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DOES IT PAY TO RAISE PALL PIGS?
"As a rule fall pigs aro not as thrifty
as spring pigs, and for that reason they
are not considered as profitable. The
question of profit, however, is not
wholly dependent on the relative thrift
of the spring and fall litters, The ex
pense and risk of keeping the so1S'a must
be considered as also the kind of crops
and grazing one has for their support,
and in addition to this the shelter and,
conveniences for winter protection and
handling must be last sight of." So
argues Mr. Bonham in Breeders' Ga-
zette.
"The spring pigs can come in May
and if one has wood lots or shady pas-
ture his pigs can be grown ready for
market by December without having
been confined to pens or even sheds,
The sows can be wintered with less pro-
tection than is necessary for pigs. In
fact coni ortable pens are anecessity
for profitable han4ling of fall pigs. The
SOWS need to be wintered so as to keep
them in good health and thrift. This
means more than the run of a barn-
yard and a diet of corn and ice water.
It means enough shelter to keep them
comfortable during the severest wea-
ther. It means opportunity and in.
ducoment for exercise, as sunlight,
fresh air and exercise are as essential for
vigorous health with sows as with any
other animal. They need, too, a var-
iety of feed and not confinement to the
cheapest or handiest. Where the win-
ters are open and they can have the
run of pastures and wood lots they may
be allowed corn mainly, but if they are
limited to the pen and. feed -lot the
quantity of corn must be reduced and
the substitute for grass given in roots,
silage, olover and mill feed, so as to se-
cure bulky and nutritious feed if we
would have them able to grow and
suckle strong litters. Sows, However,
that are to drop fall litters can be sum-
mered at less cost and with little grain,
as the bluegrass and clover pastures
will afford for some months nearly all
the feed they need. As the pastures be-
come less succulent and flies abundant
they need additional feed of stop, sor-
ghum, sweet corn, and the waste apples
and vegetables. In this way the cost
of keep of the sows for fall litters is
lees than that needed for spring litters,
This lessened expense on summer keep
of the sows helps to balance the account
in favor of fall litters.
"The principle of the nimble penny
or keeping capital employed enters
into the question of raising fall litters.
One can raise nearly double as many
pigs from the same number of sows
with two litters a year, since the ma-
jority of the sows w ill farrow twice a
year, or at least three times in two
years, and,..it well fed will keep up in
vigor and power to suckle strong lit -
tars. For the average farmer the prac-
tice of raising two litters a year is in.
the line of economy. He has fewer
sows to winter and a larger umber
of hogs to feed for market. Pigs far-
rowed in September will winter better
than those; coining later. In fact pigs
that come late, lack the strength to
resist the cold and storms of early win-
ter. If pigs are old enough to have
been weaned successfully before cold,
stormy. weather sets in they will go
into winter quarters with strength and
stomach enough ro assimilate the food
necessary for profitable growth. Young
pigs have little power to resist cold com-
pared with that of older ones, To make
fall litters successful they must come
early enough to be good feeders before
cold weather, and then they must have
pens and bedding to keep them com-
fortable. The fall pigs cannot afford
' the loss of heat that comes from ex-
posure to rains, snow and wading in
snow or mud. They need not only the
v dry, well -lighted, and ventilated pen,
but a. sheltered feeding floor, so they
can eat and not become drilled to the
bone. Economy of animal heat is im-
portant in winter feeding of all animals,
but to none so important as to young
pigs. For this reason they will thrive
better if the slop is not cold. In no
ease should the water or slop fed in
winter be colder than the water of the
well, and if the slop is made of warm
water all the better. I have never
found it profitable to cook feed for hogs,
but it pays to nook for fall pigs enough
to secure a supply of slop that is milk
warm. If the slop barrel is jacketed
with a store box and packed with
straw or sawdust or cinders and tight-
ly covered, the meal and millfeed may
be scalded and will keep warm several
days. This costs little but pays wall.
