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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1895-12-27, Page 3•DNTA.RIO INDUSTRIES BULLETIN LVI, Props and Live Stook in Ontario—pub tithed by the Ontario pepurtment or Agrieuitore. from early fall frosts. Early sown back. Wheat has turned 00 lirst•018414, late sowri more or less damaged, Means. Favorable reports have been made of the Kent beart orop. Ii other parts it vvill be up to the average. Potatoes. It Is manse years since so largo a return of potatoos\l'as wade. Most favorable re- ' The following bulletin eontains the Anal ports as to la th yield and quelity come istimate of yield of crops in Ontario for rrom au over the. province. FraotioallY the year 1895. The yields are based on no 'volition is made of rot, and the tubers setual threshing returns reported to the have been Well stored. The low price pre - Bureau a Industries by nearly 2,000 ()or- veiling is the only drawback to a big re- taspondents. cord. The weather. Boots. In regard to temperature the principal Correspondents are far from unanimous features may be stated briefly as follows: In giving descriptions of roots, but the She average of the ten snonths ending 0o- figures of yields sabmitted agree more *ober 31st was lower than in 1804, but just closely. Some report a splendid crop of equal to the average of the period 1882-94, turnips, vvhile others desoribe the crop as ihe months of February, March and Coto- a poor ono and of interior quanta. Be- har wore much belovv the average; the six tamers the drouth, fly, grasshopper and erowing months were about the same as lice, turnips certainly hada severe trial, In 1894, in both oases above the average. s et the yield will be an average one, al - /is regards precipitation the general con- though the roots are smaller in size than aition was as follows: In January, Aug- usual. Mangels will also be of small size, ust and September alone did the fall of yet the yield will be above the average. snow and rain equal the average. There Most correspondents speak favorably of was a deficiency of nearly one-third of the the yield and quality of carrots. Other usual rainfall in October; ehe deficienoy reports regarding this crop would lead one In the six growing months was three to wonder where the good general yield inches, or nearly 90 per oeraa and the came from. With the exceptions of a few 'atotal deficieney in the ten months was 4.91 turnips all roots had been taken up and tkehes, or 18 per cent, If ;the previous stored atUamber and Deoember weither reports wroirteidinng. good conditon at the time of be waded, tire results for te entire year from Novena bier Seed.ardalettaaar 31st in each Tale, relatively, was about the poorest . ease are as follovve: Average teagerature in p d 1895, 42.8 degrees; In 1894, 44..fladagtheal • of taeSsear. Red clover has turned out very pooriesaalsike, on the whole, very In 1882-94 42.6. In the matter of rainfall thegood. Winter-killay, May frost' and results are as follows: In 1895, a total drouth are all held rosaseasible. precipitation of 25.67 inches; in 1894, 82.20; in 1882-94, 83,02. The conclusion, The then, for the year past is that there was The drouth affected pastdas to such an an unusual variation in temperature, and extent that cheese factories arid oreanieries a large deficiency of rain and snowfall, experienced a heavy falling off in supplies. Apart from the extraordinary frosts of Most factories closed this year earlier May the greatest drawback to farm opera- than is usual, and creameries also had a tions in 1895 bas been the unusual leak of trying time of it. Prices were law most of tainfall. the season, and the year has been a disap- Crops M General. pointing one to dairymen. Rome -made The poor bay orop or 1895 is the most butter is said to be still improving in Important item in farm production. quality, thanks to the influence of cream - There was a dropping off from 1894 of over eries and the travelling dairy Most of 1,700,000 tons, This deficiency represents our correspondents still express confidence a loss greater than the value of tho entire in the cheese industry. The grade Durham wheat orop of the province, There has continues to be regarded as the favorite been a shortage of straw also. The corn cow, the Ayrshire comes next (leading in crop, however, has been extraordinarily eastern Ontario), while the Jersey and the large, and in many oases will help to make Holstein follow closely. up for the loss oacoarse fodder. The grain Pastures and Live Stock. crepe have turned out better than was at Live stook bad wither scant pasture dun - one time anticipated, all being well up to ing the latter half of the season. In many the average. Fall wheat has turned out sections the grass had to be supplemented fair; spring wheat about the average; with corn and other feed. The cense- corn, away above the average; barley, ?air