The Exeter Times, 1891-2-5, Page 2A Reverie.
Tsveney yes with their lights and similes
eavepassiel and 1tam standiug once more ens
he threshold of the old home. Yes, it is
twenty long years since I was a, little bare-
!oot by tramping to school in happy Moo
eance end the scenes of childhood are fresh
said blight niy memory es though it was
but yeexereay that the echoolf bell callea nte
for the nrst
Btit elas there is a depth of sadness in.
everything, e.nd es I gaze e.round I odes the
riumng laughter of youthful playmates, and
fail to catch a glimpseof the lovedones whose
forme hems neen laid in the sileut church-
yard that slopes so gently tower& tbe sleep-
ing valley. Where are the children who
hand in hand trudged to 640°1 in the
summer sunlight? Where are the friends of
youth and early menbood? The shadows
creep up from the waxing cedars.,
and as the chill evening winds
moan dismally aeouncl me, tbey seem to
wlaisper gone 'I Yes, gone. Like thellutter-
ing autumui leaves that are now borue to
my feet with a gentle murmur 'before being
'whirled with many grotesque gyratioes
down the sloping hill, they have been borne
out upon the bosom of the great ocean of life;
and 1 misa them all. The old house is de-
serted now, and the grams and weeds are
growing over the path that was once so
emooth and arm. I move out from the gloom
that surrounds the weat her beaten structure,
and stand where my eye can traee the dis-
tant line that marks the horizon. no far
awaythat Uue dialectal's seemed to me once,
that in fancy 1 eould almost diecern the
steeples in eonie distant eity ; and could al-
most beer the chiming of ehureh
Herk I hear the old school bell, It
aloue hes remained untouched end ratherrn-
' ed„ and its solemn clang brings back a ilood
of h1f-forgotteu memories. What scenes
that old bell has witnessed, and what stories
its iron tongue could tell. But to me the
stories are ee plain as though written ha
letters of fire, and turniug back page after
paw of the book of memory, I see again toy
early life -I and the old bell.
0 * * *
Diug Pong. It is summer rnoraiug, and
the lamglaing :sunlight gleams througn the
tangled leevee of the old maples, and sparks
les on the tlowers so ruthlessly crushed be-
neath our childish fee. My &et day at
school, and light as the wings of the chirp-
ing
wren in the thicket by the bridge my
heart 1 °mails in joyful anticipation of the
eomitig pleasures, wideit alas .1 were seem
found to be lees bright then my childish
foamy hal ured. But time healsneerly
all thine and peace settled talraly down
iu my youthful trestle
Dlng Deng. Ten Felts hue rn.sed away.
axial I'm standing by the grave of a Ioved
one. My school days are over now, autl as
wat rli them owesg, mound, I realize how re-
bellieue 1 base• b•en, aud how unworthy I am
toem e the storms of life alone, and the gentle
word* of tlae pastor " The Lordgave and the
Lord taketh away," do not I feat calteen
their true meaning to me. Oh Meth 1 Oh
bitter parting ; how soon shall we cease to
mourn en this earth, and when shall our
tears be alien never again to flow.
Ding Doug. And the Angel of earth still
goca on. The sines is waving over tbe grave
of the old schoolmaster, and alittle plot not
far away from Ms marks the restingplace of
an old schnonfellow.
Ding Dense ancl the faces of ola friends
seem to rims up before me in the gathering
duek.
The far far West gives up a welcoming
face Loam lank Henry M—, the arm-
teur showman in the playground, who was
always building castles in the air about the
woneerful things lie -would do when he wise
nau-he wares his hand and disappeevelis
suddenly as del his boyish dreedus. Poor
Henry, he did not car matlis bright pines
for be holds a plat on the far off plains of
Moutana, en his little -children beg
for pen& to see the down in the traveling
e smiles, and pats the head of the
youngest, and tells bun not to think too
much about clowns and circus rings.
And Will11—, the boy who was always
elimbing trees and building eaves in the
woods and wlio was found ono day in the
top retitle old beech that waved ita fantastic
arms over the school -house. His wander-
ieg deposition remained with him when be
reaeheil manhood, and he now sleeps beneath
the troubled waters of the Atlantic.
