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1.60 a Year-Si.•la in Advance.
Wednesday. (larch 2211t1,19193.
SEED TESTING AND DIS
TION OF SEED GRAIN.
To the Editor of The Heron Netts Record :
Stn,—Knowing that farmers gener-
ally are much interested in tite above
eubjeon., permit 1110 10 place bafure
your readers the following
SEED TESTING.
The work of testing the germinating
power of grain and ether agricultural
needs is now in active progress at. the
Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa.
Up to the present over 1,600 s.imples
have been tested and reported uu this
eeanou, and uu the whole with very
grattfyiug results, showing a gout pe►•
eeutage of vitality. There are, houv-
everr•sunce'.dietricts iu the Duutiuiuu
from which samples h.tve bleu re-
ceive,, of very pour qutlity and quite
cull.: fur need. lit *tome parte ut Mani
toba the harvest suasuu of 1891 was
very uufavorable and coustd•,rablu
quantities of grain were left out to
stook or stack all winter and threshed
in the spring of 1892. A number of
samples of such grain have peen tested
and they show a very low percentage of
vitality, many of them rauging from 15
to 40 per cent. only, and are quite
unfit fur seed. In some other parts of
theDumiuion, and especially iu some
sections of Oatenio and Quebec, Ili,
weather during the last harvest period
was very wet, ani the grain in the
stook was subject to repeated wettiug4
before it could be housed, nod iu the
meantime some of it sprouted. A
large proportion of such samples alas
show a low degree of germinating
power, and if sown as seed will be
likely to result in poor crops.
Any farmers desiring to send further
stinples fur test should forward theta
without delay ; the packagesshoulct
contain about one ounce eaeh,Sud they
on be sent to the Experimental Farm
free through the until. The samples
aro tented and reports 0811 usually be
tr furnished in about ten days after the
grain is received.
SEED DISTRIBUTION.
Last year 16,905 sample bags of
promisiugsorts of grain,weighiog 3 lbs.
each,were sent free through the mail to
9,114 'farmers residing in different
parts of the Dominion. This large
quantity of grain,over• 25 tuna, was all
of first quality and consisted of the
most promising sorts which have been'
tested on the several Experimental
Farms. By instruction of the Hon.
Minister of Agriculture a similar dis-
tribution is now in progress for this
year, and already over 3,000 samples
have been sent out, and a large number
are being mailed daily. The object of
this distribution is to place in the
hands of good farmers in all par s of
the country sampleaof the best varieties
of oats, barley, wheat, peas, &c., so
that they may shortly be available for
seed iu every district in the country,
and eventually result iu the displacing
of poor, mixed and enfeebled sorts,
with varieties possessed of greater
vigour and fertility. The number of
samples sent to one applicant is
limited to two in each case, and on this
basis a very large number can still be
supplied. With careful and judicious
handling these 3 lb. samples will geu
erally produce from one to three
bushels the first year, and at the end of
the second season the grower usually
has seed enough for a large field. The
advantages resulting from this large
distribution of the best sorts of grain
obtainable will no doubt in a few
years be generally manifest in an im-
provement in the quality and and au
increase in the quantity of the average
grain crops of the Dominion. A cir-
cular is sent with each sample which
the recipients ere expected to fill up
and return at the close of the season,
with particulars as to the character and
growth of the grain. The request is
also made that a sample of not leas
than one pound of the product be
returned to the Central Experimental
'Farm, so that information may be had
as to the measure of success attending
its growth. Samples are sent,to appli-
cants as long se the supply lasts.
Letters can be sent to the Experimental
Farm at Ottawa free of postage.
Wm. SAUNDERS,
Director Experimental Farms.
Ottawa, March 9tb, 1893.
BEWARE OF CHOLERA.
The healthy body throws off the germs of
cholera therefore wisdom counsels the uee
of Burdock Blood Bitter, this spring to
puriyf the blood, regulate the system, and
fortify the body against cholera or other
epidemics.
00$81 .140. TO 'OflXA
HOW OBSTACI- 'S GROW SMALL AS
YOU APPROACH THEM.
