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The Wingham Times, 1885-10-16, Page 2$EALTH, lesaly excited; this, no doubt, was a ruling motive. The experienced praotitioner well understands that the habitual taking of any efficient medicine is the ocrtain road to a premature and very often a violent or agou. 'zing death.. French and English Politios. The old Parliaments of both France and England have finally adjourned, and will be replaced by freshly chosen Parliaments this autumn. The general elections for a new Chamber of Deputies in France will take place in October ; and those for a now House of Commons in Great Britain and Ireland will occur in November, It is rarely the case that these two great countries aro plunged into exciting elections at the same time. Usually, the summer and autumn are a period of rest in politics. But this year, the noise of political rivalry and activity began in England and Frauce amid the heat of August. There are several pointe of resemblance in the political situation in the two coun- tries. In each, the Cabinet now in power mty be said to exist on sufferance, as it did not command a majority of the Parliament during which it took office. Eaoh Cabinet, too, Dame into power, in part at least, because the foreign policy of the former Government was unpopular. Mr, Gladstone owes his fall partly to the course which he took in regard to Egypt and India ; and M. Ferry lost office on•ao- o• ant of his proceedings in regard to the Chinese War. The term of the Preeident of the Frenoh Republic will expire in January next. It will, therefore, be the duty of the newly ap- pointed representatives of France, in con- junction with the Senate, to elect a aueces- aor to M. Gravy for the long period of seven years. Chis fact naturally adds to the ex- citement of the coming French eleotions. Aside from this, the contest in France is not, as it formerly was, between the Repub- licena and various factions of Monarchists, but bet been the moderate and radical Re. publican sections. The moderate Repub i - cans will sustain M. Brisson, the present Prime Minister. The radicals are led by the energetic and able M. Clemencaeu, who wishes to make many changes io the present constitution, especially be further limiting the privileges of the church and the priest- hood. In England, the division of parties in view of the elections which are to take place in November are still more interesting. The Tories are now in office, under the lead of the Marquis of Salisbury. They came into power with a hostile House of Commons, and have had a difficult task, which thus far they seem to have performed wisely. They will struggle vigorously to secure a majority of the new House. The House of Lords has, as usual, a Tory majority. While the Tories are tole rably well united, there are serious divisions among their op- ponents, the Liberals. Of the latter party, there are two divergent aeotibns. The mod- erate section is composed of the Whigs, under the lead of Lord Granville and the Marquis of Harrington. The advanced Sec- tion comprises the radicals, who follow Joseph Chamberlain, Mr. Chamberlain has boldly set out upon a very radical campaign, in which he is not joined by the moderate Liberals. He de- mands a sweeping reform of the system of taxation and the land laws, and would, no doubt, support Home Rule for Ireland and the disestablishment of the Church of England. The third party—and the only one of which it can be said that it is certain to make a large gain in the coming elections— is the Irish pa-ty, led by Mr. Parnell. This party, in the last House. comprised about thirty-five members. There is every indi- cation that, in the new Houee, it will com- prise, at least, between seventy and eighty members. • In both Great Britain and France, the elections will be held under entirely new conditions. In Great Britain (and Ireland) two millions of new voters have been admit- ted to the suffrage ; and the Parliamentary seats have been redistricted throughout the three kingdoma, In France, the system of voting in block for deputies by departments —so that each elector votes for all the dep- uties to which bis department is entitled, instead of for only one—has been adopted instead of single districts. Each of these changes inparta uncertainty to the result of the elections. Pat's View of' It. It is no less important that a boy under- stand what application to make of the lea• son taught him than that he comprehend the lesson itself. The greatly admired pow- er of knowledge consists not so much in knowing things, as in the ability to turn one's information to account, An unthink- ing acceptance of what is told one often leads to amusing results, as in the instance below : In Ireland regulations for fasting are dif- ferently arranged in different ptirishes ; in some, eggs are forbidden to beused, or even milk or cream in tea, on stated days. In a parish in the county of Kildare eggs were prohibited, and in confession, Paddy Blake, the little son of a celebrated cock -fighter, de- posed to having infringed the order. Upon being told by