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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-5-31, Page 3DOMINION PARLIAMENT, FIFTH SESSION --- SEVENTH EARL. IAMENT. MANFAOTURERS PRICES. Sir Richard Cartwright °ailed the atten- tion of the Government to egret he termed, an abuse suffered by hardware importers in Toronto and Montreal for some time past in getting goods purchased in the United States through the Customs. It was complained by the importers, he said, • that when goods wore passed they received an amended invoice adding upwards of 80 per cent. to the original duty. Similar •practices, he said, had prevailed in the de - pertinent with regard to other classes of goods. • Mr. Wallace said, that the duty of the Govermnent was to protect the revenue of tho country. In accordance with the law, he had sent special trained officers to the United States to ascertain the prices of articles. Tbis has been done in the case of bicycles, agricultural implement, and °thee goods. . Mr. Charlton said it was indecent for the Government to select as judge and jury a man who was interested in exerad- ing American invoices and Importations fete im Canada. It NV4S uonsonse for the hon. gentleman to talk about laving re- duced the duty as long as they pursued Buell a coarse. Mr. Foster saki his hon. friend might quarrel with the system of protection if he pleased, but so long as that system was the law of the country, and so long as the Coeservative Government was in power it was the duty of the Govermnent to have the system carried out in its entirety, and not as a sham. his friend the Controller of Customs had taken the method that co:imam-idea itself to him, and not an hon. gem:Woman had impugned- the vera- city of the information. As long as no greater charge could be brought against the Customs Department than that it lived up to the law, he thought such a charge wonld have no more weight in the country than it had in the House. Mr, Mills asserted that the agents sent to the American snanufacterers obtained their information under false pretences. Mr, Wallace explained that such was not the case. He had instructed them in each case to go to the numnfactuars direct, and state their business, and ask for the prices, so as to enable them to judge of the value of the importations. Mr.Prioraala the Controller ot Customs hacl done nothing wrong, but hadadmin- istered his department in the way he was expected to do by the country. His own experioace as an imnpoeter enabled him to state that American manufacturers had one list of prices for the United States and another for Canada. Maeacietullen ctharged the Controller of Customs with prostituting the Customs law in the interest of the manufacturers: Ho had stated last year that the duty was imposed npon American manufactures coming into this county according to the wholesale prices, but the deity was actual- ly based on the retail price. BEHRING SEA CONFERENCE. 'Via Davies asked whether there was any • truth in. the report that the Canadian Government had been asked to send dele- gates to the proposed conference at Wash- ington in Ootober about the Behring Sea fishing matter. Mr. Foster—We have intimated our willingness, andl think the negotiations have gone so fax that it is pretty well understood that conference will be held, but as to the exact date I cannot say. The conference is to take in consideration seine nieans of arriving at the amounts that are to be paid. It arises out of the failure of the United States Congress to carry out the recominendation made by the Presi- dent for the payment of the sum of $425,- 000 as reparation. THE BUDGET. Mr. Edwaxds emphatically denied that • labourers were well off in this comary, Or in any protected country. On the con- trary, therawas no class injured by pro- tection as much as the labourinat= class. Two of the gmatest enemies oflabour were protection and the standing armies of Europa It was ridiculous to assert that the farmers of the county were protected, except possibly in the article of pork, and then the protection. was snore foe the pack- • ers than the fanners. He predicted evil days to come on account of the policy of the Administration. The Liberal party was not opposed to the manufacturers, but opposed that class of them that had to be • assisted at the expense of the community in general. Mr. Wallace showed that it coast $1.50 to collect every dollar of revenue from the pulbio serices in 1877-8. Respecting the financial standing of the country, he said that all Liberal critics had to admit that the credit of the countryhad increased, and that Canada had made an excellent • loan the other clay,but they qualified it by saying that the rate of interest of allother mu/dries had gone down also. The facts dicl not show that to be the case. Coin- pariag Jauuary, 1879, with January, 1895, they would, find that