Exeter Advocate, 1904-11-3, Page 2LEADING. MARKETS,
•The Rudia.g Prices In Line Stock:
end Breacistuffs..
BISE.A.DSTUFFS.
Toreeta, Nov, 1.—Whea,t—Ontatee
red and White quoted' $1,03 to $1,04;
No. 2 goose, 88e to 80e, mid No, 2
spring, 97e to 98e east outeide;
'Manitoba, No. 3. northerre, $1,04i;
,NO Z$1.01e; No. 3, 98ee„ Geergiae
Bay 3yort, 6e more grinding in -tran-
sit.
Flour—Cars of 90 per cent. patents
are quoted at $4,35 to $4.46, buy -
ere' :lacks east or west, Choice
rand, 15c to 20c higher, Manitoba
$5.70 for Hungarian patents, $5.10
for second patents.
Milifeed—Bran is quoted at $14 to
$14.50 ia bulk, and shorts $17,50
east or west. Manitoba millfeed un-
changed at $20 to $21, for shorts and
819 for bran, export.
Barley—There is a gooit demand and
prices are firm at 45c to 46e far
No. 2, 48e to 44c for No. 8 extra,
and 42e for No. 3 malting outside;
lo less for sacks included, Toronto
freighte,
Rere—Is firm at 68e to 70e outside
for NO. 2.
Cent—There is a good donne, and
the mareet is firm at 63e for No. 2
American yellow, 62e for No. 8, aed
604c to Ole for No. 8 mixed on
track Toronto.
Oets—No. 1 new • white, 32e to
Mc; No, 2 new. whitTa'31ec to 314e
low freights, and 31e to 31.1e 'north
and West.
Rolled Oats—Are in quiet demand
at $4.50 for cars of bags 'and, $4.75
for barrels on the traces 'Toronto; 25c
more for broken lots here and 40c
more for broken lois outside.
Peas—Are quiet and steady at 63e
:to 64e. for No. 2 west or east.
Buchwheat—Is nominally quoted at
50c to 52c at outside pointe.
Bucks eeee .eeee2,50 2.75:
Culls, eaeh 3.50
Lembe, per cwt. .3.85 4,50,
CalYee, per lh ... , . 3 5
00 each ... .........2,00 10.00
Uhgst selectee per ewt 5.00
do lights ea,. ,,,,, 4,75
do iota .....J 4.75
VICTIMS TO WOODEN.LEGS
LIVES LOST TELROUGH AT-
TEMPTING TO SWIM...,
A Cork Leg Caused the Death of
- Father and Son Last
July.
•
•
Within recent years sevinal livos
have been lost through wooden
one of the saddest accidents Of the
kind happening last July, when
Henry 'Vetter attempted to save the
life of his son Arthur, who had eo-
toed the Erie Canal for a swim.
Mr. Yetter sat. on -the bank watching
when the boy was seized with a
cramp. His father, forgetting that
tie was wearing an artificial leg,
threw .oh his coat and plunged into
the 'water. In his haste and anxiety
he lost his balance and was unable
to keeP his head above water. :He
Made a fraotie effort to unstrap his
leg, but fatted it impossible, and so
floated half a mile down the canal
with his head below the surface.
When Yetter'a body. was recOvered it
was found that the cork leg still held
up the lower part of hie body,
his head, by .the same force, was
kept under water, . .
'Last year, almost on .tlia identipal
spot where Mr. Vetter and his Son
lost their lives, Me: John -Ffollanah a
harness -maker, of Grand Rapids, was
with his son, a lad of nineteen, Stop-
ping at a farm on the canal and fre-
quently' wsnt swimming in the stream.
The boy two years previously had
had his right log cut off in a trolley
accident and was obliged to wear an
artificial limb. Though
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Butter—The niarket is fairly stencly
in all lilies.
Creamery prints 19c to 20c
do solids 19e to 00e
Dairy tubs, good to choice 14c to 15e
do inferior grades ... 10e to 13c
Dairy lb. rolls, good to
choice lite to 17c
do inedium , 14e to 15e
Cheese—Is .steady, with a firm tone
at gic per /b. for large, and 10c for
Eggs—Receipts are still light, and
the market is firm in tone at 19c .
to 20c. Sales at the former fignre I
are few and far between.
