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The Exeter Advocate, 1891-9-24, Page 771, 1 elc or Id tr„ e- s- F - at le LICS. 0 - ft t - L -- 1 etemeeny'a Coming. "Nra, She's dreadful busy a,liurryin' round the house, Ale boys are In the way, she ear:3,-0, mercy! what a tense t i can't sit here, I can't ,it there, oreven whittle a stick, Without 1 hear this same (Ad my, " Move out o' the way there, quick." 0, what's a fellow to do, and where's a fellow to go ? Ancl:how can he keep on living when his mother treats inni so t But she wants nio round. the house an keeps me jest a-rtmning On errands o' here—'eause why ? Why corn, p'ly'coming t it's awful to bo a boy when you're the only one, Vitlijust a little sister or two --it ;ain't no kind of fun. it's downright mearr—that's what it, is—to keep 'Thistiiirres,flifolnw' n cellar an' out to the barn— " lIero, Johnnie, shovel the snow 1." Johnnie, bring in the wood:box full an run an' gather the eggs," Or, "Johnnie, run down to the grocery store f." It's Johnnie's pair of legs 'That thie house inoyes on, now 1 tell you—an' they're forever miming, 13u1 more especially days like ildb, 'cans° why? Why, compaly's coining. I always have to wait around till the old folks all get through, An' then talu: what's left over for Me an' try to make it do— lt generally goes 'bout far enough, but it's lonesome eating alone, .An' the incest part o' the (thicken's gone an' they've broke the wishing -bone. .eer the biggest piece o' cake is took an' the frosting's tumbled off, An' the nuts an' apples is mighty scarce, an' they've mussed the table -cloth. t, dear! I think it's awful! it sets my head a- s"'' humming Whenever1 knovr by the wayma acts, that there's some comp'ny coming! —Our Little Men and Women. li VICTORIA ON THE MOVE, It Costs Shelling -MA Queen a NiCeiltaa SUM tO GO Vikittiltg. Many times, says a writer in "Frank Leslie's," I have seen items in the American Tapers which said that the Queen of Eng- land travelled very plainly; that her private carriage was no better than any other first- class English carriage. I wish right here to say that these reports are based upon no authentic evidence. An official of the Mid- land road took me into the Queen's carriage as it stood in St. Pancras station, and I . must say it is as fine as any Pullman car ever built—and that is saying a good deal. The walls of the saloon are of satinwood, highly polished. The cushions are of white silk, embroid- ered in gold thread. A garter contain- ing her motto, " Ifoni soit qtu mal y pense," surrounds her initials, V. R. Her large chair—and it is a large one, too—is at the back of the carriage and faces the engine. At her hand is a silver plate in which are electric annunciators, pressing upon which she can call her different attendants who occupy another compartment. Three other easy chairs are in her compartment, besides a satin wood table about six feen long and three feet wide, upon which are piled the latest English, French, German and Ameri- can periodicals. The carpet is of velvet, and in a good state of preservation, considering it has been in use for over fifteen years. The curtains at the windows and a portiere are hung on silver poles. The door handles are solid silver, and the whole saloon has the appearance of solid hisrury. Victoria, herself, selected the fur - millings, which are said to pattern after the white drawing -room at Windsor castle. The whole saloon with fittings cost between 00,000 and $35,000. The carriage is about balf the length of the ordinary American railroad car. At first sight the carriage impressed me as being gaudy, but this idea 'wore away in a moment. The railway offi- ei I informed ine that ehe_Queea.paid about- 9O ss fares for every one in her party. .As lass 90 per mile for travelling, besides first . the official from whom I received my infor- motion was in a position to know, this explodes other reports that the Queen and ler suit always travel free. The Mannlicher Rifle. The recent fighting in Chili has been watched with a great deal of interest by army and navy officers the world over, be- cause it is the first war in which modern rifles of small calibre have been used. 'The Congressionalist army was furnished with the Mannlicher rifle. This modern arm of precision takes a cartridge about' the adze of an ordinary cigarette, which is charged with an explosive aptly described ' as the "first cousin to gun cotton." The projectile is a slender missile of steel, nearly two inches long, and but three -tenths of an inch in diameter, covered with a thin coat of capper—which, being soft, allows the projectile to follow the rifling of the barrel more accurately, and with less wear to the gun. These long, -thin steel messengers of death were hurled at 'thin, troops at the rate of 40 to BO shots per minute, with such effect that tangle bullets frequently went through two or three men at a time. The warfare of the future will be conducted with small calibre arms of a type similar to the Mann - 'licher. Had the Union pinnies in the re- bellion been furnished with such arms the Southern Confederacy would have collapsed within a year. Flesh and blood cannot stand the pitiless ram of these steel pro- jeotiles, fired from a rifle which is effective at a mile's distaime.