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WHOLE NUMBER, 1,283. Saturday —AND— SEAFORTH, FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1892. 2 McLEAN BROS., Publishers. $1.50 a Year in Advance. Monday JULY 16th AND 18th. Our Special Days. On the above dates we will offer a line of Fancy Outing Shirts at E DOLLAR. They are well made, full-fashioned, non -shrinkable neck band, silk ,stitch- ed, pearl buttons and the latest colors and patterns. Sizes, 14:-!2-- to 16. We offer them on the above dates only its necessary for you to conie then if you desire to secure some. We also show the greatest line of 2, 5c Hosiery in the trade. Merino, Cashmere, Wool and Cotton. Its worth your time to come and see them. JACKSON BROS., THE LEADING FURNISHERS, CUTTING GREEN GRAIN. SSIFORTII, Ont., July 13, 1892. DEAR EXPOSITOR,—Your kindness in publishing a letter on this subject last sea- son was not without good results. Watch- ing carefully the effect among farmers, as well as I could, I was pleased to note the deep interest they took in the matter, and a determined effort on the part of many to guard against the error complained of. Last Beeson was a deceptive one in some respect.. The straw was very bright and clean and gave the fields a golden ripe ap- pearance long before the grain had fully developed or begun to harden. This mis- led not a few into cutting their wheat earlier than they otherwise would have done, while quite a number I am told, discovering their mistake after beginning to cut, turned out of the field and let it stand some days longer. I have too, an instance of this sort having occurred already this "casein in Eastern Ontario. Encouraged by the regard displayed last season, and being more thoroughly persuaded of the necessity of continued caution in this respect, by the experience and information obtained in the meantime, I respectfully ask space again with you, having no doubt the farming community will be further interested in the subject. I had hoped that some chem- ical analysis of flour made from green and ripe grain would have been made &mins the past twelve months in order that posi- tive and definite information from good authority might have been offered before this harvest, but difficulty in securing dis- tinct samples of flour and other things have prevented. The following part of a letter from Mr. C. A. Zavitz, B.S. A., Experimentalist, Agricultural College, Guelph, will be of interest; "I remember well the talk we had last Autumn in regard to time of cutting grain, and I certainly think there is a ten- dency among farmers generally to out their wheat a little on the greenish side. Until nearly maturing time a large quantity of the valuable material which goes to make grain is in the straw. During the latter stages of the grain's development the constituents are being deposited in the grain, which keeps on until the full development is reeched and the grain is ripened. The most im- portant of these is the nitrogenous matter, or albuminoids, which is of such great value in flour, and known in a state almost pure as gluten of the wheat. I hope to do a good deal of investigation along this line this season, as I agree with yon that it is an important question." Another high authority writing in the London (Eng.) Miller on the subject of Thoroughly developed grain for seed pur- poses" says: "Wheat grain is composed of variable proportions of albuminoids, gluten and carbo -hydrates. The protein compounds being much the highest in the germ of the grain, which is now removed by the modern roller process, the miller has to depend upon and purchase at a higher price those which will yield the largest amount of strength in the flour. Strong tour was never yet made from weak wheats grown from imperfectly matured seed, and if the farmers do not make a proper selec- tion of seed wheats for planting purpose', they pay dearly for it in the end, through the price obtained for their inferior pro- claim. The opinion that wheat is better for cut- ting before it -becomes dead ripe, though still good so far as intended, has so far outgrown itself that the popular opinion of to -day is that there is no harm in cutting wheat green. The argument in the above quota- tions should certainly scatter forever to the winds such false ideas. It must be apparent that unlees wheat, all grains in fact, are allowed to stand until the necessary constituents for good flour and other product, and also for feeding purposes, are deposited in the grain, which, according to these authoritiein takes place in the latter stages of maturity, nature is prevented from completing her work, and the grain is at once and forever injured, no ingenuity of man being able to supply the deficiency. Watching the interest of farmers in last year's letter brought prominently before my mind the necessity of some definite means of determining the proper stage at which wheat should be cut, and when the wheat has at- tained that stage. The ideas were so varied and, in many instances contradictory, that I have no doubt the subject would lead to a very interesting discussion at some of their Institute meetings, and great good would result. This, and the idea that there is no harm in cutting green, which has really got to that extent that instances are to ke met where farmers take the condition of ripeness very alightly into account at all, are, I believe, chief causes for the mistakes that are made, and are to be found among some of our best farmers. There are, too, many erroneous articles to be found on this, subject in print, one of which was handed to me last season by some unknown person, arguing very strongly in favor of green cutting, for the sake of retaining good feeding qualities, etc., in the etraw. If this is the purpose for which wheat is raised the argument is certainly well drawn, but if wheat is intend- ed for flour these properties must not be