And happy, frolicking Tom P—, who
was always in mischief, and who loved sweet
winsome Nellie Moore. Poor Tom, bis
bones bleach on the far off field of Atlanta,
end the wild winds that sweep over the
plain seem to bear with them the sad, sad
tale. With his inert beating high with
martial ardcur, with the stirring notes of
the bugle in his ears and the flash of steel
before his eyes he gave ep that Iffe which
he so often risked for the sake of others.
And1•.tel1ie, sweet dainty Nellie. Poverty
elas, caane to her happy home, and she was
forced to work for her daily bread in the
great city of Washington. But her sweet
disposition and her love for Tom kept her
up through many trials and temptations.
She was found one morning with her face
pillowed on an old cap belonging to Tom,
with a paper in her hand containing the
oews of the Battle of Atlanta, and an
account of the death of Lieutenant Tom
Powers.
Her pure face was as sweet as in the days
when she wandered around the lanes and
fields with him she loved, but the light haa
left her eyes for ever.
Anclnhus they all come before me, and as
muse my eyes 1111 with tears, for I seem to
hear their voices calling me. I can almost
hear the click of the cricket bat, the mur-
mur of merry voices and the sound of many
feet.
Ding Deng, and the holidays are near.
We are standing together and singing our
favorite hymns and the light is streaming
through the windows lighting up the batter-
ed seats and shining like a crown on the old
teacher's head.
Ding Dong, Ding Deng. I start sudden-
ly, for I hear the sound of wheels, and here
stands the old horse that is to take me to
the nearest station, the same horse, I be-
lieve, that scampered as a colt a score of
years ago, and as I pat his soft nose he
turns his meek eyes upon me, as if he too
recollects it all, as well as I. Then I
wave a last adieu to the woods, the hills and
the valleys and am off in the whirl and ex-
citement of the world again.
But after all I visited the old friends,
though they, were not with me, and I trust
that on the last Great Day we shall all stand
hand in hand together and sing the hymns
we used to sing long ago.
The seeds of knowledge may beiplanted
in solitude, but must be cultivated. n pub-
lic,-Eler. Johnson.
Discontent is the source of all trouble,
but also of all progress in individuals and
in nations .-.-{Auerbach.
• Crooltphiz-(who is going to a masquerade
and ittle short of ready cash)- Say, is
• my face good for a costume and, s mask ?"
• Costumex(afeer a survey of his customer) -
"1 don't think it would do for a costume,
bet it will be all be all right for the mask.'
FOR THE LADIES,
Story Telling.
"I'll tell you a story 'bout Jackcanimory-
And now myFtorVs=begun
ra teaTo4enother bout Jack and his brother -
And now my story is dose."
" That is an net falling soreewbat into
disuse nowadays," said the woman who so
generously elaborated her idea e on nursing
life to a writer in the Illustrated American.
"The pretty art of story telling, I mean.
There are hawked.% and hundreds of well -
ordered, rosy babies and small children in
this eouutry who have every luxury, and
devoted mothers and nurse -maids at hand,
who lave never knowo the &seined= of
well told fairy tales. Seine never heard of
goblins and bad godmothers, the gem& and
good fairies, because their eleers believes
such tales put false and ugly ideas in little
empty, childish brains; and others give tbe
ehildreu bright story books-" Mother
Goose," etc, -and never take the papas to
explain in simplebut exaggerated language
to the small ignorarouses whet it all means.
" S.oinetirees, yet very rarely, a good na-
tured nurse -maid takes upon herself the task
of explaining the real, true, romantic mean -
to the "Sleeping Beauty" pictures, and
sings a bit of verse from "Mother Goose,"
and euch a maid gains a etrorig hold on the
hearts of her young chargen She fidsthey
would rather hear a story than play any
games, and by the mere promise denim)). en-
tertainment she can wheedle them intogood
humors, or hold her eilence as a terrible
penalty to some refractory lamb. Those
team% are rare, and even the best go about
this duty in eblunderleig way.
Negro mimes are, for this very reason,
wonderfully adapted t o uursery management
and are usually beloved by children. They,
being untutored themselves, Awl small boys
and girls quite companionable, and never
tbinlc it beueath them dignity to take part
in any. frolic, play beer or tiger ender the
bed. with admirable, geod-netured feromt
and foretereetellteg the old-faelnonecl sout -
ern uegrees. possessed a genius,
"Every Judaea arid object hi the nursery
served to paint a moral or edema tale, and
by thiesubtle attraction she held potent in.
