Loading...
Exeter Times, 1896-6-11, Page 2WITHOUT AN vpta,. iermenseaaatawai men Statement ef a Well Known Doctor •••••••••••,111• "Ayer's Sarsaparilla Is without an equal es a bleed-purieer aa d Spring mediclue,and cannot lerve praise enough. I have watebed Its effects in chronic eases, where other treatment was of no avail, and leave been astouisbed at the results. No other blood medicine that I have ever u,sed, and / have tried them all, is so teorough in its action, and effects so many permanent cures as Ayer's Sarsaaarille.."—Dr. If, F. mratalz,D, Augusta, Me. ,„ pTh only Sarsapanna Admitted at the worbins Fair. dyer's _Pins for liver and bowers. VIGOR OF gigif Qit lastly Resta Wee:nese, Nervouences, poblittin end 111 tee trait of eails from esirly erfOLO 91 later excesecs, iL mete of overtrofe, teiS,worry., ;te. run etrength,develemeate end tone goon to evire arena a4 exiQ. the body, Simple, Joie:eel methodia Iminee ate improve:watt sage. Fellere impeniblee 2,000 refereages. Book, explaiiition saal picas mailed (scalod free. HIE MEDICAL OOt. BAIL Nit PRACTICAL FARMING. RoasA SHOEING; We have every reason to believe that horses have been shod with metal shoes eight btuulred years ago. Every horse shoer, if he follows his trade or profes- sion, and does nothing eleebecomes a Medalist ia his particular line of work. If he speods from two to four years in the study of his trade or profession and does not master it, so to speak, wbot can he say io eelf-defence after doing a. bad job for you? It may be that he learned. his trade with a man who was n botch, or a man wlao did not care to excel, and who bad wrong ideas taugiat biu by his boss. Poor mechan- ics are propognted much the same as al:Ohm's are. "Like begets like." And far too many sheers are willing to fol- low their trade as they -learned it, nev- er inforraing themselves as to the an- atomy of a horse's foot end how to shoe be conferinito. ln order to shoe a home well time must be spent in doing it. The shoes should not be left on too long. A proper weight of shoe should be select- ed, in order to balance the horse. As a, rule, the fore shoes are twice as heavy as the bind one,s, iiecause the fore feet carry two-thirds the weight of the body. The fore feet require more pro- eection anaa stronger sihoe. Weight ort the fore feet givethe horse more kotte miaow else lengtheus his stride and aSSIBtiii mane in going fast. How- ever, now -a -days speed borses of all kinds are usually shod with much light- er thoes than they were before. In fact I thiuleemeny horses are shod with altogether too light shoes for track and road purposes. Wbere the anklials are used for fast driviug the foot requires Iprotection, and unleee the hoof is tAtropg ana of good quality it requires a reaeonably strong shoe; that is, If the ) home Ls driven fast on hard roads or ; a. hard track. I My observation has been that train- ' era of trotting borses are very apt to 1 fOITOW some fad or cranky notion tbat some pariieular trainer indulges in. anti 'insist upon borse-shoere doing the nork. Ine they want it done. Ile slitter may he couseious that he will injure the horse and protests in vain; but rather than lose his customer he Implies weak. 1 light eboes to a weak foot. Very oft- en tbe entire Warne le saddled upon the horseeehoer, just where it does not be. lung. If the sheer had refused to cona- pat a mal-peaotice be WBU1ti BM only otiie eaved the animal 'from eufferiag in but might have bayed the owner undreds, or pootibly thousands of dol- lars. I have known litany borses to be rained and made worthless from wearing too light ehoes. Otte owner be- lieved they could nut trot fast, if shod wish heavier shoe, and the consequen- ce was their fore feet were bruised con- tinually until they became sore and were soon suffering from chronic foot lemeneas of an incurable character. The fore feet of a horse are one or the Inoet important parts of tbis lody to keep sound, and this can only be done by not interfering with nature too mucli. Horses that go without Aloes rarely if ever have any foot lanaeness !unless they meet with an accident. It. 1 is astonishing to find, so many horses lame in the feet, after they have been shod a twelve-month or more. A por- tion of the blame ehould be charged THE PERFECT TEA ONSOON TEA THE FINEST TEA IN THE WORLD FROM THE TEA PLANT TO THE TEA CUP IN ITS NATIVE PURITY, "Monsoon" Teals packed under the supervision