Canadian four per cents, wore worth then from 89 to 91 per cent., and were weed] now from. 110 to 312 per cent. That was an increase of 21 points. Mr. Wallace said 11 110(1 been oharged that the Conservatives had increased the expenditure unduly. He asked the House to contrast the increase of expenditure at Ottawa under Conservative rule and the increases of =pandit -tam in the provinces under Liberal inde: The actual Federal, inereflee In five years had been two per cent., whereas the provincial increases during that period had aggregated e2 per coat. While the Liberals were in power they increased the public debt by $8,000,- 000 per annum. The record of the last five yeaes showed that yielder Conservative rule the debt had increasea by loss than • $2,000,00e a year. Contrasting the Calle- d/an with the British system of raising revexatio, he said hon. gentlemen opposite wished to create a general impression that there Were xio taxes in England. The taxes last year amounted to $285,000,000 or $7.88 per head, which was $2 snore than the taxes in Canada, and this, nob. withstanding that many great pittilic • works had been constructed in Canada. But hon, • gentlemen were hedging how, and Wanted a tariff for revenue. What right had they to say that it was Unpossi- ible for them to get bettor prices for wheat En Canada 'under the N P.? Ile conepaved the eaPorts farm products in 1878 With the seine experts last year, and showed • that in a great many instances not only • had the quantities bagels' inereased, but the prices Were bettor, In conelasioa, , said that, the Opposition grew more and Moro violent as they got heater and near& to defeat, and conoladed amid applause by prophosyieg gait the Coaservative party would return to ho MAIM aftert the next general election with ais even large'r inajerity than it hact noW. AT, SOUTH SHORE RAILWAY. . Mr. Plaggert, replying to alr, Forbes, fetid that the Governinent entered into a centred relating to the coustauctien of the eailroad along the south shore ot Nos a Sootia on February 281h, 1895, with the South Shore Railway Company, • FLEOTORAL DIVISIONS. Mr, Moutague, 'ila answer to Mr. Oharl• ton, said that the Queens printer is repair- ing a book of maps showing the bound- aries of time electoral divisions and the volume will be issued before the end of the session. '•' . THE BUDGET. • Mr, Cockburn, said ' that the meta "Hope springs etoreal in the henna breest" was never better illastrated tha In the cheerfulness with whicatheLibera platy came again to time front with a fre tracle policy, But he would Auggeet t them that they hail better oast off thei old. love before they took on the new. H hacl expeeted great timings from the policy of unrestricted reciprocity when the hen inembea for South Oxford had submittec that banting to the House The hon. gen tieman had promised that if the Haus and country exempted that policy every caltivated wire in Ontario would. bo in oreased $10 in value. .The hon. gentlemai had promised to pay off all the old debt of the country and leave several hundred millions to the good. They had now to cleat with a new policy evolve I by the hon. gentlemen. They wishea free trade as i was praotesed in Great Britain. He dit not say that free tattle in itself WEIS bad, but it should be adapted to the cirouin- stances of the country, and free trade in- troduced into Canada now Woulct be a very bad thing. He wished the House to bear in mind the different conditions under svhich Canada existed now from that of England years ago, when free trade was inaugurated. Was it to be expected that Canada would adopt a policy of free trade without preparation such as Great Britain had, and especially when every other country in Europe found it neces- sary to operate a protective policy? Mr. Devlin, said hon. gentlemen oppo- site prided themselves on never having changed their policy but last session they had 0 reduced tariff, and had the Minister of Finance telling them about, remitted ditties. Was not his a change in policy? Could hon, gentlemen point to a single year in which expenditure had beim re- duced? The average taxes during the Mackenzie regime ever° $18,900,000, and during the last five years was $30,000,000. If hon. gmitlemen wanted to know their policy let them read the resolutions adopt- ed at t.he Ottawa conference two years ago. That policy was freedom as far as possible for the people of Canada against those who tyrannized over them for the special benefit of the few who sent them there. Mr. Devlin, said the only classes bene- fited by the National Policy were the manufacturers and the Governnaent, by taxes wrung from the farmers and work- ingmen. Hon. gentlemen opposite follow- ed. the United States policy, and called themselves loyal. The members of the Opposition sought to follow the policy of Great Britain, and were called disloyal. Mr. Craig, said