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Dattgereue Shooting.
Seals are' very fond of music, and the
hunters who puesue them inosb successfully
Often make one of some musical instrument
to attract them. In "A. Seal Hunt on the
Blaket Islands" a writer in Outiog do.
scribes au adventure with seals, when a gun
proved a dangerous weapon. - The oars
eepped slowly, O'Brien's eyes were 'fixed on
the caves, and the boatzneo sung in unisoh
it weird, wild etong in a kind of undertone.
tro the writer thie seemed a curioue accom-
paniment to a seal hunt ; but he was still
ihore surprised when one of the men pro
duced a fiute and played on it a quaint,
sympathetic air, that echeted and re-ecluied
Among the castes. The musicel effects were
marvellous ; but our author turned to
CeBrien and atiked"What is the menhir:1g
oral' this ?" "Oh, it is to attract the seals,
In a few minutes you will see. theta beeleing
on the water ihd on , the ledges, ohanned
almost to unconecieueness by-the'musio."
And so it happened ; for underneath, on
"an easy ledge," we saw two seals scramble
up and lie quietly listening,
"Now it is owe time," EAU O'Brien, and
the boatmen gently rowed tpward the fits.
cinated seals, the flute -player still continu-
ing eis tune.
Withoub gine or epear my eriend sprang
to the rooky ledge. He had with him only
a bludgeoh and a long knife. Noiseleirsly
advaeong upon the seals, he dealt one of
them , low on the nose and then slid for-
*arrl, d 'llecleir Wit le ehle ' Inetfe, Thus
our fire apture was made.
" 7' iy not eboot the poor brutes and so
end the affair ?" I asked.
O'Brien laughed, "My cleat sir," he
replied, "ib is impossible. I will prove it
to yoa. You have your rifle with you,
Well, the next tinae we meet a seal I will
alleW you to do the work with powder and
• bell, and we shell aeo how you fere."
• Then we went over to Cerrigcluff and en.
deavored with meek to inveigle other seals.
• And we wore rewar,ded, for far within
‘4the great eerie" there appeared a splendid
male, intioll lament, then thoee we had before
• goon -4a a consume beet, but one of the
large, bearded seals. He ware toeller'-
peera,nee, unconscioue of our apprettele
The flute -never continued hie tune, and
the °are pushed the watere as nMeelessly as
possible until wo Were within a few ye,rdir
of the game.
"New try your gun," whispered O'Brien.
I climbed out of the yawl and got chew
to the teal. 1 found to got too close, lest
• I should frighten him off the ledge ; so I
rested against the 81inty rook and, asking
careful men et a point between his should-
ers, fired,
The din was awful. It seemed as if the
tele islane were being blotta to pieces by
modern battery. I became aware, too
, that my elan, heti trot killed the ani.
it My e everful riaw„
no. 0,0,1, by, series of , coy ous Spine.
MOVO)iterlidf bit had 1101)10/0IOSO tO
ankle itt hie eme
' sf, wets toe feaenieneekon to cry
Th &lug Lena.
1 never SaW pletere mule nevem heard a
sol4;
leet made the eve so musioal, the morning
halts° lone.
As 4 pioture in my monsory, a, merry song 1
As Xald it on cm etwoing when the sun
wae sitikine love,
And the shadows and, the sunlight and the
mild -eyed, welting kine,
With the pasture sloping greenie to the
eses ragged line,
And a meitlenab her nsilking and the Sky that
awned above
Wrought a rural peporame in it paradise of
love,
While the streams of milk went laughing ia
meregmotiotene,
Singleg plainly : "Good it is not for it man to
live attract"
Anda melody or moraing eranglea tn a vesper
rhyme
Thee sweet Dollien voice was crooning at the
ha ppymailleing time ;
Pam' Dome et her melting when our souls
Wer0 all a -rhyme„
To the svveethess and oompleteness of the
merry milking time,
From the fence along the woodlend rose the
breien, quail's (weber:cc call
And ' good night" sang the robin as the
dews bonito to fall,
Widle from the gloomy thieket, faintly fading
o'or the hill,
Oanase11tlyev4oe sorrow in the ory of,41aotte
leut no sone of heel or insect coulkl on melody
prenail
'With two streams of milk a felling through
her brovnt hands in the pail;
With two streems of milk a falling and the
song she murmured low
Of two happy lovers meeting, at the suneet
long ago,
01 I never SAW a picture end I never heard a;
song
Thatmade the eve es musicale the morniug,
hail so long,
As that old picture painted on love's tapestry
ot ehyme,
01 the raerry country maiden at the dente old
milking time;
As that song and soul remembers, and repeats
in every Mime,
Of stveee love enchanted at the happy
milking time.
