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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-3, Page 7(OUR OTTAWA LETTER SO FAR GOVERNMENT SILENCE EXCEPT IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. .Afraid to Visit forth Grey --Still the School Question ---More Signs of Cabinet Strife— An International Commission--M11is Gets the GoIV; [From Our Speoial Correspondent.] Ottawa, August 25. -At last the ,mluoh-heralded Laurier Government has poet the Houses of Parliament. °The .people of Canada have been assur- •ed by the Liberal press and are -expected to belte'e that the new Admin- istration is One of surpassing strength. .So far the chief oharaoteristie of the :gentlemen ,whom Mr. Laurier has called to his Cabinet seem to be clothes. The Ministers dressed in magnificent attire .on Wednesday last when they first met. Their leader was a dream in the suit that he had had made for the occasion. Undeniably the new Ministers do credit to their tailors. Further than that it is impossible to go. They have maintained an impressive ,silence. It is only in the ,Council Chamber that this silence is broken. There, behind closed doors, the Frenchmen "dip their brush in earth- •glake and eclipse" as they picture the results that will follow if they are denied .in the slightest degree the privilege that they claim. What is this privilege? It is to form the inner circle of the Cabinet. Israel Tarte lost no time after the elec- tion in showing his English-speaking colleagues that be, and not Mr. Laurier, represented the French of Quebec. "Mr. Laurier is Premier," said Tarte. "He is the representative of no class. I am the leader from Quebec and I intend to be heard." Then was the time when the Premier should have asserted himself. Wilfrid Laurier should havo informed Tarte that he was Premier, and that Tarte was merely a member of the Gov- ernment. Laurier lacked the moral cour- age to do so. He knew that it was Tarte who had won his election for hint. He knew that the Province of Quebec bad been swept by the cry "Give us a French- Canadian and Ronan Catholic Pre- mier." Mr. Laurier knew that had it not been for Tarte he would still be lead- ing the Opposition. Tarte insists upon having his reward. He cease not for a moment his iteration of his claims upon Laurier. Sir Henri Joly and Hon. C. A. Geoffriou are well content to let Tarte pursue his course. They know that toe Minister of Public Works is revengeful and malicious. Like Laurier, they do not love him at all, but they fear liI n very much. They esteem discretion the better part. They stand by and allow the Premier to do as best he inn to placate and to satisl'y their hungry little com- patriot. In the Cnuncil Chamber the Minister of Public Works has much to say. He already has had a serious difli- cuity with the Hon. L. H. Davies, • the Minister of Fisheries. Mr. Davies had given orders for repairs to a wharf at Bedeque, Prince Edward Island. The dock had been in a poor state of repair for nearly a year. The Conservative Ad- ministration inserted an item in the esti- mates of last session to provide for re- pairing the wharf. The Grits, in their unreasonable antagonism to everything that the late Government proposed, de- clined to'let this or any other item pass the House. During the campaign two serious accidents were mused by the de- fe.)tive planking of the wharf. 'Mr. Davies, upon being nominated Minister of Marine, gave orders for the necessary repairs. Tarte heard of this, and at the next meeting of Council arose, white i with rage, and demanded to know why the repairs had been made before. the Department of Public Works had been consulted. Mr. Davies answered that the lives of those who used the wharf had been endangered by its ramshackle eon- ' clition, and that the matter came within his province as Minister of Marine. The . explanation threw Tarte into a frenzy. He danced about the Council Chamber vowing that he had been insulted. "I should have been consulted," he screamed, y}'"I um the head of the Department of !Public Works, and I will not allow any man to interfere with one in the dis- charge of my business." Davies, who is a hot-tempered man, was ready to give ''Tarte any sort of satisfaction that he alight desire. Poor old Sir Oliver Mowat gazed aghast upon the scene. "Was it for this bear -garden that I left the cool sequestered ways of prnvincial politics?" ho asked himself as he thought of the dreamy humdrum system that obtains in the Qneen's park. Before the two Min- isters had assailed each other corporeally they were calmed down. The business of considering ways and means whereby to win