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Window Carpet.
Window Holland.
Lace Curtains, 40e. to $5
per set.
Art Muslin, bleached and
colored.
Tabling.
Cretonnes.
Salisbury Cloth.
Verona Cords.
Printed Challies.
Wool Delaines.
Pink and cream Cashmere
and every other shade
Nuns' Veilings.
Net Veilings.
Navy and bl'k DressSerges
Lawn Victories.
Lawn checks.
Blouse stripes.
Fiaaneletts-17 patterns.
Shaker Flannels.
Carpet warp.
Weaving warp.
Black Dress Silk.
Black Sateens.
Velvets and Plashes.
Brown Holland.
Valises.
Lunch Baskets.
Churns.
Butter Trays and Ladles.
Washtubs.
Crockery.
Glassware.
hardware.
stent Medicines.
Top Onions.
Potato Onions.
Dutch sets.
Garden Seeds
Brushes, all kinds.
Washing Soda.
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Turpentine.
Castor Oil, by the lb.
Stone- Crooke,
Earthenware Crocks.
Milk Pans.
Milk Pails.
Wash Boilers.
Tea Kettles.
do copper.
Dish Pans.
Felt Hats, just to hand.
Straw Hats for 500 heads.
Lace Frillings.
Ties and Collars.
Top Shirts.
Dress Shirts.
Scissors.
Knives and Forks.
Spools.
Teapots.
Canned Goods.
Plow Lines.
Bed Cords.
Marbles.
Wire Clotheslines.
Baby Carriages.
Croquet.
Spices.
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c1NO. BRETNOUR,
FIRE AND STOCK
Insurance Agent
REPRESENTS:
Wellington Mutual Eire Insurance Co.
Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurai_co Co.
Perth Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Economical Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
Mercantile Insurance Co.
Etna Insurance Co.
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Fordwich,
General Insurance
Agency.
ROW HORSES ADE 'JOCKEYED.'
Defects of Nature in the Noble Annuals
are Concealed, as in Women, and by
Much the Same Methods.
tame horses Made "Sound" and Old -
Timers with the Spavin Rendered. Ser-
viceable—The "Rocker -Shoe" for Found-
ered Animals—How to Inspire a Horse
slur Live! loess.
Aithough,writes H. D. Gill, the celebrated
VeLermai y Sutgeon, according to the dis-
tionary, one of the definitions of a jockey
,s n a man who rides a horse race,e" there
are other definitions which describe. a jock-
ey as " a cheat ; one -who deceives or takes
undue advantage in trade." Other defi-
nitions of the word are " to cheat; to trick;
to jostle by riding against." All horse
dealers are not, absolutely dishonest, but
there is certainly a very large proportion
of men whose business is to sell horses, or
to make money out of them in races, who
do engage in very questionable practices in
order to advance their interests. The ethic-
al philosophy of the horse -trader may be
summed up in the saying, " your eyes are
your cheat," meaning that you must use
your own judgment in a "horse deal and
not believe everything he tells you.
Horses are " doctored up" not only for
the purposes of sale, but for racing
purposes, not always, or very often for
the better class of races, but for the hun-
dreds of competitions that take place at state
and county fairs and on private racing
grounds in the rural districts. These re-
marks I shall make, therefore, about
remedying the defects of horses will apply
not only to horse dealers engaged in selling
and trading horses,' but to the jockeys of
the turf ; because it is often the case that
a very poor animal, of good stock, can
with the assistance of artificial methods
win or lose a race. He may die half an
hour after the contest but if he comes in a
winner his owner will be satisfied.
If a horse has a chronic lameness in
either foot the jockey. can inject into the
toot a solution of cocaine which, for the
time being, will render the horse sound ;
that is, it will dull the sensibility to pain
for from halt an hour to an hour and a half
and the horse will act as it he was sound.
Another method in a case like this is to
sever the nerves of the foot, there being
two nerves, one on each side of the. foot.
This deprives the lower part of the limb of
all sensation and the horse will go sound
for perhaps a year when the nerves will
form together again.
Foundered horses are made sound by
nerving them in the manner just described,
and keeping them in a soaking tub or mud -
box. By this method the inflammation is
allayed for a day. In railroad car stables
they have a series of mud -stalls for found-
ered and sore -footed horses and in which
twenty can stand at a time. One day they
work them and the next day they put them
in this box. If the animals were worked
two consecutive days they would be so sore
footed from traveling over the stones that
they would be unfit for use. Such horses are
generally shod with as heavy a shoe as they
can possibly carry, because the heavier the
iron the Lighter the concussion of the foot on
the ground. It is on the same principle as if I
puts& sheet -iron on your knee ; a good blow
would break your knee, but if I put an
anvil on your knee and hit a heavy blow
on that it would not hurt you. For found-
ered horses that come down with the heel
first they use a rock -shoe, having a roller
motion, so that when the heel strikes the
foot will roll instead of striking the pave-
ment abruptly.
