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The Huron Expositor, 1874-12-11, Page 6Farming and Farmers. In. almost all lbusiness the neglect or wrong -doing isapt to fall, or to fall most often, upon the details ; and yet it is in small matters chiefly that care is most needed. This is especially true of farm- ing and rural affairs. It is easy to lay out promisingschemes ; but success after all depends more on watching every movement, and doing the right thing at the right time, then m well -devised Wens, It will not answer_, of col rse, to r' soil, rrant ; ill not lame Ise and under - f agri- ell fol - r of all some in itself s disad atly in try a style of farming which yet situation, or appliances do not evec to attempt wheat where wheat R grow, or to produce crops ever of a kind for which you have no no market These things being stood, there is, hardly any mode culture which will not pay if lowed. Followed it moat be though, f business that of farming (little people think so) is least able to r Or to go alone. While it has vantage, it has one incident gr its favor. It is the only business which implies and presumes a home. I ou have your house and garden and your' horses, almost in advance, and a good many who calculate the profits leave these things wholly out—they "deem them so much a matter of course. Still, the business of farming, is erne in which the closest attention is necessary to success. the profits of the business depend. so much on a multitude of con- secutive decisions which require experi- ence and delicate judgment, that a few wrong tendencies during the seasonwill shipwreck the year's 'results. We have sometimes thought that it requires a more delicately balanced brain: to clo the eommercial supervision of a farm than to conduct a large mercantile house in the metropolis—the mercantile equi- poise requiring to be as much nicer as the post office letter scales are nicer than those on which you weigh iron and salt. Certain it is that whole a man may blun- der into a fortune or blunder out of it in Wall street, and in venturesome m ercan- tile hazards with,stabler goods thin fancy stocks, no farmer can expect to get rich by a throw of the dice or by a mere streak of luck. He must both plan and plod. It is this constant discipline, in fact— the daily effort to make the nearly equal pressure of expense and iecom:e prepon- derate somewhat in iavor of the latter— that gives the farmer Whet the public term his: strong common dense. From the very nature of the cases he can never be exalted very high by elope, or hurled very low by aclvef'sity. i[e keeps ill even tenor of his way_ happy if the sun- shine in life bear some reasonable pro- portion to that of the sky. - It is sometimes said that the farinei is always adroitly flatteredby the politician. We do not doubt it, nor do, we doubt the sincerity, in the- maiir, of the dema- gogue's itinerant discourse.. For, seeing the hollowness of his own life . and pro, fession, and feeling how true and stern a business it is that he addresses, heen st almost unconsciously glow. The most insincere orator, so placed, will naturally get enthusiastic over a conditionwhich he would gladly enough possess, and the beauty of which he feels the.more keenly from thevery depth of his own defici r encv. Now the farmer is human, and may not be altogether proof against a persua- sicness of speech which he himself had no occasion to cultivate. It would not be strange, indeed, if he were easier hum- bugged on some sides than other men ate. .Lf hispresent lot is hard, he should bear in mind that he is merely one wheel in the great industrial machine, and it is al- togeether likely there are others as well cls himself who suffer. Let him not mis- take a symptom for the disease. It is in his power to put the state in double debt to him by the purity and solidity of his public judgment ; and yet, if he judges, Iuview of his personal interest alone, he may inflict disaster from which he hi self at last shall be the largest sufferer