the North Grey election went on. Afraid to Vfait North Grey. I. In the week that has passed four gentleuien have left. Ottawa with Qom- . fortnbly corpulent rolls of bills in their ;packets. They were Liberal "mission- aries" bound for North Grey. The elec- tor: of the riding will have every in- ducement to vote for Mr. Paterson. They are being told by the Grit, stumpers that they are not asked to vote for Paterson because he is Paterson, but becanse he is the Controller of Customs. The Gov- ernment has been challenged by the Con. servati.ves to send Israel Tarte into the constituency, Mr. Laurier feared to do 'so, and Tarte feared to go. Had Tarte desired to go he would have gone, his "Jeader" to the contrary notwithstand- ing. The :Minister of Publio Works thought it better to remain in Ottawa and to allow the boodle to do its work. He knew well that if he entered Nnrth Grey he would be compelled to join battle with .Hon, Hugh John Macdonald, Ile also knew that the son of the Old Men wonid annihilate him. Tarte re- mouiberetl tine time when ho went to IIugh John Macdonald with •a proposal to say nothing about the McGreevy scandal; if lin were given a Cabinet posi- tint' in the Conservative Government. Sir John hiaodonald-it was in the last year of his premiership—told Tete til go on with his charges- against McGreevy. You know McGreevy much better than 'I do," said' Sir John. "You may have pati'' personal reasons. for desiring to get even with him. Go ahead with your thargcs and I Can tell yon that, .though he is a Conservative, I shall move for his expulsion from the House if your charges are proved," All men know. svhat •followed, Tarte had possessed him soli' of damning evidence against the Imis wily McGreevy.. The charges worn sub stantisted. And a Conservative Govern -1 ment expelled McGreevy from the House of Commons. Sir John Macdonald was dead. His party remained to vindicate its honor. Tarte had obtained his revenge against his quondam friend McGreevy. When next he appeared in the House it was as a National -Liberal. Hugh John Macdonald knew of Tarte's whole con- nection with the McGreevy scandal. He knew what Tarte's desires had been and he knew why Tarte had left the Con- servatives. Is it strange that Laurier's "leader from Quebec" should have feared to go into North Grey? It suited hire much better to remain in Ottawa to play Buokingham to his esteemed friend the Premier.' Still the School Question. The session . of parliament opened quietly enough. Like Brer Rabbit the Government desires to lie low. The Speech from the 'Trona, whioh no doubt was drafted by Mr. Tarte, assisted by the other French Ministers, was short, vague, platitudinous. It said nothing definitely. It was a study in aspirations. It "hoped" everything. • It "hoped" that the Manitoba School dif ioulty Tould speedily be adjusted. The Frenoll Min- isters know well that the basis of settle- ment proposed by the Manitoba Govern- ment• and agreed to by their English colleagues, will never be accepted by Quebec. Still the speeoh expressed both the hope and the wish. There were two or three inconsequent sentences about "relieving the burdens of the people," And that was all. Not a word as to the Government's policy; not a line as to the business that had been transacted by the new Cabinet; net a syllable regarding the many promises that were made by Grit campaigners after the election, The Ministers seem to think that once in their seats they are there for life. In place of vouchsafing to the members of parliament some indication of their plans they prefer to consider themselves a close corporation, headed by the two kings of Brentford, Tarte and Laurier. It never was the Conservative policy thus to deny the people information as to the manner in which they were going to be governed. In '94 the Premier an- nounced that there would be a revision of the tariff. Had he been a hole-and- corner politician of the Grit stripe he would have denied the country any fur- ther information. The Premier, speaking through Hon. G. E. Foster, then Minis- ter of Finance, went farther. Mr. Foster said that the Government would"do every- thing in its power properly to apprise itself of the commercial condition of the country. The leading men in every line would be consulted. And, finally, there would be no alteration in the tariff that would entail an injustice either to the people or to the business men. Why have not the Laurierites made some such an- nouncement? The reason is not far to seek. They havo not in their Cabinet any man of the first rank who is an author- ity on fiscal affairs. Sir Richard Cart- wright, who