of the Tea growers. and Is advertised and sold by them asasample of the best qualities of Indian and Ceylon 'Mas. For that reason they see that none but the very fresh leaves go into Monsoon packages. That is why "Monsoon; the perfect Tea, canbe sold at the same price as ieferior tea. c, It is put up in sealed caddies of % lb., lb. and g lbs„ and sold in three flavours at sec., see. and floc. Ifyour grocer does riot keep it, tell him to write to STEEL, HareAR & Co., sr and n Front St. East, Toronto. EVERY FA rin I LY SHOULD KNOW THAT Ts a very remarkable remedy, both for Tit. TI'MINAL and BIZTZENAL nes, and. wori- deru n its quick action to relieve distress. .PAIN -KILLER I.WU" eUre f" 8°1"a Throat, Coughe chills. liainrrhoia. IliSquintery. cramps, *cholera, csS au Boltel COmplahlta pAIN-ICILLERis IBM dBEST rem. elft Yeeown for Sen. "Sickness. .gtecridache, Pain in the pack or Ude, Atitounnatihia end NettraWay PAIN-KILLERetiOiltEITIONABLY the REST LINIMENT MAPS. fittings SPESDY AND PERM4.NE5T ErSLIRP in All tune or praises, Cuts, SPrarnlis Severe Darns. etc. PAIN -KILLER the•well tried an d trueted Odom* of tbe poen:410a, Farmer, Planter, suitor. imam act ea cleans wanting h sriedielne alwaye et hand, ar re ins funternallY external/Y with aer Jay Duelist _ OWlet Arcitatiena Take none tut the genuino 9PE.n5Y Domei..0 ar,ld everywhere; no. higbottle. Very Large Bottaes, i0 Cents. T E TIMES in al' respects', method be pot culture; perceot scabbeciby the itie.e of baria- ti t h I THE CITY OF PORD. T SAI IT IS SAID -TQ BE THE WICKEDEST PLACE ON EARTH. yardmanure, 8 .1; pereen with o era - cal manures, 23.5. The seed pototoea used were infested. The same station reports results with air -sleeked lime, no lime and wood ashes, as tollowe: Chemical Percent Percent manure with; free, with scab. Air-slaoleect ... 1.6 98.4 No lime ..... 76.5 • 23.5 Wood ashes 0.0 1000 Sulphates and nauriatee seem to have a gennioidal effect, and unquestion- ably give rise to eoil conditions =fever - able to the spread of the disease. The presence of a very large percentage of organic matter in the soil probably far - ors the disease, even for several seasons after the organic+ matter has been turn- ed ntulette as the effect of its decompos- ition traiiitt be the formation a vari- ous carbonates. Ae to the proper manures: Cheraical fertilizers should be used exclusively. Ammonia salts or dried blood seeme su- perior to nitrate of soda. Any forra of phospbate, provided it is in available, form, is equally useful. The potash should invarialely he in flee form of rauriate, sulphate or kainit, but in the latter case it should be applied some tun e in advance of tile tiroe of seeding. Never use wood ashes; tbey will inevit- ably increase the scab for several suc- cessive years. WEIRD FAMILY LEGEND. ••••••••••• The Goldimids Said to nave Been. Strangely Shadowed. • H". 'M. Lucy. in bis article "From. Behind the Speaker's Chair," in the cur- rent Strand Magazine, tells a creepy story in conueetion with tbe Goldemid family. For oiore than a hundred ;years, it was said, a fatal spell hung over the Goldemids. Toward. the close of the eighteenth century tbere died in London the Rabbi de Falk, who enjoyed high reputation as a seer. He left to Aaron Goldsraid,great-great-grandfather of the late member for St. Pancras, a sealed, packet, with injunctions that it was to be carefully preservedebut never opened. The old Bluth merchant who founded the branch of the Goldsmid family in this country eras warned that as long as this order was obeyed, so long would the Goldsmids flourish like a young tray • tree. If it were disfigured, ill -fortune would for ail time dog the footsteps of the nice. Aaron Goldemid kept the packet inviolate for :some years. One day, curioeity becoming ungovernaltle, he opened it. 'When his eervent came to rail hint he 'was found dead. Aaron Goidemid left a large portion of his fortune to two sons. Benjamin and Abraham. These weet iut o betanees on the London Stork Excleinge, and vastly increased their patrimony. Ben- jamin founded a Naval College,and per- tormed mane tune of leee known gener- osity. He lived long, hut the curse of the cabalist overtook him. Enormously rich, the delusion that be would die a pauper fastened upon bine, and to avoid such conclusion of the matterhe, on Apml 15. 