The Stanstead journal, 15 décembre 1898, jeudi 15 décembre 1898

[" i le er re en t- te vs =m The Stanstead Journal.VOL.LIH\u2014No.49.ROCK ISLAND, (STANSTEAD) P.Q., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1898.: n ° The wonder of the age, e Clough\u2019s store, Clough\u2019s 2 : Christmas display.See ° : ad.2 SiononcuonoNenoNoNOROEONGS TOWN TOPICS.Miss Maggie McMullen is seriously ill.Special line of men\u2019s fur lined gloves and mittens at Gilmore\u2019s.Call and see O.F.Caswell,s famous Queen Quality shoe for ladies.Mrs.G.C.Boynton has sold her farm in Holland to Eugene Gray.Rich and swell effects in Holiday Suspenders at Gilmore's, Derby Line.Miss Patton, Stanstead Plain, entertained the Whist Club Monday evening.- Mrs.A.A.Bradner, returned from Montreal last night after an absence of about a week.Men\u2019s $6 suit for $3.95; Boy\u2019s $2.50 suit for $1.95, age 8 to 13, for 2 weeks only, at Gilmore's.Mrs.B.B.Allbee died at Beebe Plain on Sunday and was buried at Derby Line yesterday.For Skates, Sleds and Toys, good and cheap, visit Flint\u2019s Drug Stores, Derby Line and Rock Island.The muff lost by Mrs.Kay and advertised in the JOURNAL has since been returned by Mr.C.E.Kennedy.The college is being wired for electric lights.Between 160 and 175 incandescent lambs are being installed.Mr.Wright H.Hovey arrived in town from Boston yesterday morning, and will remain until after the holidays.Misses Esther and Ellen Butterfield returned on Saturday from a two two weeks visit in Boston and Bellows Falls.A large assortment of china and glass ware, latest designs just received from Toronto, at C.A.Searles\u2019, Beebe Plain.Mrs.G.Denio, who has lately been visiting relatives in the vicinity returned last week to her home in Bangor, Me.Mrs.R.J.Burke and Rob\u2019t.Burke, D.V.S., returned from Boston on Tuesday after an absence of about two months.The annual grand opening of the Olympic Skating Rink will take place to-morrow evening.All are invited.Admission free.Rev.J.Edward Starr preached in the Baptist Church at Newport last Sunday.He drove home through the storm in 45 minutes.The horse raffled by C.B.Lucier was won by J.Foster, a Newport plumber, and sold to J.E.Kelley 69 was the lucky number.Dolls, 250, big and small, dressed and undressed at cost or less until January 1st, to close out the stock, at Flint\u2019s Drug Store, Derby Line.A meeting of the voters of Derby Line is called for the 23rd inst., to accept or reject the provisions of the act passed by the State Legislature to in- corporote that village.Gen F.G.Butterfield attended the reception and banquet given by the Daughters of Vermont to Governor Smith and friends at the Vendome in Boston last Friday evening.On Tuesdny next the ladies of the Methodist Church will provide a supper for the Sunday School and Home Department and all interested in the work of the Sunday School.While chopping wood Tuesday afternoon, D.W.Masten, who lives on the William Lynn farm, two miles east of Derby Line, cut a deep gash in one of his feet.Several stitches had to be taken to close the wound.He is attended by Dr, Lapalme.; Every thing the printer buys, type, paper, ink, etc., must be paid for within 30 to 60 days from date of purchase, wages must be paid weekly, and yet Some people expect the printer to wait a year for his pay or take potatoes and pumpkins.It is not reasonable.o> About a foot of snow fell on Sunday followed by a very cold wave during which the thermometers froze up and it is reported that the North Pole was discovered somewhere in tho vicinity of Brown\u2019s Hill.We are, however, unable to vouch for the truth of this report.: Dr.Martin, the oculist, can be consulted at the Derby Line Hotel, Dec.18 until Dec.23.The doctor is well known in this section, having done much skilltal work in the past which has given universal satisfaction.His many friends will bé ghd to \u2018find him here again, Bes nd N TOWN TOPICS.Miss M.A, Channell of Springfield, Mass., has been visiting relatives in Stanstead during the past few days.Governor Smith of Vermont has appointed Gen.F.G.Butterfield a member of the Board of Visitors to Warwick University, Northfield, Vt.Call and see the fine stock: of toys and novelties too numerous to mention just received from New York for the holiday trade at C.A.Searles\u2019, Main St., Beebe Plain.As I am about to leave the place I am obliged to call upon all persons indebted to me for payment prior to Dec.24th, after which date accounts will have to be left for collection.G.W.Clark.The Stanstead skating rink.was opened for the first time Tuesday night.Mr.P.Caron has leased it again, and the rates have been fixed as follows: Families $3.50, gentlemen $2.25, ladies $1.75, children $1.50, with no discrimination in favor of shareholders.On account of the entertainment at the College the regular meeting of the Epworth League will begin at 7 o'clock sharp to-morrow evening.At the close of the meeting the election of officers for the ensning six months will take place.All the members are earnestly requested to attend.Frank Traverse met with a peculiar accident while putting on double windows at the Stanstead Hotel last Friday.He was standing with one foot on a post which had been set to support the banking, his right hand against the side of the window frame, while with his left hand he was pounding the sash into position, when his foot slipped fiom the post and he fell, his right hand sliding down the casing.À ring on his last finger caught on a screw head projecting from an awning fixture about an eighth of an inch.The flesh was torn off and the finger was entirely severed at the first joint.The surgeon found it necessary to amputate it above the second joint.Another burden will be imposed upon Canadian publishers January 1st, 1899.For many years the Canadian government has been carrying newspapers through the mails free as an encouragement to a necessary but struggling industry.At the beginning of the new year postage will be re-imposed upon newspapers, which is only a matter of business, and no one nas a right to complain.The free postage system led first to a reduction of the subscription price of weekly papers from $1.50 to $1.00, then to a general laxity in the matter of collections.The re-imposition of postage may not cause the counfry publishers to increase their subscription rates, but it will force them to insist upon having cash in advance and a-general decapitation of delinquents and dead heads.When the government removed the postage Lo encourage a struggling innustry it should have gone farther and appointed a guardian to each publisher to prevent him from making a fool of himself.Twenty per cent.off on all winter clothing for the next thirty days at O.F.Caswell\u2019s.CONTINUOUS ADVERTISING.It costs the Royal Baking Powder Co.something like $500,000 annually for advertising.Some one suggested to the company that it discontinue advertising one year, the baking powder so well known and advertised and place that amount $500,000 in the profits.The answer was that it would undoubtedly cost the company three times that amount to get the production in its original channels again.This is a pretty good pointer to those business men who imagine they are making a great saving when they discontinue a $4 or a $86 a month advertisement a few months in dull seasons.It never pays to tear out a dam because the water is low.\u2014Kimall Graphic.Fancy Inkstands, Calendars for 1899, Autograph and Photograph Albums, 1899 Diaries\u2019 at Flint\u2019s Drug Stores.VALE PERKINS.The past week has been one of storm throughout the entire week and during Saturday and Sunday the 10th and 11th inst\u2019s.15 inches of snow fell here.Mrs.Luman Horne is dangerously ill.Mrs.Robert Magoon is also on the \u2018sick list.Owing to the storm on Sunday the 11th there was no church service here.12° below zero on Monday the 12th.Silver plated ware, defies competition at Parsons\u2019s.GEORGEVILLE.Mr.Peter Marion, a resident of East Bolton, died at a hospital in Montreal on the 6th inst., from the effects of an operation performed on him.He was suffering from cancer of the stomach and had been in poor health for the past year.The physicians gave him no encouragement as to relief nor of his surviving the operation and told him he might live a while longer, but he replied that he had suffered enough.A wife and several children survive him.He was formerly a resident of this place and well and favorably known here.His remains were brought home and the fuheral held on Saturday last.Inland Revenue officer, A.F.Simpson was here a fow days ago looking over the store keepers for States Lo- bacco.He found a few plugs at one shop.The Bell Telephone Co.have removed their central to Magog.\u2018There are only about five of these instruments in use here and they have increased the rental of those to $25 per year.The company have put up another wire for through business on the long distance instrument, meanwhile the Skinner Co.is increasing its lists of patrons.The lake froze over on Sunday night last as far down as Magoon\u2019s Point and it will very likely remain frozen this time, Itis also frozen from the lower part to within a couple of miles of this place and there will soon be crossing at Rexford\u2019s.13°below zero on Monday morning last, the sleighing is now good, quite a quantity of snow having fallen during Saturday night and Sunday last.Buy your boy one of those nice warm winter suits at O.F.Caswell\u2019s, latest style and very cheap.AYER'S FLAT.The worst storm of the season struck us Saturday night and Sunday.12 in.of snow on Sunday.The Hatley roller made its first appearance here Monday morning.The citizens would be better pleased if the roller would pass through the main streets.Quite a blaze occured in A.G.Clough\u2019s store last Wednesday night, and might have resulted in a serious fire had it not been for the presence of mind of the inmates, and those who were in at the time.We understand there will be an op- en-air skating-rink, Mr.Davenport having the contract to keep it open during the winter.Mrs.Sargent is away visiting friends.Capt.Bullock was in town on business.Thursday.Whlle chopping Monday morning, William Tibbitts had the misfortune to cut his leg very seriously, Dr.Brown was obliged to give the patient ether and take several stitches in the wound, 5 lbs.fine Valencia raisins at Fish & McNeil\u2019s for 25cts.Mr.and Mrs.Homer Morse of Boyn- ton, were in town Saturday.Fish & MeNeil's gambling scheme seems to be sanctioned by the public, judging from the number of guesses daily registered on the doll\u2019s name.Mr.Fails of Sherbrooke was in town Tuesday on business.The Colonel's \u2018Pig\u2019 beat the record this fall.The County ccuncil met on Wednesday.The stores will be open the Friday night before Xmas.Fish & McNeil have a fine display of candy for Christmas.Preparations are being made for the Christmas-tree here on Christmas eve.The Christmas tree at Bunker Hill will be on Thursday night Dec.22nd, and on Friday night Dec.23rd at McConnel.Get your upholstering done at L.A.Lanctot\u2019s.He has an assistant now and can turn out work promptly.A new line of mouldings for picture framing.All work warranted.55w3 GRIFFIN.Our esteemed friend and neighbor, L.M.White, general agent for H.W.Elder and Co.has taken orders for eight hundred dollars of nursery stock in the past 4 weeks time.In looking over his orders taken four years ago and three years we find most of his old customers named for goods to be delivered in the spring, this speaks volumes for \u2018the nursery and Mr.White\u2019s way of doing business.Miss Maud Akin entertained the C.E.and the L.T.L.last Friday evening, all report a very pleasant time.Mrs.Alice Julian is spending the winter in Bedford with her daughter, Mrs.S.J.Montle.Large line of Sterling silver novelties very low at Parsons\u2019s.NORTH HATLEY.Col.Montgomery of New York City, who spent last summer here and who got up the grand Venitian regatta on the evening of August 22, has bought a lot and is building a new house on the west side of the lake, which he intends to occupy next summer.The frame work of the Misses Moy\u2019s new house, to replace the burnt one, ig up, and will be ready for occupn- tion next summer.The boarding-house keepers are already receiving letters from prospective summer boarders.Mr.and Mrs.Hollis LeBaron and three daughters of Santa Rosa, Cal, who came here the last of July, started Tuesday afternoon for their home.Their son Adelbert, and their niece, Miss Mary Poole, who came with them, will remain during the winter.Mr.Edward Hitchcock, from Kan- sa8, a nephew of the LeBaron\u2019s, is here on a viait.There was a large and enjoyable gathering of young people Monday evening at Mr.and Mrs, Nelson Le- Baron's, to celebrate the 18th birthday anniversary of their daughter Susie, During the last four weeks nearly 400 dressed hogs were received by the new pork packing company.On Tuesduy over 30 were received, The pastor's subject next Sunday morning will be \u201cWaiting for Christ.\u201d Subject of the Y.P.C.U.in the evening, \u201cReligion a Source of Joy.\u201d Leader, Miss Alice Wadleigh.Leggings, Guiters, and Overshoes for Ladies, Gents and Children.Prices ns low as the lowest, at Gilmore's.MASSAWIPPI, There is an epidemic of la grippe raging here\u2014twenty cases, some mild and others quite severe.Drs.Leavitt, Brown and Jones are in attendance.Among the cises are Wm.Stevenson and wife, Mrs.S.Robinson and Miss Robinson, Mr.A, Hurd and wife, Mrs.Geo.Kezar and son Burton, and Mr.A.Gardner.Where one member of the family has it others in the family are soon attacked, showing it to be contagious, and it is conceded by physicians to be.Mrs.John Strackford is dangerously ill and has been failing for some time with a disease of the foot.It is thought that mortification has set in.Mrs.W.Abbey is quite ill at Mrs.Lucy Hitchcock\u2019s.Mrs.Haines of Hatley is with them.Mrs.Wm.Gardner of Derby Line, Miss Minnie Lincoln of West Derby and Mr, H.Nason were at Mr.Albee\u2019s on Sunday last.A very young son has arrived at the home of Mr.and Mrs.George Duff.The meeting of the W.C.T.U.is put off this month, it being such a busy time with Christmas and New Year's festivities.Men\u2019s Black Fur Coats from $8 to 812.A few more Coon Coats at %28, worth £35, at Gilmore's, Derby Line.SOUTH BARNSTON.Elder Charles McClure of West Derby, Vt., will preach in the church here next Sunday at 11 A.M.After snowing every day for a weck the weather has now settled and the sleighing is good.Elder Theakston preached his farewell sermon here last Sunday but on\u2019 account of the storm but few were | out.| Augustus Bishop has the contract to | break out the roads with the roller, from here to Barnston Corner.Ifit] storms every day all winter as it did last week he will have plenty to do.The roller makes a nice road.Claude Shufelt is running a team every morning to the Baldwin's Condensed Milk Factory.All the farmers who are fortunate enough to have milk now send it here as they get $1 a hundred for it at their door.Bert Searles and wife from Boston are visiting at his brother\u2019s, Hiram Searles.The three daughters of Calston J.Horne of Orillia, Ont., spent a week here recently with friends.Fred Moulton was calling on old friends here on Tuesday.He was married last Saturday to a Miss Hall of Holland, Vt.He has engaged with C.C.Hanson of Barford to run a milk route for a year.We wish him success, We are sorry to hear of the very serious illness of Mrs.Ruth Marsh now of Bridgewater, Vt., but formerly of Barnston.The Ladies Aid will meet next Saturday afternoon, the 17th, with Miss Isabel Aldrich.If you want a tested thermometer, I have them cheap.R.C.Parsons.GRANITEVILLE.Mr, J.G.Sayball started Monday for Wentworth, N.H., to look after the interest of his sister, who died last week.He will bring the remains here with him.She will be buried at Fitch Bay as was expected last week.Geo.Moir and wife contemplate going to Boston next week to visit friends and relatives.Mr.and Mrs.Clarence Haselton are visiting this week at Mr.John Converse\u2019s, Way\u2019s Mills.The lecture delivered here on Wednesday last by Mr.J.B.Buther- land of Montreal was listened to by a large and appreciative audionce.Prayer was offered by the Rev.C.W.Finch.The title of the lecture was \u201cRambles in Ireland, Scotland, and England.\u201d Mr.Sutherland touched upon several noted men such as Burns, Sir Walter Scott and others.The lecture itself was humorous, entertaining and educative.Mr.Sutherland recently came to the Eastern Townships and is deservedly popular, His lecture certainly will not detract from the opinion already formed of bim.We hope to hear him again in the early future A very pleasant event took place at the home of Mr.and Mrs.Chas.Monroe, Stanstead Plain, Nov.30, the occasion heing the reception of their son and wife, Mr.and Mrs.Leslie Monroe.They were married Nov.16, and will make their home nt Stan- stead the coming winter.About twenty of their friends and rolatives being anxious to see them settled in their home took advantage of this occasion well equipped with many useful and costly presents.The bride and groom looked charming, and ov- eryone seemed as merry ns a marringe bell.A letter of congratulation from Rev.and Mrs.P.H.Allin was rend by Mr.Allan Dalziel, brother-in-law of the groom.The presentation speech was made by Mr.E.B.Tryon, after which Mr.Monroe responded in a feeling manner, thanking the many friends for the very pleasant evening they had enjoyed together.The presents showed the esteem in which Mr.and Mrs.Leslie Monroe are held.The company broke up at a late hour and the unanimous feeling of nll was that a very pleasant evening had heen spent.Holiday Neckties, in Tecks, Puffs, Ascots and Four-in-hand of new and Intest silks.25c to 50c nt Gilmore\u2019s, Derby Line, Vt.BARNSTON.The scholars of the model school are in training for their annual entertainment to be held at the town hall on the 21st.Captain Ben Morrill and Harry Wheeler of Stanstead passed through here last week with a fine deer which they had killed in the Hereford Woods.Mr.Wardrope, former principal of Barnston academy, was in town this week.Mr.D.Benoit of Hatley having leased his farm will make his home here during the winter.Mr.Port Thornton has gone to Mon- trea) to take a position in a printing office there.Mr.and Mrs.Wilfred Lawrence have hired out on the Jenks farm for the year.Miss Agnes Kezar of Hatley has, been visiting friends here the last two weeks.Miss Ruth Brown of Stanstead Is visiting her friend, Mrs.Paige Thornton.Following are results of the November examinations: Grade IV Elementory-\u2014Joe Bishop 1, Ida Benoit 2.Grade [11\u2014Helen Edson 1, Philias Lawrence 2.Grade II-Bernice Cleveland 1, Cora Peters 2.Grade 1\u2014Willie Benoit 1, Annie Brunelle 2.11 Academy\u2014Madge Buckland 1, Susie Parker 2.I Academy\u2014Lila Lothrop 1, Lizzie Cleveland 2.II Model\u2014Kate Edson 1, Thornton 2.; I Model\u2014Orson Cleveland 1, Roddie Cleveland 2.Holiday slippers in great variety for ladies and gentlemen, 50c and up at Gilmore's, Derby Line.Alice MOE'S RIVER.Rev.E.Smiley will hold a service next Sunday afternoon at three o\u2019- clock.The Ladies Industrial Circle will hold its bazar next Tuesday afternoon and evening, December 20.Rev.and Mrs.Smiley expect to be present.Rich cut glass, Limoges and other China at very low prices at Parsons\u2019s.WHOLE No.2756.Baxtors Studio at Derby Line ttracts Au artistic Peaple, amined with o put it mildly, are tra care, his portraits, he finens posable of hiv Rignes taken and finished pietnRes, very person should get som FITCH BAY.The first big snow storm of the season commenced Friday night and snowed steadily till Sunday night, nearly two feet.Fortunately there were no heavy winds so the ronds were not blocked.Monday was the firat time the mercury has gone below zoro this winter.Then it marked 20 degrees bolow and it was 12 degrees below Tuesday morning.Singing school is now taught by M.A.Farnsworth.8.Il.Stone was In Sherbrooke on business last week.F.O.Rand has put in a furnace for Wayland Dolloft at Oliver and one for O.A.Jenkins at Smith's Mills, A Christmas entertainment for the Sunday School is belng arranged for.Particulars lator.Walter Bowen has moved into ono of 1.B.Rider\u2019s tenant houses.Mrs.John Gardine has heen laid up for a few days from having stopped on a rusty nail and driving it into her foot, but she is improving.running, A good line of fruit and confection- ory suitable for the holiday trade nt lowest prices at C.A.Searles\u2019 store, Becbo Plain.ABBOTT'S CORNER.Me.Thomas Little is so far recov- cred from hin recent severe injuries as to he able to attend to his business ns usual.Our new snow roller has made its appearance.It was built by Sleeper & Ackhurst of Coaticook, and is a daisy.It mado its first trip last Friday, drawn by four prancing steeds in charge of Messrs.T.and B.Little, our champion pathmakers.Our town council is to be congratulated for having disposed of our old roller at a price that enabled thom to purchase the new one for the same amount of money.Mrs.H.W.LeBaron and family of Santa Rosa, Cal., who have been visiting at her father's, Mr.John Johnson's, started on their home journey on Wednesday, the 14th inst.Men's Laundered and Unlaundered Dress Shirts at 39c.Call and examine them before you pay 50c for one not s0 good.(i)more's, Derby Line.BOYNTON.Mr.F.E.Wells of Lawrence, Mass., visited his parents at Fairfax and also called on friends in this place this week.W.A.Brown from Medford made a short vigit at home with his mother and brothers last week, Mr.David Davis an aged resident of this place is in failing health, Both the saw and grist mills are quite busy at present.Mrs.A.A.Merrill and Mr.and Mrs.D.M.McLain wish to thank their ; many friends of Boynton who so kindly assisted them in their late sickness and bereavement.With every 41.50 of goods sold I am giving articles from my stock valued from 15c to #10.You can make your \u2018own selection.This is no humbug.TR.C.Parsons.| CURRIERS.The past week las heen stormy enough.About twenty inches of snow fell on Saturday night and Sunday with high wind.No school to-day (Monday) as the teacher went home and has not put in an appearance since the storm.Mgr.Ramsay has gone to Montreal to spend the winter.Mr.Ward occupies the house during the winter.Mr.G.Rogers has given up his place on the West road to Wm.Mc- Kenna of Magog, and moved into one of Mgr.Ramsay\u2019s houses.\\ This end of the lake froze over Sunday night.HATLEY.You will find at M.W.LeBaron\u2019s store, East Hatley, a great variety of Christmas and New Year\u2019s goods.A full line of dry goods, groceries, crockery, hardware, hoots, shoes, ete.Holiday goods a specialty.Prices to suit everyone.Come and examine stock before buying elsewhere.A.C.Church, Odd Fellows Hall.Preaching next Sunday at 10.30 a.m., but in consequence of impaired health which makes it impossible for the pastor Eld.C.W.Dockham, to drive rom West Derby, the meetings at the Hall will be discontinued for the present, Eld.Dockham still holding pas- tora) charge of the church.