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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1909-10-14, Page 3" SHEARING SHEEP BY MACHINE, Western Ranchmen Disponaing With Hand Work. N. Y. Run: The great eheep camp of the *United States is now in the North - Wet. The ehearing of the twenty or More million sheep that produce wool, like the garnering of whet and other big crops, requires the employment for a more or less shortened period of a large number of inen. The local labor 4supply is entirely insufficient and were . It not for the existence of a partly organized body of nomads who start in at the south Ana work their way eorth as the season broadens, great difficulty would be met with. Many of these :shearers are easternera, New York furnishing. quite a number. Before reaching hfeetana or Wyoraing they have relieved many thousands of sheep of their fleeces. They begin down. in Texas or perhaps Arizona and work north, taking in Kansas,Nebraska,Utali, Wyoniing and the Dakotas before thoy land in Montana. Many of them also come front the West. This gang starts in in Califoenia, and after shearing its way through Oregon, Washington and Ida) reeelics Montana to aid in garnering on common ground the greatest erop of wodi in any :Action. These men are well paid and anost oi them end the season with from *500 to $800 in their pockets. All are 9xperts, Most of them still use the wrist thong and hand shears, but in the last few Tears shearing by machinery has come in vogue and is rapidly superseding all other methods. The better hand shearers average 100 sheep a day, And there are a few who have a record of 200 in twelve hours. It h hard work. A man must stand with legs stiff for houre, he must lean over until he can ahnost reach his toes and he must all the time be holding down a struggling, frightened animal. These hand workers are paid at the rate 'of seven or eight cents for each fleece tied up and delivered to the sacker. The grading is done in advance of the shearing, so that subsequent trou- ble is avoided. After the shearing has been accom- plished the wool is sacked in long bale - like burlap forms and turned over to the freighters. Montana is not gridironed with railroads, and it is a long drive from many of the ranches to the rail- way depot or wool market. Two and sometimes three heavily laden wagons are coupled together and with eight or ten horses attached the outfit starts across the hills. It is hard, slow going, and if the ram comes and the roads get gummy the freighters often have to go into camp anci wait for the sun to pave the way. Somethnes wool has to be hauled In this fashion for 125 miles. the lest four or five years the shearing machine has pushed to the front An ingenious mechanic has de- vised a shear which can be worked either by hand or mechanical power, and which bas proven a tremendous soon- omy. The timeline is deelesed by sheep inen to boas far ahead of the olel band shears aa the self -binder is in advance of the old-fashioned eradle. R. M. Marquis, a Mindatala young man, holds the world's ricsord both for hand and for machine chine that insures absolute accuracy. This gear enclotted in a stetionray Irma and drives hardeneil steel cat pinion, to which is conneeted univereel pint. flexible shift. .The pinioa shaft is; eitted 'etitli-a small tented niilainnewhiel, jylelt,aunnhign 'a high spee4, gives etiztadiaive ete tilie machine vA all tunes, Thlr whin greatly resemble at th4 end 'e pair of barbers' clippers, fit on to the end of this jointed shaft, and. thia is operateel much like the power de. vices in dentists' shops for the drilling ar cleaning of -teeth. With a boy to turn the big wheel by a convenient han- dle and a man to operate the similes it is not metch of a triek to denude the sheep, The power plant machine is growing in favor. ldakera of various devices in the last year on their own initiative and fpr their own profit have established power plants at points in ehe sheep belt. The result has been that big sheen men have taken to installing them with gaso. line engines for motive power. Arany of these,plante have as high as fifty glens- ing machines, with power furnished from overhead shafting awl gearing. The i newest departure n this line is an elec- trically driven affair, with direct eon - motions, so that the instant n nmehine is stopped to change cutters or combs or BD dust another sheep nifty be caught Or let ',go the power is cut off absolutely fret. that one, while the others keep at wonfra7n GOOD BLOOD 'AND GOOD HEALTH IS the Result Obtained When Dr. Williams' Pink Pills Are Used To lieve good, health you must have good blood. It is only when the blood is bad that the health is poor. The blood is the life-giving fluid of the body —it is therefore an absolute necessity that it should be kept free from all in - purines and poisons. To do this noth- ing:can equal Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Pante. These Pills make new, Tide' blood with every dose; they drive ont• every