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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe East Huron Gazette, 1892-08-18, Page 2AGRIVUL3 t!RAL WancL3rd folds' of a }filch Cow Hgd itv-Medium length, forheadbread. and SLghtry dished, nostrils large and prom- inent. EYES 5. -Large, bright, prominent, mild, surrounded by n circle of orange coloured skin. - H0E s?.-Smallormedium;ovalpreferr- ed,cclaar waxy with slight yellow tinge. E an..s Medium sized, covered with fine hair; inside skirt of a yellowish orangecolor. NECK 4. -Fine slender, rather long con- cave superiorly attachment to head and shoulders, net and strong. - CHEST .-Moderately deep, but not wide or fu's. BACK 3.-Peakofshoulder elevated, droop toward tail attaches, indicating strength of loin. CROPS 10. -Full, so that arms will appear to be well under body ; girth here indicates large organs and sound constitution. Bonne 10. -Large, round, capacious ; ribs well sprung out from back -bone, and should wedge loth laterally and inferiorly, gradually increasing in girth towards hips. Loin 6. -Broad, slightly arched. Three factors in strength of loin, droop toward tail, arched transversely and distance be- tween posterior ribs and hook bone not too great. FLANK 2. -Should extend well down, covering as much of udder as possible, but should not be thick. Paysoxes 3. -Fine, prominent and wile apart. HIPS. --Wide between hips, to make plenty of room for udder. Here the muscles should be developed extensively. UDDER 16. -Should be well tacked up behind, wide, but not fleshy. Teats to point out in every direction, those in front for- ward and outward, those behind downwards and outwards. Teats should be of medium but convenient size for pressure from all the fingers in milking. There should be two false teats either behind or one on each side. Milk veins visibly distinct all over udder ; skin on udder thin, fine and softand excud- ing an oily secretion, and showing yellow under the ham. Hair, fine, short and soft ; milk veins, winding and knotty -like, going well forward into the barrel. ESCUTCHEON 3.=Distinctly marked, wide, covering a large area of posterior of udder and extending as high up between hips as possible. HIDE 9. -Medium thickness, fine texture, loose, soft, covered with a yellowish dan- druff under the hair. Hair fine, soft and dense. TAIL 2. -Rather long, two or three inches below hock, slim tapering to a large, heavy switch ; point sharp and covered with a dark yellowish skin: FeeemE 10. -Large, but compact, bones of fine texture, legs strong and short. Bones below knee and hocks flat, whole frame showing a wedge shape with sharp end in' front, when a person stands directly in front of the animal. A cow with all the standard points in- dicated above is very rare. But in breed- ing for the dairy the aim is to get as many as possible. ter The Silo. 15 presitpposeil .tthe cows are good ones; speaking in the geneizI *acceptance of the term.The seat point`, fasto provide good pasturage, not ;clover alone, yet the result may beguile satisfactiny if it is red clover. But pastures of white clover or alsike have been condemned -by observing batter makers as renderingthe cream produced difficult to convert into butter. In its growing state there is more flesh and milk producing ele- ments in a pound of timothy than in a pound - of clover, and the former is more the natur- al food, of the domestic animals than is the latter. Fresh, pure water is another very impor- tant requirement. While cows will, and do, drink stagnant water with apparent relish, -yet too often it is a matter of com- pulsion. At all times, and more especially in warm weather, they should have free ac- cess to water, and not wait for the attend- ant to pump it night and morning. During the heated term they may be observed go- ing to the creek several times a day, and no domestic animal will drink a greater quan- tity of water than a milch cow. During July, August, and September, when flies are troublesome, cows should not be kept in a dry, open yardat night. During the heat of the day they spend. a large portion of their time in the shade, o: are so tormented by flies that they do not eat as much food as they need. If the cow pasture is visited any moonlight night following a hot day the herd will be found busily eating often until near midnight. This means an increased flow of milk. Another important matter concerning this night pasturage is the more even distribution of the increment, the liquid portion of which is all certainly lost if they are confined in a yard during the night. If they are kept from 8 in the morning until 4 in the afternoon during hot days in a dark- ened stable with a supply of green, succulent food at noon it would be better than yarding at night. This will cause more work, but it will`pey well in the increased production of milk, says the " American Agriculturist." Salting is another important matter. The true way is to have a supply of salt before them at all times. If barrel salt is used it may be placed in a box in the pasture and covered to keep out the rain. Better yet is to place a piece of rock salt at some place in the pasture, where they may obtain a supply by licking it off as they may need and not be obliged to eat it as they, do when given them in a finer state and at unequal intervals, or when you happen to think of it, as practiced