the critical word in the amendment offerecl by the hon. member for South Oxford was "only" in the phrase "tariff" for revenue only, because he himself believed in a tariff for revenue, • Mb he took the amendment to mean that protection must be abolished. The result of taking the duty off beef, pork, and other articles of daily conatunption would be that hotels would import all their beef from Chicago, or buy an occasional load from the Canadian farmer at a very low price. "Where would the market for Canadians be? Canada would be but a slaughter market for English and Ameri- can goods. Next to the wages of work- men, farm products were protected by the N. P. He found that farmers never ob- jected to the protection afforded to them - staves, though they might object to protec- tion of manufacturers. Another class that \received benefit from the N. P. was the employer of labour. Laying aside prejudiees, there was scarcely a man any- wlaere bat would acbnit that the manufac- turers weite a credit to the country. He contended 'e that it was unfaix to place snanufacturbrs living in Canada on the same basis 4 manufacturers living out- side of Canadleaud who contributed noth- ing ing to he suppo. a of the country. Farm- ers, he thought, would prefer to pay . a trifle more for thsir goods, and be able to dispose of their pr duce without the me- diation of micldleMen, • as would be the case if there were 'lie manufacturers in the country. Protection did not increase prices, because there was competition among the home inanufacturers. The character Of the Liberal policy might be fairly characterized as indefinite and un- settled. • He had not heard two members of the Opposition agree exactly in their definition. He held that it was the duty ofthe Government to fame a policy for Canada, and not for the United States or other foreign countries. CANADTAN TROOPS. • Mr. Dickey, in reply to Mr. Rider, said the Government did on one occasion offer to the Iinperial authorities a portion of the permanent corps for garrison duty. GOVERNMENT BUTTER SA.LES. Mr, Charlton, resuming the debate on the buclget, said he had been charged with running tap on Sunday. That °barge lie would pass over without eommentz inaka much as it wtes ma pertinent to the dis- cussion. Dealing •with the fiscal policy, he Coaled. that the farmers had received tiny protectioa from the Coneertativ0e. Tee farina; depended not upon the tariff, Mr his prosperity, but upon the bleSsia" of a kind Providence The condition of t laraters was not ono of prosperity, for be' velltured to say now that not one farmer am Canada made 5 per, cent on his capi- tal, The Lamers were prospetous under Liberal rule. Indeed the muntry could not offer up 0 prayer that was better calculat- e ed to bring blessings upon it than that tl le eondition of things that existed under the o Liberal Administrations would return. It was folly to say that the duty on pork raised the price of that article. He admit - tad that the price ef wheat was higher ia Canada than in the, United States, but contended that was due to tho fact ,,that these bad been over -exportation. He con- • tended that $13,900,000 of a reduction could 1. be made . in the annuale expenditure, and •showed by comparison of expenditures for 1878 and 1891 Where be thought xecluc- • tons could beet be made. Mr. Ainyot, metanclect that the present 1 tariff Was a tariff for revenue, ' but was • something more also. He would like to ask the Liberals if they proposed to tax the int‘V matea•ial. At Mentreal Mr. Laurier had said they would not. Would they then tax the precluets of the farm? Ho had taken the trouble to compile sta- tistios regarding the opinions of manufac- turers in theconetithency of the hon. leader of the Opposition as to the (mese,- tion of the National Policy, and most of . them bad acknowledged that the abolition of the protootive duties would be ruinous • to them. Many of them had refused to answer, saying that it was only an at- tempt to strike a blow at the loader. Re - °roams wore made to the condition of the 'United States at various periods since the introcleution of protection in 1824, and it was shown that those periods wben a pro- tective Administratioil had been in power were marked by prosperity and rapid de- velopment as against retrogression daring reveaue tariff policy. It had been said by the hon. member far North Norfolk (itfr. Charlton) that proteetiois was no good to fanners and was not wanted by them; but he could not accept that state- rnentan view of the deoision of the farmers themselves whenever they had a chance to vote on it. Mr. Smith, an impartial observer of the debate, he said, must have been convicted there was a very great difference in the sentiments of the two political parties with respect to the future. In one ease the feel- ing was one of hope, bile in the other it was gloomy and