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WONDER IN WELLflNDI:
epre ‘rltat e, .Farrlf8r
Speaks,
MR. C. C. HAUN.
. Tho following remarkable facts are fully
Certified to as being undeniably correct in
every particular. NEr. Haun is well known
in the vicinity, having resided here over
fifty years, and is highly respected as a
man of the strictest honor, whose word is
as good as his bond.
As will be seen from his letter, four
physicians had attended him, and it was
only after he had given up hope of cure
that he decided to try Burdock Blood
Bitten on the recommendation of a
neighbor who had been .oured of a similar
disease by its use. Mr. Hann writes as
follows:
Been Srns, I think I have been one
of the'worst sufferers you have yet heard
of, having been six years in the hands of
four of our best doctors without obtaining
permanent relief, but continually growing
worse, until almost beyond hope of re-
covery, I tried your Bitters and got relief
in a few days. Every organ of my -body
was deranged, the liver enlarged, hardened
and torpid, the herrt and digestive organs
seriously doranecd, a largo abscess in my
back, followed by paralysis of the right
leg, in fact the lower half of my body was
entirely useless. After using Burdock
Blood Bitters for a few days the'abscess
b rst; discharging fully five quarts of pus
in two hours. • I felt as if I had received a
battery. Myre-
cm
fromapowerfuls
ahokY
ur
tl:e e
toad and c
le
after this was S
permanent, seeing that for the four years
since I have had as good health as ober I
had. I still take an occasional bottler not
that I need it but because I wish to keep
my system in perfect working order. I
can think of no more remarkable case
than what I have myself passed through,
. and no words can express my thankfulness
for such perfect recovery.
C. C.HAu ,
'Welland P.O.
F
In this connection tbo following letter
from T. Cumines, Esq.., a leading druggist
of Welland, Ont., speaks for itself:
Mears. T. Milburn & Co., Toronto.
GENTLEMear,—I have been personally
acquainted with Mr. C. C. Hann for the
last 20 years, and have always found him
a very reliable man.' You may place tho
utmost confidence in anything he says
with regard to`your medicine. He has on
many occasions within the last fotrr•years
told me that it was marvellous the way
the Burdock Blood Bitters had cured him,
and that he now felt as able to do a day's
work as he ever felt in his life. Although
quite well ho still takes some B. B. B.
occasionally, as he says, to keep him in
perfect health.
Yours truly;
Tne nets Curare xs,
Welland, Ont.
The steadily increasing sale of B. B. B.,
the length of time it has been before the
people, and the fact that it cures to stay
oured, attest the sterling merit of this
monarch of medicines, the people's favorite
blood purifier, tonio and regulator.
J
Wad Tut To:'ui uiR:
'8WQR C1',...
'Nof' gaiti the Diet druitimelf fierce•
•ly;,'I play no games of chance' any
more, not even the atmpleet kind,
for money.'
'Won't you pitch penuieel' per,
sieted his companion.
'That leaet.o,f tilt)" he said..vidibly
affected,
'Why not 1' asked the other.
`Do you see this dollar l' he said,
taking a Dart wheel from his pocket
'Well, thele hangs a tale. Listen.
'T'eu.years ago I was and had been
for live years travelling for a big
diamond importing house in NTew
York, and as usual I carried' `with
me 4 large., number of gems, often
having as touch as $50,000 worth.
One day four of us all in the same
line met in Deuver`; and that even-
ing we wore.drinking and matching
dollars iu my room. It was a hob
by of mine, as it was one of the
,jther men, Frauk H—, who was
as inveterate a thatcher' as ever the
late John T. Raymond was. Well;
we drank and matched, uutil we
began to toss .up at $5' a toes, and
the other two soon backed out and
watched us, I guess we were both
pretty drunk, for befuro I knew it
wo had a put of a hundred
and wore wore tossing best two in three
for it. 1 lost, and lust again, and
thcu,'having no more money, I put
up a diamond against hie pile. 1
lost that, too, and thou put up tw•u
against his money and what had
boon my diati►oud, and that time .'
won.' I think we were both half
crazy now, for Franit pulled out on'
of his pocketbooks from the inside
of his vest and. laid it open on • the
table and asked rue angrily if I dare
to match it. Of coarse I dared, and
1 dared more. 1 put dowu beside
it all aline, valued at wholes de
rates at fifty thousand dollars, and
his emptied his other vest pocket to
an equal amount. Our two friends
tried to stop us, but we were wild
and would listen to nothing
Frank threw first and I culled `tails'
lt
:, a 'heads.'
