Exeter Times, 1896-9-3, Page 3401ZhAJLTURAL
WHEN MARY WAS A LASSIE.
Tie niteile trees are tinged with Ted,
The bircb with golden yellow,
And Inge above the orolaard NY0.1.18
Ilene,' apples rich end, mellow:
And tli it's the way througe yonder lane
Telt looks. so still and grassy- .
The way I took one Sunday eve,
When Mary was a lassie.
eseied hardly think that patient face,
Thet locks so thin and faded,
'Seas once the very sweetest one
That iginnet ever shaded;
'Suwhen I went through yonder latie,
• Thet looks so still and grnssy,
Those eyes were bright, those elieek.s
were fair,
When Mary was a lassie.
But many a tender sorrow since,
A.nd many a patient care,
• Have made team furrows on the face
That used to be so lair.
Four Ones to yonder eburceyard,
Through,. the lane so still and grassy,
We've bone and laid away our deed -
Since Mary was a lassie.
And so you see I've grown to lose
wrinkles more than melee;
ir Earth's winter flowers are eweeter far
, Than all spring's dewy posies;
Teey'll carry us terougla yonder lane
Tett looks so still and grassy-
Aelowei the lane 1 uht to go
When Mary was a lassie.
raw**
FALL SEEDING OF PASTURES.
the margin on dairy profit narrow, and
the peodueer's only hope is to keep qual,
ity begJi and yield large. Both take
skill and energy. The latter trait re-
quires only a natural veill power and a
determination; the fouler inust be ac-
quired on the ways I can eaaily re-
member the tire when every unskillful
and careless dairymen made raoney, bvt
those days have goue never te return.
They made mousy because prices wee
high and people were not as particu-
lar aboet quality as now: It is for the
best interests a dairymen that such
conditions do not exist eoves The times
will not tolerate "common" quality any
more. It demands the best, Those
dairymen whopush to tee front with
that si
ole idea n view will be the pros-
perous dairymen a the future.
X RAYS WILL PROVE DEATH.
31ND OF WHEAT TO SOW.
retitiviey No Danger Now or tieing Burled
Alive.
At laet what seems an. infallible indi-
Gator of death has been discovered.
Scores of people have & horror of being
buried alive, and there limy() been many
attempts made to discover some test
aside from time that will assure the
friends that death has really oceurred
and that the burial may safely pro-
ceed. Heretofore none of these tests has
been absolate1 and each, has failed
Dr. C. L. Berne% a Chicago peyeleiali,
bee recently been experimenting with
X rays, and be now announces that they
THE EXETER TIMES
LEADING VARIETIES OF WINTER
•
WHEAT THROUGHOUT ONTARIO.
testing et Co -Operative Iftlieriltientait
Week at the Agricultural College,
Guelph, by C. A. Zavitze-Fractical
Jethro to remote,
Withia the poet seven years, one
hundred and thirty-three varieties of
winter wheat have been very carefully
tested in the , Experimental Depart-
ment at the Agrioultinel College,
Guelph. Besidea ascertaining the com-
parative yields of grain and straw of
the different varieties, the wheats
have been closely examined each year
for tbeir quality of grain, time of
matusitY, strength a straw, freedom
from rust, etc., in order to determine
which kinds will give the ro.ost satis-
factory results, when grown under uni-
form conditions. After the various
varieties have been carefully tested et
the College for a- few years, those
whish have- given the best satisfaction
are selected for distribution through-
out Ontario. Tees system of co-opera-
tive experimental work enables tbe
farmers to determine for themselves
which of tbe leading varieties will give
the beet result uptm their own perti-
calar farms. As a. practical result
front obtaining information in this Way,
hundreds a farmers are now growing
varieties in their terra practice, which
were entirely ankuotvri to them a. abort
time ago. For innauce, the Dawson's
Golden Chaff variety of winter wheat,
which as recently given sixth high
average yields of grain per acre, both
at the College and tliroughout On-
tario, was scarcely knowa except in one
neighbothood near Guelph, until it was
Sown in our Eeperimental Grounds in
1891, and aft ei wards distributed. for
oo-operative experimental work. This
is "low one of the most popular varie-
ties of winter wileats in. this Province.
