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JULY 15, 1892.
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THE HURON XPOSI:TrOR.
THE FARMER'S CORNER,
INTERESTING INFORMATION FOR
CANADIAN AGRICULTURISTS.
A Timely Article on Draining Levels—
What is Required to Slake Perfect and
Profitable Work—Some Straight Talk
on the Making of Country Roads,
The Country Gentleman says that the
first thing which the owner of a farm need-
ing draining should do is to make himself
well acquainted with the descent of all the
'fields of his farm. If his land is within
sight ot a portion of lake or river he may
easily see by ranging towards the open
water wherever the land has a positive de-
scent. An accurate knowledge in detail
may be obtained by observing the open
ditches, furrows and watercou.raes in time
of a spring thaw or heavy rain. Still an-
other mode of acquiring this knowledge is
by the use of siraple leveling instruments.
A simple instrument of this kind, readily
and conveniently used, where the single
.staff of a surveyor can be had, is represent-
-ad by Fig. L A carpenter's level is attach-
ed to the top, and the staff may be inserted
into the Roil at any place, and a vie* taken
through the tights at the top. Steep or
nearly level ditches may be laid off by the
farmer, with the aid of another person to
hold the rod.
In the absence of the surveyor's staff,
limited observations may be taken with the
instrument represented by Fig. 2. It con-
sists of a straight pine board 8t feet, with
rilf=16
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a carpenter's level or any spirit level at-
tached to the tap, and with legs at each
end for its support. These legs may be
pushed into the soft ground, and one end
raised or lowered as desired; or they may
be placed on small square pieces of inch
board. This level may be easily proved
before using by placing it on a level floor,
and observing whether it is the same when
reversed. It, may be used for measuring
the whole length of the proposed ditch,
each length of the level being halt a. rod.
A more complex instrument is represented
in Fig 3 but possessing some advantages for
extensive work. A lead tube A B is at-
tached to a wooden bar about three feet
long, and turned up at the ends. This
tube is fined with water, and has cork
floats with "sights" . at equal heights.
When not in use, corks are inserted at each
end_ To prove this level, view a mark at
some distant object; then turn the instru-
ment end -for -end, and if they coincide, it
is correct. This instrument is not much
used at the present time.
COUNTRY ROADS.
Some Very Straight Talk on Their Mak-
ing by a Farmer's Paper.
For a long time this journal has advo-
cated that road taxes should be paid in
money, and the present system of statute
labor be abolished. A correspondent of
the Country Gentleman takes up this mat-
ter and offers some suggestions about
roads, and contends that the abolition of
the statute tabor is not all, by any means.
The fancier is a sovereign, and as such
should realize the fact that it is his duty
not to wait until he is taxed, but be vvill-
ingetostax himself when the circumstances
call for it. And in this road business every
farmer may save money by studying this
subject, and doing what, he sees ehould be
done on his own premises; and the first
thing to be suggested is to remove every
loose stone -from the road wherever one is
to be seen. This he should do when trav-
elling, making stops for the purpose. He
• will save mom! by this in more than one
way, and the cor of it will be very small
once it is begun.
Where there, is a wet spot in the road, he
may put a wooden culvert at a small ex-
pense. That will save e lot of work and
much annoyance to himself; and in many
other ways he may do a public service and
help himself at the same time. What we
want in this respect is inore patriotism and
public spirit, and it pays every time to prac-
tice these virtues. The writer tells what
has been done in a Southern State in im-
proving the roads, and in a mountain coun-
try where it is supposed to be very expen-
sive to keep up the roads. In Macon
County, N. 0., they have had a special road
law enacted enabling them to lay a tax of
not more than fifteen cents on the $100 for
the roads. Each township levies its own
fax, as it may need, and the county collects
it and pays it over to a board of township
trustee -a, who are charged with the care of
the roads. The board consists of the jus-
ticea of the peace. This of course brings in
all the land owned by non-residents, who
then pay their proportion of the costs. The
residents in addition are assessed for four
days' wark, or the equivalent in money.
The board of trustees take a personal super-
vision, of the work done, and as far as pos-
sible let it on contract. This is a good
law, and a year's experience has shown
that it saves two-thirds of the labor that
has heretofore been spent for the same re-
eults.
The great thing needed, in a hilly coun-
try especially, is to get rid of the surface
water and prevent washing out of the work
done. This has been accomplished by ditch-
ing road -sides, making culverts, and by
constructing
the water -breaks with a foun-
dation of broken rock well beaten down
and then covered with earth. This prevents
the cutting down of them, and resulting
washing out; and it will save 75 per cent.
of the previously wasted money that has
been put on the roads in the township re-
ferred to.
The greet advantage of this system of
raising money by tax is that a permanent
road may be made to begin with, and it is
then kept up at a very mail expense—all
the smaller if everyone Who travels the
road by horse or foot will take the pains to
repair small damages at once, or if the
roadmasters will do it, and they may if
they have a few dollars in hand to do it
with; and if, as the law in question pro-
vides, they are liable to prosecution for
failuro todo it. sad the truetces aujUiif
tney perinu u. mut notrung can be done
until the needed public spirit is awakened,
and kept awake, for the maintenance of the
roads.
One more thing is needed. This i a law
doubling the tax of a person using). a, tire
narrower than three inches, and redicing it
one-fourth when a four -inch tire io used.