impurity—every poison—and theis give good health. Concerning them, Miss Bernadette Lapointe, of St. Jerome, Que., says: "For several years my health was very bad—my system was completely run doWn. I bad indi- notion almost continually; my heart was weak; I bad headaches and back- aches, and was sore all over. My blood was very poor, and more than once I was in despair. I tried many supposed remedies, but none of them helped me. One day a friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, telling me that she had found them good. in a ease similar to mine. I followed her advice and be- gan taking the pills. They soon gave me some slight relief. Encouraged by this I continued their use for several months and they strengthened my whole sys- tem. I am to -day in excellent health and alhays keep Dr. Wiliams' Pink Pills in the house, for if I feel a little out nof sorts I take a box of Pills and am soon all right again." Thousands of young girls throughout Canada suffer just as Miss Lapointe did. They are sickly all the time and. are to- tally unable to take the enjoyment out of life that every healthy girl should. They need a tonic to build them up—to shearing. At Bower Broth.ers' raneh enable thetn to withstand the worries near Maatinsdele, Mont, he sheared 380 of household or business duties; to telve them strength to enjoy social life. seven pound (to the fleece) wether s in P...nelt a tonic is Dr. Williams Pink Pills 14 houre 40 minutes, taking off 2,650 for Pale People. These Pills give blood Pounds wool 'will' a niushine- Ills to bloodless girls; they strengthen the record will likely stand for a long time. nerves; banish headaches and backaches, Marquis has been at the business f or about eight years and has often shorn cure indigestion, rheumatism, heart pal - By hand, itation anrelieve the many ills of girl - 200 sheep a day and over ld oot' and. womanhood.. Sold by an and on the machine has several times medicine dealers or direct by mail at 50 gone above 300. His avenge work in cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from Metntanni last season ran front 175 to The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brook - 215 sheep a day, in nine and ten hour days. In one shearing season, not in- villee Out. eluding the fell work, he sheared 17,013 • NEW WIRELESS. eke eheep. The mann work is almost as mecha.n- Dane's Invention Sends Messages 100 icai as that of the =saltine he .uses. He aterte in by grabbing the animal by the Words a Minute. right hind leg •witai his left hand, turn- Wireless telegraphy is likely to re- in it easily over on its back. He then ceive e. distiamt fillip by meats of an In - pulls it into an weight position, ivith vention. by Dr. Vaedemar Paulsen. The its hindquarters on the ground. and the inventlon is la the form of an automatic bodno reeting• between his legs. tie begins tranemitner by whith a soeed of sending Jby panting the wool at the forward end can be obtained. rivalling that reevlized by the brisket and starts the clippers submarine telegraphy, lioing. Dent over at ten angle of 70 or 80 The capabilities of the new instru• ciegreee he,keeps firm hold of the sheep ment were demonstrated yeeterday at with his knees, turning the animal as Oullercoats (Northumberland) radio -tele - though it were in a vice and neeping the graphic station in the presence of a skin atretched tight. When half way company of eleetatical experts, who eaav through he has attained the position messages tennemitted between Culler - of having partly stepped beck, while tb.e coots and Iyagby, near Copenhagen, a *heap is feet on its side. It is no trick &tame of 000 miles, at the rate of 100 for him to finish the animal in two min- words per minute. The inventton would lates, slid he hae turned out as many as appear to do for wireless telegraphy twit -eight in an hour. what the Wheatstone transmitter and the advantage in time and la, Thompson reeorder have achieved in the her Cost the maohine does not hack or way of &Vlach and the receipt of mes- cut the :sheep, and it is pessible to get sages through post office and cable corn- eitfrom alusli to a pound and a half more panics. wool of! oath animal. The staple is The instrument is worked on much Inner and this means a better price. the wane principle as the Villteatatone. Ussua,ley it is not desirable to send -hand Tlaa,t is to aly, the message is repmeaut- :sheared eb,eop to the market until a ed by a testes of hales punched in a. meek after the clip, as it takes that earetentheas paper snip. long to feed thesm into presentable shape. The oresent rate of "wireless" across This is avoided by the nee of the me- the Atlantic is 25 words a, minute. ohardeal (sant-titmice, whielt leaves the • ao animal evenly clipped and free from outs. Miss Stella Josephine Feller, of 'Harris The Mind power Ynaohlfte is in almost °minty', Texas who has developed re.