--Toleslo Blade. What Women are Buying. Openvvorlz jet belts. Persian figured batistes. New velvour table covers. Windsor ties of silk canvas. Turkish embroidered d'oylies. -Silk muslins in chintz designs. Pale lettuce -green suede gloves. lerdered satin -striped curtains. Summer mantles of colored crepon. Belts of snake skin highly polished. Tall dresses of brown and mtvy-blue. Coque fans edged with jet nailheads. Aigrettes tipped with peacock's eyes. Figured silks having diagonal effects. Turkish printed cottons for draperies. White suede gauntlets bound with tau. Lace, crepe and chiffon ruches and boas or the neek.—.Dry Goods and Fashions. Everything, 15 lovely. • The French army manteuvers are satisfac- ory. 'The Austrian army rrianceuvers are satis- factory. The Russian and German maemeuvers are saticfactory. The captive balloon =simmers are molt satisfactory, and the smokelees powder is Just grand. Now, then? What are you waiting far' —New l'ork, Evening gun. A Satisfactory Explanation. Mr. Greenough—It seems to me that was pretty light ton of coal you sent to my house to -day, Mr, Coke. Coal dealer—Why, that load was of the 'best quality, sir l • full of gas and tar, you Irnow, anti those things don't weigh mech. Mr. Greenough—Oh, OSOHISS 1110 I had orgotten that. —" What aro you always following mo aroned for I" demanded the earth im- patiently of the moon. "Oh, I get a few quarters and halves by doing so," replied the inoott nonchalantly. PIXIE% FP "%ACRES. DelfelOUS Dainties for One's SweetsTooth in Winter—Peach Sweets and Pickles. For crystallized peaches weigh peaches that have been peeled and quartered and allow one-fourth their weight of sugar for syrup ; more for dusting them ; put the peaches, Auger ansi enough water to cover the bottom of the kettle over the fire and cook them slowly until they can be pierced with a straw ; take the peachee from the syrup with a skimmer, roll each piece in dry, granulated sugar, and lay then a little apart upon sieves or dishes ' • they must be protected from dust, sun andflies, and kept in a current of dry, warm air ; turn the peaches several times a day, and as they dry dust more sugar over them until they are quite free from moisture and look like other crystallized fruit. Pack the peaches in layers in wooden boxes with white paper between them, and keep them in a dry place. Puaon EIGS, Peel ripe, sound peaches, cut them in halves, remove the stones, weigh the fruit and allow half of its weight in sugar; put 'the peaches and sugar in layers in the pre- serving kettle and heat them over a gentle fire until the juice of the fruit dissolves the sugar ; then continue to boil gently ; as the peaches look clear take them out of the syrup with a skimmer and lay them on seisms in the sun ; turn the peaches occasion- ally, so that they may dry evenly as the syrup runs from. them ; protect the fruit from the dust and expose it every day to the sun until it is dry enough to pack in wooden boxes, with sugar dusted between the layers ; keep it in a cool, dry place. OLD-PASHIC1w1 PEACH Weigh, sound peaches—allow half their weight of sugar—and to seven pounds of fruit, three pints of vinegar, half an ounce each of stick cinnamon and allspice, two blades of mace and half a dozen cloves stuck into each peach after they are carefully brushed and pricked with a large needle ; steam the peaches until a straw will pierce them and put them in jars; boil the vine- gar, sugar and spice for five minutes; pour them hot over the peaches and seal the jars at once. PP,ACH MUTTER.. Allow a quart of molasses for each peck' of peaches, and enough water to cover the peaches ; peel the peaches if they are so preferred, or only remove the pits ; boil the peaches in water for about fifteen minutes, then add the molasses a,nd spice to taste ; stir often enough to prevent sticking, and slowly cook the peaches until a smooth pulp is formed • cool it and keep it in a dry place closed from the air. • PEACH PULP. Peel perfectly ripe, sound peaches, mash them through a colander or coarse sieve with the potato -masher or a wooden spoon and spread the pulp thus prepared about a half-inch thick upon a smoothe, clean board, on a marble pastry slab or on large platters. Expose the pulp to the sun. When it is properly dried dust it with fine sugar, roll it up and inclose it in paper. PEACH PLATES. Peel and mash ripe peaches through a sieve, mix with the pulp one-fourth its weight of light -brown sugar and stew them together three minutes after they begin to boil ; then spread the preserve on the plates, making it nearly an inch thick, and every day set the plates in the sun where no dust can gather until the preserve is nearly dry, turning it as it dries. When the peach pulp cleaves away from the plates freely dust it with fine sugar, lay it with paper between in paper or wooden boxes and keep it in a dry, cool place. —Chicago News. Bofs. Don't be Cheated. e Boys, would you like to be cheated ? No, you would not. Then be careful. Not