The Dairy—Some New Year Resolutions.
As custom makes the New Year the time
for "turning over new leaves" and reeking
• good restitutions, we suggest that those who
are in the dairy business for profit, can to
advantage resolve something like this:
resolve—
That I will work on business prin-
ciples.
That I will not let the skim mils go
to waste.
That I will use only a pod brand of
dairy salt.
That the cowshell have pure water
to drink and plenty of it.
That I willseethat the cows are waren
inwititer and have shade ia sununer.
That I will sell my good butter and
my poor cowe, for it is profitable to do so.
That I will temper the cream with a
thermometer instead of with my finger.
That I will not let another drought
(Abell me without something to tide it over
with.
That I will carefully weigh an dre-
cord each churning and keep an account
with my cows. e
Thee I will use harmless t trtificial
coloring when the cows fail to color the
batter,
That I will not make butter as my
grandmother did, but as progreesive dairy-
men do now. •
That I will tell my representative in
the legislature to support pure food bills
and pleasures aimed at the illegal sale of
oleomargarine.
That Twill use parolunent paper, to wrap
my butter or cover it in the tub, instead of
using muslin or old rags.
That before planting time comes I will
investigate theembject of cow peas, scarlet
clover, ensilage and. various roots.
That I will net be oajoled into thinking
that there is any better place to make but-
ter than on the feign:
That I _will look into the subject of ilrl•
provedportable creameries and see if they
are not, handier and more economical than
pans or crocks.
That I will investigate the matter of box
stalls, adjustable stalls and pateet tiee and
eee if there is not something more humane
than the old stanchions.
That I wil no be penny-wise by be-
grudging the cows plenty to eat, or prac-
tice false economy by using old-faehiorted
appliances when new ones can be had at
reasonable prices.
That I and my neighbors will give a
deaf eat to any smooth-tongued "creamery
sheik " that comes into our neighborhood
a,ncl wishes • to put up a $2,000.00 publio
creamery for $4,500.00.,
That 1 will champion the cause of pro.
gressive anil intelligent dairying as the best
most profitable, Raid mese pleasant factor
in a system, of diversified farming.
Successful Butter -Maker -
When I first knew Walter B., five. years
ago, he was a melaool teacher, earning $30 a
month, ir a country distket, for eight
months in the year. lao was oontemplat.
ing the study of law, when his attentioh
was turned to the not leas honorable pur-
suit of buttermadring. His circumstances
demanded the immediete earning of money,
while if he entered the legal profession,
poor, untried, aria unknown, some yetere
must elapse before he coald work up it pro.
&able practice. Besides coneributing to-
ward, the support of hie aged parents, he
hacl been enabled to save a limited amearit
from his schoonteaohitig wages, With this
he attended it dairy school, confining his
studies to the ere of fine buttemmak-
In the *ring he got a job as " eecond
man" in a creamery, at $20. per month eta
board, which was „better than the $30 pe,r
month without board, that he haceformerly
earned at school teaching, The next swoon
he obteined a position as butteemeker in a
name I co-operative oreitniety thet had just
started, Ile did. all of the work, and vean
given 8,50 per month for nine menthe, iste
diseharged his ditties so completely that he
was obtained be, the management at $60 per
month, axe as the patronege oe the factory
lied increased he WAS given a helper also.
met him and his wife to whom be, had
been recently inerried, riding out ie a car,
riage one warm evening last summer, and
be cordially invited me eo "00016 over and
Free his factory," an opportuniby of whites I
availed myself it fOW dame litter. 1 novo.,
saw a yeeng man more happily situated
than he was. }Ifs dairies, though steady,
were not arduous, and earnieg fair Weges,
Iso wee reaping the reward of hie skill.
