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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News-Record, 1900-05-10, Page 2THE CLINTON NEWS*RECORD publiShed.0Yery Thairsday at The News -Record Power Printing Hottee ArsiltileT STRUT. - CLINTON. Tintleti SeneeitleriON-81,00 per year 50 ; 01.50 may be charged it net so paid, No Paper discoutinued nail all arreereges are paid, mews at the optien otthepublisher. The date to which every subscription is paid is denoted on the Jebel, Amenermirto 11,Arnse:-Transiont advertiee- meets, 10 mite per nonparlel lino for first ineertion and acetate per line for each subee- Recut insertioe. Small advertisements not to exceed ono Ineh.811011 As "1404," "Strayed," "Stolen," OW., inserted once for\50 coats and each eubsequent ineertion 15 onto. Ad vertieenients without specific directions will he inserted until ferbid, and charged accora , ingly. 'Copy for ohange of advertisements on pe,gee 4 and 0 roust be inthe office on Saturday anti for pages 1 and 8 on Monday to onside change tor following isene. CoNTEAOT RATES. -The following table eliovrs our rates for speoified polio& emi space: aovearisme ems. 1 Yr. 6 Mo. 3 Mo. 1 Me 8/0 00 $10 00 425 00 as 60 40 00 25 Oil 15 00 0 00 25 00 15 00 00 2 60 18 00 10 00 6 50 2 00 6 00 3 60 2 Oa • 1 25 1 Column Column *Column *Column 1 Inoh OrSpeolal position from 25 la 60 por cent extra. iv, J. MITCHELL, E'ditor and ProPrietor. . _ BANKS THE MOLSONS BANK Incorporated by Aet of Parlitunent, 1855. CAPITAL - 82,000.000 REST . 31,650,000 HEAL, OFFICE - MONTREAL. Wm. MOLSON MACPHERSON, PreSidOnt Ir. WOLFERSTIEN Tinnuas, General Manager Notes discounted. Collections made. Drafts issued. Sterling and American Exchange; bought aqd sold. Intereet allowed on deposits. SAVING. S BANK. Interest allowed on sums of 01 and up, FARMERS. Money advanced to farmers on -their oem notes with one or more endorsors. No inert - gage required as security. B.C. BREWER, Manager, Clinton G. D. MeTAGGART BANKER. Hood's Mitt ture's mild laxatives, and Are prepared from Nos . )1 NnS while gentle are reliable and efficient. They. Pease Me Liver Cure Sick Headache, Bil. iousness, Sour Stoma,ch, and Constipation. Sold everywhere, 25e, per box, zmarodby 01,froo er Co.,14oweltalass, JOHN T, EMMERTON THE LEADING 13ARBER Also Agent for STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Head Office for Canada, :neared. Insurance in force, 3110,000,000 Investments Canada - • 13,500,000* Eetablished 1825, The Old reliable ;me favorite. Oreice-Smithathloek. opposite Post Mee, INSURANCE' TUE McKILLOP MUTUAL FIRE - INSURANCE COMPANY Farm and Isolated•Town Property only Insured, . OFFICERS I3, McLean, President, gippen P. 0, ; Thos. Frazer, Vico-Pie:Went, Bruceileld P, O. ; T, Hays, &my-Treas., Seaforth P. 0.; W.. G. Bruedfoot, Inspeetor of Losses, Seafortli P.O. DIRECTORS; . 13roadfoe.: Sentorth ; John Grieve, Winthrop ; George Dale, Seaforth ; John Wntl Berge* : John Benne wiea, Bradt:ague ; James Evans, Boethwood ; James Connlely, Clinton John McLean, Kippen AGENTS : Robt SMith, Harlook; Reber Sea- fortb,_• James Cummings, E'gmoreiville ; W. Teo, Holmesville P. 0. Parties desirous to offeet inaurance or Irons sact other business will be .promptly a. tended to on applicatioe to any of the above °niece; ladaressed to their respective post offices. . • General Banking Bushiest. Trinsacted.• Nowa Discern ted. Drafts Iesned. interest Allewed on Deposits, • ALBERT STREET CLINTON. • • • . LEGAL -- r SCOTT . BARRIST Money to Loan, Mo. Oireloz-Elliott Block 7 , SOLICITOR: . &Arose ltv BRYDONE • BA.R111STER, sOLiderOft. • Notary Publie, 6tai: . Oppice-Beaver Block,. CONVEY A NOINB S re mese -- 4 J OHN R1DOUT CONVEYANCER. COMMISSIONER, ETC. Fire Insuranc.e,, Real Estate, Money to Lend. OFFICE -HURON STREET, CLINTON MEDICAL. DR. W. GUNN R. C. P. and L. R. C. S., Edinburgh. ' Night calls et frontdoor of residenceon flatten bury street, opposite Presbyterian church. . OFFICE -ONTARIO STREET, CLINTON. -- DR.WM. GRAHAM. (SUCCESSOR ro De. Tuna:Sum.). Licentiate of the Roy.al College of Phy- . sicians, London,Eng. : - OFFICE AND Resmeson-Porrin's Block, lately occupied by Dr. TurnbulL.CLINToN. , DR. SHAW OFFICE ; ONTARIO STREET, opposite English church, CLINTON. DR. C. W. THOMPSON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE ANL) RESIDENCE - Next to Molson's Bank RATTENBURY STREET, CL/NTON. DENTISTRY DR. BRUCE SURGEON DENTIST. Specialties -Crown and Bridge Work and preservation of the natural teeth. Clevani-Coats' Block, • CLINTON. DR. AGNEW DENTIST. CROWN AND 11.111D' OE WORK, OFFICE -Adjoining Foster's Photo Gallery, CLIATON, ONT, VETERINARY BLACICALL & BALL VETERINARY SURGEONS. GOV- ERNMENT VETERINARY INSPECTORS OFFICE, ISAAC STIUCET ; RESIOENCE, ALBERT STREET, CLINTON, AUCTIONEER THOS. BROWN LICENSED AUCTIONEER. Sales conducted in all parts of the Countlea of Huron and Perth. °Mere loft at Tun News Redone (Ade, Clinton, or addrestaed to Sea forth P. 0. will receive prolimt attention. Sat- isfaction gueraiiteed or ea charges. Your pat- ronage solicited. ______. Is OE L.L.A N E0 GEO. TROWHILL itortsEsuogn, AND GENERAL BLACKSMITH, Weed work ironed and erst.elasa material and work guarenteed, ram implements and net chines rebuilt, Mid repaired. SOBB/NG A SPECIALTY. CLINTot. Ammer SUMO, Nottrit, 'SO Vite,e48' xpeisinatvcr,.= Met MASK* Desiree* COSelienetti Anyene Sending It sketch end &tenable mat tethecie taconite onr pinion free Whether an InVentien Is probably' nateiltAble: Communiere Gene Aotettyeenedentud, IlandboOk en retina IRMA fret. times stow lowering patents. neatest buten through Mimi 86 Co. reCeIrt swim mance without chew, in the Scientific American. A litindhonielyillustreted weekly. farmed Me siltation of tiny setentino learns!, Terme, SS YOU`t MOM& Seld ReDadmilerk N co asiefoidwAy, Newyork OL.VIAshinems, Ite STEEL WOOL, . . 