by nearly all farmers. Change of pasture, as frequently as every two weeks, is -important. Any pasture be- comes badly contaminated by the feet of the cattle, and the -droppings and the her- bage is not inviting for the stock to nibble at. When the pasture is in this condition they travel over the entire area every day to find some inviting place to feed. Instead of giving cows the range of two or three fields at once, confine them in one, even if you change them every two or three days. Do not pasture sheep or horses with them, for reasons not necessary to here enumerate. See strictly to it that the cows are quietly dr;ven to and from the pasture. Have regu- lar hours for milking, and try and divide the time into twelve ho,irs each, especially in June, when the production of milk is the greatest. Treat them kindly and in such a manner that they will come at the calling. If you send a dog for them don't allow him An excellent bulletin on the silo and corn to chase or bite them. Don't tell stories or ensilage, by Mr. C. C. James, the Deputy talk while milking, but attend to it quietly Minister of Agriculture, has been issued by and rapidly. the Department of Agriculture. The value of the bulletin is especially enhanced inas- Fixed Purpose on the Farm, much as it has been compiled from replies There are two well-defined classes of farms received from forty correspondents who and farmers in this country. The one is a have had experience of from one to eleven farmer who has formed an adequate concep- years In growing corn and in making and tion of what it is he purposes to do. He feeding ensilage, and those who have made has not set himself down to be veered about good, sweet ensilage speak most highly of from this to that with every idle change of its value. The following useful information the wind. From carefully learned lessons is given as to building a silo : in his past experience he is enabled to gen; The Silo :-With a few exceptions the . eralize upon current information that he silos of Ontario have been built in the Cor- gathers on all hands in his daily walks, and ners of the barn, sometimes utilizing the he shapes his affairs accordingly. In the root cellars in the basement as the lower first place, from a closer observation and part. The silo should be from 16 to 25 ft. deeper insight, proceeding from an intensity high, and should be built to withstand en- of purpose, he has a better general drift of ormous pressure. The main features of tried the needs of the world and is, therefore, silos which have been built in ordinary farm better prepared to meet them, though per - barns are as follows : Upon a substantial haps, it may seem in a small way, yet it stone foundation are laid sills 10x10 inch, amounts to a good deal for a single individ- firmly imbedded in the foundation or secur- ual. Aside from knowing about what is to ed to it by iron rode firmly bolted down. be expected in general he keeps a close eye The studs should be 2x10 inch, set 12 inches on the details of things, along the lines of apart, mortised into sills Leave the two production, and plans his moves as well as studs 18 inches apart where doors are to be may be to meet the unexpected. This farm - placed. Secure the plates and rafters firmly er will always be known by his farm. The so that there will be no necessity for iron farm is always the reflection ,of the owner's rods to prevent or overcome spreading. thoughts and.resolvet'. The fences wili not Board up the outside with one layer of inch be foand down nor the gate off its hinges. lumber, battening the joints. On the inside If the fruit season chances to be a dull one first place a Layer of inch lumber, pine or the orchard trees will none the less be found hemlock, which need not be planed ; over floutishing and in full vigor for another sea - that one, or better, two layers of tarred son. The hogs will not be found squealing paper ; over the tarred paper a layer of for corn because the price of -pork is a little dressed inch lumber running up and down, off. The pastures are not overcrowded with which should be tongued and grooved or scrub stock. The fields are well tilled. The jointed. Into the corners should be fitted crops are sown in good season. The best of boards with bevelled edges, the space seed_andof perfect condition arid vigor only behind packed with sawdust or grout. is used, The quality of the grain he grows Over the entire smooth and perfect- and the average yield per acre are beth very ly air tight . surface of the interior - thus apt to be above, that of his neighbor who obtained appy one or two coats of linseed holds to no system in these things. He does oil or of hot coal tar and resin (one gallon not necessarily go on the jump from morn - coal tar to three pounds resin). The floor ing until night. The man who stops occas - made may be made of cement or hard -pack- ionally to think and scratch his head is ed clay well drained, and should be made the fellow who generally comes under the level or a little higher in the centre. Upon wire in the lead. the floor spread a little cut straw before But, as we have intimated, there is an - putting in corn. No rough stone should be other sort of a fellow who " stops " on the left exposed, but any foundation above the farm. In truth there are several varieties floor should also be covered with sheeting. here that may all