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The Huron Expositor, 1891-08-21, Page 1o► 1891 • 9ER, PUBL.iO. a lot e out the TRADE KINDS op tes,, roitieries,. f T/llNt. nm€ efce: t€r L we won't ng—we will idly, LUL, Flea of those work. This cry necessary observed by it. think there Lather by-law arae of cattle eht be nnob- I sree for this ring on the e to pace an rf each mural- end ute%end a charter idler, or eke ing at Large, to have the ises. In this prompt holt- ie observed, incentive to of township hereit much they ` too fre- er.Logan, a a by-law pro - at large, and ry Seen on the in McKillop, rink anything ,: Mr. Editor, ' Tuckersmith o the free ilia ittle may stili D by-law, will elected next honest and r to have the forced,will be illi have their tion day. So- 7 be humbug- is men willing. it: would be .y kind along ong as cattle, t , ed to run at 1 t w near, if note e roadsides in be not only farmer and I :te cai way Ile*, eachperson road opposite C. M onnisorte heat in this - at 30 bushels. easy to blow' is not in mn els;. the result. There were gF At thirty a yield', of inahip. Allow- osident's home - tion of 3,000i add to this; is fall, and win to sell, which, eld $65,424, a- a and Seaforth INIEOLE NUMBER 1,P36. WC. GILROY' The sale that has been goi4 on. at this store for the past two *eeks h.%,s only another week to run and, at the end of that time we will begin opening out fall goodS that have come to hand so that we tcan now say to our people and all those who trade at this store that for the next ten days sunnu0 stuff will be run out at a rateinever known before and prices are :going to be the magnet that will draw the people to this place, people tell us that they never were do well served and pleased before, and still some things and prices rero.ain that all women kind should see. Rich - things in prints that were 12;ic for 8c, Muslins now for 15c, Ladies' Gloves now 10c per pair. In fact we can't enumerate here this limited space, as to do so we ,would have to go ovOr the whole store. We want to tell the people that we beautiful lot of the new things in dress fabrics has not been. seen in the County far years as we are go- ing to show this fall. New makes, new shades, new naaterials, adnair- ed by the ladies wherever, seen. Then too we are engagino- one of the best Dress and Mantle Makers we could secure for our dress goods department, one who comeS most highly recommended from smne of the largest &merican cities. So the ladies may depend on ,getting something speeial in that line at this store for fall dress and mantle • SIGHTS AND SCENES I AND ABOUT NEW YORK. (Written for Tile EXPosiToR.) LETTER NO. II. THE BOWERY ON SUNDAY, SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, AUGp.ST 21,. 189 MaillIAN BROS. Publishers. $1.50 a Year, in Advance. The Bowery is a wonderful street, with a history peculiarly its own. I formed by the junction of Third _Fourth Avenues,and is one of the wi streets in New York. Asjar as cha ter goes it is meoh nearer akin to Th Avenue than to the more respect Fourth. At one time Bowery was s onyrnous with all that was bad. It a world-wide repution, or rather lac reputation. The Bowery boys,and 1 the Bowery Indians, were notor everywhere. Murders and robb were almost a daily occurrence. however, it is different. The Bowe becoming more respectable year by Better buildinge are coming in one time, and better and more reliable business houses are venturing to pu a feeler in search of the trade of immense tenement district. Vice crime are seeking a more congeni mosphere in the dark, narrow s and alleys on either side of the Bo and one can safely walk from end of the Bowery proper at any time when burdened_ with a consid amount of valuables. But as yet it no means a model street. The el railroad spoils its looks to begin w is always dirty and generally torn u least half a dozen places for -repair the immense amount of wagon keeps the pavement in a sort of billowy state neither pleasant to look at or to trevel over. Then therreis a sal on at every corner,and half a dozen gro shops in between. There are pawn sh ps in- numerable in close attenda.nce,of ourse. Then there are beer gardens and oncert gardens and low theatres in pr fusion. Most of the stores, a very large rdpor- tion of which are clothing es abifsh- ments, are owned and operated ye He- brews, whose chief eharacteristic is heir belief in the justice of robbing Here is a sample slice of the taken fresh from life : East side hat store ; theatre ; pawn shop ; beer garden ; hardware store ; taker ; music store ; saloon ; shop. West side, — Jewelry clothing store ; jewelry store ; store ; cigar store ; florist ; Y. clothing store ; hat store. Th ery corner there is a little lean -t an Italian dispenses all the frui corn, hot chestnuts, soda water their season, and usually there or three temporary stands besi But it is on Sunday that the possesses the greatest interest, for