In the fall a 1895, nine leading var-
ieties of winter wheat were distribut-
ed in this way. They were divided in-
to two eats with five varieties in each.
The
Alteougla the spring is usually the 47411 determine positively whether real
best thne to sow all, or nearly all 'kind:, seate lies occurred or wether the pa -
of greases, yet Some Of therli may be tient Ls in a trance. Dr. Barnes melee a
sown in the fall with entire success, seadowgrapia of his own laand, and on
writes Thee, Shaw, in Prairie Farmer, the same plate laid tee diescotecl band
As a rule clovera may be more adsael- of a cadaver. 'Mee the plate Was de-
tageousle stem in the spring than in veloped, after being expesee to the rots -
the fall. Usually when these are Salva terioue rays for some time, the differ -
In the late fall they do not survive the epee in the tivo radiographs was notice -
winter, unless in latitudes that are mild able. Tee dead flesh offered more resist -
rather than severe. But these may be ance to the penetration of the rays than
sown in the summer season with en- tee living, and a glance would deter
tire sweets in localties where there is mine wince was the hand of the corpse.
moisture enough to keep theta growies. Other experiments \Odell he made con -
But Timothy and orchard grass may firmed his opinion. The fluoroscope is
be sown for pastures in the fall, and even better tb.an the, seadowgraph as a
usually with inuoe certainty as to get- raeane of determiniug whether life is
ting a catee of tbe seed. Bat when present er not,
thus sown it should be early enough to It seems strange that there should be
adme of teelr becoming well rooted no asaeurate way or oaten:Sluing when a
befor the INittter sets in- These may ei?:: dead, bee es Illy te:fcatt.
be sown with or without a. nurse erop. blood4isr gooedctesr7, la.Mtlitleere are
It is a very good plan to sow Timothy instances of persons having recovered
and rye together: They shoald be after the heart had ceased to beat -or,
sown in August ex early in September aestrIceeaspiti,brteigetrveirtIettlitirtait rasno
or at
in all the northern states, and not Pythe pang), Muscular contraction cannot
later than early September in all the be relied. on, as dead people will twitch
middle states. But in any event there When an electric battery is applied to
will be no advantage from sowing the Iahreeilltivrofetteourtpisr caeurtnbetaliedoond.
rye thus early unless there is moisture cataleptics. The gradim,1 cooling of the
enough to sprint it. 'When a, good bedy as long been regarded by playsi-
stand of nu has been Scoured, it may' be clans that +such a condition. mar fallow
eaten off in this fall, more especially tdignywngareTVociellXac°0Angnolfethpotimrtwia5
!
when sown on prairie soils, Paradoxi- cies is au ileC0173.peninaent of certain dis-
oal, as it may seem, the pastu.riug of eases. and SD is the disooloration of the
these will likely prove positively einp- skin svhieli is noticeable after death.
fill to the Timothy. But on clay soils Dr. Berms is a well-known peysician,
the effect svotaid probably be tee op- and his discovery is regarded. as• one of
pestle. When the spring has once fair- vast importance. He lams written stee-
ly openen and the rye hes begun to eral books on dissection, embalming and
grOWT51t Shraild be kept eaten off. When 'kindred subjects, and has been experi-
the seasen of growth for the rye is over inenting wrth the X rage ever since
the Timothy will oontinue to grow, Roentgen made his discovery known.
hence, between the rye and the 'Tim-
othy mueb pasture may be obtained. in
one se,, son.
sowing seed in the autumn. If certain
portions of the fields are wholly or ear- A. west of the nei saves Concerning the
tidily devoid of grass, the autumn is a nength or a Horse's Bead.
good time for patelung them up, The
work may be doe as follows: Sow It is probable that at first thought
Tianothy arid clover seeld in the autumn most taersons would be inclined to
"AS LONG AS A FLOUR BARREL."
Pastures may also be renovated by
DISTRIBUTION OF SEED FOR TEST-
ING PURPOSES.