quence is that cattle are generally thin, in quantity; oats, an extraordinary crop; and owing to shortage of fodder, a number peas, fair; potatoes, exceptionally large of dry cows have been disposed of at very crop; roots, fair; clover seed, almost a low prices. In Middlesex and a few failure; buckwheat, over the average; other looalities some young cattle have beans, very good. been bought for fattening by a few farm - ran -wheat. ers who make a specialty of the business. Threshing fully confirmed the August Feeding of cattle began earlier than usual reports of fall wheat. The yield was 19 this fall. Sheep receive favorable men - bushels per acre, which is a little under tion from most of those who refer to them. the average, The quality is, in 'seeneral, Special note is made of the fact that a very good. A few report the grain shrunk- large number of lambs are being fed on en, but on the whole it is quite urrape for the Buffalo market. Swine have atosthd been ,thriving, and many have been sold average in appearestaaand insweignt. The NeW 1r811Neheat.oot, althongh complaints come in of ,TK\t:irices In 1883 the area of fall wheat stood 'imie I for these as well as for other 1,091,.467 acres; it dropped to 864,740 acra e g nts ranging oinrtia to 250 lbs. A Moatspastare hogs are sold at 'In the following year. Then it inareases 'fra ..1 e gradually to 897,743 acres in 1887; then had/ supply of pork is stilllathe hands of armors. Fodder is scarce, nessisd some decreased gradually to 720,102 acres in farmers will find it hard to carted their 1890. In 1892 it was up to 966,522 acres. stook through the winter. No =cation Since then it has dropped year by year to bas bean made of disease among live 743,199 acres in 1895. The movement, stock. Corn has played an important then, has been one of expansion and con- traction. part in the economy of the farm this sen - The. reports this fall indsonIt has supplemented pasture, and ioate an inoreas- has been out and stored to be fed dry dur- ed acreage sown to fall wheat. A few re- ing the winter. The silo does not appear port a decrease; many report the same as sown a year ago; but the majority to have made any special advance in point - report larity an increase uf from 10 to 30 per cent. The during the year. crop was put in mid& most favorable con- •Poultry, ditions. Some sowing took plaoe as early The season has not been altogether sat - as August 25th; some as late as October isfaotory for poultry raisers, on amount of let; but the bulk of the orop was sown the low prices paid for both eggs and about September 15th. On the whole, dressed poultry. The abundance of grass - October was not very favorable to the crop. boppers has been an advantage to those raising turkeys. Farmers are very much The early orowth was retarded, and the 'general condition was not the most favor- divided as to whether there is profit or able at the beginning' of November, 'al - actual loss in keeping poultry. Many oor- though much desired rains and more fa- respondents recognize that the poultry hap not been given a fair trial, and that the vorable weather werejust then promising average hen is a victim of neglect. an improvement. The report, then, may be summed up thus: increased acreagee Bees and Honey. fair condition. The following reasons are The discouraging account published in given for the increased acreage: Shortage' the August bulletin regarding the poor of straw this year; decreasing production Prospects of a honey yield has been von - of spring spring 'wheat; very favorable condition fled. There will be a small surplus from of weather and .of soil in September; hope buckwheat, and still less from clover. for better wheat prices. Unless apiarists`feed back heavily many Spring Wheat. colonies will die of starvation. With the exception of having low stores the bees This crop is on the decline in 'Ontario, in acreage, in .yield, and, many think, in appear to be in good condition. quality. In both west and east the quality Fruit and Fruit Trees. was hardly up to the average, many re- Frost and drouth have been ' trying to Porting it light in weight, shrunken and orchard, garden and vineyard. In the in - discolored. The yield in 1890 was 7,688,- land portion of, western Ontario apples 005 bushels; in 1895 it was 3,472,548 have been a failure, and other fruits have bushels. been only slightly better, owing to the se- Barleyvere frosts of May. Near the shores of Reports on barley are varied, both as to Lakes Erie and Ontario however, and in quantity and quality more so than in the the counties along the St. Lawrence, ease of the other grains, The quantity of apples and many other fruits have been the whole is up to the average, but the abundant. Inseots have done hardly as grain is reported for most sections as being much injury as usual, and hopes are ex - plump but discolored. There appears to Pressed that these enemies of the orchard be very little bright colored barley, The may suffer more than the trees from the straw was short and lighain yield. experience of the year. While here and Oats. there grape vines were killed out by the May frosts, in most cases a new growth of This is the big orop of the year. It has exceeded our August estimate. Inoreased wood was made, and prospects are not bad acreage and the high average yield of 35.7 for the immediate future. bushels per acre have given a total of 84,. Threshing and Marketing. 