me. The sidewalk is crowde all day with people in the b they oan afford. What a motle blage it is. Italian laborers ar force, some dressed in the of Bowery style : suit o loud color, such as brigh red or green necktie ; tig t pants and tooth pick boots ; others in fur caps, ragged clothes,and brogans fea wonderfully made. The Italia too, are well represented. Th alike ugly and dirty, dressed i primary colors, their skirts ver front and long behind, display vantage their rather huge fe always have in their arms or skirts one or more of the smallest, dirtiest, -Most knock - bow -legged youngsters that cat on two continents. The little dressed precisely the same mothers, and have their hair and plastered down in the sam In fact an Italian woman'e age certain as a horse race. Beside one will meet Chinese, with t colored, loose silk summer su look exceedingly comfortable, queer little shoes that look otherwise. Some of the Chin compromise with the Europea dress. Others wear ordinar but have their pig tails carefu g church at ruing Last, on straps break aiiantyne ran .Y of the bridge arry Murraen pants over the ing the vehicle king up. Mr. did not re - ver two hours. over thebank thus stepped han a eard since that as rapidly as r the cireume a little son of ngan, met with , t. It appeeN out to a hat~ , to which wa$ Being unable e of the horses ittle boy,, with gainat the pro - as placed .*P'° j irnal ran swsir= • and his foo _ harness. he W$ eld, and when o be dead. b body torn, bat, J, GILR9Y, CLINTON 18 nd est ac- ircl ble act of ter outs ries ear. —Mrs. Wm. Plewes, of Tciwnshend, Washington territory, whose 4eath was announced a few weeks ago, was former- ly a resident of Mitchell, Where her parents still live: An American paper says her death was catuied by a drug administered by a " clairvoyant est, and ortuElate uddenly, ren, the st fifteen doctress," who is now under ex will shortly stand her trial for The paper adds, " that the nil woman whose life ended so was the mother of four chil oldest six years, and the young months old. The father a hat man, is crushed by the terrible sorrow that has come upon him, , circumstances surrounding t of his wife make his case ' —About 1877 a young No hope boy left for Omaha, ' He had been employed as nigh at Tavistock, Grand Trunk station flit about three monthe ly, but having an idea that be could be made west, struck oci gained employment as night 9 the Union Pacific Railwayt Creek. Wyoming territory, at eight years in Wyoming, Mo and the he death a pitiable out this and reets ery, o end even rable is by vated th. It in at hard struggle Mr existence, and if he were so inclined, to turn hie thoughts to something higher and better. I think there would speedily be a demand for more churchei. A\ partial Sabbath won't answenfor while street cars are running, trains puffing about, or excursions on hand, men's theughts will be dragged back to earth and become muddy. . This may seem an ideal *tate of affairs, but I think it irq quitii practicable. I think God meant it , lust as much for New York as he did fOr J;erusalem. As for the good it 'Would do, yoil don't need to go further than the Bowery to see that. THE WANDERER., IIION BOAR THE SUPPLY operator Railway previous - ter wages and soon orator on at Rock $65 per nt about tan& and Washington territory, and fon the last four or five years has been tiocated at Spokane Falls, W. T. Having accum- ulated about $60,000, Mr. Reihl, who is now only 35 years of age, has retired, .his time being occupied in loeking after his nroperty. Besides othere he owns in partnership one block of 1 stores in Spokane, which rents for $4,000 per —A gentleman went to coae of the churches in Belleville and became drowsy. While in this condition he stretched himself out at full length on one of the oomfortable seats ,and went to sleep, The service proceeded ; the audience dispersed • the lighte were put -out ; the Church 'locked up, but on slept the Church goer. At last, toward midnight, when he had no returned home, the question arose, " where is he ?" and as the last that cou d be heard of him was that he was see asleep in ' Chureh, the authorities were awakened, the Church searched, and th re the hero of the long sleep was found`, quite ob- livious of his surroundings. =Arthur Broomhead is ', a young Englishman who has occasionally at- tracted attention on the streets of Wood- stock by the pieturesque oddity of hie dress, and who a few weeks ego gave a touch of romance to this idle interest by telling a St. Catharines repotter that he of $5,000 ain young e months. ger. Any - very hard taxed to eatisfy not only the appetitee of a hungry crowd, but often also the whims of an exacting one—df its mate, whose quick ear and prompt action warded off at least one mishap—of all its crew, who though of different na- tionalities and occupying different posi- tions, showed themselves one and all to be gentlemen as well as sailors, and