1808, being in his fifty- fifth year, died by his own hand. Two years later his brothers teltrahanolieing concerned in a rainieterial loan of four- teen millions, lost his nerve, blundered and bungled sank into a condition of hopeless deepoiadency, and on September 28, 1810, a day on which a gum of halt a raillion was due from him, he was found dead in his room. The fortunes of the family were re- stored b • Isaac Goldemid,nepliew of the hapless brothers, and grandson of the founder of the English house. Like all the Goldsreids, Isaac was a man of gen- erous nature and philanthropic tend- encies. With him it seemed that the curse of the cabalist had run ite course. It is true that before he died be lapsed into a state of childishness. 13ut he had at the time passed the limit of age of. fourscore years, after which, as one of the kings of his race wrote centuries back, mans days are but labour and sorrow. haat Goldsraid was sucee.eded in his fortune and his 'baronetcy by his son Franes, on wiaom the curse of the cabalist seemed to fall when he was fatally mangled between the engines and. the rails at Waterloo station. to the shoer and the balance to the one who negleeta the home's feet while he hos him ill charge. It is safe to say that ninetenths of horseshoers remove too much of the sole of the foot. They weaken the bars and cut away too much of the frog. The owners and care -takers do not sup- ply raoieture to the fore feat, and be- tween the two causes, many horses go tore and. become unsound and. unfit for use. This all might have been avoided if better judgment had been exercised in their management. CAUSE OF POTATO SCAB. The cause of potato ecala is due to a certain soil condition which favors or promotes the development of a minute organism upon the tuber, writes S. Peacock, in Ohio Farmer. The usually stated remedy is to treat the seed po- tatoes with a poison of some sort, hav- ing for its object tbe destruction of the germs of the disease. At the pres- ent time the most popular treatment is to immerse the seed potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate.-- two ounces dissolved in fifteen gallons of water—for ninety minutes or two hours. While this treatment may effectually destroy all scab fangus on the seed us- ed, it offers no protection against soil infection. It is said to be, however, an ample protection against spreading the infection, and if far no other reason deserves serious attention. Disinfected seed can accomplish little in an infected soil, and. checking the spread of the disease in the soil itself is a necessary treraedial measure. There is a great deal of experimen- tal literature devoted_ to_potaeo scab. and generally of it very htili oadini- periraents are valuable only when con- ducted under exact conditions such as are impossible on the ordinary farm. With referenee to potato scab; t1ie. in- dications of the most authentic and au- thoritative eateriments are, tacit car- bonates in the soil or conditions of soil alkalinity greatly promote the de- velopment of the disease. Ahy treat- ment which tends to reduce the nat- ural condition of soil acidity, favors the epread of the disease. ' As to the practical application of ' this principle in ordinary terming peac- e tice; potato fields should not be limed during the potato year nor the year immediately preceding; wood ashes be- ing chiefly composed of carbonate of lime, should never be used as a source of potash in reeking up a potato fer- tilizer; barnyard manure from the fact that it producos carbonates and tends toward alkalinity, should not be used as a potato manure. Not only are these three substances prejudioial to sound, healthy tubers, but they are also a cause of increasing the soil infection even thongh no potatoes are grown. The fungus eeehas to naultiply iia the soil in- dependent of the contmual presence of potatoes or -any ether real; crop. I am aware that the farmers of Ohio will feel somewhat skeptical a the statenaent that barnyard manure is conductive to scab, and I insert here the results of the experiments on this point us Rhode Island, made under competent (scientific- supervision. Soil uniform •••••••••• One of the Terminal of the Suez Canal— There is 00 Law, no Regulations, no Pollee Foree--.Five Out of Every Slx Men Die Either of Delirium Trentens or Fe^ ver Within a Few Tears. On the baiting muds at the south- east corner of tbe iiletliterrapeem, just where the Suez Canal gives berth to tons of steamers, ships and. every sort of craft, lies