be brought under the one ,Tlte walls should be left hollow. The door- head of indifferent farmers. Men can only way is made by cutting down from plate to become good and successful farmers from a sill between the two studs, left eighteen fixity of purpose and from following all their inches apart, hanging close -fitting doors on aims and ends out to a legitimate conclusion. the outside to close this opening, each door But there are various ways of failing to being about four feet long. As the silo is meet the requirements necessary to be called filled theinner wall all ' is boarded dad uptight, h g t, the a good farmer. A few fail from sheer in- door closed, and the space between filled dolence. A few fail from ill -health. • But with 'sawdust. If the doors for removing more of those who do no more than , live ensilage are not conveniently placed for from hand to mouth on"the farms fail from filling, a'small_door will be necessary, situ- a lack of system. They perhaps do as much ated according to requirements. Ventilate physical labor and often more than the man either by roof or gable. If the silo is more who makes fair success of bis work under than sixteen feet long it is advisable to di- the same surroundings. But it is somehow vide by removable plank partition. The . not done to the same or right purpose. It two most important points to be observed in doesn't cut joints well and the ends don't construction are to have it very string and meet up as theyshould. Such a man never perfectly air -tight. - has a very clear idea as to the cause of t he Cost ancity of -Silo.-One ton of trouble. He is more apt tobelieve that the ensilage will fifty: cubic, feet. Thetrouble - e_ost of silo depends n lies in his surroundings than in him - pe p�►n so many circum- self for not understandingthem better and stances that it might be advisable to give a making the most of them. He doesn't mix fewesamDles: with his brother farmers at farmers 1hsti- Ft' Tons, tutes and never gets at the real gist of than �24s45s�lfi.Separate,8rick,fourPooms3So�1,g�® 8' g� Y Mows of barn 175 un things thea areenuch - better understood by Sete build'wg,�woodenees ,gyp those whr• meet together for the oonsidera- I2x12x2Gz9tzil- Bag Booty, se ftaerlover 1?R 75 75 46 tion of - 'aestions affecting the mutual in- . -.1€'1 :....... :1 Again, t barn. 65 85 tereste of all farmers_ of the community. IIsi e2 Irl cornett of barn go a , Yet there Linn -improvement upon the old eek lid I barb order of things. There tire more men in a �a15 100 of barn .neighborhoodwho-take-an-active interest in Itwillbe seen that where a root _cellar or corthe •winter session of the institute than n -ota, barn is utilised, the cost inlay be there used to be. s More of them read agri 'easily kept -under i for each ton capacity. A root cellar alone fa -]tot deep enoug�r for `cultural journals They more generally •. buy pure-karate-di-for_breeding purposes, theyappreciate°the.value of improved seed andel alladvanced_ideas in special . lines of fuming- Theseare all:encouraging features of the•latter day_order of. things; . It is an uphill movement bntarsliing shoulders are at the wheel and the old- cart has got to move. - Muer_lionagoment of Cow& - mtlred farming the, -cow : plays an itis - Fal d_ onhermanagement-de- a Wit"meauaire.Jhe =taintof the-terill' ofueor cheese: It MEN OF MILLIONS. - tigreicrraeing in England by punning it solely- for the sake of sport ands horsebreed• Mpg; and not at all for the sakf gamlTmg ett_ Lord Rothschild is nominally the head of #be London bank, commonly called:IC M Rothschild & Sons ; and in all matters of serious importance he takes an active -inter- est in the business. But his next brother, Alfred, is really the financier and the city man who bears the responsibilities of the _mighty house of Rothschild. He is a di- rector of the Bank of England, and through one channel or another is represented in the control of every financial institutioo of first. rate importance. He is highly educated, andffar superior intellectually, to the over- sew man of business ; and -when he is con--_ stilted as he invariably is,upon financial ques- tions of world-wide magnitudes he istsegard- ed rather as a statesman than as a mere banker. It might be well=imagined that no one man could possibly bear the burden of such a business as his, bnt,'in fact, the Rothschilds have asystem of family councils which greatly relieves the strain on thetindividuats, and:at the same time makes - their judgment.in financial questions almost infallible., It mould be quite im- Golden Thoughts for Every Day, possible for ;such a series of blunders to Monday - occur in their affairs as occurred in the affairs And as feeble babes that suffer,of the Barings, where one member of the Toss, and cry, and will not rest, firm,. Lord Revelstoke, was allowed for years Are the ones the tender mother to follow his own bent, almost without the Holds the closest, loves the best-- knowledge of his partners. With the Rothe- So when we are weak and wretched, Childs a certain well -considered, well -tried By our sins weighed down, distressed, Then it isthat God's great patience line of policy is adhefred to, and on all Holds us closest, levee us best - special occasions, not only the members of -(Saxe Holm. the London firm, but those of the several Tuesday -A gardener who wants to grow continental