There is no such thing as chest pounder.
The trouble commonly called by that camel
is due to the wasting away of the muscles,'
on account of atrophy or insufficient use of
the limb, caused by lameness in the foot.
At horse sales and races before the ani-
mal is brought out he is made to appear
"lively." Before he is taken from the
stable a man, having saturated his finger
with turpentine or capsicum, will insert it
at the lower extremity of the elimentary
canal. This will have the effect of making
the horse carry his tail in very fine shape.
It makes hint "lively" simply on account of
the pain the agent causes.
If a horse has a spavin before he is brought
out he is jostled about for a while. If a
horse is troubled with spavin the first few
steps or movements he makes are very lame
and labored, but when be is once in action
he becomes gradually better. Anyone may
be always suspicious of a horse if a man
cracks a whip over him and makes him
"dance around" in the stall. This is done
for the purpose of limbering the horse up,
especially if he has a spavin.
The leopard may not be able to change
his spots, but a good jockey can take an
anittial and make him a horse of another
color. He will use nitrate of silver (peroxide
of hydrogen) to bleach different parts of the
body so as to make a team match. Suppose
yon have a team of sorrels, one had a silver
tail and mane and the other had not. The
jockey would bleach -the tail and mane of
the Iatter. If a star was wanted in the fore-
head he could put it there or produce for
you a white nose, one or more white
legs, bleaching them so as to make them
match. If a horse's tail is not big enough
or symmetrical he can switch in some false
tail just as the ladies do with their hair.
A horse will show his age by the hollow-
ness over his eyes. In such a case the jockey
will introduce a little tube and, by browing
in air, will cause the hollows to puff up,
and if the chest or shoulder of a horse is
atrophied --what is known as sweeney of the
shoulder—be will introduce a little tube
and blow up the skin. This condition in a
horse can always be detected by polling the
skin which will crackle under the touch ;
it will not have the solid feeling of flesh.
In regard to teeth young horses,
. natural-
ly, have what is known as cups,"
excava-
tions, marked black, which disappear when
they.becorneolder,leiflg worn off. The jockey,
to misieadthose who are interested in horses,
will artificially excavate or cut out the surfcae
of the teeth and blacken them with nitrate
of silver. This can always be stitched in a
"bishoped mouth," as it is called, by the
absence of the ring of enamel around this
blackcup, it being always presentin young
Theof a horse's teethfrom youth
to etre are oval,then triangular,thenflat-
tened
a -
ed on the sides ; the latter • being the
of the tooth itself. The root is very
narrow and as the tooth wear$ off, it as
ae.
But -there -are horsejockeytrickses ecial-
I connected: With .este races. Is a ruining_
y
lose. To mislead the public he will hire a
good jockey and, just before the animal gots
to the post, he will give him a pailful of
water. This of course, causes the horse,
before he goes very far, to feel troubled
about his wind and, in jockey parlance, he
is called "a deal horse." The jockey is
not supposed to know anything about this
proceeding. A pail of water, or some ano-
dyne like opium will be sufficient to make
a horse " logey" and lazy and cause him to
lose a race which he would otherwise win.
Sometimes a pebble or a nail will be put
under a horse's shoe to cause him to go lame
so that the owner can scratch him. Of
course the stewards of a racing club do not
allow a horse to be scratched unless there
is a very good excuse. But if an owner
does not want his horse to run he can put
some foreign body under the shoe, or tie a
string around the ankle pretty tight,which
causes the leg to swell, and the horse to be
lame the next morning.
An injection of hydro -chlorate of cocaine
is often put into horses to make them run
faster and undoubtedly it does have that
effect. This is the same medicine, the
leaves of which Weston, the pedestrian,
used to chew when he mace his long jour-
neys. To show the efficiency of this trick
will say that the preparation was once
introduced into a horse tailed "Spartacus."
He was a very well-bred animal but wind-
broken. A half a dram of this solution was
introduced hyberdermically. A strong man
was put on the horse's back with orders to
jog him until the half mile post and then
let him go for a mile. The horse went along
easily for the first' half mile then took the
bit and ran steadily for five miles, the
jockey being obliged, from sheer exhaustion,
to fall off. The horse was finally stopped
by a row of men stauding across the track.
The effect of this injection- generally lasts
for about half an hour. It is used a great
deal.
At the horse -killing establishment on
Long Island, I once experimented with this
medicine. A number of old horses were
brought in and two of them dropped from
sheer exhaustion half a mile from. the es-
tablishment. They could not make the
animals move. We gave each of them an
injection of cocaine, and, in five minutes,
they got on their feet and not only appear-
ed strong
ppear.edstrong but actually ran and appeared
very lively. This illustrates the stimulat-
ing effect of the drug.
