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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1894-8-23, Page 7ARM. Topping Raystaeks. 0. h. antixeu, nxSasemmsnmxs. Those who are obli,ed tostore a portion of their hay in stacks, from lack of storage room inthe barns, know how difficult it is to build a'stack that will remain good until t is drawn to the barn in the winter, This e because it continues to settle while the hay is passing through the process of fere. uientetien;'known as "sweating." Hence . it is best to top. the sacks after haying, ttaing for the purpose ewe le grass when that can beobtained,not neo. I th.sem RRAOKET. only because it is of small value for fodder, but aloe because the broad,tough leaves mat together and abed the rains better than up. land grass. When the stacks are of considerable size, I have found great convenience in using what is called a "ladder bracket." ` In the illustrations, Fig. 1 show the manner in is constrix ed �h �t The upper pieces i qt whicht p P twowin- Iotherstrongwood, of spruce or, are ekes square. Across the top is bolted a light plank six feetof long,which make s a convenient platform. a are iron pins put through each piece, which serve for hooks. By this means the bracket is hook- ed on the ladder round et any height deair- r A jJtBeDaughter Of ik Church of England minister cured of a dietreeein rash, by F .Ayer's Sarsaparilla. fir. RicnrAxD 1;111;I{s, the wellkYiown Druggist, 207 1doGlil et., Montreal, P. Q, says: have sr'dl Ayer's Family Medicines for 40 a rs, bud kayo heardnothing b ut goad @aid of them. I know of many ti Wonderf u1 Cures { performed by {dyer's Sarsaparilla -5n° in particular bung that of a little 1, daughter of a Clhuroh of Bnglanci, minis- ter. The child was literally covered from head to oot with a red and ex ceedingly troublesome rash, from which she had suffered for two or three years, An spite of the best medical tree mot vailable. FTor father was in gleettt distress about the case, and, At My recommendation, at last, began to ad- minister: Ayer's Sarsaparilla, two bot - ties of which effected acomplete pure, much to her relief and her father's ' delight.. I am sure, were he here to -day, ho'would testify in the strongest terms as to the merits of • Ayer's Sarsaparilla Prepared byDr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Curesatrlhers,wifl curvy®u A. ACHING HEAD DEan Srns,—I bad severe headache for the past three years, and was not free from it a single day. 3f,se no,„. AloDn.ac. I used doctors' medi- eines and all others I could think of; but it did me no good. My cousin said I must TRY B,8.8, 'because' it is, the beat medlline ever made, and I t'ook three bottles of it, with e the result that it has completely cured ?xie. I think Burdock Blood. Bitters, both for 'headaches and as a blood purifier, is the HEST U4 THE WORLD, Y and ani glad 16 recommend it to all my friends. Miss Faun. MoDnx'Aan, r Glen Norman, Ont. CENTRAL 'Drug Store FANSON'S BLOCK. stook of all kinds of D,ffs andppaokage s:;iye., Constantly on. hii.'d. Winani s Condition PoWd.- er, t,e best in the mark- o.and alway rezili. Family recap. 04otally. prepared at tiaf Dia -Store Exete {( Z{, r ..• OWLERS 'ZXT:OppF iii . WIT A..P TIS BERRY :Y CURES. ff. hal era Corbut I C,%21,. IARRIII YSENTERY ;Nb ALL SUMMER COMPLAINTS lWb 'LUXE f' TNE,.a'... wE . is , AF � fi GlAflLg, If«DfIZN AbUNS. .,.igt Oi all virtues magnanimityi ho rarbst ` persons of meit for one ho there are 100 w jilleg y• acknowledges it in another-,-, Lk� FIG. 2. LAD1) M AND DRAOKETxN:POSITION. ed,making an adjustable platform on which an assistant can stand to receive the hay from the man on the load, and pitch it up to the man On the stack. Fig. 2. shows it ,placed on the ladder ready for -use. By us. 'ing this simple contrivance, which a farmer can mine in an hour or two, it is easy to top, a large stack, buildipg it up to a good form, 4 order that it may per- fectly strong and secure, it is best not to use nails in its construction, hut fasten it entirely with small carriage bolts. Impe rfeet Butter. Many farmers, and dairymen too, for that matter, fail to realize that dealers in butter in the cities can detect the inferior grades of the product, caused by poor feed- lug. But just now it would be profitable to read some of the market accounts which report that a good part of the butter. sent to the markets this fall is lacking in quality. Several of the trade papers refer this to the feeding of frosty food, and to the absence of graip feed. So much has the butter been effected in this way that dealers have brok- en their contracts with the creameries, and the irregular butter thus re jected is being offered for what it will bring in the market, generally from two to -four cents a pound less than the regular prices. Here is food for thought. There is no high -spun theory here that may contain only a grain of truth -with a great deal of rubbish. It is a cold fact and it is so true that dealers refuse to pay the market prices. The cause of this poor