whose many little acts of politeness will long be remembered by more than ONE OF THE PARTY. STRANIAM ;CANADA, LAKE STIPERIOR, ; 'August llth, 1891. (Comtinded from last week.) My ieeltle pen is lutterly inadequate to attempt a descriPtion of the glories of Lake Superion'grand,majestic Superior, rolling On and on through countless ages. I We had eather dreaded making its acquaintance; but found it in one its !happiest Monde. Only once during the week we spent on its deep waters did anything like gloom settle down on its' cheerful, sunny visage, and then but for a short time. There are comparatitely few light• houses on this lake, and consequently longer runs between them, The Canada left Sault Ste. Marie eatly on Monday morning, Auguat 3, passed Corley Point during the daY, and in the evening reached Gargantua, one of the loveliest of all the delighful places visited on our trip. The Bay is surrounded by hills, flection of which is seen in the -clear water beneath, aad on the beach stands one lonely habitation, the house of the light keeper. 1, Calling at Miehipicoten and Caribou Islands, a long run ,of more than a hun- dred miles from the latter brought us to Peninsula Harbor, in close proximity to the mountains that skirt the north shore en ilea. of Leke Superir. Here too is a station owery, of the Canadi If Pacific. Railway, but Wine saloon ; under - lawn lo hing Where s, green are two es to a Bowery at least almost st duds • Boys Leaving. the Faith'. (Written for TUE EXPOSITOR, by a FarnAer's -Bey. Why boys leave the farm is a questio upon whieh much has been written It is not a, problem which is wrapped - in obscurity. It is not some mysterioue' happeningl gbverned by laws of nature, which are' beyond our comprehensiom It is but a natural result follgwing cet- tain improper conditions. Seme of the !moat important of these are ail follows,: First,—That agriculture halt not been On the currieuium for study in our pub- lic schools. This will soon be of the past, and we- hail the day when 'e'er farmer'a children will have the funda- mental -principles of their life work in- culcated as part of the education which forms the foundation upon which their future career is to be built. Second,—A reason which is much too prevalent is, that while the drudgerY is the boy's share, all the management falls to the father's lot, and in it the boy is given nn part. How many bbys grow to manhood before they have spld a bushel of grain, much lees an animal ot any kind. They are left to do the Rloughing, harrowing, spudding, etc., while the father does the buying and selling,and plans the w Orli all indepeod- ently of the boy,who should be given an interest in such particulars, and beceme verged in this important part of his p r o - fession. Salong,as the boys are made only the navvies of the fartinso long ,I,ill they be driven from this noble oecu- pation to seek other employmentenand -the most noble and ambitious spirits ,-are those who are first to rebel ageinst the monotonous drudgery of their farm life. In "Ben Hur ' the authors! in ,speaking of the gailey slaves, seys : " Lo, ae the result of long service the poor wretches became imbruted,natient, spiritless, obedient creatures of vast muscle end exhausted intellect." Alight not thisibe applied in a limited degree • to the training which at least some of our fel- er's sons receive ? No ! give you gre re day laborers, let them know doing and why it is being done. er of the House, Mr. John Mc - leaving the farm." Give him a fbal, a calf, a 1 mb, or even a young pig, and soon nri;11 be developed in him an enter - will tested to bind hirn to the farm rather than drive him from it. The est and perhaps the most par- ticular art in which most parents faii is in t e education and bringing up Which the boy receiVes. In thee& days of keen competition and low prices, with the soil gradually becoming less remunerative and when it is difficult, even under favorable circumstancies, to make farmink pay, it is unfair to Ettart a boy out in life without a common School education sufficient to enable him to pass the examination for entrance to the high school. It is unfair to haveet boy grow up without having access to i agri- eultural joarnals and other sources of tural information. It is nnfair ush down the youthful ambition, is owing to this that farmer's nobody had any 4esire to desert the Canada, and so the train whistle had no attraction. It was Wednesday evening before we arrived at Battle Island, and all Thursday morning the fog was so dense nothing could be done. However, abont noon old Sol reasserted his authority, the sky became partially clear, and business was the order of the day. Lamb Wand was found, lend its light supplied!, then we passed Perphyry Point and Trinnder Cape, and were glad to reach Port Arthur. Here the next forenoon was spent, and after a short call at Fort William, on the Kaminista- qua River, we started forothe lighthouse