dark. The effect of a pro- tective policy iii this counaw had been to give Canadians the control of their own market, and to enable thorn in s'ome lines to compete against the world. At the pres- ent time wheat was worth 71 cents in Detroit and 86 cents in Toronto. Would anyone pretend fol, a moment that the farmers did not realize more for their oats than if there was ne duty? Tho duties on beef and pork had also seemed to our farmers th Canadian market for those products. We were not dependent upon the United States for a marketfor our products, and this country had gone as far as it could decently go in endeavouring to ,get better trdae relations. Mr. Flint said no persons had more faith in the resomaes of the country than the Liberal party The Government had done nothing to increase the substantial pro- sperity of the people, and any prosperity that was achieved had resulted from pro- fits upon the export trade. The country was under the most abject slavery by rea- son of an organization which Axed prices and would not allow goods manufactured in Canada to be sold for less. The mem- bers of the Liberal party had often been asked what tariff for revenue only was. He would tell them. It meant a just and honest tariff. It implied reduced rate of expenditure and a fair and equitable ad- justment of the burdens which must be borne by the people. Mr. Macdonald (Xing's) contended that the National Policy had created a home market for the products of the Mem. In 1878 their total import of farm products amounted to $13,901,114, whilst in 1892 the amount was only $2,776,742, so that these imports under the National Policy were $11,124,872 less than under the taxiff for revenue only of the Liberal Adminis- tration. He could' therefore claim that the present Government's policy had been in the interest of the farmer. The Na- tional Policy had not.inereased the price of manufactured goods. These were never as cheap as now. Canadian °redid stood high on the markets of the world, and our mechanics and artizans were in the enjoy- ment of good wages. REV. L. W. SHOWERS Mr. Montague, in answer to Mr. Bider, said 915 packages of butter wore shipped from Montreal to Great Britain for sale on the Government account during the present year. Particulars of the two small shipments from Pri./1C0 Edward Island had not yet been received. DOMINION LOAN. Mr. Foster.in answer to Mr. Rider, said the financial agents of the Government Were tho Bank of Montreal, through Whom the Dominion loan of Ocotber, 1894, was negotiated. • The total amount of bonds issued was A2,250,000, and 1 he not amount received was 4:2,192, 85e. The total expense 'incurred in its negotiations was A835,983. NEWFOUNDLAND MATTERS. Mr. Davies wished to rem ind the hot, gentleman of a promise that he would lay on the Miele of the House the terms of the proposed tiniest with Nevsfeendland as soo21 as the repot was laid on the table of the Newfoundland Legislatute. He saw by the mowspapers that one of the NOw- foandland delegates had again reached Clanada, end 'Would like to know whether ho had reported himself or whether new negotiations had limn opened, Mr. Foster said he had made a promise math as the hon. gentleman had stated, alai, that if the Ptemier of the Newfound - lend Governmerta laid the terms before that Legisleture to he had them under hand, mat would lay them on the table of the Remise He vsotild hear as soon as nation in the Nowfottadland Legislature was tame, and this Reuse would theli be steadily advised as to the Wins,: elves His Experience With organic Heart Disease—The Dread Malady on. the Increase. For many years nay greatest enemy has • been organic heart disease. • Froin an un- easiness about the heart, with palpitation more or less some, it had developed into abnormal action,thumping, fluttering mad choking sensations. Dull pain with a peculiar Nyman feeling were over present near the heart. 1 'wave tried many physi- cians and taken numberless remedies with very little benefit Seeing Dr. Agnew's Cure for the Heart advertised in the Kit- tanning, Pa., papers, I pucrhased a bottle and began its use, receiving almost in- stant relief. I have now taken several bottles of the remedy and can speak most highly it its favor. The choking, abnor- mal beating and palpitation have almost entirely disappeared. The remedy is cer- tainly a wonderavork'ers for my case was chronic, Rev. L. W. Showers, Elderton, Pa. Artificial Silk. The silk worm has a formidable rival In the peamonage of Dr, Lehner, of Zurich, who has patented a process and formed a coin pan y for the manufacture of this COM - 10 00 ity, 13y a simple cheinicel and inechenical process the inventor has succeeded in con- verting wood pulp, ootton, or jute waste, tylien mixed in the ferns of a liquid pro- duce, into an' unbrolsen thread ef even diameter and any length. The thread, as thus spun by the