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CANADIAN„rof mines in operation, section mar,
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lug the situation of mineral arms, phoio•
CANADIAN RAILWAYS.
an dramlugs are also arrenged ou the wit Is, A Comperition.
so that the visitor at once gets e good idea Sir Henry Tyler, in his explenation of
1111.11111141.114d Goods No %WOO. et where tht f °anomie minerals of the the region why the Greed Trunk railway
country are situated. The gold from Cana- doss not pay dividend. to Ito shareholders,
timed'', Coen In Nunnery IllatI-whas dian mine. 1. worth st the miut Phila. has really oovered the whole ground.
sae Mom "later orean nye or our delphie from 319.40 to 820 per ounces. Some Rates, he says by reason of competition,
of the quartz apecimens taken from Nova have been educed below a (sir psying
Dleelae.
Scotia mines allay al high as $75,0006 ton. trash', and the traffic in consequence 14 ear -
Cando has outdone her mother country
ried on term. which do not yield the
originel investor a remonable profit.
Agalust a situation of this kind it is idle
to protest, Cireumetanced as the Cana-
dian made are, they mut necessarily be
governed in the arrangement of freight
charges hy the policy of competitors in the
United States, and when the latter discard
consideration of the proprietary interest
by reducing the rates of transport to the
bare wet of carriage, our Canadian rail.
wive are compelled to meet them on their
own ground. Sir Henry Tyler puts the
case thug :-" Rates are low. They aro
frightfully low, They are nearly two.
thirds lower than they ere in England. If
we hail these rate" in England every 'nib
way in the country would be in the Bank•
rupt court. They are not paying rates.
They are out.throat rates, Previous to
I e83 we got a cent and a half per ton per
mile. Now we get 1.11 cent Think of
what that mean. 15 moans all the differ.
tines between working for a reasonable prof.
It and working for no profit at all,"
In raferring to thia question the Montreal
Gazette says - "The experience of the
Grand Truuk ie identical with that of its
American competitors. The latter enlarge
their businese from year to year without
improving the net profits, upon which the
shareholders must depend for a dividend.
Ten year. ago, viz., in 1882, the railway%
of New York traneported to tide weter 3, •
885,000 tons of freight, representing 75 per
oent. of the total business, while Met yew'
the reilways carried close upon 8,000.000
tons or about 87 per tent of the boineu. To
cite a single nano of the decline in the
oost of railway transportation, to which Sir
Henry Tyler refers, it may be stated that
the rate ou grain from Chicago to Liverpool
in 1850 was .50 pants per 100 lba., and last
year only .32 cent", • decline in which the
charge for all commodities has shared. The
remedy for thie lamentable state of thing"
from the shareholder@ standpoint is very
difficult to devise. legislation certainly
will not cure what the proprietors regard
as en efil; and it is really difficult to eon.
eeive of any more effeetive method than
that heretofore adopted of en agreement be-
tween the competing companies forthe main.
tenance of rate" on * buil which will yield
a reuonable return on the capital invested.
Comparison is sometimes made in this re.
'peat with Great Britain and Aultredias
but the eircumetenoes of traffic in these
oountria are so essentially different from
those in Canada that no parallel can safely
be drawn between the two. In Australis
the railway lines are owned by the Govern.
ment No competition on the part of
private capital is encountered, and the hum
ler character of the colon!, renders absolute
control by the Government easily possible.
Rates oan then be fixed wording totherev-
enue neoeseitio of the companies, in much
the same way that a custom tariff is reg.
ulatad in Canada to produce the income
necessary to meet the obligations annually
devolving upon the treuury. Bo in Eng-
land, by way of legislation e simile!. end is
attained. Rates there may, indeed, appear
to compare favorably with those existing on
this continent, measured on the basis nf
the charge per ton per mile; but the premiere
of traffic. is so great and the distance carried
so short, oomparatively, Ent what. would
be a fair norm in Great Britain proves in
Canada an entirely unremunerative figure.
We oannot place much faith in the augges
tion that legislation will help the case of
the inventor in American railways.
"The very Mot that two diatinct and
oompetitive countries must he oonsulted in
the matter renders it practically impossible
to enforoe any conolueion‘hat may be ar.
rived at. The Inter:44We Commerce mt.
aimed at the betterment of the condition of
railway properties, by repining rates to
as to avoid intense and rummy competition;
yet since the pulege of that measure the
rivalry has abated nothing, Where, then,
may be asked, hi the remedy ? The an -
ewer is not easy 01 supply. W hat ever #ill-
11ed Ineinignivitait din do towarde conserving
the interests of elyreholdere hu oar
been performed in the cue of the G
Trunk, ea the president of the oompatry
remarks, condatent with the efficient work,
ing of the road, Every item of expense
has been pruned down to the lowest notch;
and that the ability of the property to hold
ita own in competition with rival American
roads has not been impaired ie amply attest.
ed with a growing volume of the Grand
Trunk traffic. If the capital accounts were
"mailer, the relation of the net profits to
the total investment would doubtleu ap-
pear more favorable. But, after all, this
m a matter of no great consequence, eine
it streets merely a question of book-keeping.
In meeting the competition of the American
roads, and in maintaining ita full proportion
of the through traffic from the interior to the
seaboard, the Grand Trunk ham pursued a
wise policy, out of which alone on come a
premier" of future dividends. On the bads
of thie year's or last year's tralfic thp prop-
erty would yield a very handeeme return
to the shareholdera, if the redo of ten or
fifteen years ago were still in existence,
and it ie quite certain that a much higher
toll weld oollected to.day without mate•
Holly diminishing the volume of freight
passing over the road. In hie inspection of
the Grand Trunk we are satisfied that the
president will fliel a property thoroughly
equipped, in a hi „It ao_dition of excellence,
ably managed end capable of easily meet•
ing every demand made upon it for the
transport of merchendise. Meantime, that
is the utmost the shareholders can reason-
ably expired, and when rates improve, if
they should ever dole, the ammo would
exist of a rapid inorease in the net earnings.
of the company."