firms, are consulted, and their nothing but the best of apples would first joint decision, backed by their joint credit, make a proper selection of the geed ; and is what is carried out. Broadly speaking, the man who manages the nursery does not the secret of the Rothschilds' success is the leave the seeds to manage themselves. The very simple one of not taking extraordinary seed of the apple is carefully put into the risks for the sake of making an exorbitant grounds, and is the beginning of a young profit. Their operations are often very bold tree. The seed, if let alone after it comes and startling ; but they never go into a above the ground, will be an inferior, sour, transaction without being fully prepared to bitter, and natural kind of fruit. In order bear the utmost loss that can ensue from it. to bring forth good fruit, when the young They make mistakes and incur losses some- tree has reached a certain stage, its top is times, like other people, but nobody ever cut off, and a tender sprig is selected with hears of them, and the first -loss is the last. great care from a well-known good apple Sometimes they provide vast sums of tree, and is fastened to the stock, it being money tor objects which cannot possibly joined with such care that complete adhe- pay them directly ; but those who know Sion is the result. Now the stock growsdown them best are the least likely to question into the ground, and the sprig that is in - the ultimate wisdom of their action. They grafted grows up and is the tree. It is a invest enormously in land, in which re- wonderful fact bearing upon the course of spect they differ from most Jewish nature that only trees of the same'kind can houses -but only in countries under the be grafted in this way. -[W. M. Taylor. British flag ; whereas they invest almost to an equal extent in mines in foreign coun- tries. They have •a complete monopoly of the quicksilver mines of the world ; and they actually regulate the supply so as to obtain the highest price that is compatible with the necessities of commerce. On the whole, however, the Rothschilds are oppos- ed to monopolies and rings: They prefer to live and let live, and to take only their fair share of what is to be got in the open market. They give no countenance to un- derhandor secret combinations. This was strikingly exemplified in the case of the Union General, a great French banking scheme which aimed at nothing leas than the monopoly of the finance of all the Catho- lics in the world. It was entirely got up by Jews, but was so skillfully done that mast of the leading Catholics of Europe fell into the trap and believed it was a Catholic af- fair. The pope not only gave it his sanction, but invested a large amount of papal funds init. The Austrian emperor and his family took stock in it to the extent of 1,000,000 pounds sterling. The Comte de Chambord and the other Bourbons did the same. The Rothschilds were offered an opportunity of joining at an early stage on very profitable terms, and there is little doubt if they had joined, the project would have succeeded. But they positively refused to have any- thing to do with it and privately warned all their friends and clients againstit.. The re- sult was a disastrous failure and a loss of $50,000,000. If the old Rothschilds had ognized that English Jews were in ever not opposed it as promptly and emphatical- respect worthy of the liberties of English - little dirt1 as y money out ofat,tried toyet knot committing themselves openly to it, the loss would probably have been ten times as great as it was, and the consequences would have been felt all over the world. Sometimes sentiment enters into the Rothschilds' business affairs, as when they withdrew altogether from dealing in Rus- sian loans as a mark of their indignation at the barbarous treatment of the Jews by the Czar's government. That withdrawal doubtless cost the Rothschilds a good deal ; for Russia pays high rates of interest and has never made default.* But it inflicted such a blow on Russia that the finances of that country have been in confusion ever since. It must be said for the Rothschilds that they are always on the side of enlighten- ment and progress. In politics in England they have been advanced Liberals ever since they I:ad influence at all ; and when, in 1886, Mr. Gladstone broke up the Liber- al party by Ins home rule bill, the whole family went with John Bright, Lord Hart- ington, Mr. Cnamberlain, and the others who are now called Liberal Unionists. They are stanch supporters of the empire and warmly attached to the royal family, and they enjoy the personal friendship of tha Queen and the Prince of Wales. The Rothschilds are very much alike in appearance, and are unmistakably Jewish looking. They are of exactly the same type, in fact, as thousands of Jewish bank- ers and merchants who may be seen any day in the streets of New York, and having nothing in common with the romantic Oriental type depicted by Disraeli in his novels and exemplified to some extent him- self. They are short and stout, with black hair,dark complexion, large nose, and thick lips and though their physique is already improved ed p by outdoor exercise and country life, it will take some generations yet to make them resemble their Anglo-Saxon fel- low countrymen. Lord Rothschild's only daughter married the . Earl. of Rosenburg, and the probability