is well versed in such mat- ters, although ho suffers, from a severe political astigmatism, has been side tracked into the department of Trade And Commerce. His is a supernumerary posit tion in the Government. Leaving Sir Richard out of the question no Minister is competent to deal with the tariff ques- tion. It would be unreasonable to expect the contrary. The Quebec politician knows nothing of such matters. His aim in life is to cultivate his abilities as an orator, to keep in touch with his own people and to refrain from antagonizing the priests. He has no taste for political economy. He usually is a lawyer, so knows nothing of business. He is a suc- cess without a knowledge of trade and commercial questions; if he is a failure it is not because of his lack of that knowledge. The chief men in the Laur- ier Government are Frenchmen. They cannot be expected to evolve any fiscal policy. They refrain from saying any- thing about the matter. They trust their silence to pass unnoticed. They are doomed to disappointment. The English- speaking Ministers are made to know that theirs are subsidiary posts in the Cabineli :✓"hey aro to look to Tarte for. favors. 'May must not demand too muoh, or their places will be taken by men even more colorless than them- selves. Already Choquette and other French Liberals are striving to obtain the reversion of Sir Richard Cartwright's department. "What though Quebec has seven members of the Cabinet while Ontario has only five," said Choquette the other day. "Did not Quebec, did not the French-Canadian people place this Administration in power? They should have not seven but nine representatives in the Government." It is not improb- able that Choquette will be successful in his pursuit of the portfolio. None knows better than Tarte that Ontario will not remain mute and impassive when the Grits make an appeal to the country. None knows better than Tarte that the Conservatives are bound to sweep the premier province. His plan is to make Quebec sure. "The priests are with us," say the French Liberals. "They know that we will give the Roman Catholics of Manitoba ail that they can desire. We need no remedial bill. Our friends of the provincial Government will give us all that we ask. We have only eight French -Conservatives in the House now. If we go the right way about it we shall be able to allow Ontario to go back to the Conservatives and the Protestants." More Signs of Cabinet Strife. In the ranks of the Conservatives there exists j30 doubt that the reign of Tarte, Laurier and Co. will not last long. There are signs of internal strife other than that which T mentioned at the begin- ning of this letter. Laurier, the titular leader, is being sought after by the Eng- lish-speaking members of the Cabinet, who would rather have King Log •Wilfrid than King Stork Israel. There- fore it is that Fielding, )unlock, Borden and their fellow English-speaking Minis- ters are most affable to Laurier while they hardly recognize Tarte The vola- tile Israel worries not, for he knows well that ho is king de facto. By next week, when the two by-eleotions will have been decided, the English-speaking sec- tion of the Cabinet will make a final attempt to rid themselves of Tarte and his policy of French domination. They will be unsuccessful, for Tarte knows that without him to keep the French Grits in 'order the Government would havo but little hope of keeping the elusive Joan Baptiste in sight. An Interntittoial Coln:mission. The Premier has had other things to trouble him during the pest week. Some time ago he was interviewed for a Chicago newspaper by a well-known Liberal journalist. lir. Laurier un - bosomed himself to this gentleman. He concealed nothing. He . advocated hand- ing over the Canadian canals to an in- ternational' commission. He saw ne reason why the United States and Can- ada should not arrange "Inutile l; beneficial" laws whereby the New atin.,4 land fishermen should be enabled to oome into our maritime waters without let, or license. When the interview wait pub- lished the ultramarine noses of the Nova S.otians turned white with fear. Men who had voted Grit execrated Laurier and all his works. They knew that the Americana, with their steam traveling apparatus and their immense superiority in vessels would be enabled to make it impossible for Canadian fishermen to compete with them. By Liberal news- papers it was . denied that the Prime Minister had been oorrectly reported. The other day, in the House of Commons, Mr. Fielding. who` comes from Nova Scotia, sat and shivered when he heard the First Minister say that he had been correctly