The Wingham Advance, 1911-10-05, Page 3That when you put a
salve onto your child's skin,
It passes through the pores
and enters the blood, just
as stitely as if yots put it
into the child's stomach?
You Tiould not put
ecared $110,5e of animal fat,
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MAKI.NG THE MOST OF THE SOIL
Ferming Francog.Intereating Letter
From "Osinadien Farm' 'Reader.
A aubacriber tu Cauadiau :Fartn, who
spending his summer abroad, :tends
the following interesting aecount of bow
egrieulture in game parte of France18
carried oo, While the /emelt ferueeres
methods are primitive as cempered tvith
thoae followed on this side of the At-
lantic, lig entleat'ors to utilize every por-
tion of the laud,. There are no waste
places itromid the fences. Every particle
of lend le cultivitted and made to pro-
duee its quota, time leaving no room for
weeds to grow and take noitrieliMelet out
of the soil that should go evoluelvely for
plant food:
"The Province ccrouraine is known as
the gerden of France, and the beautiful
valley of the 'mire, where 1 have been
staying, la the riehest agrieulturei region
In the Republic as far as the variety
e tut abundance of its product geese, rival-
ling even Burguudy in its vineyards. The
day -worker ,who cares for the vines and
euperintends the pieking of the grapes by
the women ad children, works for 50
cents a day, but he carries•with him to
his work a couple of pity land) cutlets
or even a roast chicken, so one may
judge from, tide that 1118 pay is euffi-
dent for Ids needs in this land of
plenty,
. "The French farmers restae in towns
and get forth every morning to their
work, so that the rolling valleys are seen
for relies without a i '
touse but every
inch ul
of the ground is ctiveted and
checkered with fields of yellow grain and
blue vineyards. I do not take an artistic
license iu eaying 'blue,' for the vines
are all sprinkled. evith copper sulphate to
destray the butterfly eggs. The mite,
vetoes are also burning nicotine around
the vines,
"At all the horticulturists I saw 'Am-
erican Vines' advertised, rend asked a
French farmer the meaning of this. He
told me that good and bad things come
froni. America; that some years ago a
worni known as the `phyloxerel had been
brought into the country from America
and had eaten the roots of the vines
throughout France, and that now the
grape eultivators were grafting the Am-
erican wild grapes on to their vines in
order to strengthen their roots. '
"In the field one sees- the harvesters
cuttimg the grain with. scythes, followed
by women who tie it in buneles, and
after, the grain has been tied into two -
wheeled one-horse carts, the gleaners
come and pick up little bunches of grain
that the reapers have overlooked. A.
reaping maeaine of ancient date was
pointed out to me with great pride by
one of the peasantre for it is quite a
novelty in this part of the country.
"All the southern fruits, except the
olive, are found here, and the French
farmer is particularly clever in econom-
izing space; he trains his graps vines up
above a stone wall, and forces his fruit
trees to grow vinelike aloug the sunny
wall below. His flowers are planted
round about his vegetable garden, with.
hedges of roses and daisies, so that the
whole place is both beautiful and umful.
Be takes infinite time, spends infinite
pains, and 'produces a finer fruit than
we do in a smaller quantity.
"A great many women work in the
fields, and instead of tieing a whole
herd of cows, you will meet a bent old
woman leading a single cow along the
roadside, where it crops the grass that
grows by the way, or a little gjel in
wooden shoes taking eare of a couple of
goats. Horses, too are men°, and
sometimes a dog is harnessed to a push
cart to help his master take the vege-
table's to market, but most of the farm-
ers own donkeys; and it Is (mite a pretty
sight to ece the little donkeys with their
red tasselspulling a cart heaped high
with cabbages, carrot!) and cauliflowers,
while a fresh -faced peasant woman in a
white cap and red apron walks beside.
"Altogether a more picturesque sight
than ours, but far less agreeable."
Feeding Live Stock.
(Canadian Farmer.)
To prodiice a timximun profit at a
minimum cost is the ambition of the
up-to-date dairyman and beef -raiser. Se-
lection of herd, housing and sanitary
conditions, are nomore important than
the feeding of the stock and the profit
and loss thereof.
It Is as a prevention of a falling off
In the milk flow and beef gains that the
ail performs its most valuable duty.
" When the grass becomes dry, unpalat-
able and shorn, feed from the silo does
much to keep up the milk supply and
to make up for the lack of the early
fresh grasses and clovers. Corn silage
left over from the winter is doubled in
its original values as a succulent food,
The Winter Months.
During the winter months there iv -
pears another problem. After years of
experienee in feeding the different kinda
of live stock; it is proven that our ant-
tnales thrive best on succulent food.
This portion of the ration wast supplied
by roots until the advent of the oil°
made the feeding of silage possible, and
the scarcity of labor made the profit-
able growing of roots; impossible. The
value of corn protected from the ele.
latents gives it an important place in our
farm feed, and the value of the silo as
a storage for grain fodder for summer
use has long since been recognized.
The farmer with a well filled silo has
at his command a supply of feed that
cannot be duplieated. It combines sue.
eulence with a maximurn of nourishment
and enables him to make erioney out of
hie cows in the Winter months when
other -people are loafing around dohig
the chorea
The Age of the Sire.
(The Farmers' Advocate.)
If a bull is properly cared for phi-
vidirtg he is healthy and towel eonsti-
tutionally, he ought to be in better con-
dition and more vigorotut at four years
of age than he is at one year or eighteen
months,. Many a bull has lived to be
ten or twelve or fifteen yeara of age,
end was 'vigorous during his ehtite life.