1 Curious Materiel That Is ESed ail a sale slitnte On. sandpaper. . Steel wool, introduced five or six years ago, is a machine produced ma- terial that is used as a substitute for sandpaper, It is composed of sharp - edged threads of steel, which curl up tOgether like wool, or somewhat as the wool fibres of the fa,miliar terial known • ae excelsior curl up to- gether, though the steel wool is very much finer;, the finest of it being eot much coarser than the coarsest of na- tural wools, The steel wool' is put up in Packages containing one.pound eaeh, These are something like rolls of cotton batting, but mailer; a pound -of ateel wool, loosely peeked, making, rolled in paper and open at the ends, a package perhaps fifteen inches long and two pr three inches in diameter. Made in various degrees of coarse-, ness, steel wool le put to a variety of uses, the finer wools for polishing wood and metal, and the coarser for rubbing down paint and varnish. It is often used oe special parts of work, while, for example, on the flat sur- faces of a door a man would use sand- paper with a block back of it; for the mouldings he would use steel wool, which fits into the crevices and con- forms itself to irregular sluipes- SuCh waft can be done with steel wool far mere readily and quickly thee with sandpaper; and it is usea with like advantage on irregular and small surfaces and on carved work. Besides the steel wool there is • a coarser material of the same kind called steel shavings, which is put to various uses; as in taking off old paint or varnish, and in .polishing wood before painting, ahd it is used on bowling alleys and on flaws for smoothing and cleaning them. Sandpaper clogs in use., steel wool breaks down. The wool, is coMmonly *used, with gloves to keep the ends from sticking into the fingere. • VETERAN SOLDIER. Next OrOOJP, EfigiOnd's MOO rrized PrIsener. . , Next to Cronje himself the capture at Paardeberg of Major Albrecht, who was in charge of the Free State Artil- lery, was most, appreciated by Great Britain. The Major knows more about artillery matters thah any other three men in the two republics. Person- ally he has no feeling in the war, but fought because he was paid to do so. During the bombardment of Kimber- ley he. saved 'many lives of the Boers by shouting out when the shells were coming. from, the guns of Colonel Kekevnch, with the result tbat the Boers took cover. A, Lieutenant ob- jected to, bis "Itoest. korels1" Down, fellows, for he did not like to ba clam. ed as a fellow. Wheerthe Major, by the aid of his field glasses, detected the firing of the next shell, he called out "Down, fellows, and Lieutenant Heisler!" seesereeeeeeerteee GOOd 111000 Your heart beats over one hum dred thousand times each day. - One hundred thousand supplies of good or bad blood tO your brain. Which is it? If bad, impure blood, then your ; brain aches. You are troubled .1 with drowsiness yet cannot sleep. ; You are as tired in the morning . as at night. You have no nerve power. Your food does you but little good. • Stimulants, tonics, headache powders, cannot cure you; but 4116 . will. It mace tbe liver, kidneys, - skin and bowels perform their propor work. It removes all im. purities from the blood. And it makes the blood rich in its life. giving properties. ifasion Itodovotwa You will be more tholdly cured if you will take a laxative dote of - Ayer's pilla each night. They arouso the sluggish liver and thug eure billousnese, Wolfe to woo Sittig,* We hare ille exelutive serelese ef toene..of the emit eminent riteremot. le the netted State% 'writetteetr A11 litt• laatt Zit asks. ect, , -I the convalescent warriors,. who were - stopping now an4 then to hulk over omit to see' her. Her vieit was no form. She entered fifty WI1rdli and paw over 500 men, apeaking to most of them end asking them about their If only Princess Chriettan were not a daughter of Queea Victoria It would have been, discovered before this that to some extent she has taken in the Transvaal war the place occupied by Florence Nightingale, in the Crimean war, iiays a London letter. It behooves us now to discover this remarkable younger ulster of the Prince of Wales. It is just bemuse of her high station that so little has been heard of her Red Cross work in the presentr ease. A movement oe that sort eatollee the public eye bet- ter when it mei Pe Personified, and as in this case the person most prornin- ently Identified, with it verse only It royalty, and eapposedly a sort of amie able figurehead, the worksioae has not attracted auything like, the attention it deeerves. L- • • , The chief nursing work in this (Min- paign is managed by the Central Brit- ish Red Cross committee, an organiza- tion that is a :wholly new thing in its line, and a rather notable departure from the old wey of doing things. It operates under the authority ,of Lord LansdoNvne, Secretary of State tor War, and its object is to bring togeth- er the foremost nursing organizations in England, so that they may work in uhison. First of these conies the Bri- tish Red Cross Society, represented, by the venerable Lord Wantage, and al- liecl with it are the .A.riner Nursing Ser- vice Reserve. the National Aid Sooi- ttyjo,nthaendStt.heJohn 'Ambulance. A.ssoctiae Director General of the Army Ailedioal Serv1ce, representing the War Office. Princess Christian's work is, on the whole, rather mere pieturesque than her peraonallfs, tor she is short, dune- py and .513, never was beautiful and her executive ability is greater than her taste in dress. She was christened Helena, and Is the wife of Peince Fred- erick Chriatian of Sehleswigellolstein. 'While the Queen, is' at Windsor, the Princess has Little or no time to de- vote to anything but court duties. In fact, the Queen's respect for her tact is so great that the Princess takes her Majesty's place in as many ceremonies as eti.quette will permit, almost all the drawing rooras given last season being 0r:inducted by her. . As soon as the court leaves Windsor, hoWeeer, the Princess is comparetive- ly.free to plunge into the varied enter- prises in which she le interested, chief among them being hospital work and questions. of agricultnre. Her private secretary. Col. Andersop, an old army offieer, welts woe her every morning Cumberland, Lodge, Windsor, when the Princess ploessresolutely through the tmpossing array of letters which hes reached her, and aireets exactly bow each of them ia to be answered• She is inclined to make haste slowly in everything, and spends a lot of dine in planning out her schemes. Fully half the letters that come to Cumberland Lodge. are to enquire if her Royal Highness would graciously be pleased to lay a cornerstone, open a eharitalale gale or attend some pate- nts funobion, and usually she consents, and thereby sets the whole town • in which the ceremony is to take place by the ears in preparing to weloorme my- alty and stewing over questions of. ex- act etiquette. Tthe building in which she is received is