Pigs thus fed. will thrive and come out
with a good soft coat in the spring,
while those with ice -water or frozen
glop will be pictures of unthrift and
discomfort. Pigs well wintered will be
ready for the early pasture and clover,
where they will make most rapid
growth and be ready for an early sum-
mer market. Unless one has comforta-
ble quarters for fall pigs and will se-
cure their comfort and generous feed
and have them farrowed between the
latter part of August and early part
of October, we would advise no fall lit-
ters. With uncomfortable pens and
muddy lots they will likely become
stunted: and unprofitable, and if disease
is in the neighborhood they are ready
for it."
PRACTICAL BUTTER -MAKING.
Now that we are having hot weather
the butter arriving in the markets of
the country is beginning to go off in
flavor. There must be a cause for it
and each buttermaker must find out
ap" for himself where the trouble lies. It
is mostly the buttermaker's fault, un-
less the butter softens after it leaves
the creamery and. before it arrives on
the market. Butter once softened is
never so good again, neither the flavor
nor the grain, so claims the New York
Produce Review.
There is one spot in creameries that
is often neglected because it is out of
sight, and that is the inside of the
cream gate or the faucet of the cream
vat. If that is not properly washed out
every day you will soon have . taint
enough in that spot to flavor all the
butter you make, as all the cream has
to pass through it in running out of
the vat into the churn, and the same
thing will apply to the milk gate in
the weigh can. If you have not a
faucet brush an purpose to scrub these
places out with the next best thing to
use for the purpose is s, common six
inch scrub brimh, You can split the
Omsk of it lev,Athwise into two good
brushes. 1 keep one near the cream
vat theto
and ether by the weigh can
use every time these are used, pertiou-
larly in warm weather.
There is another thing that will
cause butter to go off in flavor very
rapidly in warm weather and that is
churning the Dream at too high a tem-
perature, and also running the churn
too long, so that the butter is massed
together in one body before all the
butter is washed out of it. After the
butter is so massed together in the
ehurn the buttermilk cannot be pro-
perly washed out, and if any is left in,
the butter will lose flavor very rapidly,
even before it reaches -market.
And there is still another cause, and
that is that the milk is not properly
cooled et night. The night milk ar-
riving at the creamery in the morn-
ing, if not so cooled, may not be sour,
but it will bave a taint that will be
imparted to the butter and cause it to
go eff in flavor, Now, brother butter -
maker, if your butter has gone off in
and apply a remedy. Yen may say
you cannot control the temperature of
your work room; but you can look af-
ter all the minor points, and the larger
ones will take care of themselves. The
buttermaker may not be to blame if
the butter softens sifter it leaves the
creamery, but the principle cause of
its being off in flavor is either in the
creamery in some paint of its manu-
facture or in poor milk. Whatever it
is you must find it out. avoid it and
your butter will be all right even in
this weather. If all the butter was
properly made from start to finish
there would be less complaint in warm
weather.
Last night was very .,warm and this
morning weighing in the milk 1 found
two or three cans with a bad smell.
They were not sour but had. a taint.
Inquiring how the parties kept that
milk I found that those cans had been
set in the water tank but the covers
had not been raised to let the animal
heat out of the milk. The cans that
had not been covered up tight were all
right. I notified all the patrons that
they must keep the covers off the cans
filled with milia at night, that the milk
may cool more quickly. I have no
doubt that is the principle pause of the
butter's going off in flavor now before
it reaches market. To keep the night
milk in proper condition it shoWd be
aerated and cooled down to sixty. de-
grees before it is left for the night.
If the buttermaker was to insist on
this they might call bine a crank and
give him his walking papers; but the
time is coming when that will, have to
be done in order to make a first-class
artiole of butter.
JAPANESE IN FORMOSA.
Reports or Terrible Cruelties Practised on
the I'eop141—A War of Extermination—
Rapine and Murder.