This is, of course, on heavy vehiclestlwhich
cut the roads to pieces when the narrow.
tires are used: The wide tire is a service
to the road, acting at a, roller. Unfortun-
ately, this matter is not understood, and
there is much error • in regard, to it. The
draft of a wide tire is not increased, but
diminished. When a nareow-iihe sinks into
the soft ground, it is equivalent to going up
a slope equal to the -depth the wheel sinks
and the small distance from the lowest point
of the wheel to the level of the road. This
is more than would be perceived at first
sight, and increases the draft fully a fourth
or more.
Anether thing should be well known—
viz., that to travel in a rut is destructive
to tet road, tin d every driver should avoid
following directly in the track of another
wagon. By doing this the road, may be
made like a floor—all the more so if the
wide tires are generally used. All this
applies to the use of wagons in fields, but
more so.
Sheep In Place of cows.
Whether it would pay to keep a amen
flock of sheep in place of sonie of the cows
on a farm depends very much on the man.
If he does not take to sheep he had better
let them alone. But, if he will give the
sheep proper foods, proper care and will
breed judiciously, there ie much profit in
sheep, and more than in some cows,especial-
ly on hillsides. If a farmer is going to keep
sheep he must make up his mind to take
proper care of them, and to feed them pro-
perly balanced rations. Put enough sheep
on a, pasture to eat all the grass, weeds and
bushes and give them a liberal nitrogenous
grain ration. In winter they must be put
into warm barns and kept there till time to
go out to pasture iu the spring. Wheat
bran and oil meal are two of the best foods.
Plenty of pure water should also be fur-
nished. Put seven to 10 sheep in the place
of one cow. A farmer of our acquaintance
has 1,200 sheep which he pastured, or near-
ly all of them, in summer, at 2.ic. per sheep
a week. Those kept at home are mostly
pastured in orchards.—Farm and Home.
To Prevent Milk Fever.
Cows coming in in the summer time are
apt to get too fleshy before calving, says a
valued correspondent. About three or four
weeks before the cow is due I bring her up
and reduee her food. Preventing an accu-
mulation of flesh is a preventive of tnilk
fever. A week before she calves I put her
into a box stall. If she worries much I go
in and curry. her. _ The currycomb or card
is a great thing to introduce yourself to a
cow. After she calves keep her quiet and
avoid drafts and cold water. I have never
cureda case of milk fever, but I believe I
have prevented hundreds of cases.
Soapsuds as Mautire.
Few persons_ know how very useful.soap-
suds prove when employed as manure.
Applied to the roots of -vines, fruit trees,
etc., they impart a vigor and rapidity of
growth which is perfectly surprising. No
one who is so lucky as to have a garden
should waste tiiiS valuable form of manure.
It is an excellent plan to have a large tub,
and put the soapsuds and dirty water into
it till required upon the garden.
About Silos.
The main features that are required in a
silo are strength to resist the outward
pressure of its contents, exclusion of air by
the construction of the sides, and a, fair
depth of holding capacity, in order to per-
mit the ensilage to settle into a compact
mese. Sufficient strength of both sides ean
be obtained in most silos, by the use of 2x
10 -inch or 2x12 -inch studs, placed from 18
inahes to 2 feet apart. A clay or earthen
floor is most economical, and as good as any.
that can be put in. The inside of the wails
of the silo may be finished by a single lining
of lumber, nailed to the studs, horizontally.
The lumber should be tongued and grooved
and dressed on the inside. If each alter-
nate board be allowed to extend at the
corners, so as to make a lock -joint, that
will give additional strength to the struc-
ture. The corners of the silo, on the inside,
should be filled by the use of a board or
plank, 10 inches wide, set on end. The
triangular space behind it should be filled
with sand or sawdust. I censider that
studs 2x10 -inch or 2x12-ineb, with one ply
of sound tongued and grooved lumber, nail-
ed horizontally on the inside, are sufficient
for an efficient -preservation ot the ensi-
lage. Additions to that ,method of con-
struction may be advantageous in a few
cases for convenience. If a portion of the
ensilage around the sides becomes frozen,
that is more an inconvenience than a loss.
It shouki be mixed with the warm ensilage,
from the middle of the silo, before it is
offered or fed. to the cattle.
CUTTING THE CORN.
The cutting of fodder corn by hand has
been found the most economical of the
• methods which we have tried. If the crop
be allowed to wilt in the fields until it loses
trom 16 to 20 per cent. of its moiseure, a
pleasant aromatic odor will be developed,
which leaves the ensilage with a more
agreeable smell. From an examination
which was conducted with two tons of cern
• left to wilt in the fields in small heaps of
about twenty-five or thirty stalks each, it
was foundthat, with two days' exposure
during bright sunshiny weather, the corn
lost 28.5 petecent. of its weight; and with
four days' exposure, 36.8 per cent. After
twenty-eight days' statuling in "stooks,"
it had lost 5.2 per cent; and after five
months, it htidslost 58.8 per cent. of its
original green weight.
FILLING TH SILO.
It is advantageous to cut into the silo
those varieties of corn which have thick
stalks, in lengths of from to 1,i of an inch.
Cut into such lengths, there is no waste,
and the stalks and cobs are all eaten up
clean by the animals. Provision should be
made for a fairly even distribution of the
corn in the silo, while it is being filled, and
for ttamping the sides and corners most
thoreughly. The weighing of the corn does
• not appear to be neeessary or. advantageous.