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in the neat and pretty curtainr We Mu chleago's (waitress or Religions.
emoted around her awe iri the Manufac. The public interest in the Parliament of
tures building. The Canadian section is on Religions in Chicago low tar surnamed the
the west aide of Columbia avenue, with hopes of its friends and the prediction of
Great Britain on the north, Denmark on its enemies. The attenrience at the selatone
mouth, and Belgium on the eut, e.orree the during last week was exceptionally 'loge,
avenue. Every foot of the 10,000 square while the varinue addreeses were both able
feet ol space is crowded with tonufactured and instructive. This inuat le especially
goods from all parte of Canada. On the gratifying to its promoters, because ever
mam Melo of the big buililing the Dominiou mince the inception of the idea some of the
has put forth an extra effort, and the neat. most influential religious journal. and °tar-
ty devised curtain whicli Melees'. the space aymen of the United States have violently
hi varied with e citadel life erection in the Assailed it as a recognition of false religions
. center that else some twenty•five feet, and and therefore an insult to Christianity. So
- impply-decorated with Canadian flags and bitter, indeed, haa been the hostility of the
bunting. Within the apace is located the otileial mouthpieces of the Chrietian sect,
* exhibit in glue eases, erected on Premider • that those who threw themselves into the
re all being mounted on platforms movement would have withdrawn had they
There is no doubt Dna tl:e Dominion hat not been possessed of rare moral course.
many and more varied and probebly better But, in spite of all opposition, the Parlia.
lines of manufacture than those which are inent 11 a fact which must be reckoned
shown on this busy Columhia avenue of the with. Thnugh the churches give it no
Manufactures betiding. There is much to official countenance, they are unoffieially
criticise in the deploy which Canada makee, represented by some of their most &stir'.
and the menufacturere of the Dominion have guisbed Indere, while the official represen-
dene themselves scanty credit by the deo tatives of the Oriental religions who are
Elay which they have made at the World's taking part in the soden' will bring home
. Yak'. Despite this there are a great many to Amerioan Christiana the fact that there
lines of manufactured producta in the Cato are other faiths wino!' ere powerful relig-
Wan oourt which will compare favorablY ioue force" in the world. It cannot impair
with those of the older, more populous, and the peculiar claims of Chtistianity for its
more pretentious manufacturing countries. member" to gain a truer underetending of
The oaten king hae been at work in the that fact. On the contrary, inasmuch as
Dominion, and in two long, well•finished, it ilia fundamental element in the religious
0611vo'wood "I" are me" aaetetullY 4T- problem that they have set out to solve, it
ranged many of the products of the Canadian le essential that they should realize it. Nor
cotton mills. is that all Not only are average Chrietians
valiedee. grossly ignorant of the other great world
Cotton fabrics of ell kinds are shown and religions whole combined adherents out -
textile goods °lumpy a prominent plate. number those of Chrietanity more than
TweeM, molten', brain, silk thread, and two to one anti embrace more than
Oirpta smIsoutsosivelyexhibited. Moves, half the population of the globe,
hoeWry, underwearoind ready-made clothing but what little information they do
o w tastefully arranpd In glass oases made hive of the religions is often grotesquely
of Cleuedian elm, Wok and cherry. Two false. That was a most striking scene
very pretty oases fairly groan with a burden in the sessions of the Parliament
of Iodise work of all description, from of Religion when Dharmapala, the
different parte of tim Dominion. Some of eminent Buddhist priest and scholar
this work is particularly handsome sad from Ceylon stood forth end asked
artiatio and beautifully executed. There how many of the audienoe had ever read the
is tala quitra creditable exhibit of 'sole end life of Buddha. When only five and four of
hernia leather. Scales, stoves and hollow. them women, held up their hands, Dim'.
ware, watm-heaten, horseshoes, etova pal- tnapalsexolaimed:
lab, screens, rivets spades, "hovels, and " Five only I Four hundred and seventy-
- an immenie array of Ilke articles moot the five millions of people accept our religion of
eye in every daemon. There is a ;adieu. love and of hope. You call yourself • Ne.
lady pretty exhibit lot choler and band tion, a great Nation, end yet you do not
"awe of almost every pattern which hes at. know the history of thie great teacher. How
tweeted much attention end it ie doubtful dare you judge us ? You have nod the
whether in this deportment Canada is woo story ef a life.ornhing, bloody Juggernaut
purl by any exhibits at The Fair. A to secure the means to save alleged heath.
creditable display of boots anti shoes eau. ens. Juggernaut has been popularized by
pis* prominentposition. Paints,pigmenta, Chrintian missionaries, and yet a commie -
bathe, sink traps, and innumerable other eion composed of eminent Englishmen has
said's, gotomake upthie extended exhibit, deolared that the Chriatien idea of Jugger.
A solid pyramid of the very fineet quality, naut was a myth, thatdeath and blood were
huge bundles and piles of cordage and haw. repulsive to our people. This Christian
sere, pottery end earthenware, decorated story ham been exploded, It has gone into
china, stationery, paper, mantels, easels, oblivion."
and all deauriptior I of art supplies are shown. It le gratifying to know that he complete.
Brom the different eourta in this section are ly carried the audience with him in this
head continually the sounds of musical in• eloquent outburat For it testifies to a
stramenta, pianos exceeding good in finish spirit of fairness that hm not marked some
end tone, organs and other musical lustre. of the recent utterances of Christians con.
mote which make an attractive show. earning other religious faiths.
IN MACHINERY BAIL. Two classes of people will be disappoint.
Canada's court in Machinery hall is splen eel in thie great religious gathering -those
didly touted at the east end of the center who have thought that out of it might be
fl sr of the building and immediately °ppm evolved Home sort of universal or comic re-
sits the wart of Great Britain. The court li ion, and those who have expected that
is artistically arranged and plentifully Gtristianity would cmfound all ether re-
decorated with Canadian and British flap. liens. Neither of thew things will imp.
pe -n. Everybody who has taken part in it
Is order to show the good feeling which will go home with hie faith unimpaired.
Wets between the mother country and her The gain from the parliament will not He
premier colony,
th° entralrne t° th. Cana' in the feet that it has upset mon', faitha,
&an sun is surmounted by British flags
and emblems, while the entrance to Great I ii
hey° o owed its diecuslione aome of the
b it that it has impressed upon those who
Britain I court is decorated with the Can -
dist beaver and Dominion ensign. While
Mae exhibit has man features of pectiliar
interest to visitors, t e display is scarcely
even a fair representation of what Canada!" Wheat ow the Rise.
tnitabinety manututurers osn produce. An advance at New York of about three
"LW "atertroa 11"ee are absent. gaff a ants a bushel in the price of wlitat last
unmoor or the Ramat manufeeturere are week did not diminish the quantitybipori-
at represented et ail. at. Incised the shipment" were er by
Time is • good display of automatic and 441,000 bushel" than thaw of the preceding
traction engines, compound marine engines, week, and the total for the eleven week" of
Mean injectors and exhsuiters, high apeed the new fiscal year ie more than 54,000,000
engines, fire engines, water wheels and iron bushels. We publish below the exact
working machinery of all descriptions, in. figures, with those for the corresponding
eluding plena', woodworking maohnierY, week" of the last three years :
lubrioators grease cups, and eneral steam -
larger aspects of religion that uuderlie all
the great faiths of the world.
fittings an groin grinders he display of
woodworking machinery is one of the finest
oe exhibition at The Fair. fhie might al.
moat be expected from a country which
produces the quantity of timber that Cured&
Ma The exhibit of brick.making machines
hal attripited special attention and is eon.
stoutly examined by United States and
foreign expert". At one end of the oourt in
li ler medal stamping press end the
nmple leaf is turned mit in gold
and silver badges and sold as souvenirs of a
visit to Canada in Maohinery hall.
