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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-5-3, Page 4THE t y glboorcate. s,AND RS. cQc DYR, Prop, THURSDAY, MAY 3rd, 1894, John McMillan, M. I'., poses as the friend of the farmer, The other day in Parliament he ,''anted the duty ta• ken off wheat and Rour,g:iving us as his reason that the poor man would get cheaper bread. Will John kindly tell us how this will help the farmer? It is on a par with Sir Richard's line of logic He says to the Goyernment, "You have reduced the price of agricultural pro- ducts and hence should be defeated,') and in the nextbreath he says, "the Opposition policy is to make this a cheap country to liye in:" Logical John! Wise Richard!! The farmer knowns you both as lookers after the loaves and fishes. T1J'E G1UT RULE IN MANITOBA. Mr. Martin,D. P., for Winnipeg, poin- ted - ted the other night in the House of Commons to the financial recordof the Province of Manitoba under Grit rule as a model one, He roust surely have concluded that the members of the House were ignorant of the fact. Take the question of the debt of Manitoba. Mr. Greenway's Govern- ment went lam power in January 16, 1888. On the BOth June, of the same year the net debt was $749,065.16. At the end of 1892 that net debt had increased to $1,424,771.23; or in other" words the net debt of the province un- der Mr. Greenway, with scarcely a dol- lar's worth of improvement to show for it, had doubled in about four years. Yet one of the cries of Mr. Greenway and his friends was that they wished to get to power to stop the increase of the debt. Now take the question of expendi- ture. The expenditure in 1888 was $956,371.68, In 1892, that expenditure had. grown $1,192,169,28, or an in• creast; in four years - of $235,798, or oyer 25 per cent. Now, take the last four years of the Dominion Goyernment and compare the Dominion Conservative record with the Grit record that Mr. llIartiu said he was proud of. In the past four years the expenditure bas been kept station- ery, and the debt has only increased about three million dollars, or less then 1i per cent, in the whole four years For pure downright hypocrisy and mis- representation commend us to your Grit purist and economist. PRIMEVAL MAN. Very conflicting' opinions have been entertained in respect to man's first appearance on this earth. Some would date his antiquity far beyond the gen- erally received date of the Mosaic re- cord; while others contend that there is no reliable data for placing the era of man farther back than the Post - tertiary period in geology. The dis- covery of rude implements of human construction in any geological forma- tion would naturally lead to the con- clusion that man's appearance on this earth was coeval with the appearance of rude implements. Such implements it is thought, have been discovered in tertiary strata, but the strong proba- bilities are that no human bones or rude implements of supposed human construction have ever been found so far back as the Tertiary strata—which contain the fossil remains of extinet animals belonging to that period. The very earliest deposit in which man's remains are certainly found is that of the"drift" period -as, for example in the gravel beds of the Thames in Eng- land and the Somme in France. This certainly would make man an inhabi- tant of earth long preyious to the sup- posed date referred to in Genesis. But this does not necessarily imply a con- tradiction between geological discovery and the Biblical record—especially when we take into consideration the length of the Mosaic days of creation, as meaning aeons or ages and not lit- eral days of twenty four hours. After the warm period during which it is supposed that man existed on the earth, there followed what is called the "gla tial period"—whose effects are still vis- ible not only in Europe, but in other parts of the globe as in America, That glacial period must have continued a long time --some scientists reckon from twenty to thirty thousand yta.rs, 12 this be so, then the age of primeval Man must date back as far as fifty thousand years. But then the process es of nature, were in all probability much more rapid and sudden than what has since been experienced;, 'which would go far io reduce the per- iod of time since man first appeared on this earth, Another question which .has of late years occasioned great di, varsity of opinioi is as to man's origin. Was mama gradual