In all this we intend no special sermon. j� e would merely say : 'Tis a catholic business — that which pertains to the plow, and he who follows it should have -a- mind as broad... Let the farmer see with wisdom, and he will not only sub - eine and rule his own farm, but he can largely control the measures aucl man ners which affect us all. animals. They need, something to do as well as something to eat,, and the wise roan is he who finds his animals work as well as food. One sof the best chicken " culturists " that we know .acts always on this principle. They are usually so situated that the birds can- not have full range, but have to be con- fined in a rather small yard. ',,,They generally look pitiful *hep penned, up in. this way, but here they look as cheerful as•if they were in the open air,. because something is found for them to do.. In the fall of the year leaves are thrown in about the yard, and the. grain on Which they are fed is thrown in about them, so that it takes . considerable scratching about them before they eau find it. _At other times, they are treated to'a load of send or earth thrown in the yard, in which they scratch and amuse them- selves; and sometimes through the sea- son the hired man forks up the ground. These and similar t''�oughtful plats for finding work for the feathered flock are practiced, and our friend believes With much profit to the birds. R.ocmr FOR `t THE TuiBD SEX." ' There is growing up in England a large class of women, who apparently avish to marry. They deliberately devote themselves to literature, to teaching, to some trade, generally an artistic one, at, any rate to some occupation that gives a livelihood and tends to culture, and this they choose for life. The' marrying instinct seems' dead, or rather never to have been born in them T have known at least one such person in this . country. They do not seem to be thought of as out of place ; but on the contrary they move into fit places in the great societal organism, easily and naturally, and are accepted without' remark. A .late' ar- ticle in one of the leading papers. of our .own country remarked that an almost entire change. had taken place in. this country in current speech conc ern- inunmarried women who are. past 30'7); that whereas, twenty years ago,• and always before, they were called ." old maids," and the phrase was a term of re- proach, now it was rarely if ever used, and the reproach, which used to ae. cast upon such persons, has ahnost entirely passed away.—Corre,ponclent of Wo- man's Journal. THE GENUINE HOWL !SEWING MACHINE 18 STILL AHEAD. SOLD l� W_ N'_'WATSOT�T; SEAFORTH, Agent for the County of Huron. II' you want to know the true qualities of this Celebrated Sewing Machine call at my office in Seaforth, and beware of going to where one only is kept on hand, and purposely out of or - de:, to be compared. to inferior machines to its disadvantage. - After a period of more than ten years experience in the Sewing, Machine Business I hare found that the GENUINE .HOWE MACHINE Is the only one which has given permanent satis- faction to purchasers, as never proving defective in its movements, nor being returned for repair. It possesses all the qualities of a serviceable Sewing Machine, itis strong, durable, not noisy as falsely. represented, and all its parts aro made of the best metal and perfectly fitted together. You Inas- change it from line work to heavy work with- out straining it and rendering it unfit for repro- ducing a neat and perfect stitch on fine work.. It will sew with heavy black linen thread with the same ease as with a fine cotton spool. CAUTION. Don't be imposed on by un- scrupulous dealers and the Agents of other Sew- ing machines, offering to supply you with a sous int Howe Machine if yon are not satisfied to keep the ono they are trying to sell you, as they only intend to impose upon you some worthless incita- tion of the Howe, or perhaps an old second-hand article re -varnished to look like a new machine. HURON EXPO ITORs IMMENSE BARGAINS I! IMMENSE BARGAINS!! IMMENSE BARGAINS!! TEN CASES and 811 BALES of NEW GOODS opened this week at the sign of 777. A. G. MPDOUGALL & CO. DRE S GOODS ! ! R ESS GOODS ! ! DRESS GOODS ! ! 