Ism
ads toa sieves.c In
Then I threw 'head' and he called
'toile' and we wore even. I dont
know how I felt as he picked up
the dollar, and I looked at those
glittering gems though 1 had a vague
idea that someone would bo ruined
forever on the next throw. Frank
tossed the dollar to the coiling
and I called 'heads.' It struck the
floor and rolled over towards the
register. All four of us made a
rush for it, and Frank fell head-
long. The dollar had dropped
through the grating and was lying
on the closed shutters of the register
just below.
'Get a match,' I almost shrieked.
1 stepped back and my feet struck
Frank, He did not clove. I bent
down and shook him. He was
still. 'I tried to chi out, but coiled
not. The other two men caught
hold of•him then and turned him
over. His face was blue and the
blood was gushing front his mouth.
He had died iu an instant. The
three were sober men iu a second
and at once alarmed the landlady
and sent for a physician, but he
might as well not have some. He
told se death had been instantan-
ous. Iy put m diamonds back into
my pockets and took care of Frank's;
and the rest of the stakes I divided,
taking what I had put up and set-
ting his aside, and the next morning
we started home with poor Frank's
body.'
'How about the dollar in the reg•
isterI' asked the listener. 'Who
.won l'
`Oh,' said the old drummer with a
start, 'I almost forgot that part of it.'
I never thought of that dollar till
just boforo we left, and going back
I fished it out and this is it. It
was 'heads,' '
`No wonder you never gamble
any more exclaimed the listener
with a sigh of relief. `Let's go and
take a drink as a forgetter.
'And I don't drink any more,
either,' said the old drummer
quietly.
NOW LET THE EAGLE
SCREAM.
'Tia pow It lifts its crown of ntellewlgold.
Besides, the Hasty way, .a "
•Itamelivw leaflets tttnldly upfold.
is the warm kis* et day '
'Ile gently wooed by svery,rovt)Z bee
Whitt sees its winsome taste,
pt:ar, lowly flower, pr'eaFbing Auto we
Humility ,attd grace.
And yet I tbitllt it makes ale most elate
When in my sight it playe,
Cut up fine upon rt Royal Worcester plate
Smothered in .ltfaygnnaise..
'I'HIE FARMER AND HIS BOY.
The Huron News -Record
1.60 a Year—$1.26 in Advance.
Wednesday Jane 1st, 189:.3
CANADA HORSES-._ IN THE
• BRITISH MARKET_
The London Daily Graphi•e•says:
"At a titne when Chnada is asking
tate mother country to consider the
question of a preferential tariff for.
Canadian exports, it may be ot
interest to know that one export from
the Dominion to England isincreas•
ing and thriving. It is horseflesh,
the market for which in the United
States has been closed to Canadians
by the McKinley tariff import of 30
per cont. on the declared value, It
now pays better to export horses to
England, whore, although the cost
of collecting the horses and of bring•
ihg them over is considerable, the
very good prices paid for them
make it fairly worth the while of
the importer. The horses which
„pay the importer best tire heavy -
draught horses, but those imported
by Mr. R. W. Ffolkes, of Acton
and which are of the main part
hacks and carriage horses, realize
very good prices. At the last sale
whien was the sixth,the prices aver -
:aged £65,(about $325) and the high-
est price realized was 160, guineas.
Among the horses sold by Mr.
Ffolkes yesterday were: Florence
a bay mare, sold for 75 guineas;
Emperor, a black gelding, sixteen
hands hands high,. for 80 guineas;
Tom and Jerry brown geldings, a
pair of well matched carriage horses,
Icor 140 guineas; and Boston, bay
gelding, for 110 guineas. The
horses are farm bred, arfd are bred
generally from English sires."