The feetory was newly built, and the ap.
pitrettie being nese, end also of the most
approved pattern, cooteibrited inuole to the
suecese of the maker. Dividends wore ap-
portioned aecording 10 the Babcock test.
This method gevo eminent eaeriefection to
both tho pitmans arid the maker, Friend,
II, said thee the two of the test had resulted
in it gtea gbh/Mille to better dairy methods
in that neighborhood.
" regret-, tho.1 cia sltd&b
stud
I tt
ileted to the size of wise owls, why not
Wash ils,then ? Under Wee betide it would
reeeien etteh treatment at that point. If
it was right to advocate the weighing et
salt down to a leaf ounce, both it and the
butter Wendt], be weighed by the einalleet
00t04 Alt the soale, before they were incors
?grated togeblier,
Seine of hie better•making eeeocietee
!Ailed hien "orenky" on the einbjeee ef
strict observanoe of detail, 019,111'14T thet
no such hobbiee wore ridden in preeittee.
"So nmeh the wore for the peaotice,
then," gelid B.
, It -was thts tionecientious principle to
learn, and pat into daily practice all that
he diet learn, that made him quickly u sum
eeeeful butterwrieken
The same general oberacter ane skill,
besides beneeting himself, put extranlollars
into the pockets of every dairyman who
patronized the factory in whieh he was
employed, and raised the standerd of that
plant to a reputetion of " host grade.'
Without a doubt Air. le. will be able to
commartil end demand an increase in his
salary before tee year is out,
There is room in the proleseion for other
bubterenakers like biter, but no room for
thomeavlai become inclifeerent te the appli.
cetitin of nteuy etreentiale in the deily
routine of werk, , In the matter of butter -
making, be sure that your neglect will find
you out—I Geo. E. Newelhin Ohio Farmer,
Fruit Notes.
Bamboo is put to more uses than ' any
other plant.
A superfluous branoh is a needless drain
upon the resources of a tree.
Very few orchards are whet they might
have been with proper pruning.
In pruning the grape allow five canes
or vines to each post, outting back every
year.
Burn all of the wood cut out of black
and raspberries so as to destroy tire eggs of
inseots.
Put up a number of small berme in the
trees,in the orchard especially for the mar
tine and wrens.
The trees most frequently struck by
lightning are oak and elm. Beeches are
rarely, „if ever, ertrucle. ,
All apples keep best in a temperature
wsetty near freezing, and particularly in
en even temperature.
In all pruning it is safer to err on tbe
side of pruning too little rather than to
run the risk of pruning to much.
A garden can hardly be to rich, es-
pecially if proper care is taken in planning
the work so as to keep the ground occo-
pied,
All Acme fruite, such as the cherry and
plum, should be grafted before the •sap
leaves, otherwise success is more than
doubtful.
The long growth of.raspberries and black-
berries thoold be shortened one-third or
more if the growth was unchecked during
the summer.
It is claimed thpe. with the:peach a eolith -
ern slope will yieleesserlier, richer and bet:
ter flavoredefruit, but there is en increased
riek of loss frons late frosts.
Side grafting is most applicable to sticks
less than one ince isa diameter, while cleft
grafting may be performed on sticks from
one moh up to two mohes in diameter.
In transplanting evergreens the 'recite
should be wrapped with demp straw °they
as soon as they are taken out of the ground,
and proteoted in this • way until set ' out
again.
Keep this in mind for next spring: One
tomato plant properlysen staked, manured
and pruned is worth a dozen cultivated in
the ordinary manner. The proof of this is
easy ---test it for yourself.
When trees are -to be set out in the
i •
spring,, n many oases well be a good
plan to tetark out the ground and set stakes
where the trees a,re to be planted, This
will save trme in the spring.
Killikinick, orkinikinick, which the In-
diana are in the habit of mixing with to-
bacco, is rapiely becoming extinct. Sev-
eral pleats have 'received this name, but
they have no right to it. The true herb
is the inside bark of a young willow.
There is much to be said in the favor of
a wider cleveloptnent of horticulthre among
our farmers. The progress and development
of a given region Call be closely estimated
by watehing the progress of its horticul-
ture. The happiness and stability and
beet intermits ole community are a.dvanced
by the liberal -practice of this industry.
