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above ;us, coning rim .afar
- .and approaching ,ns- neater and nearer,
metering and .groaning, and ever in-
creasing in .vOltune--it: was upon us in
.,an instant.
The -masstve'brickk house we were in
• ',he/PA to Moay. fro, n side to side -gently
• ,at:st , a hmical motion, then
graaliy in in force, . until,
• ging to -'our leet weeized one an-
other by the hand and gazed with
'blanched and . we -struck fa s at the
tottering walls..around us.- We felt the raat
beneath our feat i]sing like the
ena of a storm. ossed veskand heard
the `crashing e 41.1hig.masonry and
:ruins one a With. still-
QQi were in
the t o: earthquake The mo -
e house, never . Ceasing, be-
-vertical and down it
dh .so monstrous giant
l� t in .his hands as a plaything,
eying it like a ball for his
t Recalling our dazed senses,
goring to our feet as best we
with one accord we rushed down
the, steps leading to the front door, and,
,grasping the handle, turned it. In vain
seethe door was jammed, and we were
aeompelled to wait like rats in a trap
until the shock had passed!
stastsiConeentrating its energies into one
.-.nsl, .convulsive effort, the huge earth-
ve, passed., and left the earth palpitat-
• :ing and -weaving like a tired .awn*
There, came crashing -Lown into Our
den .plot• the chimneys from the house
-oust of ours. Fortunately the falling
injured none of us. Making ;'an-
` =d in opening the
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A .iia :t£3,: T4,413
M1b.
P,. MAW- o' be . ' oil •anti
c .diens wioo had rimed• Si -out pk-their
muses, as we had done, and who stood
vutlx°se in the middle of4 the street,
swatting they knew net what.
Sndd'en1ythere came -again to our
ears We now dreaded rambling sound.
Like some fierce animal, growling and
seeking; its victim, it approached,
and we all prepared ourselves for the
-Want- `I`he shock came, and for a mo-
inesitthe crowd was awed into silence.
„Fo>aureately this shock was not nearly
_aa the -first. The earth became
once" more, and the roaring died
assn the distance.
_the -people shunned their houses,
'tent that- and succeeding nights in
Cts, private gardens, and on pub -
stares, is well known from the
accounts given in the deity and
vibrated - tapers et the time.
gerfectly still ,and calm was the
the -night, that a lamp which
en, out in the open air' burnt as
as though .prgtected in a room,
nofiickering revealed the presence
br ;ath of wind.
, some strong and powerful
ings in certain portions of the city
wrecked completely, while others
and undoubtedly weaker passed
igthe shock unharmed. A house
;one ioruler was perfectly shattered,
wlrals, lust 'a few hundred feet away,
the house on the opposite corner was
not_ damaged in the slightest except
that a little plastering was shaken down.
-St, lieholas for October.'
.Feriious Ridingon the Iron Horse.
/'i)id'youever ride on a locomotive?"
asked` O. G. Haskins. r`I tried it once
d have no desire to repeat the experi-
g It was out in Colorado. where
err etimes run so close to bottom-
bins that you could drop your
tin r:', • em, and make turns so short
3 en that it nearly disjoints your
CC1;gertebrEe. The master mechanic
d friend of mine, and gave me
on to ride over the road on the
f Ahe lightning express. The
did not. appear to fancy my
much, but treated me civilly.
behind time; the night was as
• blaek as Erebus, and a thunderstorm
. was -raging. The engineer was deter-
etim-- Sidle go in on time, and the way he
benhecraround those curves and across
canons wee enough to eke a man's hair
tey:.
44 .e :peculiar thing about these
mountain engines is that they ido not
rtake.a carve -like any other vehiele.They
lig 'straight - ahead until you.
attre that they are clear of the -track
.suspended in mid-air, and then
shoot Eirotmd and leave'you to wonder
by what mneme :you have =been saved.