&mum) with the babies. Now it seems to
me, as we can no longer, or ouly yery. seldom,
secure just the perfect nurse, rumang over
with a happy flow of innocent fancy aud fie -
ion, 'tie the pie& duty of mothers to try,
ess far as lice in their power, to relieve the
long Miura of boredom that hang very. hear-
ily, sometimes, on the empty, baby mule.
• "One hour in the anemias and one late in
the after:tom I devote to the entertainment
of my owa little flock. I try as far as possi-
ble to lay aside all air of authority, and be-
come ouiy a big child, ready to take part in
any game, uncut frolics for them, aud peo-
pose new pastimes. • • • The evening
hour is given up to talks eround the Are end
to my retry Merles, or tales of rayyouth.
re
Theisn't a good old-fashioned fairy they
don't know all about, nor a standard tale
they could notrepeat by heart. Every then
dent of mychildhood bolds for my hearers
never -flagging interest It gives idle little
brains something to think on, and throng]:
the %lee is poured out, in mom attractive
form, such item of iuform at ion as the pleasant
=sedation %lilt the story serves to fix for-
ever in their minds. Sundays we tell the
Bible stories.
" Maw mothers, I know, holdit as a bad
aetiee to Sit by e dela arel ei ng or talk it,
to sleep. Yet seldom docs it harm for a
mother to usurp the place sometimes at the
bedside of a tearful, wide awake little one,
and client the tbrilleng story of the pig who
would not erase the stile of the House
net jack Pulite Tefey the Welshman,'
and so on through 'Mother Goose,' till the
fretful child is eoothed into sleep. In cases
of illness when nothing else will quiet a
feverish child, in the dim ligbt of a smoula-
ering fire and flickering aught ligbt, rleep
and rest often come when J.he rat bean to
gnaw the rope, the rope began to hang the
butcher,' and the well loved lines melt into
the peaceful baby dreams.
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A FewHiuts About Oil Limns.
The tank, or rt eervoir, for holding the
oil should be of metal rather than china or
glass. Wicks should be dry, be just long
enough to reach to the bottom of the reser-
voir and be softly woven. They should be
just wide enough to easily fill the wick
holder without being pulled or squeezed in.
It is necessary, too, that they be soaked
with oil just before using the lamp. When
the lamp is lit the wick should be at firet
turned down, and then slowly raised as it
burns. One great essential to avoid all od-
ors from a lamp is to have it thoroughly
clean, and all charred wick and dust remov-
ed before lighting. In putting out a lamp
where it has no extinguishing appliances the
wick should be turned down, and a sharp
puff blowu across the top of the chimney,
but not down on it. A little systematic care
in the use of a lamp will bring, instead of
discomfort, a warm, cheering atmosphere to
the home.
Soda Will Save Yon Sugar.
Have you ever stood despairingly before
a crock of stewed cranberries, gooseberries,
rhubarb, dried plums -or, worse than all,
prunellas-throwing in sugar, tasting, puck-
ering your face and throwing in more,
glancing dubiously meanwhile at the lower-
ing of tbe sugar in your "dollar's worth"
can? I remember well my grandmother's
rule for sweetening pie plant pies. It was
this: "Put in all the sugar your conscience
will allow, then shut your eyes and throw
in a double handful." Her pies were excel-
lent, but the rule was expensive. Here ie
cheaper one; When sweetening extremely
acid fruits like the above stir in a little soda
before adding the sugar. Experience will
guide you as to the quantity you may safely
use without injuring the flavor of the fruit,
but, as a general rule, I think a half a tea-
spoonful of soda to a quart of fruit may be
easily borne.
How to Wash the Hands.
Now, about your bands. Wash them in
hotwater, using almond meal instead of
soap, just before you go to bed, and dering
the day don't wash them too much in cold
water. A woman who has very beautiful
hands told me that during the daytime she
wiped off any stain that might be upon them
with a piece of kid on which was a little
vaseline. However, I am a bit old-fashioned
and prefer water to this. Then when you
have the time, sit with your finger-tips in a
bowl of hot water, and after they have
soaked well, dry them and trim the nails,
keeping the skin at the base of each down is
itspleme. Push it down either with the end
of a soft ivory file, or a bit of wool, but do
not cut it off. Do not point your nails, end
do not polish them too much. The first
makes the skin supersensitive and causes it
to grow thicker, while the second and third
are counted vulgar.