reported. Mr. Fielding remem- bered how he and Mr. Laurier had de- nounced the Washington . treaty whioh the Conservative Government had been instrumental in having negotiated, be- cause it did not sufficiently protect Can- adian fishermen. .And hero was the leader of the party that had called for more protection pronouncing in favor of giving away the means of subsistence of thousands of. Canadians. No wonder that Finance Minister Fielding, who is a practical politician, turned green as he heard Mr. Laurier's avowal. Well might Mr. Fielding have said: "Is it for this that I` have given up the otiose repose that Halifax grants? Have I given up the certainty to grasp the shadow? This Man is said to be a leader. He seems to be led by acute newspaper men. He should onme .to Nova Scotia and hear the opinion of men who voted for /ann. But I fear lee that both they and I have been hoodwinked." Mills Gets the Go By. Insincere and ungrateful as Mirabeau Tarte may have been to Sir Richard, he has been infinitely more cruel to Hon. David Mills, the veteran who has fought Liberal battles before Tarte had left school. By Liberals and Conservatives the Sage of Bothwell was considered a Cabinet certainty. Laurier and Tarte passed him by, as they did Lister, McMullen and many more, for a provin- cial politician. Mr. Mills was stayed with pledges and comforted with promises. The party would do the right thing for him; they would not send him empty away. Tarte, the unscrupulous. went so far as to assure the Sage of Bothwell that before another month passed he would have been made a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. And the old gentleman went house, mollified but dis- appointed. Since the promises were made more than a month has gone by. Mr. Mills as yet is a private citizen. No commission calling hien to the highest— or any other—court in the land has been sent to him. Two days ago James Sutherland, the Liberal whip, wrote to Mr. Milts imploring him to enter the campaign in North Grey. Mr. Mills' answer need not herein be set forth. It was to the effect that he wnnld see him- self some distande away before he would aid the men whn had dealt out to hits, first, ingratitude and then falsehood. The Liberals have had much difficulty in inducing many of their prominent men to, visit North Grey. Dr. Lander - kin, who sits for the South riding of the county, refused plump and plain to go on the stump. "Yon fellows spent your Dash in Quebec in June, and would let me have none in my riding," he is re- ported to have said. "Now you've got barrels of money, and if you can't eleot Paterson without my aid you'll have to lose the county." A. Stalwart Quartet at North 'Grey. A stalwart quartet of Conservatives, Hon. G. E. Foster, Hon. Hugh John Macdonald, Hon. N. Clarke Wallace and Dr. Sproule have done magnificent ser- vice in North Grey. They know that they have the Dominion Treasury to fight, but they are making a gallant struggle. Tarte has issued or dors that at any cost the constituency must be held for the Liberals. If the Government candidate prove successful, there will be no credit accruing to anybody but the Grit heelers who havo 'the science of "placing" money down to a fine point. If the Con- servatives win it will simply be another indication that the reflex wave is already in motion. Down on Sani White. A freight train bad struck an open switch, and a snore of cars had been piled up in the ditch. Of the three tramps stealing a ride on the bumpers two were taken out dead and the third fatally injured. When the doctor had told him that he could not live beyond an hour the wayfarer replied:— "That's cutting it pretty short, but I'm not kicking. I've no relations, but thar's a feller in Chicago I wish you'd drop a line to. His name is Sam White, and we used to be nerds." "What shall I say to him?" asked the. doctor, as be prepared to make notes. "I want you to speak of the acoident and say that among the distinguished passengers on the ill-fated train was Mr. William Burton. I've aline been called Bill, but you kin make it William this once " "All right." "Say that he was on his way to Flor- ida to spend the winter in a first-class resort." "Yes.," • "And that a search of his personal effects brought to light the sum of sixty oents in cash and enough grub to last for two days." "1' have it down." "And that when lie was told he must die he exhibited great stoicism and did not utter a single complaint.'" "Yes. Anything more?" "Add to that something to the effect that he had been a tramp for twenty years, and that he died as he lived— without bringing disgrace to the oloth. Hitch On a