The tetieks. kethe- curve- in the ortho-
manner, but the superstructure : is
that"it consumes more time
e turn. ' With°the lightning
rlagmgs a t the rptountain peaks and
falisclpeingthe frightful gorges and
Swolleu torrents, the great iron levia
thane yang and plunging along that
Slippery, serpentine track, I first realized
resof ural way travel and the re-
-We -sullen -man who kept
mottle and his eye en.
stood with"m -heart inmy
his nerve; but not envy-
"9t
the- first stop I"
into the coach and
ac Cursed Flwer.
tea: Indica, • as beautiful
a basil -family,: which grows
.mm- supposed to -be under
for gh-the bloom is -per -
in odor and. color, no
touch it in the
au it•iginallygrew
metwhere
rneinns =aan opon
fst;that their hues were
sued because .they stop ed- totake s
spared
second cup Of-cofee "If *hadn't been-.
for that cup" they say.,..The spot•lrom
which Mr. Sothern dates the turn in his
fortune is situated- on some part of
Broadway. Mr. Sothern `'was going
down -this thoroughfareone day in a de-
jected anddiscouragedspirit; managers
did not seem to want him, the public
had not Iearned to know him well
enough to forget -him, and even the.
papers left him alone. In this desperate
frame of mind he met a friend who ask-
ed him to come and hear a man -read a
play. The fact that Mr. Sothern did go
to hear this play read shows how des-
perate his condition was. The play was
very bad, and Sothern, on being asked
his opinion, said so to the author. A
year later the author succeeded in get-
ting the play placed upon the stage,
and telegraphed wildly over the Unit-
ed _ States for Mr. Sothern, who
was then traveling, to drop his
present engagement, to return to
New York, and play the villain in the
piece, This Mr. Sothern did, not be-
cause he thought he could play a vil-
lain, but because he had not received
any salary for twelve weeks. On his
return_ -Sothern asked the author. why,
of all people, he had' chosen him to
leave one company and come east to
play the villain in his. The author re-
plied that on the afternoon of the day
when he had first met Sothern, and
when he had read him his play, he had
noticed " a wicked look inhis eye," and
had said to himself in consequence,
That is the man to play my villain in
my play." Accordingly, a year later,
when he was about to cast the play, he
had made it a point to discover the.
whereabouts of the young stranger with
the wicked eyes, and had offered him
that part. It would make a much bet-
ter
story if I could now add that Mr.
Sothern made the hit of his life and the
sensation of the day. This, I regret to
say, I cannot do; for, though I never
saw him in the part, he assures me he
was very bad in it -so bad, indeed, that
Miss Helen Danvray's, - manager, •
geed �!s play the villain, on*
eked to play low coin in
copy`' er's Weekly.
• eaearefientie might.
A fishuently seen in- the district
aroundarotinct Vancouver" is the candle fish.'
Technically the name is Thaleichthys
Pacificus, a remarkable species of the
family Sahnonidae, strictly a sea fish
approaching the coast to spawn, but
never entering rivers, says the San Fran-
cisco Call.
The specimens measure a foot in
length, and have somewhat the appear-
ance of an eel, except the head, which is
pointed and ' conics_ 1. It has a large
mouth. The color is greenish on the
back, passing into silvery white on the
sides and-belly,which is sparsely spotted
with dirty yellow.
The Indians of Vancouver Island and
vicinity use the fish both for food and
light. It is the fattest ormost oleagi-
nous of all fishes and, it is said, of all
animals. It is impossible to either boil.
or fry it; for the moment it is subjected
to heat it turns to oil.
The Indians. who use the fish for food,
take them, and, without cleaning them,
run a skewer through the eyes and sus-
pend them -'in the thick smoke that
arises from wood fires. The fish ac-
quires the flavor of the wood and the
smoke helps to preserve it. When the
Indians want to make a meal of the fish
they heat them, reduce them to oil and
drink the oil.
When they want a light they take a
.dried fish, draw through it a . piece of
rush pitch or a strip from the upper
bark of the cypress tree, a species of
arbor vitEe, as a wick, a needle of hard
wood being used for the purpose. The
fish is then lighted -at one end and burns
steadily until consumed.
Forestry.
Every society or individual that is en-
gaged in popularizing a knowledge- of
forestry is rendering a valuable public
service.
