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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 s 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. OVEfik MMHG E P...00WLLETDTEt TH PUREST, STROSIBvvitilDSNE. BESTII IM 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. • • ,3 I rroWLER's SATICitg F181 EXT OF CU RE S •=4. 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