697,566 bushels for 1895. There are a few The bulk of correspondents report poor records, but the following are fair threshing as completed or well advanced, eamples of reports: "Good, but short in while a few, more partioularly in the East straw;" "best for Solite time;" "a oapi- Midland district, state that there is still tal crop and good quality ;" "best orop in considerable to be done. Reports do not a deoade;" "the heaviest yield all round alike° as to the progress of marketing. ever grown." The total yield of the prov- Several correspondents report half the oats inoe is 9,688,024 bushels larger than the and wheat to be sold. There 'appetite, big record of 1891, slid 14,525,050 bushels however, to be a tendency to hold wheat larger than that,pf 1804. and other grains for an advance, in price, Rye. and a number of correspondents assert Comparatively little has been grown for that sales have bean made only. where /grain. The crop turned out very wen tt.ere was a pressure,for cash Low prices The new crop was making good growth at are leading farmers to feed more grain to the time of reporting. live stook, and a large quantity of barley and peas will be disposed of in that way. roes. This orop may he summed up as being For this reason it will be hard to estimate fair. In some western sections it uffered what proportion of tho grain crops will be s much born drouth, The "bugs," while left in the farmers' hands for sale later in Reports vary concerning progress in the the Nation. numerous, do not appear to have been any Fall Flowing. Nation.'more destructive that' Waal. Coen. The area of corn has more than doubled line of fall plowing. The dry weather male the sod diflicuat to plow, but plow - mime 1800. This year it was 552,828 aotes, in 100 it was 228,886 aetes. The °apse,. ing on stubble was about oompleted. Favorable weather was prevailing as con - Once of the present year has evidently in - respondents wrote, and it was expected ereaged reipularity It; growthdUring that a larger area than Initial would be the latter part of summer and early fall turned ander before the season closed. Wag rapid, In the dry scalene Of the Farm West its value as a Supplement to pasture IMProvements. Farmers appear to be giving More attars - was most 'narked One correspondent tien to the appearatice of their btaidings flays; "In the year 1895 it Was corn that and earrOundings, Bank barns are Much Saved the fatenees of Cnterie" Corn grovs- tag for husking yielaed as high as 190 in favor, aaa niallY 014 barns ere being bushels a onrs por acro Ili somo sodthwasa raised so as to have good stone stalflas ecu towt8hips, iraadig asaa seta come& built under thorn. The old zig zake rail fence Is rapidly betmg by wire arid enation, the earn oro) has proved about the mod asoporsaaeorop grown ebes dam board fetuses. Hedges also appeet to be rielve healgrowing In nopularlea. A eetSfeierable B. stiffored Meth than tUnlal arnettat of tiie drainiag hat been done • Western Ontarie /Sfota of the Work hite been done by the farmeretheMseives. Tile maehines do lust sem to be in favor. Farm Laboa. Thert have been more than enough farm, laahrers, exeapt iu odd looalitlea The general expression a opinion is that the rate of wages cannot rase, but must fall in sympathy with the low prices pre- vailing for all kinds of fatal produce. There is a marked tendency th hire for shorter terms, as, apart from periods Whoa there is a rush cie work, farmers are endeavoriag to do without hirea asslst- anoe. Imported farm help is usually not up to the standard. It Would Seern from what correspondents say as if easier tittles and alma sight-seeeing in the towns and cities,and shorter hours as school teachers, clerks, eto , had great influence in attract- ing girls from the farm, and hence the continued scarcity of domestic servants in rural portions of the proVince. Special Crops, Colchester S., Essex: We have a cli- mate here which 1 think is favorable to the growing of lucerne, and several are trying the experiment of growing it, al- though the season bas been unfavorable to getting a start. The high price of the seed keeps many front buying it. If lu- cerne Is one half as good as represented it would be a boon to farmers in this ooun- try. I have sown fly° acres and have a very good stand, but cannot count much on it for a crop as yet. Gosfield N., Essex: I operate a email