£ HN 4 CARE a t id dis SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY.Unior the Magician's Wand \u2014 A Weird Light of Midnight \u2014 Implanted Artificial Teeth \u2014 Electric Stoppsge of Bleeding \u2014 The Electrio Fish\u2019s Battery \u2014 Aluminum as Fuel \u2014 Marvelous Time- Recoriling \u2014 Sodor \u2014 Iridescent Paper.The rate of the world\u2019s transformation by science is not easily appreciated.A French author finds that, if a man were now to awaken from a trance that began at the close of the Paris Exposition of 1889, it would be necessary to explain to him these sensational advances in mechanics and physics alone: 1.The bicycle, which is revolutionizing onr habits, yet existed ten years ago only in rare and crude specimens.2.The horscless carriage, driven by petroleum or electricity, with perhaps an even greater future than the bicycle.3.The electric railway, which in the next century will modify the working of the great trunk lines.4.Polyphase currents, enabling us to transmit and distribute natural motor forces at great distances.5.The Laval steam turbine a practical means of using steam at high pressure.6.The interior combustion motor of M.Diesel, the most economical means known of converting heat into work.7.Calcium carbide, giving acetylene, one of the il- uminants of the next century.8.The cinematograph, with whose wonders we have been recently saturated.9.The Roentgen rays, which are revolutionizing the healing art.10.Liquid air for industrial use.11.Color photography.12.Cold light obtained by luminescence of rarefied gases under electrification.13.Wireless telegraphy.14.High frequency currents, used in marvellous experiments by Tesla and D.Arsonval.Not the least interesting of astro- nomieal puzzles is the Gegenschein, or counterglow, a faint light 20 or 30 degrees in diameter, that is seen by the naked eye only in the zodiac and always exactly opposite\u2014180 degrees from\u2014the sun.This little observed phenomenon is as great a mystery as the zodiacal light.A late suggestion is that it is due, like the luminous redness of the eclipsed moon, to the refraction by the earth\u2019s atmosphere of sunlight, which is made to converge in the shadow of the earth and is reflected\u2014in the one case by the moon and in the other by the dust of space.Spectroscopic evidence tends to show that the zodiacal light is sunlight reflected from a dust ring accompanying the earth.Artificial teeth of gutta percha, porcelain or metal have been firmly implanted in the jaws of men and dogs by the process of Dr.Zamesky.Holes are m.de in the base of the tooth, which is then placed in a cavity formed in the jaw, and in a short time a soft granulated growth enters the holes in the tooth and, graduaily hardening, securely holds it in place.The electric hemostat of Mr.Lawson Tait consists of a platinum wire in steel forceps, and this with current heating only to 180 degrees, agglutinates the arterial wall in a few seconds, stopping all flow of blood.charge seems to depend upon some chemical process in the plate where the nerve filaments end, In the full grown gymnotus, whose shock may stun a man, the voltage is probably between 300 and 800, A curious feature of the batteries is that they are without insulation.The discharge, which does not affect the fish itself, is used for protection and securing food, Aluminum is a source of stored energy whose use, as described to the German Electro-Chemical Society, has given astonishing results.When mixed in a sand-lined wooden bucket with an oxygen compound, such as iron oxide, the aluminum can be ignited with a match, after which it burns quietly, giving forth intense heat, which may reach 3000 degrees C.This supplies an economical furnace for brazing or hard soldering.It can be used also for welding, - for producing pure wrought iron, and for obtaining certain pure metals free from carbon that have been almost impossible to produce.A mass of metallic chromium weighing 556 pounds has been thus obtained.The slag is artificial corundum of extraordinary hardness, containing minute artificial ru- hies.The record of the ordinary tuning fork chronograph is traced on a smoke blackened surface.A mew and far more delicate chronograph consists of -a cylinder, rotated with a surface velocity of 100 feet per second, on which is photographed a pencil of light which has passed through a hole in the'end of a rapidly vibrating tuning fork.A recent curious record is that of the compression of a copper cylinder by a blow.A 33-pound weight falling 15 inches permanently compressed the cylinder 0.1658 inch, and the chronograph curve shows the progress of the compression during its interval of 0.003017 second.Steel capsules, each containing about a twelfth of an ounce of compressed carbonic acid gas, are supplied by a Zi rich firm under the name of \u201cgodor.\u201d The gas is intended for effervescing drinks, and it is used in a special glass bottle, whose stopper on closing pierces the capsule.The bottles withstand an internal pressure of 50 atmospheres, while the capsules pheres.The fleeting hues of the soap bubble ist by coating the surface with a thin turpentine damar varnish, which forms a transparent glaze breaking up the light rays.He Foolei the Surgeons.West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18 months from rectal fistula, he would five boxes of Bucklen\u2019s Arnica Salve, the surest pile cure on earth, and the hest salve in the world.25 cents a box.Sold by all druggists.SMUGGLING AT WINDSOR.Governm:nt Determined to Stop this Practice.A Windsor, Ont., despatch says: Evidently the Canadian Government Of about fifty species of electric fishes, only three are of special im- hay decided to take stringent methods to put down the smuggling which, it are proof against at least 500 atmos- | administering the affairs of State; and \u2018being a farmer I sincerely sympathize ë i a by Frenct -| are given to paper by a French chem | with all the people of the State, contend for simplicity and economy | which will more surely than anything die unless a costly operation was per- | formed; but he cured himself with\u2018 CANDIDATE GROUT ON ECONOMY IN STATE EXPENDITURES.The following article appeared in the Montpelier Daily Journal recently and has since been going the rounds of the Vermont press.At the annual meeting of the State Grange in December, 1895, resolutions were unanimously adopted relating to retrenchment in public expenditures in this State and a reduction of official salaries.In pursuance of instructions from the executive committee of the Grange, Hon.Alpha Messer, the secretary of the committee, called the attention of the candidates for governorship, early in the canvass of 1896, to these resolutions, and asked from each an expression of his views on the questions involved.The reply of Jo- sinh Grout, then a candidate for the Republican nomination to the office of Governor, will have some interest at this Lime as showing how the views of candidate and the practice of the elected officinl coincide\u2014or fail to harmonize.Subjoined is Mr.Grout\u2019s lanswer to the courteous inquiry of the Grange official: Derby, Vt., May 8, 1896.Alpha Messer, Esq., Sec\u2019y Ex-Com.Vt.Grange, Rochester, Vt.My dear Mr.Messer: \u2014Yours of the fourth inst., stating the desire of your committee to know my views upon the subject matter of State expenses, has been considered and for answer will say: I regard it the duty of every , citizen of Vermont to lend his influ- | ain and cast his vote to secure the minimum of expenditure in State dis- (bursements.Every State expense jshould be kept upon the most eco- |nomical basis consistent with the wel- | fare of the public service.Economy, always a virtue, becomes in the exi- | gencies of the times a necessity, and {should be practiced as well in public \"ag private affairs.Our public outgoes should be measured by our income which, upon a just and equal basis, | should be regulated according to the | taxpaying ability of the people and | needs of the State.Subjected to the lowest price known in years for ev- | erything he produces, the farmer may well urge the most frugal practices in with him and hope he will in common else lead us to prosperity and happiness.I am in accord with the purpose i of the resolutions to which you refer.All doctors told Renick Hamilton of Thanking you for the honor of your (inquiry, I am, cordially, Josia GROUT.Look on this picture then on that revealed by the recent investigations.\u201cEvery State expense should be kept lon the most economical basis,\u201d ete.; on the reverse side, a profligate, and Ithe largest, expenditure of public | money, in detail and in the aggregate, \u2018by the executive, ever known or dreamed of in the history of the State.\u201cEconomy, always a virtue, becomes in the exigencies of the times a necessity, and should be practiced as + ! 3 ic: iv nifai 35 portance\u2014the torpedo, a kind of skate is said, takes place in Windsor every Well in public as private alfairs;\u201d but of the Mediterranean; the gymnotus year about Christmas time, and of the candidate\u2019s economy, when he ; ; , sovernor - or electric eel of the Orinoco; and the which Windsor merchants have been: Pecame Governor, was like the neces malapterurus or thunderer fish, of the Nile.Interesting facts about the electric organ have been lately | i complaining.The Customs officers have received orders from the Canadian Government to inspect and col- sity that knows no law, or restraint of \u2018any kind.He planned expeditions right and left, far and near, in viola- brought to light.This most remark- | lect duty on every parcel brought tion of law and usage, and approved able of all batteries, whose results are said to be more economically obtained than any reached by man, acts only at the will of the animal, which also.controls its intensity, and the dis- over just prior to the holidays.It was also intimated that two special officers would be sent to Windsor within the rext few days to a:sist the local officers.SKIN LIKE BABY\u2019S Skin diseases from the merest pimpl es to the most obstinate eczema, salt rheum, running sores, are quickly, pleasantly and permanently cured by Dr, Agnew\u2019's Ointment\u201435 \u2018Who does not envy a baby its soft velvety skin?How many suffer from distressing skin diseases\u2014Do you suffer?Have you tetter\u2014salt rheum\u2014scald head \u2014ring worm \u2014eczema\u2014ulcers\u2014blotches on the skin\u2014 chronic erysipelas\u2014liver spots and what not else of these distasteful and aggravating disorders which disfigure and discourage?Dr.Agnew's Ointment allays the distressing itching, burning, stinging sensations which are part and parcel of such troubles, and in a thousand cases where internal treatments have failed to heal and eradicate them it has worked wonderful and permanent cures\u2014and no skin disease, no matter of how long standing, has baffled its curative qualities.In cases of chronic eczema it has proved its great worth, and cases are on record where this dread affection has- been the birthright of its patient and constant com- A lady living in a northern County town writes that for seventeen years she was troubled with salt theum.Bhe took doctors\u2019 treatments and used many lotions without any permanent relief.Reading ofthe cures by Dr, Agnew's Ointment, she déoided totry it.The first application allayed the irritation and she continued using ft\u2014the disease rapidly dis- red and now for two years has been no ape\u2019 a return of it, cents.panion until past middle life, and Dr.Agnew\u2019s Ointment has cured speedily and permanently.It is a boon to mothers because it is a boon to babyland\u2014scald head and its irritations, which are accompaniments to the teething period, are quickly driven off and restlessness passes away\u2014 and where torture reigned with baby this balm brought rest and a cure\u2014it affords instant relief from the itching distress.Do you suffer from piles\u2014itching, blind, bleeding or ulcerated ?~~No remedy has brought so quick relief, spared painful * surgical operations as Dr.Agnew's Ointment \u2014it has proved itself an absolute cure for piles in all forms and at all stages\u2014 one application will relieve the itching, irritating sensations in an instant\u2014and long standing cases disappear after from three to five nights\u2019 treatment\u2014the pain and soreness quit you and the tumors vanish.\u2018The baby of another lady Nving on Pacific Ave.in \u2018Toronto, was tercibly afflicted with scald-head and eczema~\u2014she tried washes prescribed by her physt- clan, and soaps advertised for such purposes, but the isease remained\u2014Dr.ew's Ointment was her ood friend; half a box cured the baby and ened Borselt of troublesome piles which had been the bane of her life since baby's birth, DR.AGNEW'S CURB POR THB MEART~CGures palpitation, fluttering, shortness of breath and ail di minutes, isorders\u2014rellef in 30 i bold in the bead in to minutes, 1, AGNEW 8 CATARRHAL POWDBR\u2014Has cured casas of catarth of so years' atanding\u2014rellaven ; oR, A re ua beh tick headache\u2014cure oonstipation, blllousness and liver route it È Bola By J.T.Fiint.the bills that drew the money from the State treasury.He became a ticket broker, and the State furnished \"the capital and stood in the gap when | his speculation failed.Hotel parlors, Pullman cars, opera house boxes, horses and coaches, a glittering staff | and the State militia administered to his comfort and contributed to his \u2018state at Nashville, New York and Washington, and the taxes drawn from the farmer, \u201csubjected to the lowest price known in years for everything he produces, and with whom \u201cI sincerely sympathize,\u201d paid the bills, Well, these farmers, \u2018in com- ; mon with all the people of the State,\u201d are proper subjects for sympathy, and they have begun, in dead earnest, to \u201ccontend for simplieity and economy { which will more surely than anything | else lead us to prosperity and happiness,\u2019 and this fawning preacher between whose professions as candidate and practices as a magistrate there is an abysmal depth, is very properly jone of the firat victims of the content'on.Yet another instance of climbing from the foot of the ladder! Webster Wagner, the palace-car magnate, won in early manhood the position of sta- {tlon-agent in Palatine, a small place on the New York Central, where he sold oysters by the plate to the passengers.Hard work and a quick eye for business tell the story of his grad- lual rise, It's an old story\u2014as old ns the Hebrew Book of Proverbs.\u201cSeest thou a man diligent in his business?He shall stand before kings: he shall not stand before mean men,\u201d For Over Fifty Years.Mre, Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for over fifty years by mitfions of mothers for their children while Senthing with perfect snecess, It noothes the child, ao {ona the gums, allavs all pain, cures wind colles, and in the best remedy for diarrhea.It will relleve the r little aufforer immediately.Hold by ruggista in every.part of the world, twenty- Bye centaa bottle.Besuroand ask for ** Finslow's Soothing Syrup,\u2019 and take no ot! rs.or Pure Blood is Life.Paine's Celery Compound the Only Hope of All Suffering from Blood Diseases.The Great Medicine Quickly Expels all Poisons and Renews the System.Scrofula is o ne of the most terrible and wasting of blood diseases; it usu- ually develops in early life, and in the majority of the cases is hereditary.Many medical men contend thatscrof- ula is the parent of consumption.When the blood is thin, impoverish- ad, impure and foul, its poisoned condition shows up clearly in pimples, sores, tumors, abscesses, blotches, erysipelas, cancer, white swellings, sore eyes, felons, boils, salt rheum, eczema, etc.Pure blood represents life; foul and poisoned blood means suffering and death.Strength, action and the health of all parts of the human system are dependent upon the blood.The only true way to cleanse and enrich the blood is to use Paine\u2019s Celery Compound.Its vitalizing and purifying effect upon the blood of old and young is magical.The most virulent blood diseases quickly yield to its healing and cleansing power, No other medicine known to man has ever achieved the victories over obstinate blood troubles that Paine\u2019s Celery Compound has accomplished.If yon have a trace or symptons of blood disease, your life is truly in danger.If you are anxiously seeking for cure have a care how you make use of the widely advertised \u2018blood purifiers\u2019\u2019; in the great majority of instances they are frauds.Ask your druggist for Paine\u2019s Celery Compound, the only medicine that can make your blood and flesh clean, pure and healthy.LIBBY TOWN.(Received too late for last week) Mr.and Mrs.Charlie Glidden of Compton visited at Mr.James Libby's last'Sunday.Miss Phoebe Davidson spent last week with her friend, Mrs.Burton Sornberger, in Barnston.A.E.Hurd of Massawippi was in town on Sunday.Miss Katie McKenzie spent last Saturday with her friend, Jessie Davidson.The baked bean supper at, Mrs.i Paul\u2019s on Friday last was a great sue- cess, about sixty being present.Proceeds over five dollars, Mr.William Hurd and Talcott St.Dizier clipped a horse for W.H.Davidson last Saturday.Mr.Nathan Libby of Ayer\u2019s Flat and Mrs.Gilman Libby of Waterville visited at Mr.8.Griffin\u2019s recently.Miss May Libby is at home sick with the mumps.Mr.and Mrs.Willis Cramer of Way\u2019s Mills, and Mr.and Mrs, B.Sornberger of Barnston were guests at Glenhurst Farm last Sunday.Miss Mary Perry visited friends in Barnston last Saturday.Mr.Perley Demick of Demick\u2019s Mills was the guest of his friend, Arthur Breaky, one day last week.Mr.Ratio Emery of Hatley was in town on Saturday.Discovered by a Woman.Another great discovery has been made, and that too, by a lady in this country.\u201cDisease fastened its clutches upon her and for seven years she withstood its severe tests, hut her vital organs were undermined and death eeemed imminent.For three months she coughed incessantly, and could not sleep.She finally discovered a way to recovers, by purchasing of us a bottle of Dr.King\u2019s New Discovery for consumption, and was so much relieved on taking first dose, that she slept all night; and with two bottles has heen absolutely cured.Her name is Mrs.Luther Lutz.\u201d Thus writes W.C.Shelby & Co.of Shelby, N.C, Sold by all druggists at 50 cts.and 81, Every bottle guaranteed.SUICIDE AT BEAUCE JUNCTION, A despatch from Tring Junction says: \u2014Mrs.Thomas Nadeau of Beauce Jet., poisoned herself last Thursday forenoon with Paris green.Her husband having gone to church, she was left alone.When he returned about 10 a.m., he found a cup with a substance of a greenish color in it, and his wife was very ill.He sent for the priest and a doctor.1t was, however, of no avail, for the poor woman died at 4.30 p.m.She was 60 years of age.Deceased had been suffering mentally for several years, and, strange to say, about two hours before she died, she became very rational.She said she was very sorry for her criminal action, and declared she was not conscious of taking the poison.The Appetite of a Goat Is envied by all poor dyspeptics whose stomach and liver are out of order.All such should know that Dr.King\u2019s New Life Pills, the wonderful stomach and liver remedy, gives a splendid appetite, sound digestion and a regular bodily habit that insures erfect health and great energy, Only 25 cents at any drug store.Bargains In New CANNED GOODS, At P.A.Bissonet's NEW and FRESH, 3 Cans Tomatoes 25c.3 Cans Corn 25c.3 Cans Peas 25c.3 Cans Blueberries25c 3 Cans Plums 25c.2 Cans Peaches 25ç.2 Cans Pears 25c.OAOMAO> 8 Bars Best Laundry Soap 25e, TEA Sold at 35c.at any other place 25c.here.Just Received J.C.DOWNS & CO.New Cloaks For Ladies, Misses $400: The Best Line Ever Shown in this Undertaking.ve oc ancl I have on hand a full lise of UNDERTAKING SUPPLIES.Robes of all descriptions, Natural flower designs got up at short notice: will also engrave name plates.' Please give me a call and I will try and give satisfaction in price and goods.E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q.& Derby Line, Vt, Bell Telephone call No.58, Vicinity.Also New Dress Goods A.H.CUMMIMGS & SON Coaticook, : : Que.MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and Frames Window Mouldings, Blanchard Churns and all kinds of House Finish Hard-wood Floor Boards and Matched Ceiling manufactured from kiln-dried lumber.All orders promptly attended to.We are bound not to be undersold.SAMUEL E.ABBOTT .Jo STANSTEADIs pur agent for that Township, \u201cWinter Wisdom\u201d in all the novelties.All our best goods in suit lengths.Call and examine and be convinced that I still lead in all lines of Dry Goods.P.A, BISSONNET.Since the Icy Breath of Old Boreas has again Proved that Old Probs and his Ally the Goose Bone are Infallible Weather Prognosticators We think a Few Timely Hints on Weather may be Hazarded.1st Keep Your Feet Warm nd Keep Your Hands Warm 3rd Keep Your Heads Warm 4th Keep Your Bodies Warm By Heeding this Advice You'll Save Your Health; by Buying of Us You Will Save Your Money.Warm Underclothing, Price $0.60.Warm Hoisery « À Warm Caps \u201c50.Warm Shoes \u201c8, Warm Boots «1,00.Warm Overshoes « Look at the Dress Skirts in Our Window Come in and Price them, they are just what You Want.NE\" WEEK we will give you something startling in the line of fancy and staple GROCERIES, Flour, Feed, Etc.In the meantime we would suggest that you buy now as the time for low prices is fast disappearing; then, high prices and regrets.C.H.KATHAN.Thi ure tio! Ww Thi eep far bhAAAdas ture J] th You roel Ha and CHI Triz invi si Heh Fall and Winter Table.On and after Monday.October 8rd, 1808, trains will run 88 follows: PRAINS LEAVE SHERBROOKE, EXPRESS\u2014 Sherbrooke 7.80 à, m.Les e Dudswell Jet., 8.80 a.m, «St, Francis 1.80 p.m.« Levis.1.20 p,m.« Quebec (Ferry) 1.80 Springfleld to Iman Palace car from Po connecting at Sherbrooke with Pull- 2 n Paluce Car for Boston, and through conch Boston ta Quebec, by this train.This train rups daily sundays excepted.ACCOUMODATION\u2014 Bi , 9.00 p.m.Leave Sherbrooke, ive vell Jet.10.15 p.m.Arrive Dec \"Tam.+ Quebec (Ferry) 7.80 a.m.This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.Saturday night's train runs through to destination on Sunday morning.AY FREIGHT\u2014 w Lenve Sherbrooke 0.15a.m.jve Dudswell Jet.12: Arlt Beauee Jet, 4.80 p.m.This train runs daily Sundays excepted.TRAINS ARRIVING AT SHERBROOKE.EXPRESS\u2014 Leave Quebec (Ferry) 2.8) p.m, Le Tova ; 2.50 p.m, i St.Francis = 10 p.m.Arrive Dudswell Jet.1 20 p.m \u201c Sherbrooke, 8.30 p.m.pullman Palace Car Quebec to Springfield cennccting at Sherbrooke with Puliman Palace Car to Boston, and through coach Quebec to Boston by this train.This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.ACCOMMODATION \u2014 Leave Quebee (Perry) 6.30 pam ! cu aie \u2018 7.00 pan Arrive Tring Jet.11.00 p.m Leave Tring Jet, 3.50 a.m Arrive Sherbrooke 0.00 a.m.This train lvaves Levis daily, Sundays excepted.Saturday nights train only runs as far as Tring Jet, continuing on to Sherbrooke on Monday morning.WAY FREIGHT\u2014 Leave Beauce Jet.6.50 a, nu.Arrive Sherbrooke, 4.00 p.m.This train runs daily, Sundays excepted.Connections made at Dudswell Jet.with the Maine Central R.R.so that passengers leaving Sherbrooke in the morning can make connes- tion for Coukshire, Sawyerville, Etc, For tickets and further information apply to ny of the Company's Agents.ANK GRUNDY, J.H.WALSH, General Manager, tGen'l Pass'r Agent, H.S.HUNTER UNDERTAKER and Undertakers\u2019 Supplies Hearse furnished at moderate rates.Stanstead Plain, P.Q.50 YEARS\u201d EXPERIENCE TRADE MARKS DEsians COPYRIGHTS &C.Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether an invention is probably patentable.Communica.Uonastrictly confidential.Handbook on Patents sent freo, Oldest agency for Securing patente, Patents taken through Munn & Co.receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American, A handsomely 1llustrated weekly.Largest circulation of any scientific journal.Terms, a year; four months, $L Bold by all newsdesalers, (00,35 1eroauway, New York Branch Office, 625 F Bt, Washington, D.C.Leather Belting.All widths constantly on hand at manufacturers\u2019 prices, LACE LEATHER, cut and by the side.J.B.GOODHUE, Rock Island, P.Q.IT IS A FACT caf, À, SEARLES\u2019 svonx, Main Street, Beebe Plain, .You enn get the Best Value for your money.Goods cheerfully shown.Prices down to rock bottom, C.A.SEARLES.Miss Tinker has just received a fine line of Handkerctie's, Ribbons, Cut Goods.Embroidered Picture Frames, and in fact all of the up-to-date novelties for CHRISTMAS.She also has an assortment of Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, and kindly \\nvites your inspection.Derby Line Vt., Nov.17, 1898.\u2014\u2014 Carriage Shop.ul have lensed premises over tho old Rock n a ue machine shop and am prepared to do all Carriage and Sleigh Repairing, Cabinet Work, Etc.Firat-class Inbor-saving machinery and extensive experience enable me to do the best work at the lowest possible price.