25 pieceb 80 " a 2d " a 10 '� 1 est/ Styles, at 22 cents, all colors. ll Wool Surges, at 85 and 40 cents. ll Wool Empress Cloth, at 50e. all colors lack Lustros, at 14 cents. A. G. NIGDOUGALL :& CO. ALL WOOL SHIRTINCS ! AITL WOOL SHIRTINCS 50 pieces, 411 Wool. Choice Pat ori, at 89 and 45 cents. A. G. MVMc DOUCALL & CO. FANCY CHECK SHIIRTINCS RTiNGS be sold will be A. C. MACDOUGALL & CO. FANCY CHECK SHI ! 89 pieces, over 2000 yards. They must in ten days, and to do so, the price only 15 cents a yard. SHAWLS ! SHAWLS SHAWLS! SHAWLS ! riailg largest stock West of Toronto to choose l- from, imported from Glasgow direct to our Counters, at all prices, eoninrencing at $2.25. A. G, MCDOUGALL & CO. LADIES JACKETS ! LADIES JACKETS ! ANOTrt7CIi lot of those heavy Cloth and For Jackets at game prices as last lot. A. G. MCDOUGALL &00. FURS I FURS ! FURS'•! FURS ! I Splendid Mink Sets, from $18 to $l . Splendid°Alaska Sets, from $3.50 to 7. ' FurLadies' Children's fiefs, Children's Caps, and Ladies Mink Caps. A. G. McDOUGALL & C0: BLANKETS, BLANKETS, BLANKETS. NKE ,A TS. IPARTIES wanting the above ,goods will do well . -_ • 1 to call and examine- ours before purchasing, .j,D, as we want to reduce surplus stock, anti will sell . i them under market price. m HURON PLANING MILL 1A. 0. MaDOYLJG LL & OO 1 Swum ra HoFsEs.:—When dysentery cceurs in a horse rice -water formed by boiling rice in water until it is very soft, should be the sole drink, and given when ceid. The food should be dry hay and chopped oats (or oats coarsely ground.) Two ounces of salt should be given to the horse to lick-:, daily. If these do not cure a quart of race -milk (rice boiled in Milk until soft,) strained, should be given frequently along with an ounce of laud- anum. If . the purgation still continues. the following may be administered : one Vint of chalk mixture, half a i ounce tincture of catechu, and one dram of powdered opium.. The food should he boiled rice and hay and the drink ` rice - water. This latter treatment should only be resorted to after patient trial with the others without result. Low -BRANCHED TRF,,.—Itis general- ly conceded by our most prominent'pro- moiogists that low -branched treee in an orchard are, for several reasons, better than those trimmed high. For one I hold that the truuk of time tree sho rlcl be shaded from the sun, and the nearer the fuit is to the ground, the more avail- able ble it is, consequently I would not ad- vise the lopping away of the lower tier of branches by any menus, unless they, are lying on the ground. Cutting away limbs that promise to be unruly is far better than, to Ieave the matter until they. are already injurious. Cut twigs and not Iarge branches, :r one of the first maxifns for a young orchardist to lea rn. The theory of ,Prof Gray that trees do not carry up their bra lcbes, as they in- crease in height, is fully substaniated in orchard practice, so that the proper time to remove young limbs "that are really too bow is when they are very young, thus leaving no scar behind. iia ' Animal Industry. In all schemes for feedinganimals in , yardsand stables, instead of alio wing them to get their own food in woods or pastures, there is one thing often lost sight of, namely, the necessity of physi- cal exercise in order to have -the best of health. As regards soiling of .horned cattle, mueh has been said . about the cost of labor in feeding them, as against the saving when they graze but it is no doubt true that the health is not as good, and that also should weigh some- what against the balance, when the profit and boss are added up.. We know how it is with men and women who do not take enough, will it is as true of • 161RSSRS. GRA I°" d S OTT 'REG to announce that they have commenced business in the Shop. latelyocc pied. by Mr. Martin, andare now prepared to fill o •tiers