A knowledge of the uses of our for-
ests is calculated -to check the barbarous
and ruinous habits of our predecessors
which have already destroyed much of
the possible ornamentation of our streets
and fields and threaten to affect in-
jmionsly those sanitary provisions
which nature bounteously provides for
our protection. •
The ruthless and uncalled-for destruc-
tion of the native growth of our forests,
the savage scalping of our hill -tops of
those "arboreal " locks which wreathe
their heads with pride," the grubbing
np and burning of the scented hedge-
rows along our roadsides and the need-
less destruction; of even " our swamp
thickets, whose dense shadows have,
with as much scientific exactness as
poetry, been called. the "protecting par-
ents of -our murmuring streams" :all
this wanton waste of a benign natural
provision for our health and happiness
has: not only deprived the . face of the
country of its original` beauty, " but i8.
changing for the worse the character of
our climate and even imperiling the -wa-
ter supply.
We are thus compelled to acknow'1-
edge _even on this continent that what
is called,by us civilization can be carried
to a point" by human effort at which it
ceases to be improvement : and becomes.
simply destruction:
Recent Inventions.
Reviving an old project, a French
company" proposes that lightships - con-
nected by telegraph be stationed 'at in-
tervals of 200 miles across the Atlantic
A --new invention is a saw horse with
a toothed dog for holding the piece of
timber in place, the device being pivoted.
at the:ctoss-legs and operating under, a
spring tension.
A recent invention is a bicycle tire
consisting . of an endless closed rubber
tube ailed -With hollow rubber balls'of`.
am" :-the center the same diameter as the inside diameter
it teas ;hanrly:wor.. of the tube.
tonizeis- oisthe<biess- The perpendicularity of a monument
stole it` and brought rsvisiiblyaffectedlaytherays of. the sun.
..
orshipped at= :Onevery sunny. day a tall monument
at -events:AO before has a regular swing away from ,.
Vie= spot. Ort -this ac- _-the sun. Tins-thenomenon us due -to the
untied if it were a greater expansion of the side on which
the ra-ys"of tne:sun fall. s .
A nes* electric appliance for surgeons
ran. is untended- to serve :as an extension to
t 22_, acres_ the fgers; nerves, and all. It is -a hard.,
air on , ubbei be, mclosmg a number of serail.
n• wt -res, and it as to :be attached to the
canner n inteuzlal - operation, :its de-
sign elo transmit substantially the
Betio• ns that would be experienced if
the-fts -ere incontact with the same
ata
Wif
We are now prepare to show complete lines of all
the latest styles ' of Millinery suitable for the Fall trade. -
Owing to a rush
rs our Miss Kinsey finds it im
possible to Drepare fo ', r 1 Opening, but we shall be open all the time an
pleased to have out- i se Pfriends call and inspect our,stock.
We have also
Full Lines of
antler and Dress Goads
in the
Newest Designs.
All the Departments of our establishment are full of
seasonable goods at right prices. _
Do not forget that we keep the best qualities of Family Groceies
btainable.
Vire are noted for Cheap Teas. Our 25c. and 35c. Teas cannot
bb beaten in Canada. Try them.
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Montreal House, Gorrie.
East 'c & Fioan.
ACI EI 'r.
FORDWICH, ONT.
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Money to Loan on Farm Se-
curity at the Lowest rate
of Interest.
GOOD NOTES NOTES DISCOUNTED.
Special Attention given to
CONVEYANCING.
s goof,
North of the Post Office,
FORDWICH
Fordvv-Iola
Rolier 0 Mills.
Wiesoie Biros., Props.
First-class Manitoba Wheat Flour
manufactured and always kept in Stock
and sold in any quantities.
FLOUR ,..per cwt. $2 25 to $2 50.
BRAN., per ton; 12 00
SHORTS per ton. 13 00'
Special attention given to GRISTING,
which is done on the shortest -
possible notice.
Highest Price • Paid
for Grain.
The mill is fitted throughout
with the very best roller pro-
cess machinery and appliances
and we are ",confident of being
able to give _ perfect satisfac-
tion. '
PA TONAGE SOLIC1TFD.
WILSON BROS.
ANTED.
Listowel. woollen Factory.