Some of the beat bulls of every breed
have livea to be that age. As a mat -
'ter of feet, the value of a bull is not
known until he is four years old. There
Is no way of judging aceurately the val.
tie of a dairy eire until his heifers be-
eettle COWS. That would be when they
are at least two years old, and this will
make the bull four year%) old. A man
would be foolish, niter be had paid a
good priee for a promising site, a good
Individual, and one well bred, to dispose
of him before Ids heifers become owe,
beeause that is the only only way in
which to judge hiut Above all, we want
a, sire that will transmit individuality
and performance to his fettle& offspring,
Oita hove eau the breeder tell about this
WWI the heifer le old enough to be judg.
ea at the milk pail? Net promising
dairy mire °tight to be ditspoeed of until
he le 'four years old. Then, if lie does
tot prove to be What one Merest, the
erioner he is disposed of the better. On
the other heed, if he does prove to be
a naval& *t, the lover hei Itel4
:es
colored by various mineral
poisons (such as triany
crude salvr.s are) into your
child's blood by way of the
stomach? Then why do
so by way of tb.e pores?
Take no risk. the always the
pure herbal essences provided in
Zam-fitsk. Zena-Btsic contains
no trace of any animal oil or fat,
and no poisonous mineral color-
ing matter. From start to finish
it is purely herbal.
It WIII heal sores, ulcers, sinus.
Me eruptions, varicose ulcers,
cuts, burns and bruises snore
quickly than any other known
preparation, It is antiteptk,
quickly stops the smarting of a
sore or cut, cures piles, inflamed
sores and blood.pokoning. It is a
conabination of healing poweraad
scientific purity. Ask those who
have proved it.
An druggists and stores Mob,: or,
Zcon•Bulc Co., Toronto, for prioo.
ims4,4romormaagammielow.
the better for the herd, providing he is
safe -tempered and inbreeding is avoided.
Australian beef and mutton sold
in Great Britain to -day represent a very
substantial profit to the graziers of the
Commonwealth. One hundred years ago
the Australian sheep had a covering
which was described as ,being more like
hair than wool, The ayerage fleece then
weighed 31/2 pounds. To -day the wool
of the Commonwealth has no rival for
its quality. It tops the market of all
countries. And while this advance in
quality has being going forward, the
average weight of the fleece has been
increased from 3% pounds to nearly 8
pounds. In other words, in the course
of a century the sheep here increased
from 4,0000 to 100,000,000, the weight
of fleece has been doubled, and the
quality of the wool has been improved
beyond recognition.
CALI FORN IA ROSES.
Farms That Supply the East -The
Rage for Picturesque Gardens.
A large ploportion of the low priced
rose plants sold in New York and the
East generally are raised in California.
They are shipped in carload lots. In
Southern California, are dozens of rose
ranches.
The idea was first .evolved about thir.
teen years ago. An Orange county
grower got the idea that Eastern roses
might be acclimated in California and
then shipped back to the market here.
Be experimented with various varieties
and found that with few exceptions the
hybrid perpetuate could easily be adapt-
ed to the purpose. From thee one nurs-
ery four carloads of rose plants a year
are now sent.
*
Thirty acres are set to reties, and
from thirty-five to forty men are em-
ployed during the shipping season, from
the middle of December to the middle
of February. Refrigerator cars are used,
and each wil hold about 10,000 plants.
.A duty of two cents 6n eath rose
plant, kindly placed in the tariff by Mr.
Dingley, maws the business very profit-
able.
So plentiful are roses in Southern
California thitt there is no profit in cut-
ting and selling them. The whole thirty
acres of the ranch referred to are in
bloom at the game time, making a riot
of color that is hideseribable. Ten of the
thirty acres are La France roses all
bundled together. On festal ocasions,
picnics, high school commencements and
the like, thousands of roses are given
aevay for the asking.
To those who have never been in
Southern Califorida, the great rose gar-
denst are a revelatioa. The most beauti-
ful surround the houses of the great
estates and the suburban homes,
Perhaps the most famous rose garden
in California is that of Adolphus Busch,
the brewer of St. Louis. This is in Pas-
adena and covers many acres. The big
gray stone house is at the top of a ser-
ies of terraces, some of grass, others of
flowere, still others of mixture of cacti,
palms, shrubs and flower beds. The
building itself is Smothered in climbing
roses,
The Western architect); run to pergoe
las. Every -idea; of the landscape gar.
doter Ls brought into play in making
these gardens, and one costing $20,000
is not unusual. Some will have a sunk-
en garden of elaborate detail, with
fountehis and white marble steps and
iron fences set in cement walls. Others
will have Japanese effecte, with all
plants and shrubs transplanted from
the Orient.
The !spirit of emulation goes down
to the poorer elasses, and many old
shacks are set in the midst of purple
and gold blooms. With the middle class
the bungalow (Mean is most popular.
Here there Is a wealth of ferns, tun-
brelle plants, papyrus and other plante,
in the 'middle ot Width the house is eet.
Morelia tend through are hedges of trim -
soft or pink geraniums or the Cherokee
rose, whirl: when in bloom look like
enoWarifte. Cypress hedges, too, are
wed. but custom has it that iio hedge
must separate the grounds from the
street.
The geranittme in California are
Wonders. With support they will climb
to the tops of 'houses and barns.
The eities use flower hedges end
street gardens in the parkings, end
teareely a thoroughfare but has a
touch of rich eolor. The flame tree,
wit brim& of whit& is tipped with er-
red Idoesomeoend the yellow am,
cia deseribed at lookiog like an eseeped
sun, pepper tress, palm, s tampion., litre
oaks and 4vergreens ire popular for
street *ging,
talAtwaj
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NEARLY ALWAYS.