In the followleg table will be found
three sets of winter wheat varieties.
welela will be sent treeeby mail, in balf
Pound lots of each, variety, to farmers
applying for them who will carefully
test the three kinds in the set which
they choose, and will report the results
after harvest next year. The seed will
be sent out in tee order in -which the
applications are received as long as tee
supply lasts.
• SET NO, 1.
Dawson's Golden Chaff
Early Genesee Giant
Early Red. Clawson.
SET NO. 2.
Dawson's Golden Chaff,
PRIDE OF GENESEE,
Poole.
SET NO. 3.
Dawson's Golden Ceaff,
Stewart's Ch.ampion,
Siberian.
Each person wishing one of these sets,
should write to the Experitaenta.list,
Agricultural College, Guelph, mentien-
ing ivnich set he desires, and the grain,
with instructions for testingand blank
forms on which to report, will be fur-
nished free of cost to his address, until
the supply of grain for distributing be-
comes exhausted.
• on. the bare spots, then harrow these doubt the accuracy of the old saying
freely. When harrowed. cover lightly
with, a dressing of manure, ee the that a horse's head is as long as a flour
manure has been well deeoraposed it barrel. Flour barrels vary some -
should be applied before the seed IS what in length. Some are made stouter
awn. Pastures may be secured 1 re" and shorter, some slender and a little
quently by turning under the stubbles
of a barley oe a winter wheat crop as nigher. An average flour barrel is
Deady in the season as the plowing can. about twenty-nine inches in height.
be done after the crop has been remov- ,. man to whom the 'old saying was
ed. A mixture of clover and Timothy familiar made up his mind, the other
may then be sown, without a nurse day to see for himself just bow near
crop or with a thin seeding of rye. right it was, and he measured the
These may be pastured the same season heads of three horses. One of these
when once they have beoome well root- horses was said to have rather a large
ed but not too closely. And if the soil head for its size; it wasn't a very. big
is clay, much care must be exercised horse. This horse's head, exclusive of
with reference to the pastuxing. When the ears, measured 28 inches in length.
the ground is wet the stock shouldnot The heads of the two other •horses,
be allowed to impact, the land by tread- which were horses of fair average size,
ing on it. But such impaction would
seem to be helpful to the light and por-
Ous soils of the prairie.
• ENERGY AND SKILL.
I don't know' of any factor that
counts for more M the dairy than en-
ergy, writes Geo. E. Newells Energy
will eover a multitude of dairy sins. In
the first place, en etergetie dairyman
will not be satisfied with a smell yield
of milk any more than he will with a
lighthirop of grass or gra,inJ He has
a "get -there -Eli" spirit that is bound
to override obstacles in some shape or
manner, True, the course taken is not
alwayl the best but persistence unsup-
poteenvvins at least second place 15 the
dairy race.
have no patience with a lethargic
policy in dairy matters, even though
an attempt is being made to follow pro-
per principles., The former spoils the
lattee every time .t It is not the dairy-
man who eushes work in the morning
hours and lounges during the middle
of the day, who is to be admired, but
the one, who, having a definite object
in view pursues it to a successful end.
• That object should embrace more milk,
better milk, more money and bettet
The dairyman veho 15. energetic does
not let the grass grow under his feet;
he is always busy without being over-
worked; a dry season finds him with
a big field. of fodder corn, on his way
home from the factory in the morning
he meets his &Unguent neighbors just
going to deliver elasir milk; at night he
stirs the milk with energy because he
does all his work that way; he seldom
finds it sour or tainted in the morning
in consequence; in cleaning milk uten-
ells he does not spare "elhOw grease,"
because he likes to see things clean, and
• he milks the cows regularly because his
habits are methodical, and it beeomeS
natural to milk them at the "tick of
the watch." In other words, energy
permeates all is work, and if lie is also
• a soientific dairyman be makes as much
• money as any men can make 15 the
milk -producing business. ,
Of course I do not mean to say that
• vim and push alone are the main ele-
meats of dairy seccess, but they count
for so much that they should be culti-
vated with assiduity.
• Low prices for butter and cheese make
with average heads, measured, one, 27
inches the other 27,1-2 inohes. So that
this investigator discovered that the
old saying was substantially true.
