from 10 to 18 for poor and from 12 to 17 for dairy tubs. Rolls larger than pounds sold at the same price as dairy tubs. Crea.mery and. extra choice brought from 2210 25 cants. Eggs are in better demand than at our last as the supply of those which can be cheesed as strictly fresh hes fallen eff to a largo extent and the great mass of old and. stale etc& has at least ter a time disappeared. Prices ranged from 14 cies. for packed eggs, and fresh eggs from 15 to 16 cents. The live stock .elaipping season. is at an But while there is this decrease in tne end, and there will be very little more total exports it is gratifying to note that eent across the team now. .411 the ship - rt; for four months in goods the produce of Canada increased 861.867. Xurning to th.e other side of the account, we find that Canada's dependence on foreign manufactured ge.cids is less than formerly. This indicates economy, and. the oetlook is lower rates of exchange with the balance of trade in onr favor. Canada's imports of goods from foreign countries for Ootober are valued at 81,- 500,000 less than in the same month of 1893, while the imports for the past four months aggregate only 839.297,189 as compared with $44,088,242 'during the corresponding four raonths of last year. The financial situation,although show- ' ing little or no Ci hange, s considerecl on the mend.. The late issues of Govern- ment and. municipal bonds have been satisfaetorily floated. at rates favorable to the community. Tho leading money markets of the world are a trifle firmer this week for long-time loans in. conse- quence of a little better demand. Local- ly, banks and large iinancial institutions are haadicapped by the high rates paid, for deposits, but a move is being institut- ed in the direction, of lo Peering the rates. If this results in. the withdrawal of de- posits to any extent, the business and in- dustrial classes are likely to gain some benefit. General trade in Torontb this -week is not masked by any special pro- minence. A. moderate sorting -up busi- ness is reported, and the more seasonable weather has had. beneficial effect on sales of heavy dry goods, furs and the like. The trade outlook semis a little brighter owing partly to the better prices of wheat, and partly to the caution exer- cised by wholesale dealers in not pur- chasing large stocks of merchandise. With colder weather it is expected that general trade will improve; at least the hopeful feeling continues. The n.ural3er of failures throughout the p.rovince shows a decrease, an encouraging fea- ture in th.e situation. OtoB DIARKET REPORT, Things are certainly coining our way this week again as the markets have slowly but very seemly firmed up -antil at the dose, and. the outlook for wheat - growers is now brighter than it has been for many months. The English markets have steadily grown stronger on wheat and at the close slaow an advance of from. 6a. to is. according to the quality of the offerings. Notwithstanding the fact that there was an increase of 600,000 bushels of wheat On passage from this continent to the foreign markets there was not the slightest weakness develop- ed, and when this was followed by the report that the -visible supply had in- creased by another million it did not make even an impression on the solid front of the advance. In the west there was 8 great deal more activity than has been exhibited for a considerable time, as the better prices brought oat a lot of -wheat held by those who had. been wait- ing for the rise. A leading western journal thus speaks of the feeding of wheat to animals : "The consumption by animals is one of those silent factors, however, that draws directly from faint bins, with none of the noise that accompanies the market- ing through the usual channels. It neither adds to the visible supplies nor shows in terminal reeeipts, bet noiseless- ly drops out of sight." The supply of wheat in the Norbhwest at the dose of the week was 30,264,842 bushels, against 22,021.781 bushels last year. Farmers° are not selling as fast now as they aid last year. Their tales up to two weeks ago were much larger than they were a yeat ago, but they have dropped off to a large extent since that time. In New York the export trade was email and clearances were light. Re- ports in regard to the erop in Argentina indicates a larger crop than was antici- pated, and thit was a faetor which caused at least a teraporary slackness in the: demand foe' shipment. On the loaal market wheat was quiet but 'very Arm, and we note that Ontario wheat was in good demand at one emit advance at the dose, Red winter wheat brotight 56 cents standard arid white wheat 58 on the Toronto market. Lok - bag OVer the eituattein as a whole we are inelined to have more faith in the future for wheat than at any time for a long time 5.56r awl we ate of opinion that there wine better things yet in thie aereal. ping space on the outgoing steamers has been take n at high rates. Th:ngs are looking much better 0:a the locat ewe.