The Stanstead journal, 24 mai 1888, jeudi 24 mai 1888

[" ), lina nay 1) veut g lo ge .tusi, who he will sn wile duke 2 1] wil- lid ; \u201ciy.red § ne, srs, ou D.ul niee nace ; on das rues bort dry es.ge of rom | io cine LH pare ol tit, or p and ; for and itten viel) trine ck of ye ware teply niple | Lent by hich A 44 The Stanstead Journal.-\u2014 Established in 1845.Vol.XLIII.\u2014No.24.\u2014 ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1888, WHOLE NUMBER.2209, r ei |= The Stanstead Journal.\u2014\u2014\u2014 L.B.ROBINSON, Publisher.Journal Building, Rock Island, Staustead.U.8.Address, Derby Line, Vt.\u2014__\u2014\u2014 Terms: One year, (advance payment), $1 00 If puid in six months, 12 At the end of the year, 150 re sent in single wrappers have the babes paid to on the labe Keep watch of the number, pay before the time expires, to eave louse of papers.cape \u2014\u2014 Job DIrinting Of all descriptions, from a card to a poster, neatly and promptly executed, at moderate prices.Commercial printing a specialty.\u2014\u2014\u2014 Advertising Matoss = Square ! week (12 lines), $1 00 \u201c each continuance, 25 1 Half-square 1 week (6 liues), 75 6\u201c each continuance; 10 Transient advertising charged by the line, 10 cents for first insertion and 3 cents per line each subsequent insertion.One square one year, Special rates to business advertisers by the year.No objectionable advertisements received, and nothing but legitimate business advertising solicited.Business Cards.a Doctors.Dr.T D WHITCHER, Beebe Plain, Vermont.Office at John Tinker\u2019s Post Office.Telephone connections.RALPH M.OA NFIELD, M.D., L.R.C.P.(Lond.) Office at Residence, two doors south of the Convent, Stanstead Plain, P.Q.Connected by Telephone.T ORJONBS,M.D,C.M.Hatley, Que.JOHN McDUFEEE, O.M., M.D Physician and Surgeon.Stanstead Plain, Que.Fost Office address, Derby Line, Vt.ri J F MOULTON, + DENTIST, Stanstead Plain, Que.© ERASTUS P, BALL, Veterinary Surgeon, Graduate of Montreal Veterinary College Office at LEE Farm, Rock Island, Que.Telegraph and United States Post Offiee address, Derby Line, Vt.Advocates.M F HAOKBTT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c.Stanstead Plain, Que.Will attend all courts in the District.lections a specialty.Col- JOHN G FOSTER, Attorney at La w, Derby Line, Vermont.CHAS O BRIGHAM, Attorney at Law and Notary Public.Derby Line, Vt.Special attention paid to Collections.Prompt remittances made.H M HOVEY, ADVOCATE, Rock Island, Que.; J.8.Post Office address, Derby Line, Vt, JOSEPH L TERRILL, ADVGCATE, Sherbrooke, Que.Will be at Stanstead every Monday fore- nvon.Will attend all courts without extra charge.C.M.Thomas, Registrar, will attend to my business in my absence.Address all letters to Sherbrooke.Miscellancous.H HUNTER, HARNESS MAKER AND UPHOLSTERER.Undertaker.Supplies Furnished.Stanstead Plain, Que.ab.\u20ac.LIBBY] K EEPS a good aseortiment of Caskets, Coftine and Undertaker\u2019s Supplies, all of which will be sold at low prices.Hearse furnished when required.Rock Island, Oct.19, 87.2178 MISS MILLIE L.SMITH, Agent for E.E.Burgin\u2019s Dress Makers\u2019 Square, Fairfax, P.Q.78 HANSON BROS.Accountants, Auditors, &c., , 178 Bt.Jumes St.Montreal.Municipal, Government and Railroad De- hentures and Bank Stock bought and eold.Special attention paid to the management of Trust and other Estates.NEW MARLBORO HOTEL.American and European Plan.736 & 138 Washington street, Corner of Barvard Street, BOSTON.W.A.YOUNG, Prep'r.E 8 MAZURETTE Notary rublie, Stanstead Plain, Que.A W ELKINS, Provincial Land Surveyor.Maps, Plans and Drawings for Patent Of- nee.Orders left at Registry Office, Stan- ktendd Plain, will receive pronopt attention.Reridence, Moore St.Sherbrooke.DOERR Lat AT AR ATOM WT SE A M Open ali night.Billiards and Pool.nm : re BOSTON HOTEL, American and European plan.Cor.Beach St, and Harrisoe Avenue BOSTON.Mass.+HENRY C.BAXTER, Proprietor.FARM FOR SALE.ONSISTING of one hundred acres ot / Ecod land, tlitee and one-half miler from Derby Line, near store, church, rchool an\u2019 creamery.Good sugar orch urd of 1000 trees.An good marl and muck ted as in the county.Will keep from Inelve to fifteen cows and teas.Build hgh comfortable, Running water to house and Lam.Terma enny.L.R! KELLEŸ.Weal Holland, Vi, Jan.38, 180%, Sf The Local Legislature, Quebec, May 15.\u2014The second session of the sixth provincial legislature was opened by Lieut.-Governor Angers with the usual ceremonies this afternoon.SPEECH FROM THE THRONE.Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, Gentlemen of the Leyi®lutive Assem- Uy: Having been called through the confidence reposed in me by my Sovereign to take a part, as head of the executive, in the government of my native province, I have much pleasure in inviting you to commence the labors of the secoud session of the sixth Legislature of this province.These labors, although not numerous, are important ; and I have no doubt that you will accomplish them with credit to yourselves and with benefit to the country you represent.While you will regret with me ihe unavoidable circumstances, which have delayed the convening of the Legislature, you will be happy to learn that it is the intention of my Government to call you together early next winter.The loan which was authorized last year, has been negotiated, under exceptionally favorable conditions, with a powerful French institution.The Intseprovincial conference, whose convening you sanctioned, brought together in our ancient capital the authorized representatives of the five largest provinces of the Canadian Confederation, and you will be called upon to approve the resolutions of the conference, which have already been ralified by the Legislative Assemblies of Ontario, .Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Manitoba and which in the opinion of their authors, are destined to guarantee and assure the autonomy aud prosperity of the provinces.You will be pleased to learn that, this year, there will be a considerable excess of revenue over expenditure and I have reason to hope that, by prudent and economical management of the public moneys, there will be no more deficits in the future.The suits taken out some years ago to recover, from commercial corporations, the tax imposed upon them in 1882, have been successfully concluded in England and the prompt collection of the arrears bas brought a considerable amount into the Provincial treasury.The application of the present law presents certain difficulties, which will be removed by amendments, until such time, as the re-adjustment of the federal subsidy will enable my cy of repealing this law.4 The putting into force.of new regulations respecting the mmnagement of Crown lands has already produced satisfactory results, hy adding to the revenue of the treasury and increasing the credit of the lumber trade, and certain prosecutions which have been taken out some time \u2018ago will put an end to the regrettable frauds which bave, during past years, diverted moneys intended for colonization from their legitimate object.The work of codifving our statutes, which was commenced in 1876, is at last completed, and these revised statutes will become law on the 1st of July next, Dowinion day.The result of the labors of three Royal commissions will shortly be submitted to you ; one of these commissions, appointed in 1885.referred to the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa & Occidental railway, and of the two others appointed in 1887, one dealt which govern them, and the other had under consideration the means to be taken to improve our agricultural institutions and our system of cultivation.I call your special attention to the reports of these commissions, aud to the hills, which will be consequently submitted to you.The act of last session, establishing a special department of agriculture and colonization, has been put into force, and the organization of this important departments will give an additional and vigorous impulse to the progress of these two great and eminently national iuterests.In order the better to assure such progress, you will be called upon to vote a larger amount than usual in favor of agriculture and colonization.The jaws of civil procedure require amending.It is necessary\u2018 that the expenses aud the length of suits be diminished, and my Government was advised to consult, on this point, the judges aud other persons who were in a position to enlighten it.The opinions which have been gathered will be submitted to you with a bill for the purpose of simplifying and expediting certain proceedings.You will be called upon to consider the expediency of appointing à commission of judges, of advocates and of practical men outside of the professions, who will be asked to suggest the necessary amendments to our laws on civil procedure.My Government having pressed the final settlement of the school fund, which is common to both the provinces of Quebec and Ontario has received, cn Account, & payment of one hundred thousand dollars and you will be called upon to authorize the appointment of arbitrators, as the legislature of our sister province las done, in order to hasten the final sct- tlement of this question and to put us in possession, as soon as possible, of whatever we may be entitled to under that head.The policy of constructing iron bridges, which was inaugurated last session, has been no favorably received by the municipal authorities aud by the citizens in general, that it will be necessary to vote a larger amount this year, the better to carry out this new policy.I ain now happy to inform you that the question of the Jesuits\u2019 estates, which has been so loug pending be- Government to consider the expedien-.with lunatic asylums and the lawsd{ ties, and which bas caused so much uneasiness in this country, will soon be decided favorably and to the entis- faction of all who are interested, and that my Government hopes, during the session to submit a settlement in this connection for your approval.The obstacles which prevented the sale of the site of the old college of the Jesuits in this city have been removed; the principle of restitution in kind has been abandoned by the interested parties and all that remains to be done is to determine the amount of the compensation granted.On the occasion of the settlement of this delicate question, certain Protestant educational institutions will receive a fair allowance, proportionate to the numerical jmporiange of the minority in this province.