(New York T1'ib111103
Where there'd a Will there's a Way ti)
Meal; It.
WISE PROSECUTION..
((1iiettgo Newf.)
Mr. Iloinebudy-I see you keep coplee
of oil the letters yon write to your Wife.
ilo sOit do It to avoid repeating your-
self?
Faranee-No. TO avoid contra.
dieting myself.
(Philadelphia, Record.)
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EITHEFt FOR HIM.
Elehhe-Poor 014 Guzzler Is beginIng to
have pipe dreams.
Slobbs-Ile ought to see a doctor.
INebba-Yes, or a pinmber,
THE ART OF WALKING,
(Rochester Post Express.)
Just et this tinie Edward Payson
Weeton might bave founa more kindred
sterns in town 11 lie were on a liorse-
back tour. Pedestrianism seems to be
neglected just at present in Rochester.
SMACK DAB.
(Philadelphia Itecord.)
Buggins-My father is over 80 years old
and has never need glasses.
Guezizoler-Always drines from the bot-
tle, -
THE MODERATION OF AEL.
(New York Sun.)
Jael justified. nerself.
`I only used the nail on my husband,"
she cried. "I didn't go around with a
lietnin selling Tom, Dick and. Barry,"
COM BINAT ION.
(eTew York Sum)
Stella -Do you believe M monopoly or
competition?
Bella -'Well, I think the men should
compete and I should monopolize thera.
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SOUNDS REASONABLE.
(Puck,)
"What should. be done in case of
drowning?" tusked tbe timid Mari, 1410
IVIIS teaming to mini.
"Welt," replied the instructor,".1 should
think the natural thing would be to bave
a funeral."
AND FOREVER AFTERWARD.
(Boston Transcript.)
Marks -Owens isn't a bad sort. I believe
he'd let you have his last dollar without
a thought of repayment.
• Parks -couldn't say as to that; but I
know that's about his mental attitude
when he borrows yource
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WILLING TO HELP.
(New Tork Bunn
, Knicker-We must realm expenses dur-
ing hard times.
• Mrs, Enicker-Why not go to Europe.to
(live like the returning emigrants
i SOCIAL CHIT-CHAT.
(Harper's Bazar.)
1 Adam was discussing his rib.
(t "It is the only operation I can talk
about as yet," he apologized.
, Herewith he anxiously awaited the ed -
t vent of appendicitis,
THE IMPORTANT POINT.
e
e
: (Cnieago News.)
3 First Doctor -I advised Jones to submit
eto an operation a year ago; and now it's
'too late.
1 Second Doctor -What! as he dead?
% Firet Doctor -No; lost his money,
1 THE INFERENCE.
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(Life.)
(
. Hokus-Miss Caustique says she is very
totel of young Saphedde.
Pokus-Why, I thought• she was a man
i hater.
i Holtus-So she is. I suppose that's
why she likes Saphedde.
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THE PROPER PLACE.
i (Woman's Home Companion.)
1 "I understand that the leading ladyand
(the prima donna had a violent quarrel.'
I"".Eiow did they settle it?"
"Oh, they went to their dressing rooms
and made up."
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BERTILLION FOILED. '‘eg
(New York Sun.)
; Little Jack Horner stuck in his thumb
and drew out a plumb.
"And I won't leave any print, either,"
,be boasted.
Yet later he wondered how they had
'found it out.
\
SOMETHING CHEAP.
(Patbeinder.)
( Lady -1 wish to get a birthday present md.
for y husban
Clerk-Hew long married?"
Lady -Ten years. .
Clerk -Bargain counter to the right, •
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; SELF -EV I DENT.
1 (Chicago News.)
; Lucy -Papa, whenever I dream of Ar -
tint: he appears as a prince. .
; Papa -Isn't he a ribbon clerk in the
day time?
Lucy -Yes, papa.
Papa -Then he must be leading a dual
' life.
CAN'T NOW. .
(Roselear.)
, "You used to send me caluly and flow-
ers," said Mr. Meekton's wife.
"Yee, Henrietta, but you know in those
daye,I could de what I liked witht my sal-
ary.' .
TIME WAS UP.
(The Smart Set.)
"Yes, I Was once engaged to a duke."
"And what ernel obstacles eatne be-
tween two loving hearts?"
."011, nothing in particular. We Just let
the Option. expire."
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.REFERENCE TO AGE RILED HER.
(Boston Transcript.)
Mr. Wibbles-What fine, dark hair you
have, Miss Knox, My wife, who is young-
er than you are, has her hair quite gray.
Miss IC:lox-Yes, and if I'd been your
wife, no doubt My hair would have been
Quite gray, too.
WAS EXTRAV,AGANT.
• (Stray Stories.)
"Yes," Said the young wife, proudly,
"father always gives something expensive
when he makes presents."
"So I discovered when he gave you
away," rejoined the young husband.
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UNLIKE HER CHICKENS.
(Catholic Standard and Times.)
"Is this really chicken Soup?" asked
Mr. Starboard,
"Of course," snapped Mrs, Starvem.
"Dcesn't It taste like ehl,ekenr
"Why, no; it's positively tender,"
WENT UP FRONT.
(Boston Transcript.)
Fanner A -I hear that your son /Drain
hes. made bill way to the front In BaW-
tato%
started in as a conductor.on 21. itreet,car
and noW he's amotorman.