- kets and anireels in good eenditiog whieh are net too heavy or Coarse are fetching better prices, but there is no improvement to note in the heavy chip- ping grades. Pork was dull and very little offered, sales were slow, and prices poor. What little was offered on this market were sold at 85, and we are of opinion that the colder weather will not serve to stife fen the market a little bit. Selling merits this week • Potatoes, wheat and barley. enerey trot s is rt ferred to by aerreeenza Oatsin touts of regt et. BeferenOes to vspes are leesthan usual, lint vineyards ell ar tL iut,*i.)0d t$Un.(itiOn_, and SO also are fruit trek s exeet t in the eases eited above. Several cerraepoadents epeek well ef the eiteets of applying Parte green, kerosene emulsion, and the Breaux n ixture. Our fruit growers are teetuning more e.lerb to the imporhe ence of both -preventive and reintdial reedit:de. Bns AZ4.1) TIO$EY.---There is very lit- tle to say egarding bees "beyond what was contained in the August bulletin. The surplus hotey has been chiefly from alsike and 1: asswood. What little white clover was e,itrqctrd is dee eribed as of rather pear quality. Polnernee—The keepiag of poultry on the farm is regarded by correspondents from a -variety of standpoints, Some elaim that there is more loss thaa profit in fowl as ordiearily Itept, as they do more injury than benefit to the growing mpg and eat more than they return. Others hold that the destruction of in- sects by fowl is of great bene6t to agri- culture and. that th:ey can be fed largely upon scraps and poor grain that other- wise would be wasted, It is also pointed out that the product of the hennery pays th.e grocery bill and. that poultry also gives a much needed variety to the home ta,ble. The great a,hurdanee of grass- hoppers furnished turkeys with ehoice food, mid these birds are said to be in partieularly geed condition on that ac- count. PASTemutS AND lawn STOole,—The long drouth of summer left pastures in a rather bare condition, but fall rains revived them to a wonderful extmt, and live stock in general had. a splendid chance to pull up. The supply Of cattle was greater than the clemarel, and although few fat stock were offering they were in teocid. general condition. Sheep also were in a healthy and vigorous state, but the demand for lambs was light, except at such low prices that few holders eared to sell. An immense numl,er of hogs were sold when corr sp. ndents wrote, I:sing disposed of chiefly on foot. Tms DAmv,—This braneh of agrieul- ture is more than holding its own. While there was a great falling off in the milk flow in st vexal counties in Westein On- tario owing to the midsun tier drouth, the returns fi pm that half of the pro- viece aro still ea eouregi.ng, while the re- ports from the dairy c: elides along the St. Lawrence are even more satisfactory. A most decided ireprovt men t ie, rk ported in the motility of kitten and most of tbet product has been disposed cf at a peseiag price, NOVENBEB, oB4OP BULLETIN. Fiume Minn -The quality of -the grain crops harvested in 1894 may be briefly stated thus: Fall wheat is in general re ported as being of good qual- ity, some being extra heavy; spring wheat, light in weight and shrunken in many districts; barley, of good color, bat iaclined to be under weight; oats, variable, on the whole ander the average in quality; rye, very good, but very lit- tle reported; peas, very "buggy" all through the western counties—some say "more bugs thau peas," quality there- fore not so good as was expected. In addition to the pea bug grasshoppers were most destructive in the western half of Ontario. The drouth was the prineipal cause of falling off in crops. The corn suffered, very severely from the drouth and growth durirg the sum- mer was slow, but after September 1 the recovery was rapid- and most marked. The crop has varied greatly. Hops are reported. to be under the average; millet, variable, poor to very good; flax, on the whole a good crop; rape, only fair; sorghum, not so exten- eively grown. as formerly owing to in- adequate means of extracting the syrup, but a fair crop in the southwest.. CLOVER.—Red. clover suffered much from winter killing. The drouth affect- ed it as much as most other crops, caus- ing a short crop. Owing to lack of fodder mush red clover was pastured. that would otherwise have bean allowed' to form seed. The crop of clover seed as a consequence is short this year in all parts. TUE Mew Pato Weina,T.