the priest that the eggs might have contained chickens, Paddy replied,— " Orh, no, yer riverence 1 Sure, they were biled." " No matter," replied the priest ; `t they might have had ohickens all the same," The priest, however, considered the of- fender's age, and pardoned him. A short time after the priest, wishing for some of the fine fowl bred by ?addy'a father, asked the boy for a clutch of his last eggs. The eggs were placed under a careful hon, and at the end of three weeks inspection was made, but not a single egg was found chip- ped, A month passed, and still no chickens; - At length, after five weeks, the priest's pa- tience was exhausted, and curiosity led him to break one of the eggs, when, to his aston- i hment, it was found to have been boiled, and was as hard as a bullet, He , went through the ceremony of breaking the whole clutch, and having dieoovered that they were all alike, he sent for Paddy and thus accosted him ; " You little rascal 1 the eggs you brought me were boiled." " Oeh, yes, yer riverence 1 I was afraid I'd smash them if I brought them raw ; and sure, yer riverence told me there might be chickens in them just the same 1" Physiological Aphorisms. 1. The foundation of three-fourths of all oases of consumption is laid before the age of twenty five years ; in women, during their 1 teens. 2, The hereditary element is not of special account as,a cause of consumption, as less than twenty-five per cent. of oases are Clear- ly of consumptive parentage. 3. One of tete ruling causes of disease and premature death, in large cities, is found in an exhausting strain of the mental energies in the ejtruggle for subaistence—a death -race for bread. 4, Insanity rune in families ; but, as in the ca.e of family likeness, it sometimes overlaps a generation or more. 5. Personal resemblance entails like characteristics of mind and dispoaition. 6. A current of the purest air from the poles, for half an hour, on a person sleeping, sitting still, or overheated, is a thousand- fold more destructive of health and fatal to life than the noisomeness of a crowded room or vehicle, or the stench of a pig -stye for thrice the time. 7. To exercise in weariness, increased by every step, is not only not beneficial, it is useless and worse than useless ; it is posi- tively destructive. 8. Aa a good traveler, after having fed his horse, renews his journey in a trot, but with a slow walk, gradually increasing his pace, so in getting up to address an assembly for a continued effort, the first few sentences should be uttered in a low, slow tone, grad- ually intensified, otherwise the voice will break down in a very few minutes, with coughing or hoarseness. 9. A growing inability to sleep in sick. nese is ominous of a fatal result ; in appar- ent health, it indicates the failure ot the mind and madness ; so, on the other hand, in disease or dementia, a very slight im- provement in the sleeping should be hailed as the harbinger of restoration. 10, No one can possibly sink if the head is thrust entirely ander water, and in this. position a novice can swim as easily as walk, and to get shore readily by lifting the head at intervals, for breath. 11. Intense thirst is satiated by wading in water, or by keeping the clothing satur- ated with water, even if it is taken from the sea 12. Water can not satisfy the thirst which attends cholera, dysentery, diarrheas and some other forms of disease ; in fact, drink- ing cold water seems, to increase the thirst, and induce other disagreeable sensations ; but this thirst will be perfectly and pleasant- ly subdued, by eating a comparatively small amount of ice, swallowing it in as large pieces as praoticable, and as much as is wanted. 13, Inflammations are more safely and far more agreeably subdued by the application of warm water than of cold, 14, Very excessive effort in a short space of time, as in running, or jumping a rope, etc., has repeatedly caused instant death, by apoplexy of the lungs, the exercise send- ing the blood there faster than it can be purified by the more infrequent breathing on such occasions, 15. No disease ever comes without a warn- ing ; hence endeavor to think back for the cause, with a view to avoid it in future, and on the instant of any unpleasant bodily sensation, cease eating absolutely until it has entirely disappeared, at least for twenty- four hours; if still remaining, consult a physician. 