- univereal use among the smelter flock markable abitity to locate oil and all - masters who cannot afford a power phut lands, reeantly earned e fee of $150,- pinnt or are linable to get the service -8 000 paid by ten land owners upon whose of expertexteed elmaring experts, who property two produetive 'wells were beep date and route books nitich like the streak after Mies Feller had. located oil arenage theatrieal comp:any managernot far from the Humble field. Mies lei. law usual model consists of a large tor, it is said, leas acetun.uleted a fund ox ee wheel, fastened to an upright beam in over $500,000, and is eretting an orphan the barn. On the face of thie wheel asylum in Beaumont with the money she lath are generated On. an automatic ma- reeeived from locating oil and !itinerant Upset By Constipation Distressing Indigestion, Stomach Gas, Palpitation Constant Headaches. When Robbed 0 i Beauty an Otrangtb, and Suffering from Lesusif.. tufo, !northeast and Genesis, Hi Health Dr. Hamilton's Pills Cure. "It is with !atonal satisfaction that I ani, able to relate how I was =etched by Dr. Hamilton's Pills front my ben of biekness, writes II, II. Sargent, a well-known hardware traveller, residing at Charleston. no meny dial:gee of diet 'brought on S.:11111,riltklifAtion and liver .comnitiint, Vet: betriiery busy I didn't givd. the Mattstr Uneii - atention. Headaches, awful.:dies eneellei; nd c 1 ns eniennerlyann usinoss. t stunt tiredness spen' nuide",y1: possible for me to attend My Appetite faded 4W4$. A nebeme thin and looked yellowennd'jatundicied, I used three different `leekekitAleni: which physiciens said would'tene U1): 1"Y liver and regulate my boiveleenbat- I got no relief at all till I started ,to use Dr. Harniltonn Pills, After taking them for a few days I was surprised at the ener- gy and force I obtained; the old feeling of tiredness and lack of desire to work disappeared, and instead came vigor, ecargy, ambition, good color and sound digestion. I take Dr. Hamilton's Pills three times a week and ever since have enjoyed the best of health." Wbat's the use of feeling so languid, so stupid and dull, when Dr. Hamilton's Pills will give you suet: robust, joyous health. For all disorders of tbe stom- ach, kidneys, liver and bowels, no medi- cine compares with Dr, Hamiltonn Pills. 25e, per box, or five boxes for $1.00, at al dealers or the Catarrhozone Com- pany, Kingston, Ont. , *o to FULL FOR A MONTH. , 4 11.0IM• el le . • 59 om 59 NI 01. LirAr Tilt SittmantA Artiuln ittsuly coupe in anti guantite. Useful for five tomato! purpobes. A can equals 2011,.. SAL SODA. the only the Boot. 717.1411,1,41/4.4,4441: / I ASSNS.. E 87179 4440 .4., SOLD EVERIVIIM For IvIsk;ng Seep. For SofttaiegloVater. For Romoviog Psint. For Disinfecting. Si:40,001sta. Drain/Atm 5911 59 59 59 The No -Tip Hotel a Succes Before It Opens. To -day London's latest leunge 'of lux- ury, the Strand Palace Hotel, throws open its hospitable doors, and, suoh is already the fame of Lyons' latest, that every one of the 740 bedrooms will be 'occupied to -night. No tips, no mysterious, irritating ex- tras, and es. foe bed, twine d'hote break- fast, bath, light, attendance, and the use of many noble rooms—this pro- gramme has eaptivated all England and a good deal of the continent, e 'Everything ready? Yes, indeed," oald hustling Mr. noseple Lyons to the Daily Sketeh. "We could have opened a week ago, and could have filled the place more than twice came" "Does this striking success sieggest t� your mind the desentibility of putting up your pekes a trifle?" Mr. Lyons looked. ehocked, and cried in alarm, "Goodness, not 1 would not dream of such a thing. We have spent a quarter of a million of money upon this venture, and it is going to be a sue- oess on ets present very moderate tar - "Some of the bedrooms have been let to permanemt residents, others for a number of months, and some for th,e winter. We can aocept no more visitors for this month, and yet every post brings a big batch of applicabions. "The first delivery to -day brought over 400 letters, and I have a staff of twelve people—she ref theni typists—do- ing nothing but cleat with this mess of oorrespondenee. I think I shall have to put a linkman at the main entneate to tell people not to get out of thtir cabs unless they have booked a room as we shall not ne able to aceommodaea them for a time." Our representative, glancing down the list of places from which yester- day's letters came, noticed that Man- chester and the Lancashire district gene orally were very largely represented, while Scotland, Trehtn,d and Wales were frequently mentioned. Letter had also coane from Prance, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland and Austria. LONDON'S - D0 BOXES. (Modern ty,d0n The ordinary cost of the "gold box" In which the freedom of the city of Lon- don is enclosed when presented to dis- tinguished personages is 100 guineas, This sum, however,- is usually exceeded In the case of a crowned head, as it was last week when a box of this type was offered for tha acceptance of the Em- peror of Russia. As a matter of fact, the record in expense of this kind was reach- ed on the occasion of the presentation of the freedom to the late Alexander In the year 1875, when the city paid $1,- 685 for its gold box, Been King Ed- ward's box, presented to him in the year of his marriage, fell short of this record by more than $800. • e Marriage certainly must be a lottery; look at the women with booby prizes.