\u201d ~ 4 : My Government, being desirous of seconding the efforts of the religious and temperance societies, will, during the present session, submit for your consideration amendments to the license laws for the purpose of rendering the granting of licenses more difficult and of facilitating the punishment of offenders.Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly : The Public Accounts for the fiscal year 1886-87 will be distributed immediately, and the estimates for the ensuing year, 1888-89, which have been prepared with the greatest possible economy, will be laid before you within a few days.Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly: The new railroad policy, which was inaugurated in 1882 and modified in 1886, has given rise to pressing requirements, which cannot be ignored any longer without endangering important interests, which the province must protect by granting new subsidies to hitherto neglected undertakings.Circumstances seem favorable for the conversion of the old debentures of the province into new bonds bearing a lower rate of interest.You will be called upon to make a special study of this important question whose solution may considerably decrease the anpual expenditure and enable the Government to grant larger subsidies to education, agriculture and colonization.To your patriotism and intelligence I leave the care of the important interests which you are called upon to protect, and I pray to God to guide you in your consideration of these great projects and to bless the efforts you will be sure to make in order to carry them to a successful issue.The newly appointed members of the Council were then introduced\u2014 Mr.Bryson by Hon.Messrs.Gar- neau and Gilman; Mr.Pacand by Hon.Mr.Garneau; Mr.Pelletier by Hon.Messrs.Garneau and Arch- ambault; Mr.Tourville by Hon.Messrs Archambault and D.A Ross; Mr.W.Prevost by Hon.Messrs.Archambault and D.A.Ross; Mr.Bresse by Hon.Messrs.Garneau and Gilmau.The deputy clerk read the commissions and the clerk administered the oath.The Speaker laid before the house the speech from the throne; also a copy of the commission appointing Chief Justice Dorion commissioner to investigate the Lavallee affair and Mr.Garneau, having introduced a bill respecting agriculture, moved the adjournment.In the Assembly the newly elected members were introduced : Mr.Goy- ette by Messrs.Mercier and Robi- doux ; Mr.Legris by Messrs.Mercier aud McShane; Mr.Champagne by Messrs.Duhamel and Larochelle.The new members took their scats on the Government benches, and were received with cheers by the Liberals.Mr.Mercier moved, seconded by Mr.Shehyn, that the speech from the throne be taken into consideration tomorrow.A committee was appointed to strike the standing committee of the house.Mr.Mercier then moved that the house adjourn out of respect to the memory of the members who had died since last session\u2014Messrs.Charlebois, of Laprairie, Brassard, of Shefford, and St.Hilaire, of Chicout- imi.All had been able and worthy members, and had discussed matters in a frank, courteous and manly way.He referred especially to what Mr.St.Hilaire had done for the development of the Lake St.John region.Mr.Taillon, in seconding the motion paid a tribute to the many good qualities of the deceased members.Mr.McShane and Mr.Faucher de St.Maurice spoke to the same effect, and the house then adjourned.A preparation las been extensively advertised of late under the name of Scotch Oats Essence as a cure for the opium habit.Some suspicious persons procured à chemical analysis and found that the active ingredient in the \u2018cure\u2019 was opium itself in the form of morphine.A cruel fraud, for the victim, finding his craving for the drug abating, does not know that he is simply strengthening its bonds instead of freeiug himself from them by the use use of the \u2018\u2018cure.\u201d Scveral other of the so-called \u2018\u2018cures\u201d have been proved to containe opium, and sooucr or later the user finds Le is as much bound to the cure as he ever was to the drug itself.\u2018There scems to Le no treachery so mean but some man will make use of it for the sake of money.\u2014{ Express and Standard.0 Flossie (aged 4)\u2014**Bobby, why do they call ministers doctors?\u201d Bubhy (a lad of conaiierable ibformation) \u2014 tween the religious and civil authori- | \u2018Cost they make folks better.\u201d Fun in the Home.Some people seem to think that honest industry cannot grow and thrive where games of any kind are allowed! Once upon a time, eays the American Farm and Home, there was in a New England town a family of eleven children\u2014eight boys and three girls\u2014all growing up under the same roof.The parents were of Puritan stock, and strictly religious.They worked the farm with their own bands, the boys aud girls-all helping.The supplies for the table and the wearing spparel all grew up from, or were raised and made upon, the farm.Under their hands the farm, which at firsl was only fifty acres, more or less, grew until it embraced an area of more than 200 acres, and they were not called illiberal in any sense.Here was property resulting from hard work and honest industry ; and yet there were in that family games at home at all segsons of the year, and especially in the long winter evenings, in which both the father and the motber sometimes joined.Then there would be spelling schools and reading classes, and then games again.Labor, instruction, and amusement went hand in hand.There was