at the extrentity of Victoria Island, the last on our route.t Fort William is -at present enjoying a " boom." The Can - out in erected elevators there and seem deter - height mined to make it the important - place. ' some As an evidenoe of its progress, we were blue ; told that sinee May one hundred houses have been built and inhabited. Much to the satisfaction of at least one party among the passengers, orders were received at Port Arthur to load at Duluth, s4 after bidding farewell to Victoria Island Lighthoueee we contin- ued our &mire° westward, contemplating the grandeur of the mountain scenery, until the githering shades of evening hid it from View. Seen frOnt the tele, Duluth has the appearance cif a iery new town,with the houses dotted down here and there, but' On landing Belch a fallacy is soon dispell- ed. Its fine streets and palatial resi- dences convey to the visitor an idea of the energy and enterprise oi its inhabi- tants, and requires no great stretch of imagination city of the the Unsalted the mountain etine to Canada on a wager that he could marry a cer lady within the period of thr, It is said that he won the w -way, Arthur had a streak of , luck on Thursday last wee first place he got very fall ; secondly he got his face disfigured ha a row, and thirdly he fell into the mereI.less hands of the police and had to speia. in the cooler, About Eleven night he got into a scrap, fro emerged with some blood scratches on his face, and a good deal of mud on his clothes. Later Ion he was found by Policeman Allenby endeavor- • inlet° mount his horse. After be had fallen off several times and -been tram- pled all over by the horse [ the police- man took him in charge and; locked him up. Next morning he was fined $1 and coats, and not having any relady money at hand he left his watch and ehain as oecurity for the amount. the night 'clock that which he nd several fully and women y are all all the short in g to ad - t. They at their need and be seen girls are as their done up manner. is as un- eir bright ts which nd their ery much se sort of form of clothes, ly stowed 1. away under their felt hats. Still others have become so far American even shave off their pig tails moustaches. Then there are Scandinavians, Portugese, French, Negroes and other nationalities not so easily distinguished ; their trim but ugly uniforms, o'-warmen in blue jackets a trousers. Of course the stre elevated trains are going. stop. The fruit stands are al restaurants, a good many of t the concert gardene and the of the saloons, yet it is Sund the beer gardens recognize for they advertise _sacred and even, I am told sparring matches. Probahl adieus who read this will t is not much Sabbath about ou but if they could stand for a bright, pleasant Sundey afte watch the crowd on the Bowe theY would value the Sabbath they do now, and be exceedin ful that they live in a count is so strictly observed. T these poor, dirty, overwork many of whom work all " sweaters," enjoy their one spite ; how the Italian wome chatter and how even the Ch and laugh and playfully r each other, would warm any I think if the " powers could get enough greed and scraped off their hard old he them, and would then come New York would speedily h laws that would metamorph What a blessing it would, one, in this great and low, rich and po r, master and 1 servant, could have one whole day in each week to break t e monotony of his every day life, to forg t the roar and clamor of the busy wo Id and the zed as to nd raise ()idlers in d flowing t cars and hey never open, the e stores, side doors y. Even hat fact, sacred the Can - ink there Sunday, bile on a noon and y, I think more than ly thank - y where it see how d people, week for little re - trough and nem) smile nes heart. that be" orldliness rts to give ce to touch down here, ee the city. ity, high studying and seeking after that obtain- ed by others. You esk - where can our boys obtain this nece I answer, from our ag from the bulletins an our experimental st mere' Institutes ; fro upon agricultore and relating thereto, a tending that Institu fair Dotriinion can Ontario Agriculture tution which is no work for the Provi governed by a staff good and impart in with whom they c mer should feel pro twelve or fourteen t it this sunimer do f tution whose grad shining agricultur located throughout the Dominion ; and an Institution where farmers' sons may tle expense, b. sub - 1 farmer's education. ccees to these sources they will become, 1 o see lin Duluth the great est, the Zenith City of Seas." Built as it is on side, and in many places icultural journals; reports Issued by tions ; from Far- the,books written the other sciences d lastly, from at - ion of which our oast but one, the College, an Insti- doing a splendid ce ; an Institution ho are bouud to do ormation to those me in contact ; every Ontario far - d, and of which the ouaand who visited el proud ; an Insti- atee are becoming 1 