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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1895-2-1, Page 7Tr'EDATTARy 1, 1895 THE EHtSSELS POST, PRACTICAL FARMING, Preventing Air Bubbles in Water Pipes, I had considerable trouble and annoyanoo With a water pipe, es shown in the acorn - ponying sketch, caused by a bubble of air, writes a correspondent. Tho water flowed PIG. i, OntGINAL PTCI, 2. mainline Max. max. from the milk house, fig 1, a, to a lower level at 0, the level pipe at the bottom be. ing under ground, A bubble of air would collect in the pipe ata and then the water would not run, compelling me to use n plunger or motion pump at 0 to remove the bubble, when the water would run until another bubble oolleobed. To ronVody this I dug up the milk house end of the pipe, see fig 2, and sunk a large tile drain as there shown, inserting in the lower end the pipe leading to the lower level and making the union water tight. Ae will readily be seen, no air can now enter the pipe, and I have no more trouble with ib. They Will Stay on the Farm. After your boys are through with school, or if they are not, give them a little pieoe of land and let them have what they can make from ib. Don't make slaves of them at any time. If you can't lay up money without working them to death, better not lay up any. When they go into the city they have a moderately warm sleeping room, warm bathroom and all modern conveniences. They Dome home, go to bed in an ice cold room, can't take a bath unless in the kitchen or some warm living room. Is it any wonder that a young man would rather work in the city for $1.00 or $1.25 a day than to work at home for $20.00 a month and board. When he wants to go to town or elsewhere, do not say the horses have worked too hard. Do fathers realize how cheap they can arrange barn, house and out buildings that they may be warm and convenient? Farm• ing is looked upon as drudgery instead of pleasure. Farmer alter farmer has worked day after day laying up every cent possible. Who gets it ? The boys and girls. They say, " Father has worked himself to death to earn what money he had and so we thought we would take life easy." Father take more pleasure with your children. Don't think that every minute must be spent on the farm. Teaoh them the science of farming not the drudgery. Keep them posted in politics and other local matters. Teach them the farm le the place for them unitise their talents are for other purposes, then help them to gain that. Don't make dairymen of them if they like poultry better. Let them have their own way once in a while. Don't make them think they don't know anything. If you loos a little by their mistakes, they will profit by it more than you will lose. Look out more, for the welfare of your children and a little lees for your farm and there will be lees abandoned farms, fewer young men to go to the city, but more pleasant country homes and more robust children to look after the welfare of our country in the years to come. Food for Live Stoelc. Few people analyze carefully or even casually the object in view in furnishing domestic animals with a brand of food or a combination which "on the surface" seems to be economical. Just here allow the digression to protest against the continual use of the word economy as e. rule of life by narrow•viewed people who have never had a correct idea of economy, and have never in their lives scarcely practised economy. In financial affairs money may be spent wisely and the investment prove to bo in the di. rection of economy, which simply is the right use of anything. True economy in feediug can be practised best by those who have a good variety of foods or by those who have ample means to buy judiciously. Yet the brains to deter- mine what to use and what varieties and proportions to combine aro of greater conse- quence. It is economy, for instance, in moat came for the owner of but one or two animals if he lies an abundance of corn or wheat for food to exchange some of it for oate, bran, oil meal, roots, eta Thus by providing variety more nutriment ie obtained for a given eost. The health and constitution of the animals is better maintained. There is gain in maintaining even die. positions and scouring better work from the horse and better average products from the dairy and the meat producers. The greater proportion, too, of gain in weight of caroms of beef or mutton, and of the fleece and in- crease in flow of the cow's milk, is to be taken into account. The simple matter of one hundred pounds of bran for the family cow in winter, added to the corn and straw, is of great worth in the combination. Treatment of Sick Horses. Brea sbande decidedly foremost as the food moat generally used for the invalid horse; it