Port Said, the wickedest city in the whole world. it is not lightly nor vainly that thia dirty, unattractive town on tbe border- land between Asia and Africa, bait - mud walls and half brick, has been giv- en this mune, for if ever a locality de- served such an opprobrious designation it is this same Port Said. Not in any single particular has Port Said any advaatages, commercial or at- raomteric. Seven months in the year it is piping bot and fever -breeding, the other five months hardly Ices dangerous to health. Trading or baeinees there is almost zone In the ordinary way, not even of the oriental sort. Few cities, indeed, have so little to offer in the way of shops and goods for sale. isort sole business importance, in feet, is simply that it serves as a port of call sf for e, zt bo,eulvar. e I s just corning out of the Timm are 15.00 or 20,000 People itt tbe town who arepermanent residents,hut there not being ane- bueiness to epeak of, four-fifths of thee lead idle, wantierbag, dissipated lives. Their numbers are conetantly added to, for, with the arrival of every ship in the roadstead—a ship is always boated to stay there ten or a dozen hours at least —crew and peesengers come ashore for strolls through the dirty streets, and the lower -minded of them xatrxx AND GAMBLE in the deus that dot Geo towel on every lial.j3T4' nider thet:e conditions tbere bas sprung up a most alarming state of continued, and constant., immoralitY, which never iessentebut inereasesyear- lee No law, no regulations, no police force hold any of these debaucheries in check. An is open and free. Vice not only exists, but flaunts itself on every band.. Non other city offers a like soil for vice to grow in. Irregularly Port. Said has sprung up sincet. the opening of the Suez canal, when it was only a handful of mud huts on the Mediter- ranean shores, until the preeent time, when it is a, populous viten while etill a straggling oriental village, of ranee of crooked streets, narrow lanes with many a turxr (•ntling for the most part in cul de sacks), and grim -looking by- ways, between dirty welts, Hardly a street in the -whole town tan boast of such a thing as a pave - emelt Even tbe thief avenue, the Rue de Commerce, is ankle deep in duet aud sand, and seems more like a slum quar- ter at a, European city than the chief artery of any inetropolle,bowever In all of Port Said there are only two buildings that command attention from the visitor—the Caeino and a big Tt109(11.111-` in the Arab quarter of the town. The Catlett) is 1 he great gambl- ing hen ot this end of the Mediterran- ean 'shore, rind to it Rock all of the gamblers of that part of the world, gettherina, there in the dirty, gaudy hell to put down their ill-gotten gold pieces upon the faded green cloth. It is o Monte Carlo, with all the charms of its sybaritic luxuriance and elegan- ce gone; a tawdry place, frequented by the lowest types. It is there that the street eeggars, of which Port Said is full, come to squander away what they have gamed from the pockets of :am- pathizing visitors. THE. MOSQUE in the Arab quarter bas but one real- ly interesting feature, and that is a feature filled with unpleasantness. The traveler who goes to visit it —needs necessarily to. take off hes.shoes, itt accordance with the Moslem rite, and his only safety is to carry them as he wanders about. For the pilfering Arabs in tins quarter a the town think noth- ing of purlouung the foot coverings of anyone, aed there is many a foreigner 'who has had to hobble back to his ship in a pair of uncomfortable shoes of or- iental manufacture, purchased speedily and at a dozen times their actual val- ue in some shop near tht mosque. Two things go to keep Port Said the wickedest city in existence, one tieing the climate, which makes hard drinking a necessity for the residents, and the other the fact: that for some reason or other the off -scouring of all the nations near by pour themselves into it. Italians, Runnel -is, Austrians,Turks, Abyssinians, Egyptians, Arabs, Span- iards, Frencbmen and even a few de- graded Britishers, are to be found in every corner of this profligate settle- ment, all of the worst types their re- spective nations can produce, black- legs, swindlers, gamblers, forgers, raur- derers and professional beggars whose arts have failed elsewbere. With them have come by hundreds women of pre- eisely the same type whose one aim is to steer cacao