Rev. Dr. Tannage Pronehee ut Detroit of
the 1'41,101114e of Joshua's Uo81--Thy
River !)seams a %Vail and the Pathway
Was Dry "lettere Them -Tile Faoeloent
Preacher Draws Analogies to Hole Us
on Life's Journey.
DETROIT, Match 19. -Rev. Dr. Talmage,
who is now visiting this city, preached, to-
day in Fort Street Presbyterian Church, of
which Rev. 1)r. Radcliffe is pastel-, to a
large and inteueely interested audience on
the Crossing of the ffordan by the Cuildreit
of Israel, the text being from Joshua
3: 17: -`And the priests that bare the ark
of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on
dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and
all the laraelitee passed over un dry ground,
until all the people were passed Mese over
Jordan."
Washington crossed the Delaware when
grossing was pronounced impossible, but
he did it by boat. Xerxes crossed the
Hellespont with two millions of men, but
he did it by bridge. The Israelites crossed
the Red Sea; but the eatne or llestra that
celebrated the deliverance of the one army
sounded the strangulation of the other.
Thie Jordanio passage differs from all.
There was no saur►tiee of human life -not
so muoh as the loss of a linch-
pin. The vanguard of the hest,
made up of prierts, advanced until they
put their foot at the brim of the river.
when immediately the streets of Jerusalem
were no more dry than the bed of that
river. It was as if all the water had been
drawn orf, and than the dampness had beau
soaked up with a sponge, and then by a
towel the road had been wiped dry. Yonder
goes a great army of Israelites, the hosts
in uniform ; following them sue wives,
the children, the flocks, the herds. The
people look up at the crystalline wall of
the Jordan as they pass, and think what
au awful disaster would come to thein of,
before they got to the opposite bauk of
that Ajalou wall, that wall should full ou
them ; and the thought makes the mothers
hug their children close to their hearts as
end notoverilawinft tits enrrourtcttegeenutty.
(Jh,, theCon)pletutas of everything that fled
doss 1
Otte would have thought that, if the
waters of Jordan bed dropped until they
were only two or three feet deep, the
laryelites might have tneroifpd througo it,
and have come up on the otter back with
their '•ether .a: uratetf and their garments
like these of men coming ashore iron
shipwreck, and that would )rave been as
woudertul a deltverence ; but God does
something better than that. When the
priest's feet touched the waters of Jordan
and they were drawn off, +rev might have
thought there would have been a bed of
mud and slime thruuge which the army
should pass. Draw oil' the water of the
Hudson or OI►io, and there would be a
good many asps, and ',wimps many
weeks, before the eediment would dry up ;
and yet here, in an instant, immediate-
ly, God provides a putt through
the depths of Jordan, it is so dry,
the patsengers do not even get
their feet damp. Oh, the completeness of
everything that God does ! Duce he make
a universe ?-it is a perfect sleek, running
ever since it was wound up, the fixed stare
the pivots, the constellations, the intermov-
ing wheels, end ponderous laws and
weights and mighty swinging pendulum ;
the stars in the great dome of night, strik-
ing the midnight, and the sun with brazen
tongue tolling the hour of noon. The wild-
est eumet has a chain of law that it cannot
break. Tho thistle -down flying before the
school -buy's breath is controlled by the
same law that controls this sun and the
planets. The rosebush in your window is
governed by the swine principle that gov-
erns the tree of the universe on whioh the
stars are ripening fruits, and un which God
will one day put hie hand and shake down
the fruit -a perfect universe. No astrou-
oncy has ever proposed an amendinent.
If God makes a Bible, it is a c nnplete
Bible. Standing amid the dreadful and
delightful truths, you seem to be in the
midst of an orchestra where the wailings
over sins, and the rejoicings over pardon,
and the martial strains of victory make the
chorus like an anthem Of ete.nity. This
Book seems to you the ocean of truth, ou
evety wave of which Christ walks -some-
times in the darkness of prophecy, again in
the splendors with which he walks on
Galilee. In this Book apostle answers to
prophet, Paul to Isaiah, Revelation to
Genesis -glorious light, turning midnight
they swiften their pace. Quick now ; get sorrow foto the miduuon joy, dispersing
thein all up on the banks, the armed war• every fog, hushing every tempest. Take
tiers, the wives and children, Hocks and this Book -it is the kiss of God on the soul
herds and let this wonderful Jordanic of lost man. Perfect Bible, complete Bible!