Measure for a Housewife,
A certain wise old lady said to the writer
recently: "I always judge a woman by the
hearth she keeps. Show me the fire elm sits
by, led I'll tell you her ehareeter." She
was right, as you will know if you think a
minute, saysa writer in the St Louis Globe -
Democrat. From time immemorial Mae
cheery hearth has been a symbol of home
and its comforts, but when it ig disorderly.
Unwept or choked with ashes, it ceases to be
a joy or a luxury. The MOM may be poor,
and, the Are a tiny one, but if the dogerons
are bright and erect, the poker, tongs end
shovel umrshallea side by side in military
order, the hearth swept clean'the bricks as
red as scrubbing brush can raake them, end
the Are blazing cheerily, the seantiness of
the furniture will notraatter, and borne will
seent the dearest thin on earth. By the
way, will euything ever take the place of the
old open. dre•place? Beside It the furnace in
the cellar is an abomination, aud the grate
is a newfangled makesbelleve.
HouSeholti l'ointers.
Apples will not freeze if covered with a
linen cloth, nor a pre or custard burn if in
the oven with a dish of water.
Turpentine aud black varnish is the
blacking used, by hardware dealers for pro-
tecting stoves from rust. If put on properly
it will last through the season.
Two apples kept& the cake box will cause
moderately rich cake to remain moist for a
great length of time, if the apples are re -
aimed erben withered.
To make plaster of Paris hard so that it
will not break easily, mix it with from
three to ten per diet. of powdered marsh-
mallow -root.
Air ef the volley passes into the rooms
above when the cellars desed, aud the
roma heated ; hence, the importance of
keeping the cellar air pure by ventilation.
Every mother knows, though many heed.
not the fact, that unless she transfers some
household detics to the daughter she en-
courages her child to grow up in sloth and
• ienormem.
Always dissolve gelatine in an equal bulk
of obi water ; if put into hot water at first
streng taste mill be developed. It will take
about Afteeu minutes to dissolve, but many
stand two or more hours witbout
To take the rust out of steel rub the steel
with sweet alt; itt a, day or two rub with
finely powdered unslacked lime until the
rust all disappears, then oil again, roll in
woolen and put in a dry place, especially if
it be table cutlery.
It is said that whieliey will takeout every
kind of fruit stain, A child's dress 'will look
entirely ruined by the dark berry stales on
i
it, but if whiskey s peered on the discolored
plaees before sending rt into the wash it will
dime Oa RS good as new.
Scrubbing brushes when kept with the
bristles down will last twice as long.
Commou sense will tell you if you stand them
the other way tbe water will run crown and
seek into the beck, loosening the bristles,
whether they be glued or wired.
A New York Winne,: correspondent veri-
ges from experience the statement that fuel
can be sexed on ironing day by.placing over
the irons an old tin bucket or ennfter vessel,
bottom side up. "You need a thick iron
bolder, lined with paper, to handle them
with when heated in this way."
A knife, like any other machine or tool,
is all the better for being periodically clean-
ed and oiled, and it is more easily cleaned
than most machines. A pin is sufficient to
clean out the dirt in the knife, and -will servo
admirably to oil the knife afterwards.
To dean ohepherd's plaid wash carefully
in lathers made of good soap and water, not
too hot. Soap and 'water will take out tea
steins. Dry at once, and send it to be hot
pressed, which raises the colour and makes
it likenew, if itis not too old and worn.
For keepine stained floors in order one
injunction is imperative, do not wesh them or
mop them up. Tie a half -yard of canton
flannel around a. broom and polish the floor
with this, which win remove all footmarks.
If any grease has been dropped and allowed
to get dry on a dining -room floor, then you
may use a sponge dipped in hot water, but
remember that stained floors need only dry
dusting with the canton flame', which effec-
tually cleans and keeps them fresh.