decorated grandly, a private rOomr even more sumptuously Arranged set aside for her use, and then, while everyone, from the May- or down, is all agog with . excitement, this ill -dressed royal woman arrives, Oceuples a dais during the ceremony, tna'kes a speech in a 'mere thread of a voice which nobody hears and after- ward is discovered to be most gracious and thoughtful. She is addressed es "Marna.' Prinoess Christian tiot only does a greet many. things of that kind, but remembere them and keeps up a live-• ly interest in them, particularly in hospitals. About eight yeare ago she opened a hlosPital in Maidenhead. Only Last month She was -invited td preside at the convention of a charitable or- ganization there, and did so. After the convention the Princess remarked that she was particularly interested in knowing how a little hospital that she had opened eight years before vvas getting on, and made an informal visit to it, much td• the immediate dismay and eubeequent delight of the people there. The Princess not only is one of the most active members of the powerful central British Red .Cross committee, on wbich the sick ana wounded in the war often literally de.pend for their iluiveers; but she is the originator, organ, - manager, chief financial backer and hardest worker in one of the chief wings rat the central committee -,the army nursing service reserve. This organization, although started by the Princess over five years ago, was known scarcely at aIl to the pub- lic before the war, but since then it has jumped into partioular prominence, and been bombarded with applications for membership. It was begun as a branch of the regular army nursing service, which consists of about 100 nursee scattered about in the army hoepitals, hut noW tlae front and in charge of the hospital arrarigemente there. The purpose of the Organiza- tion founded by Princees Christian is to ire -carom those nurses, and from it haVe been. drawn all the female nurses Who are in SOuth Africa. The Prin- cess has given, to it a large share of her personal attention from the fleet, made moat of the rules and appointed herself the fidal court before WhOm all candidatea for appointment most pre - Bent themselves, and many the woman whose record Wile beyond reproach and whose social position was high has been rejeeted, because in the Princess' opinion she lacked tact and the Fort of manner that the royal lady beneves army nurses should possess. Naturally, when the war began hun- dreds of women offered their sereices as ,nueses tO th,e( War Office, but were told that only members of the Princess Christian 'Reserve would. be accepted, end this, a War Office personage says, is where the oft -repeated story of. the government's "ruthless" refusal of all &fere got its start. 11e remarked ra- ther caustically, hovvever, that a lit- tle Investigation had revealed an axe to grind In a large majority of the benevolent offers, Urethan: it self - advertisement, and teveral women Who have come forward and offered to col- leet large sums of money or propor- tionate quantities of comforte for the soldiers lest all enthtudasmi when teld that they could not be allowed to dis- tribute the thinga thenmeIves. &me de the other offers that are perfectly dignterested aro ale° rather amusingly original. One Wereall wrote to ask when the "untrained nurses" were to start, tee she wiehed to be oolong +theta ; another good eoul core, Nailed frankly that eh° didn't know anything about nursing, but said she could help with the welshing, and Still another 0116 wantedlo orgaeise a earavan composed of her acquaintanoes to sear% for wounded Men in unlikely parte of the battlefield, it mot only the other day that /Im- beds Christiten gave further evidence of her interest in the wounded soldiere by Agana the hoemital in Netley, near Southampton, coming over from Os. borne House in the Isle of Wighht, where the •court The Prineets DA.1116 primarily to see the hoispital tr.' rangements and the Men for herself, bat brought with her a large quantt. ty of flowers fot the wounded Men, tent by the Qtteetti herself. The Pan. ems toned the mulatto wbleh bad been sent eor do tool parte', atm climbed the hospital- hill mainly, wounds, She was particularly intereetect in the brave boy bugler of the famoue Dablin Pugilism who. although mil lh yeare old, knows what it is to be shot twice through the artn. He was less I t , , than in the fate of his bugle, which he dropped on the battlefield, and told the Princess that he knew just exact- ly where he had lost it, and bow anxi- ,ous he was tole SQ that he could go hack to Colenso and hunt it up. The hoepttal Netley is one in Wheda Princess Cheistian has bad a band, and she had the eatisfaction of hearing that not one of the wounded men who had been received there had. died. At the beginning of the war the Princess decided hhat one of the most crying necessities at the front would be a well-eauipped hospital train, and :Abe went to the Mayor of Windeor and deposited with him) a goodly sum out of her private purse as a subscription to ?pen a fund for fitting ont such a train, and then herself started oat to collect more money -incidentally in- teresting the Queen herself in the un- dertaking, and succeeded so well that the train, named after its royal pro- jector is at the front and doing' wor- thy service. When the regutar reserve nurses - or yeowomen, as they are painfully called -enlist they do so for a possible year, salary poo, and the government, with reckless prodigality, throws in an extra otaa as a bonus when the nurse's active service ends. The War Office insists that she shall wear uniform from, first to last, and that no bit of finery may be packed in the 'single trunk and valise which are the stipu- lated extent of her luggage. The uniform: is a blue cloak, with a scarlet hood and a blure straw bonnet, which every • nurse feels moved to execrate, but wheal really is uncommonly be- coming. That is for outdoors. For her hospital duties Irani wears a gray cotton gowia, with deep- white collar and oufts, a white apron and a abort, rather anartial-looking cape. There is also a wonderful white cap, norninally a square yard ot lawn, but three deft pats from a feminine hand and the insertion of three 'pins will be found to transform this unpromis- ing material into an object calculated to stir up masculine enthusiasm, She hes also a blue serge frock, and to sup- ply