Palmer say he lute. Ile
JUST GUESSING,
(London Punch)
'the Tiepin Of Bhopal while in Geneva
'purchased some 400 Swiss watches, It is
'.tlmght Viet she wanted to know the
time,
THE BLESSINGS POVERTY.
(
Flub -And you Say you are satisfied to
be making only eta a week/
bub-Bure. If 1 lied more than that,
Nome irlrl Would come along anti want
te marry me.
sium< THAWAY.
(Toledo Blade.)
"Itou *re false!" be hissed. "Yoi1. are
the artificial product of the artificial ,ege.
Veil your figure Is not your owe."' _
"Liar!" she cried triumphantly. "
?atm the Islet inetalment on it this morn.
lie demi AWAY,.
WOULD SCREAM FOR
HOURS WITH ECZEMA
Baby Dreadful Sufferer. could Not
Keep Him from Scratching. Every
JointAffected. UsedCuticuraSoaP
and OIntment and He Is Well,
"Enclosed find my sones photo and I feel
by wrItleg Mese few lines to you 1 ens only
dohlt IDY duty, 40 my eon was a droadfut
sufferer from eczema. At
the ago of two weeks he
began to get covered with
red spots on his legs and
groins, which mother
thought was red gum or
thrush; but day by day
it grew worse until every
Joint and crevice were
affected and baby started
screaming for hours deY
and night, such a thing
as sleep was out of the
question. I took him to
two of Sydney's leading doctors; one said it
%vats one of the worst cases he had seen, the
other did not think it so serious; one ordered
ointment for rubbing in, the other a dusting
powder. I followed their prescriptions for
over four months and still baby kept getting
worse. 1 could not keep him from scratching
so great was his agony.
"When he was five months old / tried the
Cuticura Remedies and I am very thankful to
gay my baby is to-dey free from all his suffer-
ing. HIS grohis were bleeding when I started
and other parts affected were the lower part
of his body ., under the knees, arms, in arra
Joints, eyebrows and seal but after twice
uSing Outtcura Ointment 1 began to see a
difference and by the time I had used me
tin, along with the bathing with Cuticura
19eap, baby was nearly cured. I still kept on
using the Cuticura Soap apd Ointment, and
now, thank goodness, he le quite well and
although he is now ten months old, has noi
bed any prther return of the trouble...
Maly) Mrs. 0. Martin, 2 Knight filt.;
Ersk ay! e, Sydney, N.S.W., Mar. SI, 1911.
Cut curs -Soap end Ointment are sold
throughout the world, but a liberal sample of
Often, with a 82 -page book on the care and
treatment of the skirt and hair will be sent
free on application to Potter Drug & chain,
Corp., 60 Coiumbus Ave', Boston, U.S.A.
WAR ON WASPS.'
Reports from all over the country sug-
gest that the wasp nuisance is Imes*,
ing rather than abating. Wasps ere al-
most as plentiful in town as in the
country. They invade fruit and confec-
tionery stores. Neither home nor office,
cottage nor mansion, Is immune from -
this product of a tropical summer,
lidany are the methods of extermina-
tion suggested by torrespondents who
write from all corners of England.
Where it is possible to locate the nest,
cyanide of potassium is by common con-
sent the quickest and the most effec-
tive destroyer. A small quantity laid
at the entrance of a nest will speedily
Recount for every wasp in it. The
greatest care should be taken in using
It, as there is no poison more d.eadily.
One touch of it on the tongue or the
nose will almost certainly kill any do-
mestic pet.
Less dangerous weapons, of course,
have to be employed when homee are in-
vaded, 'Many modes of destraetion are,
however, possible. Seine of those sugest-
ed by correspondents are original. For
instance, Colonel F. E. B. Loraine, writ.
ing front The Common, Wolwiele says:
"There is nothing like the jackdaw to
spot wasps on the window and. kill them
with unerring skill. Their stings cannot
penetrate the bird's hard beak."
Mr. 3. King, of 5 Manor road, Bor-
rowaeli, Derby, writes: "We resorted to
using a glass fly bottle of the dome
shape, baited onderneath with honey or
jam on paper. .The bottle was placed on
box outside the house, and 3,00 or
4,000.wasps trapped in two days. They,
were suffocated by smouldering brown
paper."
Wasp siings may be cured in a num-
ber of ways. A Devonshire correspon-
dent says dry carbonate of soda, thick-
ly smeared upon the affected part, will
Immediately reduce the swelling.
Another correspondent recommends
turning up a flask of oil over the sting
and pressing the mouth of the flask
well into the flesh, holding it there
about a minute, The pressure prevents
the poison from spreading while the oil
drains it out.
The most popular remedy, however, is
the homely onion, which, cut in slices
and applied to the injured part, is said
to prevent swelling and quickly to kill
the virus. Some correspondents recom-
mend tbe use of salt with the onion.
Strained Back and Side.
"While, working in a sawmill," writes
C. E. Kenney, from Ottawa, "1 [strained
my back and side so severely 1 had to
go to bed. Every movement caused me
torture. I tried different oils and MA -
runt% but wasn't helpea till 1 used .Ner-
viline. Even the first application gave
considerable relief. In three days 1 was
again at work. Other men in the mill
USO Nerviline With tremendous benefit,
too." An honeet reeord of nearly ditty
years has established the value of Poi-
son's Nerviline,
IN THE PUBLIC EYE,
PRESIDENT. M. MAUVEL DP
PORTUGAL.
The National Republie assembly
of Portugal has elected the first
president of the new republic, He
is M. Mauvel of Arriega, an exper-
ienced politician and a man of ranch
tact.
Ho will need all his ability to
"get away with" his job, as Porta -
gal is stirred up and the royalists
are busy trying to restore Manuel to
the throne.