Potatoes—Ontario stock are quoted •
at 60e to 65e on track and •75c out
of store. Eastern stock is unchanged
at 70c to 75e on track and 85e to
90e out of store.
Baled Hay—Is fairly steady and is
quoted -Unchanged at $8 per ton for
car lots on track here. .
Baled. Straw—The receipts here are
fairly large, and the market is quot-
ed unchanged at $5.75 to $6 per ton
for car lots on track here.
BUSINESS AT MONTREAL.
'Montreal, Nov. 1.—Grain—Oats, 88
to 38,2m for No. 2 in store here; No.
8, 87 to 871c; American yellow, No.
2, 61; No. 8, 59c; white, No. 2, 59
to 60e; buckwheat, 50 to 59ec. Fleur
—Manitoba patents, $5.80, and
strong bakers', $5.50; high: Ontario
blended patents, $5.75 to $5-85, in
wood, clioice 00 per cent. patents,
$5.50 to $5.60, in wool, and 25e per
barrel less in shippers' new bags;
straight rollers, 52.45 to $2.55, and
25 to 80e extra in wood. Rolled
oats -42.32S per bag. $4.90 in bar-
rels. Feed—Ontario bran, in balk,
817 to $18; shorts, $19 to $20; Man-
itoba bran in bags, $18 to $19,
shorts, $21. Ileans•—•Clioice primes,
• $1.40 to $1.45 per bushel, $1.85 to
51.371 itt car iota, PrOATISIOnS• —
ITeavy Canadian short cut pork,' 516.-
50 to 317.50; light short cut, $16.-
50 to 317; American elear fat backs,:
$20; 'compound lard, 0,1 to 7e; Can -
ashen lard, 62 to i,e; kettle render-
ed; Se to, Ne; Ewen; 12 to 3.80; lm -
con, 12 to 13e; fresh killed abattoir
hogs, 37.50; heavy fat hos, $4.50;
iniXed lots, Stiesselects; $5.25 otT cars.
Cheese—Ontario while, Thgc; colored
• 0Sci; Quebec,0 to flec. illitter-oatineut
grades, 191o; 'ordinary finest, tsa to
39c: Western. dairy, e5 to 151c Eggs
—Select new laid 24c; straight gath-
ered candled, 200; No. 2, 14 to 15c.
• CATTLE MARKET.
Toronto, Nov. 1.—The general con-
ditions are -the same as have pre-
vailed the last two oi- three mar-
kets. There was • a heavy run of
Very inferior quality cattle, and not
enough of the good stuff to meet
-km Ironton t s. • More choice hi,tchet
Ceti le are wanted. Prices for thee
• are firm, but the rotigh cattle are
not wanted except at very low
prices, •
S t tick e rs—G ood stockers sold at
steady prices, but there was a lot o
light, rough stuff eating as a drag
on the market.
• Sheep and Lambs—Everything Ave
sold- Mho market was steady anc
prospects steady.
Ifogs—MArket weak and prospoit
lower. No change in quotations to
dew.
Export evs, heavy $4.50 to $4.6
do light —. 4 25 4:5(
do meditun „4.00 4.3,
do cows ..„.. 50 4.0(
Bulls, expore ...,850 8.7
Bale:hers' picked lots 4 25 4.85
' do good to choice
loads 4J00 2f'
4.0(
AN EXCELLENT SWIMMER..
he had given up the sport since the
accident, and while his father plunged
into the canal the boy preferred to
sit on the bank and Watch him.
One morning, however, the father
was seized with a cramp, and, his
cries attracting his son, the boy,
without even divesting. himself of his
coat, dived in, and when he came to
the surface found himself absolutely
at -the mercy of his wooden leg. Try
as lie could he was unable to keep it
under control or prevent it forcing
his head under water. Meanwhile
however, his father was drowning,
but their united cries had attracted a
bargeman, who managed to reach Mr. has passed the most vigorous stage,
Holland before he disappeayed andlthe •stage .when in a wild ,state • it
drag him on board. He then turned would' be blossoming and' producing
his attention to the son, who was
still enga,ged in a fierce fight with his
leg, and also succeeded in pulling him
on to the barge.