Highest .Prices Paid. Cash or Trade.
Largest , Wool 0,Market 0 in 0 Ontario.
L some end see our tremendous big. stook in all kinds of woollen goods whish we
Everybody offer at honour prices for Dash or in exehange for wool.
J4sv dnc Pre �i SYj\l
oc ,
We have never been so well fitted andd equipped : for, a wool season's business as at the present one,
and have never felt so completely confident of our ability to serve you with the best of goods at
bottom prices,. A ,specially attractive feature of our now' lines of Flannels, strictly NEW STYLES,
far surpasses any wool Beason yet.
-FINE WOOL '8QOT0a1. SKI RTI
(Something new offered to the trade.)
We are the oniy-woolle factory`ia Canada that make this line of goods and offer them for one -
hal the price you pay in the city of _"Glasgow
We wish to earn the•farmers not to bedcceived by shoddy peddlers going through the country
selling dislionestgoods;: We have no, pedlars handling' our goods and they canonly be bought by
dealing direct at thefactory: - • •
Roll Carding, Spinning -and Manufacturing, Tweeds, : Flan-
nels Blankets, &e;
Ta'hnking our numerous cnstomers•fortheh' pest favors, would beg to;say Bomb and bring your
neighbor to seeonr Stock, as you_ will be highly p` leased • to see goods so low is prise Fon "win find
us readytog ve'the,znost prompt and earefui,attention to iaS.
Fordwich Drug Store
A. SPENCE, M. D.,
Proprietor.
— - - A FULL LINE of
J. C. BELL,
Manager.
Drugs, and Druggists' Supplies:
Stationery and Fancy Coods,
AxT A 1_, LI, PAP�F
In endless variety and at every: price.
W. C. HAZLEWOOD
City -Boot and Shoe Store
TROX]`r]R
A. Neat Walking Boot
Is not only a comfort to the wearer but a pleasure to every one who has got a
pretty foot. We have them—the boots, we mean. And they Ane cheap.
OUR stock of Ladies and gents' slippers is unusually large and choice. See
them.
A splendid assortment of Ladies' wear of all kinds is now displayed on oar
shelves.
GENTS' carate supplied in any line.
Heavy kip and calf and the lighter Oxford, Dongolas, Wat.kenphasts etc.
Don't go past the City Boot 4 Shpe 8terp for the most satisfying article et the
most reasonable price,
MA.XI
WLL THE
VENTOR
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cal Dianne
Built in E
Any Direc
Twenty -f
since the '
wazen win
bight throe
day men's
the proble
tempted to
like fashion
the wings
give, and
than wax t
sunlight of
Hiram S.
iron age; t
teenth cent"
lem in a
brought to
his aerial
the ages to
tempt sugg
That ma
own unaid
parently •
not pass a
air as the e
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now buil. '
propelling
the nicest
He had
is required
What form
least power
a screw pro
ler grip the
Row shRil
in a vertica
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culty of
when it w
relates to t
adjusted bs
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the track b
serving the
wheels. A
on a railwa
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a small ma
light revol
of about 50
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straight r
carried we
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clouds, is i
Professor
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rouble, for
an importa
battle.
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for service
there seeme
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apparent, b
very som
orderly. It
but no ch
their music.
and more
throbbed o
—the distan
teries on th
enceinte.
quietly re
the kiosk at
I'Opera, as
22nd and p
how she co
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teries of t
member,* s
teeing now
table bloke
connoisseur.
sharper an
stands high
reports fro
broken up
trunks, and
over the en
and the hil
calmly as if
weather; a
that all the
shared the
Certainly th
dication of
saillist hand
throat befo
Sabbath SU
tober Cent
Dies
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him seems t
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she passed b
horror of th
freezes his
you know."
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dear. /Tow,
to South
Billings of
went into
really ext.
there. We
I, where th
when along
a boa, or so
pain and
Would you
at a glance
swallowed
hurting it.
a Bob do bu
was a boa
walked the
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story. Bob
stitched tha
off with a
Imagine our,
day after the
come craw
ra.lf it had
rescuing it
lace that- las
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jor. "I do
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have never
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study."
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