preserved in the straw, but should be per- mitted to rise into the grain. Believing that farmers are awakening to the importance of this subject I have no doubt that greater interest and care will be exhibited this season, and, weather permit- ting proper mtturity, I trust farmers will not prevent it by premature cutting. Yours:Respeetfully, T. 0. KEMP. What Mr. Pringle Has to Say, ' About It. DEAR EXPOSITOR. —I notice there have been several very able letters published in your very valuable paper for and against Annexation. It appears to me that T. M. White has by far the best of the argument. Although you have undertaken to champion the other side of the question, you do not at- tempt to refute any of the arguments used in favor of Annexation. You jump at the conclusion that this country would derive all the benefits from Commercial Union or Reciprocity that it would do from Annexa- tion. This appears to me a great delusion on your part, which shows clearly that you have allowed your prejudices to get the bet- ter of your judgment. Political union mens strength. If the fisheries, the canals and the railways were all the common prop- erty of this continent, under one Govern- ment, an end would be put to all disputes; the country would feel so secure in its own greatness it would not require to disgrace itself by keeping up a single regiment of fighting men. You are well aware there are both men and newspapers in both countries whose ehief business it is to stir up strife between the two countries. The more they succeed the better they like it. Reciprocity would not help matters in this respect. There is no friendship in trade, and the same old bones of contention would continue in the future as they have done in the past. -What with troubles at home, and old coun- try troubles abroad, this country would be kept in hot water and on the brink of war all the time. The Siamese twine, when alive, were unit- ed together from each other's sides by a very slender cord. While in this condition they lived and prospered •' both raised large fami- lies; each supportedhie own children and accumulated wealth, but alas when one died the other could not exiet. Canada and the United Stateseere far more closely allied to each other than the twins ever were. For thousands of miles mighty rivers and mag- nificent lakes are dove -tailed and spliced into each other's territory; for thousands of miles there is only an imaginary lists divid- ing them. If any obstacle come" in the way of "Free Trade between the two countries It is at once bridged or tunnelled to facili- tate trade, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The people of this country do not seem to know that the bonding syetem gives "free trade" in esilway traffic to both countries. If free trade in railway traffic is of such immense benefit to both countries, why should it not be extended to all other industries. The great bulk of our last year's crops has been shipped over American lines, from American ports, at 50 to 10o per 100 pounds less freight than could have been done over Canadisn railways from Canadian ports. Besides, this year there has been such al fall in prices that the delay in ship- ping grain over our own roads from our own ports would have caused an additional loss to farmers and dealers of 5c to 10o per bushel more. The cost of getting gram, or any- thing else, to market must determine its value to the producer. We are suppoeed to have great advantages over the Americans in the cattle trade in the English markets, To secure this advantage the cattle must all Northwest would have a wheat surplus of 600,000,000 bushels for export. The net re- sult is, in this, tbe year of our Lord, 1892, they have not raised more than 20,000,000 bushels, ha.f of which is unfit for food and will not realize more than freight and com- missions in the English market. If the frost had struck the crop two weeks earlier, as it has done some years, they would not have had enough to bread themselves. Tupper has a good deal of cheek to ask the old country to give,up their free trade policy that has m de them the wealthiest nation la on earth, for the sake of keeping his party in power. If the government wee foolish en and other trade wit grain had months in severity o per mile f country, balance t " nationa1 suicide" by cutting off her sup- plies, by imposing heavy duties on imports, • the United States, who have an unlimited supply of almost everything within them- selves, w the whol land wo thirds of - of bavin supplies which i hazardou ,, business to attempt to predict the future, Still, Tupper will do so, be- cause, I Suppose, he is well paid for it. But, if he were paid -only in accordance with the relative accuracy of his prediotions,he would soon be •out of the business. Even the "Grand Old Man," Gladstone, once made a fool of himself in predicting that the South- ern States would gain their independence— and within forty days. Another great man, and a great Tory, Lord McCauley, has pre - at England will yet become a pas- ntry ; that the herdemen will sit on ridge, or on what is left of it, and eir flocks and herds grazing on the e city of London. It is fervently ped this prediction will come no ugh to put a duty on breadstuffs aw materials it would ruin their out doing us any good. If all our to be shipped from Halifax six the year, taking the distance, the the climate and the extra cost r hauling through such a wild e cost would more than counter - e duty. Should England commit uld at once declare free trade with world. If this was done, Eng - Id run the risk of losing two- er trade, besides running the risk to pay famine prices for her food hen the crops fail in her colonies, 110 unusual occurrence. It is a dieted t torsi co London watch t site of t to be h nearer the truth than _Tupper's. But, we all know, history repeats itself, As unlike- ly events have come to pass in the