Some years ago a boy lost his
0
5
5
do fair to good
40, miXerle Tote, med-
ium • 1.50
do good cows 2.35 • 8,31
elo common .and
• rough ..„2.00
Butchers' bulls •• 1:75 2
do medium ....., ,
do light ' -.1.25 1
Light hulls ........ ..... '2.50 1
Peeders, shortekeepa, -.3.05 • ;
. •,
:de good .. . ,...3,25
Stockers, good . . e2,7513
Milk cown, each a....S:30,00 50
;Export ewes, per cwt. 13.215 a
been widely published and is one of
POTATO BLIGHT AND ROT Note. -The following article bee
the most remarkable illustrations of
THE ele'LTSE OF SERIOITS LOSS the value ei carefv.1 marshalling tend
To FARMERS, jaelemtlytenistioinf aucbtlsi n presenting a suls• -
lVfarked Results in Spraying With
LEVELERS.
Bordeaux Mixture Have
Been Obtained.• The IVIission of Whiskey, Tobacco
Reports from many districts hide- and Coffee.
cate that potato blight arid rot are
Tho Creator made all things, we
again this season causieg serlome losS believe,
to the farmers of Canticle., MIS dis-
Stand out against these "levelers"
and hold his fottune, fano and
heolth to the end.
So the Creator has Use for Whis.,
key, Tobacco Coffee to level
down the successful ones and these
who fillOw SigTiS 01 being SUCOOSSIth,
and keep them back in th,e race, so
that the great "field" (the mases)
may net be left too far behind.
And yet we must 'admit that same
all wise Creator has placed it in the
pewee of Alan to stand upright,
clothed in the armor of a clean cut
ease has been quite Prevalent in inany .. If so, He must have mode these, steady mind and say unto himself,
aoe We know what He made food and "I decline to exchange iner birthright
Parts of Ontario and Quebec,
water for, and air and sunshine, but for a mess of potage."
although a good preventive is known
in Bordeaux mixture, few growers
wi'llY'lielyVhisity, lirleiorbeasecuoreaenndouCg°1iffee?and we'alkewniiiluyngottep doetaidaeuffaiiiii•sYandsenkseeesp.
seem to have sprayed their potatoes.
eiteli performing its work. myself cheap, common and behind in
Mr. L. H, 'Newman of the Seed Di -
There Must be some great plan be- fortune and fame by drugging with
yisioe, • who 'visited nearly every
hind it all; the thoughtful ina.n seeks whiskey, tobacco or coffee, • life is
county in Ontario during the sum -
to understand something of that too short. It is hard enough to win
mer, centimes this statement and
found plan and thereby to judge these ar- the good things, without any sort of
reports that in many cases he tic:3es for their true worth. • handicap, so a man is certainly a
growers sadly wantiog in knowledge
Let us not say "bad" or "good" "fool trader" when • he trades
of the disease and methods of pre-,
without taking testimony. strength, health, money, and the
venting it. There are times and conditions good thingsethat ,come with power,
al Observer that these "drugoei" with the certainty of sick -
the half -asleep condition of the,
There are two known blights which
affect the potato iti America, the when it certainly seems to the case- for
cot e real blessings.
0 stimulant nar-
early blight, Alternaria Solani, and ness and disease ahead." '
ics ar
the late blight which causes the rot, Right there is the ambush that con- It is a matter each, individual
Phytoolithera infestans. The early
. ceals a "killing" enemy. • must decide for himself. He can be
. One c 'slip' li
an into t e habit of a leader and semi -god ii • he will, or
leaves early in J uly. These spots either whiskey, tobacco or coffee easy he can. go along through life a drug -
nee enough, but to "untangle" is often god OlONV11, a cheap "hewer of wood
increase in size, unite and form large
masses of diseased tissue. Or carrier of water."