passage be completed forever. No man has ever proposed any improve -
Sitting on the shelved limestone, I look ment.
off upon that Jordan where Joshua crossed God provided a Saviour; he is a tom•
under the triumphal arch of the rainbow plete Saviour-God•ulan-Divinity and
woven out of the away ; the river wirier
afterward became the baptistry where
Christ was sprinkle, or plunged ; the river
where the axe -the borrowed.axe-miraeu-
lively swam at the prophet's order ; the
river illustrious in the history of the
world for heroic faith and omnipotent
deliverance, and typical of a,:enes yet to
transpire in your life and mine -scenes
enough to make us, front the sole of the
foot to the crown of the head, tingle with
infinite gladness.
Standing on the scene of that affrights',
fugitive river Jordan, 1 learn for myself and
for you, first, that obstacles, when they are
touched, vanish. Tne text says that when
these ',Ideate came down and touched the
water -the edge of the water with their"
feet -the water parted. They did not
wade in chin deep, or waist deep, or knee
keep, or ankle deep, but as soon as their
feet touched the water it vanished. And
it makes tne think that almost all the ob•
stades of life need only be approached in
order to be conquered. Difficulties but
touched vanished. It is the trouble, the
difficulty, the obstacle far in the distance
that seems so huge and tremendous.
The Apostles Paul and John seemed to
dislike cross dogs ; for the Apostle Paul
tells us in Phcltipiaus, "Beware of dogs ;"
and John seems to shut the gates of
heaven against all the canine species when
he says, "Without are dogs." But 1 have
been told that when these animals are
furious, if they 001110 at you, 11 you will
keep your eye on thein and advance upon
them, they will retreat. Whether that
be so or not, I cannot tell ; but I du know
that the vast majorities of the inisfortu,s s
and trials and disasters of your life that
hound your steps, if you can only get
your eye on ahem, aid keep your eye on
them, and advance upon them, and cry,
"Begone," they will slink and cower.
There is a beautiful tradition among the
American Indiana that Manitou was travel-
ing in the invisible world, and one day he
came to a barrier of brambles and sharp
thorns, which forbade his going op, and
there was a wild beset glaring at him from
the thicket; but, as he determined to go
his way, he did pursue it, and those bram-
bles were found to be only.phantoms, and
that beast was found to be a powerless
ghost, and the impassable river that for-
bade him rushing to embrace the Yaratildr'
proved to be only a phantom, river. Well,
humanity united iu the same person. He
set up the starry pillars of the universe' and
the towers of light. He planted the cedars
and the heavenly Lebanon. He struck out
of the rock the river of lite, singing tinder
the trees, singing under the tiit•oues. He
quarried the sardonyx and crystal, and the
topaz of the heavenly wale He put down
the jasper for the foundation, and heaped
up the amethyst for the capital, and awuug
tee twelve gates, which are twelve pearls.
In ono instant He thought out a universe;
and yet He became a child, crying for his
mother, feeling along the sides of the
manger, learning to walk. Omnipotence
sheathed in the muscle and flesh of a
child's arm; Omnipotence strung in, the
optic nerve of a child's eye ; infinite luve
beating in a child's heart; a great God
appearing in the forst of a child ono year
old ; five years old, fiifteen years old.
While all the heavens were ascribing to
Him glory, and honor, and power, on
earth men said, "Who is tins fellow?"
While all the heaveuly hosts, with folded
wings about their faces, bowed down before
Him, crying "Holy, holy!" on earth they
denounced Him as a blasphemer and a sot.
Rocked in a boat at Gennesaret, and yet He
it is that undirked the lightning from the
storm -cloud, and dismasted Lebanon of its
forests, and holds the five oceans on the
tip of His finger, as a leaf holds the rain-
drop. Oh, the complete Saviour, rubbing
His hand over the piece where we have tee
stain, yet the stars of heaven the adorning
gems of IIis light hand. Holding us in
His arms when we take our last view of
our dead. Sitting down with us on the
tombstone, and wide we plant roses there,
He planting consolation in our heart, every
chapter a stalk, every verse a stem, every
word a rose. A complete Saviour, a com-
plete Bible, a complete universe, a complete
Jordanic passage. Every -thing that God
does is complete.