16. The moire clothes a man wears, the more bed covering he uses, the closer he keeps his chamber, whether warm or cold, the more he confines himself to the house, the more numerous and warm his night - garments, the mare readily will he take cold, under all circumstances, as the more a thriftless youth is helped, the less able does he become to help himself. Taking Medicine. Let it be remembered that it is not the medicine advised by the educated phi sician which has done the world so much injury, but it is the physic which the people swallow on their o wn responsiblity. When a narrow- minded person gets sick, he " calculates " the saving it will be to him to give twenty- five cents for a box of pills, inate ad of "employing a physician," beeillos avoiding the discomfort of "a course of medicine," as it is called. This answers for a while in many cases, but it is ultimately disastrous, and health and life are the fearful forfeit. A gentleman had been a dyspeptic, and hearing that a preparation of soda was " good for dyspepsia," he "tried it ;" it acted "like a charm," and for six months he was so enraptured with its effects that he considered it a duty as well as a humanity to recommend it to every person who seem- ed to be affected as he had been. Not long thereafter, as he was standing at the gate of his newly married daughter, in London, in a passing call on his way to business, he dropped down dead. On examination, the cause was found in several ounces of cede impacted in the bowels. Not long ago, a young lady of wealth call- ed for a prescription at a Quaker druggist's. Being a conscientious man, he said to her very kindly that if she continued to lake it in such quantities, it would destroy her. It was a preparation of morphine, chloro- form and ether, which had an instantaneous and powerful effect on the whole system, and in her ease excited the brain and kept it in that condition, requiring constantly in- creased doses. Within a month she was attacked with a very familiar disease, cured every day in its more peculiar seat. In her case, the brain having been so weakened by the continual over -excitement to which it had been subjected, became the point of metastasis. In familiar phrase, " it went to the brain." She was a model of unob- structive, aelf-denying piety, so retiring, so pure, as to be the admiration of those who knew her inner life. 1n an hour the malady made a wreck of the mind. No man could hold her. Her profanity was shocking to every attendant. A day or two and she died. We personally know that her sister perished a year earlier in consequence of a condition of the system induc d by talking daily, for, mon, ha popular" cough lozenge,' or " trcche," In these last two cases, econ- omy was no object, for they had always been the pampered and petted children of Iavieh wealth, But it Was so ,much easier to get rid of an ailment in this way than by the formality of calling in the family physician ; besides parental s •licituden need riot be use. 4110.111164. THE FARM. The Old Dinner Horn. I'vo heard many a strain that has thrilled mo with joy, But none, I will say, slice the day I was born, Has pleased me so much as, when a small boy, 1 heard on the farm the old dinner horn. The trumpet was tin a yard or so long, And was blowed for "the boys" at noon and at morn ; The monotone strain wasplerotng and strong, But sweet, for all that, was the old dinner horn. When building the fence ortoasing the hay, Or reaping the grain or plowing the corn, With appetite koon, at the noon of the day, Ob 1 sweet to my soul was the old dinner born. A mother's fond lips pressed the trumpet of tin, And blew her fulleoulthrough the barley and Dern, Oh 1 I hear even yet the "Welcome, dome in. Come in, my dear boys, to the Bound of the horn." Those lips aro now still, and the bosom is cold, Which sunt to us boys the blast of the horn; She is waiting in sloop beneath the dark mold, The archangel's trump and eternity's morn. Gleanings. The aim of pork raisers should be to get rid of the poor hogs and keep none but the best sows for breeding. Some pork raisers contend that good common—what we may call "native"—animals are healthier than pure bred animals. We want the health, vigor, hardiness and powerful digestion of the native united with the quietness of die. position, fine bones, small offal, early matur- ity and fattening qualities of the pure-bred. To a large degree this can be accomplished by selecting the best native or grade sows, and breeding them to the finest and best pure-bred boars. The Iowa Husbandman has these sugges- tive thoughts regarding basement barns: We notice, however, that those who have them do not always use them. They are liable to some objections. let. They are apt to be poorly ventilated, 2nd. They are apt to be damp and poorly lighted. 3rd. They are apt to keep cattle too warm and when turned out for exercise they take cold. If a basement were well ventilated and lighted and not damp, and cattle were kept in it all the time we could conceive of nothing bet• ter. For feeding young calves oil -meal is best boiled in six times its own bulk of water, until it becomes a thin gruel. Then mix it at the rate of one gallon with two gallons of skim milk, and feed while it iq "milk warm," For calves six months old or over, the milk may be gradually left off, and a small por- tion of cornmeal substituted, to be cooked with the oil -meal. One part of corn -meal to three parrs of the oil -meal would be a good feed. A ration one part of. oil -meal cooked into a gruel and mixed with two parts oat- meal and one part corn -meal is an excellent food for calves during winter. FALL FALLOWING.