''''' a fearful struggle.
blight does not attack the tubers and Certain it is that while the Great
It seems plain that there are cir-
is not nearly as injurious as the Father of us all does not seetn to
cumstances when the 'narcotic effect
other. Tf the leaves are punetured by "mind- if some of his children ere
of these. poisons is for the moment
beetles or from some otter cense the beneficial but • the fearful lirgoinent.
disease gets a foothold easier. against them is that seldom . even
THE LATE BLIGHT does one find a steady mier , of either
is the one which: causes by far the whiskey, coffee. or tobacco free from
greater lese, both by lessening the disease of S01210 kind. - - • ,`.."
tlight causes the spotting of the
crop and by causieg rot, According Certainly powerful elements in their
to Mr. W. T. Macoun, Hiorticulturist effect on the littman ra,ce.
•
of Vim Central Experhnental Farm, It is a matter Of claire history tes-
this disease passes the winter in the tified to by literally millions of poo -
tubers, and in the spring When the ple, that Whiskey, Tobacco and Cols
vines begin to grow it starts to de- fee are sniffing, promising, beguiling
velop, growing up through the tis- friends on the start, biet always false
sues ef the potato stein. Daring the as hell -itself in the end. Once.they
latter part of July it produces • on get firm hold enough to show their
the undersides of the leaves myriads strength, theOnensist -upon governing
of tiny -.spores, which in the mass and drive the victim steadily towards
have a frost -like ' appearance. These ill health in some form; if permitted
which 38 to continue to rule, they will • not
nspatolin'neas innay ktehethiennifetstits.nsttleaaged,rying
1.11) let up until physical and mental ruin
whore the spores have been feeding sets in.
them and eaueing dark. 'brown spots,. A man, under that spell (and "en -
It is from this stage that future in-' der the spell" is carect), of any one
feetion takes place, •as the spores are of these drugs, frequently assures
carried rapid13-, by the \Vind and mimeos and his friends, "Why I can
alight on the foliage. They are also leave off any time I want, to. I did
washed below the surface of the quit for a week just to show I
gronnd and reach the young tubers, could." It is a sure naark of the
and in time cause the rot. The Po- slave when one gets to that stage.
tato rot itself le a dry rot; the wet He wiggled through a week fighting
rot comes through decay of the tub- every day to break the epell, was
ers.. It is when the tubers begin to hnally whipped, and began his slay -
form that the blight begins to ap- ery all over again.
pear. This is just after the potato The slave (Coffee slave as well as
Tobacco an'd Whiskey) daily reviews
his condition, gees perfectly plain. the
steady encroachments of disease, How
the nerves get weaker day by day
and demand the drug that seems to
sinile and offer relief for. a few min-
utes and ' then leave the diseased
condition plainer to -view than ever
and growing worse. Manytimes the
Coffee slave realizes • that he is
between two fires. He . feels
bad if - he leaves off, and a
little worse if he drinks and al-
lows the effect to wear oft
seed. At this stage the constitution
of the plant is weakened, which prob-
ably makes it more subject to dis-
ease at this time. In the province of
Ontario potato vines usually dry up
life on the Devonshire coast, through during the latter part of August.
a foolish bet and the misfortune of Why should- they die so soon when
wearing a wooden lege The young ithey do not prodece seed? If the
lad went with several other boye to I season is fairly favorabla. even the
bathe. He did not intend. to enter earliest varieties may be kept grow-
-the water, but after being chatted by ing right an into September by thor-
his companions lie threw off his lough evativation and spraying. 'The
clothes anti jumped into a deep part important poiny is to get them past
of the water. the period when they are in a weak -
.As happened in the other cases ened con,dition, without injury ,from
fungous diseases or insects.
Experiments conducted at the Ver-
mont Experimeat Station proved
that over half the crop of market-
able potatoes was produced after
August 22nd. In Ontario •the pota-
to vines -ore visually dead shortly af-
ter that date. The great gain in
keeping potatoes growing
UNTIL LATE TN SEPTEMBER
is here very apparent. Very Marked
results in spraying with Bordeaux
mixture for blight have been obtained
by the Vermont Station, the Irish
Department of Agriculture, and the
Dominion and Provincial Experimen-
tal Farms. In 1903. experhnents by
Mr. Ma.coun with eight varieties
showed an average difference in fa-
vor of. spraying •of 100,busliels , of
marketable ',note -toga' and in 4.902.