..►Tee. sir}X'••-I' "Baum, told Me to pare
;1>ig beef .Yltnyor', ,atlti I ditbe at+tt their alit
decided PnSaireasifel,ly. I wiele, l '*vile: ltiaok
err Roston -4,4‘0,•
''Wltat,:'nttd'
hem papa,""' said the, 41.
nett, ettttnfi ddlvlt Reside ke «bltt711nt1 tt`i1•,
tleriyp ill4twtng.lilllt into hills arme °'Woe,
mond got the vows and pink 1ep the, vote;
tows whale 4 alis theist mirk go ,Cie tide with
me to the yiltape?"
•" 4 geese I',li stay," •Bahl the troy, air yizi
his tears. He was always obedient to 'his
feeler father, but Mrs, 44wo94 was 80 -140'
reyraom.ble, so exacting in her 'donutnds,
fault•fiadieg and ventinually.inal;iu threats
which she never fulfilled, that they tild lost
respect for her and grow to pay little at.
tenon to her talk othot than to cesasion-
ally give her a tart reply. Poor boy t
But he was naturally wants -hearted and
kind, and the, singing birds, the sunny
fields, the bubbling bruolie and pretty wild
Hewers; till had a counberaetiug inflame,
that gave peeve wad happiness.
When flick made a blunder • shout tht
farni work, Mr. Atwood never *scolded, but
waited, if possible, till the work was to be
repeated, and thou gave more -explicit di-
rections, or if necessary to rectify the error
luunediutely, he would go with the ubild
said assist and show him how to de the
work properly.
The boy proved to be even more helpful
than t he farmer had anticipated. It Al-
most seemed us though the little feet never
wearied.
Mts. Atwood's great trouble now was be.
cense he tete so unei. "Why, he will eat
us out of house and home," she said to her
husband one clay. "Last night he ate six
shoes of bread and butter and when I told
hien he must be speriu' of the butter, he
said : •` Why, mamma, 1 don't eat so much
batter its I do broad.' He hain't no. judg-
ment. When he came here be didn't know
what butter was and wouldn't hardly taste
it, but now he can't get enough."
Previous to his advent at the farm, Dick
had nevtr known what it was to have a
good variety of food iu unlimited quantity
and nature aoemedthow-.endeavoring to sup.
ply the former deficiency.
"Let him eat" saidthefanner. "See
him grow. He'll Make a mein yet. I guess
you have forgotten how your boys used to
cat."
A year had passed since Dick had be -
'come a member of the farmer's household,
when one night he awoke to find his room
filled with oppressive heat. and smoke. He
jumpedfnom his bed, slipped into his trous-
ers and attempted to go down stairs, but
was driven back by the fire and smoke. He
quickly raised a window and leaped to the
ground without injury, ..for the building
was a low one. He aroused his foster par-
ents with shrill cries of "Fire ! fire 1"
They realized that nothing could be done
to save the building, as the fire had al-
ready
made so much progress, and no help
near, ao they hurriedly snatched and rescu-
ed such articles as could handily be moved,
till they were driven out entirely by the
heat and smoke. The fire, had probably
caught from some ashes left in the back
room on the day previous, and had spread
rapidly around in the ceiling till new the'
whole budding seemed in flames.
"0, Ephriam, your big• wallet," cried
Mrs. Atwood, excitedly, "I should have
supposed wo would have thought of• that'
the first thing."
"So should .I," said he, "but it's too late
now."
Dick had been rushing in and out, sav-
ing everything his small hands could carry,
till warned that it would be dangerous to
enter again, but having overhe:zrd the eon
versation, he darted toward the house.
"Conte back, boy," cried his foster
father. .
"In a minute," he replied rushing into
the fire and smoke. The big old-fashioned
pocket book contained all of the farmer's
valuable papers and $500 in cash, all of the
*coney he.. had in the World,
except a few dollars in his pocket.
He hint drawn his little deposit
from the savings bank a short time previous,
with the intention of investing it in a tract
of woodland 'that was increasing rapidly in
value. But the contents of the nurse
seemed ot trifling consequence to him now
beside the life of the little one risked to
save it.
Dick knew -where Mr. Atwood kept the
wallet in the top of a big trunk ; he also
knew where the key was to be found in a
certain small secretary drawer, so he had
no difficulty in securing the object of his
search. But the heat was stifling. Could
he live to reach the outer air again ? He
held his breath and rushed blindly forward.