for Sashes, .Doors, Blinds, J:lo?ticl:ings, And n11 kinds of planed lumber. ALSO LATH AND S1I LVGLES. CHEESE BOXES AND SETTERS, FAIUl GATES, HAT RACKS, &c. A good stock of Seasoned Lumber on hand. Factory and Lumber lard on Goderich street, near Main street. - Jig Sawing and Caston Planing neatly done. A. GJM Y. W. H. SCOTT, SEAFORTH PLANING MILL, SASH, DOOR AND BLIND FACTORY THE s 4escriberbegs leave to thank Win -amorous cust4oners for the liberal patronage extended to himsin(commencing business in Seaforth, and trusts tat he array be favored with a' continuance of the s sue. - Parties intending to build wonld do well to give him a call, as he -will continue to keep on hand a large stock of all kinds of DRY PINE LUMBER., VAS1iE#, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, SHINGLES, LATH, ETC. He feels confident of giving satisfaction to those who may favour hint with their patronage, as none. but first-class workmen are employed. 1 `Particular attention paid to Custom Planing 201 SOHN II. BROADFOOT. STRAW CUTTERS. THOMAS BURNETT Has been appointed agent for Seaforth and vicin- ity for the Celebrated DEN.TER STRAW tJ TTER, Manufactured by A. WHITLAW, oft Paas, Ont. These Cutters -are acknowledged to be the best and cheapest—eheapest because the best—nnade..They have invariably taken first prizes wherever shown Ali orders left at Lummzsclen .'s Drug St' orae, S'ea fo?•t1, Will be promptly filled. Specimen machines can also be seen at the same place. -THOMAS. BURNETT. Agent. MONEY ADVANCED ON Mortgage Security, in sueh suras and for such periods, and repayable in sueh manner as the:applicant'nay desire. Apply to 322*52 A. G. McDOUGALL, Seaforth. E. LUSBY, LICENSED AUCTIONEER for the County of Huron. Sales attended in all parts of the Coun- ty. All orders tirade personally orsent to Seaforth Post Office will be promptly attended to. 827 HORSES FOR SALE. A SPAN' bf fine' young horses, 5 Sea=n old. Warranted sound and good to work. . Apply to WM, DOBIIENCE, 857 Seaforth. CARPETS! C ARPETS ! CARPETS! C4RPETS Aberdeen Tapestry, 1 yard wide 40 cents. Union . do 60 " English, all Wool do `` 95 " Canadian, do. extra do 1.25 " Brussels, Super, 28 in. wide 1.50 Hemp Carpet, 1 yard wide 16c to 22ic Stair, 18 inches wide, 20" cents All Wool Stair,13 inches wide 40 " Matting, best quality, 1 yd wide 75 " Oil Cloth, 1 yard vtide, 75 " „ 2 do ' 75 " sq. yard. A. 0. McOOUGA:LL & 00. COTTONS.! COTTONS I A MERMAN and Canadian, from 7 cents s yard. Cheapest lot in Canada. • • A. G. McDOUGALL & 00. LADIESCLOUDS ! MISSES' CLOUDS ! CHILDREN'S CLOTJDS ! STILL a lot left of those Cheap Clouds and r Promenade Scarfs at fabulously low prices. A. 0. McDOUGALL' & 00. WINCEYS! WINCEYS! WINCEYSI NEW lot at 121 and 18 Its., much wider than any we have had before at the prices. A. 0. McDOUGALL & CO. OSIERYI HOSIER. Y1 A LOT of 600 pairs of women's Scarlet, all Wool Hose at 40 cents a pair, regular price 5 Bents e pair. A. Gi MODOUGALL & CO. DUNCAN • & DUNCAN, SEAFORTI3, Are now prepared to offer BETTER BARGAINS THAN EVER To their Customers in Goods for Fall and Winter, Having purchased a LARGE STOCK at ` Very Favorable Prices. DUNCAN & .DUNCA.IN Aro selling Millinery in Bonnets and Hats of . the Latest Styles very Low. DUNCAN & DUNCAN Aro selling Winceys in all Colors from l00 per yard up. . DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Velveteens in all Col ors at Prices to suit the closest buyers. DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Ladies' Collars and Ties in all the Latest Novelties. DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Ladies' Skirtsin Quilted, Felt and Fancy, at Splendid Bargains. -DUNCAN & DUNCAN • Aro selling Shawls, Grays, Browns, Stripes,' Tartan and Fancy, at prices to suit. the tines. DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Latest Styles in. Mantles at Prices. GENUINE FRENCH BRANDY AND PURE PORT WINE, FOR DEC. 18, 1874. NOTICE NOTICE ! ! NOTICE ! TO CASAE OF Teas, G'oj..