lights wherever receive, at very li Give your boys of information an not what we farnher's boys have been own wags, " Clod Seeds," but intelli- ho, while capable of taking their place ehind the phiw, will be as cspable of taking their place along with those of other professions on the public platform or in the public press, and who will be cepable of properly re- presenting you in Parliament and filling those seats of which too many are now 'occupied by men lwho are not farmers. They will becom young men, proud of their occupation occupation, and quire to use yo powers to retain. our boys on the farm. • dubbed --by the Hoppers and Hay gent young men your b than m what is The far boy so on the solid rock, every Improvement must be undertaken at great expense, but the people of Duluth are determined that their city sh&11 be second to none, and this year are spending nearly a mil- lion dollars on the streets alone. To our party the pleasure of our short stay in Dulath was greatly enhanced by the kindness of a friend whom we met there. Xnowing our old weakness for a comfortable seat behind a good horse, a carriage was at once procured, and we were soon rolling along Superior street. Turning to the left, we began to ascend the hill, and followed a wind- ing road for some distance along a thickly wooded ravine. Crossing this, the road runs along the crest ofithe hill behind the city;five hundred feet above the level 4f the lake, affording a mag- nificent view of the city, the bay and West Superior in the distance. Threat- ening thunder clouds compelled us to relinquish put of our drive and seek a place of shelter. The rain was soon over, and again we sallied out, this time calling at some of the stores. Our fur- lough being) nearly at an end, we took the ferry fot West Superior in Wiscon- sin, a few miles, across from Duluth, in order to rejoin our boat, which for once had gone off without us. It was aboutti midnight When the Canada finally left her moorings, and as we sat watching the receding lights of Duluth, feelings of regret that our stay there had been so short for the time prevailed even over those of the pleasure we experieraced at the thought of being once more home- ward bound. And now the Lighthouse Supply Trip of 1891 is almost a thing of the past. In a few hoursfgood-bye must be said, and we mast teke leave of the Canada, the good sffip that has carried us safely throughl so ina,ny scenes that linger fond- ly imour reedllection—of its skilful and experienced Captain, judicious, prompt, and decided, at once inspiring in all the passengers the confidence that whatever was in the potver of human skill to ac- complish Would be done for their safety —of its genial and obliging purser, whose energies were at times sorely agricu so to c and it boys are being driven into other ichan- nets to seek, at considerable disadvan- tage, some other occupation in which to earn a livelihood. The majority Of out Ministers, Doctors, Lawyers and Mert chants pre farmer's sons. True, sOme of them, not preferring their former occu- pation,, or through lack of physicial de- veloprhent, or some other causet have gone !to seek employment elsewhere .; but how many feeling confined, Without scope for their ambition, wanting to be men of power, have teft than most noble occupation in which their fathers were rngaged, because they felt that theree under the circumstances) they could never become leading men.! Start a boy out in life with ai third book education,keep him at hardldrudg- ing lahor, where he has no higher am- bitioxi than to get the day in, and allow him hut the local weekly as reading, and what circumstances could you im- • e better calculated to (Wive an and a pride to their you will no longer re - r utmost persuasive Mr. Fox doesn't remember ever getting a needle into any part of his anatomy ; it must have got there when he wae a child, and had been trafrelling around ever since. —The well-known evangelists, Revs. ing the two children out, thus saving Crossley and Hunter, will commence a their lives. The wagon rack was smaeh- series of evangelistic wok at Norwich ed to pieces before the circus was corn - on Sunday, August 30. The Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist congregations are uniting in the special effort. —One night recently the wife of Daniel McKenzie, a farmer residing in the township of Eastnor, about 30 miles from 'Wiarton, was found dead in a well. Deceased had been ill and de- spondent for sometime past. —It is said there were more handsome women on the St. Lawrence river this year than ever before. The women,too, outnumber the men four to one, and at Thousand Island Park here are doubt- less six women to ever man. —The Napanee Enpress recently had the privilege of seeing a one dollar bill, 116 years old. It was abOut half the length of an ordinary dollar bill, and 'was in good perservation. The posses- sor said he could get $15 for it any time from a relic -seeker. 