all these the War Office allows 045, the result being that every girl who cares for appearance goes into her purse to the extent of from 4150 to S75 for "outfit." When the last batch of forty nurses went to South Africa the War Office lead a committee and a petition from, them to add to its other troubles. The young women had swallowed the cam- el ot perpetual uniform), hut had strained most decidedly at the gnat of having to wear their caps while on shipboard, and after an indignation meeting a oommittee invaded the sac- red den of tb,e stern offioial who has charge of this sort of thing and asked it they naightn't please wear"sailors" while on the voyage. Of coarse he yielded, and the girls came forth tri- umphant. • ' Considered separately, tee British Red Cross Society doesn't train nurs- es, it doesn't send them! out ; it mere- ly gets money for Red, Cross work. It began, of course, soon after the Gen- eva oonvention, and has raised money for work on battlefields:in every Eu- ropean war since that firm. The be- ginning of the Transvaal war found it with; a large sum on hand, and it began- Lmmediately to look 'for more, with the result that it increaeed its balance by 41600,000 within a °creole of menthe. It has a special comnuesion- er in South Africa who has practically carte blanche, and whom duty it is to find what comforts are needed in the boepitals and on the battlefield, and to supply them to the army medical department officers. Lord Wantage, president of the British Red Cross Society and its re- presentative on the central corisnittee, Is fle years old, and has had a remark- able career. He came out of Eton and had his first view Of war in the Cris mea, fighting all through it and win- aing the Victoria Cross for conspicu- ous bravery at Inkernaan. came home to find three other honors await- ing him, having been made Bquerry to the prince of Wales, Colonel of the vol- uteer forces, then just organized, and Colohel of the Honorary Artillery Corapany, the oldest volunteer troop in England. He won for Parliament as be pleased, and Lord Beaconsfield made bim financial secretary to the War Of - See. He le a Knight Commander of theeBath, Later, made secretary of the Red CrOSS Society, he visited the German heademarters in the Franco- Prussian war and entered Peris in the siege. He saw the Turko-Servian campaign. Now he is president of the Red Cross organization, as well as Brigadier General of the volunteers. Thme duties, writing occasional ar- ticles for the reviews, and farming his a52,00hiOs taionirees. in Berkahire occupy most TORPEDO BOATS. • .essea Secret Jesilimely Guarded by Offielais (Marge of the service. In no department of service under any Government -even th e Foreign Office iEt not excepted by naval men - are there so .many secrets to preserve as in the torpedo service; and with such absolute, exactitude is every article connected with' torpedo stores kept thaemen have been reinevel from employment and reduced in rank be- cause single common iron bolt -of course, of a particular kinde-worth the minutest fraction Of a cent, has been missing. Just at this time England ia unusual. ly strict, Every pattern of tool, bolt, pin, screw, spanner, wheel or cog has its own separate, locker at the great depot at Portsmouth, where there are always 1,000 torpedoes of the latest kind, worth aborat 18,500,000 as to mere prime cost. Every item must be pro- duced on demend at moraents notice. On one occasion, when the stocktaking took place.' it was found that instead of 5,000 little screws - these particular screws cost 5 cente a gross -being amounted for by the man who wall told off to count them 'here were, only 4,997. An animated eorrespendenee took piece about these three serewe, and certain im- portant changes were raade in the de. partromit through their( loss. The incident is cited in a Govern- ment handbook, distributed among torpedo officers and. men alone, to convince therm of the invoirtattee of not losing sight af a eingle object that could give a clew to certain se- crets. When a torpedo( is films any cause broken up every part of it la separately melted or malted to pima, and tills In the presence of an official who cao declare that he personally saw each, partieular part destroyed out of all recognitien, THE SWTHSI ABROAD. The Smiths are everywhere. In /taly they are called "Stable' in Rolland, "Sohraidt;" in Itatisite, towski;" in,. Spain, "Smithusei In Po- land, "Sehanitiweisku," mid in Mexico, "Sinitri." In England the Smiths are the moat numerous of all families; but In Ireland they are content to rank fifth,alfter Murphy, Xelly, Sullivan and Walsh, NEW PUBS/THEM PAD. It wee Ithodes who made it the faelitoil in South Afrioa to use Duteh furniture, and he bought up all the good epeeimene *Well iVefe tO be found in old Boer Every piece Of furniture in his house 'Apure Dutch and Antique. owsiiiih- e-iiikeivoivvivipFarm. 14:40; WE (INgif 81111 lg iii, i . On th Ifwgivivosaks44- -ww.,* .1.... WARM =EY IDIOT/Of MINIS OP INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Idiotic people are eoinetimea eall- ad innocents; the world was very ins nocent fifty or sixty years ago. But eleighlerrly Interest in Ma Reings-easttece it can t b th t It WI tie. 0 Mmint sod Myth Gathered froni 0114, R1Kerd. The farmer grew his wheat, took it to King Leopold of Beigiu,m has been the mill; It was not necessary or him obliged to give up all reading and to stand over the, miller with a club writing for the present because of to prevent him from adulterating' trouble with his eyes due to over - • while it was being geound; and his wife mede bread from the flour thet was sweet and nutritious. He Shear- ed his sheep, took the wool to the carding mill where it was made into rolls, end his wife and daughters spun the roils and out of the loom came webs of cloth from, which the apparel of the household was made. It was eery good cloth, and, the apparel was serviceable and strong. That farmer never sold addled egga for fresh ones nor old hens for ohickens; he never watered his milk nor his cider, and his wife never dreamed of coloring lard with carrots and selling it for butter. They were innocents, that farmer and hie wife, but it mould be hardly fair to say they were idiotic: the world dealt honestly with them ; Why ahould they not deal honestly with the world? But the farmer of to- day is not innocent ; he buys a good deal of flour