never a shirk nor sly rogue among them.There was another family of boys and girls, the head of it was a minister.He taught his children to know their place, and to understand that he was their master.In this family no games were allowed, not even checkers, fox-and-gecse, Twelve-meu-Morris, balls and bats, nor any other of the old-time New England games.Story books not known to be founded on the fact were prohibited, and the fiddle was regarded as an instrument of the evil one.The result was\u2014card-playing on the sly, trunks full of yellow-covered novels of the Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard style, and many other like indulgences which had been so strictly forbidden.None of them loved their home, and all were glad to get out from under the paternal roof as soon 48 they were sufficiently grown to do so.They had no love for home ; religious teaching was a bore to them, and if they ever become good, true men and women they never gave their parents credit for helping them to become euch\u201d Planting Potatoes.A series of expreriments to determine the most profitable method of seeding in planting potatoes have been carried on at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station and at Houghton farm under the direction of Professor Alvord.The different methods of seeding were (1) single eyes cut shallow, (2) single eyes cut deep, (3) ordinary cutting and planting, (4) whole tubers, ordinary plaut- ing, and (5) the parings cured close.Houghton farm had two plots\u2014one manüred, the other not mavured\u2014 with results as follows: The manured plot yelded at the rate per acre No.1 20 3-4 bushels; No.2, 81 1-4; No.3, 224 ; No.4, 239 3-4; No.5, 139.The unmanured yielded as foows: No.1, 20 3-4 bushels; No.2,.72; No.3, 208 1-8; No.4, 175 1-2; No.5, 120 1-4.At the State Experiment Station No.1 yielded 37 1-2 bushels; No.2, 191; No.3, 202; No.4, 158; No.5, not reported.The report does not state how much or in what manner the plots were manured.\u2018The agreement in quantity and \u2018size of the product of ordinary cutting and planting in the three cases above is very striking ; the disagreement in other re- sultg-equally so.At the state station the ordinary method produced the largest gross yicld, but considering the size of the potatues thie seed cut deep, single cyes, gave the best result.At Houghton farm the ordinary method stood well ahead on the unmanured land ; on the manured plots the whole potatoes as sced gave the greatest weight, but considering the size, the ordinary cutting gave the best result there also.At the state station single eyes cut deep did very much better than whole potatoes ; at Houghton farm exactly the reverse appears, the product of whole sced in numbes and weight, on both mabured.and unma- nured land, being double that of the deep-cut single eves.There is nothing to reconcile or explain this great difference.\u2018These combined trials, witls their contradictions, serve mainly: to show that uo conclusion is admisai- ble from one year\u2019s work in agricultural experiment.Those who are waiting and watching must be patient with the experimenters.Trials like these must be repeated and results compared and verified, until the elements of crror wan.be overcome.\u2014 Vermont Which- man, Lu ete es Iu ia estimated that Vermont alone\u2019 has 15,000,000 maple trees fully \u2018grown, of which only 5,000,000 are yet used for sugar-makingt and that the sggar-production oapsgity of the state; is fully 60,000,000 pomnds.This would \u2018he equivalent to a total oash value of nearly $4,000,000, a si Come Now, Let Us Renson To- gother.VOTERS OF STANSTEAD COUNTY.Three vears ago, by our deliberate and eoher voles, we adopted the so- called Scott Act to be the law of our County.What is the object or design of that Act?Simply and solely to prohibitand put a stop to the sale of intoxicating drinks! Just that, no more, no less.Now then,\u2014did we act wisely in so doing?That depends on the answer to another set of questions :\u2014Ave intoxicating drinks a beuefit Lo anybody or auy community ?do they make a man any wiser or better in any wav?do they make him more kind, or thoughtful, or courteous, or respectful, or patient, or prudent, or loving?do they make one\u2019s home more peaceful, or quiet, or enjoyable?do they tend to make a man more pradent in his expensas, or industrious in his business, or loving and thoughtful towards lis wife and his children?do they make him a better neighbor, or a more peaceful and law- abiding citizen?To all these questions you know\u2014every one of you knows \u2014 there is one, and only one answer to be given, and that a most emphatic no! Well, do you know of any good that the use of such drinks does?Did you ever know of any one being benefitted in mind or body, or disposition, or purse, or home comfort, or public character, by the use of strong drink?And, again, the only answer that can be given is, no.Not one of you dare dispute me when I say there 18 absolutely no good in it! On the otlier hand, does it not make men silly, and saucy, and shiftless?Does it not make them trustless, quarrelsome, and dishonest?Does it not destroy, in those that drink, every one of those qualities and feelings that make the husband, the father, the son, the \u2018citizen, what they should be?You know it does! Not a man dare deny it! The whole thing is an unmitigated evil! \u201c\u201cThe demonstration stands out as clear as lurid flames against the midnight sky, in the nation\u2019s wasted resources, in multiplied crimes and pauperism, in impoverished and wretched homes, in disease, insanity, murder and suicide, in the utter demoralization that reigns unchecked in and about the precincts of the numberless licensed dramshops that vomit forth their streams of death from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from Hudson's Bay to the great Lakes, three hundred and sixty-five days in every year.