— Dallas News. fikMIAN COUNTRY FAIR. Long Array of Fruit and Vegetable Stalls.-Methodof Bargaining. A cumber fair at Vladikavkaz— such revelations of the bounty of nature in the 4b1111(.1011Ce of food and in strong limbs to be nouriehed by it I scarcely expect to see easily again, writes a correspondent, of the Pall Mall Gazette. This fair took place at one end of the great military road that traversea the Caucasus and connects Tiflie and. the Persian mama - es with Resta and the north. In a great open square, paved un- evenly with cobbles, the stalls are set At one end are five open forges where horses aro strapped in and shod. Behind these about a hundred sheep and lambs struggle together, while 13. ehepherd milks the ewes into a bucket. At another end of the "Bazaar" there is a covered place for cotton goods, and those the Georgian girl buys her kerehief and tho peas, ant woman turns over ell manner of brilliant printed cotton, Between the sheep end the drapery for a full hun- dred yards etand carts and barrows , - or it may be merely sacks and bas- kets, full of cuaumbers and tomatoes. The cucumbers are piled up in the carts like loads of stones for road making, The vendors stands beside thein and shout their prices. The cus. tomers fumble about and pick out the best they can, find. Several thousand have to be sold be- fore afternoon; more than half will not be disposed of before they are spoiled by the sun. Picture the peasante outbidding one another, fat and perspiring in the heat. Ten for three halfpence is the highest price; ten for a halfpenny the lowest. By 2 o'clock in the afternoon one will be able to buy forty for a penny just to dear. Meanwhile children are dancing about, eating them as one would bananas in England, munch, Ing them as if they were large pears, and in a way that would, have brought, bewilderment to the mind of Sairey Gemp, who en dearly loved a "cow. cumber." Scarcely less in evidence than the luscious green of cucumbers is the reposing yellow and scarlet of the tomatoes—golden apples they call them. These also must be disposed of; they go for a penny a pound, and the baskets of 'natty traffickers aro adorned by the puronase of them, Behind the cucumber row is the po, tato market, where for sixpence you may buy two etone of new potatoes. Wiht these are a long aeray of stalls OUNTAINS F ILD During Change of Life, says Mrs. Chas. Barclay Graniteville, Vt. "I was passing through the Change of Life and suffered from nervousness andother annoying symptoms, and I can truly say that LydiaE.Pinklaam's Vegetable Com- pound has proved worth mountains of gold to me, as it restored my health and strength. I never forget to tell my friends what LydiaE.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me during this trying period. Complete restoration to health means so much to nae that for the sake of other suffer- ing women 1 ana willing to make nay trouble public so you may publish this letter."—Mns. OW. BAnnlagy, R.F.D.,Graniteville, Vt. No other medicine for woman's ills has received such wide -spread and un- qualified endorsement. No other med., ioine we know of has such a record of cures of female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkhant's Vegetable Compound. For more than. 30 years it has been curing female complaints such as Inflammation. ulceration, local wea,k, flosses, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, indigestion and nervous prostration, and it is unequalled for carrying women safely through the period of change of life. It costs but little to -try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and, asMrs.Barchsysays,it is "worth motm. tains of gold "to suffering women. CORNS CURED 24 I-1014 len eon Can panaesny remove any cone oval hard, sott or bleeding, ty applying 14100 141. Vent .13StraOWL neVer ourno, leenes eo sear, euntaine no pies ; Is harmleae le:cause composed only of inahn ittuns anti balms. fifty yett re 1st use. Cure gustranteeti. Hold ey all at ueg.sts gee. bottles. Refuse substitutes. PUTNAM'S PA 1 N LESS CORN EXTRAPTOFI with vegetables and fruit, everything superabundant and at surprising prices. Raspberries and apricota ge at twopence a pound, peaches ut Lour. pence cherries and plums at a penny, goosoberies at a halfpenny, black. berried at three hallPence, and all this fruit in at the same time. Strawberries canto suddenly at r.o beginning of June, and as fitIddellly dieseppeared; the summer progresi ea at quick puce here. New laid eggs are eold at this fair at a farthing each, ehees at threepence a pound, butter at termenee, bacon at four - pence and five:once a pound. Her- rings and river fish, sun dried and cured, aro