\u2019 ; Saw Filing a Specialty.hak! H G.BISHOP.IRRIGATION METHODS.Systems That Are Equally Desirable For East and West.Many sections of the west are reclaimed from the native desert cosdi- tion and converted into profitable or- obards, pastures and meadows by wild flooding, and the experiments at the Utah Agricultural college and elee- where bave demonatrated that check flooding is the best system adapted to some peculiar soils.Flooding consists in covering tho surface with water to the depth of three to six inches, and leaving it to penetrate to thea subsoil by percolating through the cultivated strata.Wild flooding is often used advantageously on gravelly soil, in irrigating & hillside planted to trees or permanent À 7 ALLL 7 7, LE WILD FLOODING\u2014CIESK FLOODING.grasses.The main ditch is constructed on the highest plane, with afall of four or more feet to the mile, and water is taken ont into laterals at convenient points and distributed over the field.One furrow or lateral may be plowed through the plat to be irrigated, beginning with the main and ending in the waste ditch and a sufficient distance from a parallel furrow to give plenty of room for the water to spread.When the furrows are made and the water turned in the ditches are closed a few yards from tho main by earthen dams and the water distributed in small streams on either eide and left to spread over the surface.In most cases where hayfialds are irrigated by this system the ditches are Jeft undisturbed for 24 hours, when the dams a1 cut and tbe water changed to a lower section of flood ditches In like manner the changes continue until the aren ig irrigated, the eurplus water being caught in a waste ditoh and used elsewhere.Check flooding is adapted to level land and fint oultivation.It consists of miniature reservoirs, where the water is impcunded about once a month to the depth of four or five incbes, and absorbed by the eoil for plant foad.The plats are surrounded by dums or levees, about one foot in height, and a gate is opened at the highest point, through which the water enters and spreads over the surface, being held in position by the check walls.If water is turned in at night and let ran until n volume eqnal to six inches in depth hag been poured upon the cultivated field, tho entire lake will be drunk up by the following night and the subsurfuce reservoirs filled to that depth.This water, of course, supplies moisture to the plants while on the surface and return« through capillary attraction when the soil is stirred by a plow or cultivator.In case of an unusual volume of water entering the gates and threatening to submerge plants that might bo injured the dams may be cut at the lower cor- pers and the water drained off into a waste ditob.Sometimes the contour of a field admits of a combining of wild and check ! flooding, thereby saving time and econ- WILD AND CHECK FLOODING COMBINED.omizing on the use of water.A hillside planted to orchard, grain or pasture ASPARAGUS BEDS.Whe Notion That Manuring In November Does More Harm Than Good.The time for applying manure to asparagus beds and the placing of it are matters of importance, concerning whigh some interesting advice is furnished as follows by R.B.Handy in a balletin on asparagus culture: In the use of stable manure many writers and growers say, \u2018In the autumn, after the stalke have matured and been cut, manure should be applied on top of the rows,\u2019 some giving the caution not to put it over the crowns, lest the shoots next spring be injured by contact with it, but this plan is gradually giving way to the more rational dressing in epring and summer.It was believed that autumu dressing strength- eued the roote aud enabled them to throw up stronger shoots the following spring.This is a mistake, as it is during the growth of the stalks after the catting season was over that tho crown forms the buds from which the spears i of the vext season spring, and it is probable that it is principally during | this period that the roots assimilate and Etore up the material which produces these spears, ! This being true, the plant food add- | ed to the soil and becoming available after the cessation of vegetution in the autumn can have little effect upon the: spears cut the following spring.It first becomes of use to the plant after the crop bas heen cut and the stalks allowed to grow.autumn of 1807 will pot benefit the grower until tbo spring of 1809, In the winter is none too long to permit the and well distributed throughout the soil, but if well rotted manuro is used there is danger of the fertility being leached out of the soil by tho rains and melting snows of winter.That is, if the food is ready for as- gimilation, give it at the time when the roots are ready to absorb it instead of | when the roots are at rest.Stable ma- ; Lure applied when tho cutting season | is over acts asa mulch in proventing the growth of weeds, keeping the soil light and coul and preserving tho moisture.Manuring \u2018in November does more harm than good, as the mass of manure | causes mauy roots to decay aud those which do sarvive are likely to bo weak.The roots of asparagus are, perhaps, always nective, but Jess so in winter than in any other soason, and will obtain as much manure fur the soil us they can uso.If henvily covered with manure the sunshine is excluded, growth is checked and the roots havea fight for existence when they are none too strong, As tomanuring in or between the rows, the latter iy the most advisable, as placing in tbe row only reaches the storage roots to be found about the crowns, whereas betweon the rows it is where the rainy will wash it down into the open mouths of the feeding roots.Wentern Hog Shelter.\u201cThe hog born and bred ir the expensive, painted house is not alwaysthe most healthy and profitable,\u2019 remarke.STRAW SHEDS FOR HOGS, The Farm Journal.*\u2018Sheltered in field and stack, as he is in many parte of the west, he does his best.Two or three posts with crotches and poles stretched across resting in them make a rode structure which, when covered deeply with swale hay, rye straw, or even peat, makes the most comfortable place imaginable, keeping off rain, snow and wind.The back side may rest upon the ground Or upon a wall.\" A Winter Crop In the Cellnr.\u201cle there auother odible, besides the mushroom, that can be grown in the dark?\u2019 Yes, answers a \u2018Rural New : Yorker correspondent, and so cheaply and profitably grown that every farmer and gardener in the land may not only | have a supply for bome use, but for market also.Growing pieplant in winter has passed the experimenta) stage \u201cand beemne à profitable industry in this section at least.Thousand: of dollars are paid the gardeners here each winter for the product, which is bought at high \u201c prices, both for home consumption and for shipment.Any cellar or outbuilding .which can be made absolutely frost and light proof will avewer the purpose.i There is no objection to the house cellar, as no manure and very little water are required, 60 ho odor or dampness | will arise.The labor of growing is 60 may be irrigated by wild flooding and | little and the profits so Jarge that the the cultivated area lying directly below | most greedy ought to be satisfied with be supplied with moisture from the | the results.waste water of tbe upper field.The foregoing illustrated descriptions of irrigation methods, from The Farm and Fireside, conclude with the assur- ' BY Agricultural Brevities, | It is told that the Pennsylvania chest- t crop is great but wormy.Trees once by the author, Joel Shomaker, that all systems of irrigation are good for the tastern states.Corn In the Silo.In regard to corn silage an Ohic Farmer correspondent says: \u2018\u2019One wil naturally make a comparison of harvesting the corn crop in this way with that of shocking nd busking it.The way 1 figure it, an acre of corn can be put in tbe silo for the same that the corn can be cribbed and the stover put in the stack.Then n order to conie anywhere near the sila te in feeding availability and value, tbe corn must be ground and the stover ¢ t, which will materially increase the expense.Even then it is considerably short in feeding value to | the dairyman.The more that is known about the apple crop « 1e greater the shortage appears.Thir + million barrels compared to somethin over 40,000,000 barrels lagt year is The American Agricultar- ists\u2019 figures.| growing singly are thought to be less i subject to the worms than when stand- | ing together in numbers.The New Jersey station has found froñ carefully conducted ev5criments that a given amount of dry matter in a silage ration will produce 12.8 per cen% use of fresh manure it may be that the tenance of the public highways, the ex- fertilizing elements to become available , road and commutation taxes, | wheeled scrapes, wagons, from JU to 20 \u201c erwise put in first class condition.\u201d : in under the foundation - tion.GEORGIA HIGHWAYS.System of Working the Roads With Convicts or Free Labor.Professor McCallie, assistant state geologist of Georgia, in 8 paper read at Omaha, explaius the system of road improvement of the state as follows: **The law inaugurated in 1891, now called the \u2018new road\u2019 law, authorized the commicsioners of roads and revenues of each county, upon the ruvcommenda- tion of the grand jury, to fix agd levy a special road tax, not to exceed 3 mills on the dollar, nnd also to exact of each male inhabitant a commutation tax, not to exceed 50 cents per day for the num- ber of duys\u2019 work required.Furthermore, the law authorized these rond | i /) | ! HEAVY TRAFFIC BARRED, ! [From 1.A.W.Bulletin.) | Thus the manuring of the authorities to organize chain gangs of misdemeanor convicts or to hive free Inbor for the improvement and the main- penses of which being met by the special \u2018* About one-fifth of the counties of the gtate have since adopted this new road law and are now keeping up and im- | proving their highways, either by con.| vict or hired labor.This system moots with general approval wherever it has been tried, and it is now only a question of time when it will be universally adopted throughout the state.\u201cThe usual method adopted in this system of road working is as follows: Convicts or free laborers ate organized into squads, consisting of 15 to 45 men, who are placed under a competent superintendent and one ar more overseers.Each squad is furnished with a camping outfit, two oar mors road machines, muleg, plows, ete.The work usually commences on the leading roads ra-liot ing from the county sent and consists first in going over tho rond with ma chines, giving them the proper crown, opening up the side ditches, macadamiz ing the bopgy places and oceusionally cutting down the grades of the steeper hills.The main highways being thus worked over, attention is then directed to the loss important roads, until all of the public highways in the county have been crowned and properly drained.This first working usually requires from one to two years, depending upon the condition of the ronds and the number of hands employed.The second time the ronds are gone over more attention ia paid to grading, and considerable macadamizing is frequently done, and the work in general is of a more psrmanent and lasting nature.\u2018It is tha intention of the road managers adopting this plan to keep up this procese of gradual rond improvement until ail of the principal thoroughfares at Jenst in their respective counties are properly graded, macadamized snd oth- Location of Ronds.In the carly pioneer days our sturdy ancestors naturally chose the hillsides and ridges, preferably to the valleys, when bailding their homes, for the ub- vious reason of preventing surprises from tho orafty, cunning and rostless \u2018children of the forest.\" The beaten paths between adjacent homesteads, which eveutually became highways, followed theo hillsides for the same reason, and the muking of such beaten tracks into roads, in those days involving only the minimum amount of labor; and expense in leveling the hillsides or slopes to admit of wheeled locomotion, sufliced for the moderate needs of the! times With a rapidly increasing popu.| lation and multiplying needs theso | \u2018*roude, \"* these lines of communication, | rendered the properties through which | they passed more and more valuable, until at the present time ons of the most, strennous objectors to a change of location for bettering the gradient is the property owner adjacent to a large city, | where eligibility for building sites is so potent a factor, and who deems a slight change of location **financial ruin.\u2019\u2019 | Importance of Drainage, The first eskential in building a good | road is drainage.The vou must Le: SAVED HIS LIFE.Your deal, captain,\u2019 said the purser to the army officer.The oarde circled around like a flock of birds.\u2018One card,\u201d said the merchant, **Same here,\" said the rancher.**I call.What you got®* Flush.\" \u201cSo bave I.yours?\" \u201cKing.\u201d \u2018Ab, ha! I beat you! Mine's an noe,\" tilting the ace of spades forward.\u201cThat's a card with a lad reputation, Jimmy,\" said the purser.\"You'll not win another hand tonight,\u2018 \u201cI saw a life neurly lost by one of these onre And saved by another.Say, boys, this is dead straight.[I'm not atringing you.Want to hear about it?\u2019 \u201cGo nbead, William, Don't consider sar feelings,\u2019 said the purser.\u201cWell, it wus up at Little Missouri.I strolled into one of the gnues one aight as a locker on.One of my boys was playing\u2014a lad of the name of Bronson, There was an ill favored, shifty eyed cuss sitting opposite him, and I judged by the remarks that passed that there were strained relations between the two.However, the dealer smoothed things over until it cama to a hand where only thuso two wern loft in They lifted and cross lifted each other redhat.At Inst my lad enllud.\u2018Spade flush,\u201d announced the other mann.m What's at the head of \u201cThen this pot\u2019s mine,\u201d mid Bron: son, \u2018for I've gut the same hand with the aco ut the top of it.\u201d He spread it out an the table.\u201cWo ull said something about tho gingularity «f two flushes of the samo suit being up aguibet each other, and Bronson sturted to rako in the chips, \u201cHold on there !* called out the other man, \u2018I've got an ace with mine\u2014 peo, king\u2014that heats you! \u201cHe laid bis cardsout Thuro it was, sure cnough, Io a twinkle Bronson hind bim covered with n gun.*Now, d=n you, * says he, \u2018l'vo bad enough of your work! Wu all stood paralyzed, waiting for the report.\u201cThe other fellow turned pale ar death, but looked ut Bronson steadily, ** Don't shoot!\" he said.* As God is my witness, all these cnrds were dealt to me,\u2019 Something in the way he said it struck me.\u2018live him a chance, Bill,\u2019 says 1 \u201cBranson recognized ny voice \u201cAN right,\u201d he ways.DIT give him a chance If he can explain it, all very good: if ho can\u2019t, down comes bis ¢han- ty.\u2019 \u201cHere the dealer broke in.\u2018I want to say, gentlemen, that 1 had no hand in this, If there's been any crooked work, I don\u2019t know of it.1 thiuk you'll believe me when 1 say that.* \u2018Ho wang noted for running a square game, an nobody bad the least suspicion against him.Besides he had nothing to gain by it.* \u201cListen !* called ont aman from the end of the table.\u2018Just hefora that hand was dealt wo had a new deck of cards with different backs from the ones wa had been playing with, Now let's open another pack and see if thore's any do- fect in it.\u2019 \u2018* \u201cIf there is, Bronson, I think you ought tn let him go: if there ain't, why, do as you like about it,\u2019 \u2018Wo all agreed that that wns square, 80 a fresh pack was brought und opened The dealer laid them down one by one, face up, in a big circle, so that every: body could gee.The room became us still ag the tomb.You could plainly hear the spluttering of the lamps and the sound of the cards as they fell on the table.It wad a strango sight.\u201cThe thirteenth card was the neo of spades.That looked bad, and a sort of sigh went up.Then they kept coming and kept coming without a sign of anything being out of the way with then.The strain told on all of us.The dent- er'& hand shnok #0 he dropped two of the cards together.**D\u2014n it, bo careful,\u2019 says somebody.\u2018I don't like the job,\" answers the dealer.\u2018But I'm doing tho best ] can.\u2018 \u201cAnd still those cussed cards kept coming out all right.\u2018Only three left,\u2019 whispered n man in my ear, \u2018und it's a 52 card pack, all right.\" \u2018The next two cards seemed about five minutes apart, but at last they dropped, snd we looked at the spread carefully.No use, they wero as right a pack as ever got shuffled.Now there wus but the one left, and a man\u2019s life bung on it.The dealer put it down on tho table uml stared at tho back of it twice, Twice he reached for it and twice he drew his hand back.Then he graded and drained so that water can ! gat up from his seat and loft the table.neither staud upon the surface nor soak 1\" \u2018Somebody else turn it over,\u2019 said Water isruin- ; be.\u2018I can\u2019t.\u2019 ous to a road in either of these lcca- | \u2018*Nobady moved.I wouldn't haw tions, and if allowed to remain in them touched the thing for $500,000 cold will speedily work complete destruc: | Brongon's enemy drew a deep breath.Ap expensive stone road that is, ** \u2018Let me?he whispered.inadequately drained will suffer just as eurely and fatally from water cn or in ; it as tbe ost ordinary country roud ! more milk and 10.4 per cent more but- - ! ter fat tban the same amount in field « eured corna fair day's find of green roots was two green roote to make one pouni of the | dry product, the latter bringing about i #4 a pound.IT.Greiner says in Farm and Fireside ktbat tobacco dust is bis reliance for | subduing the green cabbage worm.A | tenspoonful ecattered over the plaut has never failed in hia experience to drive { Away the flea beetle, the cabbage apbis | and the several worna which infest the | | contend.! , cabbage.It is said that in digging ginseng in Sullivan county, N.Y., this fall, men ! walked from 15 to 256 miles a day, and Disintegration and complete breaking | up are only a mater of time, and a! short time at that Drainage is tbe first, fundamental aud most imperative necessity - i Good Roads Agitation.Demoustrations nf road construction ! held annually in every county, building, of sample stretches on scientific principles, efforts to arouse intercet by pro- I pounds.It takes three pounds of the i moting discussion in farmers\u2019 granges and associations, circulation of readable, | ; \u2018 convincing matter, and tbe like, are! amoug the means that can be used to appeal to the penple and arouse them to tho realization of the advantages of good ronda.Enemies of the Road, | Water below the surface and the fric- tion of wbeels and water above it are the onemies with which a road bas to \u201cBronson nodded \u2018yes.\u2019 \u201cThe man slid his left band along the table, utill Keeping his eyes ou Brongon's.His fingers clored around the card.He Jooked up, and bis lips moved.Then be kind of braced himself and slapped it over.\u2018Lord! What a yell went up! Another ace of spades! \u201cBronson stuck bis band out.\u2018Pardner, I wing dead wrong,\u2019 says he.\u2018Will you have a drink with me?\u201c \u2018Bore!\u2019 answers tbe other man.\u2019 D.W.Phillips in Criterion.First Through Bering Strait.Deshnow, a Cossack, is gaid to bave been the first navigator to mil through Bering strait, and thereby prove that Asia wus separated from America by a body of water.He made this eventfal voyage by sailing from the river Kolyma to the river Apadyr in 1648, Russia is pow about to honor him by the srection of a statue to hix memory at Chabarowski on tbe Amur.DUPLEX INCANDESCENT.A New Device For Which Many Claims Are Made.A naw incundescent lamp has made ita appearance, for which these claims are made: First, that if burned at ordinary caudle power, aging each filament separately, it will last as long again ag any lamp on the market; seo- ondly, that by the use of the Incorpo- A DUPLEX INCANDESCENT LAMP.rated switch tho candle power of the lamp enn be doubled at will and turned buck tonormal candle power at the will of the user: thirdly, that, both price aAud efficieney considered, it is tho most economies] and practionble Inmp yet brought out, and, faurthly, that it can bo used in all standard buses without any change, expense or itucunvenienee.licetrie Turntable, Tho Railrond Gazette describes an electric turntable which hae heen working succossfully for mure than two months at the Jorsoy City yard of the Erio railrond, turning from 175 to 295 Jocometives n day.Jt dv in effect à emull drawbridge, the vesentinl ditfor- onve being that the table sevsaws over the center.This rocking mation serves to balance the locomotives over the eon- ter, and thus avoid the friction of the ond wheels on the pit track during tho turning, they cach being about three- quarters of an inch above this track when tho table is horizontal.This balancing is effected by menus of two transverse pins like tho trunnions of a gun.Since tbe girders nnd consequently thoso pins aro six feet from centor to center the table is rigid against side throw or any motion other than this vertical rocking, excepting when ita supports move.These supports rest upon n drum, which in turn benrs through its cast stoel shos upon 82 cast iron whenis, forming an ordinary \u2018live ring.\u2018 This ring runs upon n cost steel track, and the whola forms the carringo, While the table haz only a seotnw motion tho earringe bas only a cirenlar one in a horizontal plane.This is vrsentinl in order that there may he a true en- Ragement between the pinion and the rack circle.Thin turntable was designed by Mason R.Strong, assistant on- gineer of the Kriv railroad, under the direction of Charles W.Buchholz, chief engineer.Domestle Tee Mncehlae, So usuully gusrded an anthority ns the London Review nssures houxekeep- ors of the practical value of à nowly de- | vised ice machine on a small scale for the household, «ns which will furnish in 15 minutes a emall cako of pure ico admirable for docestic purposes.The device consists of a doubly sheet and meta) cylinder covered on the outside with a protective layer of ashestus for tho purpose of insulation and bung in sockets by two central pivots, The ro- ceptacle ji» fiHed with distilled water up to within a half inch of tho top, and after the rubber washer and metal rover are adjusted it is tightly closed swith a serew.The cylinder is then turned ; around once and the other cover une fantenuid.This permite the filling of the wpiace between the double wall of the outer cylinder with chemicals used for generating the cold temperuture\u2014 Vin, an mmmenimn salt and water, Aft.Cor tarcing the cylinder around rapidly for some 15 minutes tho inner receptacle is withdrawn from the rylinder, held far a minute in Lot water, and upon being opened on picee of ico exactly the shape of the inner wall will slide i oat without any trouble.Another round | eylinder is provided for the quick conl- jug of any fluid, The Latent British Battleship.Ench battleship that is launched seems to surpass her predecessors in of- feneive and defensive equipment.The Liolinth, the latest to leave the stocks, when fitted with her fall armament will be able to project a shot at the rata | of seven tous per minute.The Inflexi- | ble was a marvel in ber day, and thy y tremendons shells she threw into the forte nf Alexandria were quite sufficient to account for the demoralization of the Egyptian gunners, but ehe is antiquated ; in comparison with the Goliath, whose i citadel iq to all intents and purposes I'impenetrable and whose heaviest pro- | jectiles are 550 pounds in weight.