mechanical silk worm, can, says the Scientific American,be twieb- ed into any desired diameter. The feattues of the process are the never failing supply of raw materials uniform prim of same, and the cheap production of the silk, In dyeing and eseaVing no special treat - await is neeessaty, and the shades obtain- ed excel in beillirtney and delicacy those of the finest natrtral silk. Its low oost will open up a largo field mining menttfactar- ors, and an Unlimited Variety of orna- mental and decotatiye tesults shay be et. pected, On the ming branch of an apple tree Sweyed kettle balmy breath of spring, Sat a little bird with 4 coat uf gra.Y1 8nt 4 little Mal 4-elikpleg away, Blithe, and happy, and free. Beneath the tree hi the grass so isteeni allsteuing with clesv of the early morn, Bloomed a flower, as yellow as gold, EBeloaoirrewarbilrierarsaasnaysoeure'Tlee.been told, Time bird glaneed clowe u,t the blossom gay; Alla Bala to Itself, 14 Well,laeolaro What is thatilower doing there ? I think twould be a. aloe 0001 spot ret a birti like nee and not • Poi. a flower, witalt mutually, Why, goodness Inc- led rather die Than nut have wings 1" The flower looked up at the bird so highP And saki to itself, "bVejI, I declare Melt can that bird be doing there ? Meld toks twuuld be a delightful thing Fur a bioss,an like 010 so lusty to swing. "Tis nut the place for a bird so gray, Why, doary rather die Than be sudell 1" A eat just ready his fast to break, Sat hunigity shiring at the tower, Roping way ore 14 MAI tulle £111.011.41'14488, BLS eatstup might, 011 Inc greensward grass Of a dainty meal partake. E'en while he sat and thus hoped on, tits ardent wish was gratified. Thu 1,11,1 down and plucked the The cat the birdie did devour— The Hower fast withered in the Ban— ana nuw my tale of woe is done. ' They died ! MoBAL 11 11 life of happlaess Your wish 11 38 to share Be satisfied—what ere your lot— Beware US READING., D AND YOUNG. 11 es EMILY Papers Con' lge, this Department of Keneral interest. Tragedy, Bundled With Care. Customer (who has just purchased a Wonderfully cheap set of furniture)—Do you always pack furniture carefully before delivering it? • New boy—This kind wo do, 'cause the jarring would shake it to pieces. The Baby's Name. "What are they going to call your new brother, Jack?" "Oh, I dont' know—jack, I guess." "But that's your name." "That doesn't inake any difference. It was papa's before I had it. Pa and ma has a way of niakin' us boys use up their old things." A Very Small Bird. The vervain humming -bird is the small - 'est bird in existence. It is very little larger than our familiar Munlbe-bee. Its plumage is very brilliant in coloring. Two specimens are on exhibition in. the Nation- al Museum at Washington, and the tiny balls of bright -colored feathers average about two and one-third inches in length. The nest is a frail and almost perfect piece of bird architecture. It is composed of mosses, vegetable fibre and wild cotton with a delicate lining of spider's webs. In gathering the latter material it is no un- common occurrence for the little birds to become ensnaxed in the webs of the laxger spiders, by which they are killed. The size of the vervain's nest is three- fourths of an inch in diameter across the cavity and sligbtly snore than an inch in total diameter. The eggs, always two in number, aro pure white. They never mea- sure more than ono -third of an inch in length by one-fifth of an inch in width. These diminuive birds are found only in the Islands of Jamaica. • A. New Use for Milk. "Laoteopathy" is a new curative treat- ment which a Transvaal doctor has dis- covered and writes of in the English Me- chanic. Having noted the fact that milk absorbs poisonous germs from a bucket, he decided that it might be possible to turn this germ -absorbing power to a ther- apeutic account. He put his ideas to the test, and now asserts that he has cured persons of smallpox, fevers, diphtheria, and other maladies by simply wrapping them in milk sheets, The patient is laid on a mattress cover- ed with blankets, and. is packed in a sheet just large enough to envelope the body. This shoat has first been saturated in a pint and a half of warm milk and is ap- plied without wringing. After the pack, svhich lasts about half anhoms the patient is sponged with hot water or is put into a warm bath. A case of small -pox was, ac- cording to this lacteopathist promptly relieved by this tmatment. After the eruption was well out, the milk sheet so quickly drew the poison from tho skin as to effect linneediate convalescence. Every One Ms Own Illuminator. At present Col.Necl. Maltby is busy with the experiments some scientific men are carrying on with the ftreefly. These, if they WO See( es 401, Colonel Ned is confid- ent will reduce the eost of living, of pub- lic expenditures and make notable changes in domestic life. Everyone