With hair singed, face blackened and cloth-
ing ablaze, he entcrged•from the fiery fur-
nace, with the pocketbook safe. But he
was levity burned and it was a long time
before the little Leet ran again. By and by
they pattered in and out in a new house
where a. mother, with a kind word and a
kiss, called him her dear, geed boy. Hc
had found a home and the aged people.a
comfort and at blessing.
"I have been thinking," said Farmer At•
wood, one summer evening, as he Bank
wearily into a chair, "I bavo been thinking
1 had better take a boy. Its dreadful hard
fur me to tramp 'round the pasture for the
cows after my day's work is done, and do
all of the other chores. Here we've' raised
fuer boys and they've all gone, not one to
take care of their parents, now we are got -
ting old abet feeble."
"1t is too bad, Ephraim," said the wife,
"but as for taking a boy, it's just sheer non -
:reuse. Why ! it 'would cost ten tithes more
to keep hint and take care of hint than he
would bo worth. I could tolerate my own
young Lump, but as for h•tving a stranger
come lulu the family to be taken care of, I
had about as soon break up housekeepin'
and be done with it."
"But a good boy would be a great help'to
us," said Mr. Atwood.
"Help, indeed ! 1 should like to see a
young one of any kind that was a help,"
she replied. "Now you have my opinion,
you cttn do as you please, but I never shall
give fay consent to have a strange boy come
into the family."
Mrs. Atwood had played the exact part
in the programme that her husband expect-
ed. She had a peculiar habit of opposing
all 'of his ins, without giving theta thb
least consideration. But the boy Carne in
lee time froth one of the i:hurity homes in
Boston, beariug. the name of Petrick
'Murphy. 3
"Well 1 1 never'li have a Pat in my fam-
ily anyway, that settles it," exclaimed Mrs.
Atwood. "Yon must change his name or
send him back. Call hien Tom, Dick or
Harry—anything but Pat."
"Very well, supposing we call him
Dick," said the farmer, quietly. "That's
an easy name and don't take mach breath."
So the little stranger was christened
Dick then and there. And he was little.
He was called 12 years of age, but the
boughten suit of clothes he wore was
labeled "for a child of eight." Everything
in the country was new to him. He did
not know a rake from a shovel or a hoe
(ruin a hand -cart as fat as names were con-
cerned. Mr. Atwood took him to the barn
his arrival, and showed him'
u❑ file da of l s
Y
the poultry, horses, ,cows and pigs. He
was an intelligent child, could read and
even write some, but his utter ignorance
of anything pertaining to practical farm
life was very amusing.
The next morning the fanner said to him;
"Now, my boy, you may call me papa,
and I want you to be a good boy and do
everything just as I tell you. Will you
try ?"
"Yes, sir," he replied.
"Well, now take this pail of milk, go to
the barn and feed the pig, and give the
horse an armful of hay."
When be returned . Mr. Atwood asked
hint if he had done as he had been told.
"Yes, sir. I gave the piggy a big handful
of ha, and 1 passed the mi k into t he
i arse."•
"The idea 1" exclaimed Mrs. Atwood. "I
knew if you gut a boy he wouldn't know
beaus." r
"lint I (141:now beans," said the child.
"Yes, l think you do, when they are
baked," she remarked clryly,,renlembering
'the Lig•platolttlailbalg'�it3 a1Z.at.lare set.
"It was my fault, ; I ought to have gone
with you, and shown you for the first
time," remarked the farmer. •
An hour hater, he !manned the boy a bas•
ket, saying, "I 'cul going away, I want yon
to go into the orchard and pick up four
baskets full of apples and carry them into
the shed. You inay have that for your
stint this forenoon."
After 11r. Atwood had gone, Dick went
out and filled the basket with apples and
carried them into the shed, then after rec•
onnoitering awhile, he ran off to play. An
hour laterhe went into the house and said
to Mrs. Atwood :
"Shall you be my mamma ? I never had
any mamma." •
'I suppose yon can call me mamma if
you want to," shctm.an8wot•ed, not un-
kindly.
"1Vell, then, mamma, what is a stint ?"
"A stint, child ? .Why, that is a job to
be done in a certain time. Bnt do you
know what a job means?"
"Yes, ma'am." replied theboy'promptly ;
"scrubhin' the dormitory floor."