DION'T FIND IT DULL,
(Punch
WiltVeler to Native -But deo% you find
It a bit dull here?
"Dull la it? DIA' a bit, sore; sure a
ralsonable men ean find alt the heighth
of diversion just satin' here wateldn' the
(Mains go by."
"And how many trains are there a
daeo '
"Jett the wan, sore."
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ENOUGH SAID.
The Visitor --What a aver epitaph:
"Here Lies a Piallorman":
The Sexton-Ye:6n, ours is a, wonder.
ful language. 'ire have Annle eery tteefid
intereliangeablo verloe-Ilaltimore Even -
lug Sun.
It IS difficult to huild up a reputation
oft the things you are ping to du.
W.......W.X..........11,,M.1.11.X.PORMO*1.0.1.4......1............•
i
An Adventure in the Life
of One Laurance Man
By Oda Pape In Chieage Tribune.)
It was Harry Borlaud'e first trip in
the employ Of the Pan..Aanerican Insur-
ance Company. Be had talked moth,
but little laminae heti coine, ids way.
Ile bad just coinne to realize that it
takes, an exceptionally good man to in-
.t.eierietadt; farmer in life or aecideet in-
snrance, when he chanced on a good.
"We no use weeding your breath on
pnlue(y13o.anilieltrttiroaleocciePrestPue't
The etrenal hope sprang within Boo,
land'e breast ea he gasped, "Where?"
"Go up along the lake and walk by
the white pine foreet, Yon will cOnle
to a farm next to the trees. That's Den.
woody's place. Dunwoddy tekes out a
policy withhi,weavy7 insurance man that
oo
Borland hurried along the hot foul
dusty road.
Dunwoddy was sitting on Ida porch
when the insurance agent approached.
The farmer waa long end Who., with the
look of the confirmed pessimiet. Bor-
land sized him up es an easy vietlin,
and with confidence and self-posseseion
he unloosened his opening !Teeth, .
Dunwoddy listened patiently, "la it
the biggest and beat eompany in the
woriele" he asked languidly,
• "Certainly," said Berland, "We have
ten millione In reserve. We paid out
two millions in elaints last year."
The agent, enthussed, opened his Gatos:
el and produced a bunch of lusuranee
literatere. "No humbugging with our
company, sir. No trouble for the unfor--
tonate widow and orphans. And. the
rates, Mr. Dunwoddy? Now, what wil1.
be your age at your next birthday?"
JOYOUS ANTIOIVATION, AND THEN
The farmer whittled a stick of wood
tend contemplated in an absent manor,
the little pile of shavings.
"It wasn't myself I was thinking of,"
he said, dreamily.
"Daughter, sir?" queried Borland,.
'meting his forms with nervous fingers.
"What ago le she, sire"
Dunwoddy stood up and turned to.
ward thedoor of the house.
"Come ioside and we'll talk it over,
said he.
The agent waa happy. Bis &est glow-
ed with delight while his heart throbbed
with visions of a fat cbmmission.
Dunwoddy inotiened him to a broken
backed chair while he perched him-
self on a steel between the visitor and
the door. The farmer seemed to be pon-
deting ovdr tome 4tfxhulb probleene
and Borland, seeing that he did not hear
his remarks about the benefite of life
insurance, stopped talkiug and waited
dedelopments.
After a few momenta of silence Dun-
wfoordwdayrddrew his stool closer and leaned
"Wish you had turned up last week;"
he said, boareely.
"Better late than never," said Bor.
land cheerfully. "I'm in time if your
good lady is willing."
"That's just IV said e Dunwoddy,
moodily. "She's dead."
his nerve as he droopea for-
waTrhde. agent's backbone seemed to col-
lapse with
"I -I thought you wanted to insure
her," he stammered.
"So 3' do," said Dunwoddy, quietly.
Borland's face was white and glia,st-
ly. He thought of the two utiles of
sandy road that separated Dunwoddy's
place from that of the nearest neigh-
bor. The mournful sobbing of the pines
seemed now not only weird, but ac-'
Wally oppressive.
"p`Bousatibyloe,
you insure her now- it's
fm
Mr. Dunwoddy moved nearer ,grasped
the trembling knees of the terrified
salesman, and whispered "No one
knows she's dead!" •
FACE TO FACE WITH A MADMAN.
The agent could not !meek. The weird
dirge of the pines increased in volume.
A lean, toil battered hand pointed to
a long box beneath a stretcher on the
iot11userficesiide side for
the room.
,
ntrhat, and I .want you to
n:3
$5,000. Wait and I'll show
her to you," He released Borland's
knees and pulled him by an arm to the
long box, kicking the iia off and re-.
vending .a figure wrapped in eanvas.
"I fixed her ivith this," said Dun.
woddy calmly, patting the large blade
of the knife he had used in his medita-
tive weittling, "She has been giving me
toiroodnotifteit”trouble of late and I got
The agent showed signs of a collapse.
Dunwoddy, kni fe in hand, palled him
backward. He landed on the chair in a
heap.
"Come, wake up," said Dunwoddy
with a peculiar glitter in his eyes. "Get
"Get our your forms and we'll insure
her. I'll give you $500 when I get their
cheque" • -
Ile let the knife drop, point down.
Ward. It stuBk in the floor. The agent
saawdaltathance in humoring the unarmed
la
"Yes, sir, I will. Five thousand dol-
lar policy? Yes, sir, eertainly." The
iouciii..tain pen traveled with speed acrossm
the printed for.
"What -what name, sir?" asked Bor-
land, .