For a soiled linen basket procure an ordin-
ary wicker one, and cover with cretonne or
cambric as preferred, gathered into folds and
Monied with ruchings and pleating% Put
on the top of the basket a piece of bright.
coloured satin, or velvet or flannel, upon
which is worked the initials of the lady of
the house in crewel silk or arrasene. Fasten
this an to the cretonne, hiding the edge
under a small ruching, and bind. the edgings
of the ruchings with narrow bright -coloured
ribbon or braid, whieh adds both to the
strength and to the effect.
A Serious Aomdent.
HAMILTON, Feb. 5. -At the Incline Rail -
Company's works tbe other morning, while
James Clark, Alfred Green, James McCaw -
ley, David Clark, John Bridgeway and John
Clark, jun., were working together in the ex-
cavation the pin holding the guys of a heavy
derrick broke letting the derriek and a atone
weighing over a ton fall to the bottom of the
excavation. The stone had been hoisted to
a height of several feet from the ground and
the tackle slacked previous to the stone being
plugged or broken. As soon as the pin gave
way the derrick collapsed so suddenly that
the little knot of men narrowly escaped
being crushed to death. As it was, Alfred
Green sustained injuries which May prove
fatal and David Clark was also seriously
hurt. The former was etruck on the side of
the head and breast by the falling masa of
stone and rendered insensible.
The Death Dina.
During the past one hundred years the
members of a certain family in Paris have
all closed their lives by suicide. vach
body, as it was conveyed to the morgue, had
a plain gold ring on a finger of the left hand.
This plain ring has passed from father to son,
from mother to daughter, and the attend.
ants at the morgue called it "The Fatal
Ring." A few months ago it made its ap-
pearanee on the finger of a young man -the
last of the race. As there was no claimant
of the body on this occasion, the ring was
buried with the corps.
A Rome despatch says the negotiations
between England and Italy regarding
Kassala have been broken off. Italy refuses
to agree toabandon the Soudan stronghold.
Prof. Koch last week made known the
composition of his tuberculosis lymph and
the method of its manufacture, giving at
the same time his views as to its effects.
The thrifty character of the French
people is now illustrated again, as it has
been so many times before'by the eagerness
with which they struggle for the privilege
of lending their savings to the governinent
The time appointed for the opening of the
subscriptions for the new government loan
found the offices of the minister of finance
surrounded by a vast crowd of people of all
classes and conditions, eagerly awaitine
their •turn. Workingmen in blouses and
workingwomen with caps stood out in the
snow all night in order not to lose their
opportunity. Such a demonstration as this
speaks volumes, not only for the economi-
cal habits of tbe people of France, but for
heir splendid faith in the government.
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ALL D SEASES ARISING PROM IMP!'
THE BLOOD.
TIES OF
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Bumo;Veale Weakts
Weakness, and those s •
lenovira by the names of Erysipelas, Canker, Salt -
Rheum, Pimples or Blotches on the race, Neck or
Ears, Ulcers, 'ever Sores, Boils, Soald lead, Sore
Eyes, Neuralgia, Rheureatiere, Dyspepsia, BUireues
floss, Pains in the Side, Shoulder, Back or Loine,
Diseases 0 the Liver and 'Kidneys" Costiveness,
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tlae Stomach, and General Weakness and Detellite**
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A,GRIOULTURAL,
!Exeter Liu
Blaok Teeth in )aogo.
A rew days ago I noticed my yotmg nogs
in eating core would bite offe mouthful f ou
the este chew it up about like coarse m al,
and then spit it out, only to repeat the
operation aver ena OM\ They WAWA' 1 to
eat Inatcould not, Time floor of the Jet ding
pen was covered with half chewed cot /, and
the hogs did not look just right called
my mann and eve got over into the yea and
examined the mouths of several of the hogs
and found that in every case where a hag
mated in that way there were black teeth,
one on ea,eh side of the upper jew ju.et back .
of the tusk. They were easily knocked out,
auil Appeared to be loose, one were quite ;
Run in pearly all cases. We went over !
the whole lot and operated Alp0n all thet
am eied it, and within two or three daya all
were ceting again right aud cleaning up the ;
corn, as they should. The hogs would even.