EXHIBITe IN MINING BUILDINO.
Fran an economic standpoint, one of
itansda's greatest resources is the Mex.
bautlble supply of minerals which are
stored away under Cenadian soil. Large
depoeita of economic mineral" in absolutely
eaksown quantities and of unestimated
value are to be found in the mountainoue
Matelots of almost every province in the
Dashikis.
The display which the 000ntry make" in
the Mining building ia a fair lode( to the
natural mineral resources of the country.
Tee Canadien section comprises an aree, of
10,000 square feet, and is on the main floor
Wein of the °antral aiele extending back
under the west gallery. Ihe courts are
similar to all other Canadian courts, in so
far es large and prominent Ago' are con-
. Canadian flags and bunting give a
&day appearans to this most interesting
motion. The arrangement of the courts is
pod. The largest and weelthiestprovince
mourning the most prominent position, and
the smaller provinces with lees important
a:labia modestly coming after. The tout
Stumble is exceedingly pleasing and a
emeful inspeotion of the different courts is
highly instructive. Upon entering tne
kip centred court the visitor is immediate.
ly interested with the great pyramids of
gold blocks representing the yield of that
precious metal throughout Canada mince it
woe Brat discovered in the far western pro,.
ins of British Columbia. The total yield
of gold from British Columbia alone le esti.
meted at aomethieg over 553,000,000 while
mama the continent. 3,700 miles, the surf-
boat*, province of Nova Scotia on the
Atlantic ocean hu produced from her gold
depoeits *Moe 1864 over 08,640,000. In the
banner province of Ontario, extensive des
hi of gold quartz are being worked,
y by American capitalism, and here
the output is estimated at nearly $1,000,000
eannally.
The ample of coal from British Columbia
Sow the excellent quality in both anther'.
cite and bituminous of the inexhaustible
°eat fields of that province. Black diamonds
are also taken out in large quantities in the
promote' Nova Scotia, end the sparsely
wooded sad illimiteble areas of farming
land 14 the great Northwest of the Donau.
lon have a plentiful supply of excellent ooal
from the large depoeits about Banff apringl,
the Reeky,mounteine. The province
of Bootie makes a poor "bowing of
sal amplem, despite the fact that die hu
mune of the greatest coal areal on the con.
Utast. One mine in this province hes a
shaft tanning two miles ont under the bei
of the Atlantic man, and the Nun of coal
is sald to be the richeet in the world.
The blaming of nickel and nickel ore A Orange reagent.
tram the Sudbury dietriot of the province There were men). strange incident. in
of Ontario ia one which has anointed the connection with the sinking of the " Vie-
sniveral attention not only of mining ex. tons," but perhaps, says the Pall Alai'
porta bat also of neval officers. The qual• Gazette, the strangest of them has not yet
ity of thee see can best be indicated by been recorded. Alter the ship foundered,
the rash of the reset tuts rmtde by the two articles whioh had been lying in Ad•
naval departments of Great Britain, Fromm, mai Tryon's °elan were picked up, mid
Gernany, and the United States, in which have been brought home. One of these
Canadian make! was found to have the articles was the Admirel'a telescope ; the
greatest power of resisters and was by all other was hie despatch box. Now this box
rase the most suitable for the purpose of was of peculiar construction. It wee
making armour plates for improved war made according to special service reguis•
easels, Following the result or awe testa tient' in order to contain the code of signals.
Amities eapital inunediately found ita "1"1"refin 141141" 1.1"1101"e• !t is essential that dune signals should not
way into Canada, and even and thous& of A Lima, O., sffieelal whys 1-K train imse fell into the bands of an enemy. The
btu of °wadies sickles* are being mined ed through this place on Fricisy Dirt is therefore lined with feed and perf
by the Sudbury Nickel company to fill s carrying the 14th Regiment of Ohio a. with holes at the bottom to ensure i
(*street nada with the neighboring althorn. -tional Guard to the World's Fair. When Mg as soon as it is thrown over
thee itt Weshington. Tbio metal will be the train stopped at the Chleago and Erie what happened? The great ship
Wed fel making armour pletes for our pro. depot, the soldier, made a raid upon the ed with all the ingenuity ol JR
paid my war "his. luncheon rooms and *loon" in the vicinity on porpoite to float, sank like
one 'rile
The display( of asheetos and sides am, la 1 1# op 5,1,,eg ei twee way orient lay meddined, perforated box, gpecially crest.
iphoaphates from the Ortellelee mineral areas their hands on. The proprietors and clerks ed oink, floated and noeftlies at White.
stss provisos of Quebec show the eoono. attempted to defend their property, and a hall, a testimony to the fallibility of two
leja man of the depoeitothere. The mien. pitched battle ensiled, in which dozen sets of designers.
Nen aellortion of mineral one and fondle men were tattered up and injured. The
AM& ?ty.the fleelotal aurvaY 01 Canada 14 fronts of leveral places were bomberded.
ers WWin °snot ail to intereetstudents of AtSieber's ealoon apiece of iron wastbrown Tramp-" Madam, have you an axe ?"
algesgalegy. lillarerrnargentiferonsplena, through the wooden walla. The soldiem Lady of the house -" No" " Have you a
grows ens iron oresonarble build. formed for the purpose of mobbing a saw ?" " No, I have no taw." " Thea give
f b • me little something eat, plena'
itelaMof all funds, graph te, crude and
powsd, gypees 111110 and limestone, and bloodied was' thus averted. "Ain't ye workin' now, Bob I" ", w,I
11:71aphis rest profusion are soak wanted de bou to simine a dal pa rry
161'eagepeD Nal teetofelly stringed in I
KX PORTS OF WHEAT.