with eleven varieties the average dif-
ference • was, 120 btishels per acre,
.Nature's God that • things slowlere
With the 'Ernihre State variety. Piere
was 'a difference of 105 bushels • eee4 evolve front lower planes ti; highest,
acre: In 1902 the vines were sprayed
Lour Mines, op' ,Titly 10th, July ,2nd,
July 80th• and August 18t1i, the for-
nxula being (3 blueetiene, 4
lbs. lime, 40 gallons water. While
the Colorado beetlee were • active
eight ounces of Paris Green were
added to each forty gallons of the
inixtme. Por large areae the ex-
pense for bluestone would. be in the
neighboeheod per eerie and the
total expense -probably not more
than $8 or $9. Even at $10 per
acre the result of the above expert -
Molt for 3.002 would show e pkofit of
538 per acre, potatoes selling at 4.0
cents a buebel. •
These results should Cenobitic po-
tato growers of the iinportance of
spraying their potatoes for the pre-
vention of blight and rot. The work
Waist be :lb o ren ghly done. Spraying
should, be begun •by the middle of
July and the vines kept covered with
the inixtere until the close of the
Selarilis gentile -111y recognized that
sem° variety of potatoes have
greater power than others to resist
this disease, and it is safer to culti-
vate only varictids which' are 'su-
perior in this respect, All diseased
refuse from an affected field stheold
be burned. ;It is also advisable to
avoid using for seed ptfrposes pote-I
toes from a diseased crop, even
though the Weirs appear healthy.
mentioned the artificial limb immedi-
ately had him at its mercy, and
though he cried out repeatedly Ins
companions considered lie was inert,-
ly fooling, and when they realized lie
was in danger 'the lad lied floated
some considerable distance out to sea
FACE DOWNWARDS.
None of the other boys could swim,
and -though they made heroic efforts
to reach him they were enable 1 o do
so, and could only watch the body
as it floated on the waves, supported
by the wooden apparently life-
less. Half an hour later a small
boat came along ancl rescued Um
body, but, though every effort was
mede to resuscitate. the boy, life was
found to be extinct. He was an .ex-
cellent swimmer, and would heves
been able to swine a „mile had ,he
'been freed from his •leg, but, as he
other cases, it had been the means
af -drowning -him. .•
This article is • intended, as a warn-
.,
ing to everyone ' who hes tiia • mis-
fortune to wear an artifietial leg.
Never take it into the water with
you, or you will certainly have
trouble. If you are too sensitive to
unstrap it before taking the plunge,
then. stop on the shore, for • other-
wiee you also may fall a victim. to
your wooden leg.
NO NEED TO BRAG.
"Sir," began a creditor, who met
one of his victims in the street the
other day, "I sent you r. bill in
Jamie ry."
"Yes, sir."
"And aga•in in April."
"Yes, sir."
"An I again in July,''
"Yes, sir."
"And I preeume you received one
the other day'?"
"I did, sir."
"Well, well, sir?" flustered. the
creditor.
"Well, you needn't feel so stuck
up ovetaet," replied the other, as he
lighted a ten cent cigar. 'There
are firms in this Lown who send rim
bine every month in the year, and
they never stop me itt tie street
to brag about it either. I detest
such egotism, eir, Good Morning."
• NO USE TO ITIM.
There is a maiden nained borotiiy,
who always found imme good 'exeese
'I for having her own way, 'Dorothy's
father came to her one evening, and
'5' said
"Look here, Dcwothy, don't like
young Freshman Ceming here so
2.5 Much. Next time. be makes You a
.50 Visit just give him the cold should.
.150 0I'.'M
,15 'Mut, papa, a
, lie is vegetariate"
1,00 answered the unabashed norolhyo
1.65 . • :
1-10 TO ifnPl'o VC the flavor of coffee
.00 slightly Warm tile grits and scatter
.00.. a pinch 'of salt Over, before 'adding
'the fast bailing watch
0
So it goes on from day to - day.
Every night the struggling victim
promises himself that he will break
the habit and next day when he feels
a little bad (as lie is quite sure to)
breaks, not the habit, but his own
resolution. It is nearly always a
tough fight, with disaster ahead sure
if the habit wins.