DAWSON'S GOLDEN CHAFF
%rah Used in both sets to form a basis
by whioh the veldts of all the varieties
could be compared with one another.
Bach person who wanted to condect an
exPeriment, steted in his aeplication
which set he deemed, and. the five varie-
ties in the set selected ware sent to his
address, with full instructions for con-
ducting the expetriment. The grain was
eown at the rate of one and one-third
bushels pee Rare, upon plots exaotlyuni-
form in size and shape. The yields
per acre have been calculated from act-
ual results obtained from. the plots.
Ninety reports of carefully conducted
experiments have been received this sea-
son up to the time of writing. As these
came from twenty-seven of the coun-
ties in Ontaalo the results slaould be
of real practical value to the farmers
of the Province.
The following table gives the com-
parative results of straw and grain per
acre of the winter wheat varieties test-
ed during the past season on 90 On-
tario farms:
Straw per Acre. Grainper Acre.
Tens. an.-eabe.
1. Dawson's Golden Chaff. .1.29 26.9
2 Iones' Winter Fife 1 45 25.4
3. Pride of Genesee 1.30
4. Eosin Red Oleweon 1 27
5. Surprise 1 27
G. .Amerioan Bronze. 1.31
7. Early Genesee Glant1.20
8. Bulgarian 1,20
9. Jones' Square Head1.12
CONCLUSIONS.
TAKE A VACATION.
This may not strike some of our read -
ars as a subject with vveicli the prac-
tical farmer 'has auythiug to do, but we
tissue such that the most practical,
successful farmer is the one who takes
an occasional day off -even prolongs
the day to a week or: ten days some-
times.
Too many farmers seem to think
that the thing to do is to dig with
main brute force from eerly morning
till late at night witbzio let up for
three hundred and twelve days a year,
and ceasing round all day Sunday be-
sides. Buell men have a faint idea. of
the good thbags they miss in life. The
farmer's life at best has days of hard
toil teat are sometimes long, but to
make every day a long, ha,rd one isnot
doing one's best.
Plan to have as few days from sun
to sun as possible and. break the Mane
otony of eonstatit work by an occasional
outing. One does not have to go to tee'
seashore or to a mountain retreat to
ha.ve an outing; doe's not necessarily
have to take a train or a, wheel. A
good time of rest may be obtained by
the change to be bad in a trip by wag-
on over the country trona the home
farm as a center.
Writing of swan a trip, Webb 1)onnell
expresses our idea when he says: Take
a wagon and the farm team, pat in a
supply of eatables for both man and
beast, make provision for camping out
at night, and. make a trip through tee
country as fax as your time and isi-
ABOVE A THUNDERCLOUD.
A.• Sensational Balloon Experience in
Austria.
The Vienna "Neu Freie Presse" re-
ports a recent experhnental ascension
•
with an entirely new spherical balloon,
-which enabled the ascending officers to
report a number of scientific observa-
tions. Altogether the balloon reraained
at a height of from 7,000 feet for four
hours, during which time no ballast
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1. In average yield of winter wheat
per acre, Dawson's Golden Chat stood
highest among eleven varieties tested
over Ontario in 1893, nine varieties in
1894, nine varieties m 1895, and nine
varieties in 1896, also among fifty-three
varieties grown at the Agricultural
College for five years in succession.
2. In the co-operative experiments
for 1896, Dawson's Golden Chaff, Jones'
Winter Fife, and Pride of Genesee gave
the Vest yields on heavy soils, and
Jones' Winter Fife, Dawson's Golden.
Chaff, and Surprise, on light soils.
3. Pride of Genesee, Dawson's Gold-
en Chaff, and Jones' Winter Fife made
the best appearance m the spring of
1 .
4. Early Genesee Giant, Early Red
Clawson,' Dawson's Golden Chaff, and
American Bronze possessed the stiffest
straw in 1896.
5. Pride of Genesee, .Tones' Winter
Fife, Bulgarian, and American Bronze
produced the greatest length of straw.