sold ten on a string for twopence-hallpenny; live green cray- fish, ten for threepence. At shops near by mutton is sold at threepence - halfpenny and lamb at fourponce- halfpenny a pound; beef at three - Pence. The fair is, however, a poor man's market. The richer got their things at the shops, but it is difficult to per - suede a peasant to buy at a snop when he can get what ho wants at a fair. From time immemorial the country people have met end bargained at fairs, so that it is now in the blood. Hence it is that Russia is the country of fairs, having as it greatest object of that kind the fair of Nijni Novgor- od, that stupendous survival of the old times. The clifficulty of buying at a fair is no obstacle; the crowds of people, the mountebanks among them, the stalls without scales, the haphaz- ard bargains and chance of bad money are more alluring than deterrent. Po, tatoes are sold by the pailful, cucum- bers by the tena fish by the string, bacon anti cheese by the piece, and mutton mostly fiy the sheep. One needs to be a connoisseur, a ready calculator and eye measurer if one is going to acquit oneself honorab- ly in the eyes a the fair bargain drivers, No one ever takes anything at the price offered; every one chaf- fers and bargains for at least five Mlieutes before settling yes or no. Then nothing bought is wrapped up. One has to bring one's awn paper with one, or one may buy earthenware pots or rush baekets, and put together the things that may touch without harm. A pound of meat without paper puts the unprovided purchaser in a dilemma. At the fair there. is no dividing line between tradesmen and buying people. Whoever 'wishes may go and take his place, or he may take no place, and simply hewk his things about through the crowd. There are men hawking old clothes, old boots, iced beer and ices. At 10' o'clock in the morning thp scene is one of the utmost liveliness. Peasants are standing round the ice cream men and smacking their lips; would-be purchasers of mutton are standing among the sheep, -weighing them and feeling them with their hands in primitive fashion at the back of the forges; meal and flour sellers, white from head to foot, are shovelling their goods into the meas.. uses of gessips; girls are raking over the cottons; the ucumber sellers are shouting, and those who have finish- ed their buying are moving off with carts and barrows, sacks- Or baskets, as the case may be, and not infre- quently ono may see a man with a sack of potatoes in one hand and a fat sheep under the other arm. • The Navel Orange. .The first we know of the navel orange, which in very valuable not only on ac- count of it. fine quality and taste, but also because et its being seedless, is of a single tree that was found growing on the northern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. This was about the year 1565, or nearly 350 years ago, A monk in a mone'stery in that far- away country painted a picture of the fruit and wrote a description of it, hoth of which may be seteinin the library of the Roman Catholic University at Wash. ington, D. 0. Grafts of this tree were taken te Spain by the Moors several hundred years ago, and from Spain the trees were carried to South. America by the Speniards.—From "Nature and Feel - °nee,' in October Si, Nicholas, Couldn't See Then. She—Women like to be admired by :nen. He—Then why do they always try to knock out men's oyes with their umbrel- las? emeauswommemmaelIMMIN• WHAT KIND OF A WINTER WILL WE HAVE? vt • ctOsalifio lx?‘ '005 ;1004 'BotAA it Vg41.4416 olotttyrtiii t.0011•67e..006' `MAK* il4kitlfilifizEttfi1t4'r Ell Mt West; ON TO HV A MILD 1.te:f1474,1.174: THEM tORN ef, ofo 40:.4" - / .,0 41h.. -Nr ttriVa• 1°0 RECIPES Kneen: I.Plc (hist. Ma ke a brine strengt enough tu bow an egg and pane heiling hut over AN 11Undre:t hinall pit klc s and four Men peppers.. After they bare ,,,tood for el hour: take them out 444 Wir t itrli nov dry. Heat liaiCiPtik vinegar boiling hot to cover them. Pour the vinegar over the picielte ani again let them etane for 2$ hours, mint). the vitn.gar may be poured off, k Prepare fresh vinegar, into which the follewing ingredients are to be put: One ounce mei of white cloves, cinnamon and alleplee, two quark ef brown sugar, one half of a pint of white muetard seed, four tablespoonfuls of eelery seed, end a piece of alum tio size of an egg. Heat • this scalding hot, pour over the cucumbers and set away for a few days when they will be fit for uee. STOWED .niUSHIWOMS. Serape out the inside of the cups, ehop tbo stems that are too long to be left standing, and also the mushrooms, Which should have beeu arranged in a battered earthen dish, steins up. Then cover with the glass bells that come on purpose for bolding in the deliente aroma and juices of the mushrooms, or, tenting these, with paper autl an invert- ed pan. Cook on the back of the stove, or in an oven for about an hour, or until brown and tender. They will eook in their own juices. Serve on rounds of toast with a seasoning of