past. Who can tell but protection may be the be- ginning of the end of England's greatness? Duriog the last eleven months 550,000 European immigrante have arrived at the principal ports of the United States. Strange to say 103,000 were from Seotland, England and Ireland. This shows plainly the old Icountry people are not half as much in love With British rule as the loyalists of this country who have got Government pap In their mouths. Annexation would popu- late and enrich this Dominion ten times fast- er than any other policy. It would put a stop to the exodus of native-born Canadians, and would induce the setgement of the en- terprising Americans in our midst. Besides, it would at once turn the tide of European immigration to this country, whioh cannot be got in any other way. The people of Europe have had their necks too long under monarchial and despotic rule. Their great desire is to get rid of it, and to live in a free country where they can choose their rulers, instead of having to trust Providence to provide them. Although the German Em- peror is a nephew of Queen Victoria, and the son of good decent parents, still, he says and does such?, ridiculous things, that both the people of America and Europe are at a loss to know whether he is drunk or insane the most of his time. Take, also, the case of Randolph, of Bavaria—and Rudolph of Aus- tria—two of the divinely appointed rulers. They were both so dissipated that they put an end to their miserable lives before they got the power to work wholesale mischief. Just think of it, although Europe is hope- lessly drowned in debt, it costs over one billion dollars yearly to keep up large stand- • ing armies to be in res,diness to butcher each • other to gratify the ambitious designs of good- for-nothing rulers. England has far more to fear from Ameri- can "free trade " than from Protection. Protection has confined America within her be shipped from Canadian ports. The re- own shell, which has been a great advantage suit is that freight' from Montreal to the to English trade. But the time has now old country have ruled from $5 to $10 per head higher than from New York, which counterbalances our advantages two or three times over. If we had Annexation the 21,- 000 head that have been shipped this sesson, at a lose of $10 per head, could all have been taken out of the byres one day and sold pro- fitably the next in the large cities around our borders, in _opposition to the Chicago "Dead Meat Dealers," without incurring the risks of shipping to a market 3,500 miles - away. The Americans, having a market like Chi- cago where thousands of cattle can be bought every day, ard where scores of rail- way and steamship lines are competing for freight, are in a much better position to sup- ply the wants of Europe than we are who have only two roads, and these two are one, to ship by, to a one-horse port that is closed six months in the year. Besides this, we are in a much better position to supply the wants of all the eastern cities with cattle, or anything else, than they are themselves. If we cannot compete with them at home then it is no use in trying to do so abroad. Nature being badly against ne, our nation- al prosperity is bound up with the Ameri- cans. For instance, the distance from God- erich to Halifax by the Intercolonial rail- way, which wan expected to bind all the Provinces together, is 1,314 miles; to St. John and Portland, through Maine, is 946 and 764 miles respectively. The distance to New York, by Buffalo, is only 623 miles, the southern parref the Province being just as near New York as it is to Montreal. Such being the case it is not to be wondered at that the Intercolonial railway is falling short $1,000,000 yearly, and that the bulk of our crops are going by New York, where there is any amount of competition in freight' to all parte of the world. If we had Annexa- tion all our crops would go that way. Last week the rate from Stratford was 14c per 100 pounds; the Grand Trunk charge being 8c to Buffalo for 117 miles, while the Am- erican rate was only 6c from Buffalo to New York, four times the distance. Supposing we had Annexation,Andethe Americans con- trolled the London, Huron .& Bruce, alio the old Buffalo & Lake Huron line, and the Hamilton & Northwestern railways, as these roads all intersect both the Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific Railways at several points, it would cause such a compe- tition m rates that it would enhance the value of crope to the farmers 5c to 10c per bushel by giving us the full benefit of our geographical position. I notice that Sir Charles Tupper is trying hard to persuade the English Government to put a duty of 15c per bushel on all foreign wheat. He im quite willing to guarantee that Manitoba and1he Northwest is able to furnish all they require, without increasing the cost to the consumers. This great stretcher seems to ignore both the laws of supply and 'demand, as well as the Almighty Ruler of the world. In advocating the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway he predicted that by the year 1890 this same that they did not live up to what they. knew. There was, too, a lack of thought. They, as farmers, did not consider a number of things that he deemed of importance. The first thing that he thought they should consider was the advisability of discontinu- ing the attempt to grow wheat any longer in this province. The reason he advised this was because, owing to climatic changes, it was impossible to grow it with a certain de- gree of success. Competition, too, by reason of facilitated Northwest supplies, had re- duced the Profits to a mere shadow. The average yield of wheat was from 16 to 20 bushels per acre throughout the province. In his opinion they should enter more largely into the growing of corn, roots, and coarse grains, viz.: oats, peas, and barley to feed at home on their own farms. Theo, too, he