—As to acre- age, very few report an 'increase; most correspondents give a decrease from 5 to 50 per cent. The acreage is probably from 10 to 20 per cent. less than last year. The ground was in fine condition, the only drawback being that there was too little moisture. At the time of re- porting the general statement was that it never was in better condition. Little or no injury of any kind was reported. POTATonS,—The yield of potatoes wsll be considerably below the average, ehiefiy owing to the drouth, although many correspondents in the counties east of Peel and along the St. Lawrence speak of a good return. NEWSY CANADIAN ITEMS THE WEEKS' RAPPENINGS. /nteerssetinel Items and Itaildenta beeporee Ant and Inetrneelvek Gathered from One Variant( ltemovInees. STILL ANOTHER TRIUMPFL—IVEr. Thorn- _ as S. Bullen, Sunderland, -writes : "For fourteen years I was afflicted with Piles, and frequently I was unable to walk or sit, but four years ago was cured by using Dn. Tuoelas' SOnnernio Orr, I have also been subject to Quinsyfor over forty years, but Balearic Oil cured it, and it was a permanent cure in both eases, as neither the Piles nor Quinsy have troubled me since." seize the Opportunity at Once. When the opportunity occurs to escape from death only lunaties will refuse to do it. But there are many consuraPtive people lying on death beds who can es- cape the threatened doom if they -will take Miller's Emulsion of coo. Liver Oil. Some are not aware of such a preparation., and if they die it will be the result of ignor- ance. Those who know that Miller's Eraulsion makes new blood and enables the consumptive to get strength to over- come the disease are self -destroyers if they still neglect to obtain th e life-giving remedy. Miller's Emulsion is the great nerve -strengthener and blood -maker., and cures Coughs, Colds,lirmaciatiis, Scrofula, and elle-Ling affections. In Big Bottles, 50c. and 81, at all Drug Stores. ROOTS.—Turnips have suffered from varieus catses. Early in the season the drouth was trying to the crop, and in Many counties, but more especially. in Huron, Grey and Perth, much injury was done by grasshoppers. Wibh the fall raias the crop revived to an en- eouragiug extent an.d the growing sea- son of October was most favorable to improvement. 1VIangels did not suffer so mneh from dronth as turnips and made s good deal of late growth. The yield ill some quarters has bean vary fair, Carrots wete set back by the drouth, but revived considerably with timely rains in September. Where well cultivated the orop will be much better i than was expected n Aegust. Filuir.—The supply of marketable apples is not as large as that of the aver- age year, except in some of the Bay of Quinte and SC Lewrenee counties, al- thottgh there is more than enough for home supply in most sections. Large quantities of apples wee blown down before ripening and much of what re- imained was spotted and wormy.. Pears, althongh not free from blight in a Mw local sections, have yielded well, and the peach mem has also been large and on the whole satitifeatta y, Where the ear. cello was destroye& or prevented planes gave good returns, bet the raVagea of the black knot amongst both Olin and Ailsa Craig has a glee caule. Petrolea, has a rainstrel club, Brighton wants a water system, Grirosby has the ourfew by-law. Merritton is to have a new bakery. Milton delights itself in buttermilk. Newboro' wants a telephone service. Many cheese fantories closed last week. The Leasniagbon gas well is down 550 feet. Carleton. Place has a eurfew bell regu- lation. Portsmouth's youth. play football on Sunday. Hamilton refuses to reduee market stall, rents. The Brampton foundry has been sold for 86,000. The Ste Thomas night school is not a success. An Akron thief is amused of stealing seventy-five ale bottles. There is diphtheria in the county jail of Pembroke. Anew Oddfollow's hall has been opened in Winnipeg. Cardwell postoffiee is to be re -opened in a week or two. The first meershaura pipe was made and smoked by Kavol Kowates, a shoemaker, in 1828, in,Pestin Hungary. It is still in a museum there. • It may be only a trifling cold but neg- lect it and it will fasten its fangs to your lungs, and you -will soon be carried to an untimely grave. In this country we have sadden changes and mast expect to have coughs an d colds. We cannot avoid them, but We MU effect a cure by using Bickle's Anti-ConsumPtive Syrup, the medicine that has never been known. to fail in curing coughs, eolds, bronchitis, and all affections of the throat, lungs and chest. Petrolea's new M. C. R. station is pro- gressing rapidly. The woods at Dunnville are said to be swarming with rabbits. Napanee is talking about the revival of its brush factory. An epidemic of scarlet fever is reported at Souris, Maxi. The big mill at Portage is Prairie runs tweiaty-fonr hours a day. Coburg wants a steamer to run exclus- ively for its benefit. Seaferth i3 esporting large quantities of eggs to England. Deletion has ahooping coukh and mumps pretty extensively. The Kingsville Evaporating works are running night and day. A MA/Merit it Rn foot to build 4 Mesonie temple in Winnipeg. . G. T. R. employes do not like the sys- tem of payment by cheques. 