Again I learn from this Jordanic pas-
sage that between us and every Canaan of
success and prosperity there is a river that
must be passed. "Oh, how I would like
some of those grapes on the other side !"
said some of the Israelites to Joshua.
"Well," says Joshua, "if you want the
grapes, why don't you cross over and get
them?" Tnere is a river of difficulty be-
tween us and everything that is worth hav-
ing; that which costs nothing is worth
nothing. God didn't intend this world for
my friends, the fact is there are a great an easy parlor, through which we are to be
msny things that look terrible across our drawn in a rocking -chair, but we are to
pathway, which, when we advance upon
them, are onlp the phantoms, only the up-
parations, only the delusion eof life. Dilti•
culties touched are conquered. Put your.
feet into the brine of the water, and Jordan
retreats. You sometimes see a great duty
to perform. 1t is a very disagreeal,.e duty;
you say: "I can't go through it; I haven't
the courage, I haven't the intelligence, to
go through it." Advance upon it, Jordan
will vanish.
I always sigh before I begin to preach,
at the greatness of the undertaking, but ns
soon as I start 1t becomes to me an exhila-
ration. And any duty undertaken with a
confident spirit becomes a pleasure, unit
the higher tlio duty the Mauer the pleasure.
Difficulties touched aro conquered. There
are a great many people who are afraid of
death in the future. Good John Living.
sten once, on a sloop reeling from Eliza-
hethport to New York, was dreadfully
work our passage, climb masts, fight bat-
tles, scale mountains, and ford rivers. God
makes everything valuable difficult, to get
at, for the same reason that he put the
gold down in the nine, and the pearl clear
down 111 the sea, to snake us ,lig and dive
for thein. We acknowledge this principle
in worldly things; oh, that we were only
wise enough to acknowledge it in religious
thi"gs.
You have scores of illustrations under
your own observation where men have had
the hardest lot, and been trodden under
foot, and yet after a while had it easy.
Now their homes blossom and bloom with
pictures, and carpets that made foreign
looms laue h now embrace their feet; the
summer winds left the tapestry about the
window, gorgeous enough for a Turkish cul.
tan; impatient steeds paw and neigh at the
door, their carriages moving through .the
sea of New York life a very wave of spien-
frightened, because he thought he was go- dor. Who is it? 11'hv,it is a hoy who came to
ing to be drowned as a sudden gust came New York with a dollar in his pocket, and all
up. People were ,surprised at him. If his estate slung over hie shoulder in a cot -
any man in all the world was ready to die, ton handkerchief. A,I lh it silver on the
it was good John Livingston. So there dancing ..pea is petrified sweat drops; that
are now a great many good people who beautiful dress is the faded calico over
which tied put his hand of perfection,
turning it to Turkish katin nr Italian silk ;
those diam•ids are the tears with suffer-
ing finn.. as they fell. Go, there ie a river
of difficulty between us and every earth-
ly achievement. You hnow that. You
admit that.
You know this is so with regard to the
a0tplistttoi of know edge. The aucicnts
used to say that Vulcan struck Jupiter an
hit dem tnt'nrngOft ono Sheet of writing
After loather, until a1woet the tlaw.tt of
the morning; The man' Sitting theta writ -
Inn until taunting Wye iminstreeki WVniter
Scott; the man who looked at hien through
the window was .booltht►rt, his illuetrlt,us
biographer afterward. Lord Mansfield,
'craned by the ptesa and by the populace.
because of a certain lino of duty, went on
to discharge the duty ; and while the mob
were around him detneudiug the tutting of
his life, he shook his fiat in the face ut the
mob, and said, "Sire, when ono'e last end
comes, it cannot come too soon, if he falls
in defence of law and the liuerty of Ins
country." And so there is, my fi )suds, a
tug, a tussle, a trial, a push, in auxiety,
through whioh every man must go before
he comes to worldly 8000088 and worldly
achievement. You admit it. Now be wise
enough to apply it in religion. Eminent
Christian character is only gained by the
Jotdauie passage ; no man just happened
to get good.