of any sort of decent liv- ing, and whose elm doctrine day by da,y is to prey upon innocent tourists. Tim dens are innumerable, and as can well be understood, they 'are always well patronized. The climate cau,as burning sande to drink to avoid the fever, which IS always A PRESENT DANGER. Somehow the degraded and vicious of the population—or about four-fifths of the Inhabitants—manage to stand this climate and live yeat after year, but the decent people who have to stay in Port Said for business reasons find it impossible as a general thing to keep both sober and healthy. They have to choose between the two, and it is a common saying that five out of every six men who ire to live in Port Said die either of delirium tremens, or fever within a few years. The most of them succumb quickly to the temptations of the Place and Vin in the .great processions of dissipa- on and nofous living. The vice is just the reverse of gilded, but after a time mitn gets used to it and does not mind it. There are, it is teue, .many .respectable people living in the town, but they make no impression on, the great unleavened mass. The officials of Port Said either do not care or else they have deternained that itis .better for them financially to take no notice of the evils around, then. Certainly no attempts are being raede to iniprove the city in any way. Doe inand day out swindles are work- ed. in the open air without the faintest attempt at disguise. The sounds of metering, the noise intermingled with feminine tones made hearse by wine, float out into the night at . all hours, and the tragedy of the settlement .goes on. tuaeh4e'kedle Many shrewd and ,un - WHAT ONE DOG DOES. Carries Tools and Material Where Work- men Cannot Go. Keys, the canine employe of the Un- ion Iron 'Works, met with an accident the other day by which his front right leg was broken. Keys hag- been look- ed upon by the officers of the iron works as one of their regular workmen for about four years. He is a dog of no particular beauty and his pedigree would riot be considered by dog fanciers, but Isa possesses wonderful intelligence. He makes the Potrero police station his home and late is the pet of Lieut. Ben- nett, but nearly every work.mazt in the shipbuilding concern claims the friend - „ship of the dog. At the first tap of the gong every morning Keys has reported for duty at the gates of the Union Iron Works, and be has never left until a full day's work has been accomplished. He was particularly useful in the shipyard and us the boiler shop, and the foremen of those departments say he was more ,yaluable to them than a man for doing tiertain kinds of work. He would crawl through small holes in boilers and about ships, and his particular work( was to carry tools, bolts, nuts, rivets, and oth- er small articles needed by workmen who had crawled into such places, and to have them creep back and forth for such articles would cause considerable loss of time. Keys thoroughly understood his work and he was always on band when need- ed. The other day a steamer was plac- ed. on the dry docks for repairs, and the dog, realizing that his sexvices might be needed by the workmen, was climb- ing a ladder to the deck, when he slip- ped and fell about twenty feet. The men picked him up, and, making a stretcher of some pieces of canvas, carried him to the police station and sent for a physi- cia,n to set 'the broken limb. . llow to get a "Sunlig'hr Picture. Send 25 "Sunlight” Soap wrappers, (wrapper bearigg the words "Way Does a Woman Look Ofd Sooner Then a Man") to Lever Bros. Ltd., 43 Soott St„ Toronto, sndyou widreceive by post a prettypicture, free from advertising, and well worth from - Ing. This is an easy way to decorate your home, The soap is the best in the market, and it will only cost lc. postage to eendlin ehewrappers, if you leave the ends open. Write your address carefully. A docile disposition, will, with appli- cation, surmount, every difficulty, scrupulous purveyors of vice have mode countless sunee here, and their Elleee2- SonS are still keeping at the old game. The mingling ot races from every cor- ner of the globe is probably more re- markable at Port Said. than in any other spot in tee world. It is iso won- der that, placed as it is, at the very gateway between the Occident and the Orient, the worst vices of Europe and Asia, should there f bad a coagenial en- vironment. Some idea of the number of transient