development or evolution of some lower animal? Or did he according to the natural inter - ret tion of the Mosaic re cordappear on the stage of creation fully formed and ready for the struggle of life? If the former yiew be correct, as advisee ted by Darwin and others of that hoc genus ornne, then we should naturally expect to find some traces of apelike men as the "missing link" between man and the lower animals.. Besides that, we should expect to and in the specimens of stone men or petrified human bodies found in caves and in drift strata an inferior being to the present race of men—specially in the development of the brain and other physical peculiarities. So far from this however, the "missing link" has never yet appeared -and from, very careful examination it has been dis- eoyered that the average size of brain, found in oldest remains of man coin- tide with the average brain of living men, suck as that of a Gladstone or a Salisbury, a Shakospear or a Tennyson! The doctrine of evolution has had its day, like many other fanciful theories —and as an eminent scientist has said "1 haye lived to see the day when many theories started by scientific ge- ologists have been entirely overturn- ed" Professor Virchow, who stands high in the scientific world, has pointed out that we might as well say that the negro has descended from sheep, be- cause they have both woolly hair, as that men have decended from monkeys or chimpanzee! All the established facts of science, and reliable discover res of geology, lead to the conclusion that man's original habitat or home. was in Central Asia—which corres ponds with Biblical teaching; and from all that has yet been discovered there is no evidence to contradict the Mosaic record that the first human pair were a "specific creation"— that so far from being a degradation of species, as com- pared with modern and civilized hu- man beings, the first created pair stood high in the scale of creation,—and further that the yarious races of human species now living on the earth all proceeded from one common stock, ac- cording to such authorities as Sir Henry Rawliuson and other eminent archmeoiogists,--and that the differences in color or other physical peculiarities are all due to climate, habits of living and other secondary causes—and not to any original diversity in the first human beings. Young Fish for Lake Huron. On Thursday last Mr. Wm. Hill, as- sistant superintendent of the Sandwich Fish Hatchery, came up to Sarnia in the steam yacht, Ranger, with a con- signment of young whitefish -for Lake Huron, The Ranger the same evening ran up through the rapids into the lake, and along the Canadian shore to a point about opposite Weesbeach, where the consignment, which com- prized about two millions of lively and vigorous young fish, were carefully transferred from the hatchery cans to the waters of Lake Huron, thereafter to take care of themselves The Rang- er, a fast and handsome little steam yacht, commanded by Captain Meloche, an old-time Detroit fisherman, has been ebartered by the Dominion Govern ment for the use of the Sandwich Fish Hatchery, in its work of restocking the lakes, it having been found that in shipping the cans containing the young fish by the ordinary channels of trade, delays were occasioned and mischances occurred, which often resulted in dam- age to the consignments, and some- times in serious loss. Of the value of the work of the fish hatcheries to the fisheries of the lakes, Mr. Hill and Capt. Meloche both spoke in very confident terms. There will be, this season, over fifty millions of young fish set free in lakes Huron and Erie, and even al- lowing for every possible margin of loss, enough will be left to grow to ma- turity to very considerably increase the fish population of the lakes. It is noticed also in the Detroit river, that while there is an increase in the sup ply of those fish which the fish hatcher- ies cultivate, there is u constant and steady falling off in the lakes of her. rings and' other fish which the hatcher ies do not attempt to supply. British Grain Trade, The Mark Lane Express, in its week- ly review of the British Grain Trade, says:—English wheats haye been higer, but foreign have been weak Arrivals from Argentina are increas- ing. California wheat has sold at 25s 9d per quarter and No. 2 red winter at 25s, Corn and barley have been 'sever and oats steady The English wheats have averaged 28s a quarter. Amer- ican reds declined 6d and hour is 9d lower. Marley is neglected. Native oats are steady. Russian oats rid cheaper and beans and peas steady. Hood's and only .floods.. Are you weak and weary, overwork ed and tired?' Food's Sarsaparilla is just the medselneyou need to purify and gaicketi your blood and to give you appetite and strength, .If you de- cide to take flood's Sarsaparilla do not be indueed to buy any other. Any e ffort to substitute another remedy ie. proof of the merit of flood' ?' Watford Public &hoot has been dew stroycd fly tire. FENCE BUILDING. 