From far Formosa, where for up-•
wards of a year Japanese troops have
been vainly striving to crush out the
seeds of postbellum opposition to Jape
anese innovations, conies a story whicbd
for barbarous cruelty and defiant vias
cations of all. ethics of civilization has
fortunately few parallels in history,
even the savage tribes of the world.
The terrible tale of rapine, murder and
wanton cruelty which reached Victoria,
B. C., by the steamer Empress of Japan
fully bears out the statement on the
situation in Formosa given publicity
by the Rev, Dr. MacKay, on his return
to that island six •montb.s ago. Other
equally credible correspondents aro
now the witnesses against Japan, and
the burden of their arraignment is that
seeing neither fame nor profit to be
gained in the subjugation of the For-
mosans by the arts of modern war-
fare, recognized as legitimate by civ-
ilized nations, the Japanese troops
sent. to the island have embarked in
a crusade of blood, their object being
to crush out all sins of discontent
by, as far as possible, exterminating
the native population. "In this cam-
paign there were no foreign powers to
make protest, no foreign press repre-
sentatives to herald to the world the
atrocities, the telling of which would
bring upon Japan the contempt of all
enlightened people," says the Ta Inan
leu representative of The China Mail;
"as a result the policy of extermina-
tion has been zealously pursued from
the beginning of the campaign, and
what with the destruction of their
crops, the burning of their villages, the
desecration of the graves o f their
loved ones, the violation of their wives
and daughters and the butchery of
their innocent children, the people are
driven to the last expedients of des-
peration."
SPURIOUS TEA.
A Large Consignment Rejected in New
Yorlc—A Possibility That it May be
Brought Into Canada.
An item appeans in one of the New
York papers to the effect that a large
quantity of spurious tea from China
and Japan had recently been refused
entrance into the United States by the
Government officials, and that it had
been sent by the owners to some other
place, Canada being named as its prob-
able destination. According to Mr. P.
C. Larkin of the Salada Tea Company
the same thing occurred last year,
when thousands of boxes of Ping Suey
from China and Japan were refused
entrance into the United States, and
the tea was then sent to Montreal,
where it was admitted, and afterwards
sold for consumption in different parts
of Canada. The spurious tea, Mr Lar-
kin says, is absolutely poisonous, and
he hopes if the tea recently refused at
New York is sent to Canada that the
Dominion Government will see that
it is either destroyed or sent out of the
oountry. He then went on to say that
he bad been telling the people of Can-
ada for years back that they should
drink the beautiful teas of Ceylon and
India, which are absolutely free from
all adulteration or coloring, and, what
is also very important, perfectly clean.
He described the different modes of pre-
paration. In China and Japan, the
teas, after being picked, undergo a
process of fermentation, and are then
rolled by the hands of the natives, while
in Ceylon and India the teas, after being
picked, are never handled again, but
are prepared entirely and even packed
in lead packages by machinery, so that
even the grocer cannot touch them;
and in the case of Salads, which is the
highest grade of tea made in Ceylon or
India, Canadians are enabled' to drink
it within four months from the time
that it is picked . from the bush. An-
other thing .n favor of Salada is the
fact that no teas are permitted to be
shipped, out of Ceylon or India with-
out Government inspection, and all
teas manufactured there are made un-
der English' supervision..:
The London Street Railway Co. is be-
terested to the extent of $12,000 or $15,-
000 in the Privy Council's recent deois-
ion regarding steel rail duties.
TSE EXETER TIMES
THE HOME.
CHILDREN'S CLOTmIS.