urged them to devote their attentiOn to the manufacture of cheese in the summer and butter in the winter. If they did net care to make dairying an industry they could sucoesefully devote their attention to beef raising and butter making. He believed that the farmers could euccessfully raiee sheep in almost any part of the Province with profit and dispose of them at Buffalo or almost anywhere else. Any of the. branches of industry he thought could be pursued with great success in any part Of the Province if done intelligently. Another great matter that he wished to bring to their notice was that of the care of the farm. There was an absolute necessity of a bold and determined effort being made to CLEAN THE FARMS EVERYWHERE of noxious weeds. (Hear, hear.) He spoke of this matter because he felt it keenly. The farmers could not expect to keep their ground in proper condition unless ploughed more than once after harvest. A methed which he could recommend without hesite- tion, having tried it with success, was to seed much to red clover and plough down after the first crop of hay, that was plough down the clover sod. • Red clover would re- store nitrogen quicker than would any other plant. They should reeist the temptation to take off a second crop of hay, which would have the effect of making a timothy soil. The best means that ought to be re- sorted to to clean the land was a more fre- quent stirring and thorough cultivation of soil amongst hoed crops, such as turnips, mangolde, corn, and pOtatoes. The next point on which he wished to address them was the desirability, not1 to say necessity, of testing and culling all the cows in this Province that are kept chiefly or wholly fpr the milk or dairy purposes. The average cow in the Province to -day yielded about 3,000 pounds of milk per year, and a COW that didn't give more than thet, unless it was extraordinarily rich, was simply board- ing at the expense of her owner. There was a tendency, he thought, to judge cows too much from a beef point of view at present. Each cow ought to give from 6,000 to 7,000 pounds of good milk per year, otherwise it did not pay her owner to keep her. At least 31 per cent. of the milk should be fat. There were many cows in the Province the owners of which would do well to come when the United States must burst the "hell of Protection and enter into square competition with the reat of the world. The Democrats have taken the first step in this direction. There need be no fear of the re- sult, more especially if England sees fit to cut her own throat by taxing her raw ma- terial". The United States have any amount of both wealth and enterprise, and everything required, within themselves, and having no debt and no large etanding armies living on the industries of the country, Ruch as they have got in Europe, she is bound to win the fight for commercial supremacy. Should England lose her foreign trade .he would necessarily lose both her populstion and her wealth, and consequently would be no longer our market. What fooliehness to try to force this country into partnership with our "aged mother," who has such an enormous national debt on her shoulders, besides being mixed up in all the national disputes in Europe, as well as in every other part of the world. If she lost her trade and was drawn into a gigantic war, her debt would be exactly like a heavy mortgage on a Canadian farm when its owner can not keepnp the interest. Debt has the same effect on nations as on individuals, and,gen- orally result' disastrously. Such being the case, how much safer would it be for us, as a people, to cast in our lot with our neigh- bors and reunite tbe 2,000,000 of our sons and daughters, who are now in the United States, to their own native land? When I began writing I intended to criticise some of the reflections you cast on the Americans and their system of Govern- ment, but this letter is already far too long. Yours, etc., JAHNS PRINGLE. filiriATioRD, July itnd, 1892. (Laughter.) He had been invited to come and speak on I `SHEEP AS AN ASSISTANCE TO THE APPLE GROWER.' ' Apples were one of the most fruitful of the harvest products of his own country or Gen- ada. The quality of the soil feon-i which ap- ples were grown was singularly depleted at each harvest of apples. A great quantity of nitrogen was extracted from the soil at each harvesting, which was never returned to it. He had observed the orchards as he had journeyed here, and noticed that nine -tenths of the fruit trees had not the healthy look they should bear. Our orchards were diseased, eaten up with Worms and 'meets and covered with grass., We must restore the fertility to our orchards, and how were we to do it! Of course we could improve the fertility by the use of a commercial fertilizer, but every load of that that Was placed on the soil was to an extent a mort- gaging of the land. There w,as nothing 80 good for the purpose as common manure if properly got and laid. For this purpose be believed that the cultivation of sheep was the best and most satisfactorymeans to at- tain their end. If properly kept in the orchard, the /sheep 'would keep down grass and weeds ike here as the platform, and they were not expensive creatures. • What with the army worm and the borer land the cater- pillars and the maggots! and the coddling moths they had more to contend with than Pilgrim ever had in hi* progress. (Laugh- ter.) In his State, too, the leaf -roller was worse than the log -roller 'was in politics. (Laughter.) But the worst eneeny to con- tendwith was the apple worm.' The only HIT ON THE HEAD as the expense of their feed and keep was not equalled by the return of milk made. Corn ensilage, he thought, was the cheapest and best form of food either for dairy or beef purposes. This was better than struggling after spring or fall wheat. Another pont that they should bear well in mind was the great need of an