is that other mixed mar- riages will follow, until the Rothschilds, like the Disraelis and others, will loose their Jewish identity and became absorbed into the English stock. - However that may be, it is certain that so long as they retain their family characteristics and their countless wealth, they will never cease to exercise an appreciable influence on the affairs of their country and of the world. EDWARD WAKEFIELD. Somet baUt the gent Jai r ait Sam et e tug Family of the i*pthsehttds. LONDON, C4Efli 1#. -There are so maty Rothschilds; and they are So mach alike in many respects, that the individuality of each is to some extent Iost, and in England, at least, they are spoken of more as a family than as separate personages. They form, in fact, a most singular group of men and ex- ercise a - vast weight in politics and society as well as in finance. It is a curious thing that there are fewer Jews in England than in any other country in Europe, though they enjoy more perfect equality there than in any other. Until forty years ago, indeed, they remained under certain political disabilities, ler the reason that they could not conscientiously take the oaths which then were necessary for admission to certain public positions. But for many years before the Jewish dis- abilities were abolished by special act of Parliament, public opinion had entirely con- demned them, and social sentiment had ignored them. The late Baron Lionel Roths- child was four times elected member of the House of Commons for the city of London, one of the most distinguished positions an Englishman can occupy, before he was able to speak or vote. He sat " without the bar " for some sixteen years, a silent wit- ness of gross injustice and a monstrous absurdity ; and his constituents, the proud- est commercial community in the world, preferred to be represented by him in that humiliating situation rather than by any one else who could enjoy all the rights and privileges of a member of Parliament. On the last occasion when the Jewish di abilities bill was brought forward, the Earl of Derby, then leader of the opposition in the House of Lords, spoke strongly against it on the ground that Jews were not fit to sit in a Christian legislature. An admirable cartoon was published at the time representing the well-known scene in Sir Walter Scott's " Ivanhoe," where Isaac of York seeks to take the hand of the Knight Templar, Brian de Bois Gilbert. In the novel, the Templar repels him with scorn, exclaiming " Back Jew ! I touch not misbelievers save with the sword !" In the caricature Lord Derby was represented saying to Baron Rothschild : " Back Jew ! I touch not misbelievers save with the - betting book. What will you do about Blink Bonny ?" Blink Bonny was Lord Derby's famous mare that won the stakes in '63, and the allusion was to the well- known fact of the haughty earl being an intimate friend of the Jewish banker on the turf, The bill was passed into law +hat year, Baron Rothschild took his seat in the body of the House of Commons amid cheers and congratulations from all sides, and the Eng- lish Jews, than whom the Queen possessed no more loyal or public-spirited subjects, entered into the full rights of citizenship. Long before then, of course, men of Jewish blood had held all sorts of high positions. Disraeli had been Chancellor of the Exchequer and Bernal Osborne had sat in Parliament for years. But these were either Christianized Jews, or, at all events, they had no scruple about taking any kind of oath that was tendered to them. Baron Rothschild was the first Jew adhering open- ly and avowedly to the faith of his fore- fathers, who was enabled to hold office in England, and no more creditable repre- sentative of his people could have been chosen. With their legal disabilities, the preju- dices of other kinds against the Jews rap- idly disappeared. One of their number, Sir George Jessel, who has elevated to the judicial bench, proved one of its noblest ornaments. Sir Moses Montefiore, the centenarian philanthropist, rather honored the rank of baronet than was honored by it ; and in all departments of life it soon came to be pec- rke- Gate_ Tu v ip $ketch of Imagination. at.school, the dainty mite, arose in bloom, my robe of white r's room. to Blue syesgrew round, with wonder fill Aganapa and globes -she spied. - "Dottie -May stay if she sits still." "Me stay all day," she cried. -"Please take your places at the board, Class number one and two." A patting step, void slightly Iowered, 'Dot do, some yititigs too.' etteithiightened flash led he little A quivering lip and deepening blush Her grieving heart betrayed. But not for any fault of hers, Would she appear to grieve ; Quick as a flash she now prepares A fair excuse to weave. Blue eyes through tears she can't retard Just fall on Tommy Lee, "I yants you flp him orful hard, He's looking names at me." —[Primrose FuIIer. men. Now it is difficult to realize that any doubt on that point, or any feeling on the subject, existed within the life of middle- aged people now living. There was a fear that when Jews were admitted to perfect equality in England, they would swarm in from the continent and dominate the country by their wealth and their clannishness. That, however, was totally unfounded. For some reason not easily explained, Jews have never become numerous in England. Moreover, the English