only keep a sharp lookout that others do not cheat you, but be very careful lest you cheat yourselves. There are hundreds of boys who are trying to persuade themselves into the belief that tobacco and beer are good for them—that it is smart to chew tobacco, to smoke cigars, to hang around saloons, and drink beer; but, oh, how woe- fully they are cheating themselves! Would you like to smell like an old, strong pipe? Would you like. to be a man walking around with your mouth and beard all besmeared with filthy, stinking tobacco spittle? Would you like to be a loathsome, blear -eyed, bloated, drunken old beer -drinker. No, you would not. But there are a great many such men in every city and town. Once they were nice clean, bright, happy boys like you are. How did they become so degraded, loathsome, and filthy? Why, when they were boys like you, they cheated themselves into the belief that it was a nice, smart, manly thing to chew, smoke, and drink beer, and now they are what they are. Boys, resolve to be a little too smart to cheat yourselves like that. The most silly, senseless, stupid cheat is the boy who cheats himself in that way. Don't do it, boys, don't.—Selected. In tine World's Biggest City. •English railways earn over $3,750,000 a week. About $1,000,000 worth of articles are pawned in London every week. London theatres issue something like 50,000 free passes every year. The street accidents in London last year numbered 5,728, of which 144 were fatal. • A carrier pigeon taken from the vicinity of Berlin to London, haying escaped, flew direct to its old home. Over thirty-five tons of documents de- posited at the British Public Record Office have just been destroyed, as of HO value. Tine Willing T'atlent. Mudge (who has sworn off)—Doctor, I stepped on a, banana_ peel and received a pretty hard fall. I am afraid 1 have broken my wrist. Dr. Bowless—Let me see. No, there is nothing broken. Just bathe your wrist in whiskey four or five times a day and you will be all right, Mudge—Er—doctor, hadn't I better be carefully examined for internal injuries, tool Hard to Snit. Jevveler—I have a good second-hand watch here I can sell you. • Citstomer—But I don't want a second- hand watch Jeweler—But there aro no watsaies made now without second hands. —A society known as the " Speak No Evil Society " • is a neer much-needed society. —" This suspense is terrible," • remarked the horse -thief who was being interviewed by Judge Lynch. TOO LATP,. "Where are you going, my pretty maid ? "I'm going to Smutny. sebool, sir," she said. "Con a go with yea, my erette maid r 4' We're had our pienic, kind air she said. ---The biggest license fee ever offered was " all the kingdoms of the world." This fee Wan not ticeePted.e-Stafeentan. PALL PIA OUGHT effi f3EPORE MARKETING OROP 4 Method Which Will Assist Manitobans tO Avoid Summer Frosts. The yield this year will be enormously large and will grade well, notwithstanding all that ha e been sttid of the frosts; in addi- tion, prices prorniee to rule fairly high. There are store bills to pay, mortgages to be met and implement dealers to he xeckoned with. The temptation will be great to thresh and market as fast as possible to meet these demands, and to realize the pleasure of a handsome surplus that will remain to the farmer. The crop is so heavy that the whole fall season could be more than exhausted in disposing of it. But let not the temptation draw the farmers away from the importance of attending to their fall ploughin,''', in the end that will be better for thein and for all others concerned, unless it is indeed to sit down content with this season's crop. But no one will do that. There is another year colning, and the prudent will prepare for it, If the threshing and ploughing together cannot be clone, let the threshing go and attend to the other. The threshing will keep, but the ploughing, will not, It is a waste of opportunities th throw the latter over until the spring, which has its own demands and necessities. A few weeks will make little difference to anyone in the marketing of the present crop, but they may make a very vast difference in the extent and growth and maturity of that of next season. There is another consideration, however. The wheat market is strangely unsettled, and it is difficult for a novice to follow and understand it ; but there is one thing the most inexperienced of us can comprehend. There is an unusual shortage in the world's supply, and the natural effect of this condition will be to enhance prices. From a view of the whole situation as it appears in the light of com- mon sense, it seems reasonably certain that the Northwest farmer who allows his threshing to stand while he devotes all the time necessary to his fall ploughing will not only be better prepared for next year, but will find better prices prevailing -when he comes to market the crop of this year. But even if this were not to be the experience, the preparation for next year will find its own recompense. The farmer who works with his head as well as his hands will vastly prefer to take the chance of the market two or three months hence than to neglect the