acts as a laxative, is frequently tempting to the appetite, and easy of diges- tion. There is no part of the general treat- ment more universal than offering this sub- stance as change of food. Does rho horse chow slight symptoms of cold, or fever, a warm bran moan is a convenient plan of steaming, and consequently of soothing the irritable mecums membranes of the air passages; it is a substitute for the more etimulatiog diet he is accustomed to, and gently promote the activity of the digeotivo apparatus; 10 is also a convenient medium for the giving of certain simple remedies. When it is necessary to administer purga- tive medicine, a bran mash or two renders the bowels more susoeptiblo of its notion, and a smaller drug is therefore required to precinct) the desired effect. 'Bran mashes may be given hot or cold— cold are perhaps quite as grateful bo the horse; but the nib- bling of hot mash in catarrhal affections is particularly beneficial from the neeessery inhalation of the steam. Of all the roots with which horses aro temptmi,the oarrot,es a rule, is the favorite, and perhaps the most benofioial, It is eaid to bo somewhat diurto in its ofleat and toexercise a salubrious effect on the elrin. Certain itis tbat a sick horse may be coaxed into eating carrots when disinelinod to partake of other nom.• ishment with the greatoobbenefioial results. For the ailing horse carrots aro moat vatu• able as an article of diet, and a few may be given with advantage to a horse in a. healthy condition, Oatmeal le extremely nutritious, and tie a food for the couvales. omit horse is moot valuable; the bruieing MOM the grain hoe undergone breaks the Auk and reudere it more easil�yy anted open by the digestive organs. It is usually given in the form of a gruel„ and in that form it is one of the most essential ertiolee of diet for the Infirmary. Lineeed is deofdedly to be included in the Molt dint roll, It ie nutritious, and from its oleagin. one nature soothing to the frequently irrit. able mueoue membrane of the alimentary canal, and hence it is partioularly to be recommended in the treatment of sore thioate. Nor ie its bland effeot local only; its mono general influence is particularly observable in affections of the kidneys, CANADA HAS AN EYE ON ALASKA. -.— A Commission Sent to Devise a Way of Controliing the Yukon River Trade. Canada is making vig moue offorte to se oure control of the business of the riolt gold fields along the 'Yukon. River, says a drivable paper, and to that end sent Williatn Ogilvie and a party of the Canadian Boundary Commission to Alaska to survey a wagon road, probably along the Takou River to the interior. Ogilvie and ,party arrived in Alaska on Deo. 17, on the last Mexioo,and in speaking of their intentions the Alaska Neva of Deo, 20, published in Juneau City, says : "The party is outfitting here for the purpose of making as accurate a survey of the Takou River as the weather will per- mit. The object is to acquire as complete a knowledge of the topogaaphy along that stream as oircumetancee will allow. Of course the reeidente of this country will understand that the weather is an import. ant factor in such operations at thio time of the year. The whole valley of the river and adjacent country will as far as possible be photographed. This work will be continued to the head of canoe naviga- tion. Thus far the work is to afford knowledge for the use of the International Boundary Commission, the information acquired, of course, being et the disposal of the Joint Commission. At the same time close attention will be paid to the practicability of the Takou River as a route to the interior, and with Chia object the survey will be carried from the head of canoe navigation about seventy miles to the head of Lake Teslin, or probably better known here ae Aklin Lake. This will settle the probability of a wagon road being buiitto connect the coast wit n come point on the headwatere of the Yukon. "It is needless to mention to the resi- dents of this part of the country the advant- ages of tapping the Yukon country at Teslin Lake, as it permits an uninterrup- ted navigation from the extreme head of probably the most southern branch of the Yukon, permitting free and easy naviga. tion for five menthe in the year from the extreme head of the river to its mouth, a distance of ppwarde 2,300 miles, about two-thirds of which will run tbrough a mountainous country, n condition which probably obtains on no other river in the world. "While in the interior Mr. Ogilvie will pay marked attention to the topography of the surface, also the climatic conditions as evidenced by the timber. ;It is possible he may cross from Teslin Lake to Aklin lakes to examine that part of the country. If possible, and in the time