Jews have never shown that tendency to . hold themselves aloof and remain a peculiar people which they display elsewhere. On the contrary, they become thoroughly English in habits and ideas and in a few generations are merged by marriage in the general popula- tion. Even their foreign names pass away in time or undergo a change into an Erglish form. This interesting subject is admira- bly dealt with by Disraeli in " Endymion," where in the character of Mr. Neufchatel, he draws a life -like portrait of Baron Roths- child, the founder of the most English of all Jewish families. Baron Rothschild, though bearing a for- eign title and presiding over a great Jewish bank in the city, was essentially an English country gentleman ; and his sons have taken after him. He died in 1879, and the family now consist of his three sons, Nathaniel Mayer, Lionel, and Leopold, with their cousin, Baron Ferdinand, son of Aurelius, head of the house of Rothschild at Vienna, who is a nr.turalized British subject ani thoroughly English in all but birth. The beautiful county of Buckinghamshire seems to have some special attraction for the gr eat Jewish families. It was there that Disraeli made his home, in the romantic manor house of Hu fiend n e and 't' i is there that at the Rothschilds have planted . themselves as firmly as if they were native to the soil. The town of Aylesbury is the very centre of their influence. Nathaniel Mayer Roths- child was member of the house of Commons for Aylesbury for twenty years,and when in 1885 he was elected to the House of Lords, his cousin,Baron Ferdinand, was elected his successor and still retains the seat. The several Rothschild estates adjoin one an- other and cover a large extent of the most picturesque country in England, and the noble mansions where they live in princely- splendor are the most conspicuous objects in Many a mile of landscape. Since Nathaniel Mayer was created Lord Rothschild, the first Jew who ever was ennobled in England, his branch of the family have ' dropped their foreign title of baron and are content to be plain esquires, like the gentry with whom they rank ; and when "Baron Rothschild " is spoken of in England now, it is always Baron Ferdinand, M. P., for Aylesbury and. lord of the magnificent estate of. Waddes- den, that is referred to. Lord Rothschild lives at Tring Park on the borders of Buck- inghamshire and Hertfordshire, and is one of the best landlords and most popular of country gentlemen. He is a keen sports man, a master of foxhounds, and like his father, a noted patron of the turf. He owns good horses, and runs then to win, and he shares with the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Westminster, and other men of the high- , est rank, the credit of maintaining the pres- A Coriolis Inquest. There is to seen just now : at the south African General Agency at Cock- spur -St., Charing Cross, London, a curious collection of dried-up or mummi- fied baboons taken from a cave near Cron- stadt in the Orange free state. They have Wednesday -Those who have searched into human nature observe that nothing so much shows the nobleness of the soul, as that its felicity consists in action. Every man has such an active principle in him that he will find out something to employ himself upon, in whatever place or state of life he is posted.-[Budgell. Thursday -For my own part I never could think that the soul while in a mortal body lives, but when departed out of it dies ; or that its consciousness is lost when it is discharged out of an un conscious habitation. But when it is freed from all corporeal alli- ance, then it truly exists. Farther, since the human frame is broken by death, tell us, what becomes of its parts ? It is visible whither the materials of other beings are translated ; namely, to the source from whence they had their birth. The soul alone. neither present or departed, is the object of our eyes. -[Cyrus the Elder. Friday - It is not so much what you say As the manner in which you say its, It is not so much the language you use As the tone in which you convey it. "Come here!" I sharply said, And the baby cowed and wept ; "Come here!" Icooed, and he looked and smiled, And straight to my lap he crept. The words may be mi'd and fair, And the tones may pierce like a dart; The words may be soft as the summer air, And the tones may break the heart. For words but come from the mind, And grow by study and art ; But the tones leap forth from the inner self And reveal the state of the heart. Whether you know it or not - Whether you mean it or care - Gentleness. kindness, love, and hate - Envy and anger are there. -[Anonymous. Saturday -This is my firm persuasion, that since the human soul exerts itself with so great activity ; since it has such a re- membrance of the best, such a concern for the future ; since it is enriched with so many arts, sciences, and discoveries, it is impossible but the Being which contains all these must be immortal. -[Cato. Beware of Covetousness. "But 1 say unto you, beware of covetous- ness." -Luke xii., 15. The devout yet humorous Dr. Thomas Fuller, who served the church of God three centuries ago, published a series of brief books containing what he called "Good Words." These good words were all gath- ered from the word of God, and were found suitable to -good times and bad. times, and, indeed, to all sorts of times. We may wisely