4. Oarleton Place gunner got 175 dueks on the Mississippi Bayer. The new Oddfellovss' hall in Winnipeg was opened last week. New Masonic lodgo rooms will be open- ed in Chatham next week. For the promotion of the Russian wool trade a congress of sheep -breeders, wool- en manufacturers and dealers itt wool will be held in. ,Tune next at Warsaw. Fever and, Ague and Bilious Derange- ments are. positively cured by the use of Parmelee's Pills. They not only cleanse the stomach and bowels frora all bilious matter, but they open the excretory ves- sels, causing them to pour copious effu- sions from the blood into the bowels, after -whieh the corrupted mass is thrown out by the natural passage of the body. They are used as a general family medi- cine with the best results D1 -fitting boots and shoes cause corns. Holloway's Corn Cme is the article to Ilea. Get a botble at once and cure your corns. One. or two bottles of Northrop & Ly - man's Vegetable Discovery will purify the blood, remove Dyspepsia, and drive away that extreme tired feeling which causes so much distress to the Industrious, and persons of sedentary habits. Mr. W. E. Ellis, Druggist, Pension's Palls, writes: " The Vegetable Discovery is selling well and giving good satisfaction." The Major Must be Obeyeil. A. Maine soldier tells how he got a tid- bit -while his regiment was marching along a hot and dusty road in southern Pennsylvania. Orders were very strict against foraging, but in spite of them a soldier suddenly sprang out of the remits in pursuit, of a fat gobbler sanding among the sumach bushes on the road- side. The turkey started off in a hurry, with the man after him. Major Brown (haled out angrily: "Halt! What do you moan? Halt 1" A few hurried steps and the soldier had the turkey laid low with a. blow from hie rifle barrel. "There, d,um ye," he exelairaed, as he picked, it up, "I reckon you'll under- sttend that when. the Majot says halt, he means halt!" Mother Grave's ,Worm. Extenninetot has the largest sale of any similar prepar- ation sold m Canada. It always gietes satisfaction. by restoring health to the little folks. ingc: Beatke for October amounted to 078,205 and the withdrawals to 8328,816, The Canadian eraieer Petrel took to Hondeaxt this week over a heads ed United States gill nets seised near Pelee Island, A leather slue was set on fire in a North Bay shop from the concentration of the Milli :3 rays throng)), a lamp refiee- obertson Bus., of Leamington, claim to have made 241 pounds of batter from the milk of fent jersey eows in four days. Imanan skeleton has been found at Portage la Prairie, supposed to be that oi an Englishman who disappeared last year. The Provincial Government has ob- tained judgment against Quebec City for a portion, of the fines at the Recoeder's Co era New postoffices have been opened in Ontario at ()terrine, Muskoka; South 'Wentworth; and Glenwood Sta- tion, Kent. Comber farmers have organized to build a cheese factory there. Last week the West Lorne canning factory -paid out 81,000 in wages. London. claims a population of 38,427 under the new assessment. Last year Kingston paid more than 17,000 for Rs fire department. A. C. Freshman is the new leader of the 7th Battalion. band, Loudon. New wells are being put clown on the oil territory, 211(1 eon. Plymton. A. Canadian thistle imbedded in grow- ing petite is a curiosity seen. in Galt. • C. Evans. of Bosanquet, has harvested 3,000 beshels of mangles this fall. The vertical system of writing is to be adopted in the Stratford sehools. Cannington had 120 applications for the principalship of its Public school. Sarnia complains of Port Huron people who shoot ducks in its bay on Sunday. The old carriage works of Broekville will be converted into a summer hotel. Berlin -will give a land roller factory ten years exemption if it locates there. C. H. Wood, proprietor of a cheese fac- tory at Maxville, was robbed of 36,000. Anti-toxine was successfully tried on a diphtheria patient in the Hamilton Hos- Wyoming's new Masonic temple is ex- peeted to bo ready for occupancy by next month. A. charge of shot was fired through a C.P.R. car between Teeswater and Glen - woman. The Erin village Public school, closed on amount of diphtheria, has been re- opened. The Provincial Fat Stock show will take plaee in. Guelph on December II, 12 and 13. .A. Barrie man cut a dog's ear off with a cleaver and then paid .75 for his cruelty. The assessment on the Hamilton