instead of producing it himself and 'runs the risk of becoming a dyspeptic for life, for he is liable to swallow a peck of terra alba or marble dust every month in the year, and his wife and daughters discarded the spinning wheel and loom long ago and the good old homespun is a thing of the past. They have done more; they sell addled eggs for fresh ones old hens for chickens, watered milk and watered cider for the pure fluid and lard colored with carrots for gilt edged butter. As queried before, Why not? They buy a pound of ,coffee and find it's not coffee, a pound of sugar, that's not sugar; a gallon of vinegar that's not vinegar, a tin of cloves, cinnamon, pimento, cassia or mustard or pepper and find its contents are flavored with something of the kind they supposed they were purchasing, but that is ail. If people realized the extent to which food adulteration is carried they would be appalled, A great German concern is flooding the world with coffee berries made from corn meal, itud th1at can not be dine tinguished frour the real berry except by an expert, and another is in the market with the genuine berry, coated with sugar and iron fillings so as to add one fourth to one third to its weight, which is calculated, to deceive even the elect. It makes one cynical and uncomfortable to realize that such things be, and engenders a wish for the return of the idiocy or innocence of fifty or sixty years ago. WOOD Asiims FOR GARDEN CROPS. Last seaion I . did not know exactly hew' to 11130 ashes, and proceeded to experiment with, various garden crops on a sandy soil, clay bottom, south- east slope writes Mr. IL M. Dunlap. On one strip I spread broadcast un - leached hardwood.' ashes at the rate of about 5 pecks per square rod, or some bushels per acre, and on another strip half that amount. Above and below these strips I put none at all, In this field 1/3 rows north and south and crosswise the strips, I planted potatoes, sweet corn, sugar beets, watermelona, muskmelons, tomatoes and sunflowers. Each strip was treated in exactly. the , same way in every respect except for the ashes, which were put on early in May. ' The corn, potatoes and melons were all much, better where the ashes Were applied, but not much difference was noted between results of the large and the smallsize on both strips of ashes, but where none was put on the beets, were only half as large, altheugh richer in sugar. With tomatoes, best results were obtained on the strip where the timeli- er amount of ashes was applied. Too much was worse than none, as it caused an excessive growth of vine and a vast number of worthless small tomatoee. I should now use two pecks to the rod. T/ae sunflowers did not show• e clear enough difference to report,' but I think the ashes helped them. In another place I had. a patch of onions and these were very much improved by 100 bushels ashes per acre, the difference being at the rate of about three to two in favor of tbiguamahmeis4 up, I found that nearly everything I tried the ashes on was benefited. by the application, but that the smaller amount was as good and in some eases better than the larger. As ashes draw moisture and tend to bind the particles of sandy soil toga's. er, they serve to help, resist drouth tinder good cultivation. TELE CAUSES OF RUST. There is not so much rust in grain prevalent of late years as used to be the fact, and the proportion grows less ait tbe mantra, grows older and" the amount of vegetable matter in soil decreases. Rust in small grain Is due to the fungus growth which is most prevalent in hot, damp weath- er. The air is always filled with bac- teria, and when these are brought into contact with the grain by rains, the leaves absorb them with the mole- ture and produce a sappy condition that cannot resist disease. Thie is especially liable to be the case with grain that has had an excess of nitro- genoue fertilizer and too little of the mineral plant food that gives firm- ness to the stalks. One of the advan. tages of using pottieh and phosphate on grain crops is that these minerals insure clean bright straw and welle filled heads of grain. QUICK FOREST RETURNS. Hillsides should be thnbered. Every farm allauld have a woodlot for its own needs, A few walnuts or chest- nuts planted and protected from cat. tie will soon yield a return.. Forested streams prednee the beet witter. Re. seeding ohestnut land. with chestnuts la practicable, neither mold nor mice interfering when done at the proper time. 0.0.410. waimmina REAL svoitnT Or TIDINESS, The real secret of tidiness Is te leave thinga where they can be found by the persons who require them, and not to hide them away in blottera and presses and drawers; not to go fret° Man'a study and to put all his pa - pets indieerimintately into paekages, or a tetelpted bill into an envelope whleh be is sure to destroy. La a women's eye every busiriess pa- per is an unsightly objeet, whit% ehe considers ft her duty to dispose of, and the schop may be Made to tut and though she may hear the man nto the or6 piles to any desired who owns it eursing about the holuse, depth. A mere economidal method of she never hate the grace of the jack- , unloading ore steamere Des long been dew Of Rheims to 00tile ferWard and a desideratum, and if the problem hag saY what she hoe (hole with it. in- been trolved It will be to the advantage deed she will deny with indignant In. nocenee and teare that she ever touch. of the iron businens: eel his peepers, and when, if haply it. Miss Hazard, president of Welles. ley College, is something of an ath- lriteotmee, Syheearewenagao rtrundtaistioan gautuatengnuilst PIRSYtletary Hay's colleotien of first editions of modern authors has been enriched by a copy of Rudyard Kip- alliarigulamfbiareyt fbroleoutd.of tale; the gift of The 'will of the late Congressman Alfred C. Harraer, admitted to pro- bate in Philadelphia, a few days. ago shows that he only left about 810,1 000 worth or property. Senator Hoar bas purchased, through. a London agent, a first edi- tion of " Childe elarold's Pilgrimage." eollection of Byroniana is one of the finest in this country. • Surviving friends of Edward Forrest have joined in placing u.pon the front of hie former horae in Phila,delphia, now the school of deeign, for women, a cominemorative tablet of bronze. John jamb Astor has ordered an aUtomobile carryall to run from Blinecliff Station, on the Hudson, River railroad, to