quality.of butter is the feeding by the dairymen. The cream- eries have contracted to take all of their cream at so much, and in this instance the creameries will probably be the losers, They have attempted to manufacture first- class butter, but there was a defect in the Dream and they. failed. The. city dealers who have to supply their customers with the best, know that they cannot dispose of such butter at profitable rates, and they reject it, it stands to reason that the creameries caught in this way will not be found nap- ping another season. They will come down upon'the farmers and dairymen and demand an entirely different guarantee. The standing between the two will be sad- ly injured and somebody is apt to lose. Probably not this season will ,the farmers be effected by the 'circumstance, but an- other season will tell, It may be that the creameries took the cream .at a reduced rate, with the understanding that poor or no grain food was fed to the cows and they expected to palm it off as first-class cream- ery. If so, they are rightly the losers, but they are not apt to repeat the; operation many times. The great lesson of this whole 'thing is that it does not pay to feed them very lit- tle or no grain. The cream which they give is not good. It does not make first- class butter, and consumers can tell it every time. Even all of the knowledge and machinery of the first-class creameries cannot disguise , the fact and „Janke the cream into fancy butter. Frosty food taints the cream and the butter and leaves a flavor that is disagreeable; or in many cases it robs the butter of all flavor. It is throw- ing money away to buy up frosted grain to feed the cows because itis cheap. Milk is too sensitive an article to be tampered with in this way. The lack of grain food is just as noticeable. There is no body or flavor to the butter, and it can never find a wide pale, - ,Vill farmers uot learn by this year's experience that cows masts. be fed good, sweet food and a fair proportion of perfect grain feed if they are to reap the highest prices for their cream or butter ? Don't Try to }feat too Many Irons. I know of a nice field of potatoes about half grown, thee has not been cultivated since the last hard rain of 13 days ago, says a writer in the Practical Palmer. The ground iS (lay and surface dried as hard ao. sun and wind can do it, Many corn fields are in the same shape. Crops thus utte ed to never pay here. Wily not recognize the fact in the spring that along about` haying and harvesting time mortal Man' cannot de more than two or three dea work in one, hurry up as fast as he Ina Cur farmers are not shiftless, as a ru e. They work hard and faithfully. They seam to think that this rush and neglect of some things along about this time of year is a necessity. They deplore the feet, but think it can't be helped. ' It can be to a great extent, For example, I know one dairyman whe has a largo field of corn and another of potatoes, With his haying and harvesting. be cannot possibly, one year in five take Dare of either. He might do very well, or at least very much better, if he had but the one crop to cultivate, Think over these things, friends, if you have not been able to take care of everything perfectly during the rush of harvest time, Profit comes from perfect work, not from ordinary or half -way work. DIVERSIONS OF. THE BLIND. Occupation They Must Have, and TheY Are ',likely to Work too Much, Much sympathy is felt for persons who are born minus some of their faculties, such as those who are born blind, but probably those most needsympathy who have been deprived of sight after reaching maturity. "The first thing which I thought of was suicide," said one of these recently. He was a young man of good education, who was just upon the verge of business success when atrophy of the optic nerves left him in darkness. "I presume," he continued, " that this is the thought of every man who loses his sight suddenly. He feels helpless and hope- less." The percentage of such persons who go crazy is large. Those who have the oars of suoh unfortunates find their ingenuities taxed to devise means to take their thoughts away from themselves. It is well known that in prisons the one thing which inmates long for most, except liberty, is work. De. prived of work and shut day -after day in their cells, life becomes almost insupnort- able. But these prisoners have the use of their eyes, and even the sights in a prison corri- dor afford some diversion of the mind. Think, however, of all of these being in the dark cells. Prison officials say that a few hours in a dark cell is generally enough to break down the obstinacy of a refractory prisoner. The freshly afflicted blind man is virtually in a dark cell. All the training, all the resources of his previous life, go for naught. Women are not so badly off. It is re- marked in institutions for the blind that the narrower life of women it -to their ad- vantage when they become afflicted. °t They take refuge in gossip," said the Matron of an asylum recently, "and