"Jeilia Mary Dunwoddy," said the far-
mer.
biaVd1 age will she be on ber next
THE ESCAPE AND DISILLUS/ON.
MENT. •
Dunwoddy looked puzzled. He eon-
templated the ceiling.
rapaQidtliri she won't have one," lie said
;
"ieroy,„es; Mit we must write it hi the
po
"All right," said Danwoddy, "I'll se!)
what age she was oti her last birthday.
it's entered in the (tunny Bible,"
He moved across the room to the par-
lor door to consult, the volume that
graeed the marble topped eentre table,
and the agent sew his opportunity. With
a leap that cleated the stool he Was in
the doorway and in less time than it
takes to tell it lie had dashed down the
green path and Made a flying hand-
spring over the stone wall, leaving his
satchel with the forms and fountain
bpyeahlish
etehtted.Dunartilly =melon. n mita
ehout came to hint see a etone whizzed
An hour afterward Borland, with
clothes* dust coated, breathlessly teat -
ed the story of the murder of Mrs.
Dunwoddy to the eontstable .the ee,ar-
est town. Wheri he heel flid.tht1 tee
Glinting nerrative the officer laughed
until the tears Mile to his •lyes.
"Did you rult all the Ivey?" he itsi‘ed.
Horlana stammered a meehanical
oyem.o
"Well, thtts a AMMO. You're a for-
ma looking man, and maybe you have
heart disease. I'll have to be 0041;44
to Dutiwoddy, or he will be 'tilling me
of you fellers. Iron are the fourth
suranee agent he hes played that trkk
on, That'll. a „dummy itaffed with wool
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HOW KINGS TRAVELLED.
Ostentation of Emperor Leopold and
Simplicity of Frederick the Great.
The (inlet and unostentatioue manner
in set:1th half the monitrelie of Europe,
following the example of their holiday -
Making. subjects, are travelling about
just uow, recalls the upheaval which
aceontpanied it ruler's movements in the
olden time.
When, fer instance, the Emperor Leo.
pold in 1005 travellea from Germany to
the Tyrol he toed: with him a retinue olf
2,000 persons find 1,500 home. More
than a hundred years later the first
King of Prussia, a gentleman who loved
pomp and display, caused 1,000 bootee
to be held in readlnees at every poeting
station through which he passed on his
journeyings through his newborn king-
dom, and wherever he spent the night
there his own bedroom furniture had to
be in eeedinesie before his arirval.
The seeond Ring of Prussia, on the
other hand, objected to any form of dis-
Oen partly on account of the expense
and partly became he found thet he
travelled twice as tat when lie was only
accompanied by indispensable servants.
Some curious old doetunents have been
preserved in which the official who ar-
ranged foe the King's comfort on his
travels explains to the provincial dig.
oitaries what they are to put on hie
Majeety's table and how they had better
house him.
"As to the royal table," he writes,
"sea that you get first of all some fresh
water fish and shellfish,. of which his
Majesty is particularly fond. Also same
meats. Then there should be some good
old hock, but also some brandy and light
beer. 11 possible his Majesty always
takes his midday meal in a barn, a tent
or a.garden house, where there is plenty
et tur, and likewise his Majesty prefer
to sleep in a barn or garden house be-
cause he does not like warm rooms, nor
can he walk up steep steps without dis-
comfort."
The frugal King's greeter son, Fred-
eriok 11., inherited some of kis father's
shnple tastes, and always preferred ivb.en
travelling in his own dominious to put
up in country ,parsonages and in rooms
with only a bed, an armchair and a
table. But, parsimonious though he was
in general, he paid the sum of £15 n
night for these humble quarters, and he
tried to satie expenses by taking with
him only the ,absolutely indispeitsable
servante and ithe other carriage besides,
that old coach of his, for repairs of
Which he never would pay during the
whole of his reign'so that when it wee
falling to pieces ithail to be patehed up
in secret and the expenses had to be cov-
ered seillehOw without.the King's knowl.
edge.
His own carriage was drown by twice!e
horses, and that of the atteedants-chief
among whom wee the man i ncharge of
a bagful of godl-by sig. -From the
Westminster Gazette. •
WHERE BABY CUT HIS TEETH.
(New Yoik Sun.)
"We are called upon to repair all
kieds of °damage," said a furniture
dealer the other day. "tent the ntost
puzzling defacement I ever saw was
that which appeared on a beautiful ma-,
'legally table brought in for re -finishing.
All around its margin were rows of
snatches and small indentations %Odell
were hard Co explain, as the table was
otherwise uninjured.
"What happened to it?" I asked when
the owner came in.
"letelle she replied, `the baby insisted
on cutting his teeth around the edge of
it, Of course, it was rather expensive,
but we both think there is nothing too
good for the baby.'"
"NO SMOKING."
(Niagara Falls Gtezettea
Na. etnoking In Pittsburgh? Holy
Molt&
The "no smoking" order is now In full
force in all the big Carnegie n11118, so a
despatch from Pittsburgh elates. For
the sake of its etnployees' nostrils, bron-
-cilia: tubes and other breathing appar-
atus the human Steel Trust has forbid-
den nein to use tobacco during working
hours..
OHATZMICITJAY.
Story of the Action Whoso• Reectils
Wile Withdrawn,
It Was recently allItuttneed that the
London authorities in charge of the Fes-
kiv al of Empire pageants had withdrawn
the propoeed representation of the Hat-
tie of Cheteaugnay, on eveount of sup" -
peewit A meriell n etteeept Ibil i ties. The
to nedian Government denied all port
in this witinlrewal, and with the oppo-
sition rather condemned it ite unnecee.
eery. elene7 reptente have einee been
made for an account of the battle in
question, Ca i11 the fichoel hooka of On-
tario, ten end fifteen years ego, and.
more, Wit battle was usietily diseniseed
with a few lines.