� ees, '%gars, S'gru,s, Sous, Fruits, Biscuits, Cheese, Spices, Picre Wines and Brandies TOBACCOS TO -SUIT ALL. EXAMINE BEFORE PURCHASING, AND BE CON VLNCED THAT LAIDLAW'S. MEDICINAL 'PURPOSES, fy TIIE PLAG7G ` O .IIT I [; f ... AT Low JOHN S. ROBERTS' DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Clouds, Scarfs, Breakfast Shawls; Sontags and Roods, at Famine Prices.. DUNCAN & DUNCAN Are selling Cloths, Tweeds and Flannels at hard times prices. .' DUNCAN & DUNCAN Aro selling Hose, Gloves, Mufflers and Scaifs at killing prices. DUNCAN R DUNCAN Are selling Carpets, Rugs, Matts, Lace Cur- tains and Damasks, lower than city prices. BARGAINS' in every line of Goods at Prices Lower than ever. DRESS GOODS, DRESS GOODS. We have the Newest Goods in the above Line. Just to band, and is now opened out, at the Low - est Prices possible for any house to show the m. We would ask our customers to look at fancy Dress Goods, - Sel'ges, Perrot?mc&t-tas, Frengli 2lferi,noes, Black Lustres, Winceys, Black Empress Cloths, } And Sateenv,•: DRY GOODS AT THE GHOST OF FORAYER PRICES. If you want GEiY ULKE BA R GA INS In everything call on DUNCAN & DUNCAN. CLOTHING. Men's Snits Cheap, Boys' Suits Cheap, Child. ren's Suits Cheap, Overcoats and Pea Jackets Cheaper than ever, Clothing Made to Order, Hats –and Caps, Buffalo Robes, Railway Bugs, Boots and Shoes, and Rubber Goods. Call and Secure Bargains. DUNCAN & DUNCAN, DRUG STORE, :1 1 OPPOSITE THE MANSION HOTEL, MAIN STREET, t:. SEAFORTH-. JOHN S. PORTER, One-horse Backer and Exchange Broker. MAIN iS{TREET, SEAFORTH. CAPITAL, - $0,000,000.01. POWELL'S FINE MIXED TEAS, From 50 Cts. to 90 Cis. per Pentad, Acknowledged by all who have Set tried then' to be the best vadat, quality and price considered. J. C, LAIDL AW STRONG & FAIRLEY A1tEi SELLING 10 LBS. BRIGHT SUGAR FOR $1.00 STRONG & HAMLET are selling { TEA WonTR 90C _FOR 75e PEE POt N1i. FRESH XXX- OYSTERS AT STRONG & FAIRLEyS' FOR 25 CENTS PER CAN. LABRADOR HERRINGS. IN barrels and half barrels. at STRONG & FAIRLEy'S. LAKE HURON WHITE FISH, TROUT, AND HERRINGS, AT STRONG AND FAIRLEY'S This is no blow, but a fact. FINNAN HA;D D 1 ES BUYS Greenbacks and American 'Silver at cur- rent rates. Lends money on_good farm prop- erty.had S. Shaves notes without lather. Receives 1 money on deposit, and pays 20 per cent. interest —when you get it. Buys and sells Houses and Lots; parties leaving town and wishing to sell quick will find ago on hand like a thousand of brick. Bacys Hides, Sheep Skins, Fu's and Wool STRONG & FAIRLEY at the highest prices. • All this is clone with the above capital, wonder- ful, is it not ? Hand in. your wants, wishes and expectations, don't be afraid, he won't bust. 341 SALT LOOK OUT FOR YOUR OWN INTEREST, AND COAL 01 L, SELL ALEXANDER CAMERON, 'WATCHMAKER and Jeweler, Mitchell, while thanking his numerous friends and custom- ers in the County of Huron and surrounding dis- trict for past favors, would respectfully intimate that hobs!! removed to that beautiful stand west end of Hicks' Hotel, where he has opened a beautiful selection of ladies' and gents' jewelry of the latest novelties. .Also, clocks the largest :and .most Vari- ed in Western Ontario, My watches are acknowl- edged to be the cheapest *and best -iii the market, every one being thoroughly regulated and tested before being offered for sale. A Special Ageneyfor the Elgin Watch, - REPAIRING. Raving been successful in obtaining„the cervices of Mr. FRASERf who has hadlon reetice in . Cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland ons- tomers will find that in no part of the Dominion can they have their clocks watches and jewelry better done up. ALEX. CAMERON, Mitchel ,Aug, 21, 1874. Practical `Matchmaker. _sae a 85042 CLINTON .. MARBLE W OAKS, HURON STREET, Next door west of the Conuneredal Hotel. MONUMENTS HEADSTONES,; And work of all kinds in American and Foreign Marble, designed and executed in the best style, and at most reasonable prices. .Mantles of Various Colored Carlile su.. - pli4d opt hot Notice. Granite Monuments and Headstones imported to