Fruits and flowere ere great civilizers, and
we can not have too many of them.
Mysteries ole Lump of Coal.
For years no one had supposed that e
lump of soft coal, dug fremits mine or bed
in the earth, possessed any other purpose
than that of fuel. It was next found that
it would afford a gas which was oombusti
bis. Chemical analysis proved it to be made
of hyclroger. n process of time mechani-
cal ed chetnicel ingennity devieed a mode
of rnanufectaring tide gee, aed applying it
to the lightipg of buildings and °there on a
large ece,le, in doing this, other products
of distillations were developed until, step
by step, the following Ingredients are
extracted from it :
An excellent oil to supply lighthonses,
egnal to the beet sperm oil at lower coet.
Benzole—a light sort of ethereel fluid,
Which evaporates easily, and, combined
with vapor or moist air is used for the pur.
pose of portable ges lampsso eallech
Naphtha—a heavy fluid, useful to diseolve
gottapercha and ladle rubber, An excel-
lent oil for Inericitting pommies, Asphal.
turn; which is 8, black, solid eubsts,nce,used
in making varnishes, covering roofs, and
coveting vaults. Paraftine—a white °rye.
talline substanomereserabling white wax,
Which can be Mettle into bearttiful vvitx
candiee ; it melts et a temperature of orm
hundred and ten degrees, and effeeds an
excellent light All thee° soft !substances
are neW made ham eat coal.
Romance of a London Rossitel
• A very exereordinary story hag come to
liglit in London, The wife of a wealthy
Geri -nen gentleman died in the University
College hospital,and the husband,in pitying
his last vieit to her body in the hospital
mortuary, plume ou the fingers of the
corpeo nine costly ringn The body was
zoldered down in n leeden shell, which was
pieced in an oak coffin ; but certain drown.
etanees he,vittg oome to the knowledge of
the oridertalter,his sespielOns were aroused,
and on prormeding to the hospital mortuary
he found thet the oaken octeen had been inn
sorewed end the leaden ooffin, cut hate
Strange to atty he allowed the oorpse to Inr
buried at 13rampton Oornotary, but nicietiug
the himband there he tom 'him, wriNt haa
haponed,whotontion the husband eloained
an order for exhumation from the Ilome
Seeretary, and found thee fete 'of the nine
• ewes bed )ioltttai Won't-
n'a hand,
tidal iS
FROM MTH
In lees than $OO yearGreat 'Britian alone
bee spent 41,359,000,000 in Warv
The largest locomotive Was built four
yeare itgo for the Northern Pacific, 225,000
pourele in weights.
The biakest natural bridge is at Rook.
bridge, Va„ O0 feet from the water to the
bottom of the arch.
A bauk official,vvito "speaks by the card,"
eaye that tee Meet meetly metal is didynium,
worth $4,500 per pound.
A certain Chinese sect tea.chee tbat
wornee who become vegetarians will be
transformed into men ba the great here-
after, ,
The Japanese have 100 tutturel banks,
with an aggregate camitel of $35,000,000,
Of these 69 peid, irk 1.890, dividends of 10
to gO per cent.
The Britisn ironclad Vulcan must be a
monster if its rudderbe taken ae the cri-
terion. Their useful adjunct weighe twenty-
two tons.
• In 1821 Greet Britain heti 8,572,000
houses!, whose rental value was R20,000,-
000 ; now there are 7,100,000 houses;
rental value, £134,700,000.
In 1660 the land of Greab Britain con-
stibuted 57 per cent. of the eountry's
wealth, and was valued at 250,000,000.
Land was then worth $5 an acre.
Ther e IS a steady _decrease in the value
of oed English menroone, Oakley hall, in
Fastex, a fine property of 000 acres, valued
forty yeare ago et $140;000, lase laeen sold
for $40,000.
The new Hungarian marriage law pre-
scribes that betrothel shell give no right
te compel the performance of a marriage,
although ib may justify e laim for com-
pensation,
The moon is not so email after ale Its
surfece area is fully as great as that of
Afriba and Ausbralia, combined, whieh
would make it only about lee times smaller
than OUr earth.