Following 18 au account of the battle
dian history:
of Chateauguay reduced from a, Cana -
it wee in October, 1813, that an army
of 8,000 men had been collected at Sack.
ett's Harbor, N. Y,, under Generals Wil-
kinson and Boyd.
As these forces deseendea the river
they, were follewed by a small and
compa.et body of British troops itneter
(Mullets Pearson and Harvey, :sown-
panied by eiget gunboats end three field
pieces, white' did much damage to the
enemy.
On Nov, 11 Wilkinson and, his min
army were with the flotilla near Prescott
and on the way to effeet v. juncture with
an army under General Hampton, which
was to roeet them at the mouth of the
Chateauguay. General Boyd, with 2,500
men, was marching along the sho.re fol-
lowed by 800 Britieh troops under Col.
Morrison, uho had resnlved to attack
the enemy at a place called Chrysler's
Farm.
The result was one of the most Com-
pete vietories of the war, the Ameri-
cans toeing many prisoners besidee 339
officers and men, killed or wounded. The
British loss was 181,
Boyd immediately returned to hi$
beide, and joined Wilkinson. They
then proceeded to the plaee et which
the junction with Hampton was to be
nide and from where they were to ad -
Vence. upon Montreal.
from Lake Cliamplain with 7,000 men
Meanwhile Hampton hail merched
towards the mouth of the Chateauguay.
At this point, and amid the natural dif-
ficulties of forest surroundings, he was
met on the night, ni eiet. 25 by Colonel
de Salaberry itt command oe 300 French-
Canadian militia and a few Indians, and
supported by Col. MeDonell with another
French contingent of 000 men, who had
made the moat rapid forced march in
Canadian history, and had reached. Chat-
eetiguav the day before the battle.
The 'Americans advaneed upon the
hidden first line with 4,060 men, but; on
driving it back they met the second line
uoder Colonel MeDonell, and there en.
countered the stratagem of buglers plac-
ed at considerable distance e apart and
sounding their instruments so as to give
the impression of large nunilsers, oldie at
the same time the bewildering yelland
war cries of some fifty seettered Indians
immensely increased the uproar and
The immediate result was the defeat
of the American forces, their retreat on
the following day, and their consequent
failure to meet Wilkinson at the mouth
of the Chateauguay.
The failure involved the collapse of
an elaborate campaign of 15,000 men tor
the capture of Montreal, through the -
timely gallantry and clever leadership oi
two little forcea of about 2,000 men al-
together. -Ottawa Journal.
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`At best they are unpleasant, often
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nose, throat or lungs. Doctors would call
it bronchibis, asthma or catarrh. 'Lite
common root of these diseases is germ
or microbic irritation--Cetarrhozene not
only destroys disease germs it does more,
it heals diseased and inflamed tissue.
The disease is not only cured, but its
return is forever prevented by using Ca-
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made.
JAPANESE kITE FIGHTS.
Clever Manoeuvres That Bring Rival
Fliers to Grief.
In Japan there is an annual feast day
for boys, when each house having male
children hangs out stringa of paper carp,
which inflated by the breeze become life-
like monster fish.
"It was . on this feastday," says a
writer in the Wide World, "that we left
Yokohama for Kamakura, once the east-
ern capital of Japan, now merely a
quiet little .seaside village.
"As it was such an Important occasion,
the whole world made holiday*, some
families hurried to the Seashore to •fly
their enormous humming- kites, from
which the parents appeared to derive
qt,ite as inuch enjoyment as the chil-
dren. The loud hum emitted by the soar-
ing kite is catieed by it niece of 4hlo
bamboo, which is stretched tightly across
from shoulder to shoulder.
"This taut bamboo filiment not only
acts as an aeollan 'harp, but bends the
whole kite, so that its surface Is con-
cave instead of being, as in our kites, a
plane. The noise when some threecsere
or so of these monaters are In the air
at the same time is deafening,
"The Japanese kite has no tail, but is
furnished with numerous long stream -
ere. Great eonmetitione are held by the
owners of the kites, and occasionally a
mimic battle will be fought in the air,
the rival factions endeavoring by Means
of powdered glass, ithieh has been pre-
viously worked into a definite length of
the kite string8 to saw through a rival's
string, arid so bring the vanquished kite
tuttibling ignomlnously to the, grOlind.'•
• -o•
WHICH WAS IT?
(Pack)
Mrs, Flint (severely) -Do you ever
drink intoxicants?
upt z v suit.,5 N 1.?1 bmuibb
Spoiled Spooner (at th doo)--ilefore
replying, madam, permit me to ask you
If dat is an invitation or merely an in-
quiry?
THAT 011EA DED RESULT.
"W hy d your brother, the We at Point man, refuse a. position as
-Military instructor at the deaf awl damb institutiour
'Ho was afraid they would gis ei him the silence."
_
DEPENDS ON 0VIISEI41/119.
When we plunge ourselves into n dif*
fieulty by a neglect of the means or by
a misuse of the faculties which God haw
bestowed upon us, it is to be expected
that lie will leave us to our own de-
vices, But when in the honest discharge
of our duties we find ourselves in eir-
awnstanees beyond the reach of human
aid, we then may look confidently up
to Giod for aeliveronce. He will always
take cage of Us while we are in the
spot where Ire has placed us. Wheielle
appoints us for trials, Ife also appoints
for us the meane of mope. The path
of duty, though it may Seem arduous, is
difficult position, God beiug, ottr helper,
easily maintain ourselves in the most
eovIlemr etthreopeatthh. of safety. We can more
than in apparent eecurity relying ou our
Fraud% Wayland.