The soft zephyr ginghams make up the sauce,, Add the yolks of three or
four eggs to the mixture and beat thor
ing into the omelet pan, or sprinkle it
overu fa beforet isi
the a r ce the egg firm,
or fold it in after the omelet is cooked,
Souffle.—Prepare the salmon as for
croquettes but use less corn stareb in
into charming little gowns. for our dill- oughly, gthee fold in the tiffly beaten
whites. Pour into individual cases and
.lake in a moderate oven for ten min -
utas. ,
Salad.—For this the fish requires no
further cooking and should be well
drained. Mix at with an equal bulk of
shredded lettuce, or place .the sections
of fish on lettuce leavesa Cover with
any good salad. dressing.
dren, but most of these come in light
colors and really soil almost as quick-
ly as white. If we are going to use
colored dresses on our little folks why
not cboose something dark enough not
to show soil so easily. We may use a
dark blue chambray and this makes up
very prettily. I made such a dress for
my little girl and feather -stitched
the bottom with a waving line, using
Asiatic twisted embroidery silk, in blue;
from this line I made littlebranches
and pink forget-me-notseebut so much
work would not be necessary. This
dress looked just as pretty as a lighter.
gown and really it saved. time enough
in washing to have done the feather
stitching half a dozen times.
I have in mind a pretty little Turkey
red gown, this is oil boiled print and
has small polka dots, of white. This
has a bit of embroidery in the middle
of the yoke, for it is made in Mother
Hubbard style. The embroidery is
simply a little square piece that was
once a store keeper's sample. On either
side of this bit of embroidery is the
red yoke and this Is leather -stitched
with red Mediaeval silk on earn side of
the white embroidery, The skirt part
is full and plain, but the little gown is
very dainty and pretty, and as the only
bit of white about it is under the chin,
it does not get soiled very quickly, as
bibs are worn when necessary. An-
other pretty little red dress is made
from the small polka dot print, which
costs a shilling a yard. Thisone is or-
namented with, red and white embroi-
dery, this really was an old collar,
which tad not been worn much, and
such collars have gone out of fashion,
the dress is cut Mother liubbard, and
in the centre of yoke,. two pieces of the
embroidery, have their points caught
together with red Asiatic etching silk,
and then the silken threads cross, and
re -crass in the °peeing and are finally
woven about to form a sort of cobweb,
this looks very pretty indeed, and any-
one who has learned drawn work or
Point lace will quickly understand how
it is done. A frill of the embroidery
goes over the shoulders of the yoke, and
a little collar with square corners, is
also made from it. The skirt is cut full
and plain. This little gown really
costs very little, but it is dainty enough
for any little miss to wear on almost
any ocession.
Black sateen is also employed in mak-
ing children's dresses. - One for a little
two-year-old boy, is cut with a rather
long waist and has a box pleat in front,
feather -stitched with yellow victoria
knitting silk, the back is plain, the
skirt is short and is laid in kilt pleats.
A sailor collar has anchors outlined on
its corners, made with the yellow silk.
Another pretty little suit for the
shall man, is made from same material,
and trimmed with a wash silk collar
and cuffs. The average farmer's wife
will think such a dress costs too much
for every day, but figure it up and how
much does it cost?e can get really
very pretty wash silks for twenty-five
cents a yard, and the sateen is wide.
and it does not take much for a little
dress.
Besides even if the gowns mentioned
do cost a trifle more than five -cent
print, or six -cent gingham they last
longer and so are really no more
expensive. . Then they do not need
washing so much, and this is a saving
both of time, temper and a number of
other things, including soap, fuel and
the garments themselves.- 1 know that
the ordinary child will wear a red or
black gown and look better when it
has been worn two days than the same
child would in a pretty pink or blue
gingham when worn half a day of or-
dinary play.
Give the children their freedom; but,
mothers, don't entirely forget your-
selves. I think a good many mothers
really do more work than they need to.
Rose Seelye-Miller.
CLEANING MIRRORS.
The really best method of cleaning
mirrors and windows is ,to rah them
with a paste of whiting and water.
When this dries, polish with dry cha-
mois, and remove the powder. A little
alcobol in cold water also gives a bril-
liant polish., Soap suds should never be
used.