visitors, whose money does SO much to keep the place alive, and their coemopolitan character may be had when it is stated that last year, nearly 3,500 vessiels of infinite differ - eat zationalities touched at Port Said. NO ADVANTAGE. Mr. James Moriarty, in the days of his bachelorhood, lotulle• maintained that it man should be the head of the family. Then when Le was forty-six years old he united his fortunes with those of e. pleating widow a few years his senior. It soon became evident to their friends that Mrs. Moriarty governed her spouse with a firm and steady band, and tbat the days of his freedom were over. When ha had been married about a month be failed to appear one evening at a medal meeting of it club of which be bad long been an active member, and the next day he was taxed with this absence by his friend, Mr. Iler- Rhea Sure, and why weren't you at the club, last evenme j'arcies? inquired Mr. Herlihy. 'Well, man, you see it's jist loike Gala began Mr. Moriarty, shamefacedly ;me woife she— a An' what has your woife to do wicl it at all? interrupted Mr. Herlihy, in apparent amazement. len t it yersilf that's always eaid the man should be the head of the family, and not the . woife? ').is. Moichael, many's the tame Oi've said that same, assented Mr. Moriarty, miserably, and Oi'll not take back me wurrds. But Meier baying enOyed the advantages av matrimony. Ot forgot wan thing; the men may bsa the head, but if it's his woife is the neck, Moi- ehael, that turns the head, or kapes it Orm thinking these days it'd be jist as well to be the fat! AN OPIUM, DEN. There are at least, 14,000 'people in Luelrnow, who are opium -smokers, and' SO wedded to tbe vice tbat the habit, is unconquerable. In that city there is no seerecv about selling or purchasing the drug. Let us oder one of the ; opium dens, of which there are many, ; all in a flouriebing condition. You , presently find yourself in it spacious, but very dirty, court -yard, around wheel are ranged fifteen or twenty malt rooms. 'The stench is sickening, and the swarm of Mae intoleralae, En- I ter One of the small rooms. It has no windows, and Le very dark, but in the eentre is, it small charcoal fire, tho glow of which lights up the faxes of nine or ten bunian beings—nien and WO- meu—lying on the flinty like Jigs in a sty, A young girls fans the inc. lights the opium pipe, and bolds it to the; mouth of the feet coiner, till his head i falls heavily on the licitly of thc inert man or woman who happens to lie near . him. In no groggery, in no innate..., or I idiot aeylum, will one see such utter helpless depravity as appears in 1 he countenances of tlose in the prelimin- ary etagee of opium drunkenness. DRe SPINNEY & CO. The Old Reliable Specialists. 83 Year ta Experiemce in the treatment of the Throat and Lung Troubles, Catarrh,.Asthroa, Bronchitis, Nervous, Cbronte and Special Dis- eases of men and women. Lost Manhood fiecertegt-b.Kidney and Beet leipornianontl cured—Gleet, Gonorrhoea, Varicocele an stricture cured without pain. No cutting. syphilis and all, Blood Diseases cured without mercury. onngeym n &during 4.. the effecte es youthful follies or indiscretions, Oj any troubled with Weakness, Narrows Pcbility, Loss of Memory, DesnoudenaY, Aversion to Seciety, Kidney Troubles, or any disease of the Genital-Vrinary Or. mum, can here find safe and speedy cure. charges reasonable, especially to the poor. CURES GUARANTEED. Middle -Aged Men—Jil'agane',72;;:=1 dons of the bladder, often accompanied by a slight smarting or burning sensation, and weakening of the system in a manner the patient cannot account for. There or* many en who site of this difficulty, ignorant of the cause. The doctor will guarantee a per- fect cure in all such cases, and healthy restoration of the genito.urinary organs. Con. sultation free. Those unable to call, can write full particulars of their me and have medicine sent by express, with full instructions for use. Mention this paper when writing. °ince hours; From 9 a. ni to 8 p. xis, Sundavs, 9 to 11 a. ma DR, SPINNEY & CO. (Side Entrance No, 12 E, Elizabeth St.) 090 WOODW.AMD AVEIMD. DETROIT, MICH. a, AtegausasUMMINEMPIZMUMEISSESIEMINSISL".1M HORSES MADE DEAF. Laid Low by indigestion. Lightning Struck Them la the Darn ond They are Useless. A despatch from Lockport, N Y.. ' says x—Many reports as to the curiops effecte and freaks of lightning are read in the newspapers, but South