Wally abed these black teeth themselves
wad replace them with sound teeth in many
hut the loss in condition during the
ebealeing eau be avoided by knocking Orem
out. There is little or 'sorest to these teeth
and they interfere materially with proper
metre:Won, and in some cases even cause
the gums to turn black. I have never ecer,
this nutter mentioned in any farm papers
or books, yet it is quite an important itern,
and one that probably has much to do with
pigs and young hoga not thriviug in many
matances were fed bard corn, -Timothy
Hayseed.
•
er Yard
The uudereigned wishes to inforzn the public in genomab that he keeps
--constantly in stock -
!All Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL
Growing and Rattening Pigs.
It is the feedbag and the =flagmen t
says Prof. Stewart in the Country Gene o
man, to a very great extent, that produce,
thrifty, rangy pigs. They CAU be produeeds
from a dozen different breeds. It we take
the pig at weaning time wernust give it smolt
food as will grow its muscles, build its bones
and extend its frame, without laying on fat.
Only so much fat is required as will pad the
muscles and. cushion the joints. Corn meal
must be excluded, as a merely fattening food,
not having the °lenient to grow the bones.
But one of the best foods to do what we have
mentioned is wheat bran ; this has muscle -
making material and a large percentage of
phosphoric acid to build the bones. One of
tho best liquid foods is skimmed milk, con-
taining che casein or cheese and the milk
sugar contained in the whey. Butwhen that
is not to be had, alittle old process linseed
meal will be soothing to the digestive organs,
slightly laxative, and contains the proper
elemente to assist in the growth of the pig.
The mixture of the food for the young pig
may be -to le lbs, fine or coarse bran and
lb of 0. P. linseed meal. And for winterlet
one quart of short-cut clover hay be steeped
and softened for a short time in boiling
water, and. then mix with it the bran and oil
meal, and let it be given to the pig warm.
It will soon become fond of it. As the pig
is a grass -eating animal°. little softened clov-
er hay is well calculated to promote health
and growth. This is simply a proportion of
food, and not a ration for pig. proportion
feeder
must apportion the quantity to each pig.
Thrify six or seven weeks' pegs would prob-
ably eat about tbe amount here mentioned
in a day -given in two or three feeds. With
this may be given the scraps from the house.
This food will be all right till the pig is three
months old. Then to this combination add
another e lb. of corn meal every four weeke
till the pig is ready to kill -the other food
will remain the same. After six months corn
meal will be the principal food, but the oth-
er food will prevent its becoming excessiiely
fat.
Horses Crave Balt.
Do not stint your horses in the use of salt,
says an exchange. Horses, as a rule, don't
get half enough salt. Throw it into the end
of his feed -box, and let him help himself. It
is a great thing for the promotion of health.
Horses crave salt, but thousands never get
it on account of their master's ignorance or
carelessness. They will lick whitewashed
walls for the sake of the little salt in the
lime, and one pities them for being denied so
cheap a luxury. Those things which a horse
considers luxurious are all simple and are
all good for him, which is more than men
can say of most of theirs. A horse is sixnple
in his tastee • he dearly loves a lump of
sugar, a sweet apple or a carrot, and the
honest, fellow will be heartily grate-
ful to the kind master who gives them to
him. It is well worth while to win the
gratitude and affection of your horse, if only
for selfish considerations. Occasionally
vary the monotony of his' feed by steamed
meal, say twice a week. Put his oats and
some cracked corn or meal into astable pail
at noon with a little salt; pour in boiling
water, as much as the grain will take up;
cover with a folded blanket and let it stand
till evening, when it is cold; then give it to
bim and see how he will enjoy it.
Assisting the Orchards.
For :leveret years Canada has not had a
ull, old-time paying crop of apples. Last
season was worst ot all. Themause is vari-
ously attributed to. the apple -scab fungus,
rainy weather during the period of the blos-
soming ot the trees, and other less notable
reasons. No doubt one or more of these
hindrances to a full fruitage had something
to do with the unpleasant 'result, but; if we
look into the matter more carefully we shall
find that the constantly increasing unpro-
ductiyeness of our orchards is due in a great
• DRESS OR UNDRESSED
A large stook of Hemlock alwrtya on hand at mill pekes. Mooring, Si ng,
dressed-int:le ineleand-a-quarter, meleaushashalf and two mole Sarah Doors, Illiuds,
Mouldings and all Maishing Materiel, Letb, ec.