There are over e00 mountains on the
North American continent that are over
10,000 feet in height. In Alaska, alone
there are scores of them, elle not less then
five in thet boreal region exceed 15,000
feet.
A millionaire of Vieena lute leftprovision
in his will for the constant illumination of
the vault wherein he now lies. An.eleetrie
light is to be kept burning for a year, and
even the coffin is to be Iigh ted in the interior
by eleotricitY.
In 1881 English, ships brought to the hone
factories of England. 80,000 skeletonof
Turkish and Russian soldierwho had per-
ished in the Crimean war. They were to be
utilizing material, after lasing ground to
powder en the Mills.
The first aerial voyage was mede Septette.
ber 13, 178,3, by a sheep, a cock and a duck'
to a height of 1,500 fest. The first human
traveleet through the air was el. Francois
Pilatre de Reeler who mounted. the follow-
ing month in a gee balloon. •
All the wars of Napoleon Bonaparte ()est
his country Z255,0U0,000, while the wars of
Louis Napoleon coot France £442,000,000e
The former made the enemy pay most of
the expense ; the expense of the wars waged
by the, latter was borne by France. ,
The soldier is the best fed individual of
hie clime in Europe. The British soldier
receives for his daily ration 16 ounces of
bread, -12,o1 meat, 2 of rice, 8 of dried vege-
tables, 16 of potatoes, and once a week he
receives 2 ounces of salt, 4 of coffee and 9 of
sugar. •
Electricity le on the point of obtaining a
remarkable success in Saxony. According
to various papers negotiations for carrying
out the protect to supply electric power in
a single centre for the entire extent of the
kingdom have resulted in a concession to
that effect,
Old recorde say thee, the law ence took a
hand in reduoing the size of womaner
sleeves in Venice. • That was in 1303, and
its effect was soon seen in eles extravagant
trains that women added tdeheie gowee.
As soon as the puzzled law makers realized
what was the niatter, they curtailed the
skirt by a second edict, to be again circum-
vented. by the great magnificence of both
skifets and eleaves, which were blazoned
with embroideriee of gold, and 001 with
precious stones. These, too, were enacted
out of fashion, bub only while the women
were getting breath for a freeli con-
test, and a sleeve that_ exceeded in cost
anything that had gone before; 'for they
were both wide and long, reaching ev-en the
hem of the dress. These were the arm cover-
ings phat called forth the 19,st flat from the
Venetian Senate.
RYENAS or TILE DANUBE.
Men Who Reap a ioreadraIllervest frosn
the Corvette in that Stream..
A painful sensation has been created in
Vienna by an article in one of the Vienna
daily /ampere, entitled "The Hyenas of the
Danube," in which a gruesomely realistic
descripton is given of the annual appearance
ofihundreds of c orpees floating down the rivet.
between. Vienna, arid Hungary, which are
regularly plundered by the people on tho
banks and then cynically thrown back into
the swift current of the strearn never to be
heard of again. The writer eonsiders thie
hoerible state of things mainly in a judicial
light, !says the correspoodent of the London
Telegraph, and complains of tfie serious
losses teas inflicted upon the living in con-
sequence of the abeence of all clue to the
tate of their unfortunate relatives.
" Year after year," he affirmshue.
deeds of lifeless bodies—the morbid remains
of suicides, victims of crime and victims of
accidents—riso to thesurfaceef the Danube,
are swept along with the current and vvash.
ed up on the land op one bank or the othee.
limp they are disconered by the cc Hymeas,"
who rifle the corpses, 8,nd then, as it rule,
kick them, honk into the waves, after which
leo lumen being worries about thein.
Thousands of people vanish from the scene
in this manner, no one evet lemming whet
fete befell them. Blood. corelling crimes
remeinundieeovered, and the uncertainty
whether e man it dead or will return agaih
to his family and friends is often fraught
with heavy lessee to Leo latter, No mound
marks the sr ot where these unforturiate
people rest ; they are seruck out of the
roll ce1l of hanianity ; clo trace eaveals the
eourse of their last long journey ; they
have eimply venished from the World like
the lose wanderer in the (leered who is
buried beneath enormous earal 'Waves, oe
like the femithed ttave11nsn the wilderness
whose beett isevereee the fowl of ltirde ni
prey. Ana yet eve are living la Baronet e
The writer then pcs on to show that a
reward offered for the diseevery of dead
bodies in the Danube would amply suffice
to remedy the ovil as is shewn by the ex-
ample of the city of Pressburg,,whieh pays
3s, dd. for every !melt oorpee pomted .out to
the authorities, ''lt is chiefly a Mat above
and
it little Wow Preselm • that the omit.
s baIntiy
Tbet sloes not pay oub1de of Pressburg,
I where the two Aslilerus rews44 is ofihred.