CLEANLINESS AND CHARITY.
It is an excellent practice to have
periodical cleanings of clothes closets
and bureau drawers. It often happens
that much accumulates in the course
of a few months which is of no use to
the inmates of the house and which
could be used to excellent advantage by
some less fortunate or poor neighbor.
The troublesome moth finds old clothes
the best of abodes, and for that reason
they should be carefully looked after.
Old clothes are not the only things
which poor people would appreciate, but
-furniture and toys for the children are
always thankfully received. It is a
foolish thing to consign such things to
the attic to moulder away in dust when
some good use can be made of them. In
this way cleanliness and charity can go
hand in hand.
WITH A CAN OF SALMON.
Salmon Loaf.—Mince one can salmon
add one cupful stale bread crumbs, two
beaten eggs, one-half cupful milky Sea-
son to taste with salt, pepper, parsley
and lemon juice. Put in a mould and
steam or bake for thirty minutes. Turn
from the mould and serve hot with a
white or Hollandaise sauce.
Dreamed Salmon.—Heat one cupful of
milk in a chafing dish or double boiler,
rub together a tablespoonful of flour
and half as mueh butter and stir
smoothly into the milk.t Next put in
one can of salmon, breaking it as lit-
tle as possible, season to taste and serve
as soon as heated through.
Scalloped Salmon.—Prepare with the
cream sauce as above, put in a shal-
low dish or in scallop snaele,. Cover
•
with cracker crumbs st • ti into a
small quantity of melted butter, and
bake until the crumbs are brown.
Croquettes and Cutlets. Drain a can
of salmon thoroughly, pressing out the
liquid.Mince it fine and season with
one teaspoonful of salt, one-half tea-
spoonful of mustard, a speck of cayenne,
one tablespoonful of lemon juice, and
one teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
Make a heavy white sauce, using two
tablespoonfuls of butter, two generous
tablespoonfuls of corn starch and one
pint of milk. Mix sauce and fish thor-
oughly and spread on a platter to cool,
and when well chilled shape like croqu-
ettes' or cutlets., Boll in crumbs, or egg
and (numbs, fry in smoking hot fat. Or
p in meltedbutter and toast under
he broiling burner in a gas stove.
Omelet.—Make an omelet as usual,
adding one tablespoonful of minced sal-
mon. for each egg used. Mix the sal-
mon with the beaten eggs before pour
THREE ROYAL FARMS.
I•
Queen Victoria llanifests Great Interest
tat These Possessions.
If instincts and tastes are hereditary,
as they, of course, are known to be,
it is no matter of surprise to find Queen
Victoria a farmer. " Farmer George"
did much to improve the Windsor Cas-
tle farm and his tastes bave shown
themselves very strongly, both in his
granddaughter and great grandson, the
Queen and the Prince of Wales.
But the great developments of the
operations at Windsor were dna to the
fostering band of the Prince Consort Al-
bert, who gave much of both time and
trouble to the work ; and the improve-
menta in the farm itself, in its build-
ings, and in the quality of the stock,
were made under his persistent direc-
tion.
Therefore, though the predecessors of
Victoria have all taken more or less
interest in farming, yet it is during
the present reign that this has been
taken up with, a determination to make
the W in,dsor Castle estate what it is
—a model farm. or farms, for there are
several.
In this the Prince Consort was
strongly supported by the Queen, Since
his death the improvements have been
continued, with
AN EVIDENT PLEASURE.
and as an example to others who have
the same opportunities.
At Balmoral and Osborne similar
work was also carried on, but necessar-
ily to a lesser extent than at Wind-
sor.
In her farming Victoria occupies the
position of a tenant and not an owner.
The farms at Windsor are the Shaw
and the Fleming. At one time the Nor-
folk Bagshot and Rapley farms were
all held by the Queen, but they were
given up a few years ago, as too heavy
a. drain on her pocket.