SHINGLES A SPECIALTY --Competition challenged The best and the largest
stook, and at lowest prices. Shingles A I.
All our timber thoroughly eeeseue and ready for use. No shrinkage assured.
A c -11 tvill bear out the above.
IN OLD ESTABLISHED Jas
measure to want, of fertility in the soil,
ron-
tiering the trees leoble, and assisting the
rowth of various fungi, which further in -
ere the tree arid its Inge When the land
was new the soil was full of the elements
needed for the growth of the tree and the
production of trait and semi. Many years
of cultivation in gmaineeopr and grass with-
out returning to the sail the elements used
by these crops, have removeethepotash aud
phosphoric acid, whiter are absolutely rims -
wary to the healthy growth of the trees.
So the trees are neglected, allowed
to go imprinted, anal become ragged
and unsightly bemuse "it don't pay
to raise apples any more." ,A good
many farmers have dug up arid burned
thew trees or are preparing to do 60. The
conditions of success in nuit euiture are
not, difficult when once understood. Most
farmers know when they letvo hartested a
poor crop of hay or gram that if they had
used more manure their crops would have
been better. They should knewthatthe same
rule applies to orchards. Often a ithellow
plowing of the old orchard atol the applica-
tion of a liberal coat of manure raising amps
like buckwheat which do riot i njurefruit trees
by large onlatimption of the plant -food in
the soil, if follewed up for two or three
years will render an old orchard productive
once more provided, of course, all dead and
interfering brauehes amount out and the tops
of the trees are so thinned that the sunshine
can penetrate to every part. The manuring
and the pruning must be judicious, and the
result of careful study of ell the conditions.
Nothing should be done haplutza.rd. Potash
n some form is almost invariably conducive
to large crepe. When unlea,cheti wood -
ashes can be obtained at reasonable cost, a
liberal application furnishes-potesh to the
trees in the most natural form for the tree
to use in its growth. Potash fertilizers are
now made by most manufacturers'and these
also furnish phosphoric acid to the trees,
which is an additional benefit. The profits
derived from a single good crop of similes
would pay a large fertilizer bill. When
once a farmer has practically learned that
he must manure his orchard as well as his
other fields, if he would expect good crops,
his orcharchs will soon begin to pay as
it did of old. The sniall proportion of
farmers •who will thus care for their
orchards will have good crops nearly
every year, as their fathers did, but there
will be the draw -back that as their careless
neighbors make no pretensions of trying to
prevent the attacks of codling moths and
other predatory insects, they will be obliged
to spray their trees, burn out the tent
caterpillars, and dig out borers, to kill the
offspring of the insect's bred by these care-
ess neighbors.
A Man of Momentaxy Rote.
A correspondent writing from Washing-
ton, D. C., recently, says "A weather-
beaten little man was at the Capital to -day.
Nobody noticed him, and yet he is just now
an international issue. The man was Capt.
G. R. Terry, the seizure of whose vessel in
the Behring sea has been made the occasion
for filing a writ of prohibition in the Supreme
court of the United States in behalf of the
British Government, Capt. Terry has been
following the sea for a quarter of a century,
and the sandy beard on his tanned face is
sprinkled with white, as though it had
eau& and held some of the foam of many a
wave. Capt. Terry left his home in Victoria,
B. C., a week ago last Monday in response
to a telegram from the British Minister
here saying that his presence was needed
at iVashington. Six days later, after
scrambling out of one train into another in a
hurried trip across the continent, he reached
New York, and, on Monday morning last,
he set foot for the first time in his life in
this city. A few hours afterward the coun-
sel for the British Government were making
their motion in the Supreme court. If tbe
attorney -general had suggested that it was
necessary that the captain of the vessel
should be present, Captain Terry would
have been produced with dramatic celerity.
As he was not called for, and as the British
counsel did not make his presence known,
Captain Terry has kept himself secluded in
one of the most prominent hotels in the city
ever since. He will not go home until it is
certain that his attendance here is no longer
necessary.
"The Behring sea," said Capt. Terry, "is
700 miles wide at its narrowest point and
1,200 miles at its widest. It is about 1,000
miles from its most northern to its most
southern point. If the United States under-
takes to keep out sealers from that sea it
will have to have at least fifty cutters up
there. Up to the present it has never had
snore than two, a nutnber which bears the
samerelation to the neeeeeities of the case a4
you were to place one pelivernan to every
the mike svuare of eity territory. It is an
easy thing to eatch seals in the Bellying nes.