order. W. H. O0OPDR., Jr. 277 T. CALDER, .A.gent 874 Extraordinary V We were shown rezently a en, bar of Bessemer eteel to whie ferent kinds of iron and steel, feebly welded, without ehangin in the least, The bar :VW r form at Thompson's Steel Jereey City, and is one-half by welds were an made with Ch.erry-heat Welding Compo First, a piece of Bentsem from the head ef the bar, w fast to it again, the heating a veree eine of the bar a piece steel was welded eix minute. along on the bar piece of hl was wehled, in eight minn same steel cannot be welded. w as the high temperature n that flux makes it as Iiirittle under the hammer. Opposite piee0 of wrought -iron Wa8 niiintte5, Alia further along on piece of east -iron was welded board of a plow.. The ban ditions, was then ground a on the edge, eo as show the which the welded metals cam tact. No weld was visible them, and the difference ,in could only be told. by the eel ishing. This solves- a among others the weldi scrap, the rerollffig of_ - and the manufaeture of iron Bessemer steel heads. We ViSay in matter, as zonally determined the etre welds made -with this coin ful and thorough meehani At the Delamater Iron W York, the scrap Steel which about the shops is utilized. simple and -economical manne of mixed steel is made, with -quantity of the welding sprinkled between the layers. is then brought to a red -ea into shape under a Mr. Crohns; foreman of the s says the welding is _inv4riab and that the only objeetion to steel for tools is, that in m piles bits of steel of infeeior q times get in, which are not, the edges of cutting tocis. care -in selecting and oiling this difficulty would be en We understand that the Welding Compound is abut -ed. in boiler work, ltis pro weld boiler plates by puttin sheet -steel between, and perament be successful, riv entirely dispensed with, an ers will be prodUced at A COS low that of riveted work. en this matter editerial notice _its great praetieal importance branches of the irOli and stee which, ef our -own keowl say will perfectly 'unite - east -iron, east -steel, -blister- steel, Besseiner-steel and m iron. each to Any other. at a as effect an important eco - borax in such opera.tions with that substance, partMents of metal workin An Odd, WO Itas. Leeson was left a -wee in liond.on in the time of Geor the kest of her days at the r her late husband. in cold The house *as large an furnished, and. some of t kept constantly made:and in -although they had not been 30 -vears. Her:tonna roam.' ally swept out, but never -I the windows were so inerus toned thus, when asked for . might cateh cold, if the w cleaned the glass might be 4- somebody hurt. She never W self for fear of -cold, a.s a ' - anoiuted her face and neck ,.. milk and hoes lard, finished I touch of rose pink on the eh was methodical in all her ha with one favorate knife; fork and drniking out of one cup. tors, aod " tut two UAW teeth of 87.° She had no near refused. to see those more lated. One pleasant cha corded : she had a large r den, ist which she passed imi . time roading. Although she second Georges, and far into third, she -continued to wear of the time of..George J., as Of her married life. Bet 1 as turned up over c a cap over it was tied and three or four curls - the Deck. She generally - gown, with a. long train tueanee4 Ito'er3h. elcnngeewlia, id'routt - kind. of ruff or frill was sleeves.of the gown came nthrefievlehtsge, acuudeso:eresItieerwl -bonnet high -heeled. shoea, silk el iak, trimmed rowed lanyard '' riuriesdudia agocoldst-haVeads and wae spoken ef by the Lady Iloreou. Her househo of one iervant, an old mar, and a eat ; and these wenn he old agel; indeed, we believe Of thoee to whom the. agent ihe°111.ionlviorasof4ireecentetedna'`r!aniline Tan' POO. The keen instinct of this jug fungus in finding suitah leads to etraege things s knew' Of two rival anial- els_ who were located each other. They took pa to display to each other \ducts of their gardens, and sight the worst. When_ NV latter Bate ad-terbeed, :%1 reV