6. Dawson's Golden Chaff, Bulgarian,
and Pride of Genesee, were the least,
and the Surprise, Early Genesee Giant,
and American Bronze were the most
affected by rust.
7. Early Red Clawson and Dawson's
Golden Chaff were the first to mature,
and the Pride of Genesee, Early Genesee
Giant, and Bulgarian were the last to
mature. '
8. Dawson's Goldea Chaff, Surprise,
and Early Red Clawson produced the
plumpest grain, and Jones' Whiter Fife
and Anaencan Bronze, the most shrunk-
en grain.
9. Dawson's Golden Chaff was de-
cidedly the most pepuiar variety with
the experimenters, m etch of the past
four years; and in 1896, it was chosen
by about fifty. per cent. of the farm-
ers who sent in lull reports, as being
the best among the varieties tested.
10. Six varieties of 'winter wheat have
been tested over Cameo for three
years in succession with the following
average results in bushels of grain per
acres Dawson's Golden Chaff, 31.8; Jones'
Winter Fife, 29.2; Early Genesee Giant,
28.5; Early Red Clawson, 284:; Ameri-
can Bronze,' 27.8; Surprise, 27.8; and
Bulgarian, 27.2.
11. Reports of successful experiments
with winter wheat have been received
•this season from twenty-seven comi-
ties in Ontario, sixteen of tvhiela are
situated east; and eleven west of the
city of Guelph.
12. The principal failures in the win-
ter wheat experiment not included in
this report, were caused by Water. kill-
ing, grasshoppers, accidents, etc., and
in some instances by the experimenters
not conducting the tests in exact ac-
cordance etith the instructions given
13. Of the two hundred and eighty-
four experimenters wile have reported
the results of their tests for 1896,
only three speak of wishing to discon-
tinue the- eo-operative experimental
work, and much interest has been man-
ifested throughout. •
14. Varieties which have given good
average results in the experiments at seal in his personal custody, and to
the Cellege for ei few Year& have also take the great seal outside of Great
given good satisfaction throughout On- Britain would be an act of high trea-
hue°. heat
YOUNG FOLKS.
TILE WOLF CEILDREN.
We wonder how many of you have
read Etudyard Kipling's jungle tales,
with the strange adventures of letowgli,
the' boy who lived with tee wolvesemow
that there are reel Movrglis, ceildren
who have been stolen from their little
beds and. carried off to a wolf's den to
be brought up in a nestful of cubs, and,
developing in every way except in the
body given them by God, become almost
like animals.
The story bow a ceild becomes a
?.lowali is au interesting one. Perhaps
It is a hot, moonlight night and the
door is open in a poor thatobed but
where a Hindoo woman lies asleep with
her baby in her arms. A wolf steals
in like a dark shadow, and almoet liaise-
lessly the baby is lifted an4 carried
away to the jungle, to a den under the
rooks, where it is dropped among the
fat, sleepy little cubs who wait her ar-
rival. It is a critical moment for tee
little one. If the cuiis are hungry its
tender flesh is hurriedly torn by the
mother into pieces for them, and. life
is extinct in a few nicaneuts, That is
what generally happens, But if they
are gorged, the babe grows OP a New-
gli, for as soon as it begins to take
on the wolf odor, it is licked and car-
essed by the seaggy Maher: fed, wheel
the little cubs take their meals, aud it
grows up a fester child, protected, and
eberithed by all the wolves of the
jungle.
Wolf childoren }lave been rescued
sometimes by hunters, who tell a tale
of a wild, shaggy -beaded creature witli
a coarse, brutalized, expression, or a
timid, sad, anxious expression, and a
face that never =Rees Its mode of
comotion is on all fours, with the head
near tb.e ground, and its eaked body
Cern by brambles and stones, its knees
and. elbows eerily and calloused from
contact with the ground. 'When a welt
child is captured it seldom lives long;
it is simply a caged wild beast which
never learned, to speak, or to eat any-
thing but raw flesh., It traaltes night
hideous by howling like a wolf, by un-
earthly yells and moans; it 15 simply a,
human being without human intellig-
ence, and when it is taken from tee:
jengle wilds where it has grown up, it
sickeas and dies,
had to be thrown out. The balloon re-
mained quite steady and in the most
perfect balance. During this time a
thunder storm broke beneath the bal-
lotni, and. Capt. Triela noticed how short-
ly before the lightning commenced, por-
tions of clouds would rise up consider-
ably over the rest of the clouds, only
to fall back. Upon this apparition the
Captain has based his theory of aerial
waves, which, he claims, are in Luost
lutimate relation with electrical storms.