1 —Near Falkland, Brant County, 238 bushels of fall wheat Were threshed in 48 minutes on the farm of Mr. Jarvis. The yield was about 40 bushels to the acre. On the farms around Paris fall wheat is yielding 35 to 40 bushels per —The -mortality retiums of 1890 for the city of Montreal have just been is- sued, and show a death rate of 24.80 per 1,000 on an estimated population of 216,300. This is a decrease of 1.80 per 1,000 as compared with the return for the previous year. —A young man named William Angus, employed at the London Machine Tool Company's works, met with a bad accident on Friday last, by being caught in the machinery, which severed the first joiots of the seeond and third fingers of his left hand. clif —There grew in r. Alexander Don- ald's garden in ampbellford, Nor- thumberland county, from one grain of seed, a stool of wheat of the Canada Velvet Chaff varioty, containing forty stalks, from which were taken more than two thousand kernels. —Whilst returni picnic on Thursday An electrie railway is to be estab- lished between $elkirk and Winnipeg. —The Canadiens won £586 this year at Bisley, the latgest amount ever won. , —The opening of the St. Clair tunnel has been fixed for the 19th September. —The courts at Winnipeg held that —The Allan resumed the ca tween Great Bri —Over 60 e Montreal aboar Wednesday of 1 --A farmer secured a yield the acre. —A valuable have been disco ship, comity of rontenac. —Mr. Robert Thomson, a resident of Port Stanley for 58 years, died on Fri- day last, aged —During the failures in Can corresponding —Five patro near Sirncoe, dollars each milk sent in. —July just ended is set down by meteorologists mer month k since 1844. —A Montrea tapping telegraph Wires in order to secure the results of races before pools closed. He wa,s'arrested. —Walter Robson and his partners of Perry's corners, County of Oxford, have shipped to the Old Coantry market over 2,100 head of fat cattle. —0. L. Kelborn, M. A., M. D., and Miss Jennie Fowler, B. A.,missionaries- elect to China, were married at King- ston the other day. —It is likely that the Winnipeg magi energ ploy patio spect tic youth to seek some other em - as a life work. With all !due re - to the manual labor of the farmer's for to be successful in farering de- pends largely on being not only a hard worker but a good workman, ---et must be remembered that he is but half a grand -children of Mr. McLeod. Get- ting off to open the gate, one of the children struck the horses with the lines and they started off at mad gallop. One of the horses stumbled and fell, throw - ool lands must give up Line of steamers has rrying of the mails be- tain and Canada. iled Jews arrived in the steamer Toronto on st week. ear Port Stanley has f 51 bushels of wheat to ineral belt is said to ered in Kennebec town - 8. past week there were 25 da, against 23 for the eriod last year. s of a cheese factory, ere recently, fined ten or tampering -with the as the coldest midsum- own, in North America operator has been caught of hist week Mrs. Greig, of Burlingto street, Hamilton, became frightened lest an approaching train should run into her vehicle and jumped hurriedly to the ground. 'When picked up it was found, that one of her legs was broken. At Hyde Park v noon of last week of London towns while crossing the —Threshing has begun in the vicinity of Motherwell and fall wheat is turning out 30 to 40 bushels per acre. —Mr. Valentine Ficht, of East Ox- ford, says the Woodstock Sentinel -Re- view, last fall sowed four bushels of Velvet Chaff wheat, fr'-em which he has just threshed 105 bushels. This is cer- tainly a great yield. From a crop of wheat of the " Surprise variety he has threshed an average of fifty bushels to the acre. fle estimates that he will have 2,500 bushels of wheat this season. His English barley is, he says, a splen- did crop, and will yield fifty bushels to the acre, —A young child belonging to a laborer living on the mailway, about one mile west of Smith's creek bridge, Paris, wandered away from home on Wednes- day. evening of last week. It seems that the father and mother were out, leaving the child to take care of itself. Mrs, Knill, a neighbor, beard a child crying, and on going out to see, came to the conclusion the cries came from the railway track, which she reached just in time to snatch the child before an ex- press train rushed upon it. The escape was providential. —Mr. Peter Koyle, an old resident of Aylmer, father of Ranson Koyle, black- smith of that place, was brushing off the flies while his son was shoeing Mr. Broyesi horse on Friday last. The elder man received a heavy kick in the forehead from one of the animal's -hoofs, making a wound about four inches long and penetrating the skull about two inches and destroying the left eye. He only lived four hours after the. accident. Mr., Koyle was a highly -respected citi- zen, and was in his 76th year. —Ford McLoghlin, eldest 'son of