his place at Rhine - cliff village, a distance of two miles. Lyraan E. Pelton, of Highgate, Vt., is over 93 years old, and is still an active, practicing lawyer. Last. year be argued a case before the Supreme Court of the State 100 miles away from his home. Senator Bates of Tennessee asserts that while in oftfiee he has never ac- cepted a railroad pass. He always_ pays full rates for his telegrams, re fusing to take advantage of Govern- mTenhtocincoansceptiroz, of °Indianapolis, is probably the oldest native of In- diana. He was 'horn in what is now Port Dearborn County, in 1807, and during all his lite has been a resident of the Hoosier State. • James B. Stetson, the California millionaire, frequently amuses himself by acting as an engineer on the Northern Pacific Coast railroad. Archbishop Feehan of Chicago, went to the scede est his present lab- ours in 1852, making the trip from New•York by stage and steamboat.. WORK FOR IDLE HOURS. A Dainty Needle Case. -A pretty and dainty . little gift recently seen is a needle case. It is very easily niade,• provided one has some knee/ledge of the art of crocheting. The top of this little needle -book should be routed and should be made by crocheting knitting silk, or the crochet silk over a flat corset lam. This gives it a firm, rais- ed appearance, and is very easily per- formed, as only the siniplest crochet etitch is required for this purpose.- The top and bottom of the needle case should be the same, being finished off with a neat fancy crocheted border, and between these crochet covers should beofour or five round. pieces of fine white flannel, which should be pinked out about the edges, and a neat border of feather stitching, in pale blue floss, to match color of the oro - diet silk, should complete these flan- nel leaves. They should be plentiful- ly filled 'with the various sorts of needles, end pale baby ribbon shotad be procured for tying the top and bot- tom together when not in use. This idea could. be carried out by sobstitute Ins for the crochet work, a pale shade of fine leather,, chamois skin, linen or any material desired, when a delicate Spray of flowers should be finely' em- broidered upon the other. Finger Bowl Doilies. -Finger bowls were once` looked upon as a luxurY, only to be brought to light upon cere- monious occasions, but to -day they are to be found upon alraost every din- ner table where fruit* is served, their usefulness having been discovered they seem inseparably connected with the fruit. In the home where refinement and daintiness dwell, pretty little &Sl- im are usually placed under these fin- ger towels, the doilies being removed from the fruit plate with the bowls before the fruit is tressed, These doilies may be made of plain, hemstitched lin- en, but a little embroidery would cer- tainly repay one in beautiful results. Bright little Dresden flowers would look very pretty scattered over the surface of each doily, and these should be embroidered in their natural shades. The typical Dresden shades are, vio- let, green, yellow. pink, old blue and old red, the flobVerii generally consist- ing of violets, forget-me.nots, roses or any small variety. The edge of the napkins should be finished by meting of buttonhole work. Something new- er in design would be the brilliant and decided jewel effeet. When this style Is employed t the button -holed edge. could have every alternate scallop embroidered in a different shade of floes, or outline silk, with very, strik- ing effect. HANDLING IRON ORE. 1. .cloine for AntoinatiemIty eniqatling die Oro Vrona Stesinera. The iron ore mined at Lake Superior is carried to the ore, docks and dumped into the holds of steamers at a coat of only a few outs a ton A great deal of it is quarried by steam shovels and emptied directly into the ears, no human muscle being expended from the time the shovel scrapes the ore from its native bed until the cargo reaches the lovver lake ports, whence it Is sent to the stnelters. 11ntil this time, however, no such inexpensive means have been devised for trans- ferring ore from the steamers to the ticuks or the oars which carry It to the furnaces. A great deal of hand labor has been employed in Ellie work with the result that though the transfer- ence front the lake to .the land has been iptite a cheap Pr oceso it Wan still the result that though the transfer. trireme from land to lake at the upper ports, At last, however a new shovel Ilea been invented for ',handling iron ore in unloading steamers. The InVention is isaid to have been tested and found capable of handling 1,600 tons per day with tho employment of only three men to each ehovel. It is expected that thi sinnovation will faeilitate the handling of tho great ore traffic this year. A tome of uearly one hundred Men are noW at, work making the shovels. It is geld that thie ingenious con- trivance shovels material oei any side of it and can fill Okra frOM the Steam. er holds on either aide of the stmmer. Kaeh shovel has three distinct engines NO TROttlItH, lit discovered, he looks resproeushfully or stones, she simPlY Silk "Oh htistreina4 think ,yon, W111 proye is that what you are looking for if My segsbustory. But / cannot engage dear, you, should nnt leave euch things yore until! hey. toneulted with my about." Jilet as if he had no eight ltuebiend. to the use of a table or the corner I thstl right. / *I - of a ehimney.plece in hit owe 114Y4411. waya wit en perfectly with the tnen. THE BOERS AT ST. HEI.ENA. opow...1! Quarters Occupied by Croups,* sewer* on Ma LION Weiramie ned, Thirty years ago there were over 0,000 people living on St. Helena; but many hundreda of them, falliug to earn a living there, have.gone to Cape Colony, and. when the Boers landed recently they increased, the population f ally one-third. So large an influx has never been seen before. When the prisoners entered the harbor they saw, a little town, only a quarter of a mile wide and less than a mile in length, squeezed into a narrow valley between twq hills that rise, to a height of about me hundred feet on either side. The hill on the west slopes steeply to the town and a flight; of nearly seven hundred steps, cut in the face of the rock, leads to the flat plateau above. This emin- ence known as Ladder Hill on ac- count at the flight of stone steps, The plateau is three-auarters of a mile wide near the sea and narrower as it, penetrates the mountains on either side,- The seawerd part of it ati covered with Military buildings and :he plateau is, known as Deadwood Plain. This is where the Boers were sent into camp on St. Helena. Jamestown lies. at their feet on t east and In front they; have a beauti- ful view, of the sea from a point of ventage OOP feet, allows the ocean. All the year round the loutheast trades blow steadily, hot the hill range through the, centre of the island shelters the prisoners from the winch:4 which are sometimes violent, though always warm. They; have arrived, however, in the early days of the austral winter, and are probably wit - mailing a larger rainfall now than they ever saw before, The heaviest rains, however, will soon pass, and as far as weather; and climate are con- cerned, the prisoners could hardly wish for a more AGREEABLE ABIDING PLACE. THE S. S. LESSON. NTERNATIONAL LESSON, RAY lit .6.1esale at 1140 lelatairimeeS/ ilieieter!" Luke 1. 