Gas Company's mains has been reduced by 840,000. The falling off of Ontario's field crops last summer is attributable to the drought. Canada's exports for October show an increase of 3900,000 over the same month last year. Sixty-one thousand bushels ot wheat were shipped from Neepawa daring the last week. The Protestant Public school in Mont- real contains 500 more pupils this year than last. It is said that a great many large bueks were killed this year, but only a few fawn. The Winnipeg Collegiate Institute has abandoned the University course and the free system. The web of human fortunes is woven for eternity. THE FARM AND GARDEN AMATEURS IN THE GARDEN. Notes of Interest to the Flower, Vrteit and Vegetable Grow -tea and Talks lee Trees and eihrabs. are erronemiely regarded as "too hard" for women, On the contrary the danger' o1 overwork, nervous exhaustion and physical in3iern is 'minimized by the (mil- l:mien. Indeed, physicians not infre- quently advise garden work as a curative treatment in many dieeaaes arising from so-ealled 'feminine' oeetmetions, Gar- dening is destined to become a part of the general education. of women," anne STOOK NOTES. The first cattle exported from America to Glasgow was in:WM—two animals in one week, followed by six itt one week, then 12 head; the next 30 head and 50 head at a cost of 848.66 per head; the expense was too great, and. in 1874 the shipments were stopped, but were re- vived in 1875, and continued to increase. The freight now is 39.78 per head. At first there was great prejudice against American meat, but now American meat is the equal of any in the world. It is important that the floor of the henhouse should be svithoub cracks. These are almost inevitable where boards are used, and the moist droppings will also cause board floors to rot quickly. A cement floor, if properly made, will last a lifetime, tend is very easily cleaned. To prevent the excrement from adhering to to it, keep a little dry earth in one cor- ner, and sprinkle it over the floor when entirely cleaned, and again occasionally as the droppings accumulate under the roosting places. The raosb inanortant point in growing hogs for profit, e-ven when they are to be fattened early, is to secure a strong, vig- orous frame. That the fattening process should not been too early is well under- stood by practical farmers. Heavy feed- ing on corn will stunt a young pig even more quiekly than will insuilicieucy of food. But it is almost eq.:x.8113T import- ant not t3 go to the other extreme. A, pie that for days and weeks has had in- sulffeient food has by that fact become incapable of properly digesting a large quantity. The stomach, like other bod- ily organs, is strengthened by appropri- ate exercise and weakened when it is either overloaded or has too little to do. There is no harm in givingyoung pigs plenty to eat, provided it is the right kind of food for growth. with compara- tively- little of fat•forming material in its composition. The pigalways begins right. The sow's mi ilk s excellent for growth, and for the first day or two, while weak, the pig takes its food, in small quantities and often. It is antout the time the pig is one or two weeks old that its dam's milk beeomes insufficient. The age depends on the size of the litter and the milk producing capacity of the sow. If stunted at the time the sow's milk becomes too little for them, the pigs never after recover all that is then lost, wOrenn IN GARDENING. It is said in Collingwood ;that the White and. Black line of steamers will amalgamate, Between Cainsville and Hamilton 600 men and 400 teams are at work °lithe T., H. 88 B. railway. The Hamilton Radial Electric Railway Company intends to establish its ear shops in Hamilton, A. Hanley and W. P. Penwiek, King- ston, will be presented with Royal Hu- mane Society medals. Dr. Smith, late of Plympton, was robbed lately of fifty cents by a gang of Port Huron footpads. Geo. Ordish, of St. Thomas2 was fined $50 and tosts for allowing liquor to be eonsnmed in his shop. The Congregational chtirch at Portage la Prairie has been abandoned and the property bought by the Anglicans. Levi Carroll, 14eriin s centenarian, has moved down South. Mr. Carroll is 120 years old and was born in slavery. The deposits in the Government Say. Gardening is one of those occupations which have been regarded as belonging to raen. Hattie M. Clarke, M.D., how- ever, protests against men pre-empting certain tiades which are eminently sum - able to women. In. Rome and Country Magazine, she says: "The time is ainhand when the gentler sex will no longer submit to be relegated to inferior occupations at inferior wages. The young girl who by reason of her brief schooling, cannot take.a position in a business house, who for just ethical reasons shuns the counter, and who has no inclination to blight her young life by factory work or mill work, must look for other occupat ons. Gardening is one of these, and experience has shown the fitness of women for the work;. for the number of women gardeners is enemas- ing daily, and flourishing schools of hor- ticulture for women even now exist in Europe. And why, pray, should the trade of florist be regarded as particu- larly masculine? In Germany, women floral artists have almost entirely re- placed men. They require less wages, and are undeniably, ma an average, more dainty and artistic in their work. Flower arran.ghne is an art, and, in our opinion, a particularly feminine art. In Japaa, skill in arranging flowers is looked upon as a necessary part of every woman's education; inculcating, as it does, a love of order 'neatness, artistic taste and the beautiful. Employment of this kind is only elevating and refining. The mill or factory or store exerts a very question- able moral and undeniably unfortunate physical influence on the lives of young women. An occupation which brings one in constant touch with God's fairest works cannot be so, Again, superior ability and higher artistic merit com- mand increased financial recognition. "The healthfulness of this kind of em- ployment is not to be over estimated. It (encourages free action of the body itt the open air, and while learning the secrets of plant hfe in the workshop of Nature, the young woman is also sowing seed whieh will boar valuable fruit in her possible future life as a matron. Con- scientious, watchful care, order and neat- ness that are requisite in the care of plant life instil habits that are not to be underrated in domestic life. Women with homes and ixtoderate means can find it verypalpabIe method for increas- ing their slender incomes by lim- ited floriculture. Finely -grown plants and choice flowers always find a ready market and, and ea,n be culti- vated at a small expense and sold at a considerable profit. It, may be argued that the work is too arduous for women, but the argument is weak and unfounded on 18,et. Carrying a baby front morn until night, stooping over wash tubs, scrubbing on hands and knees, standing behind. a counter for ten to twelve hours each day, *working a sewing machine from dawn until night, all these are re- garded as specially feminine occupations, While the watering, pruning, transplant- ing and cultivation of platxts and owere eirtin's Philosophy. A. round sum never squares a crooked business, Out of the abuadanee of the mouth the - tongue w egged.. Manieures would starve if some peo- ple's corns troubled them as little as. eheir eonscieaces. Some men make hisbory that is never writteek, and, some write history that has. never been made. It is good to be rooted and grounded, provided you are not rooted in the ground. Go ahead when you are sure you are right, but don't run over everyone else, itt the road. Overheard in the Cabin. Close doan make de man, but day hes' er pow'ful sight ob 'finance on 'is se'f re - speak. Any man feels twict ev, decent. when he's gotter biled shutt on, Dale is er hull raft o' folks dat knows a Leap mole 'bout payin' de nation's debt dan dens does bout payin' der own. Troof may be pretty -well undah watah, but dar ain' no use try& ter gib 'er out. wid 'er fishin' hook an' lino. When you gets long side de gal yer labs, yer Italie% he'p feelin" clat shes look-. atyer thee de big end ob a spy glass. Hit doah pay ter sing an' pray ser• ha'hd on de Sabbaf dist yer am tiahed ob- piety foh de res' ob de week. The Latest Invention. Fakir—Here you are, gentlemen, the, greatest invention of the age. Passerby (stopping to listen)—What is ib? Fakir—A. magnetized keyhole plate for - front doors. It will attract an ordinary street key from a distance of two feet. All you have to do to find the keyhole is. to take out the key and hang on to it. , (Three men were injured in the crow& that gathered to buy.) When liaby as sick, we gave her Castorlia When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had Children, she gave them Castorla.. The latest development itt the milk baseness in London is to drive the cows aroued the route and have them milked in the presenae of the eustomers. 1151LEOTRIO MOTORS from one-balf Horse -EU Power up to Eleven Horse Power. Write . for prices, stating power required, voltage of current to be used and whether supplied by street carline or otherwise. ,TORONTO TYPE FIMITDRY, Toronto and Winnipeg. KERR WATER MOTOR, from one-eiglith to twenty torsepower, C,oroparative tests 'have demonstrated ttas water raotoe to be the most economical agent known for generahng power from a 'system of waterworks iurnialnag a pressure of 30 pounds and upwards. 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