if they have exhausted all the kuown scandals of their acuaintance they invent others about one another." Fortunately, in a sense, the greater part of mankind belong to the working forces of the world, and so a great percentage of those stricken blind are workingmen and workingwomen. Work is their great refuge from the contemplation of their loss. Two kinds of manual laborare taught to the blind in our institutions—the cane - seating of chairs and mattress making. Just why these were chosen it would, perhaps, be difficult to find out. It is the rule in such institutions to require that the inmates sPend a certain number of hours every day at these kinds of work. One might sup- pose that at times this would be a difficult rule to enforce. The contrary has been found to be• the case. When a new matron took charge of one such institution a few months ago she discovered that certain in- mates were ill, worn out, and, in fact dying, apparently from overwork. ' I cane -seat chairs all night in my sleep," one of them told her. The matron watched and found that these inmates were working from early in the morning until late at night, and that there was a general tendency among all under her charge to overwork. - " What can we do? " they asked. "We don't want to sit and think." • Rules had to be made to keep the pat- ients out of '.;.e work shops. Not many of these afflicted persons who find their way into public institutions or private charities have within themselves the means to dis- tract their thoughts from their misfortunes. Those who do may find in some places a variety of books, printed in raised lettere or in the point alphabet, and they can take up music for a diversion. Readers are found to offer the best general diversion to blind persons. Bright novels are great favorites with the blind, both men and women, and for the men who have taken art in the busy affairs• of the world be- fore their loss of sight the,newspapers offer the greatest interest. It is wonderful to see how a party, of blind men will brighten up when the news of the day is read to them. Before, that they would be sitting about in dumpish attitudes with hardly a sign of life about them. Now they are all alive. As they take up the thread of affairs itheir minds and begin to connect them they become. animated, and by the time the reading is finished they are all full of th"e old subjects and discussions break out all. about the room over politics, religion, the tarriff, or whatever subjects have been brought up- permost in their minds. The reading or other amusements that are offered, it is found, must be done by outsiders, for the blind are very jealous of one another. They are apt to resent any exhibition by one of their own num- ber of accomplishments which arenot com- mon to all, A Ship in a. Forest. A few miles from the port of Batavia, in Java, there is a ship in the forest. The ship is actually two miles from its native element. It belonged to a well-known trader in the Southern Seas, and was carried far inland by a huge wave which swept over the country during the fearful erup- tion of Kratakoa. The vessel was borne with terrible force right into tire heart of the island, arlfi whey the waters'r4cedcd it was discovered in a dense jungle. Thefe it has remained ever Since, an object of Curios- ity to visitors. What are all histories but God manifest■ ing himself; shaking down and trampling under foot whatsoever he bath not planted. .—tCrotnwell. Children . Cry for Pitcher'$ C toti i Y ROYAL O f ANB1 GREAT EVENT IN THE LIVES 0 ARTISTS AND ROYALTY. Ise Queen's. Xilteraillty to igianasters--An Array off $*sn Esnp*oYed ink lilaFliina virti Xrarutfoa►e—A. iarSl.Ila itt Scene in tine '' 'aterino Chawber. A command performance at Windsor Castle is great event, not only in the lives of the, artaists who aro honored by appear - in at court; but in the lives of the Royal. allies and courtiers themselves, who look upon such a break in the monotony of their existence with almost the childish delight which is occasioned in most English homes by private theatricals in the nursery to which father and mother, bigger brothers and sisters, and the servants are bidden at vurletmas times or on birthdays, writes a correspondent. It is generally supposed that the managers of these performances are very illrequited by the presentation of a -merely nominal sum a sub- stantial This is not so. The cheque is b stantial one, far more than should cover the ordinary expenses of the manager, which are very much smaller than thoseof Her Majesty. This would be generally admitted by anyone who had the opportunity of wit nessing the preparation of the Castle by the army of men who are paid and lodged by the Queen during the week:in which they are engaged pulling down pictures, laying down carpets, erecting the stage and plate form in front, and in transforming tho various surrounding art galleries into green. rooms, dressing -rooms,' and arranging for the enormous dinners, teas, and champagne suppers which are provided by the Queen on such