First eleven week. of 1893. 54,330,207
First eleven week, of I W. 36,501,448
First eleven weeks of 1591. 48,370,894
First eleven weeks of 1890, 21,799,952
Thus far the shipment' have been at the
rate of nearly 257,000,000 bushels per are
num. The signifioance of these figure. ie
more clearly seen when the fade are re.
tailed that the exporte last year, followiug
the harveating of two very large crops in
suacesaion were 192,000,000 bushels ; that
the export for two years before, following
the harvest of America's largest crop and
stimulated by an eiceptional shortage in
Europe, were 2 25,000,000 bushel.' ; that
thiaverage for several years up to that
time had been lees than 116,000,000, and
that the crop of this year is very email,
Unfortunately, experience haa shown that
United States Government reports are not
trustworthy. The reports for this year in -
diode a crop not in enema of 380,000,000
bushels, The normal demand at home for
consumption and seed requires about 385,-
000,00 ) bushels,so that, if the official report
is even epproximately correct, the export
demand niust be eatiefied mainly out of the
/unplug carried over from previous years. It
is quite probable that the estimate indent.
ed by the report fall. considerably below
the aetual yield. Within a few days the
news received from the great wheat district
of the Dekotu and the Rod River Valley
has shown that the crop there WM under.
estimeted. Bredstreets has repeatedly ex.
pressed the opinion that the crop would be
nearer 450,000,00J than 400,000,000, and no
journal collect, crop statistics with greater
care. On July 1 the available stook in
sight wu shout 78,000,000 bunk, an ex.
oepeionalle large supply, and it was be•
lieved that the "Wok in farmers' heads or
elsewhere back of the eveilable quantity in
eight was in the neighborhood of 30,0000
000 bushel". Assuming that the invisible
supply of 30,000,000 would be sufficient to
provid.e the ordinary mph" to be carried
over at the new orop is only 380,000,000
bushels, the quantity available both for
home demand and export would be only
458,M10,000 bushels. If we deduot 385,000,-
000 tor home consumption and seed, there
remain only 91,000,000 available for "hip.
men to Europe in the twelve month..
But in eleven weeks America hes export.
ed 4080,000 bushels. Ie it probable that
there are left only 37,000,000 to supply
the export demahd for 41 wake? If the
new crop is only 380,000,000 and the Mete
ible supply at the beginning ot the year ham
been fairly estimated, a continuation of the
exptrt movement at the present rate would
exhaust in two months the quantity avail.
able for shipment, and then there would be
more than seven month, of the crop yea
wanolning.
Even if it be admitted that the new crop
ie as much se 425,000,020 bushels, an ad-
dition of 45,000,000 to the estimate indi.
°Med by the United States report, the
quatity remaining available for shipment
would be only 82,000,000 bushels, or an
average of only 200,000 per week for
the 41 week" moaning, and the exports
for the entire year would be only 136,000,•
000 bushels, inatead of the 256,000,000 in.
dimmed by an average of nearly 5,000,000
per week for the eleven weeks already past.
it is an interesting problem, end there will
be some changes in the eondition of the
wheat tab before it is eolved.
It might here be mentioned that we are
oompelied to have our reauks upon United
States report*, for the simple reason that
our own government fail. to furnish any
satiate. as to the wheat supply, ita Weld.
stioian being apparently too busy with
matters, such es the manufactures of the
country, that are of especial political value
to itself.
Insects lo ihe Arctic Doe.
It is matter of eurpriae to all who, for
the first time, have any experieuoes in high
Northern latitudes, to note the great abum
danoe of insen life in Alaska. 'The writer
of this paragreph was especially interested
in noting the large amount of Mane and
other low conditions of animel life which
were carried down from the melting glaciers
into the river" and etreams which flowed
from them. It is to this that we have to
attribute the great abundance of higher
forms of animal life which prevail. Fish
especially are in such quantities near the
coast, attracted by thia abundance, that it
seems like repeating the alma Baron Mun•
ohausen to the listener. The young eon of
the writer, who was with hlm in this mph
dition, wee, with • couple of Indians in a
boatde ble to drive mama into nerrow creeks
in aunh abundance that the boat would be
driven &mint the fleh In their endeavor. to
sempe. They could have been dragged up
in shoals by any strong and ordinary net.
In the earlier history of Colorado very
much strew was laid on the fact that Fre-
mont saw a bee on one of the high elevations
while crossing the Rocky Mountains, Lieut.
Perry in hie recent expedition to North
Greenland found a humble bee on the
north coast of Greenland -the highest point
of land yet reached by human being to
far as known. Thia explorer states that
not only bees but other insects abound ae
soon as the epriog fairly opens. Flowers ta
many kinds are particularly beautiful and
abundant, affording a good chance for hon.
ey and pollen -collecting Weeds to lay up
rich stores in edvance of their long Arctic
wintera.
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n science
a theta to the flag is • road parade of t • ploy-
11=iskie 011111111MR eashRto go ; ea, sad Is worlds% de ill ite I quit 'is.
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THE WEEK'S NEWS
cANALHAN,
There have been five fires in Hamilton
slime Friday. Two of them were of a es
rious uature rind ousel womb:Wahl° Imes.
The Montreal &dilative! have wooded
in etteating a youth of eighteen named tff.
W. Bette alias John Leiceater who is
wanted in Ottawa and Toronto as en expert
burglar.
The sealing schooner Geneva arrivel at
Victoria, 11, (1„ 0#1 Wednesday, bringing
two thousand and eixty seal skim, of which
more than half were taken in .Tapan seas.
The Sunday School Association of On.
tario has aocepted an invitation to hold ite
twenty-eighth annUalProvincial Convention
in Toronto from the 24th to the 26th of
October next.
The Heys! Mail steamer Sardinian, with
the Earl and Countess of Aberdeen on
hoard, arrived at Qiieboo at two o'clock
Monday morning, and at nine o'clock the
new llovernordleneral of Canada made hie
official landing.
There is such a hopeless difference be-
tween the gereletie surveys made of the
Alaskan boundary by the American and
Canadian parties that it is believed the
question will have to be submitted to ar•
bitretion.
The Opted,. of the village of Grimsby hae
refused to consider the Hamilton, Grimsby,
met Beammille reilway by-law because
there is a feeling in the neighbourhood that
an electric railwey through the village
would divert trade to Hamilton.
Mrs. Beaton has served notice of her in•
tendon to enterlibel suite agalnet the Cana -
Alan newspaper' whioh tepubliehed the
eeneettonal article in the New York World
about her and the death of Cicero Harrition
Case.
The non•oommisaioned officers and older
men, twelve in all, of " F" Company, 1101
P.W.O. Rifles, will be summoned to appear
before a magistrate in Montreal to renewer a
charge of insubordination, in refusing to
obey the order of the commandant on Do:
minion day.
The Son extension of the Canadian Pa -
&lc railway has been completed by the lay-
ing of the connecting link with the main
line at Pasqua. The regular passenger
Notelet, will he inaugurated next Sunday.