at his dispoeal, he will also examine the White Pass from the head of Skagway Bay on Taiya Inlet (commonly known here as Dyea) to the Tagieh lakes. This is ot course con- tingent on the time taken in the examin- ation of the country between Takou Inlet and Teslin Lake. "Five white men accompany tSr. Ogil- vie, whom he selected from the Canadian party of the Boundary Commieeion. If an intelligent, reliable Indian, who knows the country between Takou and Testin can be procured here, he will be taken along in order to acquire as muah information as possible about the country adjacent to the route travelled over. Part of Mr. Ogilvie's outfit is six pairs of Canadian snowshoes. Nearly all the men have experieude in enowshoeiug, several of them having tramp- ed thousands of miles on just such shoes. to the satisfaction of themselves and their employers. .Another item of their outfit is six toboggans. Mr. Ogilvie will depart for the head of Taken Inlet in the course of a few days, weather permitting He expects to return in the first part of Febru- ary, when he will likely devote a few days to the examination of White Pass; then be will make his way to Ottawa as speedily as possible to submit hie official report and plans of the work accomplished, and prob- ably be here again about the middle of April in conneotion with the closing up of the international boundary survey work, which ie expeoted to bo completed in July, 1895. "The inap resulting from the joint labors of the International Commission will be prepared with all speed for the Commis- sioners, who will discuss the position from the treaty of 1825 between England and Russia point of view. Whiohever of ,the routes is moat feasibly reported upon will iu all probability be opoued for travel at an early date, making, as far as reasonable expenditure will permit, an easy access to the gold fields of the interior." A Preacher's Salary. Dr. John Hall, of New York, who ie said to receive the largest salary of any minieter in the United States, beoidos his princely income of $10,000 a year, hae a beautiful rectory on Fifth avenue, on one of the most valuable blocks in the city. Though an extraordinarily hale and hearty old gentle- man, his wife, who is a frail, slim little woman, with white hair and features that must have made her a very beautiful girl 50' years ago, takes the greatest possible care of her big husband, hovering over him fondly as he prepares to go out, insisting on hie wrapping up well, sees that he has his rubbers and silk handkerchiefs, and coddling him juet like the faithful little wives of big men always do. And it has not a littlo to do with their own estimate of themeelveo. And They All Were Silent. Why," asked tho philosopher, " why is it that a man --tire nobleebcreated object —why is ib that a man should have eunh doubts of his ability to win a woman's affection, whon ho considers rho moose in that line of a pop -eyed, pndding.ehaped, pretzel -tailed petgdog?" But the aeeombledlisteners answered him note TAKING A NEW START IN LIFE, sufferers front stagnation Advised to Try Parting Their Hair In the Biddle. " 1 have taken a new atarb in life," says Ur. Gratebar, " and 1 have found it much easier than might have been imagined, My oldest ilaughtor,who le a very bright,a very sprightly, end I might add a very attrac- tive young woman, had for a long time told me that I was old-faehloned and Plow. She said that if I would wear pointed shoes and high collars and faebiouable ties and part my hobo in the middle I wouldn't he a bad -looking man. " How 1 looked as a result of these obangeo it might not be modest for me to say; but as to another and very remarkable effect proceeding from them I may testify. "With the old blunt shoes and comfort- able low dollars and string neckties, and with the old way of parting the hair, low down on one aide, I seemed to put off an incrustation of old haliite, and to step up out of a deep rut, up to a level where men were hustling about in greab shape; and with my pointed shoes and high collars and hair parted in the middle I was one of them, once more infueed with the idea of. keeping up with the procession; of keeping atop to the music of active life, "And I don't hesitate to say that it was parting the hair in the middle that did it. I could have worn unmoved the pointed toes, the high collars, and the new -fashion, ed tiee; but not so the hair parted in the middle; that I felt I meet live up to, it would never do for me to part my hair in the middle and then not make good my right to wear it so. " To all middle•aged sufferers from stag- nation would say: Try parting your hair in the middle." OVER ITS BANKS AGAIN. ANOTHER FL000 IN THE FRASER VALLEY. Rot Weather in 'Winter and Great melting