intelligent and determined effort, by farmers, to give the boys who are going to live on the farms of this country a chance for, at least, a fairly good education. (Heir, hear.) At present the way it was done was to divide the families up and give some of the boys educations and keep the others 011 the farms. But the eduoseed portion of the community always would be the rulers, end the policy was a bad one. He would rather give the boys a little less land and a better education. The other difficulty was this'and it was a great diffi- culty, and one evlaioh the educationists of this country bad not yet solved, that was how to get the boy back to the farm after he had received hie education. The trouble was tbat when some boys received their educetion they were away from their work. This was not the case at the Guelph College, where the boys took their work in the col- lege and on the farm turn about, clean and dirty, and were thus kept in touch with it. They thus acquired no distaste for their calling. There was no need for the farmers apologizing for their call- ing. It was not necessary to wear. a black coat and take their exercise on side- walks to make gentlemen. (Laughter.] At the college the pupils received efficient in- struction in the three departments of agri- culture, live stook and dairying. Other departments to which they devoted much attention were veterinary and natural sciences, such as chemistry, geology of 'the soil, botany and entomology. Finally, they gave them a good sound education in Eng- lish (not too much) and mathematics. He hoped they would bear in mind the matters he had referred to, as they were points on which he was convinced reforms could be effected. (Applause.) ONTARIO'S MININTER OF AGRICULTURE. The Farmers' Picnic. The Farmers' Picnic held at Grimsby on Thursday and Friday of hest week, under the auspices of the Ontario Farmers' Insti- tute was not nearly so largely attended as was expected. Preparations were made for about ten thousand visitors and it is safe to say there were not half that number present at any one time, so that in this respect the result is disappointing. The promoters have, however, themselves to thank largely for the disappointment. In the first place there was not sufficient publicity given to the matter and thousands did not know that anything of the kind was to take place. In the second place the time selected was the most busy of the year with farmers. Farmers cannot be indnced to leve the hay field, especially in catohy weather, even to attend a picnic at which some of the biggest guns in this country and the United States are expected to speak. Those present, however, seemed to have had an enjoyable time and there were several very good, useful ad- dresses. WHAT PROFESSOR MILLS HAD TO SAY. Professor Mills, of the Ontario Agricul- tural College, thought the trouble with the ferment, en with moat other people, was way TO DESTROY THE INSECT was to destroy the apple immediately it fell to the ground. A man o a pig might not hear an apple fall to the ground in an orchard, they might be asleep—(laughter)---- but a sheep never slept so tight but that he could hear an apple fall. And he wteeld immediately eat it, and he (the speaker) could tell them that a sheepei stomach was a bourne from which no apPle. worm ever returned. (Laughter.) If twenty-five sheep could not attend to an apple lorchard, they could put at least 100 sheep into the orchard. It was cheaper snywey than hir- ing men. If they gave the sheep lots` of nitrogenous food they would work for them. If they hired one man they would have to hire another to watch him and see that he worked. Then they would have to hire third man to see that the second man did his work properly, and yet a fourth man to see that the third man didn't go to sleep. (Laughter.) On his farm in New York State he had lots of sheep, and did with them just what he was advocating, and they were proof against the coddling moth and the apple maggot. They ate not only all the weeds and sprouts and fallen apples in the orchard, but all the apples on the nese" within reach. An estimate of the cost of the sheep he kept showed him that the ex- pense per sheep was just 37 cents a week. It was much lees than it would cote to pasture them Alone. By means of the winter feeding of sheep he secured an abund- ance of good manure, On his orchard he had not ploughed for 17 years, and the leaves on the apple trees were black and as larfie its his hand. Hon. John Dryden said thet rapid ad- vance( had been made in farming methods during the put fifty years, and better work was now being done than at any other time. Fifty years ago they had bet one crop to depend upon, viz.: wheat. Now matter" were so changed that wheat was almost the lowest on the list of exports from Ontario. Last year the export of wheat was less than $1,000,000, while the export of apples was $1,500,000, - cheese $9,500,000, and sock $10,000,000. More advance was needed. The highest amount of production was not yet attained. The new fields would soon all be taken up, and to supply the demand pro- ducers could not seek new lands. They would have to raise the extra on the soil which they had. This was an age of specialism, and in callings other than farm- ing, trusts were formed iq order to control the market. Farmers should contend against this in self defence. In conclusion, Mr. Dryden referred to the great natural re- sources of the country, which only needed to be developed in order that wealth could be produced. This country, too, had the best system of Government in the world. On the farmers chiefly reseed the responsi- bility of developing the resouroes of the country, and they should elways strive to do their duty to themselves and to the country, so that in the end the fair name of Canada would be lifted up on high as a shining light to other peoples. A YANKEE ON SHEEP. rof. Mills—Have you