••There have been hundreds of thou-
sands of people driven to their
graves through disease brooght
by coffee drinking alone,' and it is
quite certain that more human mis-
ery is caused by coffee, and tobacco
than by whiskey, for the. two first
are more widely used, and more hid-
den and insidious in the effect on
nerves, heart and other vital organs,
and are thug' unsuspected until much
of the .datigerptis work is done.
Nwo, Reader, what is your opinion
as to the real use the Creator has
for these Stliingsa., Take a look.. at
the question from- this Point .of!-Vidav.
•There is a law of. Nature and of
THE WHIRLING OF TIIiE
GREAT FAMILIES 'THAT COlylg
TO GRIEF.
Descendants of Oliver Cromwell
Have Fallen on Evil
• Days.
The news that a, eaember of the
family of the great Napoleon has
just died in extreme destitution in a.
Chicago slum reminds oesi of the
strange and cruel tricks Fortune ,
plays at tuns with the descendants
of her chief fevorites.
It was within a few generations af-
ter Oliver Cromwell's death the I, the
family of the great Protector fell on •
voy evil days, and were to be found
among the poorest tradesmen and ar-
tisans in obscure villages and towns.
One of his descendants Was the wife
of a shoemaker at Soharn, near Cam-
bridge, and another married the son
of a butcher, who was a fellow -ser-
vant wiLli her. Other descendants
sank into much lower social strata
and were compelled to beg thert
breed, and at least two of them end- -
ed their days in provincial poor -hous-
es. Such of Cromwell's deseendaets
as are living to -day, with the excep-
tion 'of a Somerset rector, are fol- „ct
lowing the humblest callings where
they are not reduced to actbual pov-
erty.
Many of the descendants of United
„others (perhaps those he intends for States Presidents are ,to -day earning
their living in the lowliest occu-
foolish and stupid, he seerns to select
pation. • One is a porter in a Chi -
cage store; another is a road -sweep-
er in New York; and a, third drives a
seam special work) and allows them
to be threshed and castigated most
fearfully- by these "levelers."
• If a man tries flirting with these trainear in Boston. Mrs. Letitia
'Temple, who is the daughter of Presi-
dent Tyler and related to two other
past Presidents, was not long ago
living in an almshouse •on the Oen,
der pittance of
In an appeal for
fAar MONTH.
In
of
this
meagre allowance Mrs. Temple men-
tioned the interesting fact that after
her mother's death, in September,
1842, she assumed at her father's in-
vitation, the duties of Lady of the
White House, ,"and performed them'
to the satisfaction of all."
It is a very few years since a raein-
ber of one of the proudest families of
the Hungarian nobillt3r died in a
Buda-Pesth workhouse. Countess. •
Christine Kaluoky was the wife of an
Aostrian noble and ambassador, and
in her youth was the "mirror of fa -
;levelers awhile, and gets a few, slaps
as a hint, he had better, take the
hint or a good 'solid blew will fol-
low.
When a man tries to live upright,
clean, 'thrifty, sober. and undrtigged,
manifesting ,as near as he .1t1lOWS
what the Creator intends he should,
happiness, health and peace etem to
come to him. . Does it pay? ,.
This article was .written to set
People thinking, to rouse the "Gbd
within- for every highly organized
man And woman has times when they
feel 'a something calling from within
for them to press to the front and
"be about. the Father's business,"
don't mistake it; the spark of the
Infinite is. there and it pays in every
way, health, happiness, peace, and
even worldly prosperity, to break
off the habits and strip clean for tbei
work cut out for us.