ofenow—Chinook Winds Aid In Send Ing the Water Over the Dykes—Lulu Island Threatened with Obliteration— Sea Island Under Water—Roars out to Rescue Cattle.' A despatch from Vancouver, il.C., Bays —The waters of the Fraser river are higher by two feet than during the terrible floods of June. Hot weather (70 in the shade) during the last three days brought down the snow from the mountains, swelling an unusually high tide. Then the Chinook winds, whose peculiarity is to rush along the surface of the water, caught the swol- len river and baoked the water down over all the dykes, which with- stood the floods of June. Lulu Island, where the greater portion of the cattle in the province are roaming, is threatened with obliteration, while Sea Island ie three feet beneath the water. The water is com- ing over the dykes on Lulu Island, and the cattle have been driven to high knolls. Ranchero have been flooded out for the second time in six months. The Govern• ment is Bending boats to rescue the cattle. Bridges hitherto untouched by floods have been swept away and roads destroyed. There is no communication between subur. ban towns and large cities. All the waters in British Columbia have gone beyond their bounds. In Vancouver cellars of wholesale houses have been flooded and great loss sustained for the first time in its history. On Vancouver Island, a hundred miles away, the floods have done great damage on railroad lines. To add to the general discomfort, snow in the mount, aim has seriously handicapped the Cana- dian Paeifio road in handling large quanta. ties of perishable freight now waiting for shipment. If the season had been summer instead of winter, the loss to the province would have been irreparable. Word comes from the Dominion and Provincial Govern- ments that the work of building permanent dykes several feet above high water mark will be at once proceeded with, regardless of cost. IN A TRANCE ELEVEN YEARS. A French Glrl Subsisting on Food Inject ed Through a Broken Tooth. There is a girl named Marguerite Bouyen• val atThenelles, in the north of France, near Saint Quentin, who is reported to have been asleep for the past eleven years. A goud deal of doubt has been thrown on this phenomenal slumbering ease, not only in Paris, but also in Thenelles and its vicinity where there are two camps, one of the be. Severe and the other of those who maintain that the so.called Bleeping beauty rises at night and hae a good supper. The matter has been investigated by a Parisian, who hae seen the girl, and found her as lean as a skeleton and as stiff ae a corpse, but still living. Her mother injects milk, peptone and sometimes wine through a broken tooth in the girl's mouth, Marguerite Bouyeuval made away with a baby eleven years ago, and the gendarmes were sent to her house, The girl was so frightened at their approach that she had an attack ot hysteria, which lasted several hours, and at the end of whioh she fell into a trance. The doubts thrown on the continuation of the trance have evidently been caused by the foot that the mother of the Bleeping girl hae made a good deal of money by exhibiting her. A local doctor, who hae obeervud the case daring the eleven years, informed the investigator from Paris that Marguerite Bouyeuval had really been sleeping during the whole time. Occasionally she had hysterical crises, but did not awake after them. Other doctors have also agreed as to the genuineness of the phenomenon, and the Bleeping girl of Thenelles remains a human mystery Really Pure. Mrs. D'Avnoo—"I wish you would not spend your time reading those emotional no, els." Miss D'Avnoo—,"Oh,this be not emotimr el a bit. It's purely financial. The heroine marries the man her mother picks out." An Exehange of Courtesies. Mr, Slurkins—"I suppose' a good many women go to ohuroil merely to see what other people have on," Mrs. Slurkiss—"And Ido not doubt that many men attend the theatre for quite tho pposibe reason." PURELY CANADIAN NEWS, INTERESTING ITEMS ABO[7T' OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered rrront various. Pointe Froul the Atlantic to tate Pauline.. Bradford supporta nix butchers, Ramsay ie affected with sneak thieves.. Berlin has a broom and whisk factory. Smallpox hon dleappeared from Strath. roy. Kingston is said to have eighteen hookey clubs. Mra,Joseph Cox, Eastwood, has commit. ted onioide, The taxes received in Paris loot yea amounted to 018,871.89. Timber thieves are eaid to be busy near Inwood. Rockwood asylum, Brookville, is to be enlarged, There are many cases of diphtheria in Chatham. 