any trouble With sheep peeling the young trees? Mr. Woodward—I find that if the sheep get plenty of water they will not peel gpod sized trees and by placing protecting collars around the very young trees sufficiently loose to admit of their growth, the difficulty with them will be obviated. Canada. take the youngsters, ohild-like, were par- alyzed with fear, and set up a loud lamenta- tion. Rev. John Pearson, of Holy Trinity church, Toronto, was a passenger on the boat, and learning of the trouble collected five dollars to pay the children's railway fares home, and the tear -stained party got home at midnight, tired and disgusted with all the world. —At the International Christian Endeav- or Convention in New York, the banner for " greatest absolute gain in Christian En- deavor membership" was preeented to On- tario. —Mr. Keating, who was appointed city engineer by the 'Toronto council Thursday night, at a salary of $4,000, has declined to accept less than $5,000. He gets $4,500 in Duluth. —Philip Low'Q. C., died on Friday morn- ing at Picton. Mr. Low went to Picton in 1836. He had been Clerk of the Peace and County -Crown Attorney for many years and was twice mayor. . —A profitable business, says the Orms- town (Que.) Times, is being carried on along the lines in the emuggling of eggs, cottons and coal oil. —Rev. George Robertson, B. A., who has been pastor of the Olivet Congregational Church, Toronto, for over five years, has re- signed his pastorate on account of his health, . The resigration takes effect on July 31st. —A party of Nebraska farmers have ar- rived at Winnipeg to investigate the re- sources of the Northwest, with a view to selecting large tracts of land for fernier' and ranchers wistfully looking in that direc- tion. — The woollen mills at St. Timothy, near Valleyfield, which have been idle for some time, have been acquired by Montreal and St. Johns men, who are fitting the mill up to make hoeiery. — Twelve girls employed at the Thoneand Island house, Kingston, went to a dance in Rockport, and as they aid not return until after 12 o'clock were refused admittance. They promenaded the streets all night and in the morning peeked their duds and left. —The postoffice, James Anderson's store and the office of the East Lembton Loan Company, at Forest, were burglarized on Thursday night last week. The robbers secured $10 worth of stamps at the postoffice and $12 worth of silverware at Mr. Ander- son's store. No clue. —Chas. R. Drake, a young man whose parents reside in Hamilton, left Winnipeg about four weeks ago for Hamilton, and on Saturday his body wee found in the morgue In Buffalo with a bullet hole through the brain. It is thougbt he took his life while suffering from a fit of mental aberration —An attempt wag made on Dominion Day to wreck a heavily laden train of excursion- ists returning from Morden to Winnipeg. A freight train happened along ahead of the excursion train and I struck the obstruction, thus saving the eichnion train from sect - dent. —The Board of Baptist Missions met the other day in Toronto. It reports 286 mis- sionaries and 260 students in the field at the present time. The board voted $4,500 for pastoral support in the mission field. The resignation of Rev. H. Ware, of Chatham, evangelist of the board, was accepted. —Pierce & Son, of Aylmer, hired one of their livery horses to a commercial traveler one day last week, who shamefully neglected and abused the poor animal. It cost him $50 to settle, and if a year in jail with a few leshee had been added it would not have been out of place. —The Canadian Pacific Railway has is- sued a notice to grain shippers, asking thein to make immediate delivery of grain. On account of the bad condition of the English markets, shipments at Montreal have fallen off and exporters are keeping it in elevators. The weather has been unfavorable for keep- • ing it and it is in danger of spoiling. —Angus MoBain, of Galt, recently had a narrow escape from being kicked to death. He was driving over the small bridge on Main.street crossing pond. His horse got its hoof in a hole in the bridge' throw- ing Mr. Mclean over the dashboardon the horses' heels. The horses kicked him several times, when a passerby ran to his assis- tance, —Some Toronto boys playing on the sand hills northwest of the city, the other night, discovered several hundred pairs of new boots; all sorts and sizes, buried in the .and. Some were in barrels and some loose. • They are supposed' to be part of some bankrupt stock fraudulently concealed. The police have taken pcssession of the find, which filled ten flour barrels; —The twelfth bi-annual c.onvention of the American Association of Instructors of the Blind was held in Brantford lent week. There were about 100 vieltors, of whom more than half were delegates representing all the principal schools for the education of the blind' in the United States. This was the first convention of the kind ever held in Canada. —Leonard Grawberger, a Yarmouth far- mer, was bitten by a dog at St. Thomas a week ago. The wounds were cauterized,but before reaching home he suffered intense pain and bad results were feared. The five perforations in the calf of his leg have run into one large sore, yet Dr. MoLay, of Ayl- mer, his physician, says that there are no symptoms of hydrophobia at present. —Mr. B. Haekett, of Biddulpb, on Sat- urday, had the misfortune to lose his pocket book, containing $15.22. With the sad of a lantern he searched half the night and found It, but not the money. On renewing his search next day he found the bills carefully folded up and a stone put on top of them in- side his gate about 200 yards from where the pocketbook was found. —At the Sarnia tunnel the Christian En- deavor trains were searched by the police and anyone who could not give en account of himself and not a member of the society • was put off. Three years ago thieves stole about