After the silo is filled, the surface should
be levelled and thoroughly trampled ; and
after the lapse of not more than one day, it
should be covered to a depth of 6 inches
with cat straw. If a foot of -cut straw be
put On top of that a few days later, probab-
ly no loss at all from waste ensilage will be
found on the opening of the silo for feed-
ing. The feeding should be effected from
the top of the ensilage, and a quantity of
the exposed ensilage should be raked from
the top daily.—From prize essay in -Farm-
er's Advocate.
Womeii are all Alike after all.'
Women are all alike! No, my sapient
friend. What an absurd mistake Women
all alike? What likeness is there between
the true and honest wife and the married
flirt ? between the splendid woman with a
soul and brain and the vapid scandal -monger
who seems to have neither, and to be made
of 'condensed spite? What likeness is there
between those two women whose shanties
von may see any time you choose to walk
down the lane yonder—the Widost McShane
and the Widow O'Dawdle? They were
both born in Ireland, both married lahorers,
both have the same religion, and at home
were farmer& daughters. Both are healthy
and yet under forty, and were left
widows at the same time. Mrs. McShane
adored her big, handsome, warm-hearted
husband, and her heart nearly broke when
he died. But soon she eaid to herself: "I
must go to work for the children now," and
Children Cry for
to work she went. She paid the rent of her
shanty, kept it tidy, sent the children to
sohool, and fed them comfortably. She can
never be really happy again, perhaps, but
whatever lies before her to do she does.
Her hands are never idle, nor her brain
either, and the little living room of her
house is so tidy that it is a picture, and it
smells as fresh as oleanlinese can make
it. There is neveri rag abont her children,
nor do they pilfer apples from the grocer's
baskets, or swear in the streets. Nor would
they taki a penny as a gift, though they
would willingly earn one any time by car-
rying parcels or doing messages. They are
on the way to be respectable and decent( y
educated man. Mrs. McShane speaks of
Mrs. O'Dawdle as "poor crayther.'
Mrs. O'Dawdle had nightly arguments
with O'Dawdle, in which cooking utensils
flew about, and panes of glass and heads
were cracked; but she howled wildly when
he died, and the people thought she "bit
more" than Mrs. McShane, She never
mended his clothes, and often failed to cook
his dinner on time, and her shanty alwaya
smelt of garbage. She makes no effort to
work. She simply bought a fine new bas-
ket with a brewn stripe on it, and settled
down as a destitute widow. Societies in-
vestigate her "case," find her " worthy,"
and give her alms. Charitable ladies weep
with her; and instruct the cook to give her
" all there is left" and they also supply her
at times, with old ,garments. The children
carry pillow cases about, and bring them
home full of odd bits. Neither mending
nor washing is done. When things drop
off they are thrown away. The little ones
are not too honest. One day they will com-
mit some action that will place them
amongst the dangerous classes. They are
already doomed,_and it is their mother who
is writing their sentence, just as Mrs. Mc-
Shane is preparing her boys for a decent,
honorable life.
It is the early home and the mother that
make most men what they afterwards be-
come, though there are exceptions to the
rule of course. And that honest woman
Mrs. McShane is doing something for her
adopted country without dreaming of her
work. She is rearing two good citizens.
Mrs. O'Dawdle, meanwhile, is preparing two
candidates for the jails and prisons of the
land; two thieves to rob decent folks ;
perhaps two murderers to be hung some
day.
I scarcely think you can find much like-
ness between these women. Born on ad-
joining farms, christened by the same cler-
gyman, at service in good American families
before being married to two men who made
the same wages, left widows in the same
circumstances, they resemble each other as
little as though they were inhabitants of dif-
ferent planets. Women all alike indeed!
For sheer nonsense that remark caps the
climax.
• Gaieties.
—Scene : Mexico.—Traveller : " Ain't
you ashamed to beg—a stout fellow like you
might work." Picturesque Beggar (drawing
himself up) : "Senor, I asked you for alms,
not for advice."
—At last.—" I have at last come to the
conclusion," began Mr.Stalate. "So glad,"
murmured his fair victim, glancing at the
clock.
—Only a mean father will cut a register
hole from his chamber to the front parlor,
where his daughter is in the habit of enter-
taing her young rta,n Thursday evening of
every week.
—The beat method for handling bees, for
an amateur, is by proxy.
—A man's political friends are not always
the men he would like to trade horses with.
—It is a lamentable fsct that Pride often
wears patent -leather boots and begs its
tobacco.
—Junior (translating New Testament)—
And the—and—and the Lord said—Lord
said unto—unto Moses—' Here he hesitated,
and looking appealingly at a neighbor, who,
being also .unprepared, whispered, "Skip
it." Junior (going ren)—' And the Lord said
unto Moses, Skip it.'
—Subtraction—Pat—" Why, what's the
matter wid ye, Andrew ?" Andrew —
" .eh! A've had sic a fa'! Toom'led
doon aff a ladder, mun, seeven or eigh-ht
feet !" Pate--" Be jabers ! that wasn't far
for ye to fall. Shure and you're six feet
high yourself !"—Punch.
—A jury in North Carottna, after being
charged in the usual way by the judge, re-
tired to their room, when a white juror ven-
tured to ask a colored associate if he under-
stood the charge of the judge. "Golly 1"
exclaimed the. astonished inner, "he don't
charge us nuffin for dat, does he h Why, I
thought we were gwine to git pay,"
—A Scotch witness somewhat given to
prevarication was severely handled by a
cross-examining counsel. "How far is it be-
tween the two farms ?" said the counsel.