—On every farm, as far as possible, the siring work should be done in the fall, Every spring, there is some de- lay on account of the season, and work is so hurried, that it cannot be s ell done. There is always an abundance of time in the fall, and the opportunity should not be missed ot pushing everything ahead in good season for spring work. One special work should not be neglected, and that is plowing and working weedy atubbles, or fallowing the soil, in a season when nothing else can be done with it. This is a most useful work, which should occupy the farmer's attention, while no other work is pressing. To pre- vent the seeding of the weeds, is the princi- pal thing ; and this is a work, which calls for the strictest care at every season. It is stated that a new method of wash- ing butter has been patented in Germany. As soon as gathered in the churn in particles of about a tenth of an inch in size, it is trans- ferred to a centrifugal machine, whose drum is pierced with holes and lined with a lin en sack, that is finally taken out with the but- ter. As soon as the machine is set in rapid motion the buttermilk begins to escape ; a spray of water thrown into the revolving drum washes out all foreign matter adhering to the butter. This washing is kept up till the wash -water comes away clean, and the revolution is then continued till the last drop of water is removed, as clothes are dried in the centrifugal wringer. The dry butter is then taken out, molded and pack- ed. It is claimed that the product thus so fully and quickly freed from all impurities, without any working or kneading, has a fin- er flavor, aroma and grain, and far better keeping qualities than when prepared for market in the ordinary way. COARSE Fool) Fort PIGS. —In -pig -feeding in the diary districts, young pigs generally grew up in a healthy condition, owing to the refuse milk of'.the dairy, which fur• niched the principal food of young pigs. Skim -milk contains all the elements for growing the muscles and bones of young pigs, This gave them a good, rangy frame, and when desired, could be fed into 400 to 500 pounds weight. But the fault attending this feeding was, that it was too scanty to produce such rapid growth as Is desirable. It took too long to develop them for the best profit. It bad not then boon discovered by the farmer that it costs' less to put the first hundred pounds on a pig than the a000nd, and loss for the second than the third, etc, ; that it was much cheaper to produce 200 pounds of pork in six months than in nine and twelve months. When it became evi- dent that profit required more rapid feeding, then they began to ply them continuously with the most concentra' ed food—corn meal or clear corn, If this was fed in summer on pasture, no harm was observed, for the grass gave bulk in the stomach, and the pigs were healthy, and made good progress. But if the young pigs were fed in pen in winter upon corn meal or clear corn, the result was quite different ; thin concentrated food pro- duced feverish symptoms, and the pigs lose their appetite for a few days, drinking only water, which atter a while, would relieve the stomach, and the pigs would oat vigor- ously again. Now had they been fed a few quarts of turnips, carrots, beets or pumpkins, to give bulk in the etomaeb, and separate the concentrated food no harm would have come. This gives the gastric juice a free circulation through the contents of the stomach, the food is properly- digest- ed and applied to the needs of the body, in stead of miming fever by remaining in the stomach. WEED SEED IN MANURE. --Our farm yard manure is full of seeds' and they grow surer and quicker than tho seeds we sow, Manure in which there are weed seeds, should be ap- plied only to sotno hoed crop, or green ma- nure orop 1 for in these, if we keep the Drops Olean the weeds will do no harm, Buck. wheat is an admirable weed killer and ground Weenier, and may follow potatoes or even winter grain, but when sowed in the spring, and plowed under, its best effects are ob- tained, for there will be no trouble in their own seed. THE CLEVER BURGLAR. Flow the Glasgow .lew."I Robbery was _ac- complished. The chef d'a;uvre of an astute and well- trained burglar is springing a mine on the pablio. As soon as the police get hold of a new mode of "cracking a crib," it is utterly useless for the knights of the orowbar, as a rule, to attempt an over and over repetition of tactics; because, the detective having made his little arrangements, it is ten to ane but what he walks into a trap on the Se- cond attempt. In this way burglara are con- stantly on the qai vive and looking about them for new and novel modes of securing entrances to premises and getting possession of booty. Like the gentleman in the story book, however, who went about changing old lamps for new, they occasionally fall back on an old semi -dead and forgotten dt dge when ingenuity fails to come to the rescue. In the jewel robbery case in St, Enock's Lane there is reason to believe that the robbery was effected by the old and barefaced mode of walking right up to the outside door, opening it with a false key— no doubt previously tested—and walking in as if the parties were perfectly entitled so to do, taking