The two aeronauts suffered considerably
from the burning sun, being exposed
to the scorching rays for seven hours,
The balloon landed 220 miles from
Vienna, the landing being effected ac-
cording to the new method recently in-
troduced in the aeronautic regiment.
The military balloons do not carry an -
chore any more, the landing being ef-
fected by means of drag ropes and an
automatic arrangementwhich tears
the balloon at the top as soon es the
car touches the ground. Through the
rent the g's escapes within a few sec-
onds aud the former dangers of land-
ing are alssolutely avoided.
• THE FISHERBOY'S LUCK.
When the rainister caught the little
boy fishing instead of being at school
the parson asked the lad what his
mother did when he ran avvity like
that and gave her the slip.
Gives me the slipper.
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THE WHEEL IN AFRICA.
The T_Titlanders, about wbom so much
has been said recently, are very fond
of the bicycle. .In Johannesburg alone
it le estimated that 4,000 bicycles are
in use daily. ,
Ghildroo Cry for Pitcher's enteric;
clunition. lead.
"Think of the jolly dinners tooked comes to hand, and you. NS
by the roadsisle and tee pleasure of rest all fall into file, and follow after,
sea,rch each night for a place to like a company at svell-drilled soldiers,.
camel Then, too, one would have a and, though work may be hare to meet
in.
when it charges a squa,deit is easily
vanquished if you can bring le into
line.% You n. the an-
ecdote of the man who was asked how
he had accompliseed so ramie in his life,
"My father taught me," was the reply,
"when bad anything to do, go and. do
it." There is tee secret -the raagie
word now I Make sure, however, that
what is to lie done ought to be' done.
"Never put off till to -morrow what
you can do to -day" is a good proverb,
but don't do what you may regret.
PItOMPT PEOPLE,
Don't live a single hour of your life
without doing exactly weet is to be
done iu it, and going straight through
it from beginning to ends Work, Pleee
etudy-ivhatever it is, take hold at once,
and finish it up squarely; then to tee
tlext thine, without letting any mom-
ents drop between. It is tvonderfal to
see 'haw many eours teese prompt.peo-
ple contrive to make of a day; it is as
if they picked up tee race:Lents which
the dawdlers lost. And Lt ever you find
yourself where you have so many things
pressing upon you that you. hardly
know how to begin, let me tell you a
secret; Take liold of the first one that
for Infante and Children.
etiasterialisowilladapteltochlicireathat
Irecommend Pined= to an7PreseriPtaou
ton= to me." A. Aummt„ M. D.,
111 So, Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. Y.
"The use of 'Castoria" is so universal mod
m
its erits go well known that it moms a work
of supererogation to endorse it. yew &lathe
txttelligent laminas who do not keep eastern
within easyreacia."
Cantos aristeeinD.D.,
New York City.
Tette Pastor Bloomingdale Reformed Church.
run Comma
Catttoria cores Celia Coustipation,
Sour Stomach, Difuehteet„ neactetion
=la Worms, gives sleep. MIA Igt444001
usWitgeosut min mediratiollt.
For several years reooneneaderi
your Castoria,' and shalt always contiene to
do so Its ithae invariablyproduced lunette**
meulta"
Revert P. Teams,
"Th. Winthrop? Street awl 7th Ayes,
New Tork case
Coatroom. 77 Irlrllaanr SWIM* New Tom.
ReallINESCEEMEREA-r-IMMEMENINSIEEK
continual interest in the sight o
after farm, with its stock and its me-
thods 01 work. Some of these farms
you may have heard of baeauseof 30015
peculiar excellence, and you will want
to visit them as you go along.