The inquest touching the death of Angus
McLeod, who was shot dead at Napanee
by burglar, was resumed on Monday
night, and Frederick Somerville, who was
arrested on suspicion, proved an undoubted
alibi, end was acquitted,
The Courrier de lit Hyacinthe makes a
hitter attack npon Mr. Laurier, because he
eaid before an Ontario audience that he
(mulct see the day approching when there
would be union between all men speaking
the English language.
Prof. Maw un, natoreliat of the Gaoled
ioal Department, arrived in Ottawa on
Monday, after 'pealing five months onVan•
caner Wenn. He hag brought beck with
him a fine collection of the hied; flowers,
gravel, insects, seashells, fish, Mo., of the
oountry.
Some unknown person • flred a shot
through a window in the residence of Mr.
edieor of the Commit Revue, at
Montreal, Sunday. The bullet passed
Om to the head of Mrs. Filiatrault, but as
her busload ham of lite received threaten.
ing letters, it iekupposed the intention Wee
to kill him.
BRITISH.
The British Amociation has elected Lord
Salisbury preeident, to succeed Sir Archi-
bald Galt.
The police have intimated to all the Lon.
don banks that a gang of expert American
forgers are now on their way to London.
The miners of Lancashire anti Yorkshire
have voted unanimously against accepting
a reduction of wages or submitting the dis-
pute with their en4loyere to arbitration.
The Anwar of Afghanistan has infinmed
the Indian Government that preparations
for the reception of the British missies e
rom Simla.
mplate. The British envoy hear d
It is 'aliened that the Gladstone O'er ea:
ment haw promised the Welsh memb of
the Houle of Common? to make di tab-
liehment of the Church in Wale. thR prin.
ciple of a bill in the autumn session. •
The prelim of Paris tind a number of the
provincial newspapers continue the eono
paign against the lintish Niger Company.
Tde tiewepapere also comment with a mini.
ony upon the visit of the British Hodder -
mean squadron to Italy.
The London section of !he Nations! Lilted.
al Federation, at a meeting held the other
day, unanimously adopted a resolution de•
cluing in favour of the abolition of heredia
tary legislators.
At the ennui meeting of the Britiah
Associstion, held in Nottingham, an invite.
tion for the emaciation to visit Toronto f.t
the earliest convenient date was read and
favourably &earned.
The London Chronicle yesterday morning,
commenting on the appointment of the
Royal Agriculturel Commission, said that
Canada is one of the most conspicuous
exemples of State education to the farmer,
and that it was certain similar instruction
to the farmara of England would be greedily
received.
There was a railroad accident on Satur-
day near Bath, Eng. A train from Pad-
dington nn the Great Western railroad,
ran off the rails in it tunnel near Bath.
While in this predicament a train bound
for Paddington ran Into it. No lives were
lost.
A detachment of Human have arrived at
Holywell, Flintehire, in order to protect
the miners, who have gone to work in the
lietteheld and Pointofayre colheriea, in
England. The strikere are threatening to
make a desperate moult upon the men at
work.
Sir George Trevelyan announeed that
the British Government had duality' to
abandon all efforts in tho direction of State
colonization'ae the result of the experiment
with the Saharans and K Manley settlers
in the Canadian North.Weet was extemely
unsatisfactory. The crofters had not paid
baok any inetalmente of the money ad-
vanced them, and had not even paid their
municipal taxes.
uNITED STATE%
The new White House baby will be
christened Esther,
President Cleveland has nominated Mr!
James. J. Van Alen, of Rhode Wand, av
United States Ambassador to Italy.
Terrible forest fires are raging around
Mashlield, Wis. A number of line are re.
ported to hey° been lot, and forty families
are homeleu.
The greet draw span of the new bridge
*emu the Missouri river st Omaha, Neb.,
he higgest and heaviest in the world, wan
*ling into place on Thursday afternoon,
Henry 8. Cochran who stole five thou.
e ind ounces ot gold from the Philadelphia
mint, has been arrested.
Fire cues of smallpox and seven suspect,
ed cages were reported the other day to the
health authorities of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of oad.
fellows, which hu been in anion for the
put few days at Milwaukee, will hold its
annual meeting next year at Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The proposition to charm twentyffive
cente admission to the World's Fair on Sum
daya, and to admit Chicago echool chiffiren
on certain dam for ten cents, was voted
down by the direetore on Monday.
All except four hundred dollars of the
...venty thousand dollars stolen from the
dineral Range train on Friday but has
neon reoovered, and seven pouring are
under arrest in connection with the rob.
bery.
The fourteenth regiment of Ohio National
Guards on their way to the Chicago Fair,
when the train Mopped on Priilay night at
Lima, 0., raided the restaurantemel saloons
and stole everything on which they could
lay their hands:
ocNICRAL
The town of Villa Cane, in the Province
of Toledo, Spain, has been devastated hy
floods, and about forty lives have been
lost.
It is reported that the Brazil rebels heve
gained a foothold in Rio, and thet President
Peixoto has retired.
A despatch (min Kiisingen sem that
Prime Bismarck is much better.
There was only one ease or cholera report.
ed throughoat Holland on Saturday. a
The Petit Parisian eam that an extensive '
coal atrike is pending in the Pal de Calaie g
Basin.
The Para Figaro says that the French
Goverment will decline the Britiali "
mode for the oreaties of baler State ie.!
A ESSIMINN ANSICAN WAR.
The King of Alailmeniand Will Have to hr
Taught s Lemon,
The Metaltele of Smith Atria,' have never
been defeated in battle. War Red pillage I
are their business, slid they think them. ,
selves invincible. Go the eve of war with
the Imperial British South Africa Company, 1
they pieelaim that ono Matabele warmer
.
min e ea our .ng rehmen. When the ty• ,
rant who rules them WW1 told by a mix-
sionary that " God is greater than you,"
the thunderous response " You lie," was 1
shouted back by the regiment' around tho 1
King. They have yet to test their valor
aud strength in a etruggle with white men,
and are likel tn emerge from the onnflict
with dueling ed ideas of their importance.
The mese of the trouble ie that King Lo.
bengnia, thongh he ceded to the chartered
company the rich gold fields of Mashona.
land, hal ermined to assert his alleged right
to plunder and enalave the netwee of that
district as his father did before him, Since
the cestion of Meshonaland the terrorized
natives have had a respite ; but ou July 9
last, while a missionary was holding ser.
vices almost under the shadow of Fort Vie -
tone, impi or native regiment of the
Metaled° fell upon the unsitapecting settle.
ment, massacred the helpless people with•
out mercy, burned their little, and ran off
with their women and grain. When asked
to x plain hie conduct the K ing replied that
he had relinquished no right to do as he
pleased with hie vassals, and when he want.
ed slaves or cettle, he should raid the Ma.