"Well, I guess that would be a job, sure-
ly," and Mrs.,Atwood actually laughed.
' When the farther returned Ile asked Dick
if he had picked up the apples.
el. filled one basket," replied the boy,
"but I eonldu't find no more baskets, and I
hunted and hunted."
Mr. Atwood said nothing, for he felt
that Dick was trying to do right, but need-
ed to bo shown rather than told.
"I never did see such a boy," remarked
Mrs. Atwood, one day, after he had been
helping her about time house. "He can't
see anything to be done. I have to tell hint
every little thing. He's just like a grind•
stone—he'll go just as long as you turn the
crank, and precious little lunger."
"But grindstones are very handy things
to have sometimes," returned her husband.
"Another thing I detest about him," she
continued, "he's always peekin' 'round and
inquirin' about this and that. He knows
where everything is in the house now, bet-
ter than I do."
"Well, it's a good plan to know where
things are sometimes," said her husband,
and he might have added that this know•
ledge upon her part might save a vast
amount of strength and nervous energy,
for Mrs. Atwood could seldom do even a
trifling piece of work without first stopping
to hunt for something.
" Well, there's ono good thing about the
boy," remarked the fernier, "he never gets
into mischief or takes what doesn't belong
to him."
" aV--ever gets into mischief ?" repeated
Mrs. Atwood. "Well, I should say so !
Only this afternoon I wanted some flowers
picked to send down to the prayer meeting,
and I told him to go out into the garden
and pick a bunch of phlox and he went and
picked every blessed one. I sha'n't have
another this year, and I think so much of
them—particularly the new pink and bright
red kinds, for they grow and take care of
themselves year after year, and I never
have no time to putter over common flowers.
I was hopin' I'd get a few seed, but now 1
sha'n't."
"I am sorry," said her husband, "but the
child only made a mistake. I hope you
didn't scold him."
"But I did scold him," she retorted, "and
if he ever goes and does such a thing again,
I'll take his head and ears right off."
Half an hour later Mr. Atwood found
the boy in the barn, sobbing as though his
heart would break.
"What, crying, sonny ?" said the farmer
kindly.
—John L. Jamieson, aged 22,
son of Mr. J. C. Jamieson, of The
Belleville Intelligencer, and a
grandson of Hon. McKenzie Bowen-,
died in Chicago on Tuesday of
typhoid fever.
gortiars •CQB
A NAVE 4. MSThQA Fos PI STRQXilii!
CARApIAN THISTLES+ •
Kanto... ler P'adttlu1V te.-Putehman'8,
Pipe-.-A,Gtoo. Sbeep. Pip --An Lr30n9310'
- flpn manure= in the. 10 des!—.4 Lama
x,oss-Advalttagoj of Sa1aa1 esturee..
The. oneseighth-of-an-acre patch el
Janadian thistles in .the corner of a tee -
tore field certainly needs attention, else it
.sill soon spread over the entire ten acres,
Leave the grotudt occupied by the thistles
.luaultivated this stunnter•, and, when the
.talks have grown six to twelve incites high,
now diem off and drop a, tablespoonful or
Imre of stilt 011 the top of the stump of
tach. When the next sot of sprout•, has
tppeared, !now again and repeat the appli-
:atton of .salt, and two or throe nowulgs
end b•,tltings will usually destroy the roots,
•lot if any sprouts should appear next sum-
,ner, treat them in the sante way. Du not
trust this work to some hired Ulan unless
+e is more than ordinarily careful, 1011 at -
.end to the platter yourself, in order to be
10rtaln that no plant is. overlooked. We
lave known whole fields of Canaille's
,ristles to he destroyed by this process of
vowing and'salting, and it is not expert•
live, but requlree care and attention, with
L repetition as often as necessary, to pre -
:eta too vigorous a growth before the plant'
ire cut down.—J. Ross, in American Agri-
atilturist.
MONTREAL MILITIAMEN OFFER INSULT
TO THE STARRY BANNER.