factory for the manufacture of syrup from sorghum. No one here tries to make sugar, although properly defecated juice will often make a syrup that will granu- late without any effort. I would think there must have been from 15,000 to 20,- 000 gallons of syrup made in the county of Essex this year. I made up several patches that went from 100 to 150 gallons per acre. I think Essex and Kent could supply the rest of the province with a purer and better article of syrup than is generally purchased from the large sugar houses. Roohester, Essex: Nearly all the farm - ors in this locality have raised a little sor- ghum which turned out well this year, and has made a good quality of syrup. Pelee Island, Essex: Sugar beets and tobacco have been tried quite extensively, and I believe with very satisfactory re- sults. Farmers are quitting sorghum on account of the cheapness of sugar. We have only one boat to carry passengers and freight, as the produce is not yet large enough to create much opposition. Harwich, Kent: Sorghum is very gen- erally raised for home use, there being several factories for pressing and evapor- ating it within easy distance around here. I think people have made a great mistake in cutting their bush down as they have. as this, in my opinion, has a great deal to do with our increasing dronths. When there was a considerable quantity of bush the Muds hall water, and. there was a greater amount of water in the air and a greater attraction to rainfall. Yarmouth, Elgin: A large area of rape was sown en wheat stubble. It did well, as it was very favorable weather for ib at the time it was sown. Millet was sown to help out the short hay orop. It did not get a very good growth on amount of the dry weather. Cern has been an extra crop, and a large aorea.ge has been planted. I have a field that turned out 188 bushels of ears per acre. Walsingham N., Norfolk: Sorghum is grown in some localities, but not to the extent it was a few years ago. Culross, Bruce: A flax mill was erect- ed in Teeswater this year; and a consider- able area was sown in flax, which appoare to have done well in most cases. If the venture proves a success a large area will be sown next year. Sydenham, Grey: Growing timothy seed has got to be quite in favor in parts of this township during the last few yeare, but this year it is nearly a failure, and where there were large quantities shipped there will hardly be enough for home con- sumption. Zorra E., Oxford: Flax is raised here quite extensively in some localities where the land is suitable. It is a favorable crop for newly drained swamp lands, seeming to bring the soil into a firm condition sooner than any other crop. The land is usually rented to the owner of the flax mills for the crop. tho owner plowing and fitting the land, and the lessee sowing and harvesting it. Returns of $12 and $15, and as high as $20 per acre, are quite oom- mon on lands that would hardly bring any other crop. However, flax suffered greatly from spring frosts this year. Luther W., Wellington: Flax was a good crop. Farmers grow from a half to seven or eight acres of this crop. It is generally pulled by flax "bees" and sold at once to the mills, bringing in a little much-needed money in summer. Nicol, Wellington:A large quantity qf flax was sown in the spring. On ao- oount of spring frost, and drouth the crop was very variable, yielding from one to three tons per acne, Caistor, Lincoln: Lucerne bas been tried a little with good results on high, well drained land; is especially well adapted to withstand the dry seasons; makes excel- lent hay when out green; should be out as soon as the orop is half out in flower. It is sure to produce a good second cutting, nc matter how dry the season. Rape has been sown to a limited extent. We find it profitable as a catch crop sown with oats in spring, or in corn just before running through the last time with cultivator. Athol,' Prince Edward: Tomatoes are grown here for canning. Two large fac- tories at Parton take the produce of sever- al hundred notes. Partners grow from two to four acres; yield about four hundred bushels per acre at 25 cents a bushel. StorrIngton, Frontenact I sowed a Reid of lucerne last year, and this season it was the best paying crop I had on the farm. 1 out three orops off it; the drenith did not affect it a bit. I have been sowing black barley for three or four years s and I find it a splendid grain feed; ground with trate it makes flue feed. Watt and Monk, Muskoka: Some years ago I had an impression that the groWing of sunflowers 'Bought the ladybug. The last two years' experience has strengthened this impression. In 1895 on a certain pleoe of land I had a crop of potatoes; in 1894 the same land was ion corn, and I did not have any sunflowers that year. The Colorado beetle was plentiful, and self - sown potatoes arnong the corn were eaten clown to.the bare stalk. 