butter, salt and paprika. FAVORITE FuriT PLTDDING. Fill a buttered diah with any nind of fruit, pour over them a batter made of half eup sugar, one tablespoon butter, one egg, half cup sweet milk, one cup flow with one teaspoon baking powder sifted in it. Bake three-quarters of an hour and eat with this sauce: Two eggs beaten separately, one eup powdered sugar, butter size of an egg, ineltee, Flavor with vanilla. This is easier than a boiled pudding and extra goock CUCUMBER TUBS n'OR SALAD, Seleet the largest of cucumbers and cut into three inch lengths, Tritn off half an inch from the top all Renaud except at each side, where mall piecea a rind should be left to serve as handles, Then mark off the little bands of rind which are to run around the tub, ,and cut away the rest of the rind, using a sharp knife. After paring, carefuly scoop out the centre. If this is done before they are pared there is danger of cutting through the wall. Put them into ice water till ready to nee, then dry on a cloth. Fill with chopped cucumber. tomato, asparagus tips, cauliflower, or any desired salad men stiok a sprig of parsley in the top of each tub, A nice way to put selad in a luneh box is to use green sweet peppers, Remove the seeds after cutting off the small end of each pepper and stuff them with the salad. The pepper cov- ers may be secured from falling off by sticking a toothpick through them into the main body of the peppers. BAKED TOMATOES WITH SHRIMPS, For one can or its equivalent of ahrimpe broken into small pieces pre- pare aix round, medium sized tomatoes by cutting off it good slice at top, re- moving the pulp and inverting on a sieve to drain, Melt, two tablespoonfuls of butter and cook in this slowly three glees of onion until slightly browned, then remove and add tomato pulp. Cook this for a few minutes, then add about one and a quarter cupfuls of bread crumbs and enough cream to make a soft paste—neerly one-third of cupful. When blended, put the pa.nis in slow oven for about forty minutes. CHEESE -TOMATO STEW. Peel six medium sized tomatoes (canned tomatoes may be used), tut in pieces, and boil until thoroughly cooked, When tomatoes are well done add one, half pound grated Americaa cheese, salt and pepper to Unite. Let mixture cook until it is right thickness to spread ou toast. After clime is added stir con- stantly to prevent sticking to pan. . STUFFED TOMATOIeS. Take twelve large smooth tomatoes, one teaspoonful salt, little pepper, one tablespoonful butter, one tablespoonful of sugar, one cupful el bread. crumbs, one teaspoonful of onion juice, cut a thin slice from the smooth end of each, with 6 small spoon scoop out as much of the pulp and. juice as possible without Injuring their shape. Mix pulp with the other ingredients and fill tomatoes with this mixture. Pub on tops, arrange in a baking pan that has been buttered and bake slowly three-quarters of an hour. Lift with cake turner to platter, garnish with parsley and se_rve hot, Oriental Greetings. Some of the Oriental modes of Bala - tenon are very peculiar. For instance, in central Tibet, the custom is for the saluter to stick out his tongue, nold his right ear, rub his Ieft hip, and bow deeply, all these motions being carried ou at onee. Certainly the other fellow need have no fear of personal assault from the Binned of these minus stalest Less ludicrous, but equally reassuring, Is the Chinese custom of rubbing noses on -bended knees. The salaam or pro- found bow of India and the nlohtunme- dna countries serves a similar purpose:— Prom W. R. Murphy's "Salutatione" itt October St, Nicholas. HIS CHOICE. A Plisburg millionaire said at a din- ner: "I lunched. with Sir Thomas Lipton 'at the Ghebireh palace, in Cairo, inet before he set out for his tea plantation in Ceylon, where the ex -Empress Eu- genie was to visit him. When the cof- fee came on I opened my gold MSC- and offered Sir Thomas a beautiful aromatic cigarette fresh front the factory down the Street. "'No, thank you,' said he. am, -ivith one possible exception, the big- gett smoker 1 utile world, but 1 ltever smoke cigats or cigerettese 'What de you smoke?' said 1. "%mon: he answered," HANDSOME JEWELRY CATALOGUE FREE OUR 144 page Catalogue illustrated in colors will be sent free upon request, WS is the finest Cata- logue of Diamonds, Jewelry, Silverware, China, Cut Glass, Leather Goods, Stationery and Novelties ever issued, We prepay all express charges on every article sold by us and cheerfully refund the money if goods are not satisfactory. YRIE EROS., Limited 134.135 Yong° Street TORONTO Table Manners. Do not clatter knife, fork or spooa on the plate when eating. Learn to hold the fork and knife gracefully. There is an acepted form for this noleing and. any other is a sign of lack of training. leo not grasp your table implements as if they were farmer's tootle A firm grip is not the main thing in getting fod to the mouth. Nnthing Is more awkward than to hold a knife or fork in the paha of the bend close down toward the blade, Saw- ing is