It has been . the busitess of the shion" anti the belle of some of the
writer to provide a practical and most brilliant of European Courts.
easy way for people to break Away In most,
Sonnet:rend, a woman
from the coffee habit and be assured whose extreree poverty drove her' to
of a return to health and all of the suicide in America not long ago, was
good things that brings, provided recognized ' the daughter of Priocess
TWO THOUSAND 'A SECOND:
Tlie. Latest wonder al photography
is a machine which is capable of re-
ceiving impressions at the rate • of
2,000, tt second: or thirty or :forty
timee es fast as tile or4ipar57 cinema-
tograph. Otte of the Chief • purposes
to Which taiWonderful invoition is
put „is the photographing o ineec,th'
wingk itt motion, by which it 1111101)0(1
that!,the problem of flight may be at
last be sOlVed..
a sturdy, steady and dignified ad-
vance ,toward more perfect things in
both . the Physical and Spiritual
world. 'The ponderous tread of evo-
lutionary development is fixed by
the Infinite and will not be quick-
ened out of natural law by any of
nian's methods., e
Therefore we see many illustrations
showing how nature checks too rapid
advance. Illinois raises phenomenal
crops of corn for two or three years.
If she continued to do. so every year
her farmers would advance in wealth
far beYond those of other sections or
countries. So Nature interposes a
bar ehery three or four years and
brings on a "bad year."
Here we see the leveling influence
at work.
A man is prosperous in his business
for a number of years and grows
rich. Then Nature sets the "'leveling
influence" at work on 'him, 'Seine
of his investments lose, he becomes
luxurious and lazy. Perhaps it is
whiskey, tobacco, coffee, Minion,'
gambling, or scone other form. The
intent and purpose is to level him.
Keep him from,, evolving too far,
ahead of the masses.
•• A nation becomes prosperous and
great like ancient Rome. Ifeno level-
ing influence set in she would clot -nine
ate the world perhaps for all time.
But Dame Nature sets her army of
"levelers" at work. Luxury, over -
ea ti ng and drink i flg, licehtiousness,
waste and extravagance indulgences
of all kinds, then colnes the wreck,
Sure, Sure, Sure.
NOMMOSMININIMAMMIWCOVINO•
The law of the unit is the law of
the maes. Man goes through b the
same process. Weakeess (in child-
hood), gradual growth of • strength,
energy. • thrift, probity, prosperity,
wealth, comfort, eitee, relaxation;
s elf- i n du igen tie, luxury, , idleness,
waste, debauchery, disease, and the
wreck follows. The 'hevelers" aro
in the buelms along the pathway Of
e'very successfel Man and woman
and they bag the Majority,
Only now and then can a wan
the abuse has not gone too far. and
even then the cases where the ebody
has been rebuilt on a basis of
strength and health run into the
thousands. .
• It is an easy and comfortable . step
to stop coffee instontlY by having
well -made PoStum Food Coffee serv-
ed ricli and hot with good cream, for.
the color and flavor is ;there, but
none of the caffeine or other nerve
destreying elements of ordinary
coffee..
On th
rebuilding elements furnished by Na- and depended for-
e contrary the most powerful "liitelY Penniless,
.
her support on the labor of a sistcy
turare in. Posture and they quickly in-law, whose work on shoe -vamp '
d
set about repairing the damage. Sel-
dom is it More than 2 days, after the
-
A..
Amelie HobenloheeSclullingfurst,
sister:ofa-reigning Prince, and ine.in-
ber of one of - the •oldest and • most
distinkuished of the' reigning fatuilies
of' Germany.
, The daughter of Theodore Hook,
one of the most brilliant. literary men a
of the last 'cent'ury, whose elegant
manners and sparkling.wit made hint
the pet of fashionable circles -during
the last years of George HT., jell
on such evil fortune that she was ab -
brought her
A FEW PENCE A DAY.
change is made before the old storn
This brave woman, the widow of'
ach or bowel troubles or complaints
of kidneys, heart,. Theodore Hook's son :William; was.
head or nerves
show unmistakable evidence of get- reduced to such straits that she had
ting better aod ten days time otly one poor and faded gown, while
, she had neither blanket nor sheet -for
changes things wonderfully.
Literally millions of brain -working
Americans to -day use • Postern, hav-
ing found the,.value and comro.on
sense in the change.
C. W. POST.
LORD ROBERTS IN' AFRICA.
Visiting the Battlegrounds of the
Lite War. .
Lord and Lady Ttoberts visited
Magersfontein," travelling by motor-
car. They inspected the battlefields
and positions, aided by a plan, and
displayed the greatest interest.