Electricity is also used to increase a
horse's speed. A jockey will carry a
battery attached to a belt around his body,
the conductors passing to the spurs on each
foot. The application of the spurs to the
side of the animal completes the circuit
and transmits to the horse's body the
electrical impulse and induces the animal to
greater speed. Several jockeys have been:
discovered using this appliance.
Running horses are nerved for lameness
in the foot. They are troubled with joint
and tendon troubles, particularly the
ligaments and tendons of the front limbs.
"Breaking down" on the race track is a
rupture of the suspensory ligament of either
one or both the front feet.
In riding a race the jockeys will jostle
one another and cut one another down. A
jockey will try to throw his companion
over the fence by putting his foot under the
foot of the other jockey and lifting him off
the saddle.
They will foul one another by running ir-
regularly across in front. When they think
a jockey is going to hurl them, if the jock-
ey uses his whip in his right hand, another
will come up so close to him as to make it
impossible for him to strike the horse with
the whip.
One or two jockeys in a race will also com-
bine to defeat another by what is called
placing him "in a pocket," i.e. keeping him
behind and giving him no chance to get
through. Because to do so he would
be obliged to go around the horses,
which would, very often, throw the horse
off his stride, which the horse would be un-
able to catch again until he had covered con-
siderable ground.
It is very common for jockeys to make,
fake starts. They will purposely make a
number of these to tire out their adversar-
ies. There are generally some hard -mouth-
ed horses in a race and during these false
starts they run away for a quarter or half
a mile; become tired and thereby reduce
their chance of winning. Jockeys always
try to get the advantage of one another in
the start. It often occurs that a starter is -
obliged to fine every jockey in the race,
particularly the short distance race where
a good start is an important factor.
A New Ido a•
Buda-Pesth is a city of Hangary, contain
ing about 500,000 inhabitants, and they
have adopted what may be called a tel-
ephonic journal, which is said to work ex-
cellently well. For the convenience of the,
editor the town is divided into eight sec-
tions, each section having one conducting
wire. Says a contemporary : "The appar-
atus by which the news is supplied to each
house occupies a space of five inches square,
and has two tubes, so that two members
of the family can get the news at once.
The cost of putting it in is 25s., and each
subscriber pays a rate of 2s. Cid. a month
for the special newspaper service. The
news paper collector does his work in
the night, and having his budget filled
be takes his place in the central office
at nine in the morning,and begins to tell his
story,which is given in a telegraphic style,
clear,condensed,and precise. In five minutes
after the first delivery:the budget of news is
repeated, iu case some of the subscribers
may not have heard. It consists for the
most part of home events and news of Hun-
gary. At ten o'clock the foreign news is
given, and after eleven the doings of the
Hungarian Parliament. Various items of
city news are given during the day."
A Uase for Sympathy.
Witherby-" You haven't seen - my new
boy, have you ? They say he takes after his
father."
Plankington—" If he takes the sanieh
thing his father takes, I'm sorry for him, old
mart."
Call and get your Will glade. 1 Steelsharrels are now welded by electric -
Or call and get h. rues. ity. A` large industry'is being built at
Dr. Wilford Hall's Hygienic pamphlet: Mete' shape Barrow, England, in the production of steel
nelous Triumph Over Disease Without Medi 1 fl t barrels for the coil veyat ce of_petroleum. The
cine," at half ormer cost~ ten barrels are made in halves, by means of
Or ANY INSURANCE. either on village oe aurashape .compression in a .mold when hot. After -
farm property.
warda they are welded together by'electr -
t r•aarp ;aritingyoir require. somas that ah p -city, ' The barrels =are- intended for`use by,
r•a l on. real estato at the lowestt-rates But p the large oil trade la the east, where the
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P; j Epgt T� t: , i att suPeose a, trainer wants his horse to risks -and result$ ill so much leakage.
temlierature,has aitieat. ;effect on ,:woo
BUILDING- YIATERIAL.
sgTCH -mss -
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty Wrought, Out and
Wire Nails, Spikes, Tools of all kinds, in
great Profusion at
tinter 1?1. Henry's
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Fordw±ch
Hard -ware
ftp
eve
,A tore,
A. full stock of all kinds of Hardware. No
need to go to the "big towns," for we have
(everything. Come and deal at a first-class
house, where goods are way down cheat. Immense line of
ALABASTINE for the walls, in all colors.