" By the road it's twa mile." "Yes, but
on your loath, how far is it as the crow
flies ?" "1 dinna ken, I never was a crow."
—A country surgeon who was bald, was
on a visit to a friend's house, whose servant
wore a wig. After bantering him a consid-
erable time, the doctor said: "You see how
bald I am, and yet I don't wear a wig."
"True, sir," replied the servant, "but an
empty barn requires no thatch."
—Printers sometimes make funny mis-
takes. A lady teacher ordered an adver-
tisement to be inserted in a newspaper,
which spoke of "the reputation for teaching
which she bears." The printer omitted the
"which." so the clause was made to an-
nounce to the world her "reputation for
teaching she -bears !"
—Ticket Collector (to passenger in &st-
etson carriage with second-class ticket)—
"You rand pay the difference." Passenger
—" The second-class carriages were full."
Collector—" Yes, but there was plenty of
room third-olass," Passenger—" Quite so.
Pay me the difference, and I'll ohmage."
my drag net. The previous night the wo-
man rang the night -bell of one of my "Ever
Open Doors," and crept in with her two
girls out of the blinding rain and murky at-
mosphere of Spitalfields. And after a night's
rest on the floor (for on that very night every
cranny of the place was filled with houselees
girls and waif chitdren) she had been advis-
ed to come to me. But it was her last essay
at life. Ah, it was no idle threat she had
uttered, and one, at least, of the children,
understood this only too well.
Yes, she had sworn it. They must end it
and and it soon. Driven out, driven to the
wall—nothing before them' but the work-
house or the river, or worse, ah, how much
worse 1—like a hunted rat she had turned
her face defiantly at fate, and the settled
gloom in her countenance, as well as the firm
drawn line of her thin lips, told of an irre-
vocable determination. But not so certainly
as did 'Lisbeth's. If ever despair looked out
of a child's eyes it looked out that day from
those of 'Lisbeth. Their tale itself was no
exceptionat one to my ears, but, thank God,
I have not become case-hardened. I devout-
ly hope that I never may.
For six years they had been homeless.
Wee Mary was born in the workhouse; the
father, a brutal scamp, did everything evil.
He ill-treated the mother and the children
continually and persistently ; drank every
penny they earned; litoraily swallowed up
eaoh humble home as soon as gained, and
finally died in the workhouse, his end accel-
erated by drink, while they were on tramp.
His death made little difference to them—
they were already sunk so low—save by re-
lieving them of a cruel, leech -like oppressor.
the sound of whose very voice used to fill
them all with abject terror.
For six years they had begged and starv-
ed together—'Lisbeth,growing from a mere
infant into the sensitive young girl -woman --
who already knew, alas ! so much of evil and
feared even more than she knew—whom I
now saw before me.
While waiting, three basins of the soup
which formed that day's dinner at the
Home, were brought_up by my direction,
and all sat down on the bench to eat while
I reflected and conferred with my advisers.
The steaming soup did what nothing else
had done'it brought tears to 'Lisbeth's
eyes. Oh, the blessed relief of seeing that
child cry; the noiseless sobbing went on un-
til, after some deliberation, I announced
that I would admit the children at once
while enquiries were being made, and that,
if the truth had been told me, they would be
kept permanently.
If I expected an outburst of feeling I was
disappointed. The woman only quietly said,
"Thank you, sir." and sat down, while I
turned away, to be called in five minutes
later to see her stretched along the floor of
the hall in a dead faint. The strain had
been too much; little wonder that exhaust-
ed nature gave way.
No one who reads these lines can even
guess what the change meant in the altered
lives of the two girls after admission to the
Hotne. To form an adequate idea, both
lives must have been witnessed, and it is
only possible to see one. The well -ordered,
gentle life of the village home at Ilford
casts no backward shadows, "Forgetting
the things which are behind." Christian
care, the outcome of Christian love, envel-
opes 'Liebeth and Wee Mary, who are
growing up
"Fair young maidens bright."
But I can never forget what they once
were—never; nor can 'Lisbeth, for there
are times when the child's full eye and
quivering lip speak volumes to those who
know. ,•
. And when I see 'Lisbeth and Wee Mary
as I sometimes do amid the joyous young-
sters of my rescued family I think, not
merely of their past, but of the thousands of
otber little ones still needing, perhaps as
much as ever they did, a home and a friend,
and I thank God for the 4,350 now safely
folded within, even while my prayer goes
up for the other poor lambs without, who,
with torn fleece and weary feet, and sad
eyes, know nothing, in this year of grace, of
childish laughter or of love.
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Contains no Alum, Ammonia, Lime,
Phosphates, or any injuriante
E. W. CILLET:T. Toronto: Ont.
,and now intends removing to the Northwest.
—Rev. D. G. Macdonald, of Stratford,has
accepted the call to the pastorate of the
North Baptists Church at Halifax, Nova
Sootia,and will commence his ministration in
October.
—Mr. P. F. MeNaughton, ttnicher, and
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Greenwood, ef Hibbert,
left last week for Manitoba, on the general
excursion, to spend a few of the summer
months out there.
—John Francis, one of the oldest resid-
ents of Munro, has passed aw;y after a
long illness'Deceased was a fin horseman
and could handle refractory herses in a
creditable manner. He was 77 years old.