everything the Christian Endeavor folks had with them,and the officers were de- termined to prevent that this year. —Two hundred Chinamen have arrived in Toronto this year. —Over $10,000 was granted at the lent session of the Bruce County Council for the erection of bridges. —Mrs. Merner, wife of Hon. Senator Merner'died at New Hamburg on Friday 1st init., in the 65 year of her age. —George Ambridge, aged 20 years, elciped on Tuesday, last week, from Ottawa, with Miss Wolfe, aged 17 years. —Meaford is to have a fruit packing es- tablishment, and the town hat granted ex- emption from taxes for ten years. —Bessie, the 14 -year-old daughter of Mr. R. Turner, of Brantford, was drowned in the canal there on Thursday night. —Mrs. Sutherland, an old lady of 73, met with a terrible death in Woodstock, by tak- ing carbolic acid for Jamaica ginger. —The American delegates who attended the " Blind " convention at Brantford, were In raptures with their reception in Canada. --A Canadian Pacific Railevey train ran into a herd of cattle at Montreal on Friday. Seven cars were wrecked and one man was killed. —A bogus clergyman, giving the nanie of the Rev. James Kelly, of Guelph, has work- ed a Windsor tradesman with A bogus check for $0. —The Baptists of the Northwest have ex- pressed approval of the Manitoba Govern- ment establishing a purely national system of schools. —The Dominion Teachers' Assoolstion held their seeond meeting at Montreal last week. One of the features of the proceedings was a discussion on the scope and objects of the High School. Mr < G. S. Woodward, of Lockport, N.Y., director of the Farm Institutes of. New York, had grown to admire the people in Canada the more he had met them; and why shouldn't he, and why shouldn't we love the people in the great nation south of us ? We Were all after the same object, :i the almighty greenback. (Laughter.) He was convinced that tbe continent of orth America would yet be inhabited by one nation; whether it would be callethe "United States or Canada he did not know. —The Rev. D. G. McQueen, B. A., Mrs. McQueen and family, of Edmonton, North- west Territory, are now visiting their friends in Kirkwall, near Dundee. —Mr. A. McNeill, M. P., for North Bruce, will leave for Ireland when the ses- sion is ended. He will be accompanied by his son. —An Erin cattle buyer has shipped cat- tle amounting to $27,000 since March last. The cattle were principally purchased in Erin township. —Martin Fox, Bertonville, near Hamil- ton, has a curiosity in the way of a wild burdock with roees growing on it. It is attracting the attention of many. —Mr. Benjamin Young, one of the lumber kings of Nova Scotia and New Brunswiok, who latterlyssinuaresided is Nebraska, is dead. He Was Very wealthy. —The fine new residence just built for Charles Langelier on the Grand Ales, Que- bec, was sold by the sheriff Friday and bought by Mr. Avide Picard for $8,000. —The Rev. Sister Marie St. Francois Xavier Montros, a nun of the Good Shep- herd convent, Montreal, was found dead in her bed Thursday morning last week. —Ma Percy Wilson, of Cardiff, Wales, is on a visit to this country, and is stopping at Avonbank. His father he a wealthyship owner at home, and he has come he this country with a view to settlinghere. —A great Farmers' picnic was held at Grimsby Park on Thursday of last week. The principal speakers were N. Awrey, M. P. P., Hon. John Dryden, and Principal Mills. —A dozen little children who -were pit the Hamilton Beaoh Friday with it church picnic boarded the wrong steamer in the evening and instead of being take u home to Hamil- ton were soon out on the lake heeding for Tomato. When they discovered their mi. - The delegates, of whom many hundreds passed through, were bright, happy -looking young men and women. —One day recently a prospective bride , and groom from Parkhill were in Strath. roy and called at the Front Street Metho- dist parsonage to be married. While the ceremony was in progress the minister re- ceived a telegram from Parkhill stating that the lovely bride was tbe sender's wife. The telegram later proved a hoax, but it worked considerable indignation. —It is officially stated that Canada will occupy 10,000 square feet for its mineral display at the Chicago Exposition. Half of it is desired by Ontario Province, which in- tends to make an extensive exhibit,including lead, copper, iron, gold, graphite, mica, asbestos, phosphate of Ihne, gypsum, marl, petroleum, salt, terra cotta clay, nickel, silvers and many varieties of marble, granite and other building material. —John Cleghorn, formerly of Guelph, and for the past ten year's of New Mexico,where he has a herd of some 1,500 goats and sheep, has been visiting friends in Dundas. His home is near Fort Wingate, New Mexico. Mr. Cleghorn who formerly farmed in Paieley block, Wellington county, says that raising sheep is much less laborious.) work than firming in Ontario, with greater re- turn for the labor. There is pasture the whole year round. —Thamesville boasts of the largest colt of its age in Ontario. It is owned by Hiram Richardson, chief of -police, was foaled on June 14, measuring when foaled 12i hands high, girth of arms 15 inches, weighing 167i pounds; sired by the celebrated trotting bred stallion Almedium, owned by Nims Brothers & Turner, Dresden • dam Jessie Mac; Jessie Mac aired by Joh11 E."ysdyke, first dam, Glencoe Warrior, second dam, Lightfoot Eclipse. —The other day the five-year-old son of Mr. J. T. Orme., of Port Stanley, climbed the hill. and wandered over to the edge of the cliff overlooking the lake. His atten- tion was attracted to the swallows' nests in the face of the cliff, and he started to climb down to them, The cliff is almost a sheer precipice at this spot, and of course the lit- tle fellow lost his footing, and fell to the bottom'considerably over 100 feet. Strange to say, he was not injured. —Following are the county taxes