1;11895, the sanie pieta of ground carried sunflowers; the ladybugs Wero plentifirl, and a few self- aown potatoes still lefe itt the piece of ground were practically Uninjured. Do' you bear of airy other such experience? am inclined to plant my potatoee with euhflowers, two drills alternately, St. joSeirh, Algoma: Flax tientinnes to be gtown, but for the seed only. Corn is Much mote largely planted, AS it forms a very convenient feed in trio early Win- ter. Steady iniprovenient is being made, the most noticeable Is in better buildings at tioet FAMILIAR HYMNS. NEARPat, iliiY GOD, TO 11140." Sarah Flower's Adams. .As it garden wahout a rose, such would be n eollection of hymns without this oue. About 53 years ago the daughter of an English editor and writer mid wife of an English engineer cOMposed a hymn that has undertaken myelin popularity tit magnificent s rseillaise of the cbureh, "Coronation.' }ler father, Beejanan Flowers, wms proprietor of the Cambridge Intellieene r, and trained her literary tastes that, early manifested themselves, I eanuatiphans nettle was William Adams, ( for stillt, It is sung In nearly every lang- d sire is best known as Sarah Flowers kdams. She was of the 'Unitarian ,faith, nt all denominations have adopted her ii ' ad6able hymn, arid it is now incorporat- ed -,ato almost every hymn book exposed nage in which the Bibl is read, and is "e distant lands that ie beneath the every 'clay aeaapanyin the gospel into ithi. shades of overspreacling dttb," ' In spirit it is the same as Covvp r's "Oh Por a Closer Walk With God," and Wesley's "Mystaod, the Spring ol All afy'Joys." It contains the fresh and toughing express- ions of aspiration after Gad, and is the best expressioe of burning aesire for more intimate acquaintance with God that can be found in any of our hymns. Intimacy on ANY ternas is the language of the hymn. , Ever upward is the song; though a cross be the ladder. Ever upward; though the chariot be the whirlwind. Ever up- ward; though the pinions be flame. By the thorny way of deep affliction she had been brought near to God, and her ex- perience was God's answer to the simple prayer which she has embalmed in song, "Nearer to Thee." • When passing under the rod, she read the experience of Jacob zit Bethel, the runaway, t'ne sleep, the dream, the ladder, the angel, the waking, and from that in- spiratiou came the song. The following incident is mentioned in connection with this beautiful hymn: A Christian min- ister was called to visit a dying lady mem- ber of a Unitarian congregation, and was requested not to referto her denomina- tion. She said, "I was brought up a Unitarian, and taught to take the Old Testament as ray guide, and the Unitar- ian minister still visits me as one of his flock; but the future is very dark to me. I seem to have Mild of nothing. I want to be right with God. I want to gat at God, but cannot. I think of Him as a father, but He is absent. I try to pray to Him and then I repeat a hymn I learned, 'Nearer, My God, to Thee.' I want to get nearer to ray God, that is my desire, any way to get nearer to Him. What shall I do?" "Let the cross raise you," he replied. "Come to your Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ His Son." He read the Gos- pel of St. John with prayer. St. John led her to see "The Lamb of God Which Taketh Away the Sin of the World," and when she died a few days afterit was with this hymn on her lips. But the hymn had not yet been finished. There was another petition to add, and this was done some time after. Her much. loved sister Eliza, who was as famous for music as Sarah was for poetry, was taken with consumption, and a new experience of sorrow gave the poetess to see another round in the ladder, another mode of transportation, and turning over her old manuscript, as she saw the shadows of coming departure on the cou.ntenanceaf ner much -loved sister, she added to the manuscript of her favorite hymn one verse more, "Or if on joyful wings," which stanza was blessedly realized in her own experience two years later, for she closed the earthly pilgrimage while en- gaged in repeating this last stanza she had written, "Or if on joyful wings." The late Mrs. Merriam Grant, one of the people wounded in the Chatsworth dis- aster, was in the fourth car with her hus- band. In this car was a party of six young people. In order that they might sit together, Mr. and Mrs. Grant changed seats with a young man and his bride. Their courtesy saved their lives, for the young people were both killed. Mrs. Grant thought• this party were concert singers, they were so jolly and sang so well. They could sing, and they laughed and told stories and anticipated the pleas- ure of the trip until late at night. Then Mrs. Grant composed herself in her chair and covered her face with her handker- chief to go to sleep. Nearly everybody in the car was quiet except the jolly party of six. About this