Street Commissioner McLoghlin, . of Hamilton, fell from a tree at the Bead' the other day and was unfortunate enough to break his arni. at the wrist. Dr. Cummings was at the Beach at the time, but as he had no splints or ap- pliances with him he had to drive home to get them. He returned soon after- wards with Dr. Griffen, when chloro- form was administered to the sufferer and the fracture neatly set. In order to set the bone it was found necessary to cut the wrist open, but no ill effects are likely to follow. —On Tuesday evening, last week, about nine o'clock, two steamers, Prin- cess Louise and Swan, collided on the River St. Lawrence, a short distance from Kingston. The Swan had 100 , passengere on board when she struck, and the Princess Louise was running her regular trip to Gananoqu.e. Both boats were damaged. The passengers on the Swan were returning from a pic-nic, -and were very much excited and put on life preservers. Fortunately there was no occasion to use them, The captains blame each other for the col - Hake Tuesday after- V1T1. Steele, a farmer ip, near Melrose, London, Huron and Bruce linawith a load of flour was struck by the express going north. His skull was fractured, and,he died shortly_ after- ward: Steele was 60 years of age and a married man. —Harrow Powers left Watford about two years ago and hay been across to England to complete the proofs neces- eery to e tablish his claim to a fortune of somet ing over $1,000,000 left him by a sister who died in Australia. He has just returned and expects to receive his legacy in October. —The' Finanee Committee of the Hamilton City Council met the other day to consider the proposition to borrow $256,000 to pay off its accumulated over- draft. The Bank of Hamilton and the Hamilton Provident Loan Company were both willing to advance the needed money, and after a long discussion it was unanimously decided to accept the barik's offer. —A young women named Gray, liv- ing on Cathedral street, Montreal, was burned to death ltriday -afternoon. In attempting to star a fire she used some Rowing Club will invite Hanlan, kerosene, which exploded. Her skirt Gaudaur, O'Connor, and McKay to hold caught fire and she was enveloped in a regatta in that city next month. flames, and befiole ehey were extinguish- ed she was fri fitfully burned. She was only twent recently married. —On Friday th barns and outbuild- ings with their eontente; belonging t Mr. Andrew Arkwright, of Kepler, Loughboro' township near Kingston, were burned. The contents of the barna and outbuildings consisted of a large quantity of hay (this year's crop and old hay), fall grain, oats and barley, of this'year's cutting, and implements. The lose will run up to a considerable amount; no insurence. Mr. Arkwright's neighbors will help him to bear the loss. —Herbert Holt, a man working for D. Smith, near Chatham, was danger- ously hurt by a team of horses kicking him recently. A bear in charge of some of the fakir fraternity climbed a tele- graph nole in, view of the team and so scared them as to render them unman- ageable. Holt came out of the fra with some of his ribs and collar bon —Oliver B. Harris, a resident of South street, London, met with a very isevere secident Tuesday of last week, which resulted in his death at the City hospital next afternoon. He fell from a high ladder on wnich he had been work- ing, and lighting on a hard piece of ground head foremost, received such injuries that although everything was done for him at the hospital death took place as stated. family of Mr. G. R. Kerr, of Brantford, Were nearly asphyxiated last Thursday night. They live over the store, and early that morning one of the sons was awakened by a, severe pain in his head. Hearing groani from an a joining room he Ifound his father an mother gasping for breath. A break i the gas pipe is supposed to have been occasioned during the work on the sewers. Mr. and Mrs. Kerr are both laid up over the occurrence, although not In danger. —What might have proved a very serious accident occurred on the farm of Mr. J. McLeod, West Zorra, the other day, The hired man was going to the field with the wagon and rack to haul in grain, and had riding with him two —Three ladies undertook to swim the Detroit River on Thursday morning of last week from Detroit to Windsor. They all succeeded, several boats ac- companying each. —A bull pup belonging to Glover Savege, deputy postmaster of Tilson- burg, was jumping through a wire fence during the recent storm, when it was struck by lightning and killed. —Ed. Durnan, of Toronto, a nephew of Oarsman Hanlon won the junior single sculls in the idississippi Valley regatta at Detroit, on Wednesday, last week. —The Manitoba Government has is- sued another crop bulletin which says the prospects for a large crop of wheat were never better in the history of the Province. . of concession 2, Hallowell, in Prince Edward county, picked four tons 1,040 pounds of green