Montreal, May 25.—Yoaterday
afternoon three petty officers and
five risen of the brigade of the
Montreal garrison artillery stopped
into the store of Lodge & Co., hat-
ters, on St. Lawrence '.lain street
and demanded that the stars and
stripes, flying outside, be taken
down. The clerk in charge point•
ed out that the Belgian, the Swiss
and British flags were also flying as
well as the American flag, fur de-
corative purposes only. However
the men insisted on the removal
at once of the American flag. To
avoid trouble the stare and stripes
was taken down at once. The
same lot of militiamen then visited
the store of one Poitras, at the cor-
ner of St. Lambert Hill and St.
,Tamee street and made a similar de-
mand as to the American flag.
Again, to avoid trouble, the obnox•
lone banner was pulled down, fold•
ed up and taken inside the store.
Several other 'stores in the vicinity
were compelled to take down the
American flag from its position.
The affair has been reported to
the bridgade major and an inves-
tigation will be hold into the matter.
Httrneys for Training Colts.
A colt sh-luld never know how much
strength he has 1111tH 110 knows how to use
it. 11 he once rune away ire is never u
Safe horse afterward, and, while he may to
all appearances forget it, there will 001110
t
time when Ito will run again, and the
•hances are that he will do much datnage.
The harness for breaking and driving cults
should be extra strong and heavy. The.
reins and bit especially must be stout
enough for all possible emergencies. A
straight -bar bit is good enough for a steady
horse, but it cannot bo depended on with
fractious animals. 'There are numerous
kinds of bits that are easy when a horse is
steady, but so made as to hold the horse
when he tries to run.
Duteiunttn's Pipe,
The climbing shrub known es the Dutch-
man's Pipe grows to the height of fifteen or
twenty feet. Is is a native of the southern
parts of the Allegheny Mountains and is
frequently planted in the United States, in
Britain and on the Continent of Europe, to
forum shady bowers. It has very large
heart -shaped leaves (a foot in b 1 readth of :1
beautiful greeu. 'file pipe -shaped flowers
hang singly or in pairs on lung stalks. At
a distance the vine might be mistaken for a
bean vine, but the flowers can be taken for
nothing else but a Dutchman's pipe. They
are three or four inches tong, a yellowish -
green brown and veined with reddish -brown
veins.
A Good Sheep 131 0.
lAsimple yet effectual remedy for diepus-
ing of ticks may be trade front the following
. reclpe : One ;Ilion of waren 'water and 1 z
lbs. of hard scall eat in slices and dissolved
in the water. 'Thoroughly mix with 2 gals.
of kerosene oil, until it undress i. liquid re-
sembling milk. to each gallon of the mix-
ture add 8 gals. of water. If this is used
twice during the year, once just after shear-
ing a11(1 aga11) in the fall, you will have no
trouble frem ticks. The sheep will also
keep in much bettor condition, on less feed
than they, will if not dipped.. This dip cul
be Made in about an hour by anyone, ants
the cost will not exceed' 4h
An 1:couoln)-.
As the waren days of spring come on,
heavy coal fires are not comfortable and
still 501110 artificial heat is needed, especial-
ly during damp and windy days. Finely
sifted ashes and coal mixed half and half
by measurement burn with sutlieient inten-
sity and heat and holt. the fire better than
a clear coal fire kept low. To keep a clear'
coal fire burning it is often necessary to
burn the stove or furnace too brightly, thus
.vasting coal and rendering the house un-
:ontfortable. The hint is also v,tluablo in
heating plant houses and beds.
A Literary Middlow•oman.
A new vocation for women of clever
minds and business judgment has been
created by a young woman in New York
who only a few years ago was known simply
as a society girl. She was really one of
Gothatn's belles. Her beauty, her command
of the art of conversation, made her popu-
lar and quickly won her friends. But she
finally concluded that the life of a society
woman was rather a hollow one, and on a
fortunate day in her life made the acquaint-
anee of Frances Hodgson Burnett, who took
a fancy to the beautiful girl. The author
of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" saw that the
young woman had a business leaning, and as
Mrs. Burnett wanted someone to look
after the business interests in the book
which was then becoming a play she left
everything in the hands of Elizabeth Mar-
bury. i Her trust was amply rewarded, and
now Miss Marbury practically represents
Mrs. Burnett in all her work. She acts as a
middlewoman between the managers and
Mrs. Barnett, and arranges for everything.