"Above and below that city, once they
have plundered the deed body, they
thrust it hack into tho water. That is so
much simpler, and saves thorn the trouble
and worry of having to deal with the
nais-
Irabe, and as for the rest—well, the Danube
may do with it as it wall. There are many
speculative heads among these Hyenas, vim)
when, the and is made at *modern dietance
from Pressburg, tie a rope to the body, and
haNfug attached it to the boat, smuggle ib
into the purlieus of the city in order to
qualify themeelnee IQ reoeive the two
geld ens,
One day a welleknown merchant of
Pressburg dieeppeared without leavieg a
erects, His wife end family left nothing
undone to discover wbat heel become of then'
breadwinner, hub their efforts were one
Months passed in the torturing
anxiety of ulmertainey. At last, in the
town Of Raub, it wedding ring was offered
for sale, witli the name of the missing mer-
chant engraved on it. The goldsrintn, as
it hitemened, had read the story of his die.
appearance,
and belied the seller of the ring
arrested. When questioned, this peasant
answered geite uncoaceroedly that he had
taken the ring, and many other things be.
sides, from a corpse that he found m the
river, Fortenetely he W48 humane enough
not to gest it beck again, but to cover it
with a, little sand on the bank of the stream.
Ile remembered the epee, atid the corpse
was found. Tbie is but one out of a hun-
dred of similar 04008 and the city of
Vienna, suppliee Macrae ft0 per cent. of these
unreeognized corpses. It is high time to
put an end to this European scandal"
PEASONAIJ-
Movements or Well E.110WII. weenie.
The new D,ulte of Saxe-Cobourg is eitt.
toms&
William Black, the novelist, has been laid
up at his house at Brighton, &island, With
a somewhat sevete illness.
• Florence Nightingale, the lamella nurse,
is 78 years old. She takes her baptismal
IMMO from the Italian city isa whieh she was
.Paderewski is the only solo player engag-
ed for the forthcoming North. Ithenisla
Musical Eestival, •which will take place
this, year at Aix-laOliapelle.
Rosa Bonheur is still painting in her
quaint szudy near Fountainbles,u. She in
now an old woman, small, ounburned, e.nd
wrinkled as a omelet Thegrey hair is cat
short, and is still thick.
The Emperor of Germany draws heavily
on the exchequer when he travels. His trip
to Italy and Austria soon after he ascended
the throne cost $200,000.- In Germany the
Emperor pays his own fare.
Miss 'Ea te Sanborn says of the programmes
at women's clubs a—" The papers are
usually too long-winded and too laboured.
They are mat ustive, usually going back
‘,
to the begime of the world to -explain
the present sub ,"
At the Opera lionseein Ottawa recently
the Countess of Aberdeen wore.onereee of
royal purple velvet e the skirt was plain
and full; a Bolero jacket of velvet was
worn over a cream sille bodice; and an
Elizabethan frill of cream lace ornamented
the neck. A jewelled star adorned the
hair. •
Hon. Mra. Ivor Herbert, the wife of the.
reaeral, purposee having a dancing ()lass
7
‘1'ring the winter
ii at Earuseliffe. The Gen -
occupies the resicitsnce of the Its
: John Macdobald during the absence of
' e Baroness in Europe, and here the lead-
.,
e of Ottawa soeiety are to study the
country dance during the present season.
,
William E. Gladstone got into the year
of great babies, 1809, only by a, scratch.
If he had been bora three days later he
would be a child of a year which was not
so memorable for its births. Among the
great personages who were born iu 1809
were Darwin, Tennyson; Elizabeth Barrett
• Browning, Edgar A. Poe, the historian
Kbaglake, Mendelesohn, Jules Favre,
Lincoln, Hamlin, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and ex -Speaker and ex-Senatore Robert C.