\u2014 Popular Science, No Cornetn In Russia, Hereafter the women of Russia must i do without corsets, The Russian minister of public instruction has issued a decree absolutely prohibiting the are of the corset, on tbe grounds of pukho bealtb.This is an example of \u2018\u2018paternalism®\u2019* that Americans might, but uever will, finitate. res.ini Tere, en x ANE TE The Stanstead Journal.PUBLISHED EVERY THURBDAY BY THE JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rock Island, Que.One your (ndvance payment) $1.00 If paid in six months, 1.25 At the end of tho year, 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES.Transient advertising 10 cents a line for the first insertion and 8 cents a line for each subsequent insertion.12 Mines totheinen.Nond- vertisment rocvived for loss than 50 conta, PARCEL.POST TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES.The following is an extract from departmental circular issued to all postmasters in Canada relative to parcel post packages.\u201cNo parcel can be sont from Canada to any other country by parcel post unless it bears a customs declaration setting forth the nature of its contents and its value.As the acceptance by a postmaster of a parcel addressed to any other country, and not provided with a customs declaration, willresult in its being sent to the dead letter office, postmasters are specially directed not to accept such parcels without the customs declaration.U.S.TRADE THREATENED.Russia's Aggreseion in China Becomes Serious.A Shanghaï despatch says: \u2014 Mr, Barrett, formerly United States minister to Siam, has returned here after visiting Pekin and the principal Chinese ports.He says the situation in China is of the most critical nature and that Manchura is no longer Chinese, but Russian territory.He asserts that New Chwang, the chief northern port for the movement of American products, is also practically Russian and is liable to be closed any day.The only permanent safeguard to the paramount American and the British interests, Mr.Barrett says, is immediate and united action by the interested Governments to defend the integrity of the Chinese empire, to enforce reforms in the Government, to prevent further cessions of ports and provinces and to insist upon an \u201copen door\u201d policy in all ports in China, including the spheres of influence claimed by Russia, Germany and France.Otherwise Mr.Barrett contends, the impending partition of the Chinese empire will seriously curtail the field of trade by disastrously affecting American and British influence in Asia.FOR THE POLE.Capt.Bernier, the Canadian,-will Start in May\u2014Expects to Reach the Pole July 1st.' Capt.J.E.Bernier, who is to start next May for the North Pole has furnished the Quebec Chronicle with- the following particulars regarding his contemplated trip: \u20181 propose to leave Vancouver for the Straits of Behring and go along the Siberia Coast, as far us the New Siberian Island, and in a position of 100 or 200 miles further than Nansen put the Fram in the ice.Then I will abandon my ship and take to the ice with my dogs, reindeers and outfit, with men.I walk to the North Pole on the ice, and will come down and out to Dane\u2019s Island, in Spitzbergen.\u201cI expect to be at the Pole about the 1st of July, 1900, and plant the Canadian flag.I will leave a sleigh with a record that we have done so.As there is no land there, that sleigh will come out in a matter of time and will be found on the coast of Greenland and perhaps further down.If the Eastern route was chosen I would start from Quebec to Norway to take our reindeers, and from there to Archangel for our dogs, and follow the Coast of Siberia as far as the New Siberian Islands, and my vessel will leave me in position that I will choose as above related.\u201cI beg to say that I intend to do whatever I can, that is my utmost best, but I do not propose to overtax myself.\u201cIf I can walk aix miles so much the better; If I can only do two to four miles every day; I will be satisfied.\u201cI am at the disposal of the people of Canada for this undertaking, and I hope they will encourage me and respond to my call.\u201d HE FORGED DEATH CERTIFICATES An Ottawa despatch says:\u2014Another case hag been turned up against J.T.Weblock, local superintendent of the London Life Assurance Co., now in jail waiting sentence for forgery.It has been discovered that besides 6 cases of forgery which he has already admitted another death certificate for $1000 was forged.It purported to be signed by Dr.Neil of Hull, but the doctor says he never signed it.Defalcations are likely to reach several thousand dollars.Late to bed and early to rise, prepares a man for his home in the skies.ut early to bed and Little Early Ria- bte nd al make lg ones, aed an .J.T.Flin Tr inte and Rock Island, POUF JO DATIONS TO CONGRESS.far from being the last.soon as possible.what happened during the last war, was clearly demonstrated.They are of absolutely no value except for harbor defence, and there are better methods of harbor defence than they offer.In fact, we should say that when an harbor actually needs defensive vessels to supplement its for- tiflcations the battle-ships of the navy would be on hand, unless the command of the fleet was in less competent hands than those which have just won our victories for us in the Pacific and in the Caribbean Sea.Everyone who knows the navy and its needs will join heartily with Secretary Long in urging upon Congress the passage of the personnel bill, and ulso the provision for rewarding officers who distinguish themselves in some other way than at the cost of their fellow- officers.\u2014Harper\u2019s Weekly.Conditions in the Sulu Islands.We have insisted it appears, upon the cession of the Sulu Islands in addition to the group properly known as the Philippines, and Spain has agreed.Technically, no doubt, we were entitled to make the demand, and it was one about which no great reluctance was to be apprehended on the part of Spain.She had formally included them by proclamation in the adjoining group years ago, amd although neither geography nor convenience endorsed the step, it was no hardship to compel her to abide by her own action.She could also well afford it, unless she intended to sell the islands to somebody else, for to her at least they were absolutely useless.No islands in all the ocean have quite so bad a name as the Sulu group.Occupied by savage tribes, and the chief haunt of the very worst class of pirates produced even by the Eastern Archipelago, they have long been a menace to shipping, and a regular cruising-ground for British men-of- war engaged in the protection of commerce.That duty will no doubt now devolve upon our own war-ghips on the Philippine station, which are likely to find their duties no sinecure for a good while to come.After all it was perhaps well that if we were to become owners of a Philippine empire we should add the Sulus to our new possessions.Financially, and it may be otherwise also, we shall probably have cause to regret our policy, but it may be some satisfaction to know that our nenrest neighbors will be the British in Borneo.\u2014Harper\u2019s Weekly.STRAINING FRIENDSHIP.A London despatch says: \u2014The Daily News\u2014 which takes it for granted that Secretary Gage\u2019s \u2018\u2018protectionist maritime policy\u201d will be adopted and applied to Cuba and the Philippines\u2014 says: \u2018His arguments are fallacious, since the era of British supremacy in the world\u2019s carrying trade commenced with the abolition of the navigation laws of 1849.We have no right to complain, no ground for alarm; but the idea that the removal of Spanish rule from Cuba and the Philippines is to open fresh and unrestricted channels to British commerce will not survive a perusal of Mr.Gage\u2019s report.Politically, as Lord Salisbury says, ws may gain by America\u2019s influence in China seas.Commercially, we shall be much where we were, and must take care of ourselves as we did before.The Times, protesting editorially against Secretary Gage's \u201c\u2018exclusive maratime policy,\u201d and expressing hope that Congress will not endorse it, says: \u201cWe regard with the heartiest feelings of sympathy and without a tinge of jealousy the development of the imperial spirit in the United States, but it must not be supposed that we are prepared to approve the adoption of an exclusive policy in regions in whose destinics we might have claimed a voice.\u201d GLUE FACTORY BURNED.A Quebec despatch says:\u2014The glue factory of Mr.Ulric Marquis, situated on the outskirts of St.Sauveur, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 7thinstant.The estimated loss is about 810,000, with only a slight insurance.The origin of the fire is unknown, but itis presumed that it started from the engine, When Jou ask for DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salves don\u2019t accept a counterfeit or imitation.There are more cases of piles being cured LF this, than all others combined.J.T.Flint, Rook Island and Derby Line.SECRETARY LONG'S RECOMMEN- Secretary Long's report asks for the construction of fifteen new vessels.This is the first instalment of expense since the beginning of the war with | ra] Republican members of the Leg- Spain necessitated by the policy of |islature who have been in town dur- expansion, and if we go on it will be iPg the past week agree that a bax If we are to |#hould be placed upon the brewers, enter the lists of warlike and military 8nd that it should be one that they nations, no one can object to the con- |C#nnot shift and compell the saloon struction of fifteen vessels, and patri- | keepers to pay, as they have the war ots who have the real interests of revenue tax.! I their country at heart will be eager | this purpose will be drafted within for the completion of a big fleet as the next two weeks by an eminent tax But why Monitors Attorney.should have been recommended is à |is in the city, says it is too early to question which is puzzling all naval |falk about the provisions of the pure experts who have any knowledge of WANT TO TAX BREWERS.New York Republicans will Introduce a Bill for that Purpose.A despatch from Albany says: Sev- A bill to accomplish Senator John Raines, who beer bill which it is proposed to intro- | duce at the coming session of the leg- le when the uselessness of these vessels | islature.D Better Guarantees from Customs Officers.According to an Ottawa despatch, the Department of Customs has de- !eided that all collectors, sub-collec- | | | | 5 | | tors, special officers and landing waiters, in fact, all officials of customs service who handle Government moneys, must take out policies in a reliable guarantee company, and for such amounts as the department may fix.The present system of selecting bondmen has proved very unsatisfactory.Four Canadian and British Guarantee Companies, doing business jin Canada, have risks divided equally amongst them.Is the Prince Coming ?A copyrighted London cable in the New York Journal and Advertiser says that the Prince of Wales has absolutely decided to visit America next summer, with but one condition\u2014the health of the Queen.The despatch continues: According to present plans, the Prince will go first to Canada, about mid-summer.He admires Sir Wilfrid Laurier very much, and as far back as Jubilee lime half promised to visit the Canadian premier.It is probable that the voyage across the Atlantic will be made in a warship, with a suitable accompanying escort.From Canada the Prince will go to ths United States, if Her Majesty retains het present strength, and no serious political contentions intervene.eleven years the \u2018oldest man in Vienna\u2019 is described as hale and hearty, and able to enjoy a joke and other good things of life.He was six years old when Louis XVI.of France was beheaded, eighteen when Trafalgar was fought, and fifty when Queen Victoria began the longest reign in British history.And this is his phi- logophy of life: \u201cI never worried and I never grieved.I worked until I was tired and then slept in unbroken rest until it was time to work again, It is those who sit brooding over their misfortunes who grow old betore their time, and a whole nights sorrowing has never put a copper into any man\u2019s pocket or made a misfortune lighter to bear.\u201d Concerning his personal habits, he says: \u201cI got drunk twice in my life\u2014once through my own faull and once through the fault of others; and I was so dreadfully ill afterward that it was not difficult to keep sober with that remembrance on my mind.\u201d There are profound truths in his philosophy which, if adopted, would physically benefit every human life.A cough is not like a fever.It does not have to run a certain course.Cure it quickly and effectually with One Minute Cough Cure, the best medicine of all ages and for the most severe Cases.We recommend it because its good.J.T.Flint, Derby Line and Rock Island.DIED ALLER\u2014In Beebe Plain, on Nov.15th.Homer W.Aller, after a brief sickness of only 6 days, only son of Mr.and Mrs.Alex, Aller, aged 10 years, 1 month and 6 days.Gone out in his childlike purity Out from the golden day Fading away in the light so aweoet Whers the silver starsand sunbeam meet Paving a way for his waxen feet Over the silent way, Over the bosom tenderly The pearl white hands are pressed.The lashes He on his cheeks so thin Where the softest hlush of the rose hath en Shutting the blue of his eyes within The pure lds closed in rest, Gone to aleap with the tender smile Froze on his silent lips By the farewell kiss of his dewy breath, Cold in the elasp of the angel Death Like the last bud of the fading wreath \u2018Whose bloom the white frost nips.Hearts where the darling's head hath lain Held by love's shining ray, Do you know the touch of his gentle hand Doth brighten the harp in the unknown and.Oh! he waits for us with the angel band Over the starry way.FOR SALE.Pool Table, regular size, in gond condition, complete with ened and rack, Inguire of \u2018I, Frank O'Rourke, Caswell & O'Rourke's store.FOR SALE.Two fratelnss Buffalo Robes, lined and tri .mme GEO.E.CRAWFORD, 54w3 Stanstead.TO RENT.Property on Derby Line Street known aa the Bixby Place.Apply to sait CHAS.W.HOLMES, Stanstead.At the age of one hundred and | LOST.On tho evening of the 10th of December a Horse Blanket, checked red and black, over 7 feet in length: between Rock Island and the Holland Road.Any person returning it will be suitably rewarded.52 MICHAEL DAVEY.NOTICE.\u2018Whereas my wife Jennie Alboe, has left my bed and bourd without just cause or provocation all persons are hereby forbidden to harbor, or trust her on my account as I shall be responsible for no bills contracted by her after this date CHAS, A.BOWKER.Derby Line, Dec.8, 1888, bass For the Ladies.Some of our best Cloaks and Capes are still left unsold and they have only to be seen to realize their true worth.Quality high and prices low.Underwear.Our heavy fleece-lined non-irri- tating, non-shrinking Undergarments are the best bargains ever offered at 50c.They do not scratch; have all the comforts of silk and all the virtues of wool.Also genuine Natural Wool Underwear from the old country; not to be compared with the cheap domestic imitations; finest thing in the world, except silk.Small sizes to fit small people; large sizes to fit large people.Footwear \u2018Wool lined rubbers and overs are needed this cold weather and we have them.Examine our line of Boots and Shoes before buying.C.H.KATHAN.Reduction Sale.À condition of the sale of my stock in trade to Mr Chas.C.Hunt is that I shall reduce the stock to a certain Hmit specified in the agreement, before the property is transferred, and to comply with this agreoment I shall xell for the next 60 days a large variety of goods at cost and less.Jrockery and Tinware, Boots, Moccasins, Groceries, Soaps, Patent Medicines, ete., all to be sacrificed.A few prices to convince you I mean business.Dinner sets $5.50 to 7.50, Toilet sets, $2.00, Women\u2019s and Chilidlren\u2019s Moceasins, regular dollar goods, Hand Sleds, 350.Gallon ean apple Ae, Dried apple per lb.fe, Stack of Soaps, all kinds, per bar 2c.to 3e.Plenty of other Bargains.A.W.PARKER, Rock Island, Dec.15, 1893.HANDKERCHIEFS FOR CHRISTMAS, Call and see our new line of Hand- Kerchiefs bought especially for the Holiday trade.Pure Linen Handkerchiefs, Fancy Embroidered Hdkfs., Colored Bordered Hdkfs.C.H.KHTHAN.LIBERATION.Notice is hereby given that 1 have relin- uished to my son \u2018Alfred Girard tho remain- er of his minority and that I shall claim none of his carnings nor pay nny debts contracted by him after this date.CALIXTE GIRARD.Rock Island, Dee.5th, 1808.Hows STANSTEAD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.The Ant ual Meeting of the Stanstead County Agrieultural Society will beheld in the County building at Ayer's Flat on Wednesday, December 21st at 10 aan.for the election of the hoard of directors for tho ensuing year.There ore other very important matters to be brought Up at this meeting and it is absolutely neces: sary that the members should attend.GEO.ROBINSON, Sec'y-Trens.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK.DIVIDEND No.78.Notice is herchy given that a dividend of THREE and ONE-HALF PER CENT.upon the paid up Capital Btock of this Bank has beon declared for the current half year, and that the same will bo payable at the Head Office and Branches on and aftor Tuesday, 3rd day of January Next.\u2018The Transfer Books will be closed from the 15th to 8lst December, both days inclusive.By « r ler of the Board, WM.FARWELL, General Managor.Sherbrooke, 2nd Dec., 1898.Ssw4 FOR SALE.Second hand Fieating Stove for conl will be G.W.DORMAN, sold dirt cheap for cas Souvenir Sherbrooke Makes an Attractive PRESENT.It is a neatly printed and bound book containing over sixty beautiful views of Sherbrooke and nearby illages.Vpratin done by F.Gutckunst, leading art Philadelphia, Pa., a printer of America.Price $1 each, Postage in Canada, 4c.to United States and England, 7c.L.S.CHANNELL, Publisher, 6stf Sherbrooke, Que.Why Smuggle American Tobacco When you can get all the leading brands in Chewing and Smoking, and in any size box, duly stamped according to law by Customs Department at Montreal.The ton of Tobacco recently seized by Customs of Stanstead has been consigned to me and must be sold at once.This tobacco is put up in boxes weighing from 4 to 18 Ibs, and whl be sold in quantities to suit purchasers.GEO.H.HOUSE, Beebe Plain, Que.Down At MERRILL\u2019S MILL You Can Get your Lumber Sawn for $2.00 per M.Shingles, $0.59 do Grain ground to please you 8c.per bu.Horse Shocing, The.Dimension Lumber of all kinds.Kiln dried Sheating and matched boards.500 Cords Block Wood, 8 Sets Traverse Sleds 144, 2 and 2'4 inch Runners, warranted by the King.20 Stoves at Cost.\u201cRound Oak,\u201d Box, Cook and Ranges.You can save $5.00 by investigating.J.H.MERRILL.5200.00 Worth of SILVERWARE Given Away.J.E.B.CHAMPEAU begs to announce to the Public that he has now a complete stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Furniture, Hardware, Paints, 0il, and everything kept in a General conntry store.Come in and look at my stock, find out what my prices are.Gouds cheerfully shown.I can sell cheap as my expenses ire ight.Toffer in prizes the finest lot of Silverware ever shown in this place.Farmers' Produce taken in exchange for goods, W'ANTED at once 500 bushels of Osts.For sale sheap 2 pew one-horse Sleds.Having decided to go out of the furniture business I shall sell'nt wholesale price my furniture consisting of Bedroom Sets, Parlor Suits, Extension Tables, Spring Beds and Mattresses, Chairs, Sideboards, Ete.Call and be convinced.J.E.B.CHAMPEAU, SLEIGHS! Sleighs! \u2014- Tomkins & Blair have received at BEEBE PLAIN à car load of the Latest Style and best finished Sleighs ever unloaded in this County.They were bought for spot cash and will be sold on a very close margin.Intending purchasers should examine them and get prices before buying.5£w5 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014_ Bacteriological and Pathological LABORATORY, 63 Commercial St, Sherbrooke, Que.Examinations of Water, Milk, Blood Urine, Spulum, Pus, Tumors, Diph- theritic Membrane, etc.For Diagnostic or Scientific purposes.C.J.EDGAR, M.D,, Director.Specimens sent by mail or express will be examined and reported upon at once.Satf DR.H.D.MARTIN formerly in connection with Surgeon in Chief of Northern Dispensary ; Philadelphia, Penn., also Demonstrator Philadelphia Clinies Eye Specialist.Office at Derby Line Hotel, December 16 until December 23.SPECIAL Attention given to diseased eyes, weak and watery eyes, red and inflamed eyes and lids, blurred and indistinct sight, double vision, crooked eyes, pain in and over eyes and headaches, pain in or side of head or back of neck and all defects of sight, Office hours 9 a.m.until 8 p.m.Consultation Free.FOR SALE.Comfortable house with wood shed, barn and earriage house attached, all in good condition, Hard and Soft water at house, Must be sold to settle an estate.MRS.OLIVER GGARCEATU.Rock Island, Nov.15, 1808, sit.SLEIGHS.Just received direct from the factors « car lond of the Handsomest Canadian made Sieighs ever shown in this place, and I am prepared to quote lowest prices on samo.Call and see them.Also an excellent line of SLEIGH ROBES, BLANKETS, WHIPS, ETC.You will make a mistake if you don't see these goods and get prices hefore buying.E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, Que.Farm for Sale.the Into Nathaniel Cate enr Smith's Mills.Apply to WILLARD MILLER, Griffin, Que., or to ©.W.Catv, Sher- The Farm formerly owned and occupied by New Store Stanstead Plain.brooke, Que.=\u201d I shall continue the same place an close out all winter lines.1 shall make a specialty of the SH footwear.I have accepted the agency of Ladies\u2019 Shoes in New England.by so doing save the jobber\u2019s guarantee the \u201cQueen.Quality\" to Rock Island, Sopt., 22nd, 1898.satt.Announcement Having bought out Mr.G.W.Clark the business in d carry the same line of goods.1 bought the clothing department at a big discount and, during the next thirty days I shall give my customers the benefit of my bargain as I must OE business and in fact all kinds of for the \u201cQueen Quality\u201d SHOE, manufactured by the Thomas G.Plant Co Boston, makers of the finest line I buy them direct from the factory, and profit and give it to my customers.I will match this shoe at 83.00 against any £3.60 shoe on the market to-day and e equal if not superior in both style and quality.Call and see them; they are beauties.T'shall have a large line of Genlemen\u2019s Furnishings for Christmas trade.O.F.CASWELL, DERBY LINE, VT. EEE SEE rom \u201cBusiness and Professional Cards, T7 DR.C.L.BROWN, Physician and Surgeon, Ayer's Flat.Office next to P.0.Residence Chas.Vaughan's.REYNOLDS, B.D.8.w.ARS Dental College) 180 Tremont St., Boston.Office hours: 9 to 4, DR.L.A.LAPALME, Physician and Surgeon, Stanstead Plain P.Q.Office and Residence at Dr.Canfield's old place.J.C.GILFILLAN, MB.goon hathic Physician and Sur > Homeopn® Beebo Plain, Vt.RALPH M.CANFIELD, M.D., L.R.C.P.(London) Etec.413 Shawmut Avenue, Boston, Office hours: 1to 8 P.M.Tto8P.M.J.E.C.TOMKINS, (McGill) Physician and Surgeon, lai \u2018 it ist Church, Stanste: ain.office opposite Cohn No, 60.DR.H.C.RUGG, M.D.,C.M,, Physician and Surgoon.Hackett ce ite residence of Hon.M.F, Hackett.Ofc PPS Plain, Que.Bell Telephone No.84, a T.D.WHITCHER, M.D, Physician and Surgeon.Beebe Plain, P.Q.Pelephones\u2014Bell, People\u2019s, Channell\u2019s.Office at Residence.C.l.MOULTON, L.D.S,, Dentist, Stanstead Plain, Que.ERASTUS P.BALL, Veterinary Surgeon.con i ate of Montreal Veterinary College.\u201c Tad it Loe Farm, Rock Island, Que.U.8.P.O.address Derby Line, Vermont.CHAS.H.MANSUR, Advocate, Rock Island, P.Q.Office over Pike Bros\u2019 Store.A.E.HARVEY, B.C.L,, Advocate, Barrister and Solicitor, 185 St.James Street, Montreal.Bell Telephone 1868.E'n Townships business carefully looked after.M.F.HACKETT, Advocate, Solicitor, &c., Stanstead Plain, Que , will attend all courts in the District.Collec tions a specialty.Threr H.M.HOVEY, Advocate, Rock Island.Que.U.