0. H. Ashdown is the new town olerk of Sandwich. The Arnprior Curling Club has a mem. berahip'of 60. The Innerkip flour mill is to have the roller system. John Lincoln was fatally gored by a bull at Glenaonon. The Gienrae stave mill is being thorough. ly overhauled. Delhi compete transient tradera to take out a $50 license. Wm. Goathe'e barn, Comber, has been destroyed by fire. Last week flowers were blooming on Manitoulin island. 0. McKinnon ie the new prinoipal of the Dungannon school. Canadian banks have a paid up capital of about $62,000,000. Brigden Presbyterians made $225 out of n autogrsnh quilt. Hamilton will compel the Street Railway Company to nee fenders. The People's Bank of Halifax is opening a branch at Lake Megantic. Hamilton has a very satiefaotory civic balance sheet for last year. Newburg has paid off $3,000 on its debt during the past four years. James Hoseaok,an old resident of Leask- dale is dead, aged 92. The Essex Bar Association met last week and declared for law reform. Listowel has a literary club in connection with the Mechanics' Institute. The Wingham Literary and Debating Club has formed a mock"parliament. Mailloux's liquor store, Sandwich, has been robbed of valuable liquors, The Niagara River Electric Railway car- ried 467,000paeeengers last year. Rave. Crossley and Hunter will hold meet. ings next month in Boston, Maes, Moore township, Middlesex county, has reduced the pay of their councillors. Judge Elliott has decided that the life as- surance companies must pay tszee. The Trent river hae nob been so low since 1869. Nor has the Bay of Quinte. Geo. Goodfike's reeidenoe, Hamilton,was almost ooneumed by fire last week. . Merner'e fieh-breeding farm at Waterloo is etocked with 600,000 speckled trout fly. Newmarket feels greatly enraged be- cause a judge recently called it a "Village." Nineteen tone of poultry have been re. ceived at Winnipeg for use in O.P. R. dining cars. Wm. Frier, Trowbridge, fell from the mow of a barn and sustained serious in- juries. Chippewa Bay has frozen over several times this season, once to the depth of six inches. Midland mills have a contract to supply an American firm with 20,000,000, feet of lumber. Mr. Ira Mallory, one of the oldest resi- dents of the Brockville district is dead, aged 83. Rev. M.P. Tailing, pastor of St. James Presbyterian church, London, has tendered his resignation. Near Parry Sound last week a bald-head- ed eagle was shot which measured 7§ feet from tip to tip. The health of Lieut. -Governor Schultz continues to improve, but he is yet unable to leave his bed. Capt. Wm. Wood, wellknown among veeeel men from Port Arthur to Montreal, died last week at Hamilton. The Montreal Street Railway Company earned $3,435.79 on Monday last, whioh was the biggest winter day in its history. Mr. and Mrs. John Newton, of Newton Farm, Keady, celebrated the fiftieth anni- versary of their married life last month. The withdrawals from the Post•Offioe Savings Bank exceeded the deposits during the month of November by over $30,000. Rev. Mr. Percival, pastor of the Rich- mond Hill and Thornhill Presbyterian churches, has received acall from the church at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. THE SNOW BLANKET. Why It Is Bo Valuable In Protecting the Fields front Hold. The value of a mantle of snow in protect. ing vegetation in the fields in Winter is fully understood in farming districts, and the cause of the protective effect of the now is an iuteresting subjeob of scientific inquiry. In Germany, where no such subject is ever allowed to escape investigation, Dr. Abele has recently made some important observations on the thermal properties of snow. He has found that the looser the snow the greater its power to protect the ground beneath from the effects of external changes of temperature. Snow generally offers about four tines as muolr reeistanoo to eunh changes As a sheet of ice of the same thiokness offers, When snow becomes elosely packed, there- fore, it ie lase effective as a protection to plant life than when it lies loosely upon the surface, Other experiments chew that while a blanket of snow protects the ground be. neath from the chilling efieets of the winter atmosphere, yet the surface of the snow itself, especially in oloar weather, is colder than tho air, 90 that anew tends to lower the temperature of the atmosphere, and where broad areas of country or extensive Mountain slopes aro covered by it important climatic) oonditione, may bo produced by the nfluenoe of°the snow. TWAS A WILDCAT. 