Winthrop.
Lord Aberdeen has on his Hadde estate
a cottage especially for the children,. called
"Holiday Cottage." The place is fitted
up with all the goods and chattels of a
humble home, except that there is no
sleeping accommodation in it. In the
garden Lord Haddo, the Hon, Dudley,
aud Archie Gordon grow potatoes, cabbages,
and strawberries. Thts three brothers dig
ansi delve, fetch water froto. a pump in the
neighbouring field, mend fences, polish
door -knockers, chop wood, or, make them-
selves otherwise useful. In the kitchen
Lady Ms.rjorie practices all the details of
housekeeping. le the floor is dirty she
scrubs it ; when the grate is cold, elm
kneela in front of it and cleans it, and lays
the fire. ,
Prof. Alm Tyndall's father was a shoe-
maker in an Irieet village and lived in very
humble style, occupying rooms in the rear
of his small shop. Bat like many old-timer
cobblers, he had Mord than a share of learn-
ittg and was wibty ananarca,stio in argument.
Hie soo was sent to the local grammar
school and one of his old churns there was
• M. 0. Hennessey, tow a Rochester shoe
manufacturer. He says that young Tyn-
dall was an effeminate boy, who gene little
promise of living to be 73 years of age.
Andrew J. Davis, a letely deceased Mon-
tana man of great wealth, was scot noted
for his liberaliby as a rule, but to a friend
who was in financial straits he once sent a
check for $100,000 with the message Pay
me if you can ; if you canuot never xnesa-
tionili.•
Queen Victoria, will be settled . in
Florence before ela,eter. At the close of
the following month she will be found, in
Coburg, mad the next (May) vvill eta her
74 years old.
Row to Get a 'Sunlight" Picture.
Send 25 "Sunlight" Soap wrappere (the
large wrapper) to Lever Brom, • Ltd., 43
Seott Se Toronto, and you will reeeive by
post a, pretty picture, free from advertising
and Well Worth framing. This ni an easy
way to decorete your home. The soap is
the best in the market, and it will only cost
lc postage to send ill the wrappers, if you
leave the midis open. Write your addreea
carefully.
Wbee leallY wno Stet, we nosedime Clastotte.
When she was 4 child, she creectfee Coterie.
When she became Miss, she 'clung to castorta.
When sho had Cgalldren,sliegavdtherneesterik
• Time to Intrude.
Mot1ser-5' Is Mr. Kissein in the
yet sl"
Little lion—" Yes.
Whatare they doing 2
" They
der
Y4eiayota.t!Ak
Hon. Reuben E. Truax, one of
Canada's ablest thinkers end states-
men, a man so highly esteem.ed by
the people of his district that he was
honoresi with a seat in Parliament,
kindly furnishes us for publication
the following statement, which will
be most welcome to the public,
inasmuch as it is . one in which all
will place implicit confidence. Mr.
Truax says :
"1 have been for abuotten years
very much troublea with Indigestion
and Dyspepsia, have tried a great
many different kinds of patent
--niedicines,,, and have been treated by
a number or'ithysicians and found
no benefit from them. 1Val-reoorn-
menaed to try the Great South
American Nervine Tonic: I obtained
a bottle, and I mast sayI founa very
great relief, ansi have since taken two
more bottles, arta now feel that I am
entirely free from Indigestion, and
would strongly recommend all raY
fellow -sufferers from the disease to
give South American Nervine an
immediate trial. It will ouro you.
'REUBEN E. TRUAX, '
"Walkerton, Ont."L
• It has lately been discovered that
certain Nerve Centres, located near
the base of the brain, Control and
supply the stomach with the neces-
sary nerve force to properly digest
the food. When these Nerve Cen-
tres are in any way derangedtti
supply of nerve force is at once
diminished, and as it result the food
taken into the • stomach is only,.
partially digested, and Chrotho Insi
gestion and Dyspepsia soon. makS
their appearance.
• South AnaericitniAev, red
prepared that it ,,,kts directlyon the
nerves. It witrabsolutely cure eve4,
ease of Twargestion and Dyspepsia,
and is 01 absolute specific for alt
nervous diseases and. ailments.