occasions, to say nothing of the supplying of special trains, carts, and car- riages. Some idea of what this all means might be gathered by a peep inside the walls, whore armies of men may be seen carrying sides of castles, like ants, upon their backs, and moving away the valuable marble statues, Bout) cabinets of priceless Sevres, and other art treasures, of which Windsor Castle is a veritable store house. The performance was as unique as the oo- casion. The Waterloo Chamber being given over to the arrangement for "Faust," perforce Signora Duse could not appear there. This being explained to the Queen, she gave orders to dismantle the beautiful white drawing -room. Despite the lack of time and the abundance of preparations necessary, Mr. Hugo Corlitz and his able assistants by working day and night had everything in apple-pie order by Friday night, when Her Majesty and a little party of 46 privileged guests assembled. The Qaeen seemed delighted, and led the ap- plause as the comedy rippled on to its happy ending when the landlady casts aside her more aristocratic lovers and marries her bead waiter. When all was over the Queen sent for Signora Duse and Mr. Gor- litz who werepresented her to and to whom she chatted in• French in a most friendly fashion, expressing her thanks and delight that the good reports she had heard from the Empress Frederick were more than fully realized. Afterwards Princess Henry and the Duchess of Coburg called on Signora Duse in her room and presented her, on behalf of the Queen with an initial brooch of diamonds and ruby enamel, surmounted by a diamond crown. Hardly hadSignora Duse and her corn- pany left the Castle, when preparations for the next night'sperformance re -commenced and in due time were accomplished. All things being prepared by clock -work precision and arranged in ship-shape fashion Sir Augustus Harris' enormous Italian opera company of artists, chorus, dressers musicians, and supers with their bags and baggages, Ieft by special train from Pad- dington on Saturday afternoon. On arrival at Windsor they were met by Her Majesty's carriages and omnibuses, which conveyed them to the Castle, As they dispersed to the various cubicles which have been con• structed at one end of St. George's Hall out of screens, and carpets hung on brass rods, and commenced to set thea thins in order for the evening, the whole place assumed the air of a barrack -room, or perhaps such a scene as one can imagine when the picturesque "Sanseulottea" took possession of the Tuileries, and indeed it was a curious spectacle never to be forgot- ten when later a visit to the dressing -rooms exhibited the players in their grotesque wardrobes` slopping soapsuds above splen- didly -polished floors, powdering and ma king up their faces with pink wig paste in front of priceless mirrors, while the banners of the Knights of the Garter, and the old masters' pictures of kings looked gravely gown. How Hogarth would have revelled in such a sight. And what an extraordinary contrast is to be fond in the Waterloo Chamber during the action of the opera, This fine gallery was erected in 1830 by Sir Jeffrey Wiatville, the original of Lord Beaconsfield's Sir Carte Blanche, on an old courtyard called Horn Court. It is 95ft, by 46ft, and enormously high, is lit from the roof like the cabin of a ship, and has a small gallery at either end. Somewhat before nine it was a brilliant sight. Her, Majesty's guests were assembled awaiting her arrival. They faced the little fit -up stage, gracefully draped with crimson and old gold colored cloth. On either side were tall palms and the orchestra was bank- ed with lovely flowers, arranged. by Mr. Thomas, the Queen's gardener, which half hid Signor Bevignani and the musicians with their delicate greenery, Some feet from this was the little crimson -colored and brass -railed platform, which was also fring- ed and decked with exotics and flowers from tire Frogmore conservatories. On this were placed the seats for the Royalties, the Queen's own chair in the centre being marlred by a little footstool and a small table, on which lay a satin -bound copy of the opera and specially prepared progratnme for Her Majesty's use. Behind those were the guests and the members of the heuse. hold, the company being accommodated with good seats iii were which rose to the little gallery, in which were the pper servants, above all being Sir hu IP8kaw- rence's military portrait of the Duke of Wellington.. The fine glass ohQ,ndeliers in the roof, apd the brass lanterned lights on pillars at the side, lit tip the briUia'ht pie- tures on the walls, the ribbons, orders, and diamonds which sparkled on the breasts and necks of brave men and fair women, the gorgeous uniforms of the officers, the handsome Windsor uniforms, the oriental s lender of the Indian attendants, and the scarlet coats of the servants and the burnished helmets and hoebe of the firemen. It was a blaze of color, a dazzling coup, d'loll upon, which the little brown monkeys in the blue and gold roof looked down and