$.P.O.address, Derby Line, Vt.CHAS.M.THOMAS, Notary Public, (Commissioner Superior Court.Office at the Court House, Stanstead Plain.L.H.RAND, Undertaker, Fitch Bay, Que.A complete assortment of Fine Funeral Furnishings always kept in stock, C.C.BEEBE, Licensed Auctioneer, Beebe Plain, P.Q.Telephone at Miller & House's Office.Ayer\u2019s Fiat's Greatest X Mas Display lough's LIST &- Plush hound Albums, Autograph Albums, whld decorated ; Toilet Cases, fancy decorated; Handkerchief Boxes; Glove Boxes; Watches, Watches, good timers, $1.25; watches good timers, stem wind $1.75; Dumb Watches 10c., Two-face dolls that talk Chinese, Dolls a novelty, China Dolls, Jointed Dolls, Santa dolls, Toy wool Animals, Pug Dogs as natural ag life, Cart and Horse, hitehed, in wood; Toy Animals intin, Toy Animals in Crockery: noiry toy Birds, Elephants, perpetual motion heads; Air gun and musical attachment; men that climb a string; Jumping Jacks: Horse hitch Fire Engine and Bell; Skates; False Faces, 20 patterns; novelty Paring Knives: Checker Boards, folded; Dominoes; Authors; Steeple Chase: Games.Dr.Bushy, Vatehing, Tohlogan Slide, Old Maid, Fortune, Peter Coddles, Latte, Box Geese, Go Bang.Glassware.Green Glass, Fancy Shapes: Green Glass, gold decorated, Fancy ; Crystal Glass, fancy shapes; Blue (Hlass, gold decorated ; Crystal Glass, gold docornted ; Glass preserve dish, with 6 plates 30e, Light and Dark Shaded (lass, fancy shapes; Red (lass, fancy shapes: Opal Glass, fancy shapes, Glass lates, photographed centers; Child\u2019s toy earthern sets; Gold decorated Egg dish ; Glass Sugars, Pale Blue.Tint.«d Salts and Pepor and Mustards, with stand; Vases, Lilly shaped, Baskot shaped Crimson, high and shaded colors, Fancy China al} kinds.bought only the patterns that are sold in the large citics, never seen here before on account cf being too costly, but I obtained à price low enough to suit fou and warrant À good sale as I have already had to repeat my order.Two show-cases Silverware and Jewelry, latest patterns, of my fall buying.Rings, .Bracelets, and pins that suit, Ladies\u2019 embroidered white Lawn Aprons, ready to wear, 2c, also embroidered Gingham Aprons at half price.Ladies\u2019 Black Velvet Belts, bronze buckle, white kid backs, Wide Silk Belts, stone sct buckle.Silk picture Throws, fancy gold embroidered.Fancy Silk Ties, black silk Handkerchiefs and face shawls, Limported all direct from Japan.Ladies Satin Hose supporters, stamped Doiloys.Stamped Table Stand Covers: Stamped and Fringed Table Covers.Dress Goods.The eut price sale of my Dress Goods is he- ing taken advantage oi by the Ladies.Re member that, not only one line of Dress Goods arg cut, but all lines.Every piece of 75c, ®oods is cut to 08c., every piece of fie goods to 5, and so on through every line.Just see the Fancy goods at the eut prices.Just bring along with yon a sample of Henrietta that you have paid 75c.for and compare with a line that nm showing at 50c, now the cut price is 4fc.This line ix 44 inches wide, heavy and fine, and you aro just asked to compare it to any 75¢.goods, that's all; that\u2019s fair and that is your proof of quality.Another proof of tho value that I am giving.MRS.ROBINSON'S dresmaking department is so crowded with work that she engaged Miss Mnudo Peck as assistant while my cut price sale continues.Pure Mixed Candy fc.1b.22 )bs, Granulated Sugar $1.00, No produce taken between the dates Dec.10 and 25, after that date bring in ail you have.Papetries at the JOURNAL office.Orders for short-bread for Christmas will be received by Mrs.Raimback, Secretary Ladies\u2019 Guild, Stanstead.ABOUT OUR.NEIGHBORS.Coaticook business men are working to establish a Board of Trade.District of Bedford Liberals are arranging for a banquet to be given Hon.8.A.Fisher, Minister of Agriculture, at Cowansville the later part of January.Mr.Justice White has rendered judgment putting the Richmond Industrial company into liquidation upon the petition of Joseph Bedard, but the case may be taken to the Court of Review.George Martineau of Coaticook, charged with perjury in connection with the Knight liquor case, has been bound over to take his trial before the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench.Bail was fixed at 8900.James Hunt, the Danville bigamist, was sentenced on Saturday to two years in the penitentiary.He married a Richmond county girl while his lawful wife was still living with her children in Ireland.Mr.L.V.Smith, whose death, oc- curing at Des Moines on the 31st ult., was mentioned in last week\u2019s Journal, was the youngest of the sons of the firm of O.Smith who formerly owned and operated the woolen mills at Smith\u2019s Mills.One William\u2019 Reddy, who pretended to be a deaf mute and sought aid as such, came to grief in St.Johns the other day when he was arrested along with a pal of his jy the name of Martin.Both were condemed for vagrancy and sent to jail for eight days.Mrs.Brown, aged 96, widow of the late Capt.Brown, died at Waterville on the 3rd inst.Deceased was for many years a resident of Sherbrooke the last surviving member of those who formed the CongregationalChurch at Sherbrooke in December, 1835.Newport, Vt., now has hotel monopoly.Sisco and Holbrook have taken possession of the Newport House which they are now running in connection with the Lake House and the Memphremagog.The latter is closed for the winter except for roomers.The asbestos mines near Danville, Que., have been partially closed.About thirty men will be employed in the factory and one pit through the winter.Nearly two hundred men have been thrown out of employment on a week's notice.The railway will be kept open and shipping continued.The Stanstead Hockey club has been refused admittance to the Eastern Township Hockey League, the reason given being that the Stanstead rink is below the standard insize.Stanstead was one of the original clubs forming the E.T.League, and a Stanstead man, Mr.H.E.Channel] was the first president.The annual meeting of the Masons of the District of St.Francis was held in Sherbrooke last Friday, representatives being present from Richmond, Danville, Magog, Lennoxville, Cook- shire and Stanstead Lodges.Golden Rule Lodge was represented by Mr.H.E.Channell and Dr.Jones.Mr.Channell presided at the banquet.The Vermont Peoples\u2019 Telephone Co., a new concern operating in Orleans County, have recently extended their lines to the Three Villages, and are confident of doing considerable business here.Communication may be had with Newport over this line\u2018 from Derby Line at 10 cents, and from ! Rock Island or Stanstead at 15 cents.Squire J.Wilson of Lyndonville, Vt., who recently resigned his position | as locomotive engineer on the Pas-! gumpsic division of the Boston & Maine \u2018 Line, has had a most remarkable and successful career in that capacity.For over 50 years he has been up and down through the Passumpsic Valley upon an engine, 48 of which he was engineer.He will remain in the mechanical department of the road.A teachers association has been formed in the District of Bedford under the name of the District of Bed- ford Association of Protestant Teachers.The officers are: President, HA., Honeyman, Granby; Vice-Presi- dent, Chas McBurney, Claranceville; Secretary-Treasure, Miss Traver, Farnham; executive committee, Rev E.M.Taylor, M.A.; P.C.DuBoyce, B.A.Bedford; Frank Call,Frelighsburg; Miss Hall, Clarenceville; Miss Hinds, B.A., Dunham Ladies College.The case of Durand vs.the Asbestos & Asbestic Co.was decided by Judge Lemieux in the Superior Court on Tuesday.This was an action for #5000 damages taken by Dame Adelina Durand, widow of the late Theodore Rivard, who was killed by an explosion at the company\u2019s mines, June 17, 1898.Deceased was an engineer, and at the time of the accident was employed at a compressor when a quantity of daulin in the adjoining engine room exploded wrecking the buildings and killing three men, Rivard, Morin and Ratte.After considering the evidence the court decided that grave fault and imprudence was attributable to the defendants, and that their neglect and fault was the determining cause of the death of Rivard.Judgment for $2000 in favor of the plaintiff, being $1000 personally, and $1000 in her quality of tutrix to her five chil- EMIGRANTS FOR CANADA.According to a London despatch emigration returns just published show that the number of emigrants from British ports to Canada for the month of November last was as follows: English, 561; Irish, 35; Scotch, 24; and foreign, 677.Total for the eleven months ending 30th November: English, 14,861; Irish, 853; Scotch, 1687; and foreign, 9465.There were three thousand more emigrants to Canada during that period than to the Cape, and compared with those having Australia for their destination, the number was double that.The number of emigrants to the United States for the eleven months was 118,840.FIVE YEARS FOR INCEST.David Rosseau, found guilty of incest on the 26th of November last, was sentenced by Judge Mulvena at Sweetsburg last Friday to five years in the penitentiary.In passing sentence the Court referred to the odious nature of the offence, and intimated that it would have been justified in ordering the prisoner to be whipped, but had finally decided to spare the prisoner this terrible punishment.Lord Kitchener's Sweetheart, \u2018\u201cThe Marchioness\u2019 writes in The Ottawa Free Press the following interesting paragraph: \u2014 \u2018Miss Marie Moreton, whose Prince Charming has turned out to be the hero of Omdurman, Lord Kitchener, and whom every girl with a penchant for heroes is going to envy, is the daughter of Hon.Richard Charles Moreton, Her Majesty\u2019s Marshal of the Ceremonies, and a granddaughter of the Earl of Ducie.Miss Moreton spent a couple of happy years when a little girl in Ottawa.She used to tumble in the snow drifts about Government House and probably had just as fine a time as any other little girl ever had in the bright Canadian winter.Her father was private secretary to Lord Lorne, and her mother, who is a Greek, was lady- in-waiting to H.R.H.Princess Louise.\u201d Every Thursday the Year Round.In more than half a million homes The Youth\u2019s Companion comes every week, the welcome guest of young and old\u2014read with equal interest by every member of the household.The best of fiction, poetry, sketches of travel, instructive articles, comment on current events and selected miscellany and anecdotes fill its columns from week to week and from year to year.The publishers promise that the volume for 1889 will surpass all former ones, in variety, interest and value.Among the two hundred distinguished contributors already engaged are Hon.John D.Long, Secretary of the Navy, Edward Everett Hale, Henry M.Stanley, Sarah Orne Jewett, W.D.Howells, Poultney Bigelow, Ilerbert E.Hamblen, Hon.Carl Schurz, Rt.Hon.James Bryce, John Burroughs, Robert Barr, Thomas Nelson Page, Bret Harte, William Black, Alfred Austin, Andrew Lang, and Dr.William A.Hammond.All subscribers to the 1899 volume will receive the Companion\u2019s new Calendar, exquisitely colored, with a border of stamped gold.The paper will be given free also from the time subscription is received until January 1, 1890, then a full year to January 1, 1800.A handsome illustrated announcement and sample copies will be sent free to anyone addressing The Youth\u2019s Companion, 211 Columbus Ave., Boston, Mass.Some of the American statesmen are not favorable to the annexation and expansion policy of the United states (Government.Among them are ex-President Cleveland and Hon.John Sherman, one a Democrat and one a prominent Republican politician.They recognize the danger of annexing territory inhabited by ignorant and uncivilized races, like the natives of the Philippines, and some of the West India Islands.But the war with Spain seems to have created a desire for expansion and the introduction of a colonial system, like the powers of Europe.BILL BUNKER'S NED.He warn't no youthful prodigee\u2014 As fur from that as fur kin be.A tarnal tougher little cud Never wriggled hig toes in mud Er rummaged roan\u2019 in farmers\u2019 mows TN\u2019 pelted stoned at neighbors\u2019 cows.Evenings when th\u2019 farmers =ot Roun' Dan Jones\u2019 stove so hot, All allowed, \u2018n' each one said, He'd turn out bad, Bill Bunker's Ned.Time went on \u2018n° #0 did he, Cuttin\u2019 his capers Kind er free, Really didn't do nothin* bad, Jest à mischéevots sort er Jad : *Ots ér th\u2019 other boys could spel} *N' heat him at figgers jest ay well, But swnppin' knives er savin dimes He'd beat \u2019em ali a hundred times.Only stil] when he got ter bed, Farmers terror, Bill Bunker's Ned, All of er sudden he stiddied down, N' ther warn't a bay in all th\u2019 town Could swing a better scythe than he Er pick more apples off a tree, i *N''aome er th\u2019 gossips whispered roun He'd fell in love with Lindy Brown: \u2018Anyhow it did look that way, Fer he went off one sununer's day Ter city life \u2018n° some foiks sed, .\u201cNow he is lost,\u201d Bill Bunker's Ned Jest erbout three years had passed, We found he'd made a fortune fast; Come back \u2018n\u2019 married Lindy Brown, 'N' did a lot ter help th\u2019 town\u2014 | He fixed th\u2019 0)\u2019 church through 'n\u2019 through N' huilt à town house bran fred new.Now, when the farmers talk it c'er Down in Dan Jones\u2019 corner store, Each one sez that he allus dren.sed He'd make his mark, Bill Bunker's Ned.CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE.An Eastern Ontario Correspondents Opinion of Them.Editor of The Stanstead Journal: Dear Sir\u2014We see by the Guardian that Dr.Hunter has Mr.Russell and wife down there.Mr.Russell was stopped from preaching by the Presbyterians on account of his work for the Christian Alliance.A few months ago Dr.Hunter wrote the Guardian \u2018he had nothing to do with the C.A?The Christian Alliance are faith cure and Advent in belief.Surely the Eastern Townships have had enough of the Advent scare.If anyone wishes to know what the Alliance can do to ruin Methodism just come to Eastern Ontario where there are Alliance, Hornerites, Dayites, Blaney - ites, Icobieites, etc., etc, and all of them will tell you they know just how to spend your money so much better than the Methodist Church can do.LOOKING ON.MESSACE IN A BOTTLE.Signed \u2018\u2018Blanchard\u201d and Purports to be from the Captain of the Steamer Portland.A flask containing a.message purporting to have come from Captain Blanchard of the steamer Portland was picked up on the beach nearly opposite White Head, Nantasket Beach, on the 3rd inst.The message reads; \u201cHelp! On board the Portland.We are sinking.Upper works gone, two miles off Highland light.Time, 7.30 Sunday.Blanchard.\u201d No credence is placed in the authon- ticity of the writing.An Historical Battle-Field.It is well established ns matter of history that ninety-nine-year leases do eventually run out.An occurrence of this sort threatens to disturb the status of the Plains of Abraham, at Quebec.The Plains were held by the Government under a ninety nine-year lease, which being now very near its end, there is an imminent prospect of the return of the property to the Hotel Dieu (a convent) and the partition and sale of the land.What ought to happen is that the Dominion government should buy the Plains outright and keep them as they are.We Americans have an interest in their preservation, for they include the spot where Montgomery fell, as well as the spot where Benedict Arnold was wounded in the leg, and missed the greatest opportunity or his lifetime by not being killed in honest battle \u2014B.S.Martin in Harper's Weekly.The Spaniards in the Phillippines favor a protectorate over the Islands.The American troops in Manila have recently been reinforced.Some of the prominent people of the Islands recommend an American protectorate over the Islands, and a government of their own.Constipation prevents the body from ridding itself of waste matter.De- Witt\u2019s Little Early Risers will remove the trouble and cure sick Headache, hilliousness, Inactive liver and clear the complexion.Small, sugar coated, don\u2019t gripe or cause nausea.J.T.Flint, Rock Island and Derby Line.Gen.Calixta Garcia, a prominent leader in the Cuban rebellion against Spanish control in Cuba, died last week, and will be succeeded by Senor Mendez Capote as president of the Cuban Commissson, and will visit Washington at once.Croup Quickly Cured.Overcome evil with good.Overcome your coughs and colds with One Minute Cough Cure.It is so good children cry for it.It cures croup bronchitis, pneumonia, grippe and all thront and ung diseases.J T.Flint, Derby Line and Rock Island.The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain has been completed, and signed by the commissioners of both countries.The Spanish delegates were much depressed, but had to submit to the terms offered by the United States.Mountain Glen, Ark.\u2014Our children were suffering with croup when we received a bottle of Chamberlain\u2019s Cough Remedy.It afforded almost instant relief.\u2014 F.A, Thornton.This celebrated remedy is for sale by J.T.Flint, Druggist.On the 13th inst., a west bound train on the Intercolonial, run into a herd of Moose, numbering 30.Three of them were killed, one, a cow moose, weighed over 600 1bs and was taken to Quebec by Mr.J.B.Lambkin.Glorious News Comes from Dr.D.B.Cargile, of Washita, I.T.He writes: \u201cFour bottles of electric bitters have cured Mrs, Brewer of scrofula, which had caused her great suffering for years, Terrible sores would break out on her head and face, and the best doctors could give no help; but her cure is complete and her health is excellent.\u201d This shows what thousands have proved\u2014 that Electric Bitters is the best blood purifier known.Its the supreme remedy for eczema, tetter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores.It stimulates liver, kidneys, and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength.Only cents.Sold by all druggists.Every bottle guaranteed.Christmas Bargains.The Larguat and Prottiest Line of Goods suitable for Christmas Gifts Ever brought to Rock Island, and nt prloon which all can afford to par Staple and Fancy Crockery of all kinds, Porcelaine Novelties in great variety, Cellulold Toilet Cowon, Jowel Cases, Work Boxes, Handkorchlof Case, Photo Cases, Neok Tie Quses, Nmokers, ty Dolls, Blocks, Toys, Games, Picture books, Harmonicas, Photo Frames, Calendars, Perfumes Fancy Boxes nnd Baskets, eto.in BIG VALUES in Gents Gloves, nnd Neck Scarfs.A first-class Fur trimmed Gents\u2019 Gloves for 500.Also in handkerchiefs we have à very large variety all new Gouds for Holiday trade, from 2e.up.\u2019 Look and see our stock of Pipes, a dandy for 25c.Good for à Christmas GIÉt, Ladies\u2019 Silk Mittens and Ties, Also a great Variety of First-Class Purses.The Best Mixed Candy 6c.lb.Come In and see our endless variety and assortment of goods, Christmas Gifts.F.W.D.MELLOON.We Keep the Quality Up and the Prices Down.& Just what you want foe & + It is a mistake to think that because we have a reputation for turning out superior work our prices are any higher than some are compelled to charge for inferior work.While we set a high standard for the quality of work we turn out, it does not follow that our prices are high.The use of modern facilities and a thorough systematizing of our business enables us to keep the price down.We can make you n nice suit for 815.00, smooth, styl- Better Patterns at ish, solid, serviceable.Some even less\u2014813 and $14.higher prices, of course.We suit everyone.Call and sce our new line of Cloths for Winter Suits and Overconts.CHAS.O'ROURKE, The Progressive Tallor.BARGAINS in Ready-Made-Ulothing, good all-wool Ulsters 26.50.Tweed Suits, made especinlly for my trade, tasty and well made, noth- All-wool ing sloppy about it, $8.Boys\u2019 Overcouts from £1.00 up.Every Saving ounts in this scrambling for a living and when you can purchase fi QUALITY GOO | at low quality Prices it pays you to remember the place.f You save on every purchase and you soon have a healthy addition to your bank account.9 Holiday Goods SKATES Jack Knives, Razors, and Carving Sets.English and German Decorated Enameled Ware, also Nickel Plated Waiters, Tea Kettles, Hot Water Kettles etc., Carpet Sweepers.We save money for you and only ask a chance to show you how.ROCK ISLAND HARDWARE (0.\u2014 ETES 0 ~ A MILKER ILLUSTRATED.Points For Judging or Selecting the Dairy Cow.Hoard\u2019s Dairyman publishes an outline of a dairy cow with special reference to characteristio points, und says: \u2018\u2018We call particular attention to the location and appearance of the pelvic arch and the flank.It is seldom that the former is ever referred to, except in this paper, and yet it is one of tho most common, as it is a pronounced pecul- jarity of the best dairy cows, Wa may not be able to explain fully why this is so, but it is evident thot a rise at this point is a suggestion of an adaptation to the functions and processes of maternity.Nature builds on economic and DIAGRAM OF A DAIRY COW.barmonious laws, sl! things working together for the accomplishment of the end with the least expenditure of energy.\u201c\u201cWe also ivsist upon a bigh arching flank, for reasons which scem too ovi- dent to call for particular discussion here, but we observe that a deep flank is often mentioned as a characteristic of the duiry cow.We inclino to the belief that this seeming coutradiction results from a different application aud use of the word \u2018\u2018flank.\u2019\" Undoubtedly the dictionary definition of this word is broad enough to include the rear half of the belly, but in the dairy form it is as essential that tbe flank, where it joins the thigh, sbould be high and arching, ns that it should be deep ut the median line.It seems better, therefore, to limit the application of the term to the parts above the udder and for the forward part use the more comprehensive word, which includes the lower part of the entire barrel.\" The Dog In the Dairy.If yoo find » man who understands the question of motherhood, tho laws that govern in milk giving, who studies how to produce tbe best cow possible, and theu bow to get the greatest profit ont of ber, you will see that he newer dogs or hurries hie cows to the pasture or out of it.He knows on which side his bread is to be buttered.Gointo his barnyard an.you will not find his cows rushing around to get out of bis way.He knows enough not to put any ob- structious in the way of his profit.Such a man iz usually kind bearted to start with, but if he is not his iutelligence teaches him the money value of kindness fo cowr, There is no work on the farm that you had not better slight than your cows.Give a cow a full chance for quiet and comfort in summer\u2019s heat and flies and winter's cold.Give her good food, plenty of it, and without too much exercise to get it.Making plenty of milk to make money for you is a big tax on her energice to start with.Adopt for your motto threo principles: (1) A good cow; (2) her good health; (8) good milk, and with good, common sense and energy yon need not fear a lack of good profit.No man can make a profit out of a poor cow, with good food and care or out of a good cow with poor food, bad caro and a dog.Auy wan with a dairy of cows shonld make them first in the management of the farm.Farm it for the cows, nut cow it for the farm.One will help the other, but the first thing must come first.Swap the dog for more milk and more profit, and the cows will gladly belp you along.