trailer by saying that he has gone to his reward. You needn't make any guesses as to where he has gone to or what the reward is; hut leave it an open question, I want to make Saes feel as bad as I kin." "Then he injured you?" queried the doctor. "He did, and I never kin forgive him. After trai.spin' with mo fur ten years he left mo to open a grocery and became an alderman and gins other tramps the cold boot and disgraced the pnrfesh. Darn his hide, doctor, but pat it strong to him,_ and finish up by sayin' that the most superficial observer onuld see that I was a gentleman, and that my gain is the loss of the fraternity. If you bave room you kin any that—that--" "That "That he passsed quietly away, and the railroad company buried him at its own expense." finished the doctor, as be turned away from the dead. 0)istaucc No I/iffe epee, Molly `Chnmplcigh-I had no idea it was such a short ride to Philadelphia. Why, we arrived there before 1 knew anything. . Miss Coldeal-s-Really? But then you might have gone to San Francisco with the same. result. TH [ DuI ICY SIMPLE MILK TESTER. An Australian Invention Superior to the Centrifugal Apparatits. . While the process of testing milk by means of the new centrifugal apparatus is simple enough to be soon mastered by intelligent dairymen, it is sufficiently complicated to lead to frequent mistakes on the part of persons who have no natural capacity for tieing mechanical ap- pliances. . Angus Mackay, professor of agriculture in the teohulcal `dollege, Sydney, has lately ,devised a testing ap- paratus which is olaimed to be perfectly effective though it is surprisingly simple. According to the description published in an Australian paper, all that is required is a straight piece of glass tube, sealed at one end, and marked off into three divisions of ten cubic centimeters capac- ity, and a fourth ' which is graduated. The milk to be tested is poured into the tube, to the line marking the first divi- sion. To the milk is added sufficient specially prepared ether to fill the tube to the line marking the second division. The tube must be then closed perfectly airtight, either by placing the finger firmly on it or wieh a suitable tightly fitting cork. It should be heid horizont- ally, anti well shaken, until the ether and milk are well and thoroughly mixed in the tube. When well mixed, a'speoial prepnred re -agent is added sufficient to fill the tube to the line marking the third division. The tube is again corked and held in a horizontal position, and well shaken until the caseine separates from the liquid mixture and forms in flakes. When all the canine is separated, the tube is stood in water, pf a tempera- ture of 104 degrees Fahrenheit, until the fat globules have all risen to the surface. It should then be stood in water of a temperature of 68 degrees Fahrenheit for ten or fifteen minutes, when the extent of the fatty layer can be read off. Lines marked in the fourth division give the volume in one-tenth of a cubic oenti- meter. Care must bo taken not to place a iII a m z COLO WATER HOT WATER the ether near or in close proximity to a flame, as itis very inflammable. The advantage of this system Iles in its simplicity, as anyone can, after a few lessons, without any previous knowledge of the principles of milk -testing, easily master all its technical details. All that is needed Is the tubes, and any number of tests desired can be going through tiie process at the same time Another most important consideration is the cost of the appliances. The first outlay for tubes and the bottle of ether and re -agent is under one guinea, and each test costs a fraction over „d. Another great advan- tage is that the process separates the butter fats, also caseine and water, in such a perfect manner as to leave eaoh element entirely distinct, and in such a position as to leave the ratio of each easily determined; and yet not an iota of either is destroyed. Another recom- mendation is that there is no risk of gen- erating odors which will taint even in the faintest degree the produce. This is an improvement on the old systems of testing by centrifugal force. Besides, there is no risk of failure during the manipulation or handling of the tubes, as the register oan be seen without touching the tube with the hand or re- moving it from the cold water. There is also no risk of the record being wrong through jerks or defective manipulation during the process of working, as there is no machinery to got out of order or to run too fast or too slow, as the case may be. Selecting Cheese. The department of agriculture has is- sued a very valuahle circular on "How to