It usually gives relief in one day.
Its powers to build up the whole
system are wonderful in the extreme:
It cures the old, the young, and the
raiddle-aged. It is a great friend to
• wme3. and infirm. Do not neglect
eclens boon; if you do,
tb" rern-ay
to use t
you may neg..e4
which will restore yoi.
South Ameriean Nervine is perfectly
safe, and very pleasent to' the taste.
Delicate ladies, do not fail to use this
great cure, because it will put the
bloona of freshness and beauty upon
your lips and in your cheeks, and
quickly drive away your disabilities
and weaknesses.
Dr. W. Washburn, tif New
Richmond, Indiana, writes "I have
• used South American Nervine in
my fatally and prescribed, it in
my practice. It is a, most excellen4
remedy:"
0. LUTZ 'Sole WhOlesale s,n.d Retail Agent for Exeter,
MoDArrtnrn. Agent, Reuss:11.
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U1100LHATii.
Professing Beggars and- Their Earnings.
The professional beggar to not a modern
innovation, by any means. Readers of the
Speetator will recall "Scarecrow," the
famous London beggar who, having dis-
abled himself in his right leg, "asked alms
all day in order to got a warm supper at
night. According to John Timbs, the
"Heelers," to whom we often find mention
in the litera,ture of the seventeenth century,
evere troops of idle vagrants who infeeted
Lincoln's Inn Fields. They asourried the
characters of maimed soldiers who had
suffered in the greab rebellion, and found a
ready prey in the people of fashion mad
quality who drove by. Indeed, it is made
clear by contemporary allusion an comedies
that this square was the regular haunt of
bogus cripples who lived by mendicancy,
whioh they carried on the most barefaced
and even intimidating nuinr en It is re-
lated that George IV, when Prinoe of
Wales, once attended a beggars' carnival isa
London, incognito. ao hed not been there
long when the chairman, addressing the
oompany and pointing to the Prioce, said,
"I call upon that ere gerrtmen with a shirt
for a trona." The Prince, as well as he
could, got excused upon a friend, who
amens/retried him promising to sing instead,
which the latter did amisi greet applause.
The health of the Prince end his friend
having been drank, and duly responded to,
'they deputed in order to afford the Som.
pany an opportunity to fix their differeue
routem for the onsuieg day's busioess ;for at
thee, time the profeeeiorme baggers 01 1101
don used to have a geeerel meeting
times during the year at whieh they
videtehe tmeempanies, eaeli efeeme
its partiorilar Welk, .1p those days
begs varied much, smite itettirig
five thellings ci day, Moat of bit
eionel beggars in London today—
name ie legion --emanate from t
nommen `lodging -houses, The to
loos of these, svhieh is known
Dispensary," supports an individt
as a cceeriveme who entire ca livie
facturing the pathetie signboard
share cripples and the bogus
carrY reined their nooks, In 1?
well known, the professional h
regultzr titeokly tatotingd alt
routes to bo eollowed by the
the goild eDo Auppoll out b
committae. Tbtly hmve an or
own, called thd J'aurnal dos
virbLib appwri twiao eWOG
Cent issae the followieg on
moot is taken t "Vette
arippis for a OOLI,Padq
01100Wana $tmail dOlttptit
Itow She %einem-sod Two nebbere.
In these days when reilway traitor and
express meesengers are at the tnerey of
armed bandits a woman's eourege w"hett she
is confropted with masked robbers is in-
spiring. A desperate attempt to rob it sole
in the banking departmenb oe the Norther
Indiana Normal College was reeen
thwarted by a remarkable display of 4
ness on the part of a young teaeher.
, Where the office was entered it
eupied by two 13, einmn, one tl
Ti,s, 3/4 h
and the other :-cher Lenin
was in the raiddl of te afte
the buildings were filled With at
, "Keep quiet or yomi will be
ethe two masked meia an they
the room, .
One of them put it, revolv
er's face, end levelled tenet
tare-, The other strode -a
Where he expected to fin
dolla,re. *
• The echoonteache
steasi of meekly 00
eXpreee messerigere
done under similar
ribplotg
wenkfnootoorkaerdcl, 4b
bl
intruder's hetnit
in, his other h
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