—Thomas Green, of the 2nd concession of
Logan, was tossed sixteen feet by a vicious
• bull a few days ago. The unforthua,te man
lay prostrate, when the infuriated 1 animal
• charged again, dragging Frank Maher after
him. The animal then fell, when the men1
escaped without serious injury. The brute
was shot shortly afterwards.
—Mr. F. E. Goodwin, who hals for some
time past been principal of the Roman
Catholic Separate Schools, Stratford, being
about to remove to Montana, was presented
with a handsome gold -headed cane from the
boys of the senior department. He leaves in
a few days for his home in Picton, where
after a stay of several weeks he will proceed
to Montana.
—We learn from the Recorder that Mr.,
W. Kyle, of the firm of Kyle and Barnett,
of Mitchell, closed a contract with the Pat-
rons of Industry, to furnish all the Patrons
in the County of Perth with their supplies
of binding twine for the present season.
This oontract will involve the handling of
over one hundred tone of twine by the Kyle
& Bartlett firm.
Things Every Boy Should be
Trained *To.
Mothers, it will not hurt your boys to
learn to do many things pertaining to the
domestic machinery of your home. They
may be taught as easily as girls, and would
be delighted to feel that their help was
really needed and appreciated. 'Do not say,
"What csn a boy do ?" for a boy can do any
kind of work which a girl can, yet, he can
learn to use a needle and thread just as easi-
ly. Do you not remember the trials you
had in learning to sew, especially to use the
thimble? Why not teach boys to sew on
ebuttons, and mend torn garments as well as
their sisters?
I know a mother who has taught heh boy
to take off the bedclothes from his bed every
morning, tqrn the mattresses, open the win-
dows, etc., and at a stated time to go back,
make up the bed and put the room in order.
This he does daily, and the servant is not al-
lowed to assist him.
Another boy always swept and dusted the
sitting and dining -rooms, and, whenever
the mother or sisters were hurried, washed
the dishes, laid the table, etc, That same
bey now has e. home of his own, and his wife,
not over strong, never has the care of the:
sweeping, no hard work is ever left her, but
his trained eye sees all the little places where,
he may assist, and in his quiet way he is
helping to bear his share of the burdens
which most men think belong to the wo-
man. Is he any the less a manly man,think
you?
If the boys are taught neatness and order;
in their homes as well as personal neatness,
their whole lives will be a benediction upon
the mother who thus early gave them train-
ing. The future happiness of our girls who
are to become wives of these boys depends
largely upon the early habits and instruce
tious which mothers are now giving the
boys.
A,boy who is careful to not bring in dirt!
on him boots, who puts papers and books
where they belong, who always hangs up his
hat, and who is looking out for places where
he can help his mother, will make a better
husband than the one who thinks his mother
was made purposly to wait on him.
Night and Day.
This interesting monthly is to
hand. Row much Dr. Barnado and Mr.
Quarrier are doing for Canada in distribut-
ing youthful workers over its wide domain,
is a minor question when we consider what
these philanthrophists are doing for the
waifs of the great cities of Britain. Here is
an episode which needs no comment; it
comes fresh from the pen of Dr. Barnard.:
"There were three of them—the gaunt,
woe -begone, half-starved mother and her
two girls. My eyes first fixed on the chil-
dren, Of these 'Lisbeth was much the old-
er, "Wee Mary" being only five. The
mother I just glanced at and turned my eyes
quickly on the two girls again.
With small wonder They were enough
to arrest and attract any man's notice, yet,
to describe them is not easy.
'Lisbeth I guessed to be 12 years old, and
iI was right. She was tall for her years and
!very thin. Her face, ghastly white, seemed
too weird a 'setting for the large, eager,
hungry, dark eyes that looked out from
sunken depths. Wee Mary held 'Lisbeth
tightly by the hand, never for an instant re-
laxing her grip, even when later on she was
eating the food which I caused to be set be-
fore them, and which they devoured with
the voracity of famine.
'Lisbeth's body was covered above only by
a man's waistcoat, of course, without sleeves
and at least five sizes too large. Across her
shoulders was a torn fragment of the thin-
nest shawl I ever saw, one bare arm hold-
ing the shawl together at her chest. A tat-
tered shirt, which through a dozen holes re-
vealed her limbs, was her only other cloth-
ing. No, I forgot; there was a hat, a bat-
tered, bruised, boy's jerry, which really
bore evidence of having been picked from a
heap of refuse and. herewith adopted. This
crowned the whole.
How had they come to me?
They had been swept in by the meshes of
Pitcher's Castoria.'
Perth Items.
—Seventy-nine candidates wrote at the
entrance examination in Mitchell last week.
—County of Perth farmers to the number
of about 400, ideated the Agricultural Farm,
at Guelph, the other day.
—A recent death in the family of Mr. C
E. Edmunds, of Stratford, makes the third
death in his fatuity within a year.
—Mr, John Kismer, of Bornholm, had a
barn raising, the other day, at which there
were 150 women present. •
—Mrs. James Jones of Mitchell, slipped
on the cellar stairs and failing fractured both
bones of one arm.-
-Dr. J. H. White' son of the St: Mary0
postmaster, is locatedat Wolseley, a pros-
perous town in Assiniboia, Northwest Teri
ritory% I
—Miss Nellie Currie, a graduate of thei
Canadian Pacific telegraph office, St. Marys
has gone to Boston, where she enters the
service of the Western Union.
—Two of the Mitchell High School teaohit
ere, Miss Campbell and Mr. Smith, will not
return after the holidays'having secured
more lucrative situations elsewhere.