not high art in table manners. A knife is to be held in the right hoari between the thumb ale second finger, with the end in the palm of the hand and steadied by tip of first finger rest- ing just on beginning of blade. No excep- tion for left banded. habits. No matter how gracefully you eat yon will not look it if you use the left hand for the right. Break yourself of it if you go hungry in the attempt. When cutting the fork is held in the left hand in the same manner as the knife. At all other times it should be held halfway down the handle between the thumb and first finger, steadied on the first joint of the second finger. A spoon is held in the same way as a fork. It is brought to the mouth in a parallel line. Remember this simple rule and you will not be guilty of the solecism of eating from the tip of a spoon. This is particularly bad form in eating soup. Eat soup or other liquid food from the outside of plate in; not dipping from centre toward the edge as is the com- mon method. Never turn a spoon over in the mouth before removing it, as is sometimes dono particularly in eating ice cream. 11 is or should be needless to say that a knife is a cutting instrument only. IAt neither peas, the last bit of sauce, nor molasses persuade you otherwise. Take time in the handling of knife, fork, aid spoon to do it noiselessly as to lips as well as dishes. Shoveling food is neither a pretty sight nor sound. Do not think such things trifles. They may rot make your fortune, but they do make or mar your reputation for good manners. 4 • I Popular Weather Signs, Men of soience tell us in some cases What are characterized old women's stories are practically correct; for in- stance, counting numbers from the light- ning flash to the sound of thunder lo- cates in miles the seat of the disturb - mice. The approach of rain is signalled, so say the observant country folk, in many ways. The swifts and the swal- lows skim close to the ground; the cat washes bis face, and the chaffinch has a sad and plaintive note; the farmyard goose runs about and shows general restlessness; the peacock utters fre- quent cries; the woodpecker moans or sighs; the parrot chatters; the guinea fowl perches; flowers have it stronger odor and many among them close up. There are also- other signs none the less sure for prognosticating fine weath- er. The birds twitter; the redthroat sings on the top ot the highest trees; the swallow flies into the elotids; the lark rises from the ground and mounts into the air gnging; the cricket makes his cry heard; the tree frog climbs the trees, and. the flowers open. Finally there are a few varied observations which will complete these signs. An everlasting flowee hung on a wall opens in fine weather and closes When it will be rain. When the spider leaves off working at its web it is b. sign of rain. If it continues or recommences its weaving during the night it is a sign that the good weather will return. When rain begins to fall, if the hens do not bide themselves, but continue to look for their food; it means that the rain will not cease all day. If they take refuge at the first drop of rain it is a sign that it will not last. When only one magpie leaves its nest it is a sign of rain. If the father and mother emit it together it is a sign of good weather.— London Globe. 4 • DONE FOR. "With Eddie Foy," said a tragedian, "I meek, the other Sunday, an excursion into the oeuntry. "The cOuntry„ fresh and green, was beautiful in the. warm sunthine. 'An old man Aral his daughter, a girl of 18, bad a little booth where you threw. baseball at dolls, getting it. cigar for ev- ery bit. "Foy throws phenemenally well, and he had soon won 30 tigers. These he presouted, with it. 'courtly bow, to tho yew% girl. "Tlinaksn said sho, smiling prettily, 'they'll do for father?" "A few Sundays later Foy and I made the sante excursion again. The booth stood iti the seam spot, but now the girl NUS mining it snone, "'Alt, eald Foy, 'they've done for fa - titer.'" TO RID HOUSE OF PLIES. To rid the :house of Mee quickly, spray into the air oil of lavender dilutedwith Id t water; this will swam the file& to leave and a delightful fragrance will be left. Screen all doors end window*. If not possible pleat mignonette in window and north boxes, 71118 wilt keep away both flies and mostritoet, Do not leave tiny food lynig arettful, and do not eat food statilat hes some in eonteet with flies. Iteet) garbage ran tightly closed. Spray oeeasionelly to prevent breeding. Pour kerosene in &eine oeettsimUslig, Thy WM be Done. Laid on. Thy altar. my Lord, 431v1ne. A.ceept my gift this day, tor Zoeue, sake. I have no jewels to adorn Thy shrine, Nor any world -famed sacrifice to make; But here I bring within my trembling hand This will of mine, it thiog that seem- eth small, And only Thou, dear Lord, canst un- derstand How, when I yield Thee this, I yield Thee all. Hidden. therein, Thy searching oye can see Struggles of passion, 'visions of do- light— All that I love, or am, or fain would be, Deep loves, fond hopes, and longing infinite. It has been wet with tears and med with sighs. Clinched in my grasp till beauty it had none; Now from Thy footstool where it van- quished lies, Theprayer ascendeth, may Thy will be. done. Take ia 0, Father, e'er MY" eenrege fail, And merge it so in Thine own will that e'en If in some desperate hour my eries .prevail And Thou give hack my gift, it may have been So changed, so purified, so fair have grown, So one with nee, so filled with peace divine, I may not know nor feel it as my own, But gaining back my will may find it Thine. Prayer. 