Why does that man know so much abou
the Scriptures? He was studying tite
Bible while you were reading a novel. He
was on fire with the aublimitierl of the
Bible while you were sound asleep. By
tI1 tussle, pushing and running in the
Christiau life that man go. so strong for
Cod ; in a hundred Solferinos ho learned
how to fight ; in a huudred shipwrecks he
learned how to swim. Tears over sin,
tears over Zion's desolation, tears over the
impenitent, tears over the graves made,
are the Jordan which that mac had passed.
Sorrow pales the cheek, and fades the eye,
and wrinkles the brow, and withers the
hands ; there are mourning garments in the
wardrobe, and there are deaths in every
famtee record, all around are the relics of
the dead,
The Christian l.as passed the Rail Sea of
trouble, and yet he thinks there is a
Juruau of death between him and heaven.
He comes down to the Jordan of death,
and thinks how many have been lost there.
When Molyneuq was exploring the Jordan
in Palestine he had his boats all knocked
to pieces in the rapids of that river. And
there are a gaeat teeny men who have gone
down in the river of death ; the Atlantic
and Pacific have not, swallowed so many.
It is an awful thing to make shipwrecks
on the rock of ruin ; masts failing, hurri-
canes flying, death coming, groaninga in
the water, meanings in the wind, thunder
in the sky, while God with the Linger of
the lightning writes all over the sky, "I
will tread thein in my wrath, and I will
trample them in,my fury."
The Christian colnes down to this ra�
torrent, and he knows he must pass
and as he comes toward the time,
breath gets shorter ; and his last breath
leaves him as he steps into the stream, and
no sooner does he touch the stream than it
is parted, and he goes through dryshod,
while all the waters was e their pluries, cry-
ing, "0, death, where is thy sting? 0, grave,
where is thy victory ?" God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes, and there
shall be no more weeping, and there shell be
no more death.
Soule of your children have already gone
up the other bank. You let them down on
this side of the bank ; they will be on the
other bank to help you up with supernatural
strength. The other morning at my table,
all my family present. 1 thought to myself
how pleasant it would be if I could put all
into a boat, and then go in with therm, and
we could pull across the river to the next
world,and be there all together. No family
parting, no gloomy obsequies; it wouldn't
take five minutes to go from bank to bank,
and then in that better world be together for-
ever. Wouldn't it be pleasant for you to
take all your fancily into that blessed coun-
try, if you could all go together? I re-
member my mother in her dying hour, said
to my father, "Father, wouldn't it be
pleasant if we could all go together?' But
we cannot all go together. We must go
one by one, and we must be grateful if we
get there at all. What a heaven it will be
if we have all our families there, to look
around and see all the children are present!
You would rather have them all there, and
you go with bare brow forever, than that
one should be missed, to complete the gar-
lands of heaven fur your `coronal. The
Lord God of Joshua give them a safe Jor-
daoic passage'.
Even children will go through dryshod.
Those of us who were brought up in the
country remember, when the summer was
coming on in our boyhood days, we always
longed fcr the day when we were to go
barefooted, and, after teasing our mothers
in tegard to it for a good while and they
consented, we remember tho delicious sen-
sation of the cool grass when we put our
uncovered foot on it. And the time will
come when the shoes we wear now, lest we
be cut of the sharp places of this world,
shall be taken orf, and with unsatidalled
feet we will step into the bed of the
river with feet untrammelled, free from
pain and fatigue, we will gain that
last journey, when, with one foot in the
bed ot the river and the other foot on the
other bank, we struggle upward. That will
be heaven. Oh, I pray for all my dear
people a safe Jordanic passsae. That is
what the dyingehristian husband felt when
he said, "Brow the candle flickers, Nellie i
Put it out ; I shall sleep well to -night,
and wake in the morning."