\u201d Then, did we not sct wisely in adopting that Act?Was it not right?was it not our manifest duty, as fathers, brothers, husbands, citizens, to do it?In the name of all that is reasonable and consistent, I ask, what less could we do when we had the op- portunlty?Do you object that it is not properly enforced?Does that prove that it is not right and good, as far as it is enforced?The laws against stealing, and lying, and adultery are not fully enforced.Does that prove that it is not wise to have laws against those crimes?But it has been enforced against illicit sellers in a multitude of cases and will be in many mort, if we retain the Act and men continue to violate it.We are learning how to do it! We are threal- encd with a repeal of the Act now.Who wants to do this?Of course those who want to drink more and those who want to sell more! The wives and children of the drinkers do not want it repealed.and could they vote they would prove this most effectually.Those who have any true regard for the well-being of their fellowmen don\u2019t want it.Those who respect the laws of the land, who regard truth sad righteousness, who love peace and order, and seck the good and the prosperity of our fair country, will never vote for the repeai of the Scott Act until it is superseded by better and more efficient legislation in the same direction.Men and Brethren, will you, will any of you, give your consent to this threatened measure under any circumstances?The man who votes for this measure, votes to bave the only legal barrier on the onrushing tide of idleness, and vice, and poverty, and dis- case, and crime, that we have got, removed! to let the darkest and deadliest evil that ever cursed our country have full and unrestricted sway ; votes to give to a few individuals the power and the license to coin money, unrestricted, out of the miseries, and misfortunes the blood and the tears, the sorrows and the shame, the poverty and the crimes, of their neighbors and fellow citizens! I cotreat you, Men anil Brethren, think long and onreful- ly before \u201cyou consent to allow this dreadful wrong to be done! We are all of us, our \u2018\u2018brother\u2019s kesper,\u201d and God will, by aod by, call us to so count for this, our sacred respoasibile ity! Let us act as we shall wish we had when the light of the great day of God breaks uponus., C.L.P.rt It a young than feels that his lite le à bank, he should try to fill it oat and have it sworn to.Put Urimly.The Dean Swifts are not at all dead yet, as witnoss the following pom- pilation by a writer on The San Francisco Wasp :\u2014 Men cling to their wives for various reasons :\u2014 - Through mere love of comfort, as one is attache to a good kilche utensil.: \u2018Through habit, as one likes the cosy arm-chair he is always certaln to find in one place on coming bome.Through economy; you could not hire a servant who would not cost you twice ag much and serve you only balf as well, \u2018Through pride, just as one persists in refusing to consider a foolish choice one has made, lest people should talk about it.Through love of peace ; à separation would cause so much scandal and create so much trouble.Through fear of public opinion; what would the neighbors say, snd \u2018her friends and, above all, her rcla- tives?Through imitation; everybody else clings to his wife, so one must do like the balance.Through instinctive attachment to the children one as had by her.Through force of\" character, just as a great soul bears a catas\u2018rophe without a word of complaint.Through virile dignity; ons must respect one\u2019s name, you know.Through legal compulsion ; there is no cause to offer for a suit; there are no facts to justify it.! Through philosophy ; all women resemble each other.Through a spirit of penitence :\u2014*\u2018It is all my fault, all my fault, my most grievous fault.\u201d Through petty vanity, because every | one says :\u2014*\u2018Oh, what a splendid woman!\u201d Through remorse of conscience :\u2014 \u2018Poor little woman, it is not ber-fdult that I am tired'of her.\u201d - Through spite =\u2014*\u2018So I have been caught in the trap! Ah, let others fall into it also!\u201d And now, ye untrustworthy apostles of domestic worship, thit I have summed ap these variations of conjugal attachment, find .mé the household I have been looking for, lo, these twenty years in order that I may add:\u2014 \u201cSometimes, after a few months of inatried life, a man still clings to his wife through love I\u201d WIDE AWAKE.