Select Good Cheese." In speaking of the composition of "filled cheese," it says: Instead of the natural fat of milk, or cream, which is extracted for butter - making, there is substituted what is known as "neutral lard," made from the leaf fat of the nog. This article, claimed to be exceptionally pure and good of its kind, is used at the rate of two or three pounds to every 100 pounds of skin milk. The oheeso resulting carries about 30 per cent. of (lard) fat. which is rather less than the average of (butter) fat in good Whole -Milk cheese. The casein and other components of the two are practically the same in kind and proportion. Froin this statement of composition one can judge for himself whether this filled or lard cheese is a legitimate article of fond, whether it is "wholesome," and whether he desires to use it in the diet of himself and family. It is made of comparatively cheap materials, costing from one-half to two-thirds as much as good, full-oream, factory cheese, and its market prine, wholesale or retail,should correspond. At its best, this is a cheap, inferior article of cheese; it is almost devoid of flavor, oily or greasy when warm, and never at- tains the dry, crumbly cnnsistenoy of a well -cured cheese. Itis sold when only a rnonuh or two from the press, in incita- tion of mild, immature cheese. It is claimed that it does not keep well, es- pecially if subjected to a temperature above 60 degrees, There is much of value in the way of advice and suggestion in this little pamphlet, which may be ob- tained free by addressing the chief of the dairy di v ision, department of agriculture, Washington. Tar on Serge. • Tar on serge dresses may be removed by this method: Apply with 0 flannel successive applications of . turpentine, naphtha and benzine. If the stainsare very old they should be thoroughly rubbed with flauuol dippedin salad oil; this softens the. tar, which will afterward yield to other treatment. PARTITIONS IN SILOS. How They Should be Constructed to Secure Satisfactory Results. Where several silos are desired, or where two kinds of silage are to be stored so as to be fed at any time, one large silo with one or more partitions will be cheaper than separate silos. In the illustration shown herewith will be seen bow a partition may he put in a round silo. By running a second parti- tion at right angles to the first the silo may be divided into four pits, but it is always best to avoid partitions when possible to do so. If a partition is made it should be airtight, but if the filling takes place on both sides at the same time it need not be as strong. In the round silo the partition should he put in after the lining. ' To make the partition, two thicknesses of inch boards with paper between may be used. These should be nailed to studding made out of 6x6's sawed in two diagonally, using two pieces at each end of the partition, placed so that the sawed face fills the corner formed by the partition. With the intermediate studs the beards should be nailed to the sawed or wide side, so as to avoid forming square cor- ners. If a rectangular silo is built, then two layers •of matched fencing with tar paper between should be used for the lining. To lesson the spoiling of silage at the corners, these should be out off with one layer of inch beards about 1a inches long. This should then be lined with roofing tin soldered together into a strip. long enough to nail to the lining and to cmnpletely cover the twn ends of the shot hoards by as lunch as two inches on each side. Then it should be kept painted with coal tar to prevent rusting. —F. H. King, in Orange 7udd Farmer. Slow Milking and Butter Fat. "Dr. Babcock found, in some experi- ments he tried regarding this matter, that slow milking had a very decided effect in reducing the butter fat in the milk, there being an average decline of over 11 per cent in his trials as a result of slow milking, while there was also a decided diminution in the quality; though in a prolonged trial with cows naturally going dry the differences tended to disappear. The total result over a season, however is beneficial to the milk yield in the case of quirk milking not to speak of the saving of time. "We do not yet know all about the secretion of the milk in the udder, but we are getting on that way. We now know that it is wholly through the result of nervous action that the blood, lymph and cells of the tissue of the udder be- come 'rnetaboljzed' into milk; and we further know that this formation of the milk largely takes plane after the opera- tion of milking has begun. This is why the gentle treatment of the animal has so niuoh to do