time the young bride was requested to sing "Nearer, My God, to Thee." Something in the desire to sleep and rest recalled the dear old song. The young woumn sang and all listened while the train sped on. As the little gleam of fire appeared far down the track their voices swelled in : "Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, My God, to Thee." The speed of the train increased down the grade. Again the song swelled: "There let the way appear, steps unto heaven." (The way was already in sight.) "411 that thou seudest me in mercy given," And then, with but a moment of life left for eataa of them, even when poor Ed. McClintock's hand was giving its last desperate wrench to the engine, the singers sang to their God, Who seemed not to be holding them in the hollow of His hand; "Angels to beckon me, Nearer, My God, to Thee." Enough. It was finished. The engine struck the frail bridge and it sank. The car containing the singers crashed like a bolt of Jove throughthe two cars in front of it, killing and grinding as a foot kills a worm. In the same instant another car crashed through it and the singers were dead. Like Other Great Men. "Wile is this Dean Swift they are talk- ing about?" whispered a sooiety lady to Lady Bulwer at a party, "I should so like to invite him to one of my receptions." "4Alesanadam1 the dean has done some- thing that his shut him out of society" "Dear me, yea don t say so? What a ,dreadful thing I" &tidal° lady In it breath,. " And what Was it?" She added. ''Well, about A hundred years ago he die d, ' OUR OTTAWA LETTER DISCUSSES THE POLITICAL SITUA* TION IN ITS VARIOUS PHASES, N. (Markel Wallaoe's Besignations-Suecees- or to the controllership—The Cardwell tleetion The Utah Commissioner at Ottawa. By the time this letter will be in the hands of your readers the news of the resignation of Ron, N. Clarke Wallace tvill be an old story, The ex -Controller's explanation of his action was fore- shadowed in this oorrespondenue two weeks ago, As was anticipated, Mr. Wallace asseverates his full consonance with the Administration on all fiscal questions. He believes in the theory and practice of Protectioe. But lie opposes any interference with Manitoba. It has been pointed out by Liberal newspapers that the action of the member for West York in resigning his seat has been too tardy or too speeds-. Mr. Wallace, the Liberal editors assert, should have abandoned aim) either when the Govern- ment announced that a annedial bill an Onttmnne(1141 Organ. As Vita 61/0 very close attentieb M politiee and will spend the session at Ottawa, where be Will be hand in glove wita isletom Wel,* lace aria McCarthy'. 14r. McCarthy ha' announced Glint be will keep hanimering at apti-remedial iegisletion until, the hill is PasSed Or defeated. What bis future course will be nobody, knows There ere those who believe that the member for North Simeoe will soon abandon pelitiess etteml the seseitin of Parliament costs lam money, Mr, by his agreement with ale law partners, he bands into the firm exchequerW Ofor every day that he spends in Ottawa, The Man frOln North Slamoct must the that there is little ftltare for him in. parlia- ment As a free lamas he has done the country's legislation a great deal ofgood. But he •can have no hope of advance- ment. He is hated by the Fissnch, by w hom los is regurded as the enemy of their Taco and of their religion, Net one of them can deny his, tremendous forth of character, but they ha:e him none the less. The Cardwell Election. The Ministers who are campaigning in Cardwell have a much more difficult task than they bad in North Ontarid All of the o tained the controllership the hill eloqueuce of Montague, of the argument would be brought in, or shonld have re- of Foster and of the clear ut reasoning in question should be introduced iu of John Huggart Will be necessary to parliament. It is not easily to be seen elect young Mr. Willoughby. At the nomination at Mono Mills there vsere why Mr. Wallace should not have chosen znent in tne premises, He himself would ReDxrac. st igna tnsacdge nnbeeyse...00 ineAterztotiolCr:,4ytt the egeasn ucle ep uptroilnrntgegrastnhodef to follow the dictates of his own judg- not be incensed at being described as a gave Mr. McCarthy a grudging hearing. politician pure and simple. Like other politicians he is an opportunist. And, Ever since that day Mr. kleCarthy bas as an opportunist it sniely is his right been making ready to return payment to do that which seams best for himself. in DaMontague's own win. He did so at , Mono Mills, where the MoCarthyites Ultra-Ministerialists, who are not always, ultra -Conservatives, have endeavored ta took hold of and controlled the raeetiug. oast obloquy on him by asserting that Wallace had been in the riding, and the or some days before the nomination Mr. the announcement of his resignation was { effect of his labors was very evident. Aided