THE COMFORTER.
The mother11otnityenicoollinf)orter of her
erring boy, when, spite of his way.
Wardness, she has never lost hope about
him, and when he goes absolutely te
the end of hia tether and feels himself
a broken man, she still Itae hope for
him, and manages somehow to infase
something of her owo hopefulness about
him hap his spirit. What is the first
step, (warding to General Booth, in sav-
ing the outcast? It is making the out-
cast feel that some decent human being.
cares euough for Isim to lake an inter-
reisateorintahienk,gnestion of whether he is to
Oh, friends, it le a grand ministry is
this of comfort. How many opportinsi.
ties We miss in the home, in the church,
in the place of business. They etre con-
stantly occurring, and yet we let them
slip, by when we might be exercising
the gracious ministry for Christ Jesus.
We who are Christiana by profession let
our opportunities slip by to find. that
our influence is in the oppoeite diree-
tion-by our sarcasm'ever the most
dangerous of weapons, by bur coldness,
by our pride, but our supercilious aloof-
ness, sometimes by our harshness, we
give our brother a push in the wrong
direction; we throw cold water on the
ardor of our fellow -workers when we
ought to be fanning that ardor into tt
mighty flame; we speak wordS that are
less than* kind to our sensitive dear
ones at home, and we take the very
heart out of them. Oh, the pity of it
all, and the trageily•of hi Now, let us
look at this matter fairly and, square-
ly. Let us ask thia question: Is the
power to comfort ours? Has the
Church of Jesus Christ this power to-
day? There is an impression that all
Is not right with the Church to -day.
She is the subject of a good, deal of
criticism, especially wit hregard to her
pulpit. Now, at last there is much that
is wild and extravagant, and beside the
mark, yet I cannot help feeling that
the Church and pulpit, which are not
going to be upset, thrown out of step
and almost paralyzed by this criticism,
are hardly to be rewarded as being in
the Apostolic Succession. 'What did it
matter to Paul what people said? What
did criticism matter to the -Apostles,
provided they knew and had ocular
demonstration of the fact that the Gos-
pel they were called upon to preach was
it regenerating force for human life a
force that had no peer, no fellow?'
The crucial question for the Church
of Jesus Christ to -day is, Has she a
Gospel? Has site this power to com-
fort the souls of men? That is a far
more important question that what
we think about the higher criticism.
The primary question for you and. me
is not, Were the Psalms written by
Doaritiada2t ratTahatr.v
That lheomparattivelg unim-
pimport'
antthing is, Is God to
h
Cos-youTeim
S011l d
mine the refuge and the rock, the for-
tress and the high tower that He was to
the soul of the Psalmist, be that
Psalmist David or anybody else? It is
of eomparatively little import that one
'salsa, or two Isaiahs, or half
a dozen Isaiahs are reeponsible for this
book. The important question is; Do
we get visions of God such as the
writer or writers of these old prophe-
cies got? Is the Word of our Lord Com-
ing to us as it came to him or theta
bounding into our very souls the mes-
sage that forms the ceremonials in re-
ligion , are always things secondary
importance and life, the broad and true,
helpful life is for ever primary and all-
bnportant? The great crucial question
for us, whether as churchee, or as
Church 'Universal, or as individual Chris-
tian people, is this: Have we got a
Gospel? Have we gat a, word that is
ping to be rynamie in the soul of our
brother? Do we believe in the solvabil-
ity of human nature? Do we believe
in the redeemability of the b. lackguard
and the scamp?
THE BOWERS.
There be those who sow beside .1
The waters that in silence glide, •
Trusting no echo will declare •
Whose footsteps ever wandered there,
The noiseless footsteps passaway)
The stream ROWS on as yesterday;
Nor can it for it time be seen
A benefactor there had been.
Yet think not that the seed is dead
Which h1 the lonely place is apreade
I1 lives, it lives, the spring is nigh,
And soon its life shall testify.
That silent stream, that desert ground,
No more unlovely shall the found;
But sto:at:71 flet of simplest grace
Still spread their beauty round the
p
And soon or late a time will. come
When witneeses that now are dumb
With grateful eloqueoce shall tell
Vent Whent the seed, now acattered, fell.
Bernard Barton.
rkratit TIME.
Consider the kindness and helpfainess
of Time. We speak of him as the de-
stroyer, and picture him with his seythe
sweeping away all that men would
preserve. But, on the other hencl, 'what
a healer and restorer is Tinto; As we
grow older, we see nothing more plaittly
than that Wounds of the spirit, which
to youthful eyes appear incurable are
most gently eoothed antt made whole
by the passing of years. Under the old
sears flows again the Num, healthfiti
title of life. Nowhere ntore plainly than
here is it seen how innelt better God's
ways are than man's thoughts. Under
It great loss the heart impetuotisly cries
that it eon never be happy again, and
perhaps in its desperation ;eve that it
wielies 'utter to he eomfortel. But
tbouggh -angels do not fly down to open
the grave and restene the loaf, th (Adays
and months emu> as angele with healing
in their wings. Under thAir touch aching
regret passes into tender memory; into
bands that were empty new Ioys are
softly pressed; arid the heart, that Was
like the tree stripped of its leaves, tad
beaten bv winter's terripmits, is clothed
again with the men of *Tiring.
thristian