Ammo whether the Britteh liked it or not.
Since then he has established two impis in
Msehonaland, has driven his cattle into the
central part of Matabeleland, a sure sign
that he ineans mischief ;and the British are
preparing for the atruggle which they know
ie Scommeinyge.
are ago Montagu Kerr, the flrst
white man to cross Maslionalaud, described
the misery of ite people. lie found their
huts perehed on the hilltops and the ear.
row pathways to them barrimiled. They
were conatantly looking for the coming of
the enemy whom they wore pewerlesa to
resist They were an abject, broken heart•
ed people, weakened, phyeically and intel•
lectuedly, hy the pressure of constant ter-
ror. They welcomed the coming of the
whites as a blaming from hemen, end ha:1
begun to walk erect in hope end confidence,
to till the ground, anti sell their produce to
the newcomers, when the old pent was BO
urexp ;Meetly renewed lest summer.
Th Matabele are of Zulu origin though
not pure Zulus. In the half century [since
their fathom' left Zululemd a large admix-
ture of foreign blood hae come into the
tribe through marriage with the women
they havecaptured, They are to -day the most
powerful native natioti South Africa.
Their only law the King's will. Most of
the able-bodied men aro in the army, and
every regiment can he called together at a
moment's notice. Every young man ie
ironically celled "a girl" until ho has bath-
ed his assegai human blood. Their for-
ays ter many years were carried far north
toward the Zembesi and svest through
Bechuanaland; but their most bantam vie.
time were the Mashonas, who, though once
a powerful people and 'Tread over a huge
territory, hsve been nearly exterminated.
The world was surprised,three years ego,
when Lobengula at Jut consented to admit
white colonieu to Mashonaland The "lib.
tidy offered him WAII tempting, and he
swallowed the bait and let the whits elan
In. Before the day that miners thronged
hit° Maishonaland in crowds, only a favor-
ed hunter was now and then admitted to
the King's domains, and a handful of mil.
sionaries, who had knocked at the doors
for yearn, were the only permanent white
residents. The King had followed the ex-
ample of his father, who said to the envoy
sent by the Transvaal Republic to ask that
miners be admitted to the country : "Load
up your wagons with these stones
you my contain gold, and go. But don't
you bring any Dutch women here, or any
cattle, sheep, or goats, I won't have you
building houses in my country."
Four thounani of the whitey are there
now, and they are going to stay. Of course
the raiding and massecre of natives of
Mashonaland, the part of Matabeleland
that is now under civilized rule, will not
be tolerated. If Lobengula perelate In his
foolhardy course, ns will get a lesson that
will destroy his prestige in the eyea of his
people, and there will be one despot the
lees in Africa.
allillRIAN FOREST,
A Wit side Which Makes r.ie Drain Manger.
The St Petersburg correspondent of the
London Daily Trlegraph, writing of Siberia,
says : The vastness of the country is a
hindrance to description -north being total.
ly unlike south, and east poseessing but
little itt common with west. One of the
most striking characteristics of the country,
next to ite mountains and rivers, is its
virgin forests, so utterly unlike those of
Sweden, Finland, or Brazil as to need a
class all to themselves. The taiga les Right
to be remembered with awe for a lifetime
the mere recollection of it partakes of the
nature of the nightinare brualing with the
grotesque horrors of disordered dreamt
The air there is clogged and damp ; the
noonday light dimmed to dusk : vegetation
matted and dripping ; and the pungent
smell of must and mould pervading and
permeating everything pierces to the I:mom
soul grown gross enough to perceive
re 1 hickete of moss -covered mildewed
:spruces, interlocked in deadly embrace,
vainly westling with each other and with
pines and cedars for the life-giving light
of tho genial sun, are warped end woven
into one wide wall of appalling thiok•
nese Nor is it sheer denseness alone that
renders the taiga impasselde : a no less ef-
fectual hindrance consists of the wicker-
work of stormdelled cedars, birches and
firs, twisted into the general taught amid
mounds of dead leavee, gnarled roots,
and musty mason of elowly-dernying vege-
tation, And the farther you advance the
udder your surroundings. Win& that
would Hough and wail through the trees of
a Ehropean forest glide noiselessly by in
the taiga.. If unusnalty violent, they may
sway and bend and break the tops of tower.
ing larches and tapering cadent eighty or a
hundred feet nearer to the clouds ; but they
atir no gossemer thread of tenantless web
down in the diarist deptha below. For, in
truth, you are at the bottom of a sea of
rank vegetation, the face of which may be
ploughed into furrows and waves, while all
is calm and stagnant in the eliray depths
beneath. Nor can the most creative fancy
take this uncanny stillness tor the soft
hush of peaceful eventide or the " solemn
midnight's tingling silentness." Silence
and twilight keep their noonday watch
here, sailing slowly among the shifting
shades like vaporous: shapes halfmeen. The
modulated murmura of the eir and the
inusical motions of forted and glade are not
slumbering only, but frozen and dead ; the
birds and bees have flown to far-off nests
and hives ; the winds seem to be pentaup in
'Imparted caves, ounli ht to have found a
gloomy prison, and de an everlasting
dgeninytec'entinues) assured me that when hid.
re -A Itu ian friend of mine (the norreepon.
ing for the firet time, alone and by night,
in the tangle of the taiga, terrified by the
sound of his own fitful movements, hie r
brain began to give way se he "ate the
heart out of his own humanity." A novice p
not vet hardened to hope, insenaible to fear,
he wits seeking refuge from keepers who ?a
had plucked up mercy by the roate; and r
yet he yearned for the report of their mur.
denim gum, for the blood.curdling growl a
of the pack of henry wolves, for the dread 1
trumpet of the Archangel calling men to 1,
judgment -for anything, in short, to break a
the Rpell that was f airt creeping over him. t
And thousands of ill-starred wretches have b
felt like him am they erred hither and 1
thither in these chaotic wilds and, looking a
eerily up at the leafy roof above, deecried
no chink through which the light of the
polite etar might shimmer to guide them.
These vain strugglers with rutlileee destiny
when they have fed the fliekering flame of
life a short time en whortieberrim and
cedar nuts, and slept in the hollows of
mouldy trees, soon lay down their bones
for good among the withered leaves, the
broken dein,- tlie elan moss anti the
trunks rotting into the clay. In springtime,
especially, deatIde harvest is abundant
among brodYagsk-the fugitives who flee
from °envie( gimes end lettlemente-many
being buriettin drifts, engulfed orr1Lii.
torrents, dr strewn upon the Still frozen
enow by the Bele of eight pines, their death
dirge sung by melanholy wind., after at life
which is but a feveriash dream of stagnan
woe.