\u2014Hourd's Dairy- mau.Spacka In Butter.Theoretically milk that is properly taken care of has no epecks in it that can afterward be found in the butter, says a writer in The MNational Stock- man, but it is a sad fact that practically there are more or less specks in the milk and consequently in the butter.A cow should be brushed so clean beforo wilking that there would bs no such things as specks, and no need for strainers, but the multifarious strainers upon the market testify that the large number of cows are not brushed as they theoretically suould be.1 aay theoretically, for it isa question witb me whether a cow that is kept in a clean box stall will pay for tbe extra trouble of baving her toilet performed twice a day, un- lees the milk is to be sold for some epecial purpcse.The modified milkmen brush their cows, but they get 8 cents à quart for their milk and can afford to do eo but fur the average dairyman with a clean cow it is, as I said, a ques.Mon if he cau do so.Butter In Japan.In reply to u correspondent, Coneuni General Gowey of Yokobama has written concerning the butter trade of Japan.The imports of butter into Japan for the year 1897 amounted to 182,484 pounds, at a value of $87,500 in gold.Of this quantity the United States fur- _ nished 78,000 pounds, the greater quantity of which came from California.The average price is about 85 cents per pound.He says he bas no doubt that the United States creamery butter, properly prepared for table use and put up in attractive packages in such manner as to preserve ite aweetnoss, would epeedily control the market.Between March and October it is very difficult to \u2018get butter, ae all butter becomes more\u2019 St len rancid on exposure to the air, 20 Ï : Would bave to be.packed in small \u201cGuabtities and carefully wrapped in \u2018malt used than if brine salting was fol- sloth before pe he NO STARVING COWS.Take Care of Good Milkers When They Are Dry.The Dairy World says that it is one tbing to bave a cow run down in condition from lack of food and it is another to have ber thin by giving large quantities of milk, with all pure, rich, milk giving foods Jike wheat, bran, ground oats, oilmeal, good clover hay or otber materials.In the one case she is poor und faint and gives little or no milk, while in the other condition she is strong, hearty and active and ful) of rich blood.Milk is an eluboration from tho blood, and the blood is mude from the food.Because a cow is allowed to go dry is no rgasou why she shculd be allowed to run down in condition.She need to Le kept in order to bear the strain of calf bonring and starting into milk giving again.Yet under the impression that it is economy many farm- erg commence tinting the ration us soon as the cow begins to dry up.If che can bo kept alive until grass makes & enfficient growth to furnish pasturage thesaving in feed is considered so much gain and sbe will come to borself in a little whilo nfler pasturago gets good.Tho good duiry cow ought to giveymilk eleven months out of tho year, and the oso mouth she is resting she ought to be gaining in condition overy day.Profitable dairying is not good luck.It is tho rosult of selecting and using good cows aud giving them good feed avd care, and all a cow Joses while she is dry must be made up again and it must be made up from food supplied to her und geste double what it should cost to keep her thrifty.During the nest two months a little extra care should be given to keep the dairy cows thrifty, so that they may be in good condition for calving and milk giving.Raise Yonr Own Cows, I have found it more profituble and preferable to raise the cows rather than buy them, says L.Morse in Tho Practical Farmer.A few years ago, while living in Bradford county, Pa., 1 had some experience aleng both lines.In two instances, circumstances beces- sitated my buying cows to replenish a dairy herd.In all I bought nino cows aud at the time thought I was buying very carefully.Out of the lot ouly two proved to be anywise desirable, the remainder being from ordinary to poor and not profitable to keep in the herd, the most of them being disposed of at a discount from purchase price.In the weantime 1 had been growing up several (six, 1 think) heifers from the best cows in a large dairy berd of grade Jerseys and out of a thoroughbred Jersey bull.Theso were bred to another registered Jersey bull of good individual merit and approved pedigree, and their most promising heifers raised to cowhood.What was the result?Almost without exception the cows thus raised were extra good ones for business, giving milk testing high in butter fat, the average herd producing a pound of butter from much loss than 20 pounds of milk, while euch cows as I had been obliged to buy would not make the same amount from less than £5 pounds of milk.Avotber result was that when it came to the question of selling, there were plenty of buyers who were willing to pay goud prices.The herd was a rare one certainly; the admiration of all who saw them, and, considering their performance and selling value, stood me in much less than those ! told about baving bought.This is experience, not tbeory, and from it I would deduce that while now and then thero are expert buyers who may go into the general market and buy good cows, the average dairyman will fail oftener than he succeeds in bnying abything desirable.Fertility Removed by Mlk, When the farmer is deciding whether to sell milk or crenm, he should always take into account the fact that the skim- milk, if properly used at bome, will add to the fertility of the land.If a cow produces 4,000 pounds of wilkin a year, it contains £2 pounds of nitrogen, 11 pounds of potash and 9 pounds of phosphoric acid.This is nearly all in the skimmilk, and if this is fed on the farm it may with proper management be largely sdded to the fertility of the land.There should be a constant caro to send from the farm that only which has the least amount possible of nitrogen, potash and phosphoric acid.These substances coustitute the farmer's ruw material The available amount in the land is very limited, aud he should use great care to kee that none of it is wasted in order that he may keep up a good supply of the finished product.Nearly $75,000,000 worth of plant food is shipped out of tha country every year in our grain exporty nlove.Savo every particle of fertilizer possible and \u2018\u2018speed the plow, \u201d\u2019 the barrow and the cultivator to bring the phosphoric acid and the potash to an available condition, and the farmer is on the right road to success.\u2014 Maine Farmer.Snlting Butter, When 1 first began to make buttor and it came salting time, says'a corro- wpondent of The National Stockman, all the butter was carefully taker f2om the thurn and weighed and a proportionate amount of sult was weighed and added thereto.After this brine salting was tried apd discarded.Then a compromise was adopted which suits me, as it requires a mivimom amount of labor and suits the customers ns well.After the butter haw received its ast washing, and before all tho water has drained off, ealt, as nearly ns 1 can guess, to the jamount of 1} ounces to the pound is added.There is enough water in the I'butter to dissolve the salt, and I have a jatrong brine by which the butter is salted evenly.The butter in its granular stato is gently stirred with a paddle, and the brine comes In contact with all part of the butter with much lees work- ing than it would do if it was gathered before eating, and there is far less ABOUT TOXIC DRUGS.CHARACTERISTICS OF A FEW MOST POTENT FOR EVIL.Information ns to \u2018Thelr Nature and Effect on (he Iluman System.Thelr Use Dangerous Even In Medicine.Gom opium, the dried milky exudate from the green capsules of tho white Poppy, and its product\u2014morphine\u2014are tho most reliable drugs known for the relief of pain.The dose of gum opium in medicine is from ono-quarter tô one Brain.It contuins from 8 to 14 per cent of morphine, which is its principal alkaluid, Opium ig a much more stable and stronger sedative than morphine, The accumulative effect of repeated medicinal doses is frequently observed aud is followed by dangerous symp- tome.It is both a sedative and byp- notio, and if given in large doses quiots the brain and excitee the spinal cord.In poisonous doses the pulse may become rapid and great depression follow ; the respiratory centers are paralyzed, thus causing death, A medicinal dose of snlphate of morphine is from one-eighth to one-quarter of a grain, Ono grain is a dangerous dose, and two grains are liable to prove fatal.Morphine is a true narcotic.It is n sedative, lessens tissue change and wenkens every function of the body.Cocaine is an alkaloid of cocon leaves and is used in medicine in the form of hydrochlorate.It ie used locally in powder or solution to relieve pain.It is a strong local anmsthetic, and when used internally is à stimulant.It increases the rapidity of heart pulsation and tho force and frequency of respiration.The ordinary dose when used as medicine is from one-quarter to one- half grain and is very unstable and treacherous in ite effects.Sowe patients will tolurate large doses while in others small doses produce unpleasant effects.Deaths aro recorded from tho use of one-seventh to one grain.Chloroform js an anwmsthetic and death is often caused by few inbala- tions.Tho dose internally is from 3 to 20 minims.It is not much used in medicine except to control pain and produce sleep, It is inhaled to produce mild slumber or complete insensibility in surgical operations.Death muy come suddenly and without warning at any time during its administration, Chloral or hydrate of chloral ia a bypuotic.lt is of but little value in medicine except to control nervousness and produce sleep.The dose is from 15 to 80 grains.It should be administered with caution and only by the physician.It is made by passing chlorine gas through pure alcobol and gets its name from the first syllables of the two words, chlorine and alcohol.It produces death by inbibition of the heart's action and by paralyzing the puveumogastric nerve.Sulpbonal is a coal tar preparation and is valouble in medicine asa hypnotic only.An ordinary dose tc produce eleep is from 10 to 40 grains.If it ie given in theso doses for several days in succession, it produces great weariness, an unsteady gait and may involve paralysis of the lower limbs, with great disturbance of digestion and scanty secretion of urine of about the color of port wine, There are a number of cases of death raported as\u2019 resulting from acute or chronic poisoning by sulphonal.Phenacetive is a product of coal tar and an antipyretic, a drug that lessens the temperature in high fovers and rapidly disintegrates the blood.Itisn nerve sedative, the dose Leing from five tc ten grains, Its use should bo discontinued when tlie temperature bas been reduced to normal.Antifebriu, nuotber of the conl tar preparations, is the registered name for acetanelid.Its effects are very similar to the cffects of phenacetine, and it is used in favers for lessening the temperature and tor neuralgic pains.The med icinal dose is from 3 to 10 grains.Un pleasant effucts follow its continued use, such as great exhaustion, hIneness oi the lips aud a slow, labored pulse, The indiscriminate use of the many coal tar products and other hypnotics, such as sulpbonal, phenacetine, nutife- brin, chloral, bromidia, ete., under the Would Plense Her, The Lover (passionately)\u2014 What can I do, whero can I go, that I may please you?The Loved (also with passion)\u2014Oh, go anywhere\u2014only do go soon !\u2014 Judy.Just Grievance, \u2018\u201cSome restaurant keepers are so stingy! Here's a thimllefa! of oil for my salad! Thero won't be coough when I'm through eating to oil my bicycle with.\"'\u2014Heitere Wolt.The Juvenile Tden.Chimmy-Let's hook some of dat buntin, Swipes\u2014 Wat fer?Chimmy\u2014 Why, we cau make a flagship an be commodores too.\u2014New York Journal, A Set of Seraphooks, \u2014Chicago Record, Crime and Punishment, guise of headache remedies, is productive of much disaster, all heing nerve | paralyzauts.\u2014 Banner of Gold, A Cruel Master, A mation ean be a slave as well as the ! individual.Columbia stands with | chains upon her glorious form, snd tho flag that should typify her graces nnd sbed ber glory is the protector of her masters.Yours ago sho invited the | world to como to her howe and abide.She expected angels, but a dovil came As well.Poor Columbia willingly ne- vepted him, and now, protected by her armies and upheld by her laws, this giant places the chains of thralldom upon her fair wrists, that she might not perform her God given mission, aud ties her ankley that she may not run in the ! paths marked out by Providence.This | prince of demons, this cruel master of\u201d our land is the liquor traffic of the United States, which cost us in money in 1896 $1,196,878,422.This is our tribute for one year to the savage who thrives on broken hearts, ruined homes, a debauched people and damned souls.~Raev.M.P.Boynton.Aleohol In Cannda.The liquor interests in Canada have about $15,600,000 invested in the business of manufacturing liquor.The average annual output of whisky is about 4,500,000 gallons; of beer and ule, 17,- 150,000 gallons.À little over 500,000 gallons of wines is imported each year, Tho average annual consumption of all liquors in the Dominion, exclusive of native wines, is nearly 22,000,000 gallons, this in a country of less than 5,000,000 inhabitants, About $1,500,- 000 is collected in revenue each year by the provincial and municipal gov.ernments,\u2014Ohicago Record.Marie\u2014 Is poverty a crime?Poorboigb (gloomily)\u2014 Yes; punishable by Lard labor !\u2014Up to Date.Only Allegorienl.This is tho time of year when the do.mestio feline indulges in that happy knack of coming home, well fed and happy, from the seaside, to find her poor, miserable master starving on the door.EASTERN TOWNSHIPS BANK.Established in 1859.CAPITAL - - .$1,500 000 RESERVED FUND, - - $ 885 000 BOARD OF DIRECTORS: R.W.HENEKER, President.HoN.M, H, COCHRANE, Vice-President.IsnarL Woon, T.J.Tuck, G.Stevens, J.N.GALER, N.W.Thomas, C.H.KATHAN, H.B.BROWN, Q.C.HEAD OFFICE, SHERBROOKE, P.Q.WM.FARWELL, General Manager.8.Epueur, Loca]l Manager, S.F.Money, Inapector of Branches.BRANCHES: ; Waterloo, W.I.Briggs, Mgr, ; Stanstead, S.Stevens, Mgr.: Cowansvilte, J.Muckinnon, Mgr.; Coaticuok, B.Austin, Mgr.; Richmond, W.L, Ball, Granby, W.H.Robinson, Mgr.; Bedford, E.W.Morgan, Mer.: Huntingdon, E.N.Rubinson, agr.; Magog, E.F.Oliver, Mgr.; St.Hycinthe, J, Laframboise, Mgr.; Agents in Montreal, Bank of Montreal.London, Eng., National Bank of Scotland.Boston.National Exchange Bank.New York, National Park Bank.Collections made at all accessible points.Europe.Exchange bought and sold.SAVINGS BRANCH DEPARTMENT Stanstead and Derby Line Branch 5.89 a.m.for (G.T.Boston & Maine Railroad.Commencing Monday, October 9, 1808.Trains leave Rock Island and Derby Line as follows : Montreal (C.P.& @.T.) » .C.) and Bherbrocke.pos thee ton and New York, for Montreal (C.p, via Newport).12.04 p.m.for Bouth.L.44 p.m.for Bherbrooke, Island P 3 and Montreal (C.P.and G.T.) ond (GT.and Sherbrooke.682 pa, for Montreal (G.T.) Quebec (G.T, and gr.; 10.04 p.m.for Boston and New York.Trains arrive at Rock Island and Derby Line : From South\u20146.18 a.m.and 2.66, and 7.11 pm.From North\u20148,18 n.m.and 12.20 and 10.2 p.m.Outward trains leave Btanstead Plain 1 minutes earlier than R.I.and D.L.ti Drafts issued for any req uired amounts, trains arrive at Stanstead Plain 4 minutes later good ut all points in Canada, United States and than Rock Island and Derby Line time.«time.Inward At each office.Interest allowed from dato of deposit and compounded annually, without requiring the attention ol the depositor.+ Office hours from 10 to 8, Saturdays from 10 ol, .Your Horse\u2019s Teeth May need attention now.Advice free, E.AUDINWOOD, Rock Island, P.Q., and Derby Line, Vi.8 YOUR HORSE should go wrong by interfering, stumble going down lili, a little slow in his gait, shoes coms off standing in the barn, make: up your mind there is something wrong, lu had better be seen at once, Bring him down to Merrill's Mills and we wil) place the caso before the King who will investigate to see that justice is done to al.Nail on four height new shoes and gash Services reasonable.you to call again, all for The.J.H.MERRILL, 0 Merrill's Mills, ings, Very large assortment of ready-to and Pattern Dress Goods, for balance of 4 gals.Portland W.W.Oil 70c.Lantern Globes 4e, À real nice Lantern 35c.Cambric Dress We have a real nice line of Ladie want a nice article in the way of a Fur G only the good kinds.With every cash purchase from 5e.different articles in Biscuit Jars, Butter Some of the ware is on view in one of only for spot cash purchases.PARKER Everything You know we keep everything.We have all kinds of House Furnish- Carpets, all grades, Curtains, Curtain Poles, Furniture of all kinds.-wear Clothing.\u2018Job\u2019 line of Overcoats just to hand.We will give 15 per cent.off balance of Ladies\u2019 Cloth Coats and Mantles November.This month \u2018or Spot Cash and Spot Cash Only.12 1bs.Soda 25c.10 \u201c Rolled Oats 286, Good fast colored Print 4e.Lining dc.s\u2019 Blouses for Winter Wear, i If yon arment we have it.We want to sell to 825 we will give you tickets, and wheu you have $25 worth of these tickets you will be entitled to choice of 20 uadruple Plated Ware.nives, Castors, Fruit Stands, Cake Baskets, &c., &e.The articles are composed of our windows.The tickets are given On a few articles we will issue no tickets.WANTED\u201412 or 156 Fat Hogs weekly for which cash will be paid.& KNIGHT, HATLEY.AT To-Day\u2019s Needs To-Day\u2019s Prices that is just what we have\u2014for both Lad Gent's Underwear in Camel\u2019s Hair and N: derwear.OUR 1898 but just call.We believe we lead the c think so too after you see them.FRANK M One of the first needs of to-day is good warm serviceable Underwear, and ies\u2019 and Gentlemen.The popular Fleece-Lined, does not chafe\u2014fits well, wears well, feels well; costs no more than rough, coarse, poor stuff.Why not have the best?Also Ladies\u2019 and atural Wool.Also Children\u2019s Un- PRICES on these goods are the lowest ever quoted.Iavn\u2019t room here to give them, ountry on these goods, and you'll What we say is true, what we do is legitimate, what we promise is fulfiled.ELLOON.Our line of designs are mend us to others.ties.We erect work anywhere.line drop a card to Works at Graniteville, special ideas presented by our customers.Specialty of doing work s0 that our patrons may recom- GRANITE and MARBLE.We are at all times prepared to offer the buying public the best in the market in the line of Monuments, Headstones, Makers, Posts, Coping, Etc.the Iatest and we can also propose We make a We quote the lcwest prices consistant with the finest gnali- If in need of work in our D.W.MOIR, SON & COP, 0.Address, Lineboro, Que Books to order.Give us a step.Ally Sloper.BLANK BOOKS.WE carry in stock regularly the most complete line of Account Books this side of Montreal.Special chance to quote prices.We furnish everything in the way of Stationery.JOURNAL PRINTING CO.Rack Island, P.Q. I ennemie GOOD ROADS SAVING.ECONOMY OF TIME AND FORCE IN TRANSPORTATION.Increased Facilities For Reaching Markets and Reduction of Wear and Tear of Horses, Wagons and Harness\u2014Cost of Maintenance Lean, The patent advantages of a system of good roads are economy of tine and force in transportation, to enable those living out of the city to transport products and purchased artioles at all seasons of the year and at times when it is practically impossible to accomplish anything in this direction under the present method of maintaining the county highways; to reduce, the wear and tear on horses, vehicles, ete.; to enhance the market value of the adjoining land and for tbe laud that may not border upon the improved way, but is so situated that the owners can make use of the road in getting to and from market.A properly graded and filled road will | pot only save time for the farmer.but it means a saving of from 50 to 80 per cent in traction.He will be able to haul two or three times as much to u load as be can do over the present roads, and do it in less time and with less inconvenience.The saving that a first class system of roads would produce cannot be accurately estimated in dol- Jars and cents, but that the total for a year would be very large is evident.Good roads properly maintained are always available for use.There is no time in the year when it it impossible for the former to go to town and take whatever he has to market or bring fiome whatever he may desire to purchase, such as lumber or other heavy articles.Under the present system the seasons of the year during which the farmer is not busy and could do his hauling with the greatest economy of time the roads are least available.It is estimated that the item of wear and tear on vehicles and horses is enough to pay for the maintenance of first class roads when they have once been con- structod.Another advantage resulting from the improvement of the public highways, aside from those of convenience and utility, is the attendant increase in the selling price of land in the vicinity of the improvement.In Indiana the increase in the price of land has been very carefully estimated by a comparison of a large number of letters received from the farmers in different parts of the SOME MARYLAND SAND, [From L.A.W.Pullettn.] state, in response to an inquiry sent out in regard to the subject.Itis estimated that the increaso in the selling price of the land per acre, in cousequence of the building of improved roads, averages $6.48, This average, in many instances, includes all lands in counties where good roads have been built, both those contiguous and those remote from the improvement.The estimated average increase per acre that would result from improving all public roads is $9.It is estimnted tbat the loss to the land every five years occasioned by tbe lack of improved roads would pay for the construction of the mest improved high- Ways, and that the present road tax, which, under existing laws, is largely thrown away, would, under no proper system of rond maintenance, more than keep improved bighwaya in perfect ro- pair, The agricultural department of the government undertook to find out, as nearly as possible, the amount of money it costs the people of this country each year to haul their products to market.From the replies received to 10,000 letters, sent to all points in the country, they were able to arrive at conclusions and to make estimates which are approximately correct.The total for the whole country is so large that it produces no adequato effect upon the mind of an ordinary man, and the figures for the one state of Minnesota alone are al- wost incredible, In investigating the trafic on the country roads the department finds that the average length of the haul varies in different parts of the country.The average distance that a load is hauled over the country roads in the enstern states is 6,0 miles; in the northern states, 6.9; in the middle states, 8.8; in the cotton states, 12.6; in the prairie states, 8.8; in the Pacific const and mountain Statos, 23.3 miles, and for the whole of the United States, 12.1 miles.The average weight of a load varies from 2,400 poun®s in the prairie states to 1,897 pounds in the cotton states, and for the entire country it is ascertained to be 2,002 pounds.The investigation of the government developed that it costs 82 cents to han) one ton one mile over the country roads of the eastern states.The cost per ton per mile is loss in other states and is cheapest in Minnesota and the prairie States, where it costs but 22 cents.Economy of Good Roads.The economy of first class highways, although the first coet is high, is becoming daily more apparent as the experi- tents of the eastern states demonstrate the practical advantages and success of pe improvements.\u20148t.Paul Piuneer BKB.CAREFUL GREEK PARENTS.Borys Were Escorted to Sehool Just as Girls Are Now.The extraordinary care that the Grecian boy received in his formative years made his moral training more affective than that inoulcated by the most careful of modern parents.His general education, coupled with skillful and continu ous physical instruction, produced a moral cultivation very similar and fully as strict as that the Christian father deems necessary for hie daughters, A pedagogue, generally an old and trusted slave, led the boys to school and called for them after it closed, carried the books, looked out for the little boys, kept the older ones from fighting und falling into bad company and hada general oversight of their condact and street form.He was by no means a schoolmaster or even a private tutor, not even being allowed to enter tho schoolroom.Oftentimes ignorant in the extreme, he was chosen simply because of his loyalty to the family and sometimes, I fear, because he was unfit for any other occupation.Though the butt of the boys\u2019 ridicule as well as that of the comic poets and low wits of the day, he did an incalculable service in preventing vicious companionships and keeping pure the minds of those intrasted to his charge, The child was never sent off to boarding school, but boys attended the day school; town life prevailed.Besides, that sentiment that zealously guarded the boy\u2019s purity with a pedadogue from his eixth to bis sixteenth year could brook no intermission of personal oversight.Education was essentially private, the state having jurisdiction simply over the moral and not the professional standing of the teacher.