38.5.. modes Text. Luke T. st. PRAOTIOAL NOTES. Verse 86, One of the iharitees. Siraon by name, verse 20, In his evis dent admiration of Jesus Simon wee not alone among the "chief rulers." See Luke 11. 07, 09 and John 12, 42, Desired him tliat he would eat with , him. This was probably a friendly, hospitable invitation to an ordinary meal or supper. Sat down to meat, "Reclined at the table" on a divan, with hie feet turned away from the table. Jesus had strong social ten - denotes. He was the farthest possible remove from a hermit. 07. AI woman in the city, which was a sinner, Ancient legends make the ate Magdala and the woman Mary Magdalene, She was evidently known to Simon. Her rain probably was 'that a unchastitys Her paining into the dining room .unbidden was not without parallel in that country. When she knew that J68116 eat at, ineat. She "wag getting to know." A, phrase that hints that she had ha- quired closely as to his whereabouts. She sought Jesus. A banquet, hove - ever innocent, is hardly favorable for deep penitential emotion, and a Pbarisee's house was the last place to which a penitent sinner would free- ly go; but It was Jesus that this wo- man sought. Brought an alabaster box of ointment. A delicate onyx Looking directly east across the hills and the Intervening valleys the Boers may perhaps be able to catch a glimpse of Longwood, three and atalf miles from their camp, which is bellows as the home. in whic,h Napoleon, prisoner of England, passed the last six years of his life. Longwood stands on an- other plateaus, extending nearly to the sea on the east and with! tw,o or three long arms running up into the mountains. It was On this nearly flat plateau that Napoleon took 'his daily strolls, enjoying,: in some sort, the period of calm that succeeded the long years of war and political cone vselson in which he was the con:unend- ing figure. If the Boers are permitted to stroll, inland as far as the plateaUl they occupy extends, they will be with- in two miles of Longwood and a mile and a half from! the Valle.y of the Tomb, where, Napoleon's body re- posed .under dump of Willows un- til it was removed to Paris in 1840; and now it rests ander the dome of the Invalides, ;From Deadwood Plain, -however, it is not likely that the lower portion of the Valley of the Tomb can be }Men, and so the willows under which the great Corsioan Was buried are hidden from 'view. _From the ,Boer carop there ts ,no road leading to Longwood or the fam- ous valley near it, 'but to reach the spot where, Napoleon spent his last years it is necessary to climb Rupertm Hill by the steep road which sur- mounts it on the east side of James- town and, leads to the valley and the little house svbere Napoleon lived and died. Jamestown is the only tPwn on the It has never been thought worth while to build a 'town on the south coast, for no vessels could safely visit a town there, a.s the waves raised by the southeast' trades break on that sbore with great fury. On the north , side pf the iskind in the lee of winds, where the Boers are . kept, the surface of the sea is usually calm. Perhaps many of the Boers will not mind the isolation of their prison home as mittedr as the. people of other races might do for roost of them are accustomed to the comparative silence of their great cattle ranches, where they seldom; see strangers and do not care to meet them, though all comers are hospitably welcomed when they appear, Of course none of the pima- oners can eseape, frogs St. Helena as a number ortheto did from their canip near Simen Town, Cape Colony. The Sea around them hems the captives in more effectively than any prison SERMON FOR WIVES. Every bride knows her power; every wife comea to know her weakness. A good proportion of the heartbreak of early married life is due to the fer- ment of this knowledge. The poor child whose :over gave up 'his cigars and his elub with such angelic meekness finds that her husband cart smoke like a cbizaney and leave her alone nights in order to spend the evening with his men frienthe She imagines that he cares less for her than he did, which is a mietake in most cases. Seven times out of ten men love their wives better than their sweethearts. IL is simply that their presence la not the absorb- ing exciteineut that it was when love was new. Tbe chances are that the wife is become a dozen times more ne- cessary to the MU than- ever the sweetheart could have been. He vvolild feet her death far more keenly, but he decal not need to abjure his heart to " sit still" wheiiever bis lanai sum- mons her image. In short, she is be- come the bread of existence in place of the elixir. Now, most of us who have sense would prefer to be bread !either than elixir, but there is no question that more fuss is made (wee the elixir. A FFIrCHDIG COMBINATION. Wbite and ecru is a combination ex- tensively employed. A lovely smuttier gown is made of white Swiss embroi- dered with a small °ern dot. There is a double skirt 10 this, gown, and both top and bottom skirts are trirn- med with three pleated frills of Swiss, two plain with all ecru one between Awn. The same style of trimming Is used ott the bodice, the pleats being put nu with a Holm effect. An earn linen has bands of white linen stitch- ed on, white a vihite linen is run with ecru lines and has vest, etas, and beetle on the skirt of ecru linen, edg. ed witla a heavy ecru linen lace, '.WATLEPROOP SHOES. Take oneahalf pound of tallow, two oluneet of turpentine, two ounces of beeswax, two