A eummer hotel yongeter wee talking
with a lady on the piazza, aint her father
!Tearing, the lady said facetiously,
'Who is that gentleman ?" "That's not a
entlemsn," replied the youngster, "that's
mpa. •
The sacred couneela of the win impart a
o holier words in all their language hath "
AN OLD MAN'S STORY
--
His Friends Hail Given up Hope
of His Recovery.
Mr. Neo,2. R . . .11 It -Iseroville Relates
Ihe am.), ol Illio sintering 654 Release
—reek no Well ### lec 11141 at Forty.
From 1 lio Daily Ontario, Belleville,
p.m milee west of Belleville, in the mum
ty of Prince Edward, on the 'leathern shore
of the beautiful snd pleturesque Bay of
Qu into, is situated the village of Itedners-
ville, b charming place of about four hun-
dred populaLion, oomposed quite largely of
retired farmers. Of late years the pictur-
esque location of the villa e h a ' 't
some prominence as a Rummer resort, where
may be enjoyed the cool health gi ving breeze*
of the bay. But even in thts chsrming he
cality tlimase finds de way, anti when the
epidemic of la grippe swept over Canada,
Rednereville was eet spared a visitation.
Among thou° attacked was Mr. George
limo, a lihelong reeident of the village who
had already reached the allotted span of
life. Mr. Rose had enjoyerl remarkable
health until he Wari teken down with an
attack of la grippe, when grave fears were
entertained tor hie recovery. In a few
months he Teem:Orel eulhoiently to again
move %bout, but not with his accustomed
vigor. Mr, Rose had scarcely regained
Ma health when he was eased with en -
other attack of this dread disease, worse
than the first This had a telling effect
upon him and him family feared consump-
tion had claimed him for a victim. A
physician attended him regularly but mem.
ed unable te give any relief. However, all
that medical skill could do for hint was
done, but daily Mr. Itme's condition grew
worse, and in March of this year his condi.
tem will lo low that his family, like himself,
had givon up Immo of hie teeOvery. During
Althea rnenth tho general talk about the
village and the surrounding country hise
been the renunkable cure of Mr. Rose
by the use of Dr. Willisms' Pink Pille.
The case created Ruch a lieliAbli011 thet
a reporter of the Ontario, personally ac-
quainted with Mr. Rose, determined to
call on him and learn the facts of the
case horn his own lips, Mr. Rose wee
found a picture of health and aotivity for
one of his years, and expressed his entire
willingnens to tell hie story for the benefit
of othera. " I am," he said, "a well man,
and do not hileitate to give the credit to Dr.
Williams' l'ink Pills for Raving my life. I
had three attacks of le grippe and continued
to grow worse up to March of this year.
At that time I wax so reduced in Nell and
strength I 0001.1 hardly stand alone. In
fact I was a mere /Admen. I could not eat
'mouse I had no appetite, I could not
sleep because my legs and feet became so
Melly swollen and cramped that my wife
would have to rub them before I could got
rest. The pain WU at timee ao violeiit
that I could not refrain from screaming, and
I would tumble about in bed and long for
day to come. It I attempted to get up and
walk I wee apt to fall from all dizzioess. I
took medicine from the doctor, but it did
not help me and I was no discouraged that
I felt death would be preferable to my mie.
ay. I did not think I could live more than
a few months when one day 1 read in the
paper of the cure of a man whose symp-
tom were like mine. I mot say I did
not have much faith in the remedy, but
felt as though it were a last °harem, I sent
first for a Um and by the time It wee half
gam I found that my appetite was getting
better, and in other respects 1 could notice
an improvement in my ()tradition, By the
time the box WAS gone there was a still
further improvement. :1 continued the me
of the pills, found that I could now get a
good night's sleep and that the comps and
pains which had formerly made my life
misersble had disappeared. The swelling
left my limbs, the dizzinees disappeared
and I felt better than 1 had in four years.
I know that It WU Pink Pills and them
only that brought about the change be-
cause 1 was tutting nothing else. I have
taken in all seven boxes and I feel as good
now es I did at forty years of age. Last
winter I was so bed that I could not do
my own. chores and now I can do a Rood
day's Ark. My friends congratulate me
on my itsgained health and I don't hest -
tate to ell them that I owe my life to
Lam sprring my niece was looking pale and
wl
Dr. Wil home Pink Pilis. Many others
hereab ts have found similar benefit.
feeling weak, end I advised her parents
who were very uneasy about her, to try Dr
Williams' l'ink Pills. The result is thst
ehe is now the picture of health. Iron may
say that I would not be without Pink l'ille
411 the house, for I firmly believe they wil
do all that is claimed for them if they are
given a fair trial." In faot it appeared
that Mr. Rose could not say too much for
Pink Pille and as the reporter drove away
he again remarked. " do not forget to say
that I owe my life to Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills." In conversation with several re:,
idente of the village the statements made
by Mr. Rose were fully corrowbonriainteindn., rink
Druggiete say that 1)1.,
Pills have an enormous rile, And from all
quarters come glowing reports of reeults
following their me. In very many mops
the good work has been accomplished after
eminent physicians had failed, and pro.
nounced the patient beyond the hope of
human aid. An analysis shows (het Dr.
Williams' l'ink Pills contain in a condensed
form all the elements necessary to give new
hie and richness to the blood, and restore
shattered nerves. They are an tinfeilieg
specific for such diseases as lotomotor at
axle, partial paralysis, St. Vitals' dance,
eciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
boadaohe, the after effecta of la grippe, pal:
pitation of the heart, pale and sallow coo
plosions, nervous preetration, all diseases
depending upon vitiated humors in the
blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas,
etc, They are alto a episodic for troubles
peculiar to females, Ruch as suppressione,
irregularities and all forms of weakness.
They build up the blood and teatime the
glow of health to Aeolis. In men they
effect a radical cure in all cases arising from
mental worry, overwork, or excesses of
whatever nature.
Dr. Williams' l'ink Pills are manufautured
by the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company,
Brockville, 045, and Schenectady, 51, Y.,
and aro sold in boxes (never in loose form
by the dozen or hundred, and the public
are cautioned against numerone imitations
sold in thie shapeditt 50 cents a box or six
boxes for 12,50, and may be had of all
druggiets or direct by mail from Dr. Will.
lams' Medicine Company from either &d-
ittoes.
- -77- 7 --
No Disappointment
Cen arise from the use of the great eure-pop
corn oure-Putnam's Painless Corn Entree.
tor. Putnam's Extractor removes coins
painlessly in a few day.. Take no subati.
tute. At druggist".