—Messrs. Wm. Mitchell and Louis Longs -
way, of Logan, left last week for Seattle,
Washington Territory. Me. Mitchell has
been out there before, and met with consid-
erable 'success.
--Mr. J. W. Fraser, of Milton, with his
wife and family, spent a few days in.Mit-
chell during last week with Mrs.
Fraser's father, Mr, Charles Thom, sr. Mr.
Fraser has been in the jewelry business in
Milton for some years, but sold out recently
•
An Editor's Position and
Influence.
In. a sermon on Journalism, the Rev.
Thomas Nixon said: The position of the
editor of a newspaper of to -day is as solemn
a trust aa that of the minister of the gospel.
The press, in fact has absorbed many of the
functions of the minister of religion. The;
responsibilities of such a positionare greater
because the number of lives directly affeea-
ed is greater. He has the power to -poison
the minds and unnerve the arms of tens of
thousands daily with hatred, lies, slander,
and appeals to the basest instincts of the
animal, or to lift the world front the Moine
ber of the night to the duties of a new day
in the arms of love, truth, conrage, hope
and faith. There is no man of moderate:
times who speaks with such surpreme power
as he who dictates the' management of &-
newspaper. The secret of the power to
bless or the power to harm the life of a!
man is his. He is the minister Of the mosti
high God, charged with keeping the sacred'
fires of truth burning along the world's
highways that sweep through the dark-
ness into the infinite eternal.
City and Country Cousins.
Plain farmer boys, visiting !their city
cousins, are sometimes embarrassed by their
ignorance of city ways, and we are not sorry
that they are ignorant of some of these ways.
But city boys find themselves quite as green
when they return these visits.' We have
known some ludicrous illuatrationa. Heree
is A
o ne:
couple of wide-awake farmer boys had
been rather "put upon" when in the city,:
and when their friends made their first trip
to the farm, laid a plan to get ' even. So,
arousing them early in the merning, they
proposed to their young visitors lto go out to
the cow -yard and get for themselves a drink'
of pure fresh milk, the two brothers going
along to instruct them. Tableau : One oitte
boy holding the pail under old brindle's
teats, and the other working away with her
caudal Appendage as if it were a pump
handle. In another case the city boys were
shown, to their wonder and delight, a new
variety of dwarf beech trees, bearing the
three -cornered nuts, el greatly diminished
size. They were taken through a field of ripe
buckwheat.
The other sex sometimes fare no bettee
when "out of their latitude." A veryamus
ing case came to our knowledge in NeW
York, A young city housekeeper had just
become chief director of a brown -stone man -i
sion. Some distinguished friends were coral
ing to visit her in ber new position of re4
sponsibility, and she was anxious to do her
best. At the breakfast -table, on the mornj
ing after their arrival, she seemed greetlY
distressed, and in her despair she broke mitt
"Don't you believe that in order to give
you a good treat of pure country milk foe
• your coffee and ost,meet, I sent our coach'
man, John, away out' five miles beyond Hee
boken to obtain it yesterday afternoon,
When I went down to get it, myself, thie
morning, it had a nasty, yellow scum all
over the top, and I had to throw it away. "-4
Prairie Farmer.
Irish Fadge.
Into three-quarters of a pound of brown
flour and a teacupful of white, well mixed,
rub three ounces each of lard and dripping ;
add a teaspoonful of baking powder and
little salt ; stir a desert epoonful of vinegar
into two well -beaten eggs, and mix into a
stiff paste; roll quickly and lightly about
three quarters of an inch thick, cut into triangular pieces, and bake at once in a brie*
oven for twenty minutes. This is delicione
split and buttered while hot; it is equally
good cold, with butter or marnialade.
GRATFUL—COMFORTING.
EPPS'S - COCOA
BREAKFAST,
"By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion and nutri-
tion, and by a careful application of the fine proper-
ties of well -selected Coma. Mr. Epps has provided
our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bev-
erage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills.
It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that
a constitution may be gradually built un until strong
enough to resist every tendAncy to disease. Hun-
dreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready
to attack whet ever there is a weak point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselve well
fortified with pure blooql and a properly nourished
frame."—Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with
boiling water or milk. Sold only by Grocers, labelled
thus: JAMES EPPS & CO., Hornceopathie Chem-
ists, London, England. 1246-62
I)r. T. A. Slocum's
OXYGENIZED EMULSION of PURE COD LIVER
OIL. They who use it • - - - - Live.
For sale by all druggists. 35 cents per bottle.
At • ow,
A Cure for Constipation and
Headache.
Dr. Silas Lane, while in the Rocky Mountains, dis-
covered a root that when combined with other herbs,
makes an easy andcertain cure for constipation. It
is in the form, of dry roots and leaves, and is known
as Lane's FaMily Medicine. It will <lure headache
in one night. For the blood, liver and kidneys, and
for clearing up the complexion it does wonders.
Druggists sell it at 500 a package.
Cure General Debility. •I
A. W. Beard, Iron Hill, Que., writes :
"1 used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for gere
real debility and found them a wonderftil
medicine." • Sold by all deatere or sent by
mail at 50o. per box or 6 boxes for $9k5Q.
Dr. Williams Med. Co., Brockville, Out,
and Schenectady, N. Y. • Beware Of
imitations.
News About Town.
It is the current report about town that Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is making some re-
markable cures with people who are troubled with
Coughs, Sore Throat, „Asthma Bronchitis and Con-
sumption. Any druggist will give you a trial bottle
free of cost. It le guaranteed to relieve and cure.