work necessary to give him a good start next spring, This much can be said with- out advising or being understood to advise farmers to hold off their threshing merely in the hope of a rise in prices. But whatever influence, or inducement, or temptation there may be to the contrary, we would strongly advise all farmers not te neglect their fall ploughing. Their stacks will not run away, and buyers in plenty will be here whenever the wheat is forthcoming; but time lost in the fall in the preparation for next year's seeding cannot be made up in the spring. Instead of waiting for the frost to get out of the ground in the spring to permit of ploughing, the seed should be in and growing, and making all possible haste towards maturity against the coming of that unpropitious period in the late sum- mer that is always attended with anxiety if nothing else.— Wm/is:peg _Free Press. HOW TO HANDLE GUNS. Advice Which Boys and Many Old People Should Reed. Having been asked by friends frequently for advice for their boys in handling guns, says a writer in "Forest and Stream," I send you a digest of same. Perhaps, as the shooting season will now be on soon, you mi htthink them worth publication : mpty' or lbaded, never' point a gun towards yourself or any other person. When a -field, carry your gun at the half- cock. If in cover, let your hand shield the hammers from whipping twigs. When riding from one shooting ground to another, or whenever you have your grin in any conveyance, remove the cartridges, if a breech -loader, it being so easy to re- place them. If a muzzle -loader, remove the caps, brush off the nipples, and place a wad on nipple, letting down the hammers on wads—simply removing caps sometimes leaves a little fulminate on the nipple, and a blow on the hammer when down dis- charges it. Never draw a gun toward you by the barrels. More care is necessary in the use of a gun in a boat than elsewhere; the limited space, confined action and uncertain motion mak- ing it dangerous at the best. If possible, no more than two persons should occupy a boat. Hammerless guns are a constant danger to persons boating. Always clean your gnu thoroughly as soon as you return from a day's sport, no matter how tired you feel ; the consequence of its always being ready for service is ample return for the few minutes' irksome labor. Lucky Lord Roseberry. The London Evening News and Post says: " To him that hath shall be given' might the Earl of Roseberry well cry. By the death of his stepfsther, the Drike of Cleve- land, he succeeds to the Battle estate in Sussex, which is worth over £7,000 a year— to saynothing of the famous Abbey„and the right of presentaiion to the peculiar deanery of Battle, an ecclesiastical office which, like the deanery of Bucking in Essex, and of Stamford, is exempt from all external jurisdiction. Lord Roseberry has been lucky all his life. Ile came into £25, 000 a year of his own right before he was of age ; he married the only child of Baron Meyer Rothchild, who brought him landed estates and money in millions ; and now he caps his good luck by coming into the Duke's Sussex property. There will be rejoicing in the Gladstonian camp, for the Earl of Roseberry, with the exception of the late Lord Wolverton helped financially more than any other peer the Home Rule candidates in the 1886 election ; and thus far age has not withered his admiration for the G. 0. M., in whose last Ministry the Earl, as Foreign Secretary, was one of the few Ministers who did not make a mess of it. •,• Sunday Annusements. Rochester Herald : The Sunday question at the Elmira fair was settled by the en- gagement of Da Talnutge to preach. Twelve thousand people, assembled to hear him. This is a pointer for the World's Fair people. A wife, living on the outskirts of San Francisco, wanting to send information of the Sudden illness of the baby to her hus- band, whose place of business was five miles distant, entrusted the message to one of the family's cerrier pigeons. The bird not only delivered it safely, so the San Francisco Examiner relates, but brought back a small vial of medicine which the husband tied to its leg. All this was done in about twenty minutes, or less time than it would have taken a physician to journey to the house. —A lady of this city has for the last six months tegulated the air of her room by a glass transom. When the room was too dose she opened the trenSoin to edmit air, closing it at night to prevent draughts and DAIMETOlt wAxiNG. Wyoming "Women Aeesing Their Nowl.Y ACtinired, Privileges. The new staites ere fall of fads and . fancies, and it s impossible to suggest any legislation that they are not willing to try. Wyoming is the latest in the experimental line, having just passed a law placing a tax of $2 a year on all bachelors over thirty, the manifest purpose being to compel them to get xnarried. Wyotning is a great state for women ancl has a high admiration for the weaker sex, but is not this carrying it a little too far ? It has granted women the right of , suffrage and the right to sit on juries, and this new anti -bachelor law is regarded ac a natural sequence of female -voting. Of