0 Lord, we think Thee for strength to do Thy will.Continue this strength Lord, as in old days, and withdraw not Thy face from no, for without the sunshine of Thy glance we canuot live. Give us Thy hope, Whiqii is the chief strength of man, and without which he cannot fight on. But first give us Thy love, which is the bread by which arum lives, end for which '70 .exite'itethie* hante; sif Jesus Christ, TM The- indwelling God. The kingdom of God is within us. In the lateney of every soul there lurks, among the things it loves and venerates, some earnest and salient point whence a divine life may be- gin and radiate, some incipient idea of duty, it may be; some light mist of disinterested love; appearing vague and nebulous and infintely distant within the 'mighty void—a broken fringe of holy light, seen only in the spirit's deepest darkness; and mere - Me may be the stirrings of a mystic energy, and the haze may be gather- ed together and glow within the mind into a star, a sun, a piercing eye of God. But whenever the Deity dwell- eth within us, he will be unfelt and a stranger to us till we abandon our- selves to the duties and aspirations which we feel to De his voice, till we renounce ourselves and unhesitating- ly precipitate our life on the persu- asion of our disinterested affections. While his spirit nbloweth where it listeth," yet certain it is that they only who do his will shall ever feel his power.—James Martineau. Pivot of the Universes. (By a Banker.) Several years ago in an article of this series a suggestion was express- ed that the whole of the starts in our universe probably revolved round a great central orb of infinitely greater proportions than even the most mighty of the myriad stellar worlds visible in the midnight sky.' This belief is now gaining ground with scientists; for it would appear to be a law of nature that all bodies in space re- volve, though some in a erratic orbit, round some larger orb, which, in its turn, revolves round a yet larger body. It is therefore inferred that our sun, tozether with the whole of the serried array of burning suns com- prised within our stellar universe, must also own allegiance to some stupendous central orb around which they all revolve. It is known that all the stars are in rapid motion. The star which, when the great pyramid was erected, was the polar star, has greatly. alter- ed its position; our sun is rushing through space at a speed computed at half a million miles a day; and in fact successive discoveries prove that doubtless the whole of the starry host Is also careering onwards at incon- ceivable speed. And, beyond our own universe, sunk deep in the dread profundities Of the abyss of infinity, those other uni- verses, perhaps as mighty and as myriad starred as our own; with per- haps yet others, engulfed still in- finitely more remote in the fathom- less abyss of eternal space, doubtless participate in this general circling round the mighty axis of the uni- verses. Untold myriads of burning suns, each doubtless with its attend- ant revolving planets; a fearful gal- axy far beyond the capacity of our finite powers even to imagine, and still less to convey the faintest' idea in words, all revolving round one mighty and tupendous central gov- erning orb; incomparatively and im- measurably exceeding in size even the most prodigious and immense of all the vast array; and with a specific gravity of sufficient power to subju- gate and control the whole. And, surely that central pivot of the universes must be the supernal Realm wherein is the Throne of the Majestic Creator of them all; whence are is- sued the fiats governing them all; wherein .clwell the mighty heitarehy of heevert when not engaged in some errand of merey throughout the ohms; and which is the homeland of the inhabitants, both of this earth of ours, end doubtlees of myriads of other planets, who have loved and served and obeyed that Onmipoteht Creator. And that Majestic Being, in order to nuilifO the effeate of rebel- lion riga inst Hitmelf, relinentishecl for a time Ma Metestv end His glory, and, selecting tine little Mat of oura as the eeene nf TTi eondeetensiou, made ntonement for all throughout the univerees who claim that expia- tion tot their infallible passport to tile t gh gins Realm, • - "You say you with to toter our em- ploy ne a floor walker. Have yon ere retommerelatione?" "A peir -of ttehte Wee weeks old who try all night,"—St. Louis Star..