due care, of couree, to see that the policeman had turned the corner a few minutes previously, and raking the risk of any passer-by taking notice of them—a moat unlikely thing Once in unobserved, their course is clear. The premises are un- tenated, being entirely used as ware• houses. Every tenant's departure would be watched, and the moment for commenc- ing operations decided upon. The "cracks - man" is, as a rule, a crack mechanic, well up to the value of the contrivances laid ready to his hand and intelligence by the best heads of the age. We find in this case, as in many others before it, that the tools left behind them by the burglars are not only of the best and finest tempered material possi- ble to obtain for the purpose intended, but that the workmanship put upon them bears evidence of the desire to make sure that the instruments they use will not break off or fail them at the moment of action, and the work they have accomplished in this case shows how great a strain the tools of the burglar stand. It is evident to the moat ordinary observer that every detail of a burglary is mapped out by experts before the attempt is made ; the amount of time required for carrying out each item is with- out doubt carefully calculated, and modes of retreat if possible arranged for in the event of a surprise before making the at- tempt. Once inside of Mr. Semlpe'e ware• house they knew apparently exactly what to do. There were two safes to tackle, and this was gone about with all the method of a cracksman. A "bed" was made upon which the safe was shifted, t• nd the keen edge of a ''widener," driven home with a steel ham- mer, soon found its way to the bolts ; hinges were attacked in a like manner, and the door drawn away from its place. The same pro• cess repeated in safe No. 2 left them mas- ters of the situation, and the "guid gear that gangs in wee bulk" was very speedily secreted about the persons of the thieves. who no doubt quietly left the place, locking the doors with as complete assurance as Mr. Semple himself would have done. The ques- tion for the public is—Will the burglars be caught? which simply means whether are our detectives or the thieves the cleverest men. Our local official detectives seem to have jumped to the conclusion that the thI:v s are not Gir sow men; that they are from some of the big towns in England. We do not believe there are any thieves better able to "crack a crib " in London than what are to be found in our own city ; and it will be well for the Glasgow detectives to consi- der whether, in looking so far away as Lon- don, we are not looking over the heads of the real culprits. We think it entirely un- likely that the jewellery left Glasgow.— Glasgow Mail. Keeping His Balance. There is a story, told among the Tartars which has a moral for the civilized men of the present day. It is to this effect cousin of the Great Mogul, was condemned to death for participation in a rebellion. The most skilful swordsman in the empire was provided for the execution, and the Great Mogul and his court were present as spectators. The thin, keen blade flashed In the sun- light and descended upon the bare neck of Robo, who stood upright to receive the stroke. The executioner's work was so deftly done that though the head was severed, not a vital organ was disturbed. Robo remain- ed standing. " What, Robo, ait thou not beheaded 2" exclaimed the Great Mogul. " My lord, I am," replied Robo, " but as long as I keep my balance right, -. my head will not fall off," The Great Mogul was placated, a band- age was put on Robo's nook, and ho recov- ered. Re afterwards became a loyal subject and was made Cashier of the Empire, be- cause. as the Great Mogul remarked,— " He knows that if he keeps his balance right, his head will not come off." The recent races between the English yatch Genesta and the Yankee yatch Puri- tan have set all the country talking "cutter" and "sloop," Both races wore won by the Puritan, and our cousins aro ju ilant, Lot so much that they keep the America's oup, but because they take the victory to mean the supe iorlty of the sloop overithe "cutter.' But we think the races have not demonstrat- ed any each superiority. In the first trial, with a light wind, the Puritan won easily. Tai the second race, with agood stiff breeze, the Goneata lead until within a few miles of the end of the course, when the wind sud- denly veered to another point of the compass and rapidly fell, The Puritan then gradual- ly overhauled the cutter, winning by about a minute and a half. The races have proved nothing except that cutter yachts, with their deep draught and excellent sea -going qualities, are the only ones suitable for English waters, whore there is nearly always a strong wind nd a heavy sea. Delicate Diseases of either sex, however induced, promptly,, thoroughly and permanently cured, Send, three letter stamps for large illustrated trea- tise. World's Dispensary Medical Assocla tion, Buffalo, N. Y. Short and long waists are equally fashion. able. Years Teach More Than Books.. 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