with her milk yield; if she is hunted with dogs to hegiu with, and afterwards roughly treated in the milking, the nervous excitement reacts on the tissues of the udder, and prevents the secretion of the milk, and, in com- mon language,she does not 'let it down.' Anything that excites her and ruffles her temper has the sane effect, and she has not of herself the power to either let it down or hold it up, and the milk will only flow readily when she is t. ited in such a way as to make her pleased and contented. "Prof. Stewart compares the secretion of milk to the secretion of tears: the latter only flow when there is mental ex- citement of a painful nature, while milk secretion requires mental excitement of a pleasurable kind; or 10 may be compared to the sudden development of saliva in the mouth of a hungry man when he en (routers the smell of roast beef with the usual 'filings.' The pleasurable sensation in the case of n oow is due to having her teats handled in a way similar to the sucking of the calf,to the 'chewing of her 'cud, and generally to being in a pleasant and contented frame of mind. Gentle, kindly treatment conduces to this, while rough usage of any kind tends to the contrary, and the cow unknowingly 'holds up' her milk and gots down in yield. "Milking should be done quiokly, quietly and thoroughly. There should be no milk left in the udder, as doing so tends to dry up the animal, and for this reason am I an advocate of stripping out —some responsible person going round after the others and squeezing out the last drops. I need hardly tell you these 'strippings' are the richest part of the yield while the plan, ensures the animals being milked dry, and thus having their yielding power developed." Duties of Better -makers. First, a buttermaker should be physi- cally all right. Their five senses should be perfect. It is a known fact that any man afflicted with rheumatism would be considered almost a suicide to work in e creamery where they are continually ex- posed to sudden changes from heat to oold and in a damp atmosphere nearly all the time. It is also •a fact that their hearing should be pertoet, as it is in that• that any change in the running and speed of the machinery is detained. And next of importance is the sense of sriioi1, which ought to be rultivxt -: so it would be like that of a fox hound crtii'o hint to howl every time. an t,bjectio"able taint of milk or cream or i..aybe the intik cans of a patron come in contact with his nasal organ. His bumps of human nature, suavity and adaptability should be well devel- oped and cultivated and with the suppo- sition that his iuiscular development is sufficient to perform .the duties in:oum- bent. upon him, we leave hire physically. One of his first qualificntions would be not to use liquor to excess, and he should never use or :Allow to beused in- side the walls of a creamery, tobacco in any,, form.-Exohange. GREAT MEN AS LOVERS. '1 Nota Whit Legs Silly Than Their Intellec- tual Inferlors. ntellec-tuallnferlore. When Hurne fell in love his friends became aware of the fact by his sporting a rose in his buttonhole. Sheridan fell in love with Miss Littler. and told the story in "The Rivals," which is a true account of his courtship. When Farquhar was in love with Mrs. Oldfield, the actress, he told her, "My head and my heart are at fisticuffs about you." Addison fell in love with the Countess Dowager of Warwiok, but she clid alt 000 courting and gave him no trouble in that regard. When Heine was in love, he was, so jealous that he poisoned a parrot belong- ing to his mistress, for fear it would claim too muuh of her affection. Byron was orazily jealous of every woman he ever loved. His lovas, were almost innumerable, and sooner or later he made every one miserable. Thomas Moore was always in love. The names of no less that 14 different ladies to whom he vowed eternal fidelity are to be found in bis poems. Waller wrote his most pleasing poetry .of Saccharissa. After she rejected him, he, in a letter to a friend, said, "She Is only a red-headed drab anyhow." Alfred de Musset fell in love with George Sand, and when she tired of him, as she did of every one else, he took to absinthe, and soon succeededin drink - lag himself to death. When Sterne was in love, he sent his sweetheart, Mrs. Draper, "a pot of sweet- meats and a pot of honey, neither of which contains half the sweetness pecu- liar to yourself." Beethoven almost went crazy about the Countess Ginlietta Guiociardi. He calls her "My Immortal Beloved" and conohrdes his letters, "Ever yours! Ever nine! Ever each others! Amen." When Goethe was first in love he