Not only is hes a.st extent a r:afezuarti against
detection, but the sea 15 for half of tire sum-
mer eriveloped An fogs, under the cover of
which the sealing can be done. The only
trouble Is," said the Ceptani walla tattle
laugh, "that we have to fire ;big gun when
it is foggy to hring the smell beats back to
the he:mover, and big eune are heard for
etane distance."
ft Det you do any sealing last sermmerl'i
•1 Yea, I NV:Ilt up there and carne back to
7.Cortheast harbor with n lot of skins that
to be carried to Victora and there
shipped by rail across to Montreal. We had
80 many shins that there were more than
the strainer that came for them could carry,
and ea a sehoouer bind to he hired to take
the rest. Thie s reamer that (lune up brought
us the DeNVA thet there wan to no seizures, y
and so we went on back to the sea. We
pressed light by the reveille) cutter, but we
were not disturbed."
Capt. Terry differs emphatically from the
assertion that the seals are decreasing. lie
says that instead of decreasing they aro
increasing. He saw more scale last eumuut
than he had ever seen before in the
northern Pacific ocean land Beln-ing
sea. He also' makes knother very
interestiug statement. He says that
the acids, when returning to the rooker-
ies are, in the ease of the females, laden
with young. If those female seals are sal -
lowed to enter Baking sea and deliver their
young, the perpetuation of the race is se-
cured. Niemeyer, the United States for-
bid the killing of seals in Baring sea, the
sealing vessels would simply take a poaition
at the outer entrance to the sea by the
Aleut -en Wands, and kill the animala, thus
destroying old and young together. In
other words to kill seals in the North Paci-
fic occur, where thore is no possible ques-
tion drcstriction, means the destruction of
the spe, ice, while the killing of seals in
Behr:ng sea, after the period of maternity
has passed means the perpetuation of the
species.
Capt. Terry says that the seals are found
in schools of about tbirty, and only two, or
rarely three, can be killed before the rest
escape. At this rate he says the seals can
never be exterminated.
A Royal Stamp Collector.
The Duke of Edinburgh is a great stamp
collector, and has stamps which are worth
a very large sum of money.Officers in the
navy w'no know his Royal Highness's weak-
ness for these valuable little pieces of paper
collect those of whatever foreign station they
may be at, and send them to the Royal
Admiral. There is one private collection in
England which has been valued at £50,000;
and even the heads of the magnificent house
of Rothsehild are not above ir.vesting con-
siderable sums in the purchase of rare and
valuable stamps. The German stamps of the ,
oldpattern will be of no value in circulation
after March next. A complete set of them, •
will, however, be very useful in a collec-
tion, and efforts are being made to secure
these for many of our bestIcnown collectors..
Remarkable Gun Praotioe.
A. correspondent at Singapore describes,
some remarkable practice mad reel the re-
cently -mounted 9.2 BA. guns der com,
m and of Colonel Burton Brow i . A.,
were tried for the first times 1t,t month at.
the annual inspection of the Royal Artillery
by Mejor-General Sir Charles Warren. At an, -
estimated range of 6,436 yards the gunners
out away the flagstaff of the target at --the.
second shot. As these shells weigh nearly
pwt each, and ;at that range have a strik-
ing velocity of about 1185 feet a second, 18.
is easy to see what formulate° wea,ponsthey *
are in the hands of theseswell-trained men. ,
Several other shells fell only a few feet fromn.
the target, so that an • average -sized ship
would have been hit every round. -
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A correspondent writes to Notes and OW,
ies :--" Afriend informs me that by the side,
of the main road, about four miles from
Canterbury, he saw the following curious,
notice---" Traction engines and otherpersons,
. taking water from this pond will be prose-
outed." This is as good as the notice 1 once,
saw in a barber's window -'Hair cut while, ,
you wait.' At Tynemouth appeared, some
thirty or more years ago, the alarnung
' announcement,- Visitors are eautioned
against bathing within a hundred yards of
t:e.i:
pot, several trersons having been,
drowned here lately by order of the author
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