Little by little Miss Marbury created a
business out of unique position. Now she
has an office in New York and represents
all of Sardou's interests in America, as well
as those of Haddon Chambers, the English
dramatist ; Jerome K. Jerome and other
foreign writers. She works on the commis-
sion basis and is making a handsome liv-
ing. Miss Marbury has undoubted execu-
tive ability. She has a splendid business
head, a mind that grasps an idea at once,
and knows precisely the best and right
market for. any play that comes to her.
She goes abroad about once each year,
snakes new contracts and comes back to
America to carry them out. I should say
that Miss Marbury is a woman of about
thirty. She has large, expressive eyes, the
air of a business man abort her, dresses
.neatly but never showily, and managers, I
am told, like to deal with her.—E, W.
Bok, in Chicago Herald.
,A PR$ZE PICTURE PUZZLE.
Hen Manure In the Garden.
To use hen manure it is the best way to
rake up the droppings from under the
roosts, and mix them with equal parts of
earth, leaf mould preferable. Keep in a
try place, and put on land, at the rate of
10 tons to the acre, plowing under. Or, it,
as is usually the case, one has but a littley
tut about 1 quart of the compost in each
Bill for such crops as cabbage, corn, pota-
toes, etc., except totnatoos, unless yon wish
a splendid crop of vines. On cabbage the
result will astonish ynu.,
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The above picture contnins four flew,the mart
and his three daughters. Anyone can find the
man's face, but it is not so easy to distinguish the
faces of the three young ladies,
The proprietors of Ford's Prize Pills will
give an elegant Gold Watch to the forst
person who can make out the three daughters' faces ;
to the second will be given a pair of genuine
Diamond Ear -I1 in go; to the third a hand-
some Silt Dress Pattern, 16 yards in nay
color; to'theforrth a Coln Silver Watch.
and many oilier prizes in order of merit. Every
competitor must cut out the above puzzle picture,
distinguish the three girls' faces by marking a cross
with lead pencil on each, and enclose sante with
ten three cent Canadian stamps for one box of
FORD'S PRIZE PILLS, addressed to ME FQLD
PILL COMPANY, wollingtos Et, wait, Taranto, Can.,
The person whose envelope is postmarked
first will be awarded the first prize, and the
others in order of merit. To the person send-
ing the last correct answer will be given an
elegant Gold Watch, of fine workmanship and
first-class timekeeper; to the nest to the last a
pair of genuine Diamond Ear -Rings; to
the second to the last a handsome Silk Dross
Pattern, 16 yards in any color; to the third
to the last a Coln Silver Watch. and many
other prizes in order of merit counting from the
last. WE SHALL GIVE AWAY
100 VALUABLE PIi1711IIUMS (should
there he so Many sendingin correct answers). No
charge is made for boxing and packing of pre-
miums. The names of the leading prize winners
will be published in connection with our advertise-
ment in leading newspapers next month. Extra
premiums will be given to those who are willing to
assist in introducing our medicine. Nothing is
charged for the premiums in any way, they are
absolutely given away to introduce and advertise
Ford's Prize Pills, which are purely vegetable and
act gently yet promptly on the Liver, Kidneys and
Bowels, dispelling Headache Fevers and Colds,
cleansing the system thoroughly and cure habitual
constipation. They are sugar-coated, do
not gripe, very small, easy to take, one pill a
dose, and are purely vegetable. Perfect digestion
follows their use. As to the reliability of our com•
pony, we refer you to any leading wholesale drug-
gist or busi ess house in Toronto. All premiums
will be awe ed strictly in order of merit and with
aresent to thepublic. Pills s<
perfect saris ction 9
mail post pal When you answer this pictulS
puss's, kindly ention which newspaper you save
it in. Address E FORD PILL COMPANY, Web
Banton St., Toro to, Can.
A Large Loss,
As rule there is a large loss of fat in
oreami nd churning the farrow cow's
milk, a milk is much more viscous, and
its butter fats will not come up as in new
milk with common setting. The farrow
cow's milk also does not produce as good
flavored butter as dons the milk from new
mach claws. There should be, if possible,
some coved fresh in milk with thorn. Time
addition of new fresh milk to that from the
farrow cows will aid in getting up the Nutter
Fats ; it will also help the churn in getting
them out of the cream.
A Primitive Alarm Clock.