-\u2014Steffeck's fine painting, famous in Berlin, of Queen Louise and her two young sons (the juet- dead Emperor William and his elder brother Frederick), is reproduced as the frontispiece of the May Wing AWAKE, which, in.connection witha little account entitled \u201cHis Mother\u2019s Boy,\u201d also gives a portrait of the late Emperor from the very last phuto- graph made of him.This number, in its series \u201cChildren of the White House,\u201d by Harriet Taylor Upton, prints a delightful chapter entitled The Family of James Madison,\u201d folly illustrated from paintings never before engraved; \u2018among them are four beautiful portraits of Mistress Dolly Madison, and one of a favorite granddaughter of President Jefferson, Septimia Randolph.The stories of the number sre particularly good: Miss Wilkins tells a New England story, \u2018\u2019The Squire\u2019s Sixpence,\u201d and | Mrs.Kate «Upson Clark has one full of fun, \u201cThe Rise and Fall of \u2018The Migit ;* Mrs.Annie Mitchell Macy writes a true Nantucket tale, \u2018\u2018An Astronomical Garret;\u201d Olive Risley Seward recounts the experience of the Seward party \u2018In a Tpphoon,\u201d on their tour around the world.Prof.Robert K.Douglas of the British Museum has an illustrated article on \u201cChinese Dragons,\u201d Edmund Colline describes his ¢Night in a Beaver Town,\u201d \u2018Charles Barnard proposes an astronomical éxperiment which he terms \u201cShadow Curves.\u201d Sidney Luska concludes his serial story \u201cMy Uncle Florimond, the best story, from all points, that he has written.Mrs.Shorwood's serial, **Those Cousins of Mabel\u2019s,\u201d indicates plainly a sequel in the next six numbers; Oscar Fay Adams wriles of \u201cThe Brothers Grimm,\u201d the delightful German storytellers.Mrs.Leonowens has a chapter about \u2018\u2019The Men beyond the Euphrates,\u201d while one of the moet en- tertaihing articles in the number is for youthful coin-collectors, entitled **The Pleasures of a Young Numismatist,\u201d by M.C.Ballard.There are poems by Frank Dempster Sherman, Mise Perrault, M.K.B., Christian Burke, and good things to read in the \u2018\u2019Cou- tributors and the Chfldreén,\u201d by Mrs.Mary B.Dodge and ofliers.$2.40 à year.D.Lothrop Company Publi , Boston, Mass.Look out for \u201cPlucky Smalle,\u201d Mre.Crowningshield\u2019s training-ship serial, beginning in the June number.When the teacher asked \u2018What made the tower of Plea lesan?\u2019 the slangy boy of the foot of the class promptly responded : built that wap.\u201d Clay and Other Pipes.\u201cI dop\u2019t know ss I ought to tell you about it,\u201d said s well-known New Yoek desler to 8 Sur reporter,\u201d \u201cbut it is à fact that the goft white clay pipe, whieh costa only a penny, is the healthiest and cleanest of all the pipea mow in use.Of course the meerschaum is very good when it is new, but it becomes unhealthy the older it gets, consequently it is not fit to smoke after it has been used six months, if you have any regard for your mouth.All pipes absorb, more or leas, the nicotine which is a puisonous juice, and when the pipe becomes full it unsuspectingly finde its way to the mouth sod stomach.I waa acquainted with several persons who, having used the same pipe for a number of years, have finally become seriously poisoned.\u2018The clay pipe will soak up twice as much nicotine a8 the meerschaum, consequently they should not be ysed more than a dozen times, especially when the tobacco is of.a greenish color at all dawp.Now in regard to wooden | pipes, they ought never to be amoked more, than two months, and in many cases not more than one month ; but this is according to the strength of the lobacco people use in them.After the white clay pipe comes the meerschaum ; then third, comes the herd earthern pipe ; fourth, comes the wooden pipe, then the porcelain pipe, and last, and the worst, the metallic pips.The dealer was asked.¢\u2018Do many persons use cigar bolders?\u201d \u201cThat fashion,\u201d the dealer replied, \u201cis gradually going out of style.I notice it is either to very young or very old men that cigar and cigarette holders are now sold.Fhey are not very odoriferous or handy to tuck \u2018away in the pocket, and too expen\u201d | sive to throw away after using them only once.\u201d ' Strengthesing Trees.The Florida Dispatch suggests a- means of strengthening trees inclined to split at the forks.Itsays: \u201cCrotch- ed or forked fruit-trees of any kind can be kept from splitting down by twisting together one twig from each of the main branches.These twigs, tus twisted together, will in five years grow into & solid branch which cannot be broken.\u201cTwigs which grow from the lower part of the branches are preferable for this purpose.If there arg no such twigs on the branches a \u2018water-sprout\u2019 or \u2018sucker\u2019 should be allowed to grow, or one may be started by nicely inserting s.cion into a slit between the \u2018bark and wood and securely waxing it.Twigs from the size of a lead pencil to haif an inch in diameter can be used for this parpose.Their ends should not be clipped for a year or two after they are first twisted togother.By that time they will Legin to adhere, and all the twigs and leaves may be cut from the newly-formed braoch, which will soon form a live, strong conuection between the large branches.