One word of comfort on this subject for
all the bereaved. You see, our departed
friends have not been submerged -have
not been swamped in the waters; they have
only crossed over. These Israelites are
just as thoroughly alive on the western
banksof theJordan as they had been on
the eastern banks of the Jordan ; and our
departed Christian friends have only cross-
ed over -not sick, not dead, not exhaust
ed, not extinguished, not blotted out ; but
with healthier respiration, and stouter
pulses and keener eyesight, and better
prospect* , crossed over ! their sins, their
physical Ad mental disquiet, all left clear
this side, an eternally -flowing, impassable
obstacle between them and all hu'ivan and
Satanic pursuit. Crossed over 1 Oh, I
shake hands of congratulation with all the
•bereaved in the consideration that our de-
parted Christian friends are safe.
shudder in passing a graveyard, and they
hardly dare think of Canaan because of the
Jordan that intervenes, but once they are
down on a sick -bed; then all their fears
are gone ; the waters of death dashing on
the beach are like the mellow voice ot
ocean shells -they smell of the blossoms of
the tree of life ; the music of the heavenly
choirs comes stealing over the waters, and
to cross now is only a pleasant sail. How
long the boat is coming ! Come, Lord the 'lead, aaul the goddess of wtsdum
Jesus, come quickly. Christ the Prieat ad- jumped out, illestr;tung the truth that
vances ahead, and the dying Christian goes wisdom comes by hard knbckn. There
over dry -shod on coral beds, and flowers of was a river of diltiouity beiweeu Shake -
heaven, and paths of pearl. spears, the hoy h> thug the horses at the
Again, tide Jordanic passage teaches me door of the r.,11 Lai theatre, and that
the completnesa of everything that God Slu,lt ,sret.ry,, he !, ou- ,L amatis , winning
does. When God put an invisible dant
across Jordan, and It was halted, it would
have been natural, yon would have suppos-
ed, for the water to have overflowed th••
region all around about, and that great d
vastation would have taken place. 'B
when God put the dam in front of the
river, ho put a dam on the other side of the
river, so that, according to the t •xt, t"u
water halted and teared and stood Cher
Core
tne npplaus' ,,.ud,, aces by his trage-
dies. There Ives a riv,,r •hotweeu Benja-
min Fraan',.iin, w.Ln r, loaf of bread udder
his ut tr, te 8.1 i h' ,treets of Yhilu.-
eelpui,., ,. •, uiet .,aced ii,•uj,tmin Frank-
lin, the p teoeee r iurt outside of
Boston. Ilynq n 1,,t" in the thumb:. storm.
An idler wt..; r't,',i .,: bye had e,bit by
look" g Lnroogh his Vitt d.>,v, •na.it, after
night, a a tn.,. who seemed ening at
ing
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Age We publish Ladles' Companion, es.eo per year; Ladies at Hone,
Si cents per year; Orgy Boys, and Girs, ee cents per year. Note
our address' Lan ,Dint; St. West, and du not confound, our publications
with any others of somewhat similar names.
EIIIII116 LIST.
To the first person solving puzzle we will award an elecant Desewood Plano,
valued at tau; the next will receive a (.Fold Watolt ; the third, a Milk Dress
Pattern; the fourth, a swiss Haste Hol; the fifth, aSilver Watelr• the
sixth, a BANQUET LAMP: the seventh, a Ooi,u' 1ti:, 0 .it : the eighth, a SILYF.n FIVE
O'Cooett TEA SETT ; to the next ten wilt be given each a beautiful Goon Bu000nt,
To the middle sender will be awarded a Cabinet Organ ; and to the ten following
each a Cnavox PpIIitatt' of sender or any friend. The sender of letter bearing
latest postmark, p evlous to June irtb nest, will receive a Gold 'Watch. The sender
next to last will receive a Silver eVutelt; tee preceding, each a beautiful Gold
Brooch-
CONDITIONS : Each contestant must marls flees in puzzle in ink or pencil,
cut advertisement out and iorward 1w uv whir "tarty Cents for 3 months
subscription to the Laches' Companion. Address, 1
o• "D" LADIES' COMPANION PUB. (;0 , lbt ((Ing St., West, Toronto, Can,
MB. TAYLOR IS PRACTICAL.
A SENSIBLE PROPOSAL MADE BY
MEMBER FOli SOUTH LEEDS.