Mail eairiors in Morocco are said to avoid
the risk of losing their . places by over-
sleeping by tying a tailing to one foot and
setting the end of it on fire before going to
sleep. The string, they know from ex-
perience, will burn so long, and when the
fire reaches their foot it is time for them to
get up.
Advantage of Sutall Pastures.
Two or three small pastures are better
than one large one. The cattle may be
turned out a vvteok earlier, and, when one
field is well eaten down, they can be turn-
ed into another. They can always have
fresh grass if changed every week or two.
The pasture will last longer and the cattle
oe better for frequent changing. Too many
fences are not desirable, but a four or five -
strand barb -wire fence may be built cheap-
ly, or a movable fence used, and changed
as wanted.
Farm Notes.
Farming will bear more abuse, endure
more slackness, stand up under more lazi-
nea8 and outlast more neglect than most
Any other kind of business. —Maine Farmer.
He who can put a question fairly and
squarely to nature, and wait perhaps a
lifetime for the answer, is more than one
man picked out of ten thousand ; but upon
such men the progress of our agriculture
depends.
t..
PROTECTION IS -FAVORED.
Coal Ashes in the Hen -House. ,
When you empty the coal ashes after
cleaning out the stove or furnace, take the
small shovel along and use it to scatter a
few shovelfuls of hot dry ashes on the hen
roosts and about the henhouse. Every
crake and crevice of the house will be filled
with fine dust to the destruction of all i11 -
sect life. Do tliis once or twice every
week.
MEETING OF THE IdPERiAL FEDERA-
TION LEAGUE IN LONDON,
London, May 24.—The London,
Eng., branch of the Imperial Fed-
eration League held a Meeting May
23rd, at which several protection
speeches \vera made, Sir Charles
Tupper, the Canadian Iiiglt Com-
missioner, was o e of the speakers.
He said that free trade might have
once been excellent fur England,
but it was proving fatal to'•Cauada.
•?�.y.f,incidental taxalln had
been adopted by Canada since 1876,
which had been strongly conducive
to the maintenance of her ties with
Great Britain. If England, con-
tinued the speaker, adopted a small
protective—not discriminating --tar-
iff, no country would complain.
Cobden'* theory shpt all countrir s
would speedily follow England's
example by adopting free trade had
proved fallacious. Sir Charles did
not believe that Cobden would bo a
free-trader if he lived to -day. In
coucluding he said that Canada
could produce all the food that the
United States now exports to Great
Britain.
A Big Secret Free.
The secret of the whole dairy business is
better cows, better care of them, better op.
parates and a better system of marketing.
Mr. Birkett said that Lov'ds Salis-
bury had struck the right note in
declaring that free trade had gone too
far. He advocated a plan to appeaee
Canada by tvtlo, pg all rr �.t, ulo,�l'ts,
fro ii t11ii�FTut1it
Mr. Hill, the wealthy shipowner,
one of the most active spirits of the
organization, moved that the Execu-
tive Committee be instructed to
evolve a scheme of federation be-
tween the United. Kingdom and the
colonies, embracing a commercial
union based as nearly as possible
upon free trade throughout the Em-
pire. The discussion brought on
by tho motion revealed the fact that
the meeting was largely protective.
Sir Guilford Molesworth was
loudly cheered when he declared
that' protectionist America was pass-
ing free trade England in the
world's commercial race "in a can-
ter." Ile added that the . free
traders' objections to the Imperial
federation schome were absurd at a
time like this, when even the colon-
ies were slamming the doors in their
mother's -face, He maintained that
Canada intended to transfer h r
trade to the United States, and
would do so unless an alternative
plan *ere devised which should
seem advantageous to her as well as
to the Mother country, and it was
such a plan that the league had in
view. Commercial union through-
out the Empire would enable Great
Britain and her colonies to fight the
world, commercially speaking, and
to add immensely to her grandeur.
Mr. Hill's motion was finally
carried, but not before several
gentleinen had made some sharp
speeches egninPt it.
--S.- 0. Andrews, who recently
went from tno Cobonrg district to
Manitoba, was found' wandering on
the prairie near Broadview and
taken in cb lrgo by the police, hav-
ing epparenlly become demented.
Ile had $1,300 with him.
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