The Large Bottles are 50c. and $1.
ROGER MILLER, Esq„ Maneger of the
Evans Bro. Piano Company, Ingersdll, On-
tario "1 am fully convinced that K. D.
is the best medium for dyspepela ever ofle
ed to the public and that it will do all that
is claimed for it."
410.
—Itch cured in 30 minutes -by Woolford's
Sanitary Lotion, Sold by J.S,Roberts. 1237
• • e.
—English Spavin Linimei4 removes all
hard, soft or calloused Lumps and Blemishes
from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints,
Ring Bone, Sweeney, Stifles,,Sprains, Sore
and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc, Save $50
by 11Be of one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful Blemish Cure ever known. Sold
by J,S. Roberts, 123752
AT NO TIME is man secure from attacks of such
painful and dangerous disorders of the stomach as
Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Cramps, Diarrhoea and
Dysentery; but these complaints are particularly
eommon during the heated term, when it is doubly
dangerous to neglect them. PERRY DAVIS' PMN -
Krum is a remedy that ha! never failed when tried,
and the severest atttacks have been cured by it. It
eaves no evil effects, and invariably brings relief to
the sufferer. Every reputable druggist in the country
sells PERRY DAVIS' PAIN KILLER. Large eize new
bottle, price 25c.
The Only Remedy.
ENTLEMEN,—I have used Burdock Blood Bit-
ters for my blood and for pimples, and two
bottles made a complete cure of my case. It ie the
only remedy I could find to help me.
Miss JULIA VIGER,
Trenton, Ontario.
A Canadian Favorite.
The season of green fruits and summer drinks is
the time when the worst forms of cholera morbus,
diarrhoea, and bowel complaints prevail. As a safe-
guard Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry
should be kept in the house. For 36 years it has
been the most reliable remedy.
• A Child Saved.
My little boy was taken very bad with diarrhoea,he
was very delicate and got so low we bad no hope of
his life, but a lady friend recommended Dr. Fowler's
Extract of Wild Strawberry, and although he could
only bear a few drops at a time he got well. It saved
my child.
hiss. Wm. STEWART,
Canmbellville, Ontario.
Seven Years' Suffering.
GENTLEMEN, -I have suffered very much from
inflammatory rheumatism, which through
wrong treatment left ugly running sores on my
hands and feet. With these I suffered for seven
years, during which time I had neither shoe nor
stocking on. I commenced using B. B.B. externally
and internally, using the pills also, and I can say now
that the sores are entirely cured, and have been for
some time. I believe the bitters were the means of
saving my life.
MRS. ANNIE BARR,
Crewson's Corners, Acton P. 0., Ontario.
Rapid Relief.
DEAR SIRS,—I had for years been troubled with
dyspepsia and sick headache, and found but little re-
lief until I tried your Burdock Blood Bitters, which
made a perfect cure. It is the beet medicine I ever
had in my life, andI will never be without it.
••• HATTIE DAVIS,
Clinton, Ontario.
Et •
Mothers and Nurses.
All who have the care of children should know that
Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry may be
confidently depended on to cure all summer com-
plaints, diarrhoea, dysentery, cramps, colic, cholera
morbus, canker, etc., in children or adults.
Harsh Coughs, Heavy Colds, Hoarseness, Asthma
and .Bronchitis cured by Dr. Wood's Norway Pine
Syrup. The best in the world.
Victoria Carbolic Salve cures Cuts, Burns, Sores,
Bruises, Wounds, Chapped Hands and Cold Sores.
Price 25c.
-•• • 4a,
Milburn's Beef, Iron and Wine is recommended by
Physicians as the best.
Dr. Low's Worm Syrup removes worms of all kinds
in children Or adults-. Children cry for it.
When you want to be cured of Dyspepsia try the
Greatest Known Cure, K. D. C. Free eample. K.D.C.
Company, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
A free sample package of the Wonder -Working
Dyspepsia Cure, K. D. C., mailed to any addrees.
K.D.C. Company, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
K. D. C. taken'immediately after eating starts the
process of digestion at once, and prevents all un-
pleasant symptoms of Dyspepsia.
When you decide to be cured of Dyspepsia try K.
D.C., the King of Cures. Free sample to any ad-
dress.. K.D.C. Company, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
To Dispel Colds.
Headaches and Fevers, to cleanse the eyetem ef-
fectually, yet gently,when costive or bilious, oriwhen
the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure
habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and
liver to a healthy activity, without irritating or
weakening them, use Syrup of Figs.
•••• •
HANIILTON, April 24, 1892.
I was doctoiing for years with physicians for a
scaly and scurvy aftlictibn of the scalp, they told me
It was eczema, but gave me no permanent relief. I
was also troubled with ezcessive dandruff, which
would drop from my head like snow flake, Hearing
of A.nti-Dandruff I used it, and from the third appli-
cation felt more relieved than for year.; when half
the bottle was used the eczema and scaly eruption
disappeared and have not returned since ; dandruff
was thoroughly removed, the itching of the scalp
stopped, and for an elegant, clean and Useful hair-
dressing Anti -Dandruff has no aqual.
J. S. GaidiAM,
Manager Hamilton Branch, Kemp, Joneo & Peck,
Manufacturers of Cider, Toronto.
FARMER S,
ATTENTION!