11 r. (ieuige 'Taylor, the popular
n•eutb,•r ler South Leeds, is taking
greet interest in the proposed enquiry
by Ole get (opulent as to the working
Lf the tariff. In a letter to Mr. W. B,
Carroll, secretary of the Liberal -Con-
servative Association of South Leeds,
,71 . 1,),101 miller as follows:
"A metier which I suggest and ask
the Council to approve of and assist iu
uaut)img out is this: At the present
tnne there is considerable talk about
u ;e Linde or freer trade relations, tin
esti ed reciprocity, commerci 1
union, political 1111 jell or annexation
with the United States, or as Sir Rich
and Cartwright put it in his recent
amendment before the House, tatilf
, luiw. A,1 you will doubtless have
oilers, the Government proposes to
make a general revision of the tariff
uoxt ye,ir on National Policy or pro-
tection lines, to all our iudustiies,
wheftier, nom ufactiug or agricultutal,
with n view of reducing and equaliziug
the buideus so far as possible without
resOrliug to direct taxation in order
to successfully carry 'on the business of
the country. In the meantime the
Minister of Finance, the Minister of
'Prado and Cotnt11erce, together with
the Controller; of Customs and Inland
(Zeveuue, will visit all the manufactur-
ing centres and agricultural districts to
discuss with the people the whole
quee;ion' and receive suggestions. As
1 expect these gentlemen to visit, our
county, where they will spend a day or
two meeting farmers and manufactures,
and in order that we may, from a faun
er's poiut of view,.be in a position to
discuss matters intelligently with theta,
with the full knowledge of the situa-
tion, I suggest that a committee of two
he appointed to select one man from
each township iu South Leeds. I
trust that the most reliable common
sense men will be chosen and that in
such reaction there will be one or two
R'formers;nud that all of them be mon
who ale able to express their opinions
in public. In selecting them it would
he well to take one who i8 well up in
the cheese and butler• industry, another
iu atock, another in mercantile pur-
suits, mother is fern) implements;
aeo1Le:r in fruits and vegestables, etc.,
so that all classes may be fairly re
pteseuted. 1 also want it so arranged
that the gentleman thus selected will
meet tne, say, early iu June, when we
will then cross the river to Clayton, N.
Y., and drive through New York state
as far as Ogdensburg, calling at
farmhouses, stores, cheese factories, and
learn how the land over there cornpares
in value with out's; also the prices paid
for horses, cattle, sheep, pork, eggs,
fruit, butter, cheese, grains, roots, etc.;
the taxes paid by farmers there as cont -
pared with ours; the prices of farm
machinery, waggons, buggies, groceries,
cottons, woollens, clothing, etc.; price
of wages paid to laborers, and generally
to see if the farmers who have the
benefit of the 65,000,000 market are
more prosperous than we are in Canada;
how land and personal property stand
as to mortgages, etc., and, in short, to
gather such information as to be able
to advise the Dominion Governmental
ilial clan if an should be
THE
Short and Sweet.
Can a newspaper war properly be termed
a scrap of paper?
The oldest wheelman in the country is 78
and still able to be round.
Boston's crooked streets indicate that
the city is noted for its warpath.
When the barber talks too much his
stories are generally illustrated with cuts.
There isa fisherman on Lake Champlain
mimed l'higars, Who says figures don't
lie.
The Frenchman says • When- I start
out in search for a wife, I'm going to
Havre.
Myr son, don't advertise your griefs. If
you have crooked legs, don't wear striped
pants.
All bright writers on morning newspapers
are said to bo very wicked ; at least, they
scintitIate.
A Chicaeo paper, in rather prematurely
welcoming people to the World s Fair, says:
"Our latchstrings are all out." Better get
a new supply, then.
"Patrick, you fool, what snakes yon
stale atter the rabbit when your gun has no
Ince on it?" "Hush1 Hush! my darling;
the rabbit doesn't know it." •
mitted free, we would lose a large
amount of revenue that is collected ou
corn for distillery purposes, besides, it
would depreciate the price of mita, peas
and barley for feediug purposes. As
some people say that the distillers get
corn fluty free, let ale gives the facts..