\u201d i.This is a grand scheme.We have tried it and it works firat-cless.Now is the time to do it, and if you want it to work extra fine and speedily, cut out the bark down to the wood, where they come together, tie and cover securely with wax.Results of Eax-Boxiog.The professional opimion in regard to boxing the ears of children is, that itis » punishment criminally wicked or senseless.Medical records which have been investigated to tne end show fifty-one cases in which the ear has been injured by blows of the open hand or fist\u2014the nature of the injuries varying, of course cousidera- bly.In one case the patient has in- \u2018flammation of the ear, with suspicion of internal injury, sud a ruaning of the ear for twelve years following the blow received by that organ; this patient subsequently died of brain disease.In another case the ear became inflamed and the hearing very much impaired.In another the patient was slapped upon the left ear, snd immediate pain aud deafness ensued, with a bloody discharge, from which he was three mopths in recovering.1 Halt-Fare Pass Wanted.The gecerni passenger agent of a Toledo tatlroad, says the Toledo Blade, lately received, from an agent on the Une, a letter of which the following Is a copy, verbatim et literatim : Kind Sir: I wright you to know about ministers of the Gospel.I have never receiv'd anything to that efeot.He claimed (bat he was entitled to Half Fare over the I.St.L.& K.Cas a minister of the Gospel, and I thought X would see, and Îf's0 will you please send me a hall-fare pass for Mr, Robert À.Carter.A .he-hes License to Preach wo Tench me thy way O Lord 7 1 will will walk in thy treth, 0.KJ \u201cYours truly, Agu \u201cBecaues it was |.\u2018Spring moveltisn=-Fins days.oN Bigger than the Big Raft.The second sttempt of James D.Leary to take logs to New York in the shape of a belky timber raft promises to be an enterprise of even greater magnitude .than the fire, which was so usforténate.The present intention is not to build net exactly a rat, but more preperly a gigantic solid suip composed of logs bound together by chains and spikes, but in the shape of a manageable vessel.The huge affair is now in course of construction at Finger Board, on the Bay of Fanday, and will not be ready for launching untit late in June or July, the period of highest tide in that vicinity.The huge log ship will be 700 feet long, 140 feet longer than the other raft, and will have six lofty masts, square rigged, like those of a ship, and carrying eail which will be used as an auxiliary power to the towboat.In the mass 30.000 logs will be included, and the cost will be estimated at from $55,000 to $60,000.The craft will have 65 feet beam, will be 35 feet in depth, and will be fitted with a house on deck to accommodate the crew of 14 men, with provisions for 30 days.It is expected thai, even without the assistance as the big tug boat, which will lead the monster southward, it will not be entirely unmanageable, and may be navigated in safety to a port in case of violent weather.The course towed over will be first to Martha's Vineyard aod then westerly to New York through the Sound.Mr.Leary thinks that it will be hard to disintegrate the big raft.In fact, he does not admit that: the first one was entirely pulled apart, but that only a few hundred logs were detached from one end of it.The voy- sge to New York is expected to oc- dupy six days if the weather is favorable.The result of thé\u201d experiment is awaited with interest.+ ait as an Insecticide.In the spring of 1885 I plowed and planted thirty acres of corn.Twenty acres of the lot were clover, broken and planted to corn in 1884.The rest of the field\u2014ten acres\u2014was mowed in 1884 and plowed in the spring of 1885 with the remainder.We were two days planting the field and I saw no wars: while planting the twenty acres, but found the ten acres alive with half-grown cut worms.The men planting it declared that I would not get s hill of corn on that part of .the field.The next day after the corn was planted I had two hundred fifty lbs.of salt per acre sowed broadoast on the ten acres and, with my neighbors, who were much interested in lle experiment, awaited results.The corn came up and grew right along.No worms bothered it.Not a single hill on the salted part was cut by worms* while that part of the field where I expectod no trouble was full half cat down and it had to be replanted, some parts of it the second time.I harvested more corn from the ten acres that had been salted than from the rest of the field and the fodder was a great deal better.I sowed the field to wheat and seeded it down, and had more wheat to the acre and of better quality on the salted than on the un- .| salted part.\u2014Cor.Rural New- Yorker.sAlsska\u2019s à fur comntry, isn\u2019t it, professor?\u201d Yes,\u201d replied the pro- teswar, coldly, \u201cit is quite distant.\u201d The professional philanthropist is a man who will assist aay worthy - persons if otlier people supply the means.She\u2014\u201c What fool-Killers cigarettes are, Mr.De Dood.\u201d He (innocently) \u2014Weally, Miss Susie, I cawn\u2019£ say as to that, don\u2019t you know; I never tried them.\u201d : The tenor io a fashionable church choir found to his horror that his voice all at once had become unpleasantiy thick.He strained it, but without any good effect.\u2014[ New York Tribune.Suuday school teacher (reprovingly) \u2014¢Now, Tommy, you must pay closer attention to the lesson.Who killed Abel?