-
The drying up a aingle teer has more of
honest fame than shedding seas of gore,
The eye's light is a noble gift of hoeven f
All beings live from light; melt fair created
tang, the very plsnts, turn with a joyful
raneport to the light.
Ar# Important a leatIlle Discovery.
Nerviline, the latest discovered pain
emedy, may safely challenge the world for
sebstitute that wilt se speedily and
romptly check inflammatory action. The
penen Rung properties of Nerviline
ake it never failing in all cum of rheuma-
tem, neuralgia, mumps, pains in the back
nd side, headache, lumbago, etc. It pos.
emu marked stimulating and counter
rntant propertiee, and at once subdues all
nfiammetory action. Ormand & Walsh,
ruggiste, Peterboro', write : Our ous.
omers speak well of Nerviline," Large
attics 25 cents, Try Nerviline, the great
nternal and external pain cure. Sold by
11 druggists and country dealers.
A. P. 075
I Had Coitre
Or swellings ln Iliv neck
slime I was I o years old;
aro novv 12. I used
litied's Sarsaparilla re-
rently aml the ',welling
has entirely disappeared
it has been very trouble.
some. When I began 1
w, fm.111111 101 iftqcour.
,,g.st alit( Me goitre and
e Gicumatiam I felt that
Mrs. Sutherland. mild as soon be dead
3011111T. W11,11erer 1 eauclit cold I could het
walk two 1,1,,,,Ics without fainting. Now 1 am
fn.(' /1111111 (1 011 /11141 1 cat, Pally TorOintliAlitl
Sat-ap irilla. I revolved a letter from
Mrs. Jerui Marlow, now 01 Fremont, Mich.,
10,1013 if l',y tedlinontal in behalf of ilood's
sm.,...) pm was ifip, 5 replied it WitS, and sent
1 ii11#0 abonwr letter (Toni her
thanking ine very much for recommending
Hood's Sarsaparillo
nil stating that oho ttiso has been ettre.k”
JUL ANNA SUTHERLAND, Kalamazoo, M111.
or light divine is kindled where the boort a#
ev00011 PILLII are the bed eiltarliamer
Ms set Sem videos apea Ids wrath. oar. Theybegallipililloiebdabilibillibligh
silver Is Judie
In a letter to a New York paper Mr.
Tho.. P. Hughea, of England, says it is
estimated that the silver, 0,0110,1 and un -
I aoined, boarded iu the native Staten of
I Lodi*. oannot be leu thee a thousand mil.
lion pound. sterling in value, that is 24,-
etle,000,000. He states that although One
estimate has been declared in overate ternen t
tt is probably within the mark, as the near.
ly AO) millions of people in India 0111
retain the customs of their forefathers in
keeping their wealth hoarded iti silver
bangles,silver ornaments, silver maces, anif
silver dillies Every little child belonging
to a respectable family in India carries au
its person in armlets, anklets, end neoklaces
a large amount of silver. It is this way in
which almost, every eervant hearth 111#
wealth. The native banker is regarded
solely al a usurer or pawnbroker, and uot
al the officer of an institution to whom
money may be 'animated for sefekeeping.
11 the estimate relieve rooted be awful.
mately correct it le tiot outside the !knits
of possibility that the markets of the world
will be flooded with Indian silver when the
people of that couttry realize the faet that
silver has greatly declined in value and
that the probability is it will decline mill
further. The general tendency of human
nature is to hoard the best
Waal, that which has the lout probability
of becoming lese valuable while hoarded,
Yet this throwing of silver on the market
may be long deferred, as, in the language
of Mr, Hughes, " the native of India travele
in the slow bullock cart rather than in the
express train."
Whitt Tour Great Grand manic r Did.
She hetcheled the flax and carded the
wool, and wove the limn, met epee the tow,
and made the clothes for her husband and
ten children. She made butter and
cheese, she dipped tallow °smiles, to light
the house at night, atid she cooked all the
food tor her household by an open iire.place
and a brick oven. Yes ; and when she woo
forty years of age, she was already an rill
lady whole beat days were over. Her
shoulders were bent and her (Mitts enlarged
by hard work, and she wore spectacles and
a cap. Her great grandtlaughter, with all
the modern conveniertwe for comfort, re.
finement and luxury, may be OA charming
and attractive at fortptive ae at twee ty,
Especially is this true if she preserves her
heelth and beaety by theme of Dr. Pieree's
Favorite Prescription, which wattle oil all
feinale ailments and irregularities, cures
them if they !drawly exist, keeps the life
current healthful and vigorouis, and enabler;
the woman of middle ago to retain the
freshness of girlhood upon brow anti cheek,
the light of youth in her eyet, and its,
asticity in her step. Sold 1.), all thug.
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A Watered Cur.
The Zoophilist reproduces a good dog
atory from a Roman paper. " A ton -year.
old little girl had fallen into the Tiber 1 hat
day (July 24) from the parapets of the
Ponta Margherita. The crowd who witeees-
ed the eccident merely ran hither and
thither on the bridge and the hanks milling
(or someone to help the child-nobotly dm:
ng to do so. Two policemen spent the time
n making inquiriee as to whether 'it was a
came of murder or suicide ?' The child,
meenwhile,wal visibly drowning,whena dog
-a workman', miserable dog, destined to
end a wretched day in the Stabularm Muni.
eipale fleet doge' yardj-leaped barking into
the Tiber, under the eyes of all the scream-
ing !but whys crowd, The poor beast,
accustomed to feed upon street offal and to
sleep in any shed it could find, sworn out to
the little girl in peril, eauebt her dresaand
drew her to the shore. When he saw her
in lafety, the dog jumped and baye,1 for
joy, licking the ohild'e face and hands, It
appears they had been friends. The child
had known the dog in e manufactory at
Pesti di Castello, and the poor animal wee
grateful to her for some crumbs or caresses.
The crowd then tried to catch the dog to
see how an aninial more brave than FO Inany
men wen made ; but it ran through their
midet and disappeared."
"August
Flower
,9
This is the query per -
What 19 pettially on your
boy's lips. And he is
It For? no worse than the hig-
ger, oldcr, bolder -bead.
lel boys. Life is an interrogation
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tinitally cry from the cradle to the
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AtettTST FLOWillt k OR ?" As easi
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possesses one of the largest mann.
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sells everywhere. Why is this? The
reason is as simple as a child's
thought. It is honest, does one
thing, and does it right rlong---lt
cures Dyspepsia. 0
G. G. GREEN, Sole ilan'fr,Wondhury,NJ,
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