by E. F. Clarke, and D. Beattie Nesbitt be did yeoman service. It is an open eecret that the Government expect to win la the home stretch as they did in North Ontario. But they may be dis- appointed, for the conditions of the two contests are by no means similar. ' Wile Riga Commissioner at Ottawa. Sir Charles Tupper, the Elder,haia arriv- ed in Ottawa and has assured interview- ers that, he has wine over to Canada on business concerning his position. The farmers of Canada will not agree with lam in thinking that the imperial Gov- ernment was right in imposing an em- bargo on sheep. The High Commission- er thinks the Dominion Government should exclude American sheep, atal says that in the event of such an Order -in - Council being passed the Rome authorit- ies would take off the obnoxious em- bargo, As to Canadian politica be will say nothing. held back until the day before the elec- tion in North Ontario with a view to prejudicing the judgment of the Conser- vatives of the riding. The charge is un- fair. Any man who knows Canadian politics must know that Major McGilli- vray, the member elect for North On- tario, will have to vote against remedial legislation. There will not be twenty- five Ontario members in the Rouse who can do otherwise. They have to consider themselves as well as their party, and they will vote against the bill with the Lull acquiescence of the C-overnment, talked to a Wove= Ontario Conservative member the other day, who told me that the Administration had gone most care- fully over the list of members. They estimated that one hundrecl and twenty members would vote for remedial legisla- tion. This, out of a House of 213 mem- bers, would give the Dowell Government a clear majority. To a Liberal member from the tame province I gave an ac- count of the Government's estimate of the result of the vote. "The Govern- A Boy's Chances. anent will be defeated on that bill," lie There are m any who will agree that said. "The maritime province Liberals boys who have to work for a living should can vote against the bill on the ground be encouraged, rather than commiserated, that It is not sweeping enough, or, on Their chances of achieving real success the other hand, because it goes. too far. are at least equal to; if not greater than, Some French Liberals will be able to those of boys who start life with righes. vote 'nay.' I do not know that it would R. J. Burdette says truthfully that -the do the Government any harm to be de- 'working lad, being xuh of grit, tenches fantod on the question, for I belieye Sir out and takes all the ohanoes without wait. Mackenzie Bewail is riding for a fall." ing to have one given him. Bat for the N Clarke Wallace's Resignation. poor man the world would have cast anchor . six thousand years ago, and be °levered with moss and lichens to -day, like a, United States umn-of-war. George Pea- body was a boy in a small grocery; Ben- jamin Franklin, the printer, the sen of a tallow chandler; John Adams, the son of a poor farmer; Gifford, the first editor of' the "Quarterly. Review," a common sail- or;- John Milton, the son of a scrivener; Andrew Jackson, the son of a poor Irish- man; Andrew Johnson, a tailor; Garfield,, a boy of all work, too poor to even have a. trade; Grant, a tanner; and Lincoln, a. keelboat man and a common farm hand. If there's a patch on your knee, and yoar elbows are glossy, there is some hope Lor' you, but never say that the poor boy has no chance. Re monopolizes all the. chances there are. This is the Liberal view of the case. Your readers may take their choice be- tween it and the Conservative opinion. But, from the resignation of Mr. Clarke Wallace there are some unavoidable de- ductions to be drawn. One is, that the Grand Sovereign has become convinced that the Orangemen, though nine -tenths of them are good Conservatives, may not easily be brought into line at this junc- ture. Mr. Wallace and Mr. E. F. Clarke thoroughly canvassed the situation and decided that the resignation of the Con- troller was imperatively necessary. They saw that such action would make him the strongest Conservative leader in On- tario, and they assumed that D'Alton McCarthy would join him in his cam- paign. In this supposition they have been proved to be fully warranted. The member for North S1111000 has received them with arms wide open. What mat- ters it that only two years ago Mr. Mc- Carthy and Mn. Wallace were at daggers drawn in the liouse; that Mr. Wallace taunted Mn. McCarthy with never having been able to attain a Cabinet position; and that Mr. McCarthy retorted that Mr. Wallace occupied a very humble and sub- ordinate position—one that would satisfy the ambition of a very small man in- deed? What matters it that these two. gelitlemen were once enemies? It Is now to the advantage of both of them that they shall become friends. They are waging the same war and if victory comes to them they will