grinned, At nine precisely the door at the hank leading from St. Ccorge's hall opened, he' hand struck up "God Save the Queen," and Her Majesty entered and proceeded, leaning on her stick, up the raised gradient to her seat, :aeknowledging the bows of the assembled company, As she neared her seat the band, which had so far played pianiashno, burst into a crescendo, and as the Queen and company sat down ceased. The prelude started at once, and theour- tain rose on a very carefully painted scone of Faust's laboratory. Though the most exquisite music of this most complete opera is always delightful to listen to and to analyze, there is math. ing new which can be said about a perfect representation such as was that on Satur. day night, andit only remains to be said that it was listened to with attention arid delight, and that when the Queen, as is the etiquette, gave the signal for applaud- ing the principal numbers by tapping with her fan on the little table at her right hand appreciative hands took it up with a will. There were no encores, for the simple reason that the Queen is very par• tioular about the due observance of Sunday, and accordingly everything had to be timed to a tick,so that all should be over before twelve. When the curtain rang down upon the chorus of angels the princi. pal artists made their bow, and the Queen and her company rose and filed out, After the performance the guests assem- bled in the fine corridor and were presented to Her Majesty in the Drawing -room as were Sir Augustus Harris and the principal artists, Her Majesty expressing to Mdme. Albani her satisfaction in the represent- ation of an opera which she now heard for the first time. Then came supper for everybody, the proposal of toasts, the drinking of healths and mutual congrat- ulations till the carriages arrived and the special train steamed away to London. Then the lights were put out, and the old castle stood like a giant in the darkness. 'LATEST ABOUT THE WAR. Japan Pouring Troops into eorea—A auese Aepulse. A despatch from Tien-Tsin says :— " Chinese troops with European officers are rapidly advancing through Manchuria to- ward the Corean frontier. The commis- sariat is experiencing great difficulty in ob- taining supplies for the troops, China is wary in her preparations, but is unsparing in her efforts to succeed in the impending fighting." The Shanghai correspondent of the Cen- tral News says: "According to advices from Yokohama and Nagasaki Japan is pouring reinforce- ments into Corea, using for the purpose all available fast steamers flying the Jap- anese flag. A fleet of Japanese transports recently started. for Chemulpo. Another fleet started for the north coast of Corea, presumably for Gensan. " The Japanese newspapers are forbidden to refer to the war preparations or to pub- lish any arm' news, except such as is sup- plied by the Government. " The Japanese aim is to attack the Chinese before the arrival of the Man- churian corps. " The Chinese fleet makes no effort to leave the coast. Fast Japanese cruisers are constantly watching." JAPANESE REPULSED. Shanghai, Aug :—A telegram has been received from Chee Foo, dated August 10 : A Japanese fleet attacked a Chinese fleet this morning off the harbor of Wei -Hai - Wei, where the Chinese have a fort said to be impregnable. The Japanese ships were repulsed at one entrance to the harbor and they are now attacking the other entrance THE P. 0. SAVINGS BANK. Over $25,090,200 of the People's Money Handled at a Coat of Bat $50,011—in terest Allowed Amounting to $835,200. A despatch from Ottawa says :—On the 30th of June last, the close of the fiscal year,` the total deposits in the post -office savings banks amounted to $25,257,868. At the close of the previous fiscal year the sum on deposit was $24,153,193, the net increase during the yesr being $93,675. Interest allowed to depositors during the year ended June 30 was $835,200. De- posits amounted to $7,524,286, and $7,473,- 585 represents the sum withdrawn. The cost of managing this enormous banking business was but $56,611 for the year, which represents a charge of .23 of one per cent. upon the balance in the banks, The cost of management during the previous year was somewhat heavier—one-quarter of 1 per cent. In 1877 it cost considerably more than one-third of 1 per cent. to man- age the system. The annual statement of Superintendent Matheson also shows that there are 699 post -office savings banks in the country. an increase of 26 during the .year, and double, the number in existence in 1884. The number of depositors has increased from 66,682 to 117,020 during the decade. It is shown by the report that the average cost of each transaction, that is, of each deposit and withdrawal, was 241.2 cents. This was a little more than one Cent cheaper than the average cost of the past four years. U will find ; m that it will do what no other soap Can do, and will please you every. way. Xt is Easy, Clean; And nconolnical to wash with this soap. 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