The Shaw farm, so called because it
was at one time held, before the estate
was purchased by the crown, by a
Frenchman, M. de Shawe, was originally
joined to the Frogmore property, and
was occupied by the Princess Augusta;
but on her death in 1840 the Prince
Consort took it in band, continuing as
the tenant till his death in 1801; since
which time it has been in the posses-
sion of the Queen.
The coat of the buildings erected by
the Prince was enormous, and with
those on the home farm must have ab-
sorbed a very large sum of money.
They are adapted for the breeding
of stock, and at the present time there
axe upward of 200 head of cattle on
the place, beside a large number of
sheep and pigs.
THE PRINCIPAL HERDS
are those of shorthorns and Jersey's but
there are also a number of Herefords
and Devons.
The object is not merely ornamental
for the practical production of beef and
dairy produce is ever kept in view. Con-
siderable success has been achieved in
the production of fat stook, and the
prizes won at leading shows haveprov-
ed that the system of feeding is thor-
oughly understood by those in charge
of the farm.
The operations are closely watched by
members of the royal family, and at
the residence of Mr. Tait, the manager,
who succeeded to this position on the
death of his father, in 1882, there is a
suite of apartments devoted to the use
of her elajesty, from which she can
of
privately
buildings.
through the entire range
The magnificent dairy was built ac-
cording to the directions of Prince Al-
bert, and it embodies all tbat is desir-
able in a place where cream and but-
ter are to be . kept. The cow house
whioh supplies the milk for use in the
dairy is very handsome, and the re-
cords kept of the production of each
animal are most complete.
The Queen is a good employer and all
the workers on her estates, are pro-
vided with improved dwellings, and
there are day schools for the children
and night schools for adults.
RAILWAYS IN CHINA.
BIND iNE WHOLE WORLD.
WHAT IS OOJNa ON IN THE FOUR.
CORNERS OF THE GLOBE.
Old and New World Qvents of interest Chiron.
lcled Briefly—lnterestlng Happenings of
Recent Date.
`len thousand dollars was lately paid
by R. von Mendelssohn, of Berlin, for
a Stradivarius' 'cello.
Marquardt, the only passenger an the
Drummond Castle who was saved, oc-
cupied stateroom, No. 13,
The Mormon colonies in Mexico are
prospering, owing to frugal and .ener-•
getic business management.
The new Russian loan of $200,000,000
floated by the Rothschilds in Paris was
subscribed about 25 times over.
Wild horses are so numerous in
Queensland, Australia, that the people
shoot them to reduce their number.
Australia has extreme heat in sum-
mer. A scientist says that matches ac-
cidentally dropped on the ground there
were ignited.
On the Mount of Olives, near Jeru-
salem there are eight olive trees which.
are known to have existed in 1099--
nearly 800 years ago,
It is said that there are several bi-
ographies
iographies of Mr. Gladstone awaiting
publication in the event of his death,
and tbat he has himself arranged sixty
thousand letters which are to be given
to the public.
The Queen of Denmark is stone
deaf, a throat malady being responsible
for the affliction. The Princess of Wales
inherits the same trouble: She is al-
ready so deaf that she can hear nothing
unless it is shouted in her ear.
Library students in Paris wear "muz-
zles" when perusing old, books in the
National Library, "not because there is
fear that they will bite the old volumes,
but to prevent the inhalation of the
book microbes into. their lungs."
A lady wbo has just returned to Lon-
don from Armenia asserts that the for-
eign, Consuls and missionaries esti-
mate that there have been fully one
million deaths in Armenia as the result
of the massacres and from starvation.
The Premier of Cape Colony says that
the Government proposes to attend to
the defences of the country. and con-
struct batteries at Algoa bay and in
Buffalo harbour, es a contribution to
the Empire of which they formed a
part.
Some of the postmen in London each
receive as much as $125 in Christmas
gifts, from people whom tbey serve
with letters. When the post -office offi
cials learn of these tips the amount is
deducted from the postmen's salaries.