Last year they imported 1,685,527
110sheie, on which they paid a duty of
$126,415. If they export the spirits
they get a drawback equal to the duty
paid on the corn that wart used iu the
tuanufaeture of the quantity of spirit,
so exported. Last year they exported
90,000 gallons of epirils, the drawback
on which amounted' to 025, 80 that if
cot were admitted free we would lose
iu revenue $126x,.190 a year on corn
used for the n)auut'aettne of liquor con-
sumed iu Canada- 'I''his druwbaek is
given to encourage all hinds of manu-
facturing iu the country.. Jtv a practi-
cal talk with the farmers in .New York
state who have free earn, ea well as on
tnany other points, we can in this way
gather' a lot of valuable information.
Therefore I hope 1 may have the
pleasure on a day in Jane, which may
herealter be agreed upon, to he aeeom-
pat:ied over there by a delegate from
each of the townships in my riding."
Consumption enretl.
An old physician, retire 1 trona practice, having
had placed in his hands by au Bast India mission-
ary the formula of a simple vefetable remedy f,. r
the speedy luta permanent care ,.1 Consumption,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat and
Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all Mamma Complaints,
after having tested its wonderful' attritive powers
in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make
.it known to liisunfterina fellows. Aetuated by thin
motive and a desire to relieve homen suffering, I
will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this
recipe, in German, French or English, with fu'•t -
directions for preparing and using. Sent by mil
h• addressing with stamp. naming this pager.
W.A. Norma, 8511 Powers' Bloc , norherter, N. F.
059- y
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made in the tariff so as to benefit the
Cauadiau farmer. All 1 want ie that
good, practical men be chosen, who
will give their time, say for about one
week. They should bo men in whom
their neighbors will have confidence
when they make their report. I pro-
pose to pay the ex,pensee of the trip
and am anxious that this information
should be gathered, so that I may be
in a position to represent properly the
the views of my constituents to the
Government in any tariff changes that
may be suggested. I may add also
that I'truet this committee will meet
the members of the Government
when they visit Gananoque. I hope
this proposal will meet with the ap-
proval of my constituents, and that it
will bo acted on, es at the present see-
sion, when a motion was made to admit
corn into Canada free of duty for all
purposes I opposed it, thinking I was
Hering in the beet interests of the
farmers of Canada. If corn were ad
WANTS TO EXHIBIT HIS
BABIES..
The World's Fair will undoubtedly
be a great show,hut it has not aft yet been
definitely announced that there will be
an exhibit of babies. A proud Ontar-
io father, however, is anxious to send
a pair of twine to the fair if there is to
be such an exhibit. Ile wrote to Mr.
Larke, Dominion Commissioner,
saying that he would back his bounc-
ing babies against any in the world,
black, white, or yellow, and Asking, if
there would be an exhibition of fat,
healthy tote. Mr. Larke, in reply, re-
ferred papa to Mr. Awrey, who, he
said, "had charge of the live stock
exhibit." In a few days Mr. Awery
received a letter from pater-familias.
The commissioner for Ontario replied
promptly to the effect that all exhibits
of manufactured goods cane under the
supervision of the Dominion commis-
sioners. The question of infant in-
dustries naturally looms up and the
comntiesioners still have this vexed
problem under consideration.
CLEVELAND'S ADDRESS 1S ACCEP-
TABLE IN ENGLAND.
•
The Daily News says: "ft is worthy
the occasion, which is recognized uni-
versally as by . far the greatest one
Americans have known since the Civil
War.''
The Daily Telegraph says: "Mr.
Cleveland's brave words would have
been more convincine to our minds of
great reforms•if he had not alrendy been
in power and failed to do much to root
out the plagues of American life."
'Phe Daily Chronicle says: "It is along
time since an American president has
hod the courage to speak such words
to his countrymen."
The Standard says: "Altogether, Mr.
Cleveland begins well."
The Daily Graphic says: "Mr. Cleve-
land's confession of faith is full of good
sense and is arranged in very hormone
ions style."
The Morning Post says: "The address
Breathe throughout a resolute, practical
tone."
The Times says: "The address boldly
grapples with the moat crying evils in
American politics in language of refresh•
ing directness."
-."The London Optician" says that
great men are usually blue eyed, for
instances, Shakespeare Soci ate», Locke,
Bacon, Milton, Geothe, Franklin,
Napoleon, Bismarck, Gladstone, Hux-
ley, Virchow and Renan.