\u201d Tommy (in » surprised tons of voice) \u2014\u2018Why, I didn\u2019t know he was dead.\u201d .John, dear,\u201d called out the wily from the head of the stairway, \u2018\u2018do you know it's long past midnight?Mast you work so hard on your next Sunday sermon: so early.in the week ss this?\u2019 \u201cComing in à moment, my dear.Don\u2019t bother me,\u201d replied the reverend spouse {rom his steady.\u201cLet me see-\u2014where was I?If a hea and à half lay an ogg and 8 ball\u2014Dblister the puzaling thing, anyhow!\u201d There are two thilugs needod in these days: fret, for the rick msm to find out bow poor men live; second, for poor men 8 koow how n work.[Edward Atkinson.Our East Burke correspondent says that \u2018\u2018Heary Stanley has loat thirteen cows from empty-barn di years ago twenty-cight ii yétilliogs died on his premises of ihe sème distemper.The \u2018peeple are \u20ac ® ê x pean QT asin Wout Obit ATE BASE - a rl a bmn .B.DOLLO Fitch Buy.March 12, 1884, FF, RICHLY Rewnrded are those wi read this and theu net ; the will find honorable ewployment that wif) not take them from their homes and fagy- iles The profits are large eud sure for every industrious person, many have vide aud are now making several huddred dob lars 8 month.It 1s easy for suy vue tp make $5 sud upwards per day, wiio is wil- hug th work.Father sex, young or oid; capital not needed ; we start you, Everything nes.No +peeial ability requires ; vou, render cun do it as well us uny one Write 10 us at once for full particuiars, which we will mail free.Address Buivsou & Co., Purtiaud, Maine.THE LOST MAN FOUND, AS veen coming foom Webaiers at Way's Mills with & fur cp on, Otliers can find the sume.Also à grand display of Fancy and Xmas Goods, to suit all.Ready made clothing, line of dry goods, boots and shoes, ful GROCERIES, Fletcher's biscuits, candies.Tea and 808p u specialty.Tinware, hardware, Lialiers whips, flour, salt, &c., &c.! You can cave time and money by calling on me.Why?Because I keep no books but sell for cush and small profits.Al kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods.Renpectfully yours, ; O.E.WEBSTER.Way's Mill, Nov.19, \u201987.READ, READ, READ! 1 AM now prepared to supply the He with a ul Jine of Pry pub- GROCERIES AND CROCKERY, | At the lowert possible prices.The tulluw- Jowing are some of the BARGAINS WHICH I OFFER: 7 lbs, tine tea - - $1 00 8 bars choice laundry soap - 25 8 common rize lamp chimneys 25 13 ibs standard granulated sugar 1 00 16 light brown sugar - - 100 A good tea at .- 30 I have also a tea nt - - 50 Which I will guarantee to be superior tu anything that cun be bought in town.Tea sets at 2.50 and upwards.Dinner sets containing over 100 pieces at $10.00, Farmers\u2019 Produce taken in Exchange for Goods.Please give me à call, and { will guarantee to satisfy you with prices.Yours respectful] HENRY LL Stantead, Nov.16, \"87.FOUNDRY ! WHITE.HE undersigued having leased his Ma- _ chine Shop and sold out his Tin shop business, will now pay strict attention to FOUNDRY WORK ! All kinds of Castings made to order.Particular attention paid to Hot Air FURNACES ! For either wood or coal, and all Furnace Fixtures supplied on short notice.I also manufacture the celebrated Woolley Ploughs, and Plough castings of all kinds kept on band at ressonable prices.Castings of all kiuds où haud and eold M6 usual, = Brass Castings I am also prepared to do all kinds of Brass casting and Harness Trimmings, at short notice.Anyoue wanting anything in the Foundry line are regnested to call and get prices, Sati-fuction guaranteed.JOHN PAUL.Rock Island, Oct.4, 1887.Grist Mill for Sale ! ITUATED in the flourishicg village of J) Coventry Falls, V1, six wiles from Newport, the County Seat of Orleans Co.Said mill is in good running order, snd in in the midst of a very fine farming vier ity with no other mill privilege within six wiles.Price very low For further particulars pe to MRS.B.B.FIELD, Administratsix.West Derby, Vt, Oct, 3, 1887.\" NEW STORE At Libby\u2019s Mills \"HAVE opened a Store at Libby\u2019: Bills where | huve in etock à general astort mentof Gooës usually kept in count stores, which will be sold at the lune living prices.lu Dry Goode J buve 8 we ! selected stock of Alro, Nun\u2019e Veiling, Bunting.Print! variety, Ginghume, cambrics, &c.Also bleaclhied and brown cottons,checked ebirt- ings.drilling, ducking, ticking, skirtings silicia, &c., table linen, napery, toweling) eretons flannels white and colored, & wool Scotch tartan and tweeds ; ladies and gents underwear, ready made clothing for men and boys, Jersey Jacsets bat sud caps, collar and cutis tier, gloves, mitten rubber goods, all kinds of BOOTS AND SHOE For men.womer and children tn variel?and a great variety of small wares, trim mings, laces, ete., also geperal stuck Groceries, teas, coffee, apicers rugurs sYF ups, ennncd grode, ue.our, port, lard, fieh, salt, hardware crockery ,nsile, glasa, agricultural te : stove pipe,wouden ware, brovtut, paie oils and varnieher .nevein) Linnde of bee TOBACCOS: CIGARS AND PIPES, Allkinde of soaps except noft rosp.which you can gelgratis atthe bankrupistore.Also à grens variety of articles not ses ersary to enumerate, including Pates Medicines.If you do not see what you want, 8% t Respectfully yours Ww.papes Litby's Hilla Cashmeres, Worsted & Drese Flannel - Th i.-\u2014 "]