11. "WO "which AProials Very strongly to the Faxu►er, There is perhaps no subject oo which ap- peals -peals nore strongly to the farmer than the subject of fencing. Where farms are divided by smear more, public roads, the amount of fencing needed is fre- quently enormous and the proper main- tenance of these boundary linos is often a serious and troublesome burden. The introduction of barbed wire has served in many oasesas a make -shift toward helping to keep the stook within bounds, but the use of this has many times been accompanied with serions results, un- less care has been taken to make the fence partly of wood, or to use some added device to keep the stock front running against the wire. The great- est difficulty upon most farms is keep- ing fence -posts in a firm and upright position and to prevent rapid decay, Dozens of rods of fence will frequently be found lying fiat upon the ground in spring, or after a high wind; the decay- ing post having broken off, or having been thrown out of the ground by the frost, as many pasture fences are, built on land subject to such upheavals, This movement, even though the fence is not thrown entirely down, constantly splits and detaches the boards, and so proves insecure for 'stook. There is a chance to use considerable wise fore- thought and planning in the matter of farm enclosures, as in most other mat- ters that pertain to agriculture. In the first place, the temporizing policy that many employ in this work is the poor- est kind of economy. Patching up a fence by a sleight of hand process may bridge over present difficulties, but it entails a great deal more work and vex- ation in the long run. To put it in thorough repair may take ex- tra labor at the start, but it saves expense in the end. With many it is possible to provide a kind of natural fencing. Hedges of various kinds make rapid growth and form when well grown very effective barriers to stock. If breaks do occur, a strand of barbed wire stretched lengthwise through the mid- dle will prove very effective. There is another plan, moreover, that is within the reach of a great many farmers whose fences are now continually tumb- ling down. In sections of pasture land inclined to be wet, where fence poles decay rapidly and where the frost each spring throws some of the posts out of the ground, it is practicable to drive down willow stakes or the limbs from related trees. which very readily sprout and grow under such conditions, form- ing in a few years nataral fenco-posts that will not decay or be affected by frost. This is working for the future, to be sure, but so is much that is done upon a farm, and as a rule, usually the most profitable. Where great trouble is experiencedby the decay of fence -posts below the sur- face, at least a partial remedy is to be found in dipping the ends of the stakes in some of the products , of gas manu- facture, petroleum or tar, which will keep the water out of the wool.. Charr- ing the outside of stakes at the lower end also serves somewhat to prevent de- cay. This precaution is frequently of great importance, as section after sec- tion of board and post fence is some- times found fiat upon the ground, sim- ply because the posts have rotted off at the surface of the ground, or rust be- low, because of alternating conditions of moisture and dryness. There ap- pears to be no royal road in the building of fences. Those that can be built with little effort and little expense, says a , writer it Kansas Fruit Grower, usually entail both effort and expense to keep in repair. The great point to be re- membered is that a good job, either in construction or repairs, is much more satisfactory from every point of view thaw the slip -shod temporizing with breaks and constructions so common in all sections.