The oldest piece of limen paper in ex-
istence, so far as is known, is a manu-
script containing a treaty between the
kings of Aragon and Castile. It is
dated 1177, and is still in fair state of
preservation, retaining the ink very
well.
Great Britain's National Lifeboat In-
stitution had 303 boats in 1895. They
were launched 437 times, saving 533
lives. The average cost of a station
is $5,250 and the oust of maintenance
ai
athx'ldhersabeing wconstruccted o steam boats and
The late Baron. Hirsch once rented
Lord Walsingham's historic place in
Suffolk, Englani, for eight weeki, pay-
ing. $20,000 for that periods As he re-
mained there lint one month, his rent
was equal to $5000 a ,week for the
time the palace was occupied.
Sweden appears to be a good country
for newspaper men. The Storthing has
two state grants of 1,000 kroner each
to enable young journalists to get for-
eign experience, and all editors are
hereafter to have free use of the rail-
ways when travelling in the exercise
of their profession.
It is estimated that over 300,000 pil-
grims performed thea religious duties
and made sacrifices at Mecca during
the late pilgrimage. The Sultan has
sant a magnificent cloak of honour to
the Emir of Mecca, and a cloak em-
broidered with gold thread to the Gov-
ernor-General of Hedjaz.
Russian hens are progressive. They
laid 11,000,000 eggs for export in 1870,
235,000,000 in 1885, and 1,250,000,000 last
year: The eggs are sold. in Russia at
from 6 to 10 cents a dozen. They are
exported to Hungary, then sold to Ger-
many as Hungarian eggs, and finally
to England as German eggs.
The luggage carried by Li Hung
Chang filled up the greater part of one
side of the court yard of the Grand
Hotel, Paris. It struck the ordinary
spectator as decidedly shabby, consist-
ing mostly of wooden boxes. There
were two leather valises among it and
a case of champagne.. One of the suite
carried a cage containing two large
fowl.
Professor Charteris, of the University
of Glasgow, in his paper on "The Pre-
vention of Sea -Sickness on Short Voy-
ages," advises travellers to take a blue
pill on the night preceding their voy-
age, following it with the old-fashioned
dose of citrate of magnesia in the morn-
ing, and than on board the ship take
a dose of chlorobrom and rest m the
Alter Decades of Endeavor, the Empire Is cabin.
at Last to Be Open to Ra➢.roads. A constable who recently died from
fever at Menzies, Australia, is stated
Several railways are at last about to to have been heir to an English baron -
be built in China, according to a recent etcy. He inherited some years ago a
Pekin Gazette„ One line is to connect large fortune, and squandered it in
America, after eloping with another
Pekin with Tien-Tsin: It will be about wife. He finally landed in Australia in
eighty miles long and constructed en- impoverished circumstances, and found
tirely with.Government funds, his way to the gold fields, where he
Another road is to run across Cen-
joined the police force.
trap China from Pekin to Hankovv. The The interesting old Castle of Dal -
cross, on the estate of the Mackintosh,
Emperor has decided that the railroads near Inverness, is to be "restored" and
will stimulate trade in China, besides rendered once more habitable. The
giving employment to the masses of the castle was erected in 1621 by the
people, and so will give it all the sup- eighth Lord Lovat, but subsequently
port in his power.
passed into the hands of the Mackpin-
A third line is to be built from Shang -
where 12 Int al army wasas iiriasshathe spot
hal to Soochow.This road, although immediately after the battle of Cullo
it will only be about sixty-five miles den in 1746.
long, is expected to accomplish a great Near 'Ardenlee, Scotland, there is a
deal by opening upoe aha Province of unique advertisement made of flower
Riangsu.: The Viceroy of Nanking has
beds. The beds are each a gigantic let-
always strongly opposed all railroad ter, forty feet in length, • the whole
projects in China, but is now enthusi-
astic over the enterprise and offers to The,total length of the line is 123 feet;
provide half the cost out of the official area covered by the letters, 15,845 feet.
treasury and urges his peopleto sub- The advertisement is on the side of a
scribe for shares for the remainder.