course, the women like the law and Kate Field speaking for them, says of ‘1‘11,'Vliether the fact that women veto there has anything to do with this new de- parture I don't know, but why isn't it a just tax! Society says to a Nvoinan; It is your business to be married as soon after you have made your debut as possible. Otherwise you'll be called an old maid, than which there can be no epithet more odious. But you can't choose a husband, That would be most unwomanly. You must wait womentobedt'** *a.uvEtintg80 0in auistedor blessedness, just so long ought munaeried flivinginas men to be taxed. This tax ought to begin at the age of tt,anmcz11, doubled every five years." This is a feminine view of the matter, but a very silly one. It would be silly in any state. It is especially so in Wyoming, where there is a large excess of males in the population, and where it is impassible for all the men to marry, even if they wished to, as there are not enough women to go round. It is true that women might be im- ported for this purpose, but a large pro- portion of the men of Wyoming cannot afford this, or do not care to try this "pig in the poke" business, and engage themselves to women before they see them. In no. State in the Union do women have greater opportunities and privileges than in Wyoming. They have been given the elective franchise, they have been placed on a perfect equality with men on all questions of right and privilege, and they have no trouble in picking husbands for themselves, for no woman goes to Wyoming who is not besieged by admirers. Under such circum- stances it is more than unreasonable that men should be taxed for not marrying when there are no women for them to marry. Tlaw, moreover, smiles to be thor• °uglily deficient in sentiment, for it refuses to take into consideration the fact that a man may not be able to get the girl he wants, but tells him that if he fails with Mary, he must at once try his fortune with Ann As for the interference with rights and liberties, that is becoming so common now- aedays as to attract no surprise whatever. The Gevernment has undertaken to regulate bylaws, the morals of the community and private life. It is, indeed, a surprise that no attempt has been made to renew the curfew laws; but we suppose that the women who are in control of Wyoming will re-enact this at an early day, and require the men whom they have compelled to get married to be home at 9 at night and not linger too /ate at the lodge. —Hew Orleans Times -Demo- crat. LOOKING FOR ISLANDS. A British Fleet Bunting New Temetorr in tine Pacific Ocean. It is reportetl that Great Britain has a naval expedition in the Pacific for 1he• pur- pose of "discovering" and annexing islands that belong to nobody in particular except the inhabitants. The officers of the expe- dition have recently hoisted the British flag over the lovely island of Labreton, lying near the Phillipines. It is said that this year they have added at least half a dozen islands to Her Britannic Majesty's dominion though they have failed 10 keep the rest Of the world informed of their pro- gress. The German explorers who have been trying to rival the British have met with less success. They have set up a pro- tectorate over some of the islands of the Gilbert group, hoping for as much success as they had previously gained in the Mar- shall group; but the native chiefs there object to German. protection, and have recently shown their readiness to fight against it, and especially to prevent the seizure of japitonwaiah. It is probable that the German kaiser has not yet given his whole mind to the questions that are under debate at Jubuit and thereabouts.— M Y. Times. Mr. Lease Knew "Ter. The other day it was raining hard when Mrs. Lease boarded a street ear. The car was chuck full and all the men on the seats sat closer back and evinced a determination to keep a position of sedentary comfort. Mrs. Lease cast her eye down the car and at the same time a man in the corner started to rise. " Don't," said the man next to him, grasping his arm. " That's Mrs. Lease. Don't you know her? She believes in the equality of the sexes. Woman suffrage, you know," The stooped man smiled and got up. "Come," said the speaker, still more im- portunate, "you're not going to get up, are you ? If she thinks she's equal to a man let her stand. Give her a dose of her own medicine." But Mrs. Lease bad taken the man's seat, greatly to the discomfort of the other, who wanted to see her stand. Next day he met the stranger on the street. "Hello !" he said, "you're the man that gave up your seat to Mrs, Lease. You missed a good chance to take her down a little. There wasn't another man in the car who would have given way. Wasn't impolite, you know. Just a little joke. What made you get up? Did she hypnotize you ?" "See here," said the man addressed, "1 guess you don't know me." " Can't say that I do. Who are you?" "I'm Mr, Lease." Figs and Ilaistiett. A good man dies whenever a boy goes wrong. It takes a thinker to make another thinker think, • Faith never stands around with its hands in its pockets. The devil loves to get his hands on good- hearted people Birds with bright plumage do not always make good pot pie God sees heroes where the world sees only very common people. It takes contact with other people to make us acquainted with ourselves, The devil has no use for the man who always does as he would be done by. One way to reach the masses is to be willing to take them as they come—Rea& Horn, exclu e noise. Tt wothed like a charm , The skeleton of a gigantic inan,ineasuring until she discovered that there had never , 8 feet 6 filches in height, was found near been ally glass in the transom, --Dctroit the Jordan River, jest outside Satt Lake , .Pro Pre88. •City, last week. Ilearisamenggemmegalasssemenmexhatiolnil "41 seeee-sSN. • •f,, ••• . . ataasa.,`,.., seas a • -• for Infants and Children. 