—Orange Judld Farmer. wholesome Gingerbread, Gingerbread is a most wholesome cake for children, and, indeed, for everybody who likes it. It is baked in a flat tin and is made with half a pound molasses, ' two ounces butter, two ounces coarse brown sugar, three fourths pound flour, half an ounce ground ginger, an egg, a gill milk, half a teaspoonful baking powder, if liked a little allspice and cin- namon. Mix all the dry ingredient to- `I tether, melt the butter and molasses together, add the milk; let it be warm, but not hot. Beat the egg, mix with the dry ingredients; then make into a smooth dough with the warm molasses and milk. Well grease the tin, and when partly baked. brush over with eggs or milk This will glaze the top. To be cut into squares for serving. Old China Revived.. The old-time shapes in china are be- ing revived, The dealers and the .en- thusiastic admirers of everything new talk of them as quaint as well as beau- tiful. But it is only a few years ago that they wore declared quite out of style, and the tall cups, from which it is difficult to drink, and the pots, from which it is impossible to pour tea, were designated by the same term. Certain- ly those old shapes are good, and the re- vival is one to be hailed with delight. Housekeepers will surely be glad to have serviceable spouts once more, and the low cup, broad at the mouth, has advantages too numerous to mention. nor9e Talk. A man can easily show his humanity in the way he treats his horse in winter-, Doeshe always blanket his animal when a stop is made, or, on the contra- ry, no xy, is the poor beast allowed pr otec-. taction from severe and cutting winds? Is the bit warmed and the frost taken out before the cold iron is put into the mouth? These aro' pertinent questions to ask any horseman this cold winter when the mercuary is hovering about the zero point. The farmer has really no business to bother with trotting stook, when good roadsters and heavy draft animals are in good demand and offer reason- ably sure opportunities for fair profits. The stylish driver or the very heavy horse of good form, weighing twelve to fourteen hun- dred pounds, is justabout certain to pay the breeder, evenif horses are cheap, as is the case at present. Oats are the grain par excellence for horses, and should form the basis of all their rations. Farm horses may have ten or twelve quarts per day of a mix- ture of equal parts bran, oats, and corn. This, with ten pounds of hay daily, should keep the horses in good condition. Don't forget to have a piece of rock salt in every manger at all times. Farm horses, as a rule, fail to make Hauch acquaintance with currycomb and brush. At least they don't become as intimately acquainted with these useful the toilet as would be rofit- articles of profit- able. The brush, in an active hand, polishes the hair, stimulates the skin to healthy action, and saves feed. Less oats and more grooming are equivalent to more oats and less grooming. The question is, then, which is cheaper, oats or grooming?—Ohio Farmer. The Sheep's Desire. Sheep are passionately fond of turnips, and it would be quite a good investment to turn them loose in a turnip patch. Joy Inexpressible Another Boy's Life Saved Health Blighted by Scrofula and Hip Disease Perfect Cure, Happiness and Health Liven by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Exeter, N. H. "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "I cannot praise Hood's Sarsaparilla enough for what it has clone for my boy. Some four years ago, when six years old, George was attacked by hip disease in his right leg. Ve had to gee him a pair of crutches, with which he was able to move about, but became badly deformed. We had to have his right leg laneecl just abovo the knee. In a few weeks a second soro broke out, both diaeliarging freely. Agonialug pains of lict'd l irn, he could not bear to be moved, his growth was stopped and He Was n Mere Sitelatoi•a. He had no appetite, and it was hard work to make him eat enough to keep him alive. A. few weeks later we had his hip lanced; and follow- ing this live other eruptions broke out, making eight running sores is all. We slid i ll we could for him, but he grow weaker every day, al- though we had three of the best physicians. As a last resort we were prevailed upon by relatives n ho had taken Hood's Sarsa- parilla with beneficial results to give the medi- cine a trial. We got one bottle about the first of March, 1802, and he had taken the medicine only a few days when his appetite began to improve. When he had taken one bottle lie could move about a little with