Tinsrnithing and Repairing a Speciality
.seas
An elegant stock of
SOOTS
AND
P. H. SHAVER'S, GORRIE,
8110H]S
Something choice in
Gents' Walking Shoes,
Ladies' Lace Boots,
Boys' and Girls'
Boots and Shoe
r_ -r, choicest leather in stock and make a speciality of ordered work. POD
feet Zits guaranteed.
IREPRIRING PROMPTLY DONE.
P. H. H
AWE `WOU
MOVING TO ?
Vie .are going to
CJ1TFIPE A
Co., Michigan, near Sault
Ste Marie.
WHY DO YOU GO THRRE ?
Well, we have five boys,
Jove have sold the farm for $5,
000. We can buy 640
acres between Pick-
ford and the Railway
station at Rudyard,
fnd have a good farm
or each of the boys
and have money left.
What can a renter do there?
He can i'uy a farm on five years time
And pay for it with one-fourth of the
oney he would pay for rents in that
ime, and own his own home.
Is it good land ?
Asood as any-
Huron
ny in
Huron Co., Excellent
µor Oats, Peas, Wheat
Clover, Timothy, Po -
toes and all kinds off
toots. Prices are as good as any on the
lakes, owing to the nearness of the
mines and lumber woods to the west-
ward.
What class of people live there ?
They are nearly all from Huron Co.
;Yon meet there so many old neighbors
(that you can hardly believe you have
ieft home.
I want to see that land. Who has it
for sale ? Incinire of
E. C. DAVIDSON,
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
.MONTCOIVIERY.
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curity at the Lowest Rate
of Interest.
Good Notes di_counted.
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Special Attention given to
CONVEYANCING
18. s. cooK,
North of the Post Office,
FORDWICI.1
.-PLANING MILL-
::- .. .. AND
SASH AND DOOR FACTORY.
H. 'S. SMITH & CO.
LAVE fitted up the Wroxeter Planing Mill
with new machinery throughout and are now
prepared to furnish
Doors,
Dl3.iids
and all kinds of House Furnishings.
PLANING AND MATCHING
DONE PROMPTLY.
Only first-class work turned
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Ply tmat1e onPPka 'ation.
Estimates Ptirnisheti.
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NIGHT IN
A.s Interesting
I hen iDrow:
,trier the Conies
Guardians of t
Is a Walking i
Police Ae.i r-
ant and the fl
Necessities —M
paper IA rut
There are certa
tween midnight a
when theatres are
when the trolley
sibillation, and t'e
the infrequent tir
when the roar of
the watchtnan's f<
ling distinctness
when adventurous
their lurking pla
when even the r
swallowed his me
home to dream o
valleys; when d
sleepiness, and t
with the electric
in spirit garment
hours of 12 p.m.
and Bloor and th
streets have do
jamas or other si
and poor are wra
pheus—a gentle
embraces are st
that portion of t
day there is still
laboring in the n
THE PEOPLE
But first,as to
to be out at th
young man who '.
abroad in darkn
familiar intercou
who vexes the dr
ing songs of Bacc
as husky as the
inclinations run t
various places w
The hotel clerk,
are no longer th
the glitter of his
but the sleepy p
can tell you how
how many bottle
per swiggle. P
one should keep
Fortunatus, who
yard stick, wake
seal brown taste
member nothing
man has unlimit
ary. He can "
long as his scant
2 a...m. he has rea
his boarding hou
fallen into oh!.
Requiesca.t in pa
nightly vice of g
routo. The pict
frequent one.
THEY
Everyone kno
sleeps at least on
noble blue-coa
watch and ward
perty and their
policeman never
the great Horner
He never retires
and indulges in
cigar given to h
affectionate re vel
til the patrol s
from his pistol
deadly and mu
lead. He does
general security
is the Lest recor
The private watc
of the night. H
than your regula
and deliver to a
with the utmost
case of a fire he
minute details.
companies and to
walking encyclo
he always ends u
name is Jones
private watchma
newspaper fame,
by those other r
diens of the pe
There is one ,gr
known to every
Watchman Burr
out, winter and
shine, storm and
of honorable ye
roughs answered
" WHAT
His dog Jack is
and when bis m
he is glad enou
pavement and
faithful Jack e4
no one has ever
was not as vigils.
what a mine of
Burroughs ' He
reporters seekin
ly interest in t
more than one of
and properly "
live, he and his
Then there are
watch of the S.0
little dingey goes
hour patrol on t
the aquatic Col
Briareus handed
lightfully remin
Tyler. 'Tis tru
water thieves no
and far between,
means of dispos
dumping thein i
patrol neverthel
in finding and
flotsam and jetsa
A midnight ri
full moon silveri
molten music, w
island to the so
mingling of cion
the ghostly f
white -winged ya
object lesson in
even the cynic a
THE Ar.r,-
The all-night
institution. Tb
tiful, for night la
waiter who is ha
Imre, is Jake him