Royalton oomes to the front with it unique phase of the tricks of an electric storm. Dur- ing the, storm Tuesday night the barn of August aones, lanted near South Royalton, was struck by lightning. A neighbor who was near the plave at the, time said the barn seemed surround- ed fox. an instant witli tongues of flame. They were gone in a moment. Ile ex- pected to see the building burst into flame, but nothing of the kind hap- pened. The next morning Farmer Tones went into his barn to look for ixiarks of the lightning's coarse. after he bad been told that the barn had been Ft ruek. leo traces could he discover an•1 he lateen to regard the whole mat- ter as a hoax. But it remained for his horstes to cent -ince hira te the con- trary. He spoke to the animals hue there was not the usual response. :slut they ,saw he fariner did they denote that thee were aware of lus presence. Later inthe day when he attenapted to work the team he found hls utter surprise that the poor beasts were deaf as adders. Up to to -day they had not rettovered their bearing, awl it is believed that they are perma- nently deaf. FIRST BICYCLE IN GREECE. The history of the bicycle in Greece is intereeting. The fleet machine was taken there many years ago by the King. It was all of wood, and front driving, of the variety known as "hone shaker." Naturally, His Majesty did not appear in publia in the streets, as bicycles were regarded by the natives as supernatural and uncanny for many years. The pioneer bicyclists of Greece were subject to many intonveniences and even dangers. They were hooted and laughed at in the streets of Athens and were sometimes stoned and tumbled from their wheels. At the present day t,he rustic generally crosses himself and utters a. prayer when a bicycle passes him. WIN011•1•10•1 THE OBEDIENT RECRUITS. A, drill instructor a a, certain regi- . ment, being o a us y nature, often took Usa men isa was dr' 1 ling round near to the canteen, to be far from "the madding crowd." He would march them up to the caztteen door, call " right about," then dive into the can- teen, always .emerging in time to give them another command before they reached the end of the parade ground. One day, however, as he was drinking a pint of beer, some of it &Most chok- ed him. Out he rushed, spluttering and coeghing, just, in time to see six of the men marching through a gate and the rest standing, marking time, with their faces close to the wall. Before he got his throat clear the Colonel came upon the scene and at once commenc- ed to make inquir es. That man doe.s not drill tho reeruits now. The six who disappeared were discovered about it atile off, still marching, and were oom- plimented, for obedience to orders. ETCHING ON STEEL. Much trouble can often be saved by marking tools with the owner's nameee which can be easily done in the follow, bag manner Coat the tools with a thin layer of wax or hard tallow by first warming the steel and rubbing on the -wax Warra until it flows, and then let it cool. When hard, mark the name through the wax with a graver and; apply weak nitric acid. After a few moments wash off the acid and wipe with a soft rag, wben the lettere will he found etched. into the steel. Children Cry for PiteherPe Castarit A FEW HINTS TO EMPLOYES. Be on time at your post uf duty. Be respectful to ,our eniployers. fle mum about all matters passing through your hands. Be Aleut &out all office business, let others do the telling. Be sure and attend strictly to your own week ; let others do theirs. Be kind to those around. you. Be agreeable and accommodating at all times. Be at your post during business hours. i Be sensible and keep away from the desks of others. fie neat alma your work. Be ami ambitious to mprove. ! Be humble rather than arrogant. Be studious that you Jamy leartt the intricacies of the business in which you are engaged. Be prompt in getting outyour work, "procrastination is the thief of time." Be orderly about your desk. : Be neat -about yeur dress. Be of good principle; never gain fa- vor with your superiors by preatising treitehery towards your fellow clerks. Be dignified; never suffer yourself to indulge in frivolity-. Be sure and show no favoritism in office; leave that for other business hours. Be of such life in your business sur- roundings that while with them you will be loved and when gone you will be regretted as a faithful friencl and conscientious employe. I• PROFESSIONAL