do as he did when times are bright or dark, when storms are overhead or rain- bows span the sky. If we turnto our Bible we shall always find just the "cord the circumstances of the hour call for. We have passed through a week of sad and grave experiences. The sad battle of the toilers in Pennsylvania has marked the darkest page in the calendar of the year. Homes and hearts are desolate to -day on which the sun shone fair but a week or two ago. Blood has been shed, . life has been sacrificed, graves have been dug What word has the Bible for us to -day. This one word, "Beware of covetousness." A young man came to Christ with a perplex- ing legal difficulty; he wanted Christ to settle a matter between his brother and himself. But the Great 1 eacher did much better than that. He laid down a principle that would govern all such cases, and if obeyed would spare such scenes as this week has witness- ed to the veryend of time "Beware of covetousness !" If the evil spirit of covet- ousness were driven out of the hearts of men, there -would be no men in this land boasting of thirty, forty, and fifty millions of dollars ; nor would there be the abject poverty that too much abounds, nor would there be the hard, rough way of walking, the ceaseless, eternal grind of labor, that makes life a bnrden, and leads -nen to ask, sometimes wholly in agony and half in despair, if Iife is indeed worth living. Beware of covetousness ! It shuts up the heart and seals all the springs of tender human love, and makes man the robber and oppressor of his brother man. Beware of covetousness ! It inflames the passions of those who, stung by a sense of wrong, take the skin on them still and .m two instan• *the law into their own hands and scatter ces the female has a young baboon clas P- wreck and ruin far and wide. Beware of ed in its arms as if attempting to save it from some sudden catastrophe. In the cave were also fond two human skuils, a dog's head, a bird and the head of an antelope all imbedded in the wall of the cave and all having the same appearance of great agony or fright. Sevetal experts have examined the remains with a view of ascertaining if possible the cause of death, the most prole She-" Who uses all the snuff that is able theory being a sudden flood. manufactured ? " He-" No one nose. " covetousness ! Ie may bring the bloody reign of civil strife if not checked in . time With the sad story of the Homestead and Idaho strife ringing in our ears, we may well unite with all our hearts in the earnest prayer : "Give peace in our time, 0 Lord." LTEBRITISll NEWSI .A waterspout has brok' o of Langtoft, near Driffield, several houses, and flooding the vi t.: ge ant land in the vicinity. On Monday evening Henry Barratt, a far mer of Congleton, Cheshire, was fo and deaf from the effects of gunshot woresehe He hal gone out shooting, and, as he eves alone, i! els impossible to say how the fatality occurr ed. It is said that the lives of more than on, member of the English Royal l+amily err insured by various people who keep the premiums paid, and will take the insurance money in the event of its becoming due. Immediately after the declaration of the poll on Tuesday night at Oxford, Mr. Ben jamin Bluegrove, a hairdresser, fell dead it Corn Market Street, owing, it is supposed, to the unusual excitement. The Guion steamer Alaska, which arrived at Queenstown on Monday, reports having passed on last Wednesday an open boat in mid-Atlantic. There was no person on hoard -apparently a boat which was wash. ed off some derelict vessel. A shocking accident happened at North. with on Monday. Joseph Rathbone, aged 15, Winnington, was running across Messrs Brunner®Mond, & Company's salt rock pit bank in Northwich, when he stumbled and fell headlong down the shaft. He was caught in a bucket suspended at a depth of 300ft. Death was instantaneous. Australian mail news of Monday states that the yacht Sunbeam, formerly the pro- perty of Lord Brassey, has sunk off an island in Admiralty Gulf, north of the Kimberley district. The cause was a hole in the engine -room flooring, caused by corrosion. Captain Read voyaged 400 miles in a whale- boat to Roehuck Bay, in order to put him- self in communication with the owners. On Monday a tragic incident occurred at Guide Bridge Railway Station. Lydia Bennett, residing at Waterside, Hadfield, left Hadfield, for Ashton with David Travis tc whom she was to be married. The bride was taken ill on the way, and on ariving at Guide Bridge Station she was removed from the train to one of the waiting rooms, where she expired. There is a proposal to revive the famous Red -Haired Club of Dublin, which was a society which barred out all \;hose hirsute covering was not of the most pronounced , auburn. In order that no man could gain admission by false pretences, it was requir- ed at the initiation of each member that the applicant wash his hair and whiskers in hot soda and water. This effectually took out any " dye" that might have been used. An extraordinary affair is reported from the farm of Mr. Cloke, near Newent. His flock of between 300 and 900 sheep being afflicted with scab, he consulted a relative who forwarded a recipe for a wash. Not long after the first application of it, 400 of the sheep died, and the next day 103 died, and it is not expected that the remainder of the flock will recover. A veterinary surgeon has