"Such a drive can be made the means
of great pleasure and much practical
good, and when tee horses turn in at
the oldplace again I'm quite sure they
will bring home a load of people great-
ly benefited by the experience. When
you. get home from this or some other
outing begin to plan straightway for
the outing of next year. You can't
think what pleasure the anticipation
and planning will give every member
of the family. It will lighten the
whole year's labor. We take things too
seriously;. we don't relax enough. Sup -
Pose a tat of such recreation does cost
something What are we in this
world for? I greatly question the idea
that it. is to make mere working ma-
chines of ourselves. Besides, one can
work so reach better after a rest of
this sort and las will soon more than
melte up the cost."
MAKING THE CLYDE.
It Took Ten Years and Cost the City oj
Glasgow $350,000.
"Glasgow made the Clyde, and the
Clyde made Glasgow." Toward the
close of the last century the true trad-
ing spirit had been aroused among the
inhabitants of the building city, and it
was not long before they perceived that
if the community were ever to rise to
eminence in that direction the city must
become a pert open to the commerce of
the world. The task was one of hercul-
ean dimensions but they set themselves
to it with a determination of purpose
which was not Co be daunted by any
degree of difficulty.
Much of the best engineering enter-
prise and skill of the world have been
devoted to the altering, widening, nar-
rowing and deepening. of the channel,
according to the requirements at dif-
ferent parts of the course. As a speci-
men of changes that have been made
during the progress of the work, it may
be mentioned that when, 1839, the act
of Parliament was passed which defin-
ed the boundaries of the river, one of
the most extensive textile factories in
the country stood in the line of what
was considered to be the best course
for the river to take, and the water is
now deep enough over the site to allow
ocean liners to sail.
Many -experiments were resorted to
ere success was achieved in the deepen-
ing at particular places, and the con-
finement of the water within the de-
sired limits.. Several of the obstacles
encountered might well have deterred
the authorities from proceeding further,
had that been possible.% The chief of
these was Elderslie rock, a mass of dol-
erite or whinstone, which was found to
occupy the bed of the stream over an
area of 925 feet by 320, and which came
within 10 feet of the surface of the
water. The discovery af this was a
shock to all concerned, but the break.:
ing up and removal of it was at once
proceeded with in the ordinary course.
It took ten years to do it, however, nnS
during that time 110,000 tons of rock
and clay were raised by dredging at the
place, while a sum of $350,e00 was found
to have been expended m the opera -
time
BAD MANNERS..
The girl who misbehaves in public
displays bad. manners and mils atten-
tion to the fact that neither her head
nor her heart eas been trained at home.
The other evening a girl of eighteen
came to an entertainment, acoompane
led by two boys of about her own age
and Iter mother. The young girl sat
between the two young men. It was
evident that she was in a state of men-
tal elation, and believed that the dual
attendance was a mark of her great
attractiveness.
She carried on a running converse -
tion With her escorts that eompelled
one man to leave his seat and go farth-
er back in order to hear the lecturer,
and subjected her neighbors to great
discomfort and annoyance.
What can be done to rouse mothers
to train their daughters to avoid pro-
nainence 15 public? What can be said
to the girls of this country that will
make them see the absolute bad man-
ners of dressing or acting in public in
a way which reflects on their training?
No man of nice instincts is attractedby
• a girl whose manners ere the ee.pres-
sion of crude conceptions of what is Sit-
ting.
RARE SURGICAL OPERATION.
HE EYES OF THE INORLD
Are Fixed Upon South Amerio
can Nervine.
rieyond Doubt the Greatest Medical Discovery)
of the Age.
1111E11 FRU OTIIER HELPER HAS FAILED IT cum
A Discovery. Based on Scientific Principles. that
Renders Failure Impossible.
lave -Pointed liacicstorte Removed From a
Child's Stomach.
A successful and unusual operation
was performed the other day at the
University Hospital, Philadelphia,
whereby a five-pointee jackstone was
removed from the stomach of 3 -year-
old Elsie Wohlgemouth ,and the child's
life saved.