• --The , •peopnietor of thee ferm., at
kagersfontein at the time 'of the
-battle ;pointed ,ont the:dispositions
•of th'&. troops; as-
cettdd1 theekolaje and inspected the
meinOrial the ' Night enders who,
fehl in the'battle, and' the neighlidrh
ing gra,hesha 'He exptessed apprecia-
tion of the work done by the wo-
men's guild in tending the graves.
At the town hall in Kimberley two
rough diartionds, the people's birth-
day. gift, were presented to Lord
Roberts, fifty children who were born
during the ,si.ge of Kimberley,
drawing lots for the honor of
making. the presentation. The may-
or's daughter, who was •also born
during the siege, presented. to Lady_
Roberts an album of siege views.
Lord 'Roberts responded with much
feeling, and was afterwards photo-
graphed on the steps of the toliet
hall in the midst of the siege
children ,
LIMEMOKS.
There was a young man in Canton,
Who tried very hard to get on; '
' He cut lip the hair
Of his pig -tail with care,
And shipped it as tea from Canton.
There was a young lady of Fleet.
leVh Sel elme crone updone in the street;
Put, try as she might,
She 'MS laced up so tight,
She couldn't retteli down to her feet.
„
Thereevas a young mart in Pembroke,
Who tried to make cocoa from coke;
But the fenocent
When he tasted the stuff, .
Showed a strong disposition to choice.
There was an old man in Bombay,
Who lived fur a fortnight on hay.
At the end of which spell,'
(So, }It least, I've heard tell),
He rejected that food with a neigh.
There was it yoting man in, Pekin,
Who thought that to smile ••teas
• sin;
So he eied his long hair
Up so tight, that 1. swear •
Ie. Was eimply enable to grin,
her bed.
The grandson of one of our greatest
poets was discovered a short titre:s-
ago in poverty and trouble in the
West Country. ' He was trying in
vain to earn a living by his pen,
but found, that his 1 _Rage of poetry
was "the greatest curse that God
could inflict in these money -snaking'
times." A lady who was entitled to
wear the coronets sof Marchioness,
Viscountess, and Baroness, and who
bore one of the most distingeislieti
Mmes in our Peerage, was in 1898 -
an inmate of St. Mary's 'Union (Is-
lington). Workhouse, at Highgate,
while her husbitsid'ivas.diving in •:-..,sor-
did surroundings at .Vauxhall; and
Princess,,Gbilta, a scion of one of thir
most famotis :liotfses in Rounlanicie
was reduced fohe life of a circus
performer.
„ Goveritor.Stecyart, fitf Missouri, who
was described by the King --then
Prince of Wales—as the most courtly
Man be met in America, died in ex-
treme poverty and without a friend,
and lies in an tinknown grave.—Lone '
don Pit-]Mts.
• NO GREAT LOSS.
A certain British .11. P. is in the
habit of buying a paper from the
same newspaper boy every evening on
his way to the House. It chanced.
that one evening when he came to
put liis hand into his pocket he
found he had come out without a
single penny. He hesitated a mo-
ment and •then explerned the position
to the lad. "Don't mind about, that
Si)'." was the reply, "you can pay for
it to -morrow. It will be all right"
"And to -morrow, tny boy, 1 minr be
dead," said the politician, with the
idea of impressing a moral., leeson up-
on tho youthful mind. The ettswer
of the led left the ntoralizieg legisla-
tor gasping. "Well, sir, if that is
the case, it will be no great 1058.
after all."
4
Try the effect of potato to clean
Sponges when they are slim/, anti
sinell disagreeable. Cut a rit'W Pot
tato in half and reb the sponge ther-'
,Oughly With the two portions. Rub
and Week the sponge till the potato
has penetrated to the middle, rinse
in warm Water, thou in cold, and, the
slimy effect will have disappeared. t
To polish plate glass 'and retno
siiglit scratches, reb the surface
gently 'first with a clean pad of
cotton Wool, and afterwarde wi a
.pact eoliered witli cottoe
VOl-
Vet, WhIell lies been deeteri with line
rouge; The sufac 11111 linjor this:
treetment itemaire a Solisli of great
hrilliancY, incite free from ecratches.