payable by the different municipalities in the cotinty of Waterloo, based on the equalization adopted at the last meeting of the County Council: Waterloo township, $4,719; Wil- mot, $3,505; Wellesley, $3,447 • Woolwich, $3,163; North Dumfries, $7,2.40 ; $2,335; Galt, $7,066; Waterloo town, $1,049 • Preston, $177; New Hamburg, $267; hespeler, $324; Ayr, $274; Elmira, $190. —A few days ago some of the residents of Avon, in the county of Middlesex, gathered at the home of an old couple named Cook- wright, who have lived in that vicinity for half a century, and spread a sumptuous re- past, after which speeches and reminiscences filled the afternoon. A photographer camo on the scene and took the old couple's photo. It was the first time the old people had their photo taken. The old gentleman is 96 years old and the old lady 88. They have been married over 69 years. —A Hamilton clothier has been trying to get the young man Adams, who caused such a sensation in Toronto lately, to hire with him as an advertising attraction. The boy's father promptly put his foot down on the soheme, however, and would not hear of it. Friday the " freak " called at the clothing store and was presented with. a new suit of clothes in return for which he willingly consenied to have his photogrsph taken, and the citizens will probably soon have a chance of getting the likeness of Causda'e champion and most phenomenal liar. —A. little boy in Galt, by the name of Fred Hamel, was very badly bitten by a dog on Monday. A number of children were playing on the street and it is said were somewhat plaguing the dog, when it turned on young Hamel and seized him by the leg, biting that very badly, besides biting other parte of the boy. The dog was drawn off and a doctor celled, who found the wounds on the leg simply horrible, being completely round the leg below the knee and nearly to the bone, from which the flesh was pertly torn away. The gaping wounds were sewed up and the little fellow has since done well. —On< Saturday, 2nd inst., two brothers named Kennedy arrived in Ayr from Rochester, New York, in search of a brother, who, up to a few days previously, they supposed to have met his death by drowning fifteen years ago. Casually hear- ing of a Michael Kennedy at work in Ayr, and by the description given them, believing that he was their long lost brother, they mime to Ontario. They arrived on Satur- day morning and immediately proceeded to the cooper shop of Mr. D. Goldie,Greenfield, where they found him at work. • The meet- ing of the brothers was very affectionate and those who witneissed the scene were deeply impressed at the wonderful power of Christian affection. —The other evening Rev. C. 0, Johnston, in the Methodist Church, Kingston, took oo- caaion in his sermon to contrast the political trickster Haman with his counterpart in Canadian polities, men who were steeped in rascalities and bribery. The speaker took ocossion to say that while he could not in- dorse all that Dr. Douglas had ss.id, yet he could heartily agree with him in his refusal to bow the knee or to stay his voice in his exposure and denunciation of the raecelities committed in the name of Canadian politics. He thanked God for the bra-ve and true Mordecai of Methodism, —The Acton Free Press says: Rev. J. Ball's pastorate on Erin °intuit has closed. These three years have been attended with a large degree of succees and profit to all. And judging from the increased interest taken it would appear that the true spirit of Christian fellowship had been deepened and quickened, and that the labor bestowed had not been in vain. Under Mr. Ball's vigor- ous management the circuit has made sub- stantial advancement in every department, and on the whole everything in connection therewith is on a sounder end more firm basis than ever before. He leaves with the prayers and good wishes of the •young and old, that his labors in his new field may tend to the "piritual interests of the Church and to the glory of God. —A lady went into the poatoffice at Chatham a few days ago to mail a book. On being informed that the wrapping did not disclose the contents sufficiently, she turned to the register at the front window and ar- ranged the ertiole. On returning to the wicket she declared that her purse'contain- ing a $100 check and $10 in cub, had been taken from the wicket desk . The post -office authorities assured her they had eee.n nothing of it; nevertheless she still pro- tested as at first, went direct to the person in whose favor the check was drawn, had him inform the police and demand an invee- tigation. Chief Young went down to the postoffice, made a thorough search, with the assistence of the clerks, and found the purse where the thoughtless tady had dropped it down—in the register. She was too sure to be uf s. —Robert Oliver King, farmer, of the township of Brantford, will apply to Parlia- ment next session for a bill of divorce from his wife, Jennie Gowling, on the grounds of adultery and desertion. James Balfour, architect of Hamilton, will also apply for a bill of divorce from his wife, Georgina Cathsrine Balfour, of Hamilton, on the ground of adultery. —On Wednesday morning last week the special trains carrying the Young Christian Endeavoritee from the Western States to New York continued to pass through Lon- don during the early hours. The scenes at the Grand Trunk Railway station were very lively. Every train stopped half an hour for lunch, and a grand rash was made by the Endeavorites for the dining -room as each arrived. The Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes hung side by aide under the veranda. The visitors would sing their own national songs and those of Britain by turns, generally winding up before the train pulled out by giving three cheers for each. This was repeatedly done during the entire day, Dr. Leonard, United States consul, was on hand to welcome his countrymen, 1