his crutches; which he had not been able to use for the pre- cedingthree months. We continued' faithfully with ood's Sarsaparilla, and ill 6 months he was Able to .Co Circ; ed and go about the House without the crutches. lie has now taken Hood's Sarsaparilla regularly for eighteen months, and for the past six mouths has been without the crutches, which he has outgrown by several inches. The sores have all healed with the exception of oue which is rapidly closing, only the scars and an occasional limp remaining as reminders of his suffering. Hoo&iia Ure i Hood's Sarsaparilla in his case has truly clone wonders, and he is daily gaining in flesh and good color. He runs about and plays as lively as any child. We feel an inexpressiblee joy at having our boy restored to health, and we always speak in the highest terms of Hood's Sarsaparilla.' MRS. HENRY W. Muii'ay,. Exeter, New Hampshire. Hood's Pills are prompt and efficient, yet easy in action. Sold by all druggists. 25e. THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD, . .THE OXFORD. . That will burn ROUGH WOOD AND COAL —Equally Well— T Oxf orG rauato : Wali Do It : : Has the Largest Oven. IS A FARMER'S STOVE Is Everybody's Cook Stove. Try it! OIi 11113 G)DI1 STOYE WIPHOU WICK, Makes and Burns Its Own Gas From Coro inori Coal Cil NO !)XRT NO EtIAT Iia VIE E:ITCI.1EN, Cooks a Family Dinner for Two Cents, The GURNEY! FOUNDRY. CO., Ltd., TORONTO. P00414 by COL3 LEDIDK & FOLLAND. x** For that Bad Cough of yours 4.4 n'-�-n "Y 1 ----�. d 111 Itl, 4111'. II. M. 1 1I 444\1 � IY P #IIR HIGHLY RECq•MMEf+It)Eq - As a preventive and Cure of all Throat and Lung Diseases. � Jones. Henry Mr1• ' wishes to informthe communit that he will wI e farming Y have for sale the best line of farm implemerbts in Ont A Carload of Drills just in, also The .Giant Cultivaters and Seeder, manufactured . by J. W. Mann, Cc A full assortment of Plows, Sulky Plows, Root Scufiiers, manufactured by the Cockshute Manufacturing Company of Brantford, If you want a Buggy, a Cart, or a Waggon, give usa call: If you want repairing*, painting or horse shoeing dope in a competent manner give us a call. No matter how small your order it will be prmptly done. Ify ou want the best Steel Wind moter that is made give us a call, . . HENRY JONES, Prop. Shop, opp. A.,,Mansion House a. BARGAINS. Atkinson's Furniture Ware - rooms is the cheapest and best place in the County to buy Fur- niture. . 9.00. • A first-class Bed -room Suite for only $9 and every thing else in comparison. All goods guaranteed to- be my own make, of first-class dry material, nothing but best hard lumber used, Lumber and Wood Taken in exchange for Furniture. Wire Mattersses. The only place in town where you can buy the Patent Dominion Nickle-Plated Wire Mattress, --war,• ranted not to rust. J. yip. Atkinson, Furniture! Furniture! Furniture!!! We have moved back to our old store again and have the finest stock of Parlor, Bedroom and Din- ingroom Furniture in the town, at prices that can- not be beaten. Elegant new bamboo goods just coming in. . See our beautiful new -varerooms. We are bound to sell if good goods nicely displayed at very low prices will do it. S. GIDLEY & SON, ODD FELLOW'S Block CLOTHING A. J. SNELL, s' t. EXETER - ONTARIO Has now in stock Fg IN THE FOLLOWING LINES: West of England Suitings and Trou rings, Scotch Tweed Suitings and Trouser Ings, French and English Worsted Cloth All made up in the Latest Style, at best Rates. ► ,J SNELL W. G. Erssett's Livery First Class Horses and Rigs. SPECIAL RATES WITH COMMERIAL MEN. Orders loft at Bissett Brros.'FCardware Store, will receive prompt attention, TERMS REASONABLE A TEIAL SOLICITED, W. Cx. BISSETT Bicycles, Sewing Machines, Baby Carriages And Musical . Instruments. We are the only firm who make a specialty of the above named goods and therefore claim that we can give the people of Exeter. and vicinity,— Greater .>argains ! Greater Choice 1 i Lowest Prices. ! r r The latest and newest at- tachn eats for all our goods can be had by calling at our ware -rooms, ---One door north Dr. Lutz's drug store PERK!S & 1IMRTIN. J. HURRAY & CO,, Wholesrle Manufacturers of Plow points and Castings. Tabora' Discounts to Cash Customers. J.II &Trey & Ca, Loadma's C" MMERCOAL LIVERY.. First-class Rigs and Horses Orders left at Hawksbaw's Hotel, or at the Livery Stable,(Christe's old Stand) will receive prompt at - tendon. . r� arms r • eleplr,oiie J %totoolui,ble, L, O naeotioit.