peas, of the Aarket Garden variety. —Miss May Agnew, formerly of King- man who has physical development stow, but now of New York, is assistant whil he lacks the mental ; whose mus- cles are trained while his brain, is ne- glected. Parents, consider ! You are anxious that your sons should do well. Give them a chance. It is true that ut an education, in at leastei great insta- nces, you accomplished an ous and splendid work in clearing rovince and making it the fair it now is, and we as young men d look both with pride and i admir- u on the work of our fathers. with man enot this land thou ation But 't must be remembered that there een gra ugly wrought 4 great e. The agriculture of te-day is different from that of forry years has chan very ago. Modern agriculture partakes of the nature of a science, &profession, and a business. It is an occupation which affords room for the employinent of powerful and well trained inteqects, an occupation in which even the neost pro- found intelligence becomes lost in en- deavoring thoroughly to master, and one in which to be successful we re- quire not only what little information we may gather,from our own experience but all that we can glean by diligently editor of the United States War Cry. All the music printed in the Cry goes through her hands for correction. —There is a great deal of diphtheria in Halifax. Among the announcements of deaths are two children .of Mr. and Mrs. George S. Campbell, grandchild- ren of the late D. Kennedy, the great singer of Scottish songs. —Walter J. Capron, one of the earl- ieet residents of Paris, died on the 4th inst. in the 87th year of his age. He came to Paris from the 'United States many years ago and was a continual resident up to his death. --tAbout three weeks ago George Fox, the violinist, who W8•8 resting it his home in Walkerton, began to feel sharp paine in hie chest,and he noticed a swell- ing on the right side. , The swelling increased in 'size, the pain grew more intense, and ,George thought it wise to consult a doctor. A lance was thrust into the sore spot, with the result that the half of a large needle was discovered imbedded deep in the muscles of the chest. The little bit of steel was re- moved, and the wound rapidly healed. -one years old, and • —The death of Dr. Ross' infant daughter occurred on Sabbath,9th haat., in Embro, in a somewhat singular man- ner. About seven o'olock p. in., a loud peal of thunder oocurred, a violent storm being raging at the time. A few minutes before the report of thunder the little one seemed to be all right. A few minutes after the mother noticed that it had ceased breathing; she immediately called the doctor, who soon discovered - that it was quite dead. To the sur- charged electrical state of the atmos- phere at the time, the doctor attributes the direct cause of death. Deceased. was but four days old. , —At Delhi, in the township of Mid- dleton Norfolk county, the farmers have b'een experimenting in sinew way of harvesting peas which so far they find most successful, and will no doubt aeon be adopted by those growing exten- sive crops of peas. The Delhi canning factory makes arrangements with the farmers to thresh their green peas in the field, leaving the fodder on the field for the:farmers' own use,and delivers the same to the factories for 2 cents per pound. Thel Delhi factory put up 84,000 cans of green peas the other day in 48 hours. The peas have to go through several different screens. About 300 hands are employed in this factory at times. —The work of the storm at the Lex- ington pic-nic, near Berlin, on Sunday, 9th inst., was more serious than at flret reportid. One girl named Siegman, aged e ght years, was instantly killed by a falling tree. A young boy named Zech, of Bridgeport, had his skull frac- tured, and the doctors say he cannot recover. 'A son of Mr. J. Wellein, of Bridgeport, had his thigh badly broken. A young woman, daughter of Mr. Seig- mid], and whose sister had been instant- ly killed, had her arm broken, and a boy named Meyers had his spine badly injured, which may make him a cripple for life. A number of others were in- jured more or less seriously, none of them, however, being fatal. —1'. Stearne, who bought several islands on the St. Lawrence at the recent Dominion sale, performed a christening ceremony last Friday even- ing and called one " Reciprocity.» Miss Mamie Webster, of Rochester, then cracked a champagne bottle, and Mr. Stearne said, " In the name of the God of tho universe, the Maker and owner of all thole islands, in the name of the Queen and the Empress of India, and in the name of the Parlia- ment of Canada, I name this island Reciprocity Island." He further said that he did not do this from any spirit of ill -feeling, but because he was an ad- vocate of free trade with the United the -customs States, and wanted to see barrier torn down between it and Can- ada. He hoped the time would come when this would be done.