\u2014-Popu- lar Scienco Monthly.FAKE \u201cFENCES.A Little Trick That In Worked In Baxter Street.\u201cThere was a time and that not go very long ugo,\u2019\u2019 remarked an old time puller in, \u201cwhen almost cvery other store in Baxter street was a \u2018fence,\u2019 or pretended to be, in order to give custom- erg the idea that they were getting good bargains.The clerk who took a hesitating customer aside nnd whispered \u2018fence\u2019 wns generally sure of a sale.There are 110 genuine \u2018fences\u2019 in Baxter street pow, because clothing, ghoes and hats are so cheap, but some of the stores still pretend o sell stolen goods, \u2018\u2018When à customer in one of these stores hag looked everything over in the shop and hasn't made a purchase, the salesman tells him that he has a little \u2018fence\u2019 down stairs and urges upon him the necessity of keeping it quiet on account of the police.Of course the customer won't cay a word.So down stairs they go to the alleged \u2018fence,\u2019 which generally proves to be a big trunk packeé with goods.** While showing the contents of tho trunk the salesman keeps up a running yarn about the famous criminals who brought the goods to the store.\u201cFinally, after showing a Jot of stuff of the same quality and pattern the customer refused to buy up stairs, the galesman gets him to try on something, and as quality, workmanship and per- feet fit always go with \u2018fence\u2019 gonds, there is à sale made.This fuke \u2018fence\u2019 answers sale purposes as well as the genuine,\u2019 concluded the puller in, \u2018\u2018and there is no risk attached to it.\u201d\u2019\u2014New York Sun.A Naval Row, 1702, At 6 coming on board this ship (the flagship), my Lord Hamilton, Captain Ley, Cap- {tain Wishart and Captain Trevor were standing on the quarter deck, and as Captain Norris came up Lord Hamilton asked bim if he had taken any more wine or brandy.The other answered no, upon which Captain Trevor asked the price of bis claret, whether be might bave any at 4 Ji.a hogshend.Norris said he would bave 8 li, or salt water, and then Captain Ley said he would rather the prizes were ashore than bo would give 6 li.the hogshead ; upon which Captain Norris said ho was a rascal that wished his prizes ashore.The other replied he was à rascal, if he called bim s0, and then Captain Norris struck Captain Ley and threw him over \u2018the gun, wbich Mr.Hopson bearing, as be and I were in my cabin, ran out and upon inguiry found he(Norris) had burt Captain Ley, and by the admiral's directions ordered bim to be confined, upon which Captain Norris drew hic sword and offered to stab Captain Ley, but Admiral Hopson, holding bis band, ordered him to be disarmed and con fined in Mr, Rayney's cabin.\u2014*\u2018Jour nal of Sir John Rooke.\u201d A Greck Genius.Diamandi, a native of Pylaros, one of the (Greek islands, is a remarkable calculator.After a mere glance at a blackboard on which 80 groups of figures are written he can repeat them in any order und deal with them by any arithmetical process.It is said that he never makes sn error in calculations involving billions, and he can extract square or cube roots with marvelous rapidity and accuracy.An eminent German specialist declared the other day that all these ready reckoners were idiots, This is not the cnse with Diamandi, who writes poetry and novels in the intervals of business and shows considerable intellectual capacity.Effective Reflecting.\u2018\u201cIt is 50 sudden!\u2019 exclaimed the fair haired girl, who had just received a proposal to merge her identity in that of a would be protector.\u2018You must give me time to reflect.\u201d \u2018*No, no,\" retorted the diplomatic goung msn, \u2018\u2018One whose dazzling beauty makes a mirror ashamed of itself should never go into the refleot- ing business.Let thissolitaire diamond do the reflecting.\u2019 And the records of the license clerk show that it was even s0.\u2014Chicagc News.this evening Captain Norris | JAR AQUARIUM.A Household Ornament Containing Plants and Water Insects.A leaflet for the use of public echool- teachers, recently issued by the Cornell University College of Agriculture, gives directions for the making of an aquari- nm, The writer says: \u201cAn aquarium with living, moving insects in it is a very interesting ornament for the window sill of a schoolroom.A glass candy jar or even a butter jar may be transformed into such an aquarium thus: First, put into the jar a layer of sand HOMEMADE AQUARIUM.about two inches deep.In this sand plant some small water weeds, and then add a layer of gravel or pebbles, Then nearly fill the jar with rainwater, pouring it in carefully go as not to disturb the plants, The plants will keep the water in à right condition for the water insects to live in.More water should be added from time to time to replace that which evaporates.In such an aquarium place avy insects found in water and watch their babits.\u2014School Journal.Wicked Bullets.It has been found that the bullots nged by the British army in the Khartum expedition do not sufficiently disable the enemy, and that men have continued fighting after half a dozen bnllets have gone through them.As tho British army used the Lec-Metford riflo, similar to that employed by the United States navy, a comparison of the results in different actions will doubtless he forthcoming, but already it has been found necessary to make a change in the bullet.Within a few weeks the army in Egypt has been supplied with cartridges having n new form of bullet which has the same diameter (,308 inches), the same length (1.2 inches) and the samo weight as the Lee-Metford bullet, and will fit a) the rifles and wa- chine guns now in use.Tho case is made of nickel, and only the base is filled with lead, with the result that on striking an enemy the conical end burs, opens backwezd, and lodges in the body.The penetration is thus diminished and a greater shock is caused, which will tend, it is hoped, to put the man struck out of action.As this form of cartridge weighs but half that of the old Martini- Henry rifle, the soldier is able to carry twice as many, aud bis efficiency in this respect iz doubled.\u2014 New York Post.Ruining the Fyes.A London publisher, whose cycsight has become so impaired that he finds himself able to do scarcely any reading, warns readers against working their eyes when traveling in the cars.Ho says, \u2018For many years past I have been in the habit of reading and writing for ! somo hours in the train almost daily, and my present troublo is undoubtedly traceable to this cause.\u201d Oculists are pow unanimous in tho statement that after a certain timo, which varies in different individuals, reading in the cars is a positive danger tn eyesight.The pago is in constant vibration, and tho cyes aro strained in trying to follow automatically the rapid movements, Too much light is almost as bad as too little.Reading by a powerful electric Jight invariably brings on cyo troubles.People would make their eyes remain | gerviceablo much longer if the instant tho printed letter becomes blurry, or tbe reading matter gets out of focus, they would seek tbe best professional gkill and prepare to use glasses.This may be ad any age between 18 and 40.One should never read in a reclining position, as the action of the eycs is in a measure reversed, and the work on one eye becomes greater than on tho other.a Simple Water Test.Into a ground glass stoppered, perfectly clean bottle put five ounces of the water to be tested.sugar.Cork tight.and sat in a window exposed freely to light, but not to direct rays of the sun.Do not disturb the bot tle, and keep the temperature as near 70 degrees I.as possible.If the water contains organic matter, within 48 hours an abundance of whitish specks will be secn floating about, and the more organic matter the more specks.In à week or ten days, if the water ie very bad, the odor of raucid butter will be noticed on removing the stopper.The little specks will settle to the bottom, where they appear as white floccu- lent masses.Such water should not be need for potable purposes.\u2014Iowa Health Bulletin.Xenon, Another Element.At the session of the Britich association at Bristol Sept.8 it was announced that Professor Ramsey and Mr.Travera bad discovered another elemental gas which they call xenon.It possesses a spectrum analogous to that of argon, but the position of the lines differs entirely.It seems to exist in minute quantities.To the water add | ten grains of pure, granulated, white | NERVOUS BRITONS.Hurry and Worry Seriously Affecting Our English Cousins.The average American is supposed to impose upon his nerves about as recklessly and cruelly as any buman being, and the leisurely Englishman is often quoted as hix antitype in this respect.It in therefore somewhat of a surprise to Jearn that the great disease of modora life which London medion] men find it bardest to cope with is the mental and rerve strain brought about by the hurry and worry to which the English are running, especially in London.Some years ago the exodus began from town to country, and people wero no longer content to live in Loudon, ns their forefathers did, or even in the near subnrbs.Spending the day in town and the night in the country used to be considered the finest thing in the world for the hardworking man of business, but after a food many yeurs of it the medical men aro trying to sap the belief ia its efli- ciency.It is enid plainly by an English medical journal that the men who rush backward and forward between town and country every (ay are showing moro sighs of nervo Wear and mental worry thay did the steady going old gentlemen who lived within reasonable distance of their work, even though it wero in the heart of London.The same critic says: \u201cCountry uir at night may Le too dear ly purchased by a skimped breakfast and a run for the train, a long journey in a packed car, nnd then, after a day's ex- huusting labor, n return journey to tbe country, such as it is, under almost similar conditions to those cf the morning.Our contemporaries are now beginning to warn vs of tho danger of tho constant strain we placo upon our nerv.014 system by this constant hurry and rush and are advising us that many a valuable life which might have been prolonged for many years is lost in this attempt to burn the candle at both ends, One hour's railway journey » day i3 un- derstond to be all that is good for any man, and those are unfortunato who havo to exceed it.\u201d When this kind of to consider whotber tbe reductions of has to leave town every ovoning to enjoy them.I'lague Center.Public Hygiene, in which he discussed tho plague with particular reference to his discovery of a plague center in the hinterland of German east Africa, whither the plague had been introduced from Uganda.Tho centers of the plagus, \u2018ready known, aro Huhan, Tibet and tue wost coast of Arabia, in the vicinity of Mecca, and now Professor Koch claims to have discovered nn new conter in equatorial Africa.While in India ho beard that a devastating discaso was prevalent at Kissiba, in tho northwest corner of German east Africa, near the Victoria Nyanza, and immediately proceeded to east Africa and commenced Lis investigations, Tho disease in question wag found to he tho bubonic plague, and nine out of tm of those infected died.Not only were human beings attacked, but also rats and monkeys, and \"it was found that often an ontbrenk of the disease among rats preceded a hu- wan epidemic, and wad Jooked upon as a warning.Furthermore, it was akcer- tained that the principal food of tho in- ! habitants of KK «sila was bananas, which | Brew in groves so thick that air or light was admitted.Under such \u2018conditions the bavans groves were per- !fect breeding places for the bacilli.Kie- {saib, however, was found not to Le an original plague center, us tho diccage was introduced from Uganda, probably by one of the natives who had visited a friend in the latter locality.He return: {ed to his home and died from the plague, \u2018as did a large number who had attend- red his funeral.\u2014New York Post.Sewage an Affecting Food.| that animals fed on sewage farms are {under certain conditions lable to have \u2018 | their flesh and secretions changed by the herbs and grasses, produced by the | sewage, upon which they feed, Thus, if | the sewage on a given farm be so man- | aged that po more of it be put into the 1 g0i) thaw any given crop can adequately deal with it is asserted that the crop (will under these conditions ho sweet animals fed on it will ulso he of that character.On the other hand, if the soil | be gorged to repletion with sewage then | the crops will bo surcharged with gow.(ago elements and unfit for food\u2014the meat and milk of animale derived from i such crops will also be like the crops, , both unpleasant to the taste and dan- I gerous tor the bealth.\u2018These hospital | statements are proved by well known ' facts\u2014that is, if a cow is fed on turnips I her milk will within 24 hours taste like thern, the intensity of tbe flavor being according: to the quantity of turnips taken.In tbe caso of bens and their eggs, a like result follows, for, if fed on .decaying matter, which they always eat ' \"greedily, both their eggs and flesh will ; be dizagreeable and unwbolesome eating.Ducks, ton, are still more objectionable in these respects.Honors to the Sauange.Germany recently celebrated the thousandth anniversary of the sausage, which ) dates back to 897 A.D.The ancient \u201csausage was made cf a goat's stomach \u2018 stuffed with fat and blood.It wae not \"till the tenth century that chopped pork : was used, and the sausages of Frankfort land Stracburg began to be famous in | 1500 by the introduction iuto Germany \u2018of cinnamon and saffron.Most Anclent Medicine.Perhaps the most ancient of medicines i ia hops, which were used in the manu- [ facture of an intoxicating beverage similar to beer and as a medicine in 2000 B.C.This ix attested by pictures of the plant on the Egyptian monuments of | that dute.talk comes from England, it seems time country life may not be too dearly paid : for by the American business man who Professor Koch recently delivered an : address before the Gorman Socioty For hat little | Investigations, it is declared, show | | and natural and that the cattle or other i RE POWER IN SMALL STREAMS.A Little Brook Can Be Mace to Give Up Light and Power, The ease with wbiob small streams of water can Le turned to account for supplying electric light and power is well illustrated in an installation which haa been completed at a ennitarium in the | beart of the Sullivan county moautains, | where a saving in fuel would naturally be of exceptionable destratility.A brook which ows through the property is part of the hendwatere of the Delaware river.It has a fall of 70 feet on the estate, but it is at bost au exceedingly swall stream.In order to get the water s'orage it was necessary to build ia dum 250 feet across and 20 feot high.i This made a basin of nearly a mile in aren, and holds water enough to run the entire plant 52 duys without rain.The dam was built entirely of stone hewn (on the site.The snnitarium consists of six large frame buildings, built on various bills and included in u radius of half a mile.Not only are all these buildings generously lighted within, but the grounds and walks are studded with 100 hour long burning ares, and tho tourist | coming suddenly on this distant moun- tun nook could imagine himself in n oity suburb.The plant is running so successfully thut it would seom worth the while of any large institution or others requiring light and power to in- vestigato nny wuter power\u2014no muattor how unpretentions\u2014in the vicinity.{Such an installation as that mentioned should with erdinary management very quickly pay for itself in tho saving of fuel und other advantages.Bléetrie Cabbage Culture, While à great number of ueonse- quent experiments have been mado in plant growing under the influence of electrical rays, thero in no doubt that in America.Franco and Russin a good fend of investigation has been made of tha effects of eleotricity on plant cul- tare, which hos materially enriched the general knowledge of the subject.Other countries are now taking up this study, which now bids fair to bu placed on a thovoughly scientific ns well ns practien] basis, Professor Liimstrom of tho University of Uolsingfors is cugaged in an attempt to determing the influence of atmospheric electricity cn plant life, Professor Bailey of Cornell university is advising with Professor Lem.strom in this investigation, which is understood to have heen sugrested by the observation that in northern regions vegetation is very rapid, anid this rapidity many bo determined by atmospheric electricity, to which it is contended the aurora borealis is duo.In Foglund, too, Dr.Ji.M.Cook of the Clifton labora.\"tory has offerrd to give his services in | making à number of observations from la high tower wear Bristol.The land around, conristing of 20 acres, is uncultivated and is well situatod for the purpose of experiments.Tho proposition is to collect atmospheric electricity and to pass it into certain trina) gardens, in which plants shall be grown.For this purpose, instead of fitting the lightning rod of thotower with a single puint, it will be shod with a crown of points.It is thought that by this method the supplies of electricity existing in the atmosphere may be tapped und {then conducted hy wires into snl i plots of ground, where they will end in \u201cearth plates, Rabbit Seonrge In New Zealand, A now phase has been given to the rabbit seonrge in New Zealand by tho success which hus attended tho experi cent of freezing the rabits and exporting them.It would appear that out of What hus hukerto been an apparently irremediable curse an important indns- (try may he developed, Onob exporter ix said ta be in receipt of between 15,000 and 20,000 rabbits a day and is paying to truppers and in wages between $4,000 and §5,000 a work, He has 21,000 traps (set, giving employment to about 500 trappers.Hisexport of rabbits last year {Vas about 700,000, and this year he will increaso it to 1,500,000.The scale on which thie enterprising exporter is laying out his plans is further seen in tho fact that he works up into boxes in which tho frozen rabbits are shipped ahout eight truckloads of timber a vwook, and he pays over $2,000 » month for freight, It is estimated that this son.son's exportation of rabbits will ran up (tn between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000, This, at the low price of 6 cents each, will bring in moro than £300,000 to the trappers, and the total amount received in the colony as the proceeds of the rabbit export industry for this Fca- son will be, al a moderate calculation, 700,000.\u2014Chicago Record.Speed of Trolleyn, One of the resulta of the rapid devel: opment of the overbead trolley system and its widespread ure has been the dig- covery of its limitatious.It is now thought to be impossible to transmit \u201cby means of an ordinary trolley wheel more than 150 amperes of current with- , Out excessive aparking and loss.While ten miles an hour is considered to be the vafe rate at which a trolley car can Le operated over the usual run of track, yet on well constructed lines and with epecially devised appliances it je posss- , ble to make 30 miles an hoor.Beyond such a speed there is a tendency for the wheel to leave the wire, and when this Occurs serions damage is likely to ensue, Consequently for heavy currents and bigh speede it is probable that a conductor near the surfuce of the gronud will be substituted for the trolley wire, and numerous experiments in this direction are now being made.\u2014New York Post.Outflow of Vesuvias, Lava streams that have flowed out of Vesuvius during the last three years bave deposited 105,000,000 cubic meters of lava on the sides of the mountain.A cone of lava 830 feet high bas heen formed, out of which fresh streams are owing.The valleys on either side of the observatory peak have becn completely filled lately, COTTON FARMING, New Methods and a Shifting of the Belt Westward.Cotton farming is probably as primitive as any other branch of agrionlture, says the Now York Son.The system in the south is just changing.Capital, science nad braius are revolutionizing tho industry.The ehifting of the cotton belt from the east to the west of the Mississippi is of no greater importance than tho new methods of culture which are being adopted.New and superior plunts are being developed through selection and intensive cultivation, The old, half farming system, is being replaced by large plantations, systomatio- ally organized and conducted, and they will produce more cotton to the acre and at less outlay than tho one horse, unsoientitio farma of the shiftloss, cure.less negroos.For an long time the contention was wade by intolligent growers that on iguerant, shiftless darky or white man evuld rnise ns much cotton to the acre as n skilled, scientific agricnlturist, but this could hardly be true, even though it required littlo intolligenco to raise tho plants.In the light of recent developments the folly of it fs made apparent to all.Tho cotton planter with now sear, now machinery and new metheda of culture increases the yivld in à way that threatens the one horso farms with ruin.It iy belivved that the United States will always Fe ablo to control the ont- ton trade of the world, and if our land was properly farmed we could envily run othor countries out of the market, But tho old cotton patches of the shift.LIMBLESS COTTON, less furmors must improve or disappear.Other cotton countries stand ready to incrouso their cotton crop upon the slightest provocation.Tt was the wor of tho robellion that mado Egypt n cotton growing conntry of importance.When the war closed our cotton ports to England, the khedivo of Egypt put out fimimenro cotton plantations, apd botween 1861 and 1865 the orop of Egyptian cotton incronsed over 400 por cent, This sudden discovery of the country's possibilitios has worked injury to our cotton industry over since.Not only docs Egypt supply a good deal of the demand of the world for cotton, bat we import some 100,000 bales a yoar ourselves, Indin has taken a similar start in cotton growing, and it ouly needs romeo oppurtune moment to stimulate it to a wonderful development.A war that would interfere with our cotton growing or n sharp decrease in our cotton serenga gn that prices wonld advance a few cents a pound would be followed in India and Egypt by a doubling or trebling of the ucreago, The advantage thus gained would require years to aver- come, How low eotton can go and yot prove profitable fa a problam that the futuro must decide.With a now stim- wlus in our far castern trade relations it may soon bo found that 5 cent and even 4 cent eotton will prove n groat boon to the south, and incidentally to tho conntry.Paper Hanging by Machinery.The successful operation of paper banging by machine is one of the latest achisvementa of mechanical ingenuity, anys tho Werkstatt, Tho arrangement employerl for this purposo is provided with a rod, upon which the roll of paper is placed, und a paste receptacle with on brushing convenience is attached in ruch à manner that the pasto is ap- pliod automatically on the hack of the paper.Tho end of the wal) paper is fixed at the bottom of the wall, and the implement rises on the wall in such a manner as only to require that it bo set by one workman, While the wall paper unrolls and, provided with pnate, ja held flat against the wall, an elastic roller follows on the outeide, which proses it firmly and with exact smoothness to the wall, The final and completing operation is wheu the wall paper reaches the top\u2014the workman now pulling a cord, whereby it is cut off from the remainder of the roll.Ancient Jeemaking, The Hindon is not a chicken.Fo isa lazy.smart, sullen buman in India, and he made ice Jong before Coinm bus start- el Spain's woes in Cuba.The Hindoo bad a curious way of making ice.He dug a hole in the ground aod packed straw on the bottom of it, The air, ground and straw must all be dry for this ancient refrigerator.On these dry straw bottoms the native of Hindustan placed pans of water at night.There these sat until morning.The ico found in the pans is collected and used.This icemuking requires that the ground be dry so as to readily take off the vapor of tho evaporating water.The science of the thing is that in being transformed from the liquid to the gaseons form tbe ice abxorbs a great amount of heat, \u2014National Provisioner.Recent Voleanic Islands.8ince the beginning of this century no Jess than 52 volcanic islands bave risen out of the sea.Nineteen of that number have since disappeared and ten are now inhabited, Hp TS PRES THE CHRISTMAS CONSCIENCE.All of the neighbors thought it strange when Bertram Dodge after the death of his widowed mother, announced his intention to remain at the old home place with his little sister Helen, who was but flve years old.