1t'wo Wilinteee Went out front Leehnort,10. Y., and Struck the Felille's'rrnil. A deepatoh from Lockport, N,Y,, eaye:- Myron Bailey and John McCormick went out hunting rabbite a few days ago and got on the trail of a etrange animal, The snow wee deep and the sportsmen wore nob able to identify the tracks. They were larger than fox tracks and certainly not (hose of a dog, owing to the marks mode by the long claws. They followed the mys- terious trail for three miles until they came to a hole at the foot of a big tree, One of the men went to a farm house and procured a pick and spade, while the other stood guard. They ilea dug down about three feet when they heard a nom• motion in the depths. With a frightful oFy, a creature with bristling bank bound, ed from the hole, knocking the spade from Bailey's hands. The animal did nob re. main to battle for ite home and made a rapid retreat for the rooks, where it die. appeared. A Canadian named Baptiste visited the spot and examined the traoks, which he pronounced of a very large wild cat. This is the first time in many yeare that a specimen of the oatue folio has been discovered in Niagara county. Misfit Talents. "How did Smithere get along out west ?" "Not very well." "He was a remarkable fellow—oo quick at repartee." "Yee, that's how the trouble riz. Ef he had not been so quick at repartee, an' a little bit quicker with a gun, he might be injyin' the climate yit." The country between the Yalu and Liao. Ho rivers in China is said to be desolate in the extreme. For Twenty -Five Years DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOK'S BEST FRIEND LARGgST SALE t@I CANADA. rood's Cured After Others Failed, Scrofula In WV Neck—Punches A11 clone Now. Sangervllle, Maine: "0. I. Hood & Co„ Lowell, Maes,s "Gentlemen: -9 feel that I cannot say enough In Savor of Hood's Sarsaparilla. For five years 8 have been troubled with scrofula in my noel[ and throat. Several kinds of medicines which I tried did not do me any good, and when I com- menced to take Hood's Sarsaparilla there wore large bunches on my neck so sore that I could Rood's pa ala Cures not bear the slightest touch. When I had taken . one bottle of this medicine, the soreness had gone, and before I had finished the second the bunches had entirely disappeared." BLAxonm ArWoOD, Sangerville, Maine. N. B. If you decideto take Hood's Sexsapar rills do not be induced to buy any other. Hood's Pills cure constipation by restore Ing the peristaltic action of the alimentary oaws Appetizing. Customer (in cheap restaurant)—"Give me beefsteak with muehroome." Waiter (loudly, to cook)—"Slaughter fa de pan, with fumygated toadstools 1" E YIELDS Ak SECRET ! . Fri �,,, H r'; E D has often been contended by physiologists and men of science gen- erally, that nervous energy or nerv- ous impulses which pass along the nerve fibres, were only other names for electricity. This seemingly plaus- ible statement was accepted for a time, but has been completely aban- doned since it has been proved that the nerves aro not good conductors of electricity, and that the velocity of a nervous impulse is but 100 feet per second—which is very much slower than that of electricity. It is now generally agreed that nervous energy, or what we ora pleased to call nerve fluid, is a wondrous, a mysterious force, in which dwells life itself. A very eminent specialist, who has staled profoundly the workings of the nervous system for the last twenty-five years, hae lately demon- strated that two-thirds of all our ailments and chronio diseases aro due to deranged nerve centres within sir at the base of the brain, A11 know that an injury to the spinal cord will cause paralysis to the body below the injured point. The reason for this is, that the nerve fore() is prevented by the injury from teaching the paralyzed portion. Again, when food is taken into the stomach, it comes in contact wIth numberless nerve fibres in the walls of this organ, which at once send a nervous impulse to the nerve centres which control the stomach, notifying them of the presence of food; where- upon the nerve oentres send down a supply of nerve force or nerve fluid, to at once begin the operation of digestion. But let the nerve centres which control the stomach be de- ranged and they will not be able to respond with a sufficient supply of nerve force, to properly digest the food, and, as a result, indigestion and dyspepsia make their appearance. So it is with the other organs of the body, if the nerve centres which con- trol than and supply them with nerve force become deranged, they are also deranged. The wonderful euooees of the remedy known as the Great South American Nervine Tonic is due to the fact that it is prepared by one of the moat eminent physicians and specialists of the age, and is based on the foregoing scientific discovery. It possesses marvellous powers for the Duro of Nervousness, Nervou8 Prostration, Headache, Sloepleesnots, Restlessness, St. Vitne's,Dance, Men- tal Despondency, Hysteria, Heart Disease, Nervousness of 'Females, Hot Flashes, Sick Headache, It also an absolute apeoiiio for all etomaoh troubles, A. DE.9,DIh1A11 Wholesale and RctailtAgent for Brussels