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It isn't the Irian who is an eloquent,grace- ful talker among friends and whose family never hear a civil answer from his lips. It isn't the man who hurries ahead of you up the elevated steps, leaving you to climb wearily up as best you can, and who is not solicitous as to whether you et or stand. In short, the only man who can really make home a paradise on earth for a woman is the man who loves her so well he is ever solicitous for her every comfort, who thinks • of herwelfare before he does of nis own, ansi who has a love for his mother, his sisters, and the home of his boyhood.—Young Ladies' Bazar. For the Doctors. The Medical Record says that the Journal of Inebriety has demonstrated to its satis- faction that alcahol is always a poison and never a food; that drunkenness is always a disease, and generally curable when properly treated ; that a physician should be the last one to use spirits in moderation or excess; that the use of alcohol as a beverage is an evidence of ignorance of the teachings of modern science; and, further- more, the Record acknowledges the Journal is right and advises all its professional readers to be total abstainers. The Sultan of Morocco has directed that young girls shall no longer be publiely sold in the markets of Fez and other towns. — Queen Marguerite, of Italy, is a pretty brunette, who, though the mother of a son now of age, looks as attractive as when she was a bride, twenty-three years ago. 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The grain was beautiful then in its green stateliness and promise, but now it looks as if all the gold that had been found and spent in all time had been poured upon the miles of prairie to which all the rest of the world is looking for its supply of bread. Great stacks of sheaves, like thatched cottages about one wide horizon, are multiplying daily as the stocks dry and cure to be packed uerfor the threshing. Late fields still standeuneut, bending proudly their golden heads to the autumn breeze, and others are "humped all over," as Mollie says, with the stooks of from ten to twelve sheaves each which have been lately cut. ' From the number of buffalo bones we find in all stages of decay -upon the yet un- ploughed land, these hills were mice a favorite resting -place for the vanished herds. A score of years ago, perhaps, this very land around our house was a camping ground for them. Looking at the stooks of wheat by moonlight, it needs only a little fancy to imagine the old tramps of the soil still in possession. Upon the Soults and west the wheat fields begin only a few feet from the house walls. Bordering them now is a gorgeous coloring of golden -rod and sanflower and purple asters, when a few weeks ago the wild roses and blaebells blushed and bloomed. Six -years -old Mollie is completely lost in the depths of the wheat forest, while of Percy and Muriel, who are almost double her age and height, nothing can be seen but their big straw hats as they wander through the fields. Indeed, the wheat is just about the height of the mother herself, which is at least five feet in her slippers. We are situated upon the highlands, which lie be- tween the .Assimboine and Little Sasketche- wan Rivers, about seven miles west from the conflaence of the two rivers. The frost—the terror of the land—very rarely does any serious damage in this favored region. Deep ravines rim between hills of 'every conceivable shape and siee, making pictures of endless variety, as the ravines are clothed with foliage which is now touched by autumn's magic. These hill tops are smooth enesigh for easy farm- iug, though over -grown before breaking by low " scrub " °eke and hazel bushes, where the soil is best. Upon the height, perhaps a mile north of us, one can see away down and across the Assiniboine river to the Brandon hills, which lie ten or eleven miles east of the city of Brandon, and nearly thirty miles from the gazer's statidpoint. Miles of wheat are thus to be semi' in one comprehensive view tliat must be seen to be believed in. A t this time of the year one can scarcely enjoy the prospect without feeling, if not expressing the oftetpeated, " Surely this is the 0111' den of the Lord and the land whereintlhe poor man may dwell in safety." —San Francisco's cable system is greater by fifty Juliet than that ".by other city.