On Saturday last little Elsie was
playing about the house with a hand-
ful of jack -stones, some of them in her
mouth when she swallowed one of
them. It stuck in the child's throat,
and caused her great pain. Her mother
made an attempt to remove it with her
finger, but only pushed it further down.
When Elsie was first admitted, an at-
tempt was made to make a mills:graph
for the purpose of locating the stone,
but on account of the time necessary
for an exposure, thirty minates, it
could not be successfully accomplished.
The patient would not remain quiet a
sufficaent length of time. '
Then Dr. D. Patterson located the
ja,ckstone, by aid of the fluoroscope,find-
mg it between the clavicle and the sec-
ond rib, just to the left of the median
At 1 o'clock after several ineffectual
attempts to extricate the stone by way
of the mouth, Dr. Alfred 0. Wood, as-
sisted by Drs. Charles ti, 'Fra.zer, Wil-
liam Schleif and Francis Patterson, op-
ened the stomach and dislodged the
stone by means of a silk cord, to whioa
a pledget gauze had been attached. The
child acted well and late at night was
resting easy. But one other case of
similar character is known in the an-
nals of medical science.
"Well eld man, I've spent every cent
of money I have hi the world on tn3r
deetor." "Does he know it ?" "I guess
he does. He has pronounced me a well
man."
MUSTN'T GO ABROAD,
Tbe lord chancellor is the only .mem-
ber of the British cabinet who is not
allOwed to go outside of Great Britain.
This is because he must have the great
is
.epts'
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AMERICA%
RVINE
In the matter of good health tempor-
izing measures, while possibly success -
rut for the moment, can never be last-
ing. Those in poor health soon know
whether the remedy they are using
Is simply a passing incident in their ex-
perience, bracing them tsp 1or the day,
or something that is getting at the
seat of the disease and is surely and
permanently restoring.
The eyes of the world are literally
Ixed on South American. Nervine. They
are not viewing It as a nine -days' won-
der, but critical and experienced men
have been studying this medicine for
Sears, with the one result -they have
Sound that its claim of perfeet OUTS-
tive qualities cannot be gainsaid.
The great dis.coverer of this medicine
was possessed of the knowledge that the
seat of all disease is the nerve centres,
Situated at the base of the brain. In
this belief he had the best scientists
and medical men of the world
occupying exactly the same pre-
mises. Indeed, the ordinary lay-
man recognized this principle
long ago. Everyone knows that
let disease or injury affeet this part of
She human system and dea,th is sam.ort
certain. Injure the spinal cord, which
Is the medium of these nerve cen-
tres, and paralysis is sure to follow.
• Here is the first prinoisple• The trove
ble with medical treatment usuiS,
ally, and with nearly all medicines, lit
that they aim simply to treat the organi
that may be diseased. South American
Nervine passes by the organs, and inn.
mediately applies its cirratern powers
to the nerve -centres, from which the,
organs of the body receive their supply'
of nerve fluid. The nerve centre6
healed, and of necessity the organ
which has shown the outward evidence
only of derangement is healed. Intil*
gestion, nervousness, impoverished
blood, liver complaint, all owe their
origin to a derangement of the nerve
centres. Thousands bear testimony
that they have been cured of these
troubles, even when they have beam:act
so desperate as to baffle the skill otil
the most eminent physicians, because
: South American Nervine has gone he
headquarters and cured there.
! The eyes of the world have not been
; disappointed in the inquiry Into the sue-
oess of South American Nervine. Pea-
. ple marvel, it is true, at its; wonderful
medical qualities, but they know be-
yond all question that it does every-
! thing that is claimed for it. It stands
! alone as the one great certatn. clients
remedy of the nineteenth century. Wiale
ehould anyone suffer distress and sick-
ness while this remedy is pnentlealli
.1 at thou, bands?
C. LUTZ 'Sole Wholesale and Retail Agent for Exeter.
Tnos. Witneeee, Crediton Drug Store, Agent.
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Is the result of over 85 years treating thousands of cases with all knoem
drugs, until at last we have discovered the true remedy and treatment -a
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Sexual Debility, Abuse or Excesses, Vat -vole }Yeah:ass, Entissions, Mental
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