\u2018We shall manage very well together here,\u201d Bert had said concerning the offer of some distantrelatives to adopt Helen.; \u201cIt was mother\u2019s wish and it is my wish that Helen and I should not be separated.I may be standing in her light by not allowing her to go unto a fine luxurious home, but I can give her more real affection than they can give her, and she shall not suffer for want of food or clothing.They would want to change her name if she went to them, and that I could not have.No, we\u2019ll stay together, wont we little sister?\u201d He stooped and kissed the blue-eyed, flaxen- haired little girl as he spoke.Old Mrs.Hooper, to whom he had been talking said, \u201cI don\u2019t know but you're right, Bert; and there\u2019s one good thing, you know more about cooking and house keeping than many girls know.Having to help your mother so much, especially when she was bedfast all those last ten weeks, has been a good thing for you.You have got a real woman\u2019s faculty for doing things.\u201d This was true, although dishwashing and cooking, and sweeping, and kindred duties were as repugnant to Bert Dodge as they would be to any boy; but poverty had obliged him to do these things, and he had done them cheerfnlly and well, ; The house was a tiny red and white one in the suburbs of a small New England town.There was only one dwelling very near it, and that was just across the road\u2014a tiny wooden building where lived the widow Hawes and her seven noisy, rollicking children, whose boisterous fun did not disturb their warm-hearted, easygoing mother in the least.It was a mystery to her neighbors how she ever found room for so many children in such a tiny box of a house.When they said as much to her she langhed out loud, & cheery laugh, and said: \u201cThere isn\u2019t much room in my house, but there\u2019s room enough in my heart.\u201d Bert\u2019s determination to remain at the old house and to keep Helen with him was partly due to the fact that Mrs.Hawes had encouraged him to do BO, \u201cDH help you all I can,\u201d she said, and Helen can come and play with my little Susie and Meggie and the others when you have to be at work.She won\u2019t be any trouble or in the least in the way.\u201d Bert was thus able to accept any temporary employment he could find.He was a robust boy of seventeen and willing to work.It was not easy to find employment in a small town like Horton, and simple as his wants and Helen's were, he did not find it easy to supply them, and there were the debts caused by his mother\u2019s long sickness and funeral to be paid.\u201cIf I could only get steady work somewhere I should be allright,\u2019\u2019 Bert often said to the Widow Hawes.\u201cOh, you will, before long\u201d she al- Ways returned cheerfully.\u201cOne who is as willing to work ns you are is always in demand, sooner or later,\u201d But there had been no demand for Bert in any permanent position when the long and cold New England winter had fairly set in, and occasional work became more difficult to find.Helen and Bert were eating their very frugal breakfast one cold and snowy morning in December, when Helen said, \u201cWhat you s'pose Santa Claus will bring me Christmas, Bertie?\u201d The question startled Bert a little, for he had that very moment been thinking of Christmas, and of his inability to buy a quarter of the things he wanted to get for Helen.\u201cI don\u2019t know deary,\u2019\u201d he said.\u201c0 Bertie!\u201d she exclaimed with a startled look, \u2018\u2018you don\u2019t suppose I'll not get anything in my stocking!\u201d \u201cOh, you shall have something little one.\u201d What, Bertie?\u201d \u201cWhat do you want most?\u201d \u201cA big, big doll with really and truly hair, and eyes that will open and shut! And if it could speak when you squeeze it Id like it better! And if it had a really truly hat! And shoes\u2014O Bertie, I'd want it to have shoes most of anything! The kind that would come off and on! And a little muff to put its handsin! O Bertie it I could have a dollie like that I won't want anything else! You s\u2019ppse I could?\u201d \u201cWe'll see about it.\u201d \u201cI got two cents to send to Santa Claus for it.Would it cost more than that?\u201d \u201cOh yes; much more.\u201d \u201cI want it awfully,\u201d she said, with Bert's resolve.Ten minutes later a - knock came at the door.When Bert \u201c Opéned it he found Jason Woods out- aide.- \u201cHaven't time to come in,\u201d he sald.{ot anything to do now Bert?\u201d \u201cNo sir; I haven't.\u201d ~:~ sweet seriousness that clinched\u2019 \u201cWant a job?\u201d \u201cYes; very much.\u201d \u201cWell, I can give you two or three weeks\u2019 work down at my sawmill, Joe Hill, who has been helping me, fell and broke his arm yesterday, and 1 must have some one to help me out of a lot of lumber I\u2019ve contracted for.Do you want the placé?\u201d \u2018Yes I should be glad of it.\u201d \u201cAll right, Come down to the mill right away and I'll set you to work.We ought to be there now.\u201d Bert did not wait to wash the breakfast dishes.He wrapped Helen up warmly and carried her over to Mrs.Hawes\u2019 for the day, and half an hour later was at Jason Woods\u2019.It was hard, cold work in the sawmill, and Jason Woods was à hard taskmaster, but Bert bore the faultfinding in silence, and did his utmost to please.He kept steadily in mind the thought of the happy Christmas he should be able to give Helen as the result of his labor, The doll he planned should go into her stocking, and he would get her some little toys for the tree they were going to have at Mrs.Hawes\u2019.He had promised Helen that the doll should surely come.His work at the sawmill would be finished two dayg before Christmas, and he had planned to walk seven miles to Hillsboro\u2014a much larger town than Horton, \u2014 where he was sure that he could find just such a doll as Helen had described.Jason Woods owed Bert twenty dollars when the time for which he had been hired was up, but when the last day and the last hour\u2019s work was done Jason was not ready to pay.\u201cWell, Bert,\u201d he said, \u201cI'll say for ye that you've done your work first- rate, and I'l] hire you again if I need any one.I owe you twenty dollars, don\u2019t I?\u201d \u201cYes sir.\u201d That\u2019s the way I figure it out.Well, you come over to my house the first day of January and I'll have the mony for you.I won't get the money on this contract until then, and my folks have ding-donged all my ready money away from me for their Christmas nonsense.\u201d Bert was too much surprised and disappointed to speak for a moment.then he said, \u201cif you could let me have just a part of it ?\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t see how I can Bert.I need all the money I'v got on hand.It's only about a week until the first of January.I guess you'll have to wait.Wish you'd pile up them boards behind you before you go.I\u2019ve got to be off right now.\u201d He took his overcoat from a peg in the wall near the door of the sawmill and departed without noticing how Bert's lips quivered as he said, \u201cAll right, sir.\u201d But in his heart Bert thought that it was all wrong.He had been so sure of receiving his money that when the mill had been stopped for repairs one day of the previous week he had walked to Hillsboro, and selected the doll and some other things for Helen, fearing that the best of everything would be gone if he waited until the day before Christmas.Having found just such a doll as Helen had de- scribed\u2014no other like it was left in the only toy store in Hillsboro\u2014he had had it and a few other toys put aside for him in a box, for which he had promised to call by twelve o'clock on the day before Christmas.\u201cAnd now I can\u2019t get them,\u201d he said bitterly.They'll be sold to some one else if I\u2019m not there by noon.Oh, it is meaner than mean for Jason Woods to keep me out of my money.He is the richest man in town.He could pay me if he would! Poor little Helen! I haven't a cent with which to keep my promise to her, and there\u2019s only one day between now and Christmas! The child will be so disappointed! and I wanted to get some little things to put on the tree for the Hawes children.Their mother has been 80 good to Helen and me! He brushed the tears from his eyes with the back of his rough, red hand as he went into the mill to get his old overcoat, which was worn beyond repair.It hung on a peg close to the one from which Jason Woods had taken his own thick warm overcoat.Bert set down his little tin dinner- pail, and when he stopped to pick it up he saw a little roll of green paper lying by the pail.\u201cWhy it\u2019s money!\u201d he exclaimed.He smoothed out the little roll and found it to consist of four almost new five-dollar bills.\u201cTwenty dollars! Exactly what he owes me!\u2019 exclaimed Bert.\u201cAnd Jason Woods said he didn\u2019t have any money! This belongs to me by all that is fair and just! It ie my rightful due! I'll tell him boldly that I found the money, and kept it because I had aright to it! Now Helen can have her doll! I'll go to Hillsboro tomorrow!\u2019\u2019 If Jason Woods has a \u201csoft spot\u201d in his heart it was for his little granddaughter Majorle, who was just the age of Helen Dodge.Hence Jason entered the toy store in Hilisboro on the day before Christmas in search of things for Majorie\u2019s stocking.\u201cShe wanted me to get her a big \u2018doll with real hair and real shoes, a doll that would make a noise, and she wanted it to have on a hat and a muff to put its hands in.\u201d \u201cWell, Pve only one doll of that kind left, Mr.Woods, szid the proprietor.\u2018And I don\u2019t know that Iought to sell it.You see it\u2019s like this: A lad of sixteen or seventeen came in here and bought the doll and some other things one day last week, and had them put aside for him saying that he would come for them by noon to-day.I don\u2019t often sell goods that way, particularly to strangers, but this was such an honest looking boy and he seemed 80 anxious to have the doll and other things saved for him until to-day that 1 agreed to do it.By the way he said that he was working for a man over in Horton, where you live, and that he\u2019d get his pay last night, he said he wanted the doll for his little sister, He looked as if he\u2019d better spend the two dollars for himself, Well, it\u2019s now after one o\u2019clock and he said he\u2019d be here by noon, so 1 feel free to sell it, 1 can\u2019t have an expensive doll like that left on my hands.\u201d He took a box from under the counter as he spoke and said: \u201cHere it is with his name on it\u2014Bertram D.Dodge.Maybe you know him?\u201d \u201cYes, I do.\u201d \u201cDo you suppose he\u2019ll come for these things?\u201d \u201cI can\u2019t say, probably not.\u201d \u2018Maybe he didn\u2019t get the money he expected last night 2?*No, he\u2014 maybe he didn\u2019t.\u201d \u201cWell I guess you may have the doll.But I can\u2019t help feeling a little sorry for the boy.He had agood face and I know his heart was set on having the doll.He'll be awfully disappointed if somebody has kept him out of his money.That's a thing I couldn\u2019t do; but I suppose there are plenty of people who will take advantage of a boy when they would hardly care to ask a man to wait for his pay.Excuse me a few minutes while I wait on that lady.\u201d As Jason Woods locked at the doll and the few cheap little things in the box, his slumbering conscience awoke.He thought how hard and faithfully Bert had worked, and he remembered now that the boy had looked almost frightened when told that he was not to get his money the evening before.When the proprietor of the store came back Jason said: \u201cPI take that box of things just as it is, and the next best doll you've got.\u201d Half an hour later the owner of the sawmill was on his way home.It was very cold and it had begun to snow.He had driven about three miles when he came to a boy sitting on a log by the road side, who called out excitedly: \u2018Stop, Mr.Woods, stop! see you!\u201d Bert thrust his hand into his pockets, and brought fourth a roll of bills.\u201cHere,\u201d he said, \u201cI'm sure this money belongs to you.There\u2019s twenty dollars of it.I found it in the sawmill last night.I\u2019ve been sitting on that log for two hours trying to make myself think I had aright to keep it be- cauge you owed me that much, Here\u2019s the money.I beg your pardon for keeping it so long.I did wrong.\u201d \u201cPut the money into your pocket, Bert.It belongs to you for 1 owe it to you.Get into the sleigh and Jet me carry you back home.I've got the doll and the other things you had put aside at the toy store.I'm going to be little Helen\u2019s Santa Claus this year and your\u2019s too.You worked over time several days, and I didn\u2019t allow you anything for it, so I made it up to you in a Christmas present of a new overcoat that I\u2019ve got under the sleigh seat.Get up there Nell! what's the matter with you?\u201d\u2019\u2014J.L.HARr- BOUR, in Youll\u2019s Companion.I want to A NEW CANAL PROJECT.An effort is to be made, says the Scientific American, by the persons interested in lake transportation to have the Anglo-American Commission take up the project of a canal joining the great Lakes and the Atlantic.This subject has been favorably reported upon by a deep waterway commission authorized by Congress and appointed by the President.While this established the practicability of the canal, the present movement contemplates the devising by the commission of a plan of joint action by which the work will be actually commenced.It is suggested that the proper route will be by way of the St.Lawrence River and Lake Champlain, a cut of twenty-nine miles being sufficient, for that length of canal.Another cut of twenty-four miles would carry the canal to the Hudson River, thus connecting the shipping of Chicago and New York by way of the lakes, the Welland Canal, the St.Lawrence River, Lake Champlain and the Hudson River.The projectors ciaim that the cut between the St.Lawrence and Lake Champlain can be made for three or four millions, topography being particularly favorable for canal digging.They are proceeding on the idea of having the two governments do the work, each doing the construction of its own side, thus making it a government rather than a private enterprise.HASN'T HAD ENOUGH YET.Khalifa Preparing for Another Conflict With the British.The Khalifa Abdullah, who fled into the desert with less than 200 men before the battle of Omdurman had ended, ig preparing for another struggle with the Brisish.It is this news which si bringing the Sirdar back so hurriedly from England.Couriers have arrived at Omdurman with the news that Abdullah has left his hiding place in the desert near Kordofan and is now at Kobe at Darfur with a force of dervishes.Darfur is hundreds of miles farther west of the Nile than Kordofan, so it is ap- an immediate conflict with the British.This region, however in the very heart of the desert, is excellent recruiting for another Dervish army, and this is undoubtedly Abdullah\u2019s intention.The Darfur tribesmen are among the bravest and most * fanatical Moslems.In spite of the slaughter with which they were defeated at Omdurman it is generally feared that the fanaties will again march east to the Nile, Another campaign is apparently in store for Lord Kitchener, In any event, the reconquest of Kordofan and Darfur for Egypt will probably be undertaken next year.It will be an exceedingly difficult task involving a march of a thousand miles or more through a waterless desert.The aid which the Nile afforded in the advance to Khartoum will not be available there.bridge East, was entered and furs stolen to the value of four hundred dollars on the night of the 3rd inst.An entrance was secured by placing a ladder from the river to the window.The burglars are supposed to be the same gang operating through the townships.Thunder In Various Reglons, Java is said to be the region of the globe where it thunders oftenest, bav- ing thunderstorms 97 days in the year.After it aro Sumatra, with 86 days; Hindustan, with 56; Borneo, with 54; the Gold Coast, with 52, aud Rio de Janciro, with 51.In Europe, Italy occupies the first place, with 88 days of thunder, while France and southern Russia have 16 days.Great Britain and Switzerland buvo each 7 days, and Norway bas 4, Thunder is rare at Cairo, being heard only B days in the year, and extremely rare in northern Turkestan and the polar regious.\u2014London Standard.In connection with the proposal of the United States to pay Spain $20,000,000 for the cesslon of the Philippines, it may be stated as an interesting historical fact that of all nations this country has been the only one to pay for ceded territory.In all wars, anclent and modern, the conquerers have taken everything available without scruple, and all losses or acquisitions of territory have almost without exception been the immediate result of war.The United States furnishes the most notable exception, asthe Louisiana, the Florida and Gadsden purchases were all made in a time of peace, We also have the exceptional distinction of paying for land already won by the right of conquest, as we did with Mexico in the case of California, and as Is now proposed In the case of the Philippines.Spain, of all the nations of Europe, is far In the lead in the cesslon of territory without compensation as the result of unsuccessful wars.From the time of Philip the Second.or for more than three centuries, Spain has one after the other parted with her valuable possessions without the suggestion of compensatson until in the present negotiations with this country.Prescott, in his nrante and fascinatirg style, describes the power and grandeur of Phillp the Second of Spain when he ascended the throne in 1656.The empire which acknowledged his sway had no parallel in the history of the world, except that which nwed al- leglance to Rome in the zerith of its splendor.Most of the fairest and richest portions of continental I3urope, the plek and the flower of the lands of the newly discovered American continent.the teeming and frultful and beautiful islands of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans all poured thelr teeming treasures Into hig noffers.Not satisfied with his heritage.Philip strove to increase, ard, glutted with power and pride, imagined he could ald England and Germany and Holland to his dominions.At the close of hls 12 years\u2019 war, his armies defeated, his navies destroyed and his resources exhausted, he purchased tranguility by the ression of a long list of provinces to» numerous to mention.Under his relgn, and that of the successive Philips who came after him, disastrous wars necessitated the surrender of territory to such an extent that scarcely a semblance of the once great empire was left, and not a cert of consideration for and «of jt.In the first half of the 18th century, Seginning witn the reign of Charles the Second, Spain recovered some of its prestige and some of ite territory.But its downward path was not long arrested, und from that time forward untt! the present time it has heen one continued experience of dismemberment and decay.In 1805, at Trafalgar, England for the second time destroyed the naval bower of Spain.In a very few years afterwards Mexico and the other Central and South American colonles of Spain wrestled thelr ¥herty from its clutches.Spain ceded Loulsiana to France without any equivalent, and France turned around and sold it to the United States for $16,000,000.She ceded San Domingo to France and Trinidad to England, and would have been laughed at if she had asked any money.England has held Gibraltar all this time, but never pald for it.In 1898 the navy of Spain was for the third time practically destroyed, upon this occasion by the United States, but We offer to pay a penalty for our prowess, parent that the Khalifa is not seeking | The store of Geo.S.Walsh, at Stan- | ESTRAY.NOTICE, Came int» the enclosure of the undersigned Having sold my business, 1 expect al about the middle of Beptember, one red and to call and settle within thirty days, ru ater white yearling stesr,owner is requested to pay that date settlements cannot be made with charges and take him sway.me, JOHN SALLS.GEORGE W.ROBINSON, Rock Island, Dec.6th, 1608, Ayer's Fiat, Nov.20, 1808 548 Residence over Drug Store.Sa Opening of Holiday Goods \u2014- at \u2014 SPALDING\u2019S We invite public Attention to our|Spreads, and Belgian Covers suitable extensive assortment of Holiday for table spreads; and many other Goods, ineluding: Fancy Crockery; desirable articles, all of which were Bric-à-Brac; Celluloid Novelties; bought this season and have been Hanging Hall and Banquet Lamps, marked low to move them quick.with the latest and most perfect burn- | Also a choice assortment of Christ- ers; Gift Books; Stationery for La- | mas Candy, Nuts, ete., and & comp] dies, Gentlemen, and Children; Smyr- line of Ch stmas Groceries.plete na Rugs Christmas Towels; Handkerchiefs, Silk Mufflers for|__ Ask to see our New Dress Goods in Ladies\u2019 and Gentlemen; Ladies\u2019 and | Blacks, Blues, and Mixed Novelties.Missess\u2019 Fascinators in the most| If you are in doubt about what to fashionable culors; Ladies\u2019 and Gen- get for your friends, you\u2019ll find many tlemen\u2019s Shoes and Slippers; Kid suggestions by looking over our Gloves and Mittens; Chenille Table | goods.WM.SPALDING, Everything for the Holidays.ror ¥ MAS Presents coo FISH & McNEIL\u2019S Something Useful Something Cheap Dress Goods to the front.until Christmas.A discount of from 10 to 25 per.cent.off FANCY CROCHKERY.\u2014Cups and Saucers, Porridge Sets, five o'clock Teasets, Table Sets, etc., Dinner Sets, 98 pieces; regular $7.00 set $5.75.Butter Dinner Castors.SILVERWARE.\u2014Cake Baskets, Dishes, Knives and Forks, Napkin Rings, etc.BOOKS AND GAMES.DOLLS, 8 CTS.Four pounds Pure Candy, 25c.Four pounds New Figs, 25¢c.Two pounds: Mixed Nuts, 25c.Twenty-one pounds granulated Sugar $1.00, four pounds 30c.Tea $1.00, twelve pounds Soda, 25¢., Cream Tartar 19c., good Matches 6c.a box.Everything you want to make Christmas enjoyable and prices that please everybody.Be sure and call Christmas week.FISH & McNEIL.Many Articles of Furniture Make the nicest Christmas Gifts; before deciding what to buy visit our store and see the new goods in this line.Ladies\u2019 Writing Desks in Quartered Oak - nothing so convenient, dainty enough for the most elegantly furnished house; cheap enough for people of moderate means.Something even more fastidious-Com- bined Desk and Book Case, with beveled mirror.To realize their beauty and convenience you must see them.Also China and Bric-a- Brac Closets, with glass fronts.Roll-top Desks and all kinds of Office Furniture, Letter Presses.Letter Press Cabinets, Chairs, etc.When the Day\u2019s Work is Done nothing is so comfortable as a Spring Couch: we have them now, upholstered in the latest patterns of the most durable cloth.Maybe a Chair would make a more suitable gift than amything else; we have them, too.Chairs for eyery room in the house.Besides giving you just what you want, we can save you money on all kinds of Furniture and Housekeeping Goods.C.H.KATHAN."]