COURTESIES. ; Actor (in country town)—I hope you won't object to announeing in your pa- per that this will probably be the last chance to see me outside the great cit- ies, as I received an offer from the Gotham Theatre, for next season, at §500 a te-etik. Editor—I'll print it with pleasure. And by the way, please announce from the stage tbat now is the time to sub- scribe for the Pumpkurville Trumpet, as I have received an offer of 135,000 a week to run the London Times. • I HEALTH HINTS. i Exercise is always essential to good health. If you cannot get it any oth- er way let some one exercise for you. Partake freely of food- for. invalids. • If you can survive one of the dishes pospared by experts for sick people it is an evidence that a long life is before you. Beware of microbes. As the air is full of 'ern, it is better not to bre,atlate at all when on the street. lVfany complexions have been success- fully preserved by alcohol. UNPLEASANT REMINDER. Why woe Lusk so overcome eirben ha met Miss Johnson'? — She reminded him of his first love. 1 was so run down I had to give up Boott's Sarsapnwrolirik, otho kind that cures. Indigestion or dcyuspes. psi a is the bane of thousands, and is one of the most de. pressing of afflictions. It arises from au zmpuro or impoverished conthtioxi f the blood1 which weakens the digestive and assimilative organs, rendering them in. capable of performing their natural fune. dons, and if neglected, the sufferer lose, flesh, complains of exhaustion afterslight exertion, and becomes rapidly debilitate& Mr. Wm, W. Thompson, a prominent resident of Zephyr, Ont., in a letter data Aug lath, 1895, says; "It gives =great pleasure to testify to the fact that Scott's Sarsaparilla has caused a most remark.. able change in my condition. I was so much run down I had to give up work and felt as if life were not ivfirth Mr. Defoe induced me to try Scott's Sato, saparilla, and after taking tour bottles 1 am now feeling as I formerly did year ago, and I want to say for the benefit of those suffering from indigestion and feel. ni g, to use alang phrase, compleqsly knocked out,'don't despair until you gm* Scott's Sal saparilla it fair trial. Scott's Sarsaparilla is a blood food, it stimulates all vital organs to healthy r normal action, enabling them to throve off all poisonous and debilitatinghtureerei Sold by druggists at ex, but there is milt one Scott's. The kind that cures. Sold by O. LUT, Exeter, Ont. *OUR MAIL. Our man brings us every day dozens of letters about Burdock Blood Bitters. Some from merchants who want to buy it, some from people who want to know about it, and more from people who do know about it be- cause they have tried it anti been cured. One of them was from Mr. J. Gillan, B. A., 39 Gould Street, Toronto. Read how he writes:. GENTLEMENJ—During the winter of 1892 my blood became impure on account of the hearty food I ate in the cold weather. Ambition, energy and success forsook me, and all my efforts were in vain. My skin became yellow, my bowels became inactive, my liver was lumpy and bard, my eyes became inflamed,my appee tite was gone, and the days and nights passed in unhappiness and restlessness For some months I tried doctors' and patent medicines of every description, but received no benefit. Being ,adieseci by a friend to try B.33.B., I am glad to have the opportunity of testifying to the marvellous result. After using three bottles I felt much better, and when the fifth bottle -was finished I enjoyed health in the greatest degree, and have done so from that, day up to date. Therefore have much pleasure in recommending 13. B.B. to all poor suffering humanity who suffer from impure blood, which is the beginning and seat of all diseases J. Gu.a.are, B.A., 39 Gauld St., Toronto, HER PROPOSAL. • I have a proposal to make, said Misei Callowtall - Mr. Tillinghasti remembered that t was leap year and his face blanehed, perceptibly, although he was naturallei • a brave man. It is that you, let down that window{ a little at the top.. Don't you thine! the room ie excessreely warm? , ! With a sigh of relief the young magi ' hastened to comply with the maid'iii wish. A life tbat is worth writing a,t all In what way y la worth writing minutelye—Longfelll him. of attainment.—dohnsole. ihe greatest distance from possibilitel those excellencies which are p ace a By the way in which she refused ' Affectation naturally counterfeit' -4