both have re- ward. But the reward that will come to Wallace will be greater than the benefit that will accrue to Mr. MoCnrthy. The member for North Sinaccer has burned bis bridges behind him. His tariff policy Is opposed to that of the Conservatives. Mr. Wallace is still a Protectionist. Who shall say whether they will journey to- gether until they reaoh the fiscal finger - post that will mark the parting of the ways, or whether they will continue to- gether in amity? Edward F. Clarke is to form the third member of this triuru- virate. In the province of his birth he is a strong man, and, should be be nominated in Cardwell in place of the McCarthyite Stubbs, he should win tbe election. Henry, the Liberal, cannot hope to defeat him, and Willoughby, the Conservative, has no better chances. The Roman Catholics of Adjala gave Bob White the votes that elected hini over Elgin Myers. In the election that is to come the .Catholics will mostly vote for Willoughby. Mr. Clarke would get the Orange vote, the McCarthyite vote and many a Conservative vote. It is hard to see how he can be defeated. Successor to the Controllership. The Government has not been tardy in appointing a successor to Mr. Wallace. For the flest time itt the history of Can- ada British Colunabia is given a Cabinet position, for NVO are told that the two contrellers, Col. Prior and Mr. Wood, are to be admitted to the Council cham- ber. Col. Prior is a faithful Ministeri- alist, Mat be is not a politician of an" startling ability. W. II. 'Sennett, of West Sarno°, Major Sam Hughes and David Henderson, of Halton, have been applicants for the positioa vacated by Mr. Wallace, but they lutve been passed over.. Mr. Wallace was asked to nomin- ate his successor,but he declined to do so. It 15 evident that be hat decided to eat lis eonneetien with the Admieistration or somo menthe at least, lIe has not old ativvepapor interviewers What bis uture coarse Will be, bat it is cortaiti bat he sees it prospect of a larger politic. .,I future for him, In the eampaign that its to collie he will have the aitl of it daily paper. Mr, la E. Sheppard, the Wells known Toteato joutnalist, has purchased the Star of Wait city, end will make of it Oeder in the Banks. Captalta --Sergeant, note down Private !, Grasgrun--three, days on bread and Water for slovenly turn -out on parade. V.:, " Setgoatt.—Beg porde/a Captain, that' wen t Make the slightest difforehoe to himeelle's it Vogetarit Captalao-WbetY ptiaselarn for threo days on Meat and scarp I Good and Evil. There is no evil but has its attendant, good, and the good is greater than the, evil. And Inaost firmly believe that when the final summing up is made, and. you and I are led to see our lives in their completeness, we shall discover that all these sad experiences of life were designed . kind Providence to unfold character, and to let us into mysteries of the king- dom which could not; otherwise be opened to us. It is said of Christ that he "was mademerfect through suffering." Let us look upon our own sufferings in the same light, and in fact all the trials and hardships which we have to endure. It is when thealant is all crushed and xnangled that it gives out its most delicious fragrance. So let us turn all our disap- pointments and sorrows to some good ac- count, and taus "breathe sweetness out of woe." There is nothing gained by brood- ing over our troubles. It does us no good to wish we had never existed, or to try to make ourselves believe that life is not worth living. Existence has been given us, and we cannothelp it. We arein God's world, and in it to stay his good pleasure. Limited Application. "Some peaple hold to the idea that the inhabitants of heaven follow the same on- oupations that they did on earth." 'Yes; I've heard that " "But I don't believelt. The idea won't analyze." "Why not?" • "Weil, for example, you knowtlas bible says there is neither marryingnor glving In Marriage in heaven." \ ityase, "Then. as a cense:gnome, divorce law-" yers would have nothing to do." "But I don't see how that affects the idea. It applies only to those who go to heaven, as 1 Understand it. GiVen to Slang. "Sir!" That was the sound that he heard where he asked her for just one little kiss. There was so much emphasis to the eourid that came froin her pretty lips that he longed to have the groand open end svvallow him up. "Corti" When she finished the word he at last realized that the wee only a now woman somewhat uivon to slang.—Oibeago tvon- big Post. A Great Possibility. Wo /Imre diseoVered 0 lan to get around,et rather to get over, the tail wide theater bate If; is Simple, too, Just have thee Ceiling of the theater made of lingo mirrots,thon at any critical moment time unbaPPY lvtot0h wha WaS quarantined bellied it mese of ostrich pinnies could leek up for help anti get it, instead of wanting to call in the other direction for aid as at present he doe.