certified the cause of death to be mercurial poisoning. At Stornoway, on Monday, there was captured a specimen of a fish never, so fai as is known, hitherto seen in these waters. The creature was observed lazily sporting about in the inner harbour, and having a fin not unlike that of a whale, it was sup• posed to be one ; but on being captured and landed it was found to be a very fine spec*• men of the sun fish, and measured -length, 80 inches ; breadth, 48 inches ; thickness, 20 inches ; from tip to tip of fins, 90 inches. A sad burning fatality occurred at Birk. dale, Southport, on Monday. Three chil dren were playing in a stable belonging tc John Gregson, a keeper of horses and donkeys, in Vaughan Road, when the straw took fire, and they were burned to death before any assistance could be rendered. Two of the children belonged to Gregson himself, and the other to Rob. Rockliffe, his brother-in-law. Their ages varied from four to six years. On Monday morning, after recording his vote in the Astley Bridge polling district of Bolton burgh, a Conservative elector, named Enoch Aspinall, about 50 years of age, met with his death. He was endeavor- ing to step on to a lorry, which contained his working tools, when he slipped and fell, and the wheels of the heavily -laden vehicle passed over him, death being almost instan- taneous his head and body being badly. crushed. About 6.30 on Monday evening a shock- ing accident occured on the Rhyl promen- ade. A brake full of visitors was returning from a drive, when, just as it was opposite High Street, and passing close to a troop of black minstrels, the horses took fright and bolted. The heavy vehicle was dragged through a group of little children, killing one on the spot and injuring several others, four.of them seriously. The little child that was killed was a native of Rhyl ; the in- jured were all visitors. On Wednesday morning a shocking case of wife -murder and suicide occured in Bir- mingham. The man who is named Frederick Goodhand, aged 60, and who lived with bis wife, a woman of 50, in a court in Heneage Street, has recently exhibited most extra- ordinary symptoms of jealousy, and fre- quently watched her movements most care- fully, even when she left the house to go on a simple errand. On Tuesday night he purchased a revolver, and while the woman 9 was asleep shot her through the head, put- ting a bullet through his own brain immedi- ately afterwards. The report does not seem to have been heard at the time, and the bodies were not found until nine o'clock on Wednesday morning. The act is attri- buted to despondency following failure of health. Some SummEr Don'ts If you go into the country to -day, as you ought, take this advice with you. If you can't remember it paste it in your hat. Don't ask any one to sit in a boat while you try to learn to row it. Don't risk any other life than your own in a sailboat when your only lesson in the navigating art has come from watching others. Don't trust to the courage that comes from beer. The water never accommodates itself to the vagaries of muddled ignorance. Don't change seats in a rowboat when you are in the middle of a stream. Don't forget that the woods are refer than the water for a landsman. Don't go swimming in a strong undertow immediately after a hearty dinner. Don't work too hard for your pleasure. Don't wear a tall hat or a stiff shirt, or puff tobacco smoke in the faces of women. Don't spend the day lapis's ogee Monde) of repentance: REMA l AHap1 the SI al an Story Ivies Toronto For mo the Empi of sorne o 19th cent cases hith medical particula by such 1 Spectator Toron to Detroit Albany I; tion plat made. Recent rerearkab Oakville, years of h pire dete most rigi detailed a tboroug the case. our depor upon Mr. so miracu been in co convinced not only t been told. at work i of the Oa surprised, the cane, young fel countenan rugged yo great par suffering Empire purpose o fully volu for the be said Mr. birth, an my parent that time boy of n of age, a years old matory r during the tween tha months ag much I su on, I thin the cold is began to s tighten, a contract. fined to be leave my r ed in a4mi of potassi any mater! months of to leave th and I was I was than following n forced to to in 1886, an than the legs, arms, of my fra and muscl the disease face swelle to open my gether. I, o teeth were ed down m could speak ly, I ani un in during t my swollen cords up to whole fram describable a deformed months I wi was able to 9 cal wreck, helpless cri tinually it' would be ho je seized evi fall uncons all this time of medical unavailing. to build u tonics. In 1890 I agai tacks, and a a last resor General Ho on June 20 until Septe But, notwit tention best stitution, nc in my condi able reined y l there was a elusion that was sent a that I migh c erdinely fr of January once a wee ment. At worse, and the hospital, fering condi ' , In the sprin ville, and in toward my work in the conveyed to a buggy and in the works ed my wor again &trick en utterly nary 1892. druggist, str lams' Pink prejudiced a as I had spe numerous hi remedies. I •. luantities of tad exbauste+ n vain, and take Mr. Ja ieveral, stron tf Dr. Will guilder and n f I could onl lition my ge mproved, I :riaL With t ought a box, anprovemen t, She other rem an by fries Pills and after. warded by n ;he better. spirits began ase of my m blesome evetU; the Remedy ry •