All parties requiring Farm Machin-
ery, Implements and Repairs, would
do well to call at
Hugh Grieve's Wareroom
- —OPPOSITE—.
John Dorsey's Blacksmith Shop
Before purchasing elsewhere, as he
keeps repairs for the Massey -Harris,
Patterson, Wisner, Goudy, Mason and
Coleman machinery and implements,
and he is also agent for the Bain
wagon, Massey -Harris binder and
mower, drills, rakes, &c, the Coleman
roller and a full stock of Plows con-
stantly on hand.
IIUGH GRIEVE/ Seaforth.
Back -Ache.
Back -ache is caused by sick kidneys. Dodd' e Kid-
ney Pills will remove it. By their peculiar action on
the Kidneys they impart activity and benefit the sys-
tem by purifying the blood. You cannot have pure
blood with disordered kidneys; health'existence
depends upon their natural condition ; they are the
Fovernors of the system, continual disorder results
in kidney consumption, which le Bright's disease.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castorla.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Canons..
When she had Ctikldren, she gave them Outten&
GODERICH
Steam Boiler Works.
' (ESTABLISHED 1880.)
A. S. CHRYSTAL,
Successor to Chrystal & Black,
Manufacturers of all kinds of Stationary
Marine, Upright & Tubular
BOILERS
Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet Iror Works,
etc., etc.
Also dealers in Upright and Horizontal Slide Valve
Engines. Automatic Cut -Off Rngines a specialty. All
sizes of pipe and pipe -fitting constantly on hand.
Estimates furnished on short notice.
Works—Opposite G. T. R. etation, Goderich.
• •
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rroWLER's
SATICitg F181
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COLIC
CON a AVIS
CHILDREN c'rikDULTS
CHOLERA- MORBUS
C 1 4 3
DIARRHOEA DYSEN
BEWARE F IMITATION S
,T, CRY
Price 55cT5
The McKillop Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
FARM AND ISOLATED TOWN
PROPERTY ONLY INSURED.
OFFICERS.
D. Ross, President, Clinton P. O.; W. J.
Shannon, Secy-Treas.'Seaforth P. 0.; John Hannah,
Manager, Seaforth P. 0.
DIRISG'TORS.
Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Mex. Gardiner, Lend -
bury; Gabriel Elliott, Clinton Geo. Watt, Harlock;
Joseph Evans, Beechwood; M. Murdie, Seaforth;
Thos. Garbutt, Clinton.
Ammo.
Thos. Neilano, Harlc,ck; Robt. McMillan, Seaforth ;
S. Carnoehan, Seaforth. John O'Sullivan and Geo
Murdie, Auditors.
Parties • desirous to effect Insurances or tran,
sant other business will be promptly attended to on
application to any of the above officers, addresSed to
tlaeir respective post offices. 1189
Oh, What a Cough!
Will you heed the warning. The eignal perhaps of
the sure approach of that more terrible dieease Con-
sumption. Ask yourselves if you can afford for the
sake of saving 50c., to run the risk and do nothing
for it. We know from experience that Shiloh's Cure
will cure your cough. It never fails. 1260-52
-we • as ,
Drunkenness—Liquor Habit—In
all the World there is but one
Cure—Dr. Haines' Golden
Specific.
It can he given in a cup of tea or coffee without
the knowledge of the parson taking it, effectinv
speedy and permanent me, whether the patient is a
moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands
of drunkards have been cured ho have taken the
Golden Specific in their coffee without their know-
ledge, and to -day believe they quit drinking of their
own free will. No harmful effect results from their
administration. Cures guaranteed. Send for cir-
cular for full particulars. Address in confidence,
Ganuti $PBCIZIO CO., 15,5 Ra00 West, Cincinnati,
Ohio. 120-62
I CURE FITS!
When I say I cure 1 do not mean merely to step them
for a time and then bare them return again, I MC= a
radical cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEP-
SY or FALLING SIOKNESSIa life4ong study. I warrant
my remedy to core the worsluses. Because others have
falled`is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send at
once for a treatise and a Free 1Battle of. my Infallible
remedy, Clive EXPRESS and EOST-OFFICE.
RQOT, M. C. 186 ADELAIDE ST.
WEST, I ORONTO, bNT.
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
SEAFORTH, - • ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION.
Funerals furnished on the shortest notlee
and satisfaction gui anteed. A large assort-
ment of Caekets, Coffins and Shrouds, &a,
always on hand of the boot quality. The besb
of Embalming Fluid -used free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLItilite, Funeral Director. Real.
donee GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in that bouse
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
SHILOH'S
CONSUM PT1ON
CURE.
This GREAT COUGH CURE, this suc-
cessful CONSUMPTION CURE, is without
a parallel in the history of medicine. All
druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos-
itive guarantee, a test that no other cure cmi
successfully stand. If you have a Cough,
Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will
cure you. If your child has the Croup. or
Whooping Cough, use it. promptly, and relief
is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
CONSUMPTION, don' fail to use it, it -will
cure you or cost nothing. Ask your Drug-
gist for SHILOH'S CURE, Price Ito cts.,
50 cts. and $1.00.
THE FARMERS'
Banking - House,
sm.A..00 TR,1113a_
(In connection with the Bank of Montreal.)
LOGAN &
BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENT
REMOVED
To the Commercial Hotel Building, Main Street
A General Banking Business done, drafts Issue and
cashed. Interest allowed on depoeits.
MONEY TO LEND
On good notes or mortgagee,
ROBERT LOGAN, MA AGM