oarved upon a tree in a neighboring for- est a couple of hearts, united by a serail, and a little later received a sound thrash- ing from the forester for damaging the tree. Alfieri fell in love with a noble lady of Turin, and, determined to effect a pure, had himself tied in chair and remained thus for a month, during which time he wrote "Cleopatra," and established his reputation as n post. When Burns was in in love with Highland Mary the twain went to a brook, stood on either side, clasped hands and swore on a Bible to be etern- ally true. Mary Campbell would doubt- less have kept the vow, but judging from .the subsequent conduct of Burns, his doing so was highly improbable. Israel Plitiiarn, the sturdy American here, fell in love with a young girl at a festival in which the paring of apples for drying was the leading employment. He tossed one long peeling over his shoulder, after the manner of the for- tune-telling then common and it fell in the shape of the initial of her name.—St. Louis Cllobe-Democrat. Laaelnation and Appetite. Even sensible people are often deluded by their imagination. A distinguished zoologist one day gave a dinner, after dissecting a Mississippi alligator, and he had asked a good many of his disting- uished friends to be present. His house and establishment were in good style and taste His guests name, The dinner table looked splendid with glees, china and plate, and the meal commenced with excellent soup, "How do you like that soup?" asked the zoologist, after having finished his own plateful, addressing a famous gourmet of the day. "Very good, indeed," answered the other. "Turtle, is it not? I only ask be- cause I don't find any green fat." Tbe host shook his head. "I think it has something of a musty taste," said another. "Not unpleasant, but peculiar." "All alligators have," was the answer, "the American alligator, particularly so—the fellow whom I dissected this morning, and whom you have just been eating." There was a general rout of the guests. Everybody turned pale. Half a dozen started up from the table. Two or three ' ran out of the room; and only a few remained to the close of an excellent entertainment. "See what imagination is," said the host. "If I had told them that it was terrapin, or turtle, or birds' -nest Soup, salt water amphibis, or the gluten of a fish from the maw of a sea -bird, they would have pronounced it excellent, and their digestion would have been none the worse. Such is prejudice'." "But was it really alligator?" asked a lady.' "No, any clear madam, not at all; but as good a Calf's head as ever was known I" —New York Mercury. Is the Acco: tance of Christ a Sacrifice Many of the expounders of the Truth lay. a particular stress on the sacrifices which they deem necessary before a seeker can be accepted of God. There was but one sacrifice necessary, and it was offered by God, for the world, when He gave His only begotten Son as a liv- ing sacrifice, that those believing in Hint might be saved. We inay give our time, our money or even our life, and yet the giving of any of these things cannot be called a sacrifice on our part, inasmuch as by thus giving God what rightfully is His own, He, according to His prom- ise, gives us in return everlasting life. Weigh in the scales of justice a life, mortal, whose destiny is death, whose end is eternal punishment, and, again. a life, immortal, whose destiny is eternal life and whose end is everlasting hap- piness, and tell me if it is a sacrifice to give a handful of dust, molded into the shape of a man, for a life of immortal- ity, at the right hand of our Father in heaven.—By R. A. Woodington. hovel Method of Shelling Pers. • A New York exchange tells that the ohef in one of the large hotels has bit upon a novel method of shelling peas. He uses ao ordinary* olotheswringer, and the rapidity with which the work is done is . surprising. The pods, as they go through the rollers, burst, passing through to the other side, leaving the peas behind. The first impression one gots is that the peas are likely to got bruised. Such, however, le not the case. As the pods stain' the rollers an old wringer should he used. some :filing Wrong. This is , at great fruit year, and the peach crop is especially bountiful. Vet while the first alar of all • kinds'of fruit this year is. practically nothing, the retail price to the consumer .18, a8 always,. practically prohibitory for the poor in the large cities. 'There must be something essentially wrong in the' machinery of distribution of the fruit trade which pre- vents the ,people from getting any ben., ' -t from the most -favorable crop condici,.0