ounces of olive ail. and four ounces of good lard. latelt by a gentle heat. Thia mixture shoeld be rubbed into boots and shoot a few b.ours before using them, and makes them not only inapervioas to rainond snow, but softens the leather as well. Neve shoes (should be rubbed two or three Smog before tieing them, BEADING BETWEEN THE tans, Miss Bullion read my hand hat csven. lug. bhe's quite an adapt at it. She eald the lines indieated that was just about to propose to a girl with money. Yes...What did you do/ proposed to her. CEBTA.IN OF n. Vather-al'ott roust! make tura that tau really lova her. Son -4Th, I have! gone to the bottoin of that. Xrather..a.nd the remit,' alon...She luot 0400 lo her own right. vase af perfume. Stood at his feet behind hien weeping, "As she drew. near to him she was overpowered by her feeling, and the tears fell upon his feet before she was able to per- form the act Of love which she had in mind. The tears fell unexpectedly, and that she might wipe them, pre-. paratory to the pouring upon them, the ointment grom the cruise, she un- bound her hair, and then she ' kissed his feet again and again,' for this is the meaning of the verb which used." -Dr. Dwight. Palestinian woman will kiss the feet of a judge to -day, if from him eh° bad recewed or expects a great favor ; but this act was one of spacial reirerence-"an ex- travagant honor "-and manifestly In- dicated her feeling of gratitude and love. 39. The Pharisee. . . saw it. He was watching the prophet, and with a shock that we cannot overmeasure he saw a 'wicked woman permitted to eareseingly adore him. He had invited Jesus to watch him, but he had. never expected this. He spake within him- self. IL would not do to speak aloud. This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woroan this is,that. toucheth him. Ile never drtiams for a moment 'that that knowledge would lead this Pro- phet to increased tenderriesti. • Vrona his Pharisaical standpoint his reason- ing was correct. lie 'druid not under- stand the true character of our Lord's tenderness. His position is one with which vie should sympathize for many , Christians are in a similar position. to -day. Are you I He was not an enemy of Jesus, but his friend, and our Lord's , answer shows tenderness to the Phar- isee aa well tie to the woman. Bat Si- • men was making three grave mistakes -he bad a wrong conception el holi- ness, Of Jesus, and of the woman. 40. Jesus answering said unto him. Answered the Pharisee's thought. I have somewhat to say unto thee. "Thee" is emphatic. "What I jam about to say is for youe Simon, your- self." Master say on. • Like most . Simon t'ries- to act politely, whatever rime be 'his thought. When in verse 39, he "spo,„ke within himself", he sai4 ''this man • when, in verseA , he talks aloud he; says " Master." 41. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors. The creditor stands for God ; the debrors for thoste who fail to pay to God what they owe him, and they include the entire race. The one owed •five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Or, as vVe might say, the one owed 485 and the other 08.50. There, is, then, ' a difference between men .in their ebligations towards. God ; talents end opportunities haves been evenly dis- tribet4e3d; When they bad nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them) both. . Though the; debt of one was so much • larger • thane the other, the financial ruin was as great in one caSe' as in the otheri for both were absolutely bankrupt, So Simon and. the woman are equally helpless in their moral state, 11,ntil fre.ely forgiven. Which of them will, love him ' Most?. Or, m other words, which will be the more grateful.? Jesus vvaives all questions eeneerning the supposed 'defilement of this woman a touch. He moves die-. ectly toward the question of char- acter. Ile turns away from measure - manta of the law, and, presents the, measurement of love. And, strange to say, this measurement brings the prophet and tho Pharfartie together. Simon answers,. He, to whom.he for- gave most -which means, as the con- text showie, -the one that feels that moat has been done for him. And judes.us nye, Thou haat rightly judge 44-40. Sere begins a statemeeeteaf, • what Simon had neglected to der'but there fs no reaeon td suppme that Ieaus 'was grieved with Simon. be- . eause of, any leek od hospitality, or that there( had been any such lack. Our Lord is simply showing the dif- ferenee between the Man who has no keen sense of forgiveness bemuse he has had no keen sense of sin, and the sinner whose gratitude springs film profound penitence. "Love,'• says Dr. Timothy Dwight, in its men- festations of itself varies with what awakens it, ethether the blessing seems to' the soul -and is -greater or unaller. The eremitic way in which our Lord brings this before Simon is sin- gularly characteristic." 116 is not intent on showing that he has not been treated with proper honor. Reis ' Intent on explaining. the love of the woman and the forgiveness so closely identified with it. 47, 48, Ber sins, which' are many, are forgiven; or she loved much. In the parable, see verse 42, love fellowed for- giVeness. The debtor loved bemuse he Was forgiven; he was not forgieen becautie he loved. The Words of this verse on their first reading seem to imply that the woman is forgiven bee cause she loved. There is a sent* in which both meaning/1 are true. But now, this woman having proved' her own forgiveness by the love she ex- hibits, Jesus formally declares that forgivenese, Thy eines are forgiven. 49, 54), The gueste were astonished tit oar Lord's authoritative manner and assumption of power. There is no hint as to the lasting impreseloix made Upon their souls or upon the soul of Simon. Thy faith' bath saved iinhepee`asette" Orj,e8m116orte° tlihteerriolym,afeno. tale() basAcboimade, tic:17017U?) blefird,noss 11ER GREAT SACRIFICE. Bow abeurd it is, she mused, to do, , aeribe women ae bargain hunters. Just look at mg mite. I am deliber. lady exchanging the name Montmo rebel for the name Ionee. 11/14V/tin of bergain is that/ IMAM. Khak, a Persian word, means earth, duet; khaki, of the colour elf earth. grey. Originally khaki -the material of that narne---WaS made from cotton In India. 11 Is atill manufactured there. and can be produced for about two - penes or threepenoti yard. The *heel). eat quality made Kneen& matt about elektpenos It yard wholmale.