Surveys are now being made and the
work .will probably soon be under way.
RESTING ON THE TIRES.
He -They tell me that Miss Cun-
niugey .is so run down that it tires her
to operate the pedals on the piano.
She—Yes, poor thing, she practices
her music fifteen minutes a day and
rides her bicycle four hours.
STIMSON'S SAGACITY.
Why does Stimson always carry his
umbrella closed when it rains'
He is afraid the owner may recognize
it.,
hill, and, being of - bright -coloured
flowers, . can be read from a distance
at four and at half miles.
MISTAKJIIN ADVICE.
Old Gentleman—My, my 1 I don't like
to see little boys cry. Boys who get
hurt should act like men.
Bop -Booboo t Than I'd get licked for
srwearin
NOT AFRAID OF IT.
Housewife—Are you afraid of work?
Slumbering Sam—No, marm, not in
de least. I have slept soundly by de
side uv it fer hours.
Children Cry for Pitcher' 'Castor`s'
-6_ 'eeeera'S
for
Infants and Children.
••Ossteriaiesoweilcdaptedto chiidreatbat
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
b ownto me." B. A. Ancsxs, M. D.,
11180, Oxford St., Brooklyn, 2i. T.
"The use of'0astoria' is so u niverial and
its merits so well known that it seems a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
'ntelbgeent amines' who do not keep Caetoria
within easy 'news Mansur D.D..
New York City.
We Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
Castorla Collo, O nstIptdoe ,
Sour Stomaeb, Diarrhoea. Eructation,
ZJMs
gest
W,00�rms, `item 41eep, and promotes .d3
Without nj
inurious medication.
"F'oc several years I have reeorametidell
result
yocur'goa&' Castoria,' andInvariashalblyl always oontinuebop
dsithas produced
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Newiork Citf.
Tits Cswrszi Coatrutr, TT Mss* x Srnn r, time Tosu..
BUILT UP THE
SYSTEM IN A
WONDERFUL
MAiNER1
• James A, Bell, of Beaverton, Ont.,
brother of the .Rev. John 'Wesley bell,.
B.D., prostrated by nervous headaches
A victim of the trouble for several
years.
South American Nervine effected e
complete ,cure.
In their own particular field few men
are beter known than the Rev. John
Wesley Bell, and his brother Mr.
James A. Bell. B.D.fihe former will ne re-
cognized by his thousands of friends all
over the country as the popular and able
missionary superintendent of the Royal
Templars of Temperance, Among the
20,000 members of this order in Ontario
his counsel is sought on all sorts of oc-
casions. On the public platform he is one
of the strong men of the day, oattling
against the ovils of intemperance.
Equally well known is Mr. Bell in other
provinces of the Dominion, having been
for years a. member of the Manitoba
Methodist Conference and part of this
time was stationed in 'Girinnipeg. His
brother, Mr. James A. Bell, is a highly
respected resident of Beaaverton, wnere
his influence, though perhaps more cir-
cumscribed than that of his eminent
brother, is none the less effective and.
productive of good. Of recent years,b.'w-
ever, the working ability of Mr. James
A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe
attacks of nervous headache, accom-
panied by indigestion. Who can do fit
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Mr. Bell? The trouble reached such in
tensity that last June he was complete.
ly prostrated. In this condition a friend‘
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Ready to try anything and everytninlf,,
though he thought he had coverer the
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second bottle of the medicine was taken
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my headaches and have bunt up my
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the root of the trouble. Ail dim.)
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or; and then there courses through the
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blood, and .nervous troubles of every
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Tiros. WICK ETA Crediton Drug Stora, Agent.
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