knows diet food taken into the body after supplying nourishment is converted into heat. In the electrical °el this process is so varied that instead of heat electricity its produc- ed. • In the fire -fly, on the contrary, the result, again varied, is light. Thus it ap- pears that these various energies—heat, light, electricity—aro but different mani- festations of the one cause, and conse- quently ought to be readily transformed the one into the other. Now how is this to be done is what the scientific gentlemen aro trying to find out, The fire -fly has, of course, a special organ for its electrio light, as the eel has for its electric action, But chemists 'lave discovered that certain fats containing sul- phur and phosphorus, burned at a low temperature will produce light. This necessary dew combustion the human body furnishes. The inference Seen18 clear that the only thing remaining is to flue Mal the human with the phosphoric and sulphretted fat in some form that °Aube utilized. When this is done, says Colonel Ned, every man may be his own lantern. It is not probable, ho continues, that the form. ula of this light -making food vvill be given to the public when it is discovered, but he forsees that it will be put bite Mlle easily portable from. Lozenges or pills he thinks most probable, which, if they are distasteful, can be sagar-coated. Most probably the formula will be secured by a company of scientific men and capiatlists, However, the cost of the lozenges or pills will be ;light, as the gentlenson admit that "nature produces this chertpest light , at one-aour-hundeedth part of the eost of the energy expended in a candle -flame at but an insigificant filiation of the met of the electric light, or the most come:Meal light that has been devised,"— Prom "The Point of View," ifs the May &rib - net ralL7k. 'ear elli,ViatalaTtAliat>: '94)0 kl".) for Infants and Children. SIMMIXMAMMwM010 OTHERS, Do You Know that Paregoric, Batetnan's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, and most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine Do Yon Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons? Do You 11.110V7 that in most 400n11-ies druggists are not permitted to sell narcotics without labeling them poisons Do You, Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your child unless you or your physician know 91! what it is composed? De You Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of Its ingredients is published with every bottle Do You Know that Caztoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castor's is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined? Do Yon Know that the Patent Office Department of the 17nited States, and of other countries, have issued exclunve:ight to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word Castoria" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense Do You KELOW that one of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do Yon Knew that 35 average doses of Castoria are banished for 38 001715, or one cent a dose P Do You Know that when possessed. of this perfect preparation, your children may be kept wen, and that you may have unbroken rest? liVell$ these things are worth knowing. They are fade. 7Che fae-simile signature of ..a;teer wrapper. is on every Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla, DIDN'T KNOW TIER OWN HOME. They Had just Moved In and All the Houses in the Row were Alike. "Oh, clear oh, dear!" groaned young Mrs. Lambkib n as she returned from hex first outing after they had moved. "Why do they make all the houses M a row ex• actly alike? Algy is so afraid that I will blunder into somebody else's house by mistake. Of course when we lived in a flat it was a different matter—you had only to climb the stairs until they stopped and there you were. Let me see now, did Algy say it was the third from the one 'with the lilac bush in the front yard or the fourth? My goodness, there are three houses with lilac bushes in the front yrixd1 What shall I do?" Sho glanced cautiously about her to see if anyone was aware of her dilemma, but no one was in sight. "Why didn't I remember to look at the number before I started? And, oh, if I had only •staid at home to -day and put up my parlor cartans I'd . have had a land - merle to guide nsel To think that I don't know which house I live in! What will Algy say to me!" Trying to look unconscious she walked to tbe other end of the block and. back again, seeking for some sign of personal belongings, but in vain. "Whatever shall I do?" she groaned. "Oh, my goodness, there's somebody peeping from behind that curtain!" and she nervously walked on. "I can't very well ring the bells at all of the 'mouses in the row and ask if I live there. Se o: Pll walk back and take another look. 1 1 old Algy I didn't like to live in a bouse eust like everybody else, but he said nobody with any sense could possibly snake a mistake and go into the wrong ons. There comes a policeman. rn. ask him. I won't ask f or our own house, of course. He would think mo'crazyif I did; but Algy said that a Air. Johnson lived two doors away; I can tell by that "Officer can you. tell me which house Mr. Johnson lives in?" "Two Mr. Johnsons live in this yere block; which wan d'ye SVedip" "I—I don't know." "Well, Watl of 'em lives at 90 and wan at 108," and he passed on. "Ob, dear, I'm as badly off as ever," she groaned, "I shall nester hear the last of this from Algy. Why didn't I ask the policeman where the La,mbkins live? I forgot that he wouldn't know I am Mrs. Lambkin." Several window curtains were flutter- ing by this time as she again walked to the end of the block, and she was aware that each one partially concealed a new neignoor. As sho turned to go back, she eaught sight of her husband running up the steps of ono of the houses; she ran frantically toward him, calling loudly,but in vain, for he disappeared. without hear- ing her. "Which ome did he go into?" she moan- • ed ; "was it the one in the middle or the • one next to it? If I go into the wrong one now, he'll be sure to see ano, and I shall never hear the last of it. -Well, there's no help for it; I can't stay out here all night, so I'll try this one." As she ascended the front steps she was met by her husband coming down with a very red face. "Why, Algy," slso oried "I'm glad you are at home, but are you going out again at mama' "No, I'm not," grosyled Algy, "I'm go- ing in next door; these cOnfoundeci houses are so much alike that you tan` 1 tell tither from whieb. 1' • "Well, Algernon Lambkin," serenely replied his evife"11 did think you. had sense oneogh to know you)! own house whon you come to it," And both of them looked carefully at the number ever their door as they went through it tin sister). y Words. Two little sisters who were vera fond of each other, and generally comae happy to- gether, woke playing, "keep house and go visiting." Tho elder sister was the house- keeper, and she beetled inerrila (thank spreading the table and artangiog the little tea set upon it, meanwhile °batting with little Anna, who, fot the time, was "a Vets, fine lady ftete the atty." Jesb as the preparations Wore conipiet. ed, and she as about ot sumiaon her guest to the miniature repast, Anna, gaiotly clianbed Mtn a large easy olutit, and took. ing slowly back aid f tl 1 - "I don't want to play any More." Not noticing the sudden pallor of the sweet little face, the sister anaally retort- ed: "I'll never play with you again as long as I live l'' And she never did. She went to her little bea alone thae night and lay with a heavy, aching heart, longing for the morn- ing to come, that she might put her arras around her little sister's neck and tell her she was sorry. The moraine. came, but Anna was dangerously ill. Iler paeents had watched over hoe through the' weary night, and were alarmed for her safety. Her sister was allowed just to see her, but she Inuet not speak The poor child grew worse and worse, and in a few days she died. The last evords she ever heard from that loving but petulant sister was that bitter, angry sentence. Hoe ticultural Notes. Flavor and taste are not the same. You. taste the flavor but do not flavor the taste. Level culture is best for almost every crop. •Haling up is often disastrous in a dry season, wheredevel culture would have succeeded. Intelligence is a requisite of no less im- portance in handling and nutrlseting our soil products than in growing the same, and yet a fact that has been- too slightly considered, indeed quite generally ignored. by Canadian fruit -growers. California grades her apples, peaches, plmus and pears designed for shipment to certain fixed sizes, and upon this system bus acquired here reputation for the fine productions that are found on every fruit stand in the East. Why not by the same methods save the markets for our own selected fruits possessed of a quality that Ivo know would be far superior. Wellselected, evenly -graded, well -color- ed, carefully packed -fruits axe only want- ed by the vendors and purchasers wherever marketed, and only `such will sell ata profit, especially in markets overstocked, and in periods of business depression. Hence, we cannot too strongly urge upon the fruit -growers of Canada greater care and continued improvement in selecting and handling evelything produced, or the time will certainly come when they